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July 30, 2009
Ssshhhhh... don't tell anyone
but the latest craze is.... Smart Chucking:
SMART car owners have been left Smarting over a new craze — for chucking their motors into canals.
Dutch pranksters in Amsterdam have dumped dozens of the tiny two-seater cars into the city's waterways.And now police fear the bizarre trend will spread to the UK and the rest of Europe.
Eco-friendly Smart cars are small enough to be picked up by just a few people and dumped into the Dutch capital's canals, reports De Telegraaf newspaper.
One victim Casper de Jong was woken by police after they found his Smart floating in the waterway outside his apartment.
Mr de Jong said: "Several weeks ago the same thing happened to my companion's Smart. Both cars were a complete write-off."
One Smart sales worker said: "We're not supposed to talk about this because the police don't want the craze to spread but we've had quite a few drowned cars returned to us."
Well, the average smart car weighs 1,500 to 1,800 pounds. It seems smart chucking is easier in Europe since, for some reason, smart cars weigh less there then they do in the states, anywhere from 150 to 300 pounds. But don't ask me why, because I don't know. There's a lot of speculation on the web about why, but I didn't see any real answers, probably because I didn't look very hard for them. I really don't care all that much since I ain't buying one. I just wanted to tell you much they weighed. In case you wanted to chuck one.
Posted by LindaSoG at 10:23 PM | Comments (5)
July 28, 2009
Buyer's Remorse
every day, a new reason...
Now that Gates's chickens are coming home to roost, I wonder how long it be before 0bamamessiah throws him under the bus?
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July 26, 2009
Dang, I hate to miss it
The Gun Blogger Rendezvous in Reno is coming up in September, I wish I could go. Since I can't go, I did the next best thing, I coughed up the cash to enter into the Raffle for this:
That's ParaUSA's new GI Expert entry-level 1911. Purty, ain't it? The tickets are $10.00, and the raffle is being run by Soldiers Angels, to benefit Project Valour-IT. It's a great gun, and it's a great way to support our troops who have been injured in combat and desperately need your help. You don't need to be at the Rendezvous to win the Raffle, but you do need to prove you can legally own that baby.
if you're inclined to buy a ticket, you can do so by clicking here. Even if you don't win, it's $10 well spent.
Posted by LindaSoG at 09:09 PM | Comments (3)
July 22, 2009
Today's Floridiot
Sean Roberts was arrested Sunday for home invasion. He was pretty easy to identify, being the only one in town with an outline of the state of Florida tattooed on his face. In addition to the Florida tattoo, he also has the words "Crazy Cracker" written or tattooed on his head, Hillsborough County sheriff's spokesman J.D. Callaway said. The Sheriff's website lists his aliases as "Crazy Cracker" and "Pretty." The victims identified Roberts via photos, Callaway said.
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July 21, 2009
Reason #958364869769
Why I love SondraK:
There's more...
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July 19, 2009
Nothing to see, just move along...
Okay, if you're one of those people who get all worked up worrying about islamic terrorists and jihad on American soil, I just want to let you know that the global Islamic network Hizb ut-Tahrir conference, that's here on American soil - with the catchy title, "Fall of Capitalism & Rise of Islam," is nothing to get worked up about.
Fox News is probably being alarmist with their article about the conference titled "Islamic Supremacist Group Holds First U.S. Conference." You know how they are. It's just plain silly to warn us about the global Islamic network Hizb ut-Tahrir just because they are responsible for spawning the likes of the 9/11 terrorists. Just because they're actively working in the U.S. doesn't mean that "Jihad is coming" or that "Jihad is here."
It's not like these islamists are right wing extremists, or ex-military or even veterans, come on! This a Global Islamic Supremacist Group, they're moderates and they're perfectly legal. Never mind that last March Hizb ut-Tahrir called for "a state of war against America" and never mind that they call for an overthrow of our Constitution. It's not like we're using our Constitution anyways and their plans for the destruction of our liberties and freedom are pretty darn close to those of the current administration. So what if they plan the replacement of our current rule of law with Shari'a Law, you just might like Shari'a Law. You never know.
There's nothing to get all worked about. In fact, you should be glad these islamists are here in America. If nothing else, think of the economy. So, feel free to worry about more important things, like, is Michael still dead? Oh! That reminds me, did you know he was one of them? That's right, he converted! Didn't he look cute in his abaya? And his little boy! Just adorable.
