Murray started it!

Here:

Philosophy & Brandy

I recall reading a book where the theory was put in that in a world, there are only a few actual people- about 1% and the rest were sort of drones that were there to buzz to & fro without taking part in the story- apart as walk-on victims.

Sounds like a Terry Prachart sort of thory, but sometimes I wonder about it.

I've just spent two weeks in a classroom and never heard half of the people in it speak.

Around town I keep meeting the same people everywhere I go. Whatever the event, some of these dozen or so are there- and are usually running the show!

There may be something it it...

An oldie, but still good...

While walking down the street one day a US Senator is tragically hit by a truck and dies. His soul arrives in heaven and is met by St. Peter at the entrance. "Welcome to heaven," says St. Peter. "Before you settle in, it seems there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts, you see, so we're not sure what to do with you."

"No problem, just let me in," says the man.

"Well, I'd like to, but I have orders from higher up. What we'll do is have you spend one day in hell and one in heaven. Then you can choose where to spend eternity."

"Really, I've made up my mind. I want to be in heaven," says the Senator."I'm sorry, but we have our rules."And with that, St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell.

The doors open and he finds himself in the middle of a green golf course. In the distance is a clubhouse. Standing in front of it are all his friends and other politicians who had worked with him.Everyone is very happy and in evening dress. They run to greet him, shake his hand, and reminisce about the good times they had while getting rich at the expense of the people.They play a friendly game of golf; and then dine on lobster, caviar and champagne.Also present is the devil, who really is a very friendly guy who has a good time dancing and telling jokes. They are having such a good time that before he realizes it, it is time to go. Everyone gives him a hearty farewell and waves while the elevator rises...

The elevator goes up, up, up and the door reopens on heaven where St. Peter is waiting for him."Now it's time to visit heaven."So, 24 hours pass with the Senator joining a group of contented souls moving from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing. They havea good time. Before he realizes it, the 24 hours have gone by and St. Peter returns."Well, then, you've spent a day in hell and another in heaven. Now choose your eternity."

The Senator reflects for a minute, then he answers: "Well, I would never have said it before, I mean heaven has been delightful, but I think I would be better off in hell."

So St Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell.Now the doors of the elevator open and he's in the middle of a barren land covered with waste and garbage.He sees all his friends, dressed in rags, picking up the trash and putting it in black bags as more trash falls from above.The devil comes over to him and puts his arm around his shoulder.

"I don't understand," stammers the Senator. "Yesterday I was here and there was a golf course and clubhouse. We ate lobster and caviar, drank champagne, danced and had a great time. Now there's just a wasteland full of garbage and my friends look miserable. What happened?"

The devil looks at him, smiles and says,Yesterday we were campaigning...... Today you voted."

Its bloody easy to spend other people's money!

When the govamint is set to blow as much money on a stadium as they spend on defense, its easy to overlook the smaller squandering.

The announcement that the government will provide $1.9 million towards a "Cuisine and Fine Wine" regional initiative for Wairarapa was dished up in Martinborough yesterday. It provides a major springboard for a project estimated to cost upwards of $7million.

$1,900,000.00 of YOUR money!

Now why do they fall over themselves to spend our money on SOME industry's while sneering at others?

Of course, they shouldn't be spending a damn thing on ANY of them- that's the job of the owners! If they REALLY want to help- cut the red tape and taxes!

If the people behind this scheme have $4.75 megabucks- let that be the budget. Even in hoplessly overpriced Martinborough, that should build one hell of a cooking schoool!

A theory...

I have been doing something I despise almost as much as shopping.

Commuting.

I have to travel from the Wairarapa to Petone each day, while I'm on a block course. Over here, all I usually have to avoid are wandering cows. Here its commuters and most of those seem to have about the same or less brain power than the average cow.

The main differece is that a cow is meat. Commuters are wrapped in steel, except for the two-wheeled variety- AKA temporary road users.

Anyhoo- the theory goes:

"When it rains, Wellington drivers forget how to!"


6 crashes along the motorway this morning!

Arseholes that use fireworks as weapons

If they aim them at property- charge them with attempted arson.
If the set something on fire- charge them with arson.
If they fire them at people, nail them under the Arms Act.

I'm no lawyer, but those roman candle things seem to meet the definition of a 'Firearm'

(There is an exclusion from being classed as an explosive)




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(a)Means anything from which any shot, bullet, missile, or other projectile can be discharged by force of explosive; and
(b)Includes—
(i)Anything that has been adapted so that it can be used to discharge a shot, bullet, missile, or other projectile by force of explosive; and
(ii)Anything which is not for the time being capable of discharging any shot, bullet, missile, or other projectile but which, by its completion or the replacement of any component part or parts or the correction or repair of any defect or defects, would be a firearm within the meaning of paragraph (a) of this definition or subparagraph (i) of this paragraph; and
(iii)Anything (being a firearm within the meaning of paragraph (a) of this definition or subparagraph (i) of this paragraph) which is for the time being dismantled or partially dismantled; and
(iv)Any specially dangerous airgun:

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Also, if Guy Fawkes stretches our emergency services to the limit- that is a real worry and says much about the sad state of those services! (IF and its a big IF- you can believe the media and other axe-grinders)

Die, you worthless piece of shit!

Saddam has a date with a piece of hemp rope!

Good show!

I hope it's a nice public show and he goes out squeeling like a scalded pig!

I wonder what the TV rights would cost?

Art

Mark's Blog Knockin' On The Golden Door features some of the best art around!

I saw this one and straight away thought of Rest Area 300m- what a picture for the worlds only Road Workers Blog!

Or anywhere blokes frequent...

Update to the last post

This tractor....

Oh Joy....

Its Saturday morning
The sun is shining
I'm rostered off.

And its off to Retail Hell in Upper Hutt.

With children.



How do I feel about this?



Imaging lying in a soft grassy field. The sun is shining, the gentle breeze is warm.

You look up at the sky, watching fluffy wisps of cloud float by. All that you can hear is the sound of birdsong and the occasional bee flying by. You are in that peaceful state between waking and sleep.

Then some prick parks a tractor on your chest.

Fireworks

Warehouse fizzers are for wimps!

Defending Guy Fawkes

I stand behind my position to keep this event going, but I think it needs a bit of sorting out.

It's getting bloody hard to defend the occasion, with gaggles of brain-dead boys going hard core to fuck it up for everybody. Public safety is a totally overused excuse to ban all & sundry, but I do accept the point made about fireworks. I used to say it was all wankers and wowsers calling for the ban, but it's moved from that. Totally due to the upswell in cretins that need two ounces of Black Powder detonated at groin level!

It's at a bad time of year too- it would be better in the mid-winter, when the fire risk is down. Also, at this time of year, it means a late night for small children.

Deliberate and blatent abuse of fireworks should come under the Arms Act, which has a bit of sting at sentencing time. After all, it comes down to discharging a projectile, when some moron uses a roman candle or suchlike as a bloody missile launcher.

