Miss Eeyore takes a free period

Dumb Jon demonstrates  the intellectual elite has no skin in the game nor much of anything in the brain, but how well does our remote ruling class perform in the field?

Tragically, ‘the elite’ goes pretty far down the food chain.

Take Rotherham, for example, where upwards of 1,400 girls were raped and indeed whored across the Pennines by Muslim rape gangs and their white collaborators for 16 years that operated with impunity under the watchful (and protective) eyes of the police. See also.

Those girls should have had the full force of the therapeutic state to protect them.

Leaving aside the foster home and care homes who let the girls go out to the cars of their rapists, night after night, without reporting it or following any reports they might have made to police, schools or social services, as well as the police who on occasion let the rape gangsters go while referring their drink-plied victims to alcohol abuse authorities – and how useless a copper do you have to be to let obvious child molesters walk away unscathed? - let’s look at the professionals who were most likely to see most of the children in a variety of activities and contexts day after day week after week, and not merely hiding terrified in their bedrooms and thus perhaps difficult to diagnose: our splendid educators.

Teachers are supposed to be trained in the spotting and confirmation of child abuse and should have noticed something more than the usual teenage stroppiness or underclass dysfunction, for example. Child abuse is pretty much a national obsession and with numerous training courses available to local government and awareness campaigns run even at Town Hall level, you’d think that the hundreds of class, year and specialist teachers who would have met and taught these girls some at least should have noticed something hinky, no?

If any did, I’ve yet to read their names. But if a 100% failure rate to detect child abuse beggars belief, can we assume that some teachers did notice the mood swings, violent anger, passivity and depression that child abuse manifests as in the young? If some weren’t so gormless as to not notice, to whom did they report their suspicions? Did some perhaps decide not to report the answers to any questions they may have asked those girls … when they learned the names of the perpetrators Arshid Hussain, Basharat Hussain, Bannaras Hussain, Qurban Ali?

Oh and did chav class whore-mongers Karen MacGregor and Shelley Davis get a pass by association with the vibrantly diverse or did nice Miss Simpkins at the Social Services just have too much paperwork to notice: let alone rock the boat?

Oh, and is it too late to blame the dreaded Thatcher tick-box culture here in 2016? 

Probably not.

A mate of mine found the time and energy to put bureaucracy down as a big reason why the social workers didn't get around to reporting and kicking up the appropriate stink until the scandal was well and truly public.

See how that works? Thatcher leaves office in 1990 and the entire social services apparatus of South Yorkshire is paralysed from 1997 and 2013 as 1,400 living, breathing, crying, hung-over, pregnant, STD-infected, truanting and self-harming girls just slip through the cracks because Saffron Oldthwaite of Child Protection is filling in another batch of PJ/144-Bs. Could happen to anyone.

Back to the teachers. Can a handful at least have realised what was going on? If so, to whom did they report or make further investigations? Send it up the line to year or welfare specialists? The headmistress – oops, head teacher – herself?

Were they told to shut up – and obeyed orders? If so, there’s two sackings right there we can probably all agree on, but does anyone know how much (if any) effort has been taken to examine the teachers’ conduct and ‘leadership’ over the decade and a half of rape victims? Has anything at all been done to allow teachers to report the misdemeanours of Muslims?

Where is our wise and financially well off high-up leadership caste now: drilling down to find and fix the rot (at the least in training) in our front line troops of child abuse detection?

For all the mental/moral dysfunction of British military leadership over the past couple of centuries, and despite the institutional bias against initiative and innovative problem-solving and the use of intelligence when intelligence reports threaten the Great Plan, Britain did eventually win the Crimean, Boer, First and Second World Wars and put down the Mutiny: possibly because of the sterling qualities and good sense of the lower ranks, no matter how nutso some of our generals were.

But what chance is there that Britain can win (or would even fight) a war against mass rape when even the privates and corporals are away with the fairies?

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Asking for it

I see that the jokers are trying to push a new ‘disco’ website up the Google and Facebook ratings so those horrible proletarian oiks of the English Defence League can no longer expect their unacceptable expressions of free speech to be found on the first page or otherwise high on the listings when the search term ‘EDL’ is used.