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July 18, 2009
God, Guns, Guts, and American Pickup Trucks
Dang. Mark Muller of Max Motors kicked CNN's butt to the curb right there. And while that little anchor's panties are twisted in a knot, Mark is shipping vehicles all over the USA, yup. He's selling cars and making money. I tell ya, it makes you proud to be American.
I found that at Theodore's World. Thanks Chrissie!
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July 17, 2009
La la la...
I found that at Rodger's and stole it, he won't mind.
Enjoy your weekend.
Shabbat Shalom.
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:37 AM | Comments (2)
July 16, 2009
It takes a special kind of stupid
to justify spending trillions of dollars we don't have by telling retired folks this:
“We’re going to go bankrupt as a nation,” Biden said.
“Now, people when I say that look at me and say, ‘What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?’” Biden said. “The answer is yes, that's what I’m telling you.”
I'm in awe, simply in awe. To reach such a height of idiocy is simply beyond the ability of your average human being. Bravo Joe. When you got the nod for VP, I knew we were in for it, but never did I anticpate headlines like this:
I'll bet that gives Olberman a tingle or two.
Posted by LindaSoG at 07:19 PM | Comments (3)
July 14, 2009
La la la...
Hizbullah Weapons Depot Explodes in Lebanon
Lebanese and Israeli sources confirmed Tuesday afternoon that a series of explosions that rocked the border area earlier in the day took place at a Hizbullah terrorist weapons depot.
The storehouse, located
nearin the Lebanese village of Khirbet Salim, some 20 kilometers from Israel's northern border, was filled with Katyusha rockets, automatic rifles and ammunition.The Lebanese Army and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) immediately closed off the area and began an investigation into the incident. Journalists were barred from the scene.
A sad lesson for the people of Khirbet Salim, as they bury their dead and tend to the many people injured in this accident, they can reflect upon the end result of what comes from harboring terrorists in your neighborhoods where your children play.
And yes, I'm sure there were deaths and injuries to the people of Khirbet Salim, I'm sure that's why journalists were barred from the scene. And, I'm sure Hezbollah are even now gnashing their teeth that they did not have an current incident with Israel so they could blame the deaths on the evil Zionists. If they could lay the blame on Israel, then we would see the horror, but since they can't, they'll hide it.
Oh well. Allah fubar. So it goes.
Posted by LindaSoG at 08:58 PM | Comments (4)
July 10, 2009
Meet John Holdren
0bama's Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology -- informally known as the United States' Science Czar, and, a man who believes that forced abortions and mass sterilization are what is needed to save the planet.
In a book Holdren co-authored in 1977, the man now firmly in control of science policy in this country wrote that:
• Women could be forced to abort their pregnancies, whether they wanted to or not;
• The population at large could be sterilized by infertility drugs intentionally put into the nation's drinking water or in food;
• Single mothers and teen mothers should have their babies seized from them against their will and given away to other couples to raise;
• People who "contribute to social deterioration" (i.e. undesirables) "can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility" -- in other words, be compelled to have abortions or be sterilized.
• A transnational "Planetary Regime" should assume control of the global economy and also dictate the most intimate details of Americans' lives -- using an armed international police force.Impossible, you say? That must be an exaggeration or a hoax. No one in their right mind would say such things.
Well, I hate to break the news to you, but it is no hoax, no exaggeration. John Holdren really did say those things.
It seems not a single day goes by that I am not shocked and horrified by yet another aspect of this administration and its plans for this country.
This is what people hope for? This is change people want? It's not just insane, it's evil.
I can't imagine what life would be like if they reach their goals, if the world they want to create, if the vision they have of our future, if the horrors they have planned for us actually came to be. The utopia they invision would be hell, hell on earth. I wonder how close they'll come, before we rise up and put a stop to it.
Thank you for the link Yonason. You were right, I had no idea.
Posted by LindaSoG at 09:29 PM | Comments (4)
Meet Ian Plimer
He's an Australian geologist, and the man who has exposed the great climate change con trick:
The hypothesis that human activity can create global warming is extraordinary because it is contrary to validated knowledge from solar physics, astronomy, history, archaeology and geology,’ says Plimer, and while his thesis is not new, you’re unlikely to have heard it expressed with quite such vigour, certitude or wide-ranging scientific authority. Where fellow sceptics like Bjorn Lomborg or Lord Lawson of Blaby are prepared cautiously to endorse the International Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) more modest predictions, Plimer will cede no ground whatsoever. Anthropogenic global warming (AGW) theory, he argues, is the biggest, most dangerous and ruinously expensive con trick in history.
