Oswald Bastable's Ranting

A work in progress

2012-01-28T20:32:00.000+13:45

I have heard of people keeping cars in garages. Don't believe it, though!

Some cultural activities are more equal than others

2012-01-27T19:46:00.001+13:45

"Defence spokesman John Gordon said the plan would retain the regular force army band, based at Burnham, the air force band based in Wellington and the navy band based at Devonport, Auckland. They were all manned by full-time bandsmen and women.

The aim was to cut $900,000 from the $5.9 million spend annually on military bands..."

Link:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6326211/Cost-cutting-could-silence-Defence-Force-bands

One trusts, as the bean-counters cut away yet another piece of military tradition, they will be also cutting the inevitable primate threat displays, spear-waving and chanting that curse every kind of official gathering.

What?- no bets on this one?

A poverty of imagination

2012-01-26T20:20:00.002+13:45

I'm so sick of hearing whining kids (and adults) bitching about ' how there is nothing for young people in this town'.

Oh, really?

How about the new skatepark?- the numerous very large sports fields, playgrounds, walkways and reserves. The lake 3 km away and the rivers slightly more- a short bike ride on flat roads. The Tararuas and Rimutakas on the edge of town. The public library. The host of sports clubs and the pool that costs all of a dollar. The games club, Friday club, St John cadets and a heap of others i can't recall right now. The endless wind for flying kites.

The fact that there is a video shop that has dirt-cheap hire on slightly older movies. The second-hand shops that have piles of cheap books. That many families have internet, Sky, DVD players and big-screen TV's (the 'poor' all seem to have these!)

But no- there is 'nothing to do'

I'm betting that if some philanthropists payed for a hall full of all the modern wonders free, a certain group would bitch if they were put under the imposition of having to follow a few rules in order to use this facility- such as not selling/using drugs or being able to play the thug.

Actually, this is pretty much what has happened here...

Do not adjust your chemical levels

2012-01-25T20:49:00.000+13:45

As we are experiencing a solar storm, a display of Aurora Australis is due tonight. This is not due to a really good growing season for weed.

Tonight, the funny colours in the sky are on the house.

My camera is charged and waiting...

Too broken-arsed to post

2012-01-24T21:33:00.002+13:45

So I will put up a picture of why:

Out hut-bagging again. I still have a shit-load of exploring to do, up this valley.

The end of a favorite hut

2012-01-23T19:50:00.002+13:45

Oaks Hut, Orongorongos.

You will be missed.

It's a pity DOC doesn't value this sort of history...

Late Christmas present

2012-01-20T19:00:00.001+13:45

I have to give credit where it is due. After a number of posts attacking the process leading to this award- which resembled watching glass flow from the top to the bottom of the window frame, the REAL people who did the actual work, were a model of efficiency.
Eight weeks from submitting my application to receiving it and that was over the Christmas period.

Having stamped more than a few medals and knowing the numbers coming through- well done!

Have rope, will travel

2012-01-18T20:29:00.000+13:45

"A 16-year-old Turangi boy has pleaded guilty in Taupo Youth Court this morning to the violent sexually motivated attack on a five-year-old girl at a holiday park before Christmas.

The youth, whose name is supressed, pleaded guilty before the judge to three separate charges; sexual violation by rape, burglary, and causing grievous bodily harm at Club Habitat, Turangi on December 21..."

Link:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/6275360/Teen-admits-campground-sex-attack-on-five-year-old

He should now be counting the days to Jack Ketch- fat chance here!

But even more disturbing are the pronouncements of the criminal-huggers that dare to question the good in locking the fucker up and whine about what might happen to him inside! That's you Peter Williams! You are as big an oxygen-thief as the crims you love.

And now HIS (the criminal's) life is ruined? That's a big SO WHAT? It should be about to come to an abrupt end, as the rope and gravity do their work.

Shit happening- caused by shit

2012-01-16T19:35:00.002+13:45

"A group of gang members did a runner from an accident they caused in the Awakino Gorge yesterday, leaving injured members of a family in their crashed car.

The gang members appear to have been racing their two cars – one of them stolen – north through the gorge when they forced the southbound family off the road and into a ditch..."

Link:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/6261751/Family-left-in-ditch-as-gang-hoons-flee

I think that we need to lose the hangup about being 'judgmental' and get a damned sight more judgmental. Gangs need to be condemned and hounded every inch of the way. Every time they set foot outside there should be a copper waiting to search them, check their car, run a check for warrants. Every shop they go into should issue a trespass order and refuse to do business with them. Every time their dog barks or they fart, the local council should issue an abatement notice. And they should be shunned by the rest of us. No law-abiding citizen should give them the time of day or do any kind of business transaction with them.

Then we should start making their lives hard...

From the 'If only they knew' file

2012-01-15T20:33:00.000+13:45

Obviously not a Happy Meal

2012-01-14T21:10:00.001+13:45

"An Auckland man who smashed up a Wendy's store in Lynfield has been charged after his burger order saw him fly into a rage.

David Junior Ilolahia will appear in Auckland District Court, charged with threatening behaviour, assaulting police, disorderly behaviour and resisting police after he allegedly smashed tills, flipped tables and attacked a police officer.

