great line in the film speed when one of the hostages pleads to be allowed off "PLease I'm a mother of two"
"So I'm disposable becomes I'm single!"
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great line in the film speed when one of the hostages pleads to be allowed off "PLease I'm a mother of two"
"So I'm disposable becomes I'm single!"
:D Speed told us so much about ourselves as a society.
Its a modern day bible
The only public figure who seemed genuinely sicken and outraged by the murder of this young lad was Micheal McDowell. The same guy who was jeered out of the RDS by Boyd-Barrett's 'Poshies-with-Platitudes' and former Sinn Fein terrorists. Oh and the media who danced on his political grave for not being socialist enough for their armchairs in Dalkey or whereever the front line is these days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Erstwhile Bóz
Back to the topic. Look at the easy ride the McCann's are getting from the UK and Irish media compared to "usless Scouse scallies" which all the parents in the Jamie Bulger case got.
Even the Bulger mother who took her off eyes her son for a few seconds in a crowded shopping centre had to deal with articles along the lines of "well, you can never been too careful with your children!" by the same media whores who can't be arsed asking the McCann's why they didn't hire a babysitter and consider them model parents.
Did anybody see the Annie-like panto for the MCCanns on Grafton Street today? Creepy.
Ah yes, just when you were getting sensible you had to bring the "Pro-Socialist" Irish media into this. :rolleyes:
Is there really? How much, I just wonder because it suggests if there was a flood in Mayo people wouldnt have room to care about a fire in Cork, maybe we need someone to ration it for us and tell us what to care about.Quote:
Originally Posted by OneRedArmy
Look they've lost their kid and are masterfully playing the media worldwide to keep everyone looking for her. Fair play to them I say.
So you're keeping up to date on the aftermath of the Asian Tsunami and the Pakistani earthquake?Quote:
Originally Posted by cavan_fan
And the famine because we've all forgotten that.
Which one?Quote:
Originally Posted by cavan_fan
Money for everything except babysitters and/or private investigators...
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http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.u...entPK=17781869
MCCANN FUND 'TO TOP £1M'
BY TOM MACK
10:30 - 09 July 2007
The fund set up to find missing Madeleine McCann looks set to reach the £1million mark this month, her family said.
So far, people have donated more than £901,000 towards the search for the missing Rothley four-year-old.
With events taking place around the world this month, the figure is expected to top £1million within weeks.
Money raised is being used to help find Madeleine and bring her abductors to justice, paying for lawyers, flights and other expenses. Any funds left over will be used to help the cases of other missing children.
Madeleine was snatched from her parents' holiday apartment in Praia Da Luz, on the Algarve, southern Portugal, two months ago.
Brian Kennedy, Madeleine's great-uncle, told the Mercury: "The fund has gone up quite a bit in recent days.
"We are now beginning to pay out and there are some fairly large bills for expenses, such as legal fees for the lawyers who have been involved since the beginning."
News of the fund comes as the police in Portugal may be about to stage a series of arrests.
The Daily Express reports today that police are close to a breakthrough in the case.
The paper quotes a Portuguese police source saying detectives are to swoop on several new suspects in the coming week.
The Leicester Mercury has bought 50,000 green and yellow wristbands to sell for the fund. Every penny from the sale of the bands goes to the Find Madeleine fund.
Later this week, the wristbands will go on sale at East Midlands Airport so that holidaymakers can show their support for the McCann family.
Wearing the wristbands abroad will also help to spread the message about Madeleine's disappearance.
The wristbands will be on sale at the airport information desk and at some shops.
A spokeswoman said: "We're very happy to be involved with the Madeleine McCann campaign and want to do anything we can do to help bring her back to her family.
"The wristbands are an effective part of the larger campaign because they raise money and also raise awareness of the appeal to find Madeleine."
The first delivery of wristbands will arrive at the airport on Wednesday, along with 20 collection boxes and posters appealing for help in finding the four-year-old.
A news reporter reprimanded for telling the truth.
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He said the conduct of Maddies parents, who were having dinner in a nearby restaurant when she was taken 67 days ago in Praia da Luz, Portugal, was a contributory factor in the abduction.
