Young Sir, I salute you.

"  A Feilding man who never let his debilitating illness interrupt his love of the outdoors has died on his 21st birthday.

Bobby Adlam died on Monday night as a result of Duchennes muscular dystropy, a medical condition that involves a gradual disintegration of the muscles.

His father, Pete Smith, said the disease made his son's muscles slowly waste away.

Adlam was not able to walk or hold up heavy objects, but this did not stop him from embarking on one of his great passions – the outdoors.

Adlam first featured in the Manawatu Standard in 2007 during the opening of the Alice Nash Memorial Heritage Lodge in the Ruahine Forest Park. Getting to the lodge was a 45-minute trek, so his family put him in a wheelbarrow and wheeled him there."


There is a young man who will be dearly missed. I really feel for his family who gave him the best life he could hope for.

This is not some idiot lamented because he died from an act of stupidity- as are so many others.

He was a person who really touched the lives of many others and matttered a damn.

I never knew Bobby but I know he will be sadly missed...

Let them starve.

So a couple of crims have decided to play silly-buggers and go out of bounds up an old watch tower.

Corrections seem to have the right idea- no food or water until they come down- but how long before the hand-wringing brigade start on about the inhumanity of leaving the poor petals out in the cold without food or drink?

As this is NZ, the real solution (in 7.62) won't happen, so it's time to wheel out the barbecue and start cooking up- the smell of bacon and onions frying in butter will bring them down faster than CS gas!

Ray Bradbury 1920 - 2012

"I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories."

Ray Bradbury

Unexpected results

"Inmates are breathing easy following the prison smoking ban with scientists finding a greater than 50 per cent rise in air quality and – to everyone's surprise – no major incidents since the big stub out.

Smoking was banned in New Zealand prisons on June 1 last year with stark warnings from prisoners, prison advocates, and guards of riots and disorder.

However, there were no riots and Corrections staff report a number of unforeseen benefits..."

The smoking ban is probably quite a deterrant to many- probably the most powerful one...

I say 'GOOD' to more taxation

"The taxman is making a grab for up to $245 a year from children working at the local supermarket, shop or on a paper run – tax they used to be able to claim back.

Children earning less than $2340 a year will no longer be able to claim back the tax they pay through formal employment...."

Good.

This will teach kids that the government is not their friggin' friend!

There is a belief amongst young folk that the government gives you stuff. Now they will get their noses rubbed in where it gets said stuff.

Perhaps- and it's a forlorn hope- this will short circuit the first voting phase of new voters, where they go socialist in the flawed belief that they will 'get something' and move on to ' NONE of these arseholes are acting in anyones best interest, other than their own'.

Like execution as a deterrant- it will work for a few.

Hopefully enough to make a difference...

NO, here is how it REALLY is

 "Television presenter Ali Mau wants homophobic Kiwis to wake up.

Mau is taking part in a Rainbow Youth campaign, launching today, that's aimed at raising awareness of the discrimination faced by young gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.

"I don't really know where these attitudes come from. It shocks and shames me that they still exist in New Zealand," Mau told the Sunday Star-Times.

"It's time for everybody to wake up, and not just those who hold such ridiculous views...."

NO, In the real world, most of us are live and let live. WE don't care much one way or another.

You do as you like and we generally keep our opinions to ourselves.

Wehn you insist on throwing your choices in our faces, we do tend to throw our opinions right back.

So that live and let live thing appears to go both ways. Except you think it is a one-way street. it isn't.

Nor is it 'Natural'- if it was MOST would be doing it (ain't democracy a bitch when it goes against you)

We would also be extinct.

In summary, carry on as you wish- just don't expect us to love you.

What is it with Masterton?

"She refused to go to her room, so a 10-year-old girl was gagged and bound with duct tape and shut in a laundry by her furious father..."


"A Masterton man was jailed for pretending to hang his 9-year-old son in a mock execution, and binding another of his sons with chains before beating him with a piece of wood..."


I will be running a series of posts on this town, as for a  town of 20,000 it is way over represented in the court news. I know that about 25% of the regional prison inmate name Masterton as 'home'...

Free Love- who pays?

Here is who picks up the tab.