Unfortunatly, considering consequences for actions, however severe, don't impact on the brain-dead.

Fortunatly, the full penalties of an arson charge would put such a dumbfuck out of circulation for a reasonable time. (like that's going to happen!)

How about restricting sales to those who have a firearms licence? They tend to behave, as their hobby hinges on doing so...

Also, ONE designated day ONLY!

As for a total ban leading to home-made fireworks.

You bet it will happen!

Just piss into a bucket of HTH pool chlorine somewhere you need a crater....


Update

I think we can kiss Guy Fawkes goodby now

Thanks to all you crap-head low-lives out there that fucked it up for the rest.

Not that you will be reading this- or anything not printed on a t-shirt...

Sod off ya bloody scroungers!

ALL year we try and teach our kids to stay away from strangers, especially those offering sweets.
Then once a year all that work is undone!

Madness!

And then we have the issue of going begging- another thing I'm dead against, along with people coming onto my property uninvited. Bugger off the lot of you!

I blame the bloody Warehouse for encouraging this vileness!

Now I'm off to read to the children from 'Atlas Shrugged' ...

And now for something completely different

I have heard it said by persons from other parts of the world that Kiwi's and Aussie's are very similar.

There are some differences, however.




For example:

Yeah, Right...

28/10/2006

NZPA

"...Dumped One News presenter Judy Bailey says she was worth the $800,000 salary she negotiated with Television New Zealand..."

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Damn glad to hear that! That means you won't have any problem getting similar money elsewhere!

Or going out on your own and making that kind of brass!

or is it harder when your employer doesn't have access to the public trough?...

The strange case of the Wabbit Wooter

A while back I posted on posted on this case

6.00am Friday October 27, 2006

"A New Zealand-born Sydney financier jailed for 16 months for mutilating and killing 17 rabbits and a guinea pig is appealing against his conviction, saying he was mentally ill..."

Link:

Mentally ill- no shit!

"I plead insanity- I'm crazy about them fuzzy little critters!"

Tie him onto the back of a cow!

From the 'No shit Sherlock!' files...

Smoking in cars a danger to children, say researchers

12.35pm Friday October 27, 2006

" The government should consider banning smoking in cars where children are present, as it could damage the youngsters' lungs, medical researchers say...

A Wellington School of Medicine report published today found being in a car with a smoker was equivalent to sitting in a typical smoky bar, even with the smoker's window wound fully down."

Continued:


As a kid I have this inflicted on me and they are dead right, but bloody buggery bollocks!- do you need a medical degree to figure that one out?

Having stated the bloody obvious, that 'cigarette smoking in a car is bad, m'kay?'
(Not to say friggin' inconsiderate!)

The next step is the knee-jerk- 'The govmint must ban it!'

Come on- can't you highly educated types come up with a better solution- one that might work, for instance.

I think that the educatable have already figure this out- they are the ones that don't smoke in the house, let alone car. What used to be commonplace twenty, thirty years ago is now the domain of the shallow end of the gene pool. The same parent who did this to me would never dream of smoking in the presence of the grandchildren (and kicked the habit years ago)

Attitudes change with a bit of education. That's the right way to do things- quietly coax people. when you try to drag them into a brave new world, they dig in the heals and fight it all the way.



Some however, are not so receptive to change. These types aren't much bothered by bans, laws or society's dissaproval. They just don't give a shit.

They don't care if their kids breath smoke, or get fruit each day- they just have to be alive to receive taxpayer funds and in such health as to need minimal care. And I mean MINIMAL!

They don't bother with child seats, WOF or drivers licences either. A new fine?- just put it on the tab...

The food Nazi's goosestep on...

Officials target workplace vending machines

Thursday October 26,
2006By Errol Kiong

"Workplace food-vending machines are the next target in the battle against obesity.
Health officials want to restrict their contents, and say they could use health and safety legislation as a way to improve what people eat..."

Continued:



First it's schools, now they plan to cut off the supply of sugar and fats to adults!

Next step is in your homes, folks!

Now what goverment had children reporting on the parent's behaviour in the home?



When an opponent declares, "I will not come over to your side," I calmly say, "Your child belongs to us already... What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community."

Meanwhile, the Banana Republic lives up to it's name

Free fruit delivered to schools

25.10.2006
BY GERALD FORD

TWO Masterton schools have received their first batch of free fruit that their students will be getting every day for the next three years.

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This is bloody bollocks- if you can't afford a banana or apple for your kids on a regular basis, you should have your reproductive organs torn off/out with a boathook!

You certainly shouldn't be using them to breed more!

How about an admission that the money spent previously on the 'Five plus a day' has been a complete and utter waste of OUR money?

Fat chance!

What next? low fat school milk?

More Govamint Bollocks

"...New Zealand households are spending more on sugary snacks than on fresh fruit, a new report says. The Food and Nutrition Monitoring Report shows the average household spent $6.50 on confectionary per week over the past year, compared with $5.90 on fresh fruit..."

More bollocks here.

$5.90- I bloody wish! My bill for bananas alone would be more than that. A typical fruit shop for a week would be a 3kg bag of apple (when my trees aren't in fruit), a bag of oranges, a kilos of Kiwifruit, the banannas mentioned before and others- usually seasonal stuff or odd things like pineapples.

Sweets would run to about $2 per week

Advertising has played no part in us deciding what to buy (apart from Whittakers Ghana Dark chocolate- but the coaco bean is a fruit, after all)

It probably won't affect the shopping of familys who never buy fruit either!

Another $67 million of the taxpayers money pissed against the wall...

A new sponsor?

Now that a certain hamburger chain had been dumped from giving money to the police (how bizzare!), I suspect a well- known chicken chain is lobbying for the job.

They are definetly targeting Labour- the pack that I brought was full of left wings and arseholes!

Labour Day

This statutory holiday was passed into law in 1899, and the other day I was asked:

"Why the hell are we STILL working 40 hour weeks?" (hell, I seldom work less than 50)

One might expect a far shorter working week with the advances in technology over the last century.

The (an) answer is that the suplus of production enables us to advance, as opposed to treading water.

Another is that many people actually LIKE to work. If they had a three day week, they would find work for at least a couple of their now free days. I mean, even in France, the state shorteningthe workingweek wasn't popular!

And we well know what the socialists would say- but in nine years have they done onything towards shortening working hours? Aside from creating a huge army of Mc Jobs, and freeing the least deserving from work totally, that is.

The drinking age

I must say that I liked the proposal seen here to raise the age to 41!

But on a more serious note (as serious as you will find here, anyway) what hads changed in the last 30 years?

In my day, we also obtained alcohol, drunk it and carried on like Indians who had just discovered Firewater.

BUT we had to plan our drinking, as if we did it out in public there would be consequences- unpleasant ones.

We had to whoop it up out of sight and earshot of the public- and it's my opinion now that we had a lot more fun for doing so.

No clashes with other obnoxious groups and you could let your hair down relativly safely amongst friends.