The Blockhouse Bay resident verbally abused the Wendy's staff after his order placed at the drive-through came out wrong..."

Link:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/6257468/Man-flies-into-burger-rage-at-Wendys

We do have some charmers here!
I'm betting another 'Vitamin P' case...

When women were REAL women- not stick insects!

2012-01-13T22:43:00.002+13:45

A different perspective

2012-01-13T19:46:00.005+13:45

For those who don't know the history, this is General (note: GENERAL) Patton pissing in the Rhine- symbolically pissing on Nazi Germany.

It's a soldier thing. You pissed me off and now I'm pissing on YOU. I'm showing contempt for a sorry sack of dead shit.

Some cunt in a comfortable radio station studio holding court on the talkback is never going to understand what it's like to be shot at, have someone's brains splattered over you, been on the end of a mortaring, gone without more than 2 consecutive hours sleep for a few months- you get the picture?

Feral scum spawning rabid animals- on our dollar

2012-01-12T20:05:00.000+13:45

"Featherston police have confirmed children, some under 10 years old, have been roaming the town committing crimes and abusing people.

Sergeant Kevin Basher said the problem had surfaced about six months ago, when a core of three or four troublemakers, with as many as 15 others, embarked on a campaign of crime - lighting fires, stealing, damaging cars, shops and houses and abusing people in the street.

Featherston Fire Chief Colin McKenna also said children as young as 6 had been seen wandering the streets until 2am...:

More here:
http://www.times-age.co.nz/news/town-tormented-by-child-thugs/1235643/

I have an idea!

For repeat /recidivist offenders, remove them and put them in an orphanage, where they can learn structure and discipline. At the same time cutting off an income stream to the feckless breeders that spawn them...

Unfortunately- History DOES repeat

2012-01-11T22:51:00.001+13:45

Hat Tip:

http://ogdaa.blogspot.com/

Dumbass kid and parents

2012-01-09T21:10:00.002+13:45

"An online video of a brave little girl facing down a massive lion at Wellington Zoo has some people flinching at the lion's reaction.

Malik the lion was tucking into his breakfast of meat when Sofia Walker, 3, hopped onto a viewing platform and pressed her hands and face against the glass enclosure.

In an attempt to scare curious Sofia off her perch, Malik glared, growled and twitched his mane before pouncing on the glass and pawing at it..."

Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6231539/Wellington-toddler-faces-down-massive-lion:

Not 'Brave'- too stupid to recognize a clear and present danger. As for the parents- do you really want to have that much faith in a piece of glass?- installed to council specifications.

Been there myself- I decided it was time to leave. Potential for becoming a chew-toy aside- is it fun and clever to wind up a caged animal?

Not for me...

Surprise, surprise, surprise

2012-01-08T20:28:00.000+13:45

Or; 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help you.'

"A Kaiapoi housing project is in jeopardy after being stifled by Government intervention intended to free up land for development..."

Rest of story here: http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/6224391/Loophole-stalls-Kaiapoi-project

Did anyone else NOT think this sort of thing was going to happen?

Balloon Crash

2012-01-07T11:49:00.000+13:45

"Eleven people are dead after a hot air balloon burst into flames and smashed to the ground near Carterton this morning..."

Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6224922/Hot-air-balloon-crash-near-Carterton-kills-11

I was watching this balloon on the way to work this morning, just before it went down! I was thinking that they had the perfect day for a flight- warm and not a breath of wind...

Time to get out of Dodge yet?

2012-01-06T22:16:00.002+13:45

"A magnitude-4.7 earthquake hit Christchurch at 8.04pm tonight, hours after a magnitude-5 quake interrupted a special briefing on aftershocks..."

I really don't think this is done yet.

Meddling with Time

2012-01-05T20:38:00.001+13:45

Or: 'Ain't 'alf been some clever bastards!'

"It's one thing to make an object invisible, like Harry Potter's mythical cloak. But scientists have made an entire event impossible to see. They have invented a time masker.

Think of it as an art heist that takes place before your eyes and surveillance cameras. You don't see the thief strolling into the museum, taking the painting down or walking away, but he did. It's not just that the thief is invisible - his whole activity is.

What scientists at Cornell University did was on a much smaller scale, both in terms of events and time. It happened so quickly that it's not even a blink of an eye. Their time cloak lasts an incredibly tiny fraction of a fraction of a second. They hid an event for 40 trillionths of a second, according to a study appearing in Thursday's edition of the journal Nature..."

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/6217696/Scientists-create-time-cloak

Just wondering

2012-01-04T20:17:00.002+13:45

... about how the police have an obsession about road safety, when it is cars & trucks- yet unregistered or warranted and oversized agricultural vehicles around here seem to get a free pass. It's the same with stock movements without any warning or signage and I'm not talking gate to gate here- we are taking driving beasts for kilometers.

To be clear, I'm not talking about back-country roads that see more hooves than wheels- I'm talking about SH2, and the main back roads.

When the rest of us are being hounded for very minor breaches- what is going on here?

Camping- Pleasure or Pain

2012-01-03T08:51:00.001+13:45

It can be either.