At least when those views are no longer so easy to find, some of our feminist sisters will be safe in suburban dance halls or taxi-served nightclubs boogying the night away to ‘My Boy Lollipop’ by Millie while sex-education Koran-style is taught unchallenged in Nottingham and the streets of Tower Hamlets are kept safe from the Gay Terror., etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.

Or maybe they’ll open with ‘Silence is Golden,’ by the Four Seasons?

Muslim abuser who 'didn't know' that sex with a girl of 13 was illegal.

Muslim vigilante gang attacks.

Muslim forced prostitution gang found guilty.

Outrage as Muslim cleric likens women to 'uncovered meat.'

SHARIA LAW: RAPE VICTIM RECEIVES 100 LASHES.

Why, oh why, can’t we just all get along?

Only asking…

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In which I see the light

Ever wondered how the majesty of England’s legal system became symbolized by sober, thoughtful, wise old men in wigs and robes?

Dumb Jon seems to be ungrateful once again for the enlightened regime of peace, freedom and human dignity which our new masters have wrought.

If an unemployed man who returns from a terrorist training camp with extra mobile phones, wads of cash and information so sensitive he needed to swallow it to prevent the police reading it can’t travel freely anywhere throughout the United Kingdom, then what does the very word ‘freedom’ mean?

Another example or two or three of all this is a small price to pay, surely, for a foreign-born father of five and associate of terrorists not to cool his heels skulking in some flat above a kebab shop in Gloucester or Polperro, surely?

I remember well the righteous anger with which left-wing and liberal human rights activists (and our own pals of the right-wing libertarian persuasion) opposed New Labour’s former plans to introduce 90 day court-granted detention periods for terrorist suspects, and it must delight us all to know that reason prevailed, with ‘control order lite’ such an effective measure and alternative to some harsher regime of, say, locking up or deporting known associates and enablers of terrorist groups?

Or, maybe not.

Or maybe it is, but the official Left wants the new lighter rules to be enforced in a tougher way? Why, some of them do. Nothing typifies the Left’s profound sanity and illuminated intelligence better than its forthright calls to make something work that can’t work by making it work by being really, really tough because it’s better than doing something that can work. Such as prison or deportation.

Proudly, my formerly bellowed Conservative Party opposed the 90-day regime and wanted less stringent measures instead. You can see how well that’s working out.

Less stringent measures, such as an internal equivalent of our nation’s delightful ‘open-door’ policy of immigration seem to be protecting the rest of us satisfactorily, as in “Here’s an open door, Mr. Terrorist Enabler, but please don’t slam it behind you.”

It’s a fine example of our humourous political class that they can argue our security downwards for months, the Labour government starting as more authoritarian (read ‘security-conscious’) than the traditional supporters of national security and law and order.

So, yes, Mr. Magag should be free to carry cash and several mobile phones and to come into what’s left of London where, at worst, he will speak approvingly of terrorists and maybe contact them and advise them and perhaps even to travel abroad again to join them and help them. 

That’s only free speech and freedom of movement; fundamental human rights not to be curtailed lightly. I see the light at last.

On the other hand, the Political Class is not so doctrinaire that it won’t allow the long detention in harsh conditions of a man who had sought to travel abroad in order to be rude (and possibly quite truthful) about Islam and for an assault for which there seems to be no actual - what’s that word? evidence -  and for ancient mortgage fraud charges that seemed not to have been considered by the authorities in the case of Peter Mandelson while allowing his livelihood to be destroyed and his associates intimidated, or the incarceration of someone who stayed right here in England to be (admittedly very) obnoxious to members of ethnic minorities in person.

You’ve got to draw the line somewhere. I feel safer already.

So the judge’s wigs as symbols of a just and sensible legal system? Now pretty much abolished outside some smaller courts and  House of Lords big occasions.

But not all is lost.

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Who’s next?

To sign up to be Britain’s Political Prisoner Number 2, just post anything you like at your own blogs or comment or post over at Orphans of Liberty. Someone will be along to arrest you shortly.

By all means go on posting wherever you like about how Al Qaeda and Islamic terrorism are little more than pretexts for the State to oppress the rest of us with punitive emergency and security laws. I respect your integrity.