It tended to be stag, thus eliminating a major cause of tension amonst horny young blokes. Girls tended to avoid such things, as they well knew that drunken sesions lead to pregnancy and this was still a big deal then!

The other was money. Poor apprentices had minimal cash and we wouldn't drink in pubs, as the off-licence was much cheaper (more booze for our bucks)

I was a bit aof a challenge arranging a good session. Not just a matter of turning up at a nightclub...

A productive day

I do enjoy fixing or finding a use for stuff others discard as junk. Usually its small stuff- chainsaws, weed-eaters, lawnmowers.

Today's effort was a small 1 1/2 ton, truck damaged beyond economic repair. it had been dumped in a paddock, where it has sat for the last three years or so.

I got it for the cost of the tow, a battery and a second hand tyre- a total of $260. (plus about three hours work)

While it will never be roadworthy, it runs well and will make an great farm runabout- just what I need with firewood season about to start.

On holiday

Sort of.

I'm writing for (hopefully) money tonight.

Been doing a bit of that lately, finishing off trade qualifications, but now it's back to what I enjoy- Meddler in Time.

I said I would finish it by xmas, so I need to pull finger!- then I can get onto book three next year. Pre-production is going well- that's what I do when driving about the countryside all day! converations, scenarios, action scenes, future technology.

It's good to have a fantasy universe!- - beats the hell out of thinking(?) about what happened on Coro last night!

Speaking of writing stuff, this is post 505!

If people didn't read it, I wouldn't do it- maybe!

OOK!

We have truly arrived!


Welcome to da People's Banana Republic of Noo Zealnd.



Reminds me of a great line from a movie I can't remember- probably a Tom Clancy tarn.

"...Remember El Presidente, you are only president for life!..."

Time for change

I've been keeping my ear to the ground for a week or so now and are hearing a new level of unrest.

Corruption, corrupt and 'banana republic' are words and phrases thrown around a lot more.

I'm not talking about in the blogger world, nor at Libertarianz meetings.

This is amongst blue-collar ordinary working folks.

Some of you may have heard of them. They are the ones the supposedly used to be the backbone of Liarbour.

Not now.

Now is the time for change, but will the great unwashed manage to hold on to these thoughts until the next election? Liarbour is counting on them not.

Already the damage control is underway with talks about substantial tax cuts.

Yeah, right- this is Liarbour. They will then introduce more 'stealth taxes' to gouge twice as much back.

Ever wondered how...

you become a Justice of the Peace?

Here is how it happens.

I got asked how a person landed this number and had no idea, so I did a very little research- now I know!


What did we do before Google!

Tell Liarbour to sod off!

Petition against the 'Get Out Of Jail Free Act'

It won't work, of couse, but that shouldn't stop you trying!

Here:

When Wowsers Attack

Final warning: Behave or face fireworks ban

New Zealanders are being given one last chance to prove they can be responsible with fireworks.

If they fail the test, steps will be taken next year to restrict sales - a move that could eventually lead to a complete ban.

The Government says it is not prepared to accept another Guy Fawkes Day like last year's, which kept emergency service workers busy attending to hundreds of fires and injuries.

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Here we go again!

Anyone actually think that they WON'T ban fireworks?

No- they HAVE to save us from ourselves!

Rather than punish a few stupid boys who will always find something to abuse, we all get yet another activity denied to law-abiding citizens.

Yet again, I point the finger at the ever-diminishing level of personal responsibility out there. People don't give a shit what the result of their dumb-ass actions are.

Because there are no real consequences for even criminal negligence.

And no shortage of control freaks ready to run our lives for us...

Crystal Ball Gazing

Debt Pay Back Out Of MPs' Own Pockets?

Labour MPs will need to fork out around $6,000 from their own pockets, while ministers will pay proportionally more.

More: http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,11981-6433726,00.html

Here is my prediction:

Next year the MP's pay rise will more than cover this amount.

Odds are at ten bucks to a knob of goatshit!

Paint a picture with words...

I don't have photoshop- Generation XY could do this but I can't, so:



The scene is a fairground, A&P show- that sort of place.

A prominant stall is the "Labour Party Fundraiser' There is a sign, as is often seen at schools, of a stylized thermometer with $800,000 at the top.

MPs are dressed as clowns and strapped to heavy chairs. Objects to throw at them are at the counter for sale.

A scale of prices reads:


Wet sponges $1
Tennis balls $10
Cricket balls $100
Petanque balls $1000
Viking throwing axe $10000

How to raise money WITHOUT ransacking the consolidated fund...

Where do you find $800k, when you can't dip into the public trough and tax some mug?

One thing is sure- Liarbour won't bloody earn it! The culture of doing things with other people's money is too deeply ingrained.


How about hitting up all the union members for a few bucks?

Selling kidneys?

Auctioning Winston on TradeMe?

Tithing/taxing the party faithful? (like they want anything paid for with THEIR money!)

Pay it back like reparations- a dollar a day forever with no interest or penalties.


See what it's like when it's YOUR money you have to front up with, dirtbags!

Beta Blogger blows goats!

I fucked up.

I changed to the all-new bigger better beta blogger.

What a mistaka to maka!

Whoever designed this sucks the sweat of a dead man's balls!!!

Now I have to sign on three times when I want to do anything. Where did you hire your staff- Microsoft?

SORT YOUR SHIT OUT!

Mad cows

For the last week I have been playing 'dodge the cows' on the road to work.

This road isn't the unsealed road out the back of nowhere. It's the road the the local railway station and very well used.

Yet the local hicks let their stock wander on it with no control or warning signs as are required. Damned animals are worse than rabbits for suddenly dashing in front of your vehicle- but MUCH heavier!

It's to be expected, as a cow is not a clever animal- nor are many of those who work with them.

Today I found another king of mad cow. This one drove an Audi right up the middle of the road, refusing to move to the correct side.

Tommorow I'm just going to stop and let her go round!

Crystal Ball Gazing

What's North Korea's future going to hold?

I think two options that can ruled out are:

1- A nuclear strike

2- A ground attack

Sanctions don't seem to work and all the money spent bribing these nutbars has been wasted.

I'm picking an attack by stealth aircraft on nuclear facilities.

Seen any Buffaler?

Just the thing for buffalo or going right through a boy racer dorkmobile!


So many toys, so little money!

From the 'Tough Shit' files...

Families Claim Prisoners Being Starved

"...The Corrections Department is defending itself against allegations it is starving prisoners. Prisoners' families are saying their relatives behind bars are not being looked after properly, and are overcharged for standard grocery items..."

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The meals are nutritionally adequate and not particularly appealing, which is as it should be. You certainly won't starve on them, nor will you put on weight.

They are quite like hospital food, but without dessert.

They can buy through the canteen system, but most of course spend their allocation on smokes.

There are a hell of a lot of people in NZ, especially our old folks that don't get three balanced meals a day.

