"A woman who fatally stabbed her partner in the chest with a kitchen knife has been sentenced to just eight years in jail.
Jacqueline Elaine Wihongi, 33, "self-medicated" with alcohol after a tragic "history of victimhood", a court was told yesterday. She is believed to be just the second person to receive less than a life sentence for murder..."
So would I get a discount for slotting out some of the local scumbags?
Fat chance.
Wrong sex, wrong colour...
"Key has lashed out at the teachers after 95.1 per cent of the Post Primary Teachers Association (PPTA) voted to strike over stalled pay talks.
Strike action is set to start on September 15 and the PPTA has penciled in further strikes in the last term of the school year if they cannot reach agreement with the Ministry of Education..."
GOOD!
I can take more time off to spend with my children. It's not like they will miss out on an education- we can do firelighting, navigation, maths, field hygiene, cooking and all the other fun stuff we out in the bush and out of school. Along with reading books, listening to stories and just being with MEN who work for a living and learning how they do that.
GO on strike more!
"...The Government announced in the May Budget that the top rate of funding for early childhood education (ECE) centres with more than 80 per cent qualified staff would be removed.
Kindergartens operate with 100 per cent qualified staff. They estimate they will lose about $14m funding as a result of the change..."
This is because kindergarten 'teachers' are grossly overqualified. You do not need a bloody diploma or degree to teach the alphabet and make sure there is no pushing in the playground, throwing sand in eyes or eating the playdough!
Although I lean towards needing a qualification (or at least a simple IQ test) before breeding...
167. Murder defined---Culpable homicide is murder in each of the following cases: (a) If the offender means to cause the death of the person killed: (b) If the offender means to cause to the person killed any bodily injury that is known to the offender to be likely to cause death, and is reckless whether death ensues or not: (c) If the offender means to cause death, or, being so reckless as aforesaid, means to cause such bodily injury as aforesaid to one person, and by accident or mistake kills another person, though he does not mean to hurt the person killed: (d) If the offender for any unlawful object does an act that he knows to be likely to cause death, and thereby kills any person, though he may have desired that his object should be effected without hurting any one. Cf. 1908, No. 32, s. 182
167 (d), to this lay-person, suggests that MURDER has been committed.I know these types are not big on thinking and considering consequences. The thought of facing a murder charge will totally fail to get through to many of them- but it will get through to many others who are young and foolish, but not terminally stupid.Just shrugging off the slap-on-the-hand treatment with "there is no point in ruining the perps life, as well"- just does not cut it.This liberal crapola has been an epic failure.Time for the pendulum to swing back to the harsh side of severe!"A drunk-driver who killed a Blenheim grandmother when she crashed into her vehicle after speeding off from a police checkpoint says she has been judged "quite harshly" by the public.
Blenheim woman Frances Stubbs made the comment during an interview on TV3 current affairs show Campbell Live last night..."
Perhaps that is because so many of us have had someone close killed or maimed by a mindless cretin like you.
Or had to clean up afterwards...
"An autopsy today is expected to determine how a man, believed to be burgling an Auckland pharmacy, died in a struggle with the owner yesterday.
The aging pharmacist who struggled with an intruder moments before the man died during a break-in has been told to rest by doctors because of stress..."
Cause of death- being a dumbarse criminal scumbag.
Now give Mr Grant Gillard a community award and pass the hat around!
Note to the police prosecutors:
DON'T
You already have a shit public image- don't make things worse.
"Maori leaders have been told to make a stand and pay up for child abuse.
Social Development Minister Paula Bennett delivered her blunt message to a closed-door meeting of iwi leaders last week.
They were told to "face up" to child abuse by identifying mothers who let "mongrel men" into their homes, and to stump up with their own funding so abused children could be placed in iwi instead of state care.
Bennett presented the leaders with their own lists of shame - the numbers of abused children from each of their iwi who were currently in state care.
"You know who they are. I need you as respected leaders to go back to hapu, iwi and whanau and say it's time to face up to this. It's time to face up to the fact that Maori children and babies are being beaten, abused and killed.
"It's time it stopped," she said.
About a quarter of all children were Maori, yet they made up half of the substantiated abuse cases and family violence deaths.
Bennett said effort had to go into finding children before they were abused, by identifying mothers with low self- esteem who let "mongrel men" into homes as they searched for "some warped kind of love".
She challenged the Iwi Leaders Forum in Hopuhopu, near Ngaruawahia, to "put your hands in your own pockets" to help find families who could take on children from within their own iwi "because the government doesn't have the money for it right now, quite frankly".
But Ngati Kahu chairwoman Professor Margaret Mutu said what Bennett was saying was nothing new, and although the leaders would always support measures to ensure children remained within their own whanau, the suggestion iwi provide funding and resources was ridiculous.
"We can't. We don't have them. It's a state responsibility. We know how bad it is, we know the helplessness and hopelessness of it, and that we are the only ones who can save ourselves. But we also need resources and the support of the state to do that."
Bennett said some of the leaders were uncomfortable with her address but others were supportive.