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So go on then, Prof. What makes you sure that you’re right and all those scientists out there saying the opposite are wrong? ‘I’m a geologist. We geologists have always recognised that climate changes over time. Where we differ from a lot of people pushing AGW is in our understanding of scale. They’re only interested in the last 150 years. Our time frame is 4,567 million years. So what they’re doing is the equivalent of trying to extrapolate the plot of Casablanca from one tiny bit of the love scene. And you can’t. It doesn’t work.’
What Heaven And Earth sets out to do is restore a sense of scientific perspective to a debate which has been hijacked by ‘politicians, environmental activists and opportunists’. It points out, for example, that polar ice has been present on earth for less than 20 per cent of geological time; that extinctions of life are normal; that climate changes are cyclical and random; that the CO2 in the atmosphere — to which human activity contributes the tiniest fraction — is only 0.001 per cent of the total CO2 held in the oceans, surface rocks, air, soils and life; that CO2 is not a pollutant but a plant food; that the earth’s warmer periods — such as when the Romans grew grapes and citrus trees as far north as Hadrian’s Wall — were times of wealth and plenty.
All this is scientific fact — which is more than you can say for any of the computer models turning out doomsday scenarios about inexorably rising temperatures, sinking islands and collapsing ice shelves. Plimer doesn’t trust them because they seem to have little if any basis in observed reality.
‘I’m a natural scientist. I’m out there every day, buried up to my neck in sh**, collecting raw data. And that’s why I’m so sceptical of these models, which have nothing to do with science or empiricism but are about torturing the data till it finally confesses. None of them predicted this current period we’re in of global cooling. There is no problem with global warming. It stopped in 1998. The last two years of global cooling have erased nearly 30 years of temperature increase.’
The article is a fascinating read, the story behind the publishing of the book is no less than amazing on its own. It made me sit up a little straighter, it made my fingers twitch, the activist in me was re-activated and I once again wanted to do something to stop this stupidity. And that's just from reading the article. I'd probably go nuts if I read the book.
Reading Plimer’s Heaven And Earth is at once an enlightening and terrifying experience. Enlightening because, after 500 pages of heavily annotated prose (the fruit of five years’ research), you are left in no doubt that man’s contribution to the thing they now call ‘climate change’ was, is and probably always will be negligible. Terrifying, because you cannot but be appalled by how much money has been wasted, how much unnecessary regulation drafted because of a ‘problem’ that doesn’t actually exist. (South Park, as so often, was probably the first to point this out in a memorable episode where Al Gore turns up to warn the school kids about a terrible beast, looking a bit like the Gruffalo, known as ManBearPig.)
Has it come in time to save the day, though? If there’s any justice, Heaven And Earth will do for the cause of climate change realism what Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth did for climate change alarmism. But as Plimer well knows, there is now a powerful and very extensive body of vested interests up against him: governments like President Obama’s, which intend to use ‘global warming’ as an excuse for greater taxation, regulation and protectionism; energy companies and investors who stand to make a fortune from scams like carbon trading; charitable bodies like Greenpeace which depend for their funding on public anxiety; environmental correspondents who need constantly to talk up the threat to justify their jobs.
Does he really believe his message will ever get through? Plimer smiles. ‘If you’d asked any scientist or doctor 30 years ago where stomach ulcers come from, they would all have given the same answer: obviously it comes from the acid brought on by too much stress. All of them apart from two scientists who were pilloried for their crazy, whacko theory that it was caused by a bacteria. In 2005 they won the Nobel prize. The “consensus” was wrong.’
What a dose of reality that is. We do have that magical number 60, and all the activism in the world is not going to get around it. Why? Because there are too many idiots out there:
Plimer’s uncompromising position has not made him popular. ‘They say I rape cows, eat babies, that I know nothing about anything. My favourite letter was the one that said: “Dear sir, drop dead”. I’ve also had a demo in Sydney outside one of my book launches, and I’ve had mothers coming up to me with two-year-old children in their arms saying: “Don’t you have any kind of morality? This child’s future is being destroyed.’’’ Plimer’s response to the last one is typically robust. ‘If you’re so concerned, why did you breed?’