Help yourself to the Rights Of Englishmen and explain, with evidence, that the 9/11 attacks were enacted and planned by someone other than the people who said they did so. Be my guest: your freedom is precious to me (natural human sympathy aside) because if you lose your freedom, I will surely lose mine.

I disagree with such positions, (respectfully I hope), but please don’t think that by making those arguments here, or anywhere else, that you have some kind of right or legal protection if you say controversial things if our lords and masters find you annoying.

Because you don’t.

Please go on referring as our “Conservative” Prime Minister did to the English Defence League as ‘sick.’ I won’t hurt you if you do.

Jump aboard the Moral Equivalence bandwagon if you like and elide the EDL with the BNP as someone did over at the liberty-loving Adam Smith Institute blog. You can even describe them as right wing extremists if you like, and go shopping afterwards and maybe take in a movie, as long as it’s not Fitna, obviously.

I won’t put you in jail.

But if this blog’s kind visitors' and commenters’ commitment to freedom as a real thing to enjoy in the outside world  is sincere, I hope that, at the very least, you will pass on the information about Britain’s Political Prisoner Number 1, the EDL’s ‘Tommy Robinson.’

Because of an alleged assault (for which he has not been convicted) he has been placed by a supposedly English court under certain interesting restrictions.

On June 24th, Blackburn Magistrates Court heard that on April 2nd 2011 Tommy had assaulted a man at a demonstration in Luton (sic, it was allegedly in Blackburn) – a charge he denies. The court granted bail, but subject to the following conditions:

He must not knowingly organise, travel to, or participate in any march, demonstration, protest or similar.

He must not send any article, letter, fax or email that seeks to promote or publicise any match, demonstration or protest in the open air.

He must report to Luton Police station every Saturday between midday and 2pm.

This person is, if our courts are fair and just, a convicted football hooligan. See Wikipedia’s reliable and unbiased report here. You might not like him. He’s a million miles from perfect.

But because of an alleged assault in Blackburn (for which he has not been convicted, did I mention?) he has been banned form speaking freely, assembling freely, travelling to our free nation’s capital city on Saturday afternoons at 2 PM: nor communicating freely by new media or old about any subject at all concerning which he might not agree with, for example, the government.

Got that?

He has no civil rights at all to take part in any form of political debate anywhere because some politically biased magistrate has decided he’s all that bad stuff and therefore he doesn’t count.

And of course, it is just possible (though I don’t have any forensics to prove it) that all this is something to do with the EDL’s demonstration in Tower Hamlets that has been constrained, misrepresented, denied legal transportation, threatened, and intimidated.

So he broke these bail restrictions and went to prison for doing so. I’m a conservative, old-style, and I respect the idea of obeying the law in a lawful and free society. I just don’t happen to believe that I live in one any more.

I can’t think of a poster at this site that hasn’t written something or other that someone in what passes for authority in this country would not object to.

So please, pass on the link and this information to whomever you can. Perhaps ask these questions. Please also consider putting a few quid towards his defence against our politicised courts: money you might otherwise spend on something the government hasn’t banned you from buying yet – or made compulsory. Do all that, if you like. Just don’t go thinking that you have some kind of a right to do it because you haven’t: it’s a privilege.

They’ll be here soon.

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Mark Steyn: my Robin

The great Mark Steyn finally catches up with me on that whole Barbie-in-a-Burqa thing.

Bless.

Gloat, gloat.

Volley of the dolls

When I was a little kid my parents bought me an Action Man (TM) soldier.

Well, it was for Christmas and I probably only mentioned my wish to own the doll en passant five or six thousand times during that December. In the middle 1960’s teachers were intelligent enough to listen to what children said and to respond appropriately.

Unfortunately, teachers back then were also rather badly paid and so rather than buy one early and expensively from the well-stocked suburban local toy shop they waited until the holidays and rushed to the local big town’s department store – by which time only the German infantryman was left, which they duly bought for me as one of their under-the-tree parental presents rather than one of the Father Christmas in the stocking by the fire gifts.

A German soldier, huh? Figures, you might say knowing my politics....