"I was saying if we really are in this together, and those are your children, you can't just expect the state to pay for everything."
She proposed a partnership with iwi under which Child Youth and Family "whanau finders" could help iwi identify families who could be called on when a child needed a new home, rather than see them placed in state care.
Bennett told the leaders there were 2227 Maori children in state care. About half of those under five were placed within their own iwi, but she believed work was needed to ensure more found permanent homes within their iwi."
You keep banging on about how precious your kids are. Money where the mouth is- you have had a good enough go at the trough!
Yep, we WERE up in the clouds!"A Nelson skateboarder hit with a $750 fine for cruising down New St on his board is refusing to pay the "overly excessive" infringement.
Sascha Krueger, 33, says the police officer who dished out the ticket had not done his homework properly, and it was only illegal to skate on the street's footpath – not the road..."
Stupid BOY. What are you doing riding a skateboard at 33 years of age?
You are going to have to deliver a lot of newspapers to pay your well-deserved fine!
Three guys and Bruce
Three guys were at a deer camp. No one wanted to room with Bruce, because he snored so badly.
They decided it wasn't fair to make one of them stay with him the whole time, so they voted to take turns.
The first guy slept with Bruce and comes to breakfast the next morning with his hair a mess and his eyes all bloodshot.
They said, "Man, what happened to you?" He said, " Bruce snored so loudly, I just sat up and watched him all night."
The next night it was a different guy's turn. In the morning, same thing-hair all standing up, eyes all bloodshot.
They said, "Man, what happened to you? You look awful!"
He said, 'Man, that Bruce shakes the roof with his snoring. I watched him all night."
The third night was Fred's turn. Fred was a tanned, older cowboy; a man's man.
The next morning he came to breakfast bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. "Good morning!" he said.
They couldn't believe it. They said, "Man, what happened?" He said, "Well, we got ready for bed.
I went and tucked Bruce into bed, patted him on the butt, and kissed him good night.
Bruce sat up and watched me all night!
"...Adam Christopher Lock, 22, pleaded guilty to a charge of manslaughter and a charge of assaulting Jayrhis Ian Te Koha Lock-Tata when he appeared before Justice Edwin Wylie in the High Court at Rotorua yesterday, the Rotorua Daily Post reported.
Jayrhis died in Starship Hospital on March 7 last year from massive bleeding between the skull and brain, two days after Lock forcefully grabbed the baby around the ribs, shook him violently and smashed his head against a hard surface..."
I call it bloody murder!
The murder of a helpless infant child on ones (supposed) care can only have one penalty- assuming the perp does not have the decency to destroy themselves immediately.
To be chained to a concrete block at the low water mark and watch the tide come in.
"A 20-year-old Blenheim woman who fled a police alcohol check-point killing another driver has been sentenced to eight months' home detention.
Frances Carol Stubbs had admitted driving with excess blood alcohol causing death and was sentenced by Judge Bruce Davidson at the Blenheim District Court this afternoon..."
Strange- for some time there there has been a huge amount of noise on how serious and dangerous the whole pissed-driving thing is. Sounds like the judge doesn't watch TV. Home D for a killing, indeed!.
Just don't steal sheep- you WILL do time for THAT!
"...Two men have been sent to prison for sheep rustling and animal cruelty, after they were caught with 14 sheep crammed in a car..."
"...Green Party MP Keith Locke said the New Zealand Defence Force had to share responsibility for what happened to insurgents it captured.
He supported the withdrawal of the SAS from Afghanistan.
"We don't want New Zealand's good name muddied by links for the torture of prisoners, which is reputed to include beatings, electric shock treatment, and sleep, food and water deprivation..."
Ho Hum.
Locke has lived a very sheltered life. With the exception of electric shock treatment*, the rest was inflicted on us under the name of 'Training'.
Sissies need not apply...
*- Batteries were hard to get out of the Q store.
What do you think about slow drivers? |
I'm a slow driver - what's the rush? | ||
| 320 votes, 2.5% | ||
I don't mind them at all | ||
| 223 votes, 1.7% | ||
They're fine as long as they let people past | ||
| 6859 votes, 53.0% | ||
Slow drivers can be a road hazard | ||
| 5535 votes, 42.8% | ||
Police hit back at the claims, saying the response was justified and that out-of-control student parties were becoming too common in the suburb..."
Party all day- when those who fund you are at work.
After 10PM- shut the fuck up or face the consequences.
"...We were sitting down and there was a wall of about 10 police coming towards me," Gillespie said.
"I got up to move and I got hit in the back of the head and knocked to the ground.
"I tried to get back up, and they said `move' again, and they hit me again."
She was hit four times and pepper-sprayed in the eyes, she said.
She and Holmes quickly left the house, and Appelbe also fled when police arrived," Gillespie said.
Appelbe said: "I understand why the party got shut down.
"It was late at night and causing a bit of noise, but the way they shut it down was completely unreasonable."
Holmes said: "I wouldn't have minded if they just came in with their shields and told us to get out.
"We weren't causing a threat at all...."
Such is life...
Bring back the Workhouse!
