Madeleine McCann: Paedos From Lamp-Posts, Hating Fiona Philips And JonBenet Ramsey
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
QUEENSFERRY GAZETTE (Scotland): “We’ve been ad”
A CONCERNED mum has spoken out about the potential hazards posed by new outdoor advertising boards. Janette Sheppard is also worried that other parents may think the boards are simply lamp-posts.
Lamp-posts, for paedos to hide behind… Like those (G)litter bins…
She said: “These have just sprung up – one is outside my son’s primary school. At first glance it would be easy to mistake them for lamp-posts, but they are actually advertising boards.”
The wonders of modern technology. Who would have thunk it. Go on…
“There is a small electronic strip at the top which could be used by the council to post information if a child goes missing. I believe the council also gets some revenue from the boards.”
Making money from missing kiddies. For shame!
“My concern, as a parent, is if the council thinks it’s appro-priate to put one of these boards outside a primary school. Our kids are already inundated with advertising – do they really need more? And what kind of advertising is it going to be?”
Sweets. Peados. Guns. Snuff movies. You know, the usual kids’ stuff…
A West Lothian Council spokesperson said: “The new signs are part of the Amberwatch system, which is designed to allow urgent safety messages to be relayed instantly to the local community. The similar Amber Alerts system in America has been credited with helping locate over 100 missing children, and the parents of Madeline McCann have campaigned to have such a system installed across Europe.”
So there it is. It’s there to advertise when a child goes missing; and when a child doesn’t go missing…
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Review: My Sister, My Love by Joyce Carol Oates”
Review: My Sister, My Love by Joyce Carol Oates - The unsolved murder of a child star is too close to real events for David Robson
A child star… Get ready to be entertained…
Novels based on real-life crime stories always leave a slightly queasy taste. Novels based on unsolved real-life crime stories leave an even queasier one.
Hands over mouths; heres it comes…
There are probably writers already working on fictionalisations of the abduction of Madeleine McCann, but it is hard to feel much respect for them.
They don’t do it for the respect. They do it for the money; like the newspapers…
The same applies, mutatis mutandis, to this ethically questionable piece by Joyce Carol Oates, inspired by a crime that was the talk of America in 1996, when a six-year-old child beauty pageant contestant called JonBenet Ramsey was found brutally murdered in the basement of her parents’ house in Colorado.
DAILY STAR: “THAT’S VERY IRRITATING - FIONA IS BRITS’ MOST HATED CELEB”
IT’S Fiona Philips, GMTV’s soon-to-be ex-self-righteous-Labour-cheering-ultra-violet-toothed-baby-boasting-braying-nodding-head.
FIONA Phillips is more annoying than the washout summer, chavs and Heather Mills.
Mills isn’t annoying; Mills is entertaining.
Her on-screen gaffes include telling the parents of missing Madeleine McCann: “There are light moments. You’ve acquired this odd celebrity status.”
A gaffe? No way. This is the highest praise possible in the GMTV lexicon. GMTV renders everything it touches a celebrity: car crash victim, prime minister, doctor etc. are all touched by the GMTV celebrity wand. A celebrity… nothing bigger, nor better…
100 MOST ANNOYING THINGS FOR 2008
1. Benefit scroungers
2. The credit crunch
3. Tailgaters
4. Cold callers
5. People reading over your shoulder
6. Gordon Brown
7. Fiona Phillips
8. Being bloated
9. Rising fuel prices
10. Falling house prices
11. The wet summer
12. Middle lane drivers
13. Constipation
14. Bossiness
15. Slow internet connections
16. Being put on hold
17. Pregnant women smoking
18. Someone nicking your parking spot
19. Stepping in dog poo
20. Jehovah’s Witnesses
21. Debt companies advertising on TV
22. Skinny people who complain they are fat
23. Queue jumpers
24. Bullying
25. Noisy neighbours
26. Nosey neighbours
27. People parking in disabled bays when they aren’t disabled
28. Junk mail
29. Snobs
30. Noisy eaters
31. Dog owners who don’t clean up after their pets
32. People putting our Olympic achievements down
33. Novelty ringtones
34. Automated phone systems
35. Chavs
36. People who walk slowly
37. People who take their kids to shops and let them run riot
38. Amy Winehouse
39. Sienna Miller’s love life
40. Rude shop staff
41. Wasps
42. Diarrhoea
43. Cristiano Ronaldo
44. People who have their mobile turned off when you really need to get hold of them
45. Dannii Minogue
46. Mosquitoes
47. Kids kicking the back of your chair on a plane
48. Hangovers
49. The hot water running out when you want to take a bath
50. Buses not arriving on time
51. Heather Mills
52. James Blunt
53. Reformed smokers
54. People talking on their mobile on public transport
55. Headaches
56. The smoking ban
57. Toothache
58. Litter bugs
59. Spots
60. People who write “text back” in texts