Sympathy- It's in the dictionary between 'Shit' and 'Syphylis'

Another cost-cutter!

'Diet' Cocktails Get You Drunker

Having your alcohol with a sugar-free artificially sweetened mixer may cut calories, but it will also make you drunker, a study suggests. The problem, Australian researchers found, is that drinks made with "diet" mixers pass through the stomach more rapidly and, therefore, make blood alcohol levels spike particularly high.

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Of course you could just forgo the mixers and drink the spirits.

Unless you too drink Poteen, which really needs a bit of Zero coke to cut it back!

I wish they would bring the diet vanilla coke back...

I got Hate Mail!

This arrived in the comments section:

Its not that you're macho, you just come across as a wanker, thats all - sort of inbred and boorish, perhaps due to the miserable location you live in.

You are a country hick, rather than a country gent, Oswald.

And dont whinge about this being anonymous, I just be ashamed to admit I read your drivel, thats all.


Fairly typically, it comes from an Anonymouse. I think someone has a bit of a love-hate thing going here!

Do you have a secret collection of Mills & Boon under the bed too?

You never know with an Anonymouse. They can't stand the thought of anyone knowing anything about them. Nor do they dare to publish their own thoughts- that's why they usually don't have there own blog. Someone might critisize them!

They are even too timid to take a 'stage name' and use the faceless communication here on the internet!

None of the simpering little girl-boys would ever dare spout their usual rantings to another face to face!

Amusing, really!

Anyone care to take a guess as to who it was?

Reparations

Reparation payments.

I'm one of the 'lucky' few that actually get them.

Not that it's really thanks to luck. I just made a nusiance of myself with the Ministry of 'Justice' (in the nicest possible way, of course!)

Before sentencing the scrote who owes me, the judge asked me for some info. on costs. I supplied several spreadsheets of actual and estimated costs, along with explanations running to about two thousand words. (the court people were quite impressed!)

My conservative estimate (strictly based on financial facts, not suffering, blah, blah, blah) was damages of $50-60k

The judge (probably realisticly) said that dickwad would have to be reincarnated to pay that amount of money and awarded $10k.

That's been trickling in as the deadbeat drifts in and out of jobs. When he is on the dole, I get a check for fifty bucks every couple of months. Currently, the Warehouse needs shelves filled and I get fifty per week.


So you ask what am I on about?

Right- WHERE IS THE FUCKIN' INTEREST???!!!

Protection?

Over on Sir Humphries, I made a quip to the effect that Dear Leader deserved the same level of protection that all the citizens of our land deserve.

While spoken light-heartedly at the time, I feel that this is a valid point.

Yes, the leaders of our country need an efficent diplomatic protection service.

The citizens should also have an efficent police force and armed forces resourced to defend OUR shores.

This to me, is the main point of having a government- to provide these core functions.

It looks like Dear Leader has the same run down level of ineptness tha tthe rest of us have to put up with. Failure to spot a PI tailing them?

Come on- at best the PI's have had the same training as they have.

Or are they not particularly interested in protecting Dear Leader?

Given the way she inspires loyalty within the police ranks, I could well belive that!

We DO need our top-level politicians well guarded, as we need our country
well policed.

We also need a few leaders worthy of the name.

It's great to be Macho!

Over on Sir Humphries , a grotty little Herbert (no blog or link itself, of course) has taken exception to a few comments on chickens.

Murry and myself and have been accused of spouting 'Macho BS'

Well, I beg your miniscule pardon! What the fuck is wrong with being Macho, anyway!

I 'yams what I 'yams!

We get all the fun toys- we get to drive bigger cars & trucks, tanks, jet aircraft, huge earthmovers and loud motorbikes.

There is no anguish over what to eat- cut the hooves & horns off & char the outside- all other food is 'side orders'

We can drink beer & red wine with whatever food we like.

Getting dressed is never a drama.

We know what we enjoy and aren't afraid to say so.

We know what we don't like and aren't afraid to say so.

We call a shovel a fucking spade and 'bullshit has more than two letters.

We know that women do some things better and men do other things better. Knowing that, we and our women work as a team to do what Man and Women have always done. Raise healthy, happy kids.

Sometimes that doesn't work out and we move on. We get over it- life goes on.

We are accused of being 'insensitive'- in our words- we don't buy into other people's bullshit!

We don't need support groups, therapists or rounds of applause for doing our jobs. We just get on with it.

Contrary to opinion,the real Macho Man does not beat women, children or gimps. That sort of thing is beneath us- and just wrong.

We say what we think, not what we think the other person wants to hear. You don't like it- tough.

We keep the world going. The world won't grind to a halt without boutiques, lattes, lemon-scented towels, colour co-ordintors, wedding planner or hair stylists.
Without plumbers, farmers, linesman, police, mechanics, road workers and all those other 'blue collars' workers, it will get uncomfortable real quick!

Death Throes

It's interesting watching the Liarbourites at the moment.

They remind me of a rabbit I shot in the head this afternoon. It was seriously dead (70 grain 6mm slug at about 3,500 feet per second) , but still flapping about trying to run.



The enemy really are losing the plot. When Dear Leader (who is said to be such an astute polly) comes out with lines like 'Cancerous ' you know that all is not well in Helengrad. I mean- it's just SO non-PC that I might have said it!

Chris Trotski, the great red mouthpiece is carrying on in the same vein, as are all the apologists for corruption that are currently frequenting Kiwiblog. (a bigger audience there, no doubt)

I suppose this is to be expected, given that socialists are all herdbeasts at heart.

Now it's onto the truck and off to the works!

From the 'No shit Sherlock!' files...

Country facing a shortage of technology teachers

New Zealand schools are facing a crisis as a lack of new recruits threaten to collapse the technology curriculum, the Post Primary Teachers Association says.

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No shit!And technology teachers would be mainly....Male

And what sex is a leetle reluctant to take employment in today's skools?(Especially hetro, macho tradesman types!- not renouned for a love of leftie kaftan-wearers)

In my day, metalwork & woodwork teachers (come to think of it, probably the cooking & sewing ones too) were somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan.

See the problem with them fitting in today...

ARSE! Feak!

Friggin' blogger!

Twice I have tried to post and the bloody thing has just sat there going 'duh' and doing sod-all- just like a public service clerk.

Now will this work...

Theeeeeeir Heeeeeere....

There are a few problems with the site but it's here!

The secret and mysterious forces that rule the universe have a website. Secretive fringe societies- The Alumni, Freemasons, Golfers and Hetrosexuals unite to destroy the Peoples Party!

About bloody time too!

Fate strikes again...

After declaring that I never darken the doors of Pac & Slave here, what has to happen.

I get dragged there several days later. The ball & chain has heard about some damned 'scan as you go' system. So on one of the two day a fortnight I get off, I have to visit retail hell.

It's not that I intensely dislike the actual store. I just hate shopping, unless firearms & accessories or power tools are involved. Even then, I do most of the looking on the internet first.

But there is one thing worse than wasting time in shops.