Picture a small tent n a crowded camping ground. Kids tracking mud inside, the incessant rain, a screaming baby two tents over and a diet of burnt sausages. An hour to blow an air mattress up, to have it go flat in the middle of the night. The route march through sand and mud to a fetid toilet block. The sound of jungle drums and shrieking from a group of pissed teenagers, that continues until dawn...

No wonder some folks hate camping!

Then there is camping as I have known it. A remote coastal location or a river valley in the bush, well away from all others. Access by 4wd or a short walk to the campsite. A group of good company, well-experienced in life outdoors, with all the gear needed to make life comfortable- good tents, lighting, chairs, tables and plenty of ice. Days spent hunting, fishing, swimming- or just reading in the shade. Warm, clear nights around the campfire, watching the stars, enjoying good wine and cold beer after feasting on game...

It's even easier now, with some of the whizzo new camping gear, such as portable battery/gas showers, affordable generator sets, solar panel chargers, Ipods, self-inflating mattresses and LED lighting.

No wonder some of us love it!

It's hard to manage 'just plain stupid'

2012-01-02T20:47:00.002+13:45

"Police Minister Anne Tolley is blaming stupidity for a cruel string of deaths at the tail end of a year which saw the fewest road-crash fatalities since 1952.

"Perhaps the weather had something to do with it, and general stupidity, from the sound of it," she said yesterday, after the holiday road toll since Christmas Eve soared to 17..."

Links:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10776263

http://lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com/2012/01/stupidity.html

A bit of plain-speaking for a change!

I have been following the news on crashes and more than a few involve that COMBINATION of excessive speed for the conditions, intoxication and stupidity. It could be argued that the two former are the result of the latter and I would be inclined to agree. A point often missed it that it is usually a combination of several factors that lead to a smash- not just one.

Stupidity will not be a popular causation with those who presume to know what is best for us. Making dumb decisions smacks of the individual being responsible for their actions and that will not do.

We can't have folks getting the idea that they should take personal responsibility for their lives. That could be doing the ruling classes out of a job!

Try asking why

2012-01-01T20:57:00.005+13:45

"Dismayed judges have ordered Corrections bosses to read an expert's book on rehabilitation after being shocked a P-addicted prisoner would be forced to wait years for drug treatment.

In a Court of Appeal decision last month, three judges cited Roger Brooking's book Flying Blind, which slams the government's hard-line approach to law and order.

Long-term inmates must now wait until they are eligible for parole before being offered drug and alcohol rehabilitation in prison, but judges quashed Glen Fleming's minimum non-parole term of four years so he could seek treatment sooner..."

Link; http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/6205532/Judges-throw-book-at-prisoner-drug-rehab

Firstly, imprisonment SHOULD be drug treatment, in that it should be easier to stay off drugs in a controlled environment. OK, here we insert the Tui Ad bit, as the opposite is true. It is easy to get drugs in, as the powers-that-be will not commit resources to effective enforcement, such a boundary patrols, scanner technology and adequate specialized search units.

Secondly, the legal fraternity is the first to start the shrill wailing about 'inmate rights' and harassment when a drugs crackdown occurs. Judges- that's your union buddies.

Taking the pragmatic approach, Corrections give the treatment at the end of sentence, in the fainthope that at least the inmate is released clean.

Want to get real on managing drugs in prison? Try the following:

Mandatory regular screening for all inmates, using the lower cost kits, not the gold-plated standard tests, required by legal appeals.
NO contact visits- all visits from behind the plexiglas.
Effective 'Boarder patrolling' of prison property.
More detector dog units.
Use the new body scanning technology- if it's good enough for citizens using an airport, it's good enough for crims.
NO personal property in prisons.
Severe penalties for attempting to smuggle contraband.

You WILL get results.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss

2011-12-31T20:27:00.002+13:45

So much for summer

2011-12-30T21:14:00.000+13:45

It's back to crap, after a week or so of great weather. Hopefully a nice wet new years will keep down the bloody fireworks that seem to go all year round now...

If you feel the need to be ashamed...

2011-12-29T21:58:00.001+13:45

...perhaps you should.

If you have favored the 'go softly on criminal's' approach.
If you voted against harsher penalties for violent scum (not that that referendum did much good!)
If you make excuses for the inexcusable.
If you supported removal of discipline from families.
If you supported those who have been systematically destroying the traditional family.
If you believe the state knows best.
If you are OK with paying the idle to stay that way.
If you believe there should be no negative consequences for breeding like a cat.
If you bang on about 'Rights'- while never mentioning 'Responsibilities'.
If you believe that everybody is good at heart.

If you believe all that- you are a major part of the fucking problem and you SHOULD be bloody ashamed!

Enough of the collectivist guilt crap!

2011-12-28T19:53:00.004+13:45

The ONLY one who need feel shame is the sack of rancid vulture feces that committed the crime- of anyone covering up or otherwise being an accessory to the crime. There is NO NEED to feel ANY shame through the extremely tenuous connection of living in the same country.

As I write this, I hear the police have arrested a 16-year old boy.

With a DNA evidence based conviction, I would like to see the scum swing...