61. Scientology
62. Russell Brand
63. Screaming kids
64. Alistair Darling
65. Traffic wardens
66. Americans
67. Roadworks
68. Big Brother
69. Pete Doherty
70. Runny nose
71. PDAs (public displays of affection)
72. Flat tyres
73. Ashley Cole
74. Tax returns
75. Finding out that you’ve run out of toilet paper when you really need
the loo
76. Boasters
77. Not having change when you really need it
78. Carol Vorderman
79. Paper cuts
80. Stepping in chewing gum
81. Bad hair days
82. Charley Uchea off Big Brother
83. Mothers-in-law
84. Cashiers giving you your change on top of a receipt
85. Posh Spice
86. CDs that jump
87. Stubbing your toe
88. Getting something in your eye
89. Losing your glasses
90. Cat hair that sticks to your clothes
91. Children who cough in your face
92. Losing your passport
93. People ramming the back of your heels with trolleys
94. Rubbish opening times at doctors and dentists
95. Kate Garraway
96. email spam
97. People using mobiles in the quiet carriage on the train
98. People who don’t remove their shoes in the house
99. Naomi Campbell
100. Troublesome computer printers
And so on…
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October 6th, 2008 at 12:32 am
chatalaine, another one of the tapas women was referred to by maiden name, i remember misreading it to mean someone else at the time. i actually see no reason for it as i assume the tapasc groupwould have identified themselves with their passports and not birthcertificates, and passports do not hold information of the parents, but might have the maiden name on them, i don’t know, i haven’t actually got a passport atm, went down to london to appl for one a few months ago and am still waiting for it to arrive. i do know my passport when it comes will still be with my previous name as i haven’t done that name change declaration in front of a german official yet. to be honest i found it extremly spooky to get back from london and then read here the transcripts where kate mccann was then all of a sudden referred to as kate healy.
October 6th, 2008 at 12:26 am
annie, i could add a few more too
October 6th, 2008 at 12:25 am
I don’t know, Sam. I just know that e.g. under Dutch law you will always [officially e.g. in your passport] be know by your maiden name with possibly mention of your husbands name. Also here in France most institutions prefer to address me by my maiden name [very confusing occasionally...].
Clouseau asked what Dianne Webster’s maiden name was: we don’t know as her mother’s name was blackened and her father is not mentioned.
s/he also asked for Fiona’s maiden name: that must be Webster as both of her parents are named as Webster.
October 6th, 2008 at 12:24 am
You know something, maybe I live in a bad zone, or something - but I can relate to most of the above list in a day - let alone a year!!
October 6th, 2008 at 12:24 am
Interview G.Amaral,Paolo Reis,Duarte Levi
PR: A while ago, you mentioned an English policeman, a great expert, I suppose you were referring to Mark Harrison who is one of the two or three best British policemen in terms of investigating complex crimes. He was here, he spent a week in Praia da Luz, he rummaged through Praia da Luz, he walked everywhere, the saw the process upside down, he read the entire process, and then he wrote a report in which he concludes that the most likely hypothesis is the child’s death, and if I’m correct, he proposes the dogs’ coming, right?
GA: Exactly.
PR: Was he the policeman who also retired, a reference that you made during a press conference? That there was an English policeman who retired.
GA: No.
PR: Was there an English policeman who also retired?
GA: The English policeman who retired is from the Leicester police. Now the reasons I would prefer not to talk about him at the moment. As a matter of fact I’d like to talk to him personally and I don’t want him to be pressured so I would reserve myself the right not to comment any further.
PR: Just to make this very clear, is that English policeman, Mark Harrison…
GA: No, no, no.
Justice will be made to Madeleine
I am off to be now…interesting days ahead
Good night all
http://proud-of-the-pj.blogspot.com/
October 6th, 2008 at 12:22 am
it means out of interest jo.
October 6th, 2008 at 12:17 am
chatelaine, in othner documents, transcripts, why do the not call kate mccann but use kate healy ? why do they use her maiden name ?
October 6th, 2008 at 12:14 am
jo Says:
October 6th, 2008 at 12:07 am
Chatelaine
What does it mean out of curiosity….?
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It’s dialect, Jo. Don’t know how to translate.
October 6th, 2008 at 12:13 am
chatelaine, i think the naming conventions in portugal might be a bit differnt to here in the uk and possibly the u.s. . i know it’s differnt in germany too and my passport still has my previous name before my marriage on it simply because to change your name in germany because of marriage you have to make a declaration in front of a german offical, the standesbeamte, before it is recognised and can be made official in your documents.