People who actually seem to like wasting their time in shops. Hordes of the swine, blocking the isles and prolonging my pain. Uneducated oiks who can't do a simple cost per gram calculation in their heads and go into a sort of trance staring at two practically identical products.

My decision algorithm goes: do I care about the brand?

If I do, buy it. (there are no substitutes for HP sauce, for example)
If I don't- is it a brand I have found to be crap?- if it is- keep looking.
Otherwise- buy the cheapest.

This doesn't require a great deal of time. perhaps it could be refined and printed on the frigin' trollies, SO THE FRICKIN' SHE-MOUNTAIN IN FRONT WONT BLOCK THE ISLE FOR FIVE MINUTES EACH TIEM A DESCISION IS REQUIRED.

What is really annoying is that I just know that having just made a life-altering decision over ETA vs Pams peanut butter, they will buy the one they have always brought, in any case.

A cattle prod only costs about $200...

Another request

Just to keep the bloody Ilama from gobbing all over the place!

Hat Tip: The Spitting Ilama

The farce is strong with this one...

Seeing as the Young Nats have no scrotes- here it is, by popular demand!

and now- the end is near...

As the impending doom draws near for Dear Leader, I keep thinking of this little number:

http://www.lyricsdomain.com/20/the_sex_pistols/my_way.html

It just seems to fit so nicely...

Off with their heads!

There is more than a passing resemblance!

Hat tip: Not PC

On Cancer...

Adjective: cancerous kansurus

Relating to or affected with cancer"a cancerous growth"

Like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads"remorse was cancerous within him"; "pornography is cancerous to the moral development of our children"

See also: malign, malignant
Encyclopedia: Cancerous



To start using this adjective is a bit rich, coming from a govamint that has created a huge evil army of taxpayer-funded busybodies, that has grown and spread like, well- CANCER!

Their over-regulation and control jihaad spreads out like a metastasising cancer, killing the host that gives it life- the productive and creative of NZ.

But that is the way of the criminal class- to think that all others are like them. The liar believes everyone else to lie and the theif believes that everyone else is dishonest.

Before it is made illegal...

Up yours, you evil bag of festering parrot-droppings!




(And thanks to all those whose work I googled!- good onya!)

A new personal best!

one three round group of 16mm @ 100 yards- the others were also all under one MOA.

Not bad for a 1975 rifle and I'm sure I can beat that with a little practice!

The 6mm Remington is a real shooter!

The value of a screening process

I have posted before on the value of a screening test for voters. Damn near anything would work- three simple questions on a voting form, a short IQ test or the more traditional requirement to be a landowner.

Anything to help keep the 'bread & ciruses' votors out!

I was reminded of this when out grocery shopping on the weekend.

I buy from Moore Wilson's, a wholesaler (I have an aversion to paying retail for anything!). You need a store card to shop there- not that it's hard to get at all.

This simple screening process makes shopping so much more pleasant.

The social or recreational shoppers, the old & doddery, and children are all absent from this store. The isles, made for forklift access, are too wide to be blocked by she-mountains moving at glacial speed. (unlike Write-Price)

The checkouts are well-run and there are never more than two people in front of you waiting and the staff are a quantum leap ahead of those in a typical supermarket in knowledge and customer service.

I wish more shops would require you to apply for a card!

But I digress- here is an idea:

How about if voting is restricted to those who actually belong to a political party?- which of course involves filling out a form and paying money!

It's an idea...

Reporting in

Not much activity here due to working all weekend.

As well as work work, I'm building a hut out in the backblocksin a secret location away from the baleful glare of OSH, building inspectors and busybodies in general. Somewhere to fish, hunt, drink 'shine and howl at the moon!

I'm also wrapping up my second book and sorting out the storyline and writing down a few ideas for #3. I have to do this when the ideas come into my head, as they don't always stay there!

Haven't seen the news or read a paper this weekend or seen any group that I need to offend. The only 'story' I have heard is the Clarkenfurer & her pet handbag-holder (not Winston, the other one!)

That isn't news by a long shot and who gives a flying fuck anyway! Hetro, metro or camp as a row of tents, I still can't stand them and that ain't about to change any- regardless of who kisses who.

For the record, I think they are more steers than queers, in any case...

A matter of terms...

Looking for a job or looking for work?

They aren't the same thing.

I've struck a hell of a lot who want a job, but have no real intention of working. An experience no doubt shared by anyone in the hiring and firing game.

This was at it's most obvious in the prison system. All the crims wanted a job. A very small minority wanted to WORK.

In other words, they wanted money for sitting about doing as little as possible.

Fairly common everywhere, it's just a matter of degree.

Personally, sitting about idly has no great appeal to me- the day drags too much.

I may be in a minority here, but that is nothing new to me...

Softcocks!

Nanny State waves the stick and this spineless lot roll over and take it!

How about customer choices?

If I want friggin' diet drinks (that NEVER taste as good) I will bloody well ask for them!

If you wankers fold up so easy, they are going to swarm all over you- it will be portions, chips and those nasty shake things next!

No loss to NZ cusine, but you are letting the thin end of the wedge get driven further in...

Mind you own friggin' business!

Friggin' academics!

Don't they just love to play policemen, judge & jury (while all the time belittling the police, as often as not!)

Now they want to dictate how students behave (or misbehave) outside of school grounds & hours.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10401058

While I agree these crapeads pretending to be students need to be stomped on with an iron boot- THAT IS THE JOB OF THE POLICE!

Stick to bloody teaching!- you assholes don't do too good a job of that, so I can't see you making much of a job of cleaning up the town!

Big deal, so what?

Another one I won't miss!

Nor will too many others outside the immediate family, with the possible exception of Hellabys


What is all this crocodile tears crap about tinpot 'Royalty'?

As I have said before, they are best relegated to the pages of history as a mistake that we have learned from (hopefully)

faster than a speeding bullet!

Report of sonic boom sound shakes Canterbury residents

A meteor?

The latest generation of stealth aircraft?

Space Debris?


My money is on another dash across Canterbury by Dear Leader...

Do us a favour!

Today's News:

Anderton Speaks Up On Suicide


Well don't just talk about it- get out and do it!

And let's see some results now- suffocating with your snout in the public trough doesn't cut the mustard!

Electron Therapy

The first Taser incident has happened!

To the great disappointment of the soft-cock brigade, no harm was done, apart from a few scrapes from falling down and minor lacerations from the barbs.

A hell of a lot more harm is done when you get walloped into submission with a baton! (to say nothing of what a 9mm does!)

I hope it friggin' hurt! That might just get through to the the thick crim's miniscule brain!

Friday!

It's the end of another shift cycle- 12 days on, two off, seven days of than on-call.

Time for a very large drink!

Tomorrow I might take the new rifle and turn critters into pink mist.


One bit of news that I have heard today, say that the distribution workers strike may spread to other unions. I've never been a great one for strikes, but there is a tasty irony in a widespread strike under Dear Leader's rule.