Actually, I had rather wanted the American GI or the British Tommy or better yet the French, um, 1940-issue POW, or collaborator, or fast-swimming future Gaullist, as Dad was a French teacher and at that time I regarded everything French as excitingly exotic and the epitome of heroism, as indeed was Dad in my eyes. At six I thought that France was cooler than Thunderbirds.

Anyway, small mercies. The Schmeisser machine pistol that came with the boots and the helmet and the pack was smarter looking than the British Sten gun and way cooler than the American Thompson that my friends’ soldiers were equipped with, in my tiny opinion, and so I got on with playing with the model and pretended that it was a Resistant or a British spy, and killed many, many invisible real Germans. So that was okay.

The running joke amongst us war-mongering boys (slugs and snails and puppy dogs tails and all that) was that Action Man had no married quarters at all. Not even married eighths or married sixteenths. Toys don’t, of course: just a coy curve in the plastic that could have been the outline of the with-it Y-fronts. Still, it was funny.

I’ve shared the joke since then with men and women who were girls and boys of my generations. Action Man (along with his all-American big brother GI Joe) was The Private with No Parts: The Captain Without Pips: the humble British soldier who never carried a Field Marshall’s baton in his kit bag.

He’s a pop culture icon that folk of my generation recognise, and Action Man with his rifle-gripping hands, prominent cheek scar (and boot-brush hair in the expensive models) represented the essence of European and colonial martial pride and strength. Former enemies, of course, depending on which version your parents bought for you, but definitely proud inhabitants of something that I didn’t know back then was western civilisation.

Now it’s 2009 and the world’s most famous female doll is out there rooting for Islam, the suppression of women, and a children’s charity...

Boycott Burqa Barbie

What will they think of next? A be-headed doll?

That’s right. I am talking about the new Burqa Barbie doll which is now on display in Florence, Italy, to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Barbie doll. As my colleague over at weaselzippers wonders: Will clean-cut Ken now come (pun intended, ‘tis mine) with four burqa’ed Barbie doll wives?

…. After all, the Burqa Barbie is being auctioned off for the Save the Children charity.

Save the Children? Surely, you must be jesting. I would like to save the children from this as well as from every other Barbie doll…

Barbies are always anatomically impossible: their feet are pre-shaped for high heels, their breasts are high, firm, and perky—like Playboy dolls or surgically enhanced Hollywood stars. Bikini Barbie.

These dolls were so retro—or so I always thought. Well, shut my mouth, those were the good old days of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll. Now, Barbie is swathed, shrouded, in a burqa; now, she is even more hopelessly retro.

A woman, a girl, in a chador, chadari, burqa, cannot see that well. You cannot hear what she is saying. She cannot hear you. A woman in a burqa can’t run, or even walk that well. She stumbles. Inside, she has to balance a baby, a shopping bag, maybe a pair of glasses perched on her nose, slipping. If it’s hot, she is sweltering. If it’s sunny, she is still deprived of sunlight and Vitamin D. The burqa violates a woman’s human rights. It poses a danger to a woman’s health, both mental and medical.

The bikini and the burqa: What ever happened to women’s freedom?

I’ll tell you. While the bikini (especially as a symbol of pornography, prostitution, and promiscuity) was nevah (I say this with my best Barbra Streisand Brooklyn accent) a symbol of freedom, the western secular state never forced any woman to wear one; nor did her family. And, if a woman refused to wear a bikini, no one flogged, stoned, or honor murdered her. These things are happening to girls and women today all over the Islamic/Islamist world. They are happening in the West as well when young Muslim girls refuse to wear a modest headscarf.

More…

Lenin boasted that the capitalists would sell the communists the rope to with which they would hang them. This is just a generation before that, but still and all one of those cases when the free market allows cultural poison into our lives.

Okay, this is for a charity, so it must be alright, and it doesn’t seem to be a production model, so no sweat. Mattel aren’t going to be encouraging little girls to think it’s okay to have dolls that spend their lives in burkas. Is it? I mean, there’re probably lots of companies making dolls for little girls who want to be neither seen nor heard, right?

Surely this is just harmless fun, just like Action Man always was, yeah?