Space travel- the only relevent technology

http://youtu.be/2aCOyOvOw5c

GALLOWS-BAIT

"There are no words strong enough to describe the horror captured in the images collected by child abuser Stephen John Laing.

There is also no way to prevent the 28-year-old, upon his release from jail, soliciting more material to trade in the murky online world he's created from inside his West Auckland home.

"He's had all the help in the world that's available to him and this is still happening," Judge Claire Ryan said at a court hearing a few days ago.

She sent the IT graduate to jail for a further five years. It was his fourth conviction..."


Anyone dealing in images of child rape needs to be put down, as a rabid dog too dangerous to let live.

In another article, regarding the permanent incarceration of the worst of these sick fuckers, it was mentioned that those paragons of virtue, the UN (spits), object to indefinite imprisonment.

Excuse me?

Did I see a UN party standing at the last election?

Exactly where is any kind of a mandate regarding to giving these criminal enablers the time of day?

Lock the UN up with the kid-fuckers. They should get on like a house on fire. AFTER ALL- IT'S ALL ABOUT FORCING YOUR WILL ON WHOEVER YOU CAN!

A moment of sanity in our legal system

"A man dubbed the "Sheriff of Ngawi" after he fired a shotgun at fleeing burglars has been given back his gun licence after a judge found it was unlawfully revoked.

Garth Gadsby was handed back the licence by police during a civil appeal hearing at Masterton District Court today.

Judge Chris Tuohy ruled the police decision to revoke his licence in 2008 breached rules of natural justice, and was therefore unlawful.

As the licence remained valid until 2015, it was simply given back rather than having Mr Gadsby reapply for a new one.

The commercial fisherman made headlines in 2006 when he fired at a stolen car in which three young burglars were trying to escape the south Wairarapa village of Ngawi after trashing a number of houses."


He SHOULD have been on the honours list for doing what needed to be done- after all, the state sees no need to provide policing in Garth's part of the world...

Lest we forget

So long and thanks for all the fish

I just don't have the energy to do this any more.

UPDATE:
My grateful thanks for all the good wishes.

I need a break from this-  I have too much drama going on right now.

I will be back in the future- but first, I have a long overdue book to finish writing.

I'm still watching, reading the good blogs and sending shit-eating leftard rimjaws to the trash bin!

UPDATE:

After a bit of a break, I'm over a busy patch (mostly) and are back, although It will just be a couple of posts a week for now.

Crippled by dial-up speed restrictions

Kids with ipods and youtube...

It's easy with OPM*

Staying true to the traditions of never learning from another's mistake, the usual offenders are wailing about the threatened demolition of an old and slightly shabby earthquake risk in Martinborough.

This is an unreinforced masonry building. The sort that killed more than a few down in the Village of the Damned.

Apparently it MUST be saved WHATEVER the cost. Easy to say when you ain't the one footing the bill,  and I note that one of the more vocal 'Save the brickpile' brigade is not short of a few dollars.

But then you get to have a few bucks by being reluctant to dip into one's own pockets.

In reality land, we have a proposed  2.3 million dollar white elephant and just a few thousand ratepayers in the district.

And two halls already...


* Other People's Money

Politically Incorrect Gardening

The first tobacco leaf I have harvested appears to have come out looking the part. There is plenty more leaf still growing, despite our crappy weather here.

Now I need to make some bourbon to spray on the cut leaf to add a little moisture. I already have enough to keep my pipe going for a couple of years.

The next trick will be to try and roll a cigar!

Politically Incorrect Reality TV

Snap

The Impending Doom

With the road rules about to change on Sunday (who gives way to who at intersections)- I'm glad that I will be driving a large company vehicle. I would, however, prefer something designed to survive mines and small-arms fire.

Going by the two senile old trouts that cut in front of me today- nearly freeing up two openings in local rest homes- my confidence in the great unwashed to comprehend these two simple give way rules is not high.

I would like find the parties responsible for changing the damned rule used by the rest of the friggin' world, back in 1977. This was obviously a failure, as we are now reverting to the old pre-1977 rules.

I want them strapped to my bull bars and running boards for a few weeks...

Tempting

So very tempting...