A Channel 4 News spokesman said Thomson has been reprimanded.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2...310498,00.html
:eek::rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Boh_So_Good
Interesting developments over the last couple of days. I think the most telling is the way the UK news media has totally backed off and no longer following the McCann line. More coverage on RTE News yesterday than either Sky News or BBC News 24 - maybe they're now realising they should've been more objective from the start.
what has been going on macy? i see they went back to murats house with the english cops but that was all i picked up .Quote:
Originally Posted by Macy
British sniffer dogs have found specks of blood on the wall which showed up under ultra violet light and reports suggest that someone may have attempted to clean it. The police now suggest that their line of enquiries may concentrate on Maddy being killed in the room.
The obvious question is how the Portuguese police missed this. It reflects terribly on their whole operation and shows how inept they have been.
I get the feeling that reporters have the question of "did the McCanns murder her?" bubbling away under the surface but considering it is a holiday apartment and hundreds of people will have stayed there over the years, I personally doubt it.
They are currently testing the blood for DNA but I doubt it will lead anywhere. What gets me in this case also is the reported sightings. I mean the one last week in Belgium was apparently taken very seriously but why didn't the woman phone the police at the time instead of reporting it later?
Surely if you were sure it was her you would phone the police there and then?
Yer man is virtually in the in the clear at this stage. It was bs in the first place if you ask me - he was brought in initially on the basis of hacks saying he was being too helpful, coincidentally just when the story was dying down the first time. I think he/ his legal rep requested being an official suspect as it gets you more rights than just "helping them with their enquiries".Quote:
Originally Posted by RogerMilla
Blood spatter apparently found on the walls, yet to be confirmed. Abduction doesn't seem as likely as it did, certainly not that she was taken alive. Like I said, the UK media have totally stepped back from the pro-McCann line they've taken which resulted in reprimands for people daring to question them or their story - it wasn't even one of the lead stories. Considering the previous wall to wall coverage, and the line the media took, it'd make you suspicious about they know.
Drinkfeckarse - like or loath them (and there's plenty of reason to loath them) the UK cops are one of the top forces at forensics afaik. Thought the possible Belgian sighting the couple legged it when they spotted them calling the cops?
RE the Belgian sighting-
I think they are awaiting DNA tests on the bottle that the child drank out of ?
Some other guy -Irish chap living in Portugal ( in paper-yesterday) has come forward to say he saw someone with a child over their shoulder on the night in question- this is now 100+ days after the event:confused:
Didn't know that Macy. If true it adds weight to the theory that she is still alive. Why else would they run?Quote:
Originally Posted by Macy
Becasue they thought they might of been arrested :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by drinkfeckarse
I might've too. Pointed out a while back I've a cousin who is near the same age and bears little more than a passing resemblance to the misfortunate McCann child. Now while I haven't spoken to her parents in a month or more -last time we did speak they were afraid to take their daughter into town, into a shopping center or wherever (especially the Da!) for fear some hyped up NOTW reader'll drop his/her shopping bags, point a finger and start screaming at them. Spooky stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macy
well its not her DNa anyway, oity would be great if they had something to move the investigation in a good way. I reckon if the blood in the apartment is hers, then theres some serious questions need to be asked to the parents. This really is a very sad story. Ridiculous how anybody could take a child/childs life from them.
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Originally Posted by alansmithccfc
Oh of course, they see someone across the road on the phone and they decide to run as they automatically know it's the police they're on to and that it might be in connection to a girl that's gone missing. I'd love to be able to read someone's mind like that.
Who says they ran? They might've just upped and left as a coincidence. AFAIK the adult was finished and the child was half finished. Hardly unusual?Quote:
Originally Posted by drinkfeckarse
I thought SKY mentioned a figure in the 90s yesterday. I thought it was quite strange the way they put it; something like "It's now day 96 of the Maddy McCann ordeal" or something. I loathe that channel.Quote:
Originally Posted by the 12 th man
I'd be rather more cynical - they know people are sick of the story, so they don't bother pushing it as hard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macy
Child Hater.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Boh_So_Good
koh
Macy did or at least mentioned the possibility of them running.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
To which I said...Quote:
Originally Posted by Macy
Just suggestion really, none of us know the exact facts of the sighting. Sounds to me though as if the cops were phoned after the fact otherwise they could've been there in minutes. If the couple did leg it I'm sure there would plenty of other witness because of the commotion and I'm sure there will be some sort of cctv in Belgium that could have helped track them down?Quote:
Originally Posted by drinkfeckarse
Doesn't amtter anyway as they've done DNA tests on the glass the girl drank from and its not her
Well if we're being cynical, the Simpsons Movie nailed the type of news coverage loved by Sky perfectly.Quote:
Originally Posted by John83
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Originally Posted by Kent Brockman
Woke this morning in Huntsville Alabama to the news that a 10 year old boy was missing and hadn't been seen in 14 hrs. As the reporter and his colleague were giving an update, the news came through on his earpiece that the child had been located. The look on the reporters face was like , ****e what now , what am I going to report on now, and as he stumbled across his words his colleague had to remind him that this was good news. To which the reporter replied "I suppose we can go and find out where he was", with a blank look on his mush. The only thing that I can think of is that this reporters mind has been scrambled by the heat, its 8.30am and it is already 96 degrees.