What will the United States of America be like after 30 years of cap and trade, socialism and spreading the wealth? Take a good hard look at Cuba, I fear therein lies the answer.
Posted by LindaSoG at 06:50 AM | Comments (8)
July 09, 2009
Ohfercryinoutloud
I suppose to the people who live in the United Kingdom, this is really no big deal:
Escaped prisoners who are on the run will not be named in case it breaches their right to privacy, civil servants have ruled.
Ministry of Justice officials say the Data Protection Act means they are unable to confirm the names of escaped prisoners still at large.
It seems 39 prisoners have escapted over the past 2 years, some have been caught, but the Ministry of Justice won't say who is still on the street, "saying their identities had to be protected from third parties."
The case mirrors that of Jason Croft and Michael Nixon who went on the run from Sudbury Prison in Derbyshire in 2006.
Police refused to release pictures of the pair, who were both convicted murderers, when asked by the media.
The force said it had to consider the Human Rights Act and data protection laws when asked to publish 'wanted' photographs of the two men.
If you live in a nation that has taken away your ability to defend yourself, I suppose there's no reason for you to know who these escapees are or what they look like, I mean, really, what's the point? There's no sense in fighting off a mugger in the UK anyway, after all, there more than a few people in jail in the UK for defending themselves against the criminal horde, so, for all intents and purposes, self defense is pretty much against the law in the UK and the criminals know it. I suppose the government could let its citizens know to who to try run away from, but then again, if enough people get shot while running away from criminals, perhaps they'll make running away against the law too. In the interest of public safety, of course.
Posted by LindaSoG at 01:06 PM | Comments (1)
July 06, 2009
Jungle Boogie
It was Sunday nite in da hood, well, early Monday morning really, somebody is having a birthday party, and gosh darn it, a terrible thing happened! At least one AK-47 and two pistols suddenly went berserk, jumped into the hands of three men dressed in black, forced them to drive to the party, made them go in uninvited, and then - OMG! -forced those men to shoot those guns into the crowd of party goers! Oh, it was a horrible thing for all of those innocent people who were victimized by those evil guns:
Twelve people were shot shortly after midnight Monday when three men dressed in black interrupted a birthday party in Overtown and fired wildly into a crowd.
Several people are now in the hospital as Miami police search for the three shooters who walked into a home in the 500 block of Northwest Fifth Street at 12:45 a.m.
In all, four people were taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital's Ryder Trauma Center in critical condition and six others were taken to Jackson, according to Miami Fire Rescue spokesman Ignatius Carroll. Later, police said three people were in critical condition.
When fire rescue first arrived at the scene about five minutes after receiving 911 calls, they had to set up outside the area and wait for police to arrive because there were still shots being fired in the area, Carroll said.
''It was a massive scene for a couple of blocks,'' Carroll said.
According to Willie Moreno, a Miami Police Department spokesman, another person was hit by a car near the shooting.
Kedricka Hughes, 16, who was at the party, said everything was quiet before the shooting began.
''Everything was fine and then they just started shooting,'' she said.
According to Hughes, the party was her friend's 20th birthday. Luckily, he was not shot, she said.
Miami police Chief John Timoney said bullet casings found at the scene led detectives to believe at least one AK-47 and two pistols were used in the shooting. It happened during what he described as a ''well-advertised'' birthday party.
A ''Happy Birthday'' sign and balloons were outside the home.
''Obviously from the debris, lots of people were running,'' Timoney said. ``Hats were thrown off as people were fleeing the scene. It looks like a couple dozen people were there at the time.''
About 8 a.m., yellow police tape roped off several blocks around the area, a complex of one- and two-story buildings in Overtown. Crime scene investigators and detectives poured over the several block scene.
Cheyanne Wimbley, 21, said she was inside her nearby home when she heard a large boom, followed by dozens of ''rapid fire'' shots.
''I got down and I hoped nobody got hurt,'' said Wimbley, who has lived in the neighborhood about five years.
''It's devastating,'' she said. ``You can't have fun in Overtown any more. I don't want to be here any more. It's just sad.'