The unionists funding of the current regime hasn't really done the wage drones a whole lot of good, it would appear!

The other bit is yet another Aussie Icon has fallen.

It's just a bloody shame that it wasn't some worthless sodding politician biting the dust. We wouldn't miss them...

Fourth Circle of Hell- liars, cowards, fornicators and the French...

Another fine post swiped from one of my MSN groups!

After Sponsoring a Ceasefire in Lebanon France Has Volunteered ... 200 troops! Here are some valid comments on that Brave Nation

"France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. France has usually been governed by prostitutes."--Mark Twain------------------------------

"I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me."--General George S. Patton------------------------------

"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion." --General Norman Schwartzkopf------------------------------

"We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about it."--Marge Simpson------------------------------

"As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure."--Jacques Chirac, President of France"As far as France is concerned, you're right."--Rush Limbaugh------------------------------

"The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee."--Regis Philbin------------------------------

"You know, the French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of the 1940s who was still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn't have the face for it." --John McCain , U.S. Senator from Arizona------------------------------

"The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into Paris under a German flag."--David Letterman ------------------------------

"Only thing worse than a Frenchman is a Frenchman who lives in Canada."--Ted Nugent------------------------------

"War without France would be like ... World War II." --Unknown------------------------------

"The favorite bumper sticker in Washington D.C. right now is one that says 'First Iraq, then France.'"--Tom Brokaw------------------------------

"What do you expect from a culture and a nation that exerted more of its national will fighting against Disney World and Big Macs than the Nazis?"--Dennis Miller------------------------------

"It is important to remember that the French have always been there when they needed us."--Alan Kent-----------------------------

"They've taken their own precautions against al-Qa'ida. To prepare for an attack, each Frenchman is urged to keep duct tape, a white flag, and a three-day supply of mistresses in the house." --Argus Hamilton------------------------------

"Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day --the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once.'" --Rep. Roy Blunt, MO-----------------------------

"The French will only agree to go to war when we've proven we've found truffles in Iraq "--Dennis Miller------------------------------ Q. What did the mayor of Paris say to the German Army as they entered the city in WWII?A. Table for 100,000 m'sieur?-----------------------------

"Do you know how many Frenchmen it takes to defend Paris? It's not known, it's never been tried."--Rep. R. Blount, MO------------------------------

"Do you know it only took Germany three days to conquer France in WWII? And that's because it was raining." --John Xereas, Manager, DC Improv------------------------------

The AP and UPI reported that the French Government announced after the London bombings that it has raised its terror alert level from Run to Hide. The only two higher levels in France are Surrender and Collaborate. The rise in the alert level was precipitated by a recent fire which destroyed France 's white flag factory, effectively disabling their military.------------------------------

French Ban Fireworks at Euro Disney(AP), Paris, August 23, 2006The French Government announced today that it is imposing a ban on the use of fireworks at Euro Disney. The decision comes the day after a nightly fireworks display at the park, located just 30 miles outside of Paris, caused the soldiers at a nearby French Army garrison to surrender to a group of Czech tourists.

Is Peter Jackson going to be non-PC?

After the fuss about pipe-smoking Hobbits, what's going to happen in the remake of The Dam Buster's?

Yes- of course I'm refering to Wing Commander Gibson's dog, Nigger!

I'm betting he will stay true to the story.

Time will tell...

Kill the Poor!

Well, I do feel like that at times!- at least those who are the sole authors of their own friggin' misfortune!

There is a piece over on Lindsay's blog today, on 'Poverty and Priorities'

I've seen these dumbass decision makers far, far too often.

In the past, I have tried to help out some of these fuckwits and been shat on for my troubles. Having had my nose rubbed in it- I can now safely say that the majority of these leeches are totally beyond help.

When I was young and less wise in the ways of the world, I occasionally wondered why people would give more generously to animal welfare charities than those helping the poor.

I wonder no more.

Adopt a abandoned/mistreated animal and they will love you for life. They won't turn about and bite you on the arse.

That is the domain of the human species.



My comment on Lindsays blog was not meant to be flippant- I'm dead serious about the workhouse. (The comment is below)

Bring back the workhouse!

These idiots won't try, make stupid choices and have their priorities totally screwed up.To refuse to support oneself- to take on none of society's responsibilities, one relinqishes the rights and privileges of a citizen. In effect, they should become a voluntary inmate.

IF they want the taxpayers support, they should make a declaration of paupery and enter an institution where their lives will be run for them!The basics will be provided and they will have to WORK for those.
No luxuries, no vote and not a lot of free choices.

Of course, they are free to leave- but no dole!

Not PC (no, another one!)

Tell them to get stuffed, Bob!

Story

After a bunch of sanctimonious assholes pass judgement, A 17 year old makes a comment theat makes sense:

LIAM SHORT 17, high school student"It's good that he stuck up for what he believes in. Doesn't Parliament have something better to do than sit around talking about what Bob Clarkson's saying?"

Indeed!

Bollocks- do some real work!

What rot!

Here they go on about fitting a training program in with working.

If you have the time & energy to train 20 hrs a week, you can't be doing a hell of a lot of work!

Get a real job!

Tough shit, moron.

Tears flow as man who threw wheel told to expect jail

Friday September 1, 2006By Simon O'Rourke

Quiet sobs shook the large frame of Stacey Roamana Pakaru last night as Justice Lester Chisholm told the 28-year-old to expect a prison sentence.
He had just been found guilty in the High Court at Hamilton of hurling a wheel-rim like a discus into a crowd at Welcome Bay, Tauranga.

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So don't throw big , heavy things at people, you dumbfuck!

What the hell did you think was going to happen?

But then, twats like you never do stop to think, do you...

Modern Women

I'm sure they think that Washing, Ironing and Bonking are cities in China!

None of the above seem to be happening around here...

For Sunday

This event could easily be moved to Father's Day! Sure beats the hell out of more crap from the Warehouse!

Transporting aggro scumbags

Here is one way of dealing with stroppy inmates!

When transporting them about- They need to be kept in line- This little gadget would do the trick nicely!

It would have the added benefit of upsetting the sensitivities of all the bleeding-heart softcock do-gooders too!

Bleeding Heart Lawyers?- No- bottom-feeders smelling the trough...

"The family of the teenage prisoner killed in custody could have a case for compensation.... Prisoner compensation lawyer Tony Ellis says the family could have a case under the Bill of Rights. He will soon be testing whether it is possible to sue for death in custody in another case, for the family of a prisoner who committed suicide in jail. He says official inquiries need to be carried out first, but some further action should be taken...."

Story Here:

Are these lawyers bleeding heart crim-lovers? I doubt it.

They are lower than that.They are in it purely for their own pockets, snout buried firmly in the taxpayer's trough. As vile a group of parasites as the dole-as-a-lifestyle-choice camp!

If you wonder why so many plead guilty to an open & shut case or continuously appeal convictions, it's because these slime egg their scumbag and dim-witted 'clients' on with false hope.