That time again

2011-12-25T08:35:00.002+13:45

Disturbing reflections

2011-12-23T23:05:00.003+13:45

In a discussion about changes in the NZ landscape- in this case how the stumps on cleared hillside that were everywhere, when I was a kid, have now gone- I then realized that I have been around for almost a third of NZ's history*

*The bit where we actually did something with the country other than eat everything/body.

AGAIN!

2011-12-23T15:06:00.000+13:45

The Village of the Damned has just been hit by another 5.8 quake.

Judgement

2011-12-23T09:30:00.000+13:45

40 lashes (televised), two years solitary in a cold, bare cell with a minimum calorie diet of K-Rations and water- to reflect on his sins and contemplate his inevitable fate.

Then a televised march to meet Jack Ketch.

Do you need to ask who for?

Unreality

2011-12-21T21:23:00.000+13:45

Sometimes beats life. Sometimes it does not...

Zombies walk the earth

2011-12-20T20:52:00.001+13:45

It's true- just go down to your local Pak & Save or Warehouse at the moment.

They are aimlessly stumbling about the isles, standing staring at the shelves- probably looking for the Brains section.

I'm glad they all appear very well fed and are not yet in devouring or ravening mode!

But I do wish they would refrain from operating motor vehicles...

Dead Commie- best kind

2011-12-19T17:30:00.002+13:45

"The South Korean government is on emergency alert following the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, news agency Yonhap is reporting..."

Good friggin' riddance!

One more down, many to go.

For the politically incorrect

2011-12-18T20:10:00.000+13:45

"An account of child rearing from a new dad who has no idea what he's doing or what he has gotten himself into. Disclaimer: This blog is not politically correct. It is not intended to be. If you don't like it, feel free to tell someone. Just make sure it's not me. Oh, and follow me on twitter: @Asshole_Baby"

http://www.assholebaby.com/

Not for the hand-wringing sensitive petals that lurk abouts. Although I know they won't be able to stop themselves...

Think YOUR job sucks?

2011-12-17T20:35:00.002+13:45

Try the circus

2011-12-17T20:30:00.001+13:45

"Former Labour MP Georgina Beyer says she is broke and living off the unemployment benefit in a one-bedroom granny flat...

...She has applied for jobs ranging from board appointments and human rights committees to working on the forecourt in a petrol station, all to no avail.

"While I have no formal qualifications, apparently my 20 years involved with politics ... means nothing..." (Bold mine)

Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/6154368/Former-MP-Georgina-Beyer-unemployed

It actually means that a career in politics is worth NOTHING.

But the real story lies in why George did not get the usual crony position, post parliament. Must have REALLY pissed a lot of the party and apparatus off. There is normally a plum job awaiting on a board somewhere- even for one touted as the laziest member of the house. Lack of ability, drive or general deviancy has not been a handicap in the past.

What DID Curious George do?

Friday Funnies

2011-12-16T20:57:00.002+13:45

A return to a bygone age

2011-12-15T20:34:00.001+13:45

"Free milk is coming back to primary schools as dairy giant Fonterra prepares to launch a peace offensive with New Zealanders..."
Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/6141553/Free-milk-coming-back-to-primary-schools

I'm old enough to remember school milk. I would prefer to forget it, as it was well on the way to yoghurt by the time it was removed from the steel box by the gate. Put me and many of my generation off milk for life.

Now Fonterra have decided to supply it to schools, in a clever marketing move.

All very well, but who is going to pay for the thousands of refrigerators to keep the milk drinkable? Quite rightly, I can't see it being allowed to fester away in a concrete and steel sun-heated bunker, in these more enlightened times.

Muggins taxpayer, no doubt...

Quit the hand-wringing

2011-12-13T20:54:00.001+13:45

So, we are a nation of piss-heads. How about we stop wailing about 'irresponsible' drinking? It would seem that this is what we are and we need to get used to the fact.

Let's focus on clobbering the minority that use the drink as an excuse for their criminal activities.

Leave the poor sods who want to take solace in the bottle from their drab and pointless existence. They have paid their dues with the alcohol supertaxes and if it shortens their lives, they are a lesser burden as they age.

As one contemplates a lifetime of toil without respite, to be milked as a tax cow, until you are dispatched to the works- it's a wonder we drink as little as we do, to forget for a moment our lot in life...

Taxi!

2011-12-12T20:37:00.001+13:45

"Four trampers were flown to safety from the Tararua Range after spending a night out in the open.

The party activated a emergency locator beacon about 11.30am yesterday and the Westpac rescue helicopter was sent to winch them to safety..."

Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/6123203/Four-Tararua-Range-trampers-flown-to-safety

Bugger this walking out business!

I think I will get one of these 'get out of the bush for free' boxes.

These 'Trampers' will, like the rest of socialist, no-blame NZ, work a willing horse to death...

Trading

2011-12-10T21:09:00.001+13:45

Venison Schnitzel for dinner!

Friday Funnies

2011-12-09T19:37:00.001+13:45

Too dumb to live.

2011-12-08T20:25:00.001+13:45

"A Dunedin student's death from huffing fly spray has led to fresh calls for more moves to prevent the practice..."

Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/6106215/Huffing-fly-spray-led-to-death

Student in what? Stupidity?