Gosh golly. I suppose it is pretty devastating when you can't party down on a Sunday night anymore without some guns going berserk and spoiling all the fun.
To my fellow Miamians, fear not! The remnants of the Miami Police Force that have thus far managed to survive the lay-offs are hot on the trail of those evil guns and the poor men who were forced to use them. If and when they find the guns, they will be impounded, and we will all be a little safer. As for the men who were forced to use them, well, if and when they are found, they will likely be booked, photographed, and released, because prosection and incarceration costs so much and at the moment, like the rest of this great stimulated country of ours, Miami-Dade County is little strapped for cash. If that troubles you, just remember, they too were victims of those evil guns, and are not to be blamed for their behavior. After all, if it weren't for the guns, they would never have committed such a heinous crime.
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Send in the Clowns
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July 05, 2009
Ruh Roh!
This can only mean one thing!
Zombies!
Posted by LindaSoG at 11:21 PM | Comments (1)
July 04, 2009
Job Hunting?
Good Luck!
With unemployment at 16%, and maybe even at 20%, we are in a lot of trouble. Once rising taxes start having more of an impact on the business, unemployment will go even higher. We are about to see once and for all exactly what an unchecked liberal agenda will do the economy and this Country. It ain't gonna be pretty.
The video report spends a bit of time talking about the difficulties that convicts are having in the job market. Yeah well, surprise, surprise. There are consequences, and in this job market, with millions of people unemployed, why hire a convict to stock your shelves or sweep out your store or serve your customers when you can hire an over qualified college graduate to do it? The way things are going, you could probably hire an ex-policeman to do it.
I know, it's hard to get worked up about criminals who can't find a job, especially since some of us are looking ourselves and most of us know at lease one person who is now looking. But if you don't care about all those criminals, you should, but not for the reasons they're talking about in the report.
Just the other day my very good friend Rodg had a post up about a group of self proclaimed anarchists who are planning what they call "the Coming Insurrection." The post prompted an interesting discussion that did not necessarily stay on topic, as sometimes happens, and I'm going to duplicate my contribution to the discussion here:
Earlier this week here in Miami, we had a guy pulled over by a couple of trolls with a phony police light on their dash. They robbed him, beat him, and left him on the side of the road.
With actual unemployment numbers up at around 16%, crime is going to go right throught the roof. All states are laying off police and court personnel. LEO response time is going to be worse then ever and only the really bad stuff is going to be prosecuted anyways. We're gonna have to protect ourselves as best we can in the coming shit storm.
If these insurrectionists wanna gang up and go after the 0bama army of community organizers, well, I'd be tempted to pop some popcorn and turn on the TV.
I believe the real problem is, that 0bama will label anything they do as right wing extremism, and use it to take our guns and our rights away, just I believe as he'll use any moslem terrorist attack on US soil to do the same thing.
Call me paranoid.
The insanity of the crime wave going on here in South Florida is unbelievable. Home invasions are becoming pretty much a daily thing. Grocery shopping is putting your life on the line. They follow you home and get you when you're carrying your groceries into the house. At the end of May, a man was shot several times while he was mowing his lawn, two guys tried to rob him, he put up a fight and they shot him.
Very early this past Easter, I think I narrowly escaped a mugging myself outside of the local 7-11. I was coming out, a little after 8am. I had 2 bottles of coffee (starbucks mocha frap) in one hand and my wallet and keys in the other. As I came up on my truck, reflected in the window, I saw this black guy running right at me with one hand in the air, and something in his hand, it could have been anything. I didn't think, I just dropped the coffee, snatched the door open and jumped in the truck as quick as I could. Pulled the door shut and locked it. I looked out and he had turned around, was running the other way. I think the bastard was gonna hit my head with what was in his hand, a sap or a coosh or whatever, and snatch my wallet except I got lucky and saw him, got in the truck too quick for him.
And you know what? If he had hit me in the back of the head, he likely would have collapsed my skull. I just can't absorb a blow to the back of my head, not since I had brain surgery. My skull would simply cave in and I would probably die.
At the time, I was very calm about it. I just put the key in the ignition and drove away. I went down the road to the gas station and bought myself some more coffee, went home. But the thought kept coming back to me, I think I could very well have died right there in that 7-11 parking lot. Later that day, it caught up to me, I got the shakes and I actually cried for a bit.