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I don’t see your point, Sam. I’ve just been checking the police records [going with the witness statements] and in every single case they state both mother and father. Only in the case of Dianne Webster, they only state the mother and the mother’s name is blackened.
October 6th, 2008 at 12:10 am
Is it not on Joannnamoarais?
October 6th, 2008 at 12:08 am
jo, such an odd insistance too, creepy even.
October 6th, 2008 at 12:07 am
Chatelaine
What does it mean out of curiosity….?
October 6th, 2008 at 12:06 am
chatelaine, i think the naming conventions in portugal might be a bit differnt to here in the uk and possibly the u.s. . i know it’s differnt in germany too and my passport still has my previous name before my marriage on it simply because to change your name in germany because of marriage you have to make a declaration in front of a german offical, the standesbeamte, before it is recognised and can be made official in your documents.
October 6th, 2008 at 12:05 am
http://www.herald.ie/national-news/maddies-parents-set-for-irish-visit-1442783.html
Link to my post
October 6th, 2008 at 12:04 am
“We had their solicitor/spokesperson on The Late Late Show last season and he stated on the show that if they were coming to Ireland they’d come on the show.”
October 6th, 2008 at 12:01 am
Totje Says:
October 5th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
And now it’s time to get some sleep… Nite nite
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Good night, Totje.
B.t.w. I still wonder how & why you choose that name. I understand you either come from NL South [Brabant?] or have sufficient knowledge of that area. Then you must know too what [a] totje means over there …
October 6th, 2008 at 12:01 am
sam Says:
October 5th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
jo, it was the mccanns who started all the peodo talk by insisting madeleiene had been kidnapped by a peodo ring.
Yep! unhealthy insistance as well…
October 5th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Are the media going to inform us when the mccCons are going to ireland on their next show or wot?
We should be told
October 5th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
clouseau Says:
October 5th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
what was D Websters maiden name? what was Fiona Paynes maiden name?who is David John?
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The PJ [as opposed to all other records] only mention the name of Dianne WEBSTER’s mother; no father… The last name of her mother is blackened [unusual too]. Dianne Webster herself is listed as being MARRIED. Yes.
Fiona PAYNE’s maiden name must be Webster, as the police file mentions James Cowan Webster and Dianne Webster as her parents.
I have checked http://www.192.com and find both Gerry and KATE McCann listed. I do not find a David A JOHN. On the electoral roll for 2002-2007 there also a Emma & Stephen Williams, presumably the previous occupants.
October 5th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Totje,
Goodnight JoBenetboy
October 5th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
goodnight totje.
October 5th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
jo, it was the mccanns who started all the peodo talk by insisting madeleiene had been kidnapped by a peodo ring.
October 5th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
And now it’s time to get some sleep… Nite nite
October 5th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
If some posters were interested in other things beside their thight their arses,they would know that a register of paedos is being set up in spain,for example and will be taken to the european parliament to be probably accepted and valid for all countries in europe.
No need to create funds,trade kids,play the bigots with popey,have tiny dry tears,lie to choking,rush around the world trying to prove your innocence,have furies and prs …ni nada….transparency works but only if the people are transparent which is the not the case with the mccannman & woman.Not at all
October 5th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Hi Yampster
I’m fine thank you. Been busy. Yesterday we cleaned the oven
Glad the Scotch[sic] are off the hook, as I’m not sure if I want to see what’s under the kilt [hooks are usually high up isn't it?]
October 5th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
the poor preist, so was i
i watched it all unfold, him running away in his car on the motorway for instance, and thought or found it incredulous that someone could get away with double murder just because they were rich and famous and could afford very ‘good’ lawyers, i thought that shocking.
October 5th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Totje
It was made quite clear that it was the English not the British who hate their children. That lets the Scotch(sic), Welsh and Irish off the hook.
How are you?
October 5th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
I take your point Sam, of course I do, but wow, does that man deserve it IMO, and I always like a happy (well a justified) ending. I was soooo delighted to hear the news. Actually my preferred scenario is that he just got too cocky.
It reminds me of when a man in a Jag was mucking me about on the dual carriageway near where I live, you know the type of thing, overtaking, then pulling up in front and nearly stopping, then roaring ahead when I tried to get past him, well… a couple of hundred yards further on he got caught for speeding. I did smirk.
October 5th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
If true, why not publish the names of the Dutch, German, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese too? Xenophobia towards British? Oh sorry, I keep forgetting they don’t have a register of them in Portugal……
PS Pamela, I’m afraid common sense is waisted on a few [errmm] people over here
October 5th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
that should read, ‘…not at all, the polcie should not be above the law or think they are’.