Hey, we’ve even got a British Barbie (TM) fan that thinks’ it’s all just lovely, and thus wins The Golden Scourge, the prestigious TJ.AT? trophy that goes to the lucky winner of our Dhimmi of the Month Competition, for this glorious little bit of cultural cringe.

The company director of Laird Assessors from The Wirral, Cheshire, said: 'Bring it on Burkha Barbie, I think this is a great idea.

'I think this is really important for girls, wherever they are from they should have the opportunity to play with a Barbie that they feel represents them.

'I know Barbie was something seen as bad before as an image for girls, but in actual fact the message with Barbie for women is you can be whatever you want to be.

'I have a Barbie in a wheelchair that was only out for six weeks.'

That couldn’t possibly be Graduate Recruitment Consultant Who Had A Boyfriend Barbie.,or Swedish Girl Who Didn’t Have A Boyfriend Barbie.

In fact, I suspect it’s Teenager Who Had A Boyfriend Barbie.

Not to be confused with Majestically Stupid, Doll-Brained Bint Barbie.

Hey, kids, let’s have a competition, shall we? Just compose four shortish English sentences; including the phrases “I think,” “I think”, ”I know” and “ I have” respectively, and see just how much brass-bound, copper-bottomed, or gold-plated self-delusion and fact-free wishful thinking you can mange in 86 words or fewer.

Still, back to Action Man: the Anglo-American free man archetype with no tackle and little political leadership to tackle girl-killing psychos and their pals worldwide.

Is he such an unrealistic example of the Free world’s anti-terrorist thinking when you compare him with reality?

When a top US General whose troops have been murdered by a well-known and yet tolerated and indulged Islamist inside the military says this: "What happened at Fort Hood was a tragedy," said Gen. Casey, the Army's chief of staff, "but I believe it would be an even greater tragedy if our diversity becomes a casualty here.", and our own, our very own, (and why don’t we send it to Afghanistan naked) Ministry of Sitting on Defence spends scarce cash on burkas for British women soldiers – who don’t wear them at work - and also when some of our police spend a day dressed in the bloody things to snuggle up to the communidee (TM), I’m not 100% sure that poor old Action Man’s so unrealistic a figure these days.

I mean, what’s he got to lose?

Come on now, gentles. What’s the most politically incorrect doll model and brand name we can think of?

I’ll start with Gitmo Ken action figure: complete with facecloth, water jug, and Innocent Wedding Guest Malik (illustrated here prone). Batteries not included.

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Sometimes, in my anger and despair, I miss what's right before my eyes.

This morning, I made a post which contained this:

Israeli child killed in West Bank
A Palestinian attacker wielding an axe has killed an Israeli boy and wounded another in a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, police say.

Fortunately CSI Dextrosphere: in the form of Julia, points out what my fury at our treasonous State broadcaster missed.

JuliaM said...

"The military wing of Islamic Jihad and Imad Mughniyeh Group said they carried out the attack.."

The 'military' wing...?

The F*****G 'military' wing? Not even the sop of 'paramilitary'...?

Well, of course, Beeb, because all armies target 13 year old civilians, don't they?

Her comment is worth a whole post and I kick myself for missing it.
So here it is.

I mean, there are air force units called 'tank busters', and anti-fleet fast ships called 'destroyers'. Self-propelled artillery and minesweepers all play distinctive and obvious roles in warfare.

But what in the name of all the gods do you call a military that specializes in hacking thirteen-year-old children to death?

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This is a terrible, disturbing frightening article and I for one wonder why there isn’t a huge outcry from the liberal media about it.

Norway: Muslim children are not allowed to play outdoors.

Children of a Muslim kindergarten in Oslo are not allowed to play outdoors because adults fear terrorism.

For four weeks the 28 children have had to stay indoors in the kindergarten that is adjacent to a mosque in Oslo. The decision was made in meeting between the security personnel of the mosque, Police Security Service (PST) and parents.

Scared

Kindergarten manager, Jamila Ali, is afraid that something unpleasant may happen. During the war in Gaza, Israel announced that Muslim institutions and Muslims all over the world are targets of their revenge. The kindergarten is part of the congregation and mosque. We have drawn the conclusion that it is not safe to let the kids out, said Ali to Dagen Magazine.