I suppose he might have been lost, maybe he just needed directions and tried to catch me before I got in my truck. Maybe I overreacted and imagined the danger. Could be, but I don't think so and can't bring myself to go anywhere near that 7-11 again.
Anyways, the point is, crime is on the rise, and cities and states are laying off law enforcement and court personnel. The prosecution of criminals is happening less and less, and according to the report in that video up there, the next cost saving step is to reduce the number of prisoners presently incarcerated. To empty the prisons. This way, the city and state doesn't have to feed, clothe and house thousands and thousands of criminals.
The report in that video talks about prisons being emptied and how those thousands and thousands of criminals in that one state are going to swell the ranks of the unemployed, as if that's the only thing that matters. As if those criminals are all perfectly rehabilitated and are going to spend their time looking for a job. Yeah. Right.
What that report doesn't talk about is the fact that those thousands and thousands of criminals in that one state translates to millions of criminals across the country.
What that report doesn't talk about is that prisons are going to be emptied and millions of criminals are going to swell the ranks of criminals already on our streets. Because that's the reality of what's going to happen.
What that report doesn't talk about is how the prisons are going to be emptied, and milliions of criminals are going to swell the ranks of criminals already on our streets at a time when we have less and less police officers on the streets to catch them.
What that report doesn't talk about is that millions of criminals are going to swell the ranks of criminals already on our streets at a time when we have less and less police officers to catch them and less and less court personnel to prosecute them.
What that report doesn't talk about is that millions of criminals are going to swell the ranks of already criminals on our streets at a time when we have less and less police officers to catch them, less and less court personnel to prosecute them, at a time when we are not locking them up anyway because the cities and the states are emptying the prisons because they claim they can't afford to keep criminals locked up in the first place.
If your house is burglarized, if you're mugged, or raped, or otherwise the victim of crime, do you think anyone is going to care? Do you think your local police force is going to have the manpower to investigate? And if they do investigate, and if they actually catch the troll that did it, do you think they're gonna lock your troll up at a time when they're emptying the prisons of every other troll who was convicted of doing the same thing last year or the year before or even last month?
Bernie Madoff they'll keep in prison until he croaks. But the troll who raped your neighbor's daughter when he robbed their house? They're letting him out early.
It's a cold hard world out there, and it's getting colder and harder by the minute. I'm armed, but the cold, hard reality of life is, on Easter morning, my weapon would not have done me the slightest bit of good. I could not have gotten it into my hand and into a position to protect me in time to save my life. I got lucky, that's the plain and simple truth.
If your ass needs saving, you're gonna have to save it yourself, as best you can, because your government is too busy saving polar bears to worry about you. That's what the liberal agenda calls for and that's what this government is spending your money on, squandering away your future and putting your personal safety on the chopping block.
Posted by LindaSoG at 09:32 AM | Comments (4)
July 03, 2009
Children don't die from the Chicken Pox
Unless they live in third world countries where health care is unheard of, or, unless they live in civilized nations where the government is in control of health care:
On the February 14 last year Mr Alva-Nunes desperately rushed his son to A&E for a second time.
Doctors spent 20 to 30 minutes with him before sending him home with painkillers and antibiotics.
Three days later Fabio lost consciousness at home in Redhill and paramedics were called.
His mother, 36, told the Daily Mirror the paramedics decided to take him into hospital after three hours.
It was then more than 24 hours until Fabio was taken to Evelina Children's Hospital in south London where he died.
This is what Fabio looked like when he died:
Mrs Alves-Nunes told the Daily Mirror: "We held his hand as he slipped away."
Mr Alves-Nunes, 36, told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "We'll remember our little boy like this, his eyes so swollen he could barely see, his body covered in open weeping sores, his favourite pyjamas soaked through with blood, sweat and pus.
"He was hallucinating and so wiped out from the pain and dehydration he could not even lift his own head.
"We knew something was terribly wrong. So why didn't two doctors and three nurses?"
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, which runs the hospital, said it accepted there were sytematic failings, but denies they contributed to Fabio's death.
Indeed, that's why on the hospital report, all of the names of all of the people who took "care" of Fabio during his hospital stay were "blanked out."
Well hey, at least Fabio got to visit the hospital, and he was seen by a health care professional before he died. He received his fair share of bargain basement health care courtesy of the government. In the end, that's what really matters, isn't it?
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