90% of reporters (not a factual statistic) are parasites feeding off other peoples misfortune.
I walked into Walmart last night and the first thing I see is the walls and notice boards plastered with photgraphs and details of kids ranging from babies to teenagers that are missing .
I been a parent can begin to know the hell that these parents and families have to live every minute of everday. I thank God everyday that my kids are safe .
Spoiler tags please, damnit!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jerry The Saint
That spoils nothing, surely. The joke will still be good because SPOILER: you haven't seen the logo or heard the theme tune yet. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by John83
I think the Portugese lawyer of Robert Murat nailed what a lot of us are thinking with this statement. Sadly the British Media are taking this as an insult on the McCanns and in some respect on the British themselves, although I don't think the child just ran away
"As a Portuguese person, I think it is strange that somebody would leave their kids.
Then, after the first thing happened, they left their twins and went to see the Pope.
It was like the McCanns on tour. People are getting tired of it all. This used to be a quiet place and people have businesses to think about. They rent houses and it is a question of bad publicity.
When I was a child my parents had me on a leash so I would not run away. Kids are like that. Incidents can happen.
Maybe the poor child could open the door and got away.
You would never leave them alone like that in a foreign country and go and have a drink. It is not a normal thing."
Absolutely spot on.
Somebody here, I think, said that the media coverage is going to swing violently against the McCanns at some stage. I think that is correct. I wouldn't be surprised if this giving out about the above fair comment represents a bit of a watershed; when this dies down the comments might sink in.
The McCann Show isn't really making the tabloids any money any more. Time, think the unscrupulous editors, for a new angle?
I do not think you need to be Portuguese to think that. I suppose its the hard question the media afraid to ask so far.Quote:
Originally Posted by jebus
it is a cunning way of getting the reader/listener to listen to your point, agree with you and then discount the caveat at the start of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by pete
eg:
"As a married man, I think it is strange that somebody would sleep with drug-ravaged transvestite prostitutes who are HIV positive"
i.e - I do not think you need to be Married to think that!!!!
:D:D:D...Quote:
Originally Posted by galwayhoop
I dont know where people are getting this thing about questions not been asked in the media about the kids being left alone, its being everywhere from the off.The McCanns made a stupid mistake but what their going through is only something a parent can understand.Does everybody not think at this point they have a damn good idea they should not of left the kid alone.
I am less horrified by sensationalist media that what must have happened to the poor kid.The McCanns deserved a bollocking but not this.
I think their neglect that lead to the abduction and possible rape and murder (touch wood) deserves more than a bollocking to be honest. They may be getting a rough time of it at the moment, but their daughter has, or is, getting worse, and it's their faultQuote:
Originally Posted by cheifo
You're as bad as the tabloids jebus.
I don't think so (aren't the red tops on their side anyway, and are verging on racist name calling to the Portugese police?). I think this attitude of they have been punished enough is a bit off to be honest. I'm sure they are going through a living hell at the moment, but I do think more needs to be said and looked at as to what type of parents they are overall, not just in this instance. Reports have said that the night Maddy was taken wasn't the first night that she and the twins had been left alone in the apartment whilst the parents went down for a few drinks, so I think it needs to be looked into as to whether they do that at home as well. It might turn out that they just did it on holiday and that they are model parents at home, it might not, all I'm saying is that we don't know. So until we know full details of what happened here (I realise we may never)I don't think this attitude of leave them alone, they know they've messed up, is wrong. Fair enough insulting them through mass circulated papers is wrong, but I'm hardly doing thatQuote:
Originally Posted by Dodge