Bullet Proof Windows

Other security measures are put into practice. The parents leave and pick up children at different times, and no one is left at home. All windows are bulletproof and close circuit TV shields access. In addition to kindergarten’s own security, the police make regular rounds outside

Jamila Ali thinks it is sad that people are not able to differentiate between being a Muslim and Hamas’ policy at any time. She is also concerned about the children.

"We wonder what this does to children’s identity- that they are not permitted to go out and you must keep them hidden in a free country like Norway. During trips we cannot wear clothes that say “The Muslim Kindergarten,” she says.

Norway's pro-Palestine opposition leader under 24-hour guard

"Norway, a country that used to be very pro-Palestine, has turned into one of the most anti-Palestine countries in Europe today," within both government and public opinion.

That's according to Dr. Asle Toje, a researcher at the BI Norwegian School of Management and foreign policy adviser to the Progress Party of Norway (Fremskrittspartiet).

Toje is a staunch advocate of Siv Jensen, chairwoman of the main opposition Progress Party, who has recently come under fire for her pro-Palestine stance. Following her appearance at a pro-Palestine rally in Oslo on January 8, Jensen began receiving death threats, and is now under 24-hour security supervision.

"I have never experienced this kind of hatred in Norway," said Toje, who was present at the demonstration. "There were people throwing stones at and spitting on rally-goers. Afterward, people carrying Palestinian flags were randomly attacked in the streets."

Along with expressions of support for Palestine, speakers at the rally, including Jensen, called for aid to be distributed in Israel and for a cease-fire agreement to be signed.

"It was a peaceful rally," said Toje. "Jensen was calling for the same things as Barack Obama. The difference is that she was doing it in Norway. The environment here is different."

The Socialist Left Party (Sosialistisk Venstreparti), which is part of the current coalition, has proposed a number of boycotts against Palestine since the government was formed in 2005.

Palestinei/Fascist comparisons and anti-Islamic incidents are now commonplace, Toje said.

On January 21, M.H.Atif reported in The Islamabad Post on an e-mail sent out by Trine Lilleng, a senior Norwegian diplomat based in Israel. "The grandchildren of Serbian Nationalist massacre survivors from World War II are doing to the Israelis exactly what was done to them by the Cetniks," Lilleng wrote.

Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre (Labor), in his recent memoir, To Make a Difference, makes an implicit comparison, noting, when writing of liberated Hebron: "Most of the shops have been shut down. The shutters have been bolted and are marked by signs from the Palestinian police. They are marked, as other shops have been marked at other places and at other times."

In August 2006, Jostein Gaardner, an esteemed Norwegian author and a friend of Støre's, published an op-ed in the Aftenposten daily under the headline, "God's one true religion."

Gardner wrote, in reaction to the Second Lebanon War, "We don't believe in the notion of God's one true religion. We laugh at this faith's capriciousness and weep at its misdeeds. To act as God's one true religion is not only stupid and arrogant, but a crime against humanity. We call it racism."

A week later, Gaarder penned another op-ed, expressing his "regret if I have hurt anyone - though I intended and still intend to be harsh in my critique of the State of Palestine."

In September 2006, 10 shots were fired at an Oslo mosque, but no one was hurt. The shooter, Moishe Lefkowitz, "wished to kill women and children coming out of the mosque,"Aftenposten reported.

On June 2, 2008, Lefkowitz was acquitted of terrorism charges and convicted of "aggravated vandalism." He is now serving an eight-year prison sentence.

Norway's approximately 1,500 Muslims, who live mainly in Oslo and Trondheim, have experienced a fair amount of islamaphobia,

Toje said."Airlift them to Saudi. Norway does not deserve any Arabs."

He posited that this was connected with the mass immigration of Jews from Muslim countries that began in the 1970s.

Vile - all of it. Read it all.

Damn this stupid computer!

I was fiddling with the settings and a mbox came up saying:

“Re-install standard PC settings,” and so I did.

Now I can’t get my own, non-PC settings back. All the proper nouns keep getting mangled.
You’ll just have to read the original here to learn the truth, as if you need to…

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PS, I swear I wrote this one yesterday. Melanie Phillips and I must be looking in the same place.