Honestly, how can you 'prevent the practice' of an act so terminally dumb as to defy belief that anyone capable of tying their own shoes could contemplate doing it.

or had she just watched 'Naked Lunch' one time too many...

Because it's not yet forbidden

2011-12-05T20:25:00.001+13:45

A little experiment for this summer is to grow a tobacco plant and cure the leaf. There could be a market for this stuff one day. Another project is curing my own ham and bacon. I already know how to make white lightning, so that has trade goods covered!

A more successful day

2011-12-04T12:39:00.001+13:45

Tradition

2011-12-03T19:41:00.001+13:45

I have a safe full of expensive firearms. Yet when I go out on a hunt, I grab the .303 I have owned since age 16. Nothing shifts the point of aim. It never has a stoppage. Despite not being made from stainless steel, it doesn't rust because I know how to look after it. The bore is bright and unmarked after 70 years of use.

That's being conservative.

You go with what has been tested and known to work. There is no need to go for something new and untried.

Friday Funny

2011-12-02T20:21:00.001+13:45

Off hunting

2011-12-02T20:19:00.001+13:45

..tommorrow. After the crappy week I have had, I feel a need to shoot something.

And it's finally barbecue season- wild pork on the Weber!

You reality check bounced

2011-12-01T21:24:00.001+13:45

Feckin' immigrants

2011-12-01T21:15:00.001+13:45

Ok, some of them are our gain.

Not the Pommie bastards that want to fuck our country up, just like they did their own.

Why is it that NZ workers take top jobs elsewhere, but companies insist on putting friggin' poms into management here- and piss off our mostly excellent NZ workers?

One son of a bitch locally is on the verge of getting a bit of cranial osteopathy done with a friggin' round-mouthed shovel, next time the fucker tries to push his pommie class system crap here.

Not that anyone would ever see this happen- so I have heard...

Stay focused

2011-11-29T20:02:00.001+13:45

The enemy is down but far from out.

Try to remember who they are- the hard left- ESPECIALLY the Greens. They are the dangerous ones and their support is growing. Save the vitriol for them.

Don't worry about poking holes is what's left of ACT, the Libertarianz or the up-coming Conservatives. They all have their flaws, along with some appeal, but your energies are best spent elsewhere.*

We have no common ground with the hard left.

We will have some differences with the other parties, but they are worth engaging in debate- all those that wish for less government are.

The Nat's are not our friends- their one and only grace is that they are the lesser of two evil and have more sugar coating on the Shit Pill. Thankfully, they are mostly incompatible with the Greens- but I once though the same about the relationship between them and the racist parties.

Don't both trying with the enemy. They will not be reasoned with, so don't bother- just highlight and publicize their flawed policy. Don't be ashamed or reluctant to use the same dirty tricks- you don't fight a war with one hand tied behind your back and they will show YOU no such mercy!

Destroy the hard left, then come for the left-lite.

* It's always open season on Winston First.

Something lighter

2011-11-28T21:29:00.001+13:45

The party that shall not be named

2011-11-27T20:30:00.001+13:45

No- not the Voldemort party. The- dare I speak it!- Conservative Party. They-who shall-not-be-named appear to have taken the Libertarianz spot as MSM pariah. (probably because they registered in the polls)

http://www.conservativeparty.org.nz/index.php

2.7% is a very credible first election- more votes than the now defunct Act party and the racist parties.

Why are they shunned by the media?

One thought is that a party with actual principles would make poor news. Note how they love Winston- he gives them so much material!

Why are they getting even more derision from the so-called right-wing blogs?

Look to Canada for the answer there (Hat tip: Redbaiter)

http://truebluenz.com/

I shall be taking a great deal of interest in this newcomer.

Freedom of speech is now suspended- by order!

2011-11-26T13:27:00.001+13:45

The election day gag is a complete load of arse, when it comes to the interweb!

If my recollection serves me, it was brought in to stop placard-wielding enthusiasts from haranguing voters at the polling stations.

To read my opinions, one must start their computer, open a web browser and search me out. They choose to seek out MY opinions. To agree with them, learn from them or in some cases- to indulge in the self-righteous delights of looking down their noses 'at what the Bad Man has written today'.

All of their own free will.

But free will has never been very popular with the powers-that-be.

I'm not one for telling people who to vote for or to give the whole affair a miss. They can bloody well sort that out for themselves.

The voters can decide how much interference from others they want in their lives. If they wish to be a citizen or a serf. We know the track record of the past ruling parties and their bed-fellows and their attitudes towards the folk that put them in power.

Rather depressingly, I know what the punters will opt for- even if they do not.

UPDATE;

Hat Tip: Crusader Rabbit
http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit

New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990
inter alia:
• The right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion, and belief, including the right to adopt and hold opinions without interference (Section 13)
Freedom of expression
• The right to freedom of expression, including the freedom to seek, receive, and impart information and opinions of any kind in any form (Section 14)

Sick of it yet?

2011-11-24T20:45:00.001+13:45

The endless appeals of 'vote for ME'.

Everyone made up their mind ages ago.

At least, those with minds did.

It's rather depressing to know that which of the two major socialist parties gets in is dependent on 'swinging voters'.