But the lowlife lawyers still get their loot!




On a the subject of the death in custody, I have always been a firm believer that when transporting crims, they should be in individual cages in the back of a bus. Totally unable to get as each other. When in transit, they should also be shackled and those guarding them need some king of weapon to subdue them, in case of trouble. Tasers or stunners would be my prefered choice (OK, you readers now me better than that- It would actually be a .45 Auto or a shotgun!)

For the record, I have done many inmate transfers. If something goes down in the back of the van, there is NOTHING that can be done. To try and open up the back outside of a secure facility is (1) Bloody dangerous. (2) a sure-fire way to learn what your local WINZ office looks like.

We always seperated out those classified as 'youth offenders' from the others, but hell- they were just as bad as the adult scrotes most of the time. Corrections are being a bit sanctimonious saying that it would never have happened with them, though. Like they follow the rules to the letter every time!

This incident shouldn't have happened. One reason overlooked is that the (probable) killer had a record a mile long. He should have already gone to meet Jack Ketch.

I do feel sorry for the parents- I believe they just wanted to give him the 'short, sharp shock treatment. I would probably have done the same as them and refused his bail.



But- The Bottom Line?

Don't steal stuff! Prison is a dangerous environment!
Learn from this and don't go there...

Was it me or was it Blogger?

I have been unable to access any blogspot sites since Thursday.

I thoght it was a blogger problem, but access has mysteriously reappeared after I cleared all cookies and ran a spyware cleaner...

Who locked the bloody door?

Overheard today...

One very young taxpayer-funded breeder moaning about how hard it is to get a grant or handout for her to buy whiteware for her new flat.

Hang on- Now how did I get the gear for my first abode?

That's right- like most of my readers, I had to do without until I SAVED THE DAMNED MONEY FROM MY WAGES!

It's so much easier today- there is always some outfit ready to leand money to almost anyone. If you can't define 'usary'- you probably qualify for easy money- just sign on the dotted line- no deposit required!

But no- easy finance is not what these sorts want. They NEED to be given it- it's a RIGHT to have a fridge and washing machine.

After all, it's for the baby (that we all have to pick up the tab for)

To keep our EARNINGS for us and our own would be selfish!



Now I need to find a bucket...

90 days- shape up or sod off!

The 90 day employment probation period bill.

This is a bill I support. (although I would rather the government just stayed the hell out and let the parties involved sort these matters out!)

For every uscrupulous employer out there, there is a busload of useless employees. As one who has too often had to put up with the terminally useless in the workplace, they piss me off as an emploer and as an employee.

They interview OK, say the right things and have the right bits of paper. Then before long you discover they aren't fit to shovel shit from one place to another. The sort that has a degree in engineering and can't pick up a screwdriver without stabbing himself.

We have one at the moment (see my previous post on 'Team Players')

Bloody useless. He needs an overseer with a bullwhip to get a day's work out of the idle sod. ( I have the bullwhip, but some law no doubt means 'The Snake' stays on my workshop wall)

Down through the years I have seen more than a few of them come and go. Usually they don't stay long- just a bit longer than that 'Grace" period most skilled jobs have, to allow a FNG to get up to speed. Then you get others that just won't leave. You can be sure they are usually up to the play with employment law, too!

The boss has to pay for these bastards, the other workers have to carry them. Neither of us want them.

For those who think whole workplaces will be laid off every 89 days- bollocks!

Only an idiot would do that (there are some of those out there, mind!) Reality is that recruiting and training is just too expensive- even for scut jobs. If temps are needed, they are employed on fixed-term contracts- far easier than going to the trouble of dotting the I's and crossing the T's on the paperwork to terminate them otherwise.

For the scenario posted on DF's Blog: "I've worked in cafes and restaurants where staff were hired only after working three eight-hour shifts for free (to assess your skill level, of course, despite being able to provide years' of experience, testimonials and a liquor manager's certificate) and had to buy uniforms/aprons etc... "

Tell them to get fucked!

I've heard of this and if the sort of people who work for these types just grew a pair and told them to sod off, it wouldn't happen for long. Grow backbones and stand up for yourselves!

I didn't vote for them!

What's the deal with Maori royalty?

They seem to be one of the better kept secrets around. I hear more about the goings-on of the Monaco royals in any given year.

I don't have a lot of time for any of them. They seem to only exist to provide filler for woman's magazines. Certainly, the NZ variety remain quieter than a backbencher a year off getting the full pension!

As regards providing leadership, they haven't been capable of leading starving wolves to meat.

It's time kings and queens moved into the history books as something we did before we knew better...

Notice periods

I could never see the point in having a useless staff member work out a period of notice.

While it might be tempting to have them doing the worst of the scut work for two weeks, the reality is they are better gone. Immediatly.

Our current one just sits about whinging like a busload of pommie tourists on a budget tour of a dry country. If he was a dog, I would have shot him, to put him out of his misery!

It serves no point to keep these sad sacks of shit. The minimal amounts of work you get out of them is at the cost of pissing all the decent staff off.

It just isn't worth it!

Pistol day today!

I was asked, so here they are well, they would be but only one picture worked. Both look much the same, though.

One is the 'Target' model, the other with standard sights- both in stainless steel.

I would like one of the originals, but could use a new car first!

Introducing...

A blog by an (understandably) anonymous magistrate in the UK

The
Magistrate's blog:



It came recommended by an ex-policeman so I had to take a look!

Things that can bugger up an otherwise good evening...

Your wife buying a kitset desk from Warehouse Stationary and trying to assemble it. More frustrating than a two-year old that insists "I do!" when you are in a hurry.

I find them easy- the red shed's desks & bookcases are actually quite well put-together kits.

However, kitsets and lesser mortals don't mix well.

I often wonder how many of these assemble yourself jobs wind up banished to the darkest conrers of the garage, behingd the old exercise equipment.

Steven Tindal probably does too and laughs all the way to the bank over that!


As usual, I wound up putting the damned thing together!

I could sell my services- I will assemble your kitset for, say- the same as the cost of the kit. But only if assemble has not been previously attempted!

Why not?

Another solution to the prison population explosion.

An annual decimation!

All names go into a computer draw, with a weighting of one 'ticket' per conviction and one for every year of sentence they have recieved.

For example- if a scrote has committed seventy offenses for a total of ten years sentence time , he gets eighty chances in the draw!

All salvagable bodies organs are recycled.

I don't see why Liarbour would have a problem with this. Their pals in China run a similar scheme!

Little Johnny...

A teacher is explaining biology to her 4th grade students.

"Human beings are the only animals that stutter", she says. Little Johnny raises his hand. "I had a kitty-cat who stuttered", he volunteered.

The teacher, knowing how precious some of these stories could become, asked little Johnny to describe the incident.

"Well", he began, "I was in the back yard with my kitty and the rottweiler who lives next door got a running start and before we knew it, he jumped over the fence into our yard!

