INCONVENIENT FACTS

There is much arse-trumpeting going on amongst the Socialist scum of the USA regarding 'GUN VIOLENCE'.

Let's just remove the word 'Gun' and we get to an actual problem. VIOLENCE.

Yes, there is a problem with violence and if you want to sort a problem, one has to look at ALL the facts.

One of the least important facts would be what tool was involved. You are just as dead when firebombed, gassed, shot or beaten about the head with a hammer. The last kills more people that the dreaded black scary 'assault rifle'.

The real issues are who is doing the killing and why. By understanding and knowing these facts, the problem can be tackled head-on.

But the problem is that the truth shows that certain ethnic groups are behind the great majority of ALL types of violence and that is not palatable to the powers that be. Those demographics are THEIR voters.

So this is ignored and the blame is misdirected to where there is no real problem.

From the 'useful idiots'- the nihilistic tribalists- to those who love freedom and remember the lessons of the past regarding tyrannical governments.

Oh wait- they are the problem- to those who would rule...

Cowardly, scummy, shit-eating, lowlife vermin

"As locals mourn the loss of a Featherston man who "wouldn't hurt a fly", police have arrested a fifth person sought in connection with his brutal death.."

In common with the other three murders that have occurred in this town, the victim has been at a complete disadvantage to his assailants- either by numbers or, in the other two case, being elderly or a helpless child.

The last two have been savagely beaten to death by marauding low-life thugs for little, if any, reason.

How the hell can we NOT have a death penalty?

When you hold a hammer, all you see is nails

Another graduate of the Mr Magoo School of Hunting and Fieldcraft.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/8163937/Tears-for-deer-hunter-verdict

34 meters away and through a scope. Apparently he checked twice.

"...Worsp had taken time to properly identify the target, twice sighting it through his scope, and believed what he had seen was in fact a deer..."

34 friggin' meters...

Thats right- these things happen when you get a summer

Having not had a real one for a couple of years, I'm now having a reminder that your skin falls off when you get too much of the big yellow burny thing in the sky...

Punishment to fit the crime

Don't ban the paintball guns- give these cretins some jail time!

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/8123669/Arrests-for-highway-paintball-shootings

Two tribes

Interesting here- when calling service providers one detects a serious distain until the second they perceive that you are not lower class- that is, on a benefit.

A simple broken window= The glazier stated that this MUST be a cash job- until he arrived and made an on the spot call that we were not WINZ clients. Of course we paid cash and recieved the usual discount. Can't fault the guy at all!

No surprises here.

This is why NZ'rs have this 'illogical' thing about property ownership...

Not buying into the hype

That was over rather painlessly- without the need to spend more than usual on groceries. For all that, nobody went hungry. The only unusual dish was a bucket of trifle, eaten over the course of three days. That and  Christmas pudding we haven't gotten around to eating yet.
Now it's back to work...

For those who like to bag the USA

The old line of ' Only in America' is a load of arse.

Happened here once...

Still waiting

I seem to have missed the end of the world. Again.

I did think that the dead had risen this afternoon, but it was just Saturday in Pak&save...

Chaos Theory

My house is experiencing it!

The joys of moving...

The Reality of the situation

Background story here:

There is always a bigger (or uglier) fish

I thought that the Masterton Warehouse just before Christmas was something that could inspire Dante's work.

That was just purgatory.

The Whangarei Warehouse is a trip to a lower circle of the Hot Place. I'm sure I could smell sulfur.

But that could have been one of the ruminant beasts dawdling about like it was time to get on the truck headed to the works.

And what is it with She-mountains and that place. Surely somebody else must stock size XXXXXXXXL stretch pants and cheap chocolate?

Or is the Warehouse actually a cunning plan? MY conspiracy theory for the day is that it is really owned by a consortium of other retail chains and serves the purpose of keeping the unwashed, the morbidly obese and they ill-mannered and destructive spawn elsewhere.

Damn my Scots genes that make me seek the bottom price!

Who needs it?

I just realized that I have not watched a single minute of television in two months now. Don't miss it in the slightest.

Not that I was much for watching it before that. The odd bit of National Geographic or Discovery- usually about science or engineering.

The demon Sky box has long gone and will not be returning, so it should not be hard to be abstinent...

Forgotten a few details from the past?

"...He also quoted Bain at the conclusion of his interview as saying: "The only thing I can reiterate is that these five members of my family were my life. They were part of who I was. We were extremely close. We all loved each other dearly. The last thing that I could possibly have done is to take their lives.

"I find it difficult hurting an animal but to take a person's life, let alone my own family's life, is unimaginable and not only have I served 13 years in prison for doing this, I've also served the so-called sentence of being labelled a convicted killer and a murderer..." (Bold Mine)

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/8076079/David-Bains-compo-report-had-list-of-errors

So- around the time of the murders- what were you doing with the rifle?

I do recall you had been shooting rabbits.

Anyone else notice the strong smell of BULLSHIT?

Exactly the sort of corruption that is endemic amongst councils.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-earthquake/8071131/Foul-called-over-engineer-shouldering-CTV-blame

I worked in construction in Christchurch from 1984- 1987.

Us unwashed plebs often asked 'how can you get the ok to build on shit land like this'- sand or peat swamp that liquified if you look at it.

But no- we were 'unqualified' and council engineers knew best.

Time has shown who was right...

Normal service to resume soon

I will be back in the land of real internet in 10 days, after two months of existing off T-sticks that sometimes work and crappy free wifi.

Most of my data has been used for house-hunting and precious little for leisure.

I'm in a new town, with plenty of new stuff to vent about- or I could just spend the time fishing.

We will see...

It's starting to dawn on NZ- or is it?

I heard an observation yesterday- that company service and the standard of tradesmen is going steadily down and that when trying to select a contractor for a tender, the bidders are all uniformly poor performers (as compared with the past)

Is it a case of  'the good old days are gone' and, as is the way, the winters of the youth were colder and the summers hotter, the beer cheaper and the girls prettier?

NO.

When the question was put "where are the good tradesmen we used to be able to get?', I answered 'AUSTRALIA'.

This is where so much of our talent has gone and it is getting really noticeable in the trades (probably with professionals of all kinds, but I deal mostly with the trades)

When we bleed of the population of a small city every year, it's not the feckless, the idlers and those who would not be missed that jump the ditch.

It's those who we NEED to keep the country moving forward. Soon we will have trouble just keeping it working.

Look around at those working in infrastructure and you will see more grey hair than otherwise...

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Attitude adjustment

Is when you mention to the rental agent that you own property and are looking to buy....