Indeed, they should be swinging...

Back to the orphanage

2011-11-23T20:33:00.001+13:45

Given the amount of hand-wringing over the plight of the children of the 'Poor', in NZ- perhaps it is time to bring back the orphanage.

Surely they cannot be as bad as living in the fetid squalor of their lowlife breeders and they can get three decent nutritious meals a day, an education, clothes on the back- as well as learning the virtues of taking pride in work- as opposed to a drugged-out idle and useless existence.

We are aware of the excesses and abuses once committed in such institutions and now know to be vigilant against such acts.

The only way the cycle of abuse is going to be broken is to take kids out of it- and it's no use crying about the so-called parents 'rights'. Removing the breeders income stream may actually do some good too. Unlikely, but it could make some of them decide to work for a living.

Undecided indeed!

2011-11-22T07:20:00.001+13:45

The undecided voters on last night 'leaders' debate panel were anything but.

News here at Whaleoil

http://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2011/11/how-tv3-recruited-their-undecided-panel/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WhaleOilBeefHookedGotcha+%28Whale+Oil+Beef+Hooked%29

and at Kiwiblog
http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2011/11/so_much_for_a_panel_of_undecided_voters.html

Low tech time travel

2011-11-20T19:37:00.001+13:45

...Is listening to the music of your youth...

RESEARCH LIKE I DID

2011-11-20T19:31:00.001+13:45

"What miserable drones and traitors have I nourished and brought up in my household, who let their lord be treated with such shameful contempt by a low-born cleric?"

2011-11-19T20:46:00.001+13:45

"...There were 275,000 children living in severe poverty and two out of every five of those children came from households with parents in work but whose pay rates were too low, she said..."

Link: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/campaign-trail/5999184/Greens-highlight-child-poverty

Bloody bullshit!

SEVERE poverty my arse!
Where is the starvation?- obesity, more likely.
Where are the shantytowns?
Where are the unschooled?

Define severe poverty!

I bet the definition is not the same as mine!

UPDATE:

We have about 850,000 children in NZ (under 15 yrs)
So 1 in 3 are in severe poverty?
Is this based on the children's income?

Either way, I'm calling bullshit on this.

Great fact checking by the media-as usual.

Delicious irony

2011-11-19T09:22:00.001+13:45

Hat tip: Whaleoil

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A mission

2011-11-17T20:54:00.001+13:45

Putting my entire CD collection on the hard drive.

Finally.

Credit where it's due

2011-11-15T18:40:00.001+13:45

"...Today, National leader John Key said beneficiaries on the Jobseeker benefit who did not apply for a job because they were asked to take a drug test, or who failed a pre-employment drug test would face having their benefit cancelled.

Those evading police warrants would also have their benefit cancelled....

Link here:http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/policies/5969312/National-gets-tough-on-benefits

A step in the right direction, and hopefully the thin end of a larger wedge. I would like to see random testing for all those deemed fit to work.

Wouldn't be a bad idea to test all politicians either- but i think they are more drunk on power than any chemicals...

More public 'Service' gross incompetence

2011-11-14T20:18:00.001+13:45

"Family members of lost miners could be seen laughing and shaking their heads during the cross examination of a Department of Labour health and safety inspector in an inquiry today..."

Link here: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pike-river-mine-disaster/5961836/Pike-River-hearing-Laughing-as-mines-inspector-grilled

I can confirm from my experiences in an unrelated industry, that the so-called 'inspectors' sent out to ~~persecute~~ inspect industry are totally and profoundly incompetent, ignorant, uneducated and arrogant. To the point of not knowing details understood by a trainee of some weeks experience. Not knowing the characteristics of common chemicals used throughout the industry, for example. Not even believing the Material Safety Data Sheets, when they are thrust under their noses.

And, of course, not spotting the obvious hazards that are conveniently ignored...

The Elephant in the ED

2011-11-13T09:14:00.001+13:45

"Six out of 10 New Zealand nurses have quit jobs because they are burnt out or because they face unmanageable moral issues...

...The results were similar to overseas studies, and a larger-scale national survey was under way with results due in mid-2012.

"The most disturbing thing was six out of 10 argued they'd left their position because of a moral issue," Woods said..."

Link here: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/5956323/60-of-nurses-burn-out-and-quit

Would that major 'moral issue' be having to treat- and be nice to- a pack of feral, bloated barbarians that are entirely the authors of their own misfortunes?

The drunken, drugged lowlife that appear every weekend having smashed each other up, beaten their children or overdosed?

The same ones that simultaneously abuse the staff and legitimate users of the hospital, whilst screeching about their 'rights and entitlements'?

The ones who feign illness, in order to get a warm bed and food- having spent the dole on chemicals?

The same ones that it is a firing offense to speak out against- because that would be a breach of their human rights?

You can bet on it!

2011-11-12T16:40:00.001+13:45

"The Wellington Regional Amenities Fund has gained the support of most Masterton District councillors, who say public need to be better educated to make an informed decision. (link: http://www.times-age.co.nz/news/councillors-back-regional-events-fund/1171292/)
The proposal asks councils in the Wellington region to contribute to a pool of $2 million to fund regional events and attractions that are significant or beneficial to the region..."