"That must've been scary", said the teacher.

"It sure was!", said the little Johnny. "My kitty went 'Fffff, Fffff, Fffff'... And before he could say "Fuck," the rottweiler ate him!"

Cutting the prison population.

Bring back secure mental intitutions.

By my observations, about 1/3 of those locked up for any length of time are barking mad. They would have once resided in a secure mental institution, where they belong. Those were closed and they gravitated to the prisons. Ask any policeman about the time they waste in dealing with 'petty crimes' committed by the mentally ill!

Forget the bullshit about who closed what and when. Now is the time to do something about it. How many years in power does it need?

I can have some sympathy with the criminally insane- when comparing them with plain bad bastards, anyway. They should be kept in a more comfortable enviroment- the plain bad should get the army tent, armed guards & barbed wire facilities in the high country. Let the new gold-plated prisons be the secure mental institutions and house the scrotes out the back of Waiouru.

I'm sure the army has plenty of old leaky tents (I've spent more than a few nights in them!)- they could get new ones and the crims can have the old crap.

I'm sure the army would be of assistance in hunting down and shooting any runaways, too!

Stick this up ya jacksie, Geldof!

NZ ranks 6th for global contribution

2.30pm Monday August 14, 2006

New Zealand is ranked sixth out of the 21 richest nations -- beating Britain, the United States and France -- in a survey of countries helping to make the world a better, safer place to live.

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The only thing thats 'pathetic' is you ya sad twat!

I like this Blogger!

Another blogger who's work I never miss is Cactus Kate!

If she was a Martini, she would be a huge glass of Waterloo Gin that sneers at the Vermouth and has scoffed the jar of olives!

Bloody brilliant stuff!

I would like to meet her, but I suspect that like with subcritical pieces of plutonium, we are probably better kept apart.

You know you are getting older when...

You start noticing how many incredibly hot 45+ yrs women there are out there!

And how much more class they have than the size six bimbettes!

Selective Preciousness

Moko Halloween tattoo pulled from US webstore
9.10pm Friday August 11, 2006

A fake Maori moko tattoo being sold on an American halloween website appears to have been pulled from the website after complaints from Maori it was insulting.

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Gawd, you would think this was the only culture in the world that used the tattoo!

OK, so when are you going to get stuck into the gang members who make a mockery of Moko?

No time soon, I'm betting...

Do the maths!

Lindsay's blog has a piece on the percieved inequalities in domestic housework today.

This reminded me about a housework story. The wife was getting taken to task by her mother for her habit of bundling everything into the clothes dryer. (These machines- designed and made by MEN have done more to address the housework thing than any amount of whining about it!)

Anyway, the old girl was on about the cost of electricity and how much the dryer used.

The wife pointed out that the cost at the current rate this would be about $3-4 per week. 'Not a lot for my week's indulgence- less than a day's cigarette money for you!'

Gotcha!

Apathetic Bloody Species!

Rates rise brings few complaints
11.08.2006
BY MARLENE DITCHFIELD

Masterton ratepayers are either happily content or apathetic about their rate increase.
Very few have joined in the national cry "we can't afford it" by people throughout New Zealand faced with an increase in their rates.

David Paris, finance manager for Masterton District Council, said the rates department has found "little objection" to the Masterton average increase of 7.7per cent.
Nationally people are complaining about their property value increases being translated into a rates increase, without any consideration of how they are to afford the higher bills

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There could be other reasons for the lack of an outcry in what is a low-income area. Something to do with coming from the shallow end of the gene pool.

Seriously, though this town has either agreed to or let happen a lot of expensive big-town projects. The most notable being the 'Aquatic Center' that they didn't need. Masterton already had a good pool and water slide- it just wasn't as flash as the ones found in Upper Hutt of Palmerston North. News flash!- small low income towns can't afford big city stuff!

More so when their basic infrastructure, sewerage for example, is totally inadequate and they are pumping shit into the local river!

As for an Art Center-FFS! how many of the local hillbillies will actually use it!

While you sheeple remain silent about the gold-plated projects driven by interest groups and THE COST TO YOU, this will KEEP HAPPENING.

Other people,s money is SO easy to spend!

I almost believe you deserve to have it happen to you...

Keep your goddamn snout out!

Porirua first council to back anti-smacking bill

1.00pm Thursday August 10, 2006By Benjamin Heather

Porirua City Council last night became the first local authority in the country to fly its flag in support of the anti-smacking bill.

More Dribble here:

Goddamn councils should stick to what most ratepayers want them to do. Water, Sewerage, footpaths, mowing the park, removing rubbish.

Let's face it- they are so ineffective at delivering even these core services that these are usually contracted out. The average council 'worker' couldn't find his or her own arse with both hands and a GPS!

Third-rate engineers, lazy clerks and building inspectors that couldn't build a dog house.

What people are missing, is that everything like the latest saving us from ourselves campaign COSTS the RATEPAYER'S. That's us folks, and don't think that just because you rent, you ain't funding these chair-polishers.

Community this and that, safety programes, sister cities- they are all rorts designed around empire building and perks for the cronies funded by monet taken from YOU!

Ever noticed that it is a rates DEMAND?

Sumo wrestling

Can there be a more pointless or revolting sport out there?

Two quivering mounds of blubber shoving each other, man-breasts jiggling.

It's not even interesting or exciting- getting shoved out of a circle after a minute of grunting and farting.

When you have a body like Fat Bastard's- please cover it up for the sake of humanity! Keep the goddamn kimono ON!

Road rage

There are two kinds.

Those who cause it by driving like a maniac and those who do the same by being over (read super) cautious.

The wife got one today, by daring to drive slowly past a school at 3PM. As you should, if you have more than 2 brain cell in your hat storage rack. For the wanker in the black dorkmobile hatch- giving my wife the finger will get you bitch-slapped by someone who used to get paid for doing just that!

I got the other sort. They stopped their over-inflated roller skate in the middle of SH2, to wait for traffic in the other lane to go by, in order to drive on the wrong side of the road and avoid the flooding. Visibility was shit BTW.

I cut inside as an evasive move and put up a huge bow wave going through the water. (What's the fun in having a 4WD if you can't do that?)

But what moron stops in the middle of a state highway?- all they had to do was slow to the posted 30k to get through the puddle without drowning. If I had hit that pregnant snail, they would have been toast!

That pisses me off- when idiots put themselves in a position where I can kill them. If I'm going to kill someone, I would prefer it be because I want to make them dead!

What problem?

Above is the answer

The problem is Here:

Happy Hiroshima Day

"...Tens of thousands of people from around the world gathered in Hiroshima on Sunday to pray for peace and urge the world to abandon nuclear weapons on the 61st anniversary of the first atomic bombing. Blah, blah, blah..."

Link:

Nuclear weapons have been all that have kept this world from tearing itself apart for the last sixty-odd years.

Japan collected two buckets of sunshine, compliments of the USA and they haven't been used since. Now if anyone had it coming to