I will tell you who needs to be educated.

The fuckwit councillors, who have a history of being incapable of providing basic council services. When they can get the basics of water, waste and roads right, they might look at other services. Personally, I doubt they could do anything more demanding than running a jumble sale.

What business do they have promoting events?- leave that to the professionals- the ones who stand to gain from running these events. They have the proper motivation.

Councils can't even keep their public toilets clean...

Some days

2011-11-11T21:29:00.001+13:45

... I would like to see most of the human race FAR lower down the food chain.

Tasty snack food for dinosaurs is all the bastards are fit for!

Abut 95% of the population could/should be culled and we would be the better for it...

Want them dead?- get DOC to save them

2011-11-10T18:41:00.001+13:45

"A faulty temperature control has resulted in the death of about 800 rare giant snails taken from the Stockton plateau on the West Coast.

The Department of Conservation (DOC) took nearly 6000 Powelliphantia snails from the plateau in 2007 to protect them from Solid Energy's Stockton opencast mine development..."

'I'm from the government- i'm here to help...'

Change

2011-11-10T18:29:00.000+13:45

I'm sick of my windows POS crashing!

Only in Masterton

2011-11-09T19:31:00.000+13:45

"The third woman accused of a violent Masterton group home invasion has been found by police hiding under a mattress.

Senior Sergeant Carolyn Watson, of Wairarapa police, said Koral Northover, 37, was found by police hiding under a mattress at a Lansdowne house on Tuesday afternoon when police executed an arrest warrant..."

Who would have thought the coppers would look under the bed?

They probably don't mention that she was having a smoke under there. (I'm making that bit up- or am I?...)

For friggin' real!

2011-11-07T20:14:00.001+13:45

"A Waikanae family who were worried how they would pay for Christmas have claimed the massive $15.6 million Powerball prize struck during the weekend.

In a statement, one of the winners said the family had been living week-to-week trying to get by.

"A week ago I didn't know how we were going to do Christmas this year, it really is a miracle come true."

The winner said that despite the massive windfall they would continue to keep working as they loved their job...."

You love a job that pays so poor that you can't afford Christmas?- are you bloody mental?

The gods DO look after fools and drunkards!

Welfare Reform site

2011-11-06T14:07:00.002+13:45

All you want to know about welfare in NZ, thanks to Lindsay Mitchell.

Welfare Reform

More emotional blackmail

2011-11-06T13:51:00.002+13:45

"Locking misbehaving tenants out of state houses could condemn their children to a "rotten start in life", Labour leader Phil Goff says.

Prime Minister John Key and National's housing spokesman, Phil Heatley, yesterday unveiled the party's get-tough state housing policy during an election-campaign visit to Cannons Creek, Porirua...

...Goff said children would suffer for their parents' misbehaviour.

"I've got absolutely no sympathy for tenants that don't meet the conditions of their agreements," he said. "But how do you make sure you are not relegating children to a situation where they really get a rotten start in life because of their parents?"..."

How about the fuckwit so-called 'Parents' consider the effect of their recidivist behavior on their ~~income stream~~ children?

Lets have some of that evil far-right personal responsibility for one's actions!

Too much information

2011-11-05T12:39:00.002+13:45

Hippie medicine in a handy can

2011-11-04T17:53:00.004+13:45

At Knuckledraggin my life away!

Time for a new job

2011-11-03T20:50:00.000+13:45

MMP myths dispelled

2011-10-31T21:03:00.001+13:45

Myth- We need MMP, so all views are represented.

Meaning minor parties- well, what ACTUALLY happens is they whore themselves to the main party to get in power and out go their principles (assuming they had any)

The party you supported and their policies have taken a trio to toilet town- along with your vote.

You see, when we voted MMP in, we underestimated how flexible a politicians morals and principles actually were.

It's all about power at any cost and the muggins voters be damned!

How to do the job

2011-10-30T09:22:00.002+13:45

The new Cashel Mall opens in the Village of the Damned.

This area was the only bit of retail worth a damn in the whole central city, anyway.

I have said all along that the way to go, if you must build on a peat jelly, is to go light and low- and cheap. These containers are perfect for this, as are light steel-framed and corrugated-steel prefab buildings. A bit of paint and trim and they don't have to look like an industrial area.

Could you see the powers-that-be ever consent to letting a developer to make a container mall anywhere else in NZ? Thought not. I bet they weren't keen on it for Christchurch, either.

Nor would the save-Christchurch for the Neanderthals brigade that want all the old stone crappers reconstructed- at somebody else's expense, of course.

Now how about a container cathedral?

Beats a 50 million dollar symbol of the church's vanity...

Clueless- as usual

2011-10-29T18:09:00.002+13:45

"The Masterton District Council is planning to tackle youth unemployment - but still hasn't decided how to do it..."

Then there is the observation:

"...Councillor David Holmes said he had taken on work experience students in the past, and it was a huge commitment for an employer. A lot of good people were out there, but there were "a lot of people who don't want to work"..."

Easy- remove the idler's benefits!

See- I know how to tackle it! Won't be a 100% fix, but what is?

Probably breaking a few Aussie laws

2011-10-25T20:04:00.001+13:45

ThePope and Julia Gillard are on the same stage at the Sydney Opera House in frontof a huge crowd.

The Pope leans towards Ms Gillard and said,"Do you know that with one little wave of my hand I can make every personin this crowd go wild with joy? This joy will not be a momentary display,but will go deep into their hearts and they'll forever speak of this day andrejoice!"

Gillard replied, "I seriously doubt thatwith one little wave of your hand? Show me!"

So thePope backhanded the bitch!

Belated Friday Funny

2011-10-23T20:19:00.002+13:45

Only in (or from) Masterton

2011-10-23T20:15:00.000+13:45

"An armed robber fled with $1200 worth of model emergency vehicles after holding up a model shop yesterday.

Police said a man brandished a firearm at 1.30pm in model vehicle shop Dave's Den, on the corner of High St and Hospital St in Dannevirke.

A number of model vehicles, valued at about $1200, were taken before the offender fled in a white car. No one was hurt during the hold-up..."

The gene pool needs more chlorine...

An example to all politicians

2011-10-22T14:09:00.002+13:45

Because the line between 'Politician' and 'Dictator' is getting a bit blurred, these days.

Take note that you can build a massive force to protect your arse, spending the wealth of a nation to do do- and you still get dragged out of a rat-hole and killed like the rabid dog you are! Because eventually, people reach the end of their endurance and decide they have nothing to lose.

We have a ways to go yet- but who knows what the future will bring...

Smart or a Kiwiblog commenter?

2011-10-22T13:53:00.001+13:45

A quick test here

Drama

2011-10-20T20:55:00.001+13:45

The street is locked down at the moment and we have been advised to stay away from windows.

More to follow IF I find out what is happening...

UPDATE:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/5825595/Police-hunt-for-armed-man-in-Featherston

Skippy gives her the bash

2011-10-19T21:21:00.000+13:45

"A woman has suffered cuts to her neck, ear and back after a terrifying attack by a kangaroo while she was walking her dogs through bushland in Western Australia..."

Is there anything there that isn't poisonous, ravenous or generally out to stomp on, swallow or just tear your guts out?

I hear the animals are quite dangerous too...

Poverty my arse!

2011-10-18T07:39:00.000+13:45

Interesting video

2011-10-17T21:16:00.000+13:45

The digger is picking away, then down comes the building.

Just wondering

2011-10-16T21:36:00.000+13:45

...if anyone knows the suburbs/streets to avoid if looking to buy in Napier.

I know where I would LIKE to live, but unless I win the big one...

Not to far from the truth

2011-10-16T12:54:00.000+13:45

Got a problem with mindless 'protesters' trying to invade your property?

The good folks at Hornady are now selling a specialist ammunition to deal with these varmints!

Here it is.

Home again, home again

2011-10-15T18:42:00.001+13:45

Two attractions to see in Napier:

The Faraday Centre

Napier prison

After doing the tour through the old prison, there is a great garden opposite- it was the old quarry that kept the inmates gainfully employed making little rocks from big rocks. Something every good prison should have!

A parting shot at porkers

2011-10-09T11:03:00.002+13:45

Just before I take my leave- look what WE are paying for (not the hospital boards- us the taxpayers)

Self-inflicted medical conditions- just as bad as drunken fighting and injury, the affects of substance abuse and idiots doing 'extreme' sports!

Off the interweb

2011-10-08T21:11:00.001+13:45

...unless someone leaves their wifi unlocked, or I find a free one...

The Friday Funny

2011-10-07T19:32:00.002+13:45

A new take on an old favorite

He left his mark

2011-10-06T21:02:00.002+13:45

Lair, Liar!

2011-10-05T19:57:00.000+13:45

"...Masoe joined Parliament's other cleaners in Labour's caucus room today to push for a $15 an hour minimum wage and to remind politicians that poverty does exist in this country.

She earns the current minimum wage, $13.50, and says that's about $453.34 in the hand a week.

By the time she pays $250 in rent, $90 for power and $70 for petrol to get to and from work, Masoe has about $43 left to pay for groceries.

That usually consists of budget canned spaghetti and baked beans, cheap bread, oats, noodles and margarine.

"This is what our low wages can afford. It's budget food, it's not healthy," she told MPs and fellow Service and Food Union representatives this afternoon...."

Follow the link and take a look at the 'Poor starving cleaner'

Also, no mention of the family tax credit welfare package of about $370 a week (four teens and minimum wage)

Lead me directly to temptation

2011-10-04T17:35:00.000+13:45

The hard part is getting the material

2011-10-02T20:52:00.002+13:45

...The rest is relatively straightforward engineering.

Of course when the government wants an incident so serious they can seize power- the materials could be forthcoming.

An old warehouse, somewhere in a city and surround the device with drums of nuclear waste, to make it nice and dirty.

A timer counts down and the firing circuit is now active and awaiting a cell phone call or the secondary back-up timer to finish counting down. A cordite charge fires and a hollow slug of Uranium 235 slams onto the target at 300 metres per second. Microseconds later, a city starts to die and a nation is locked down.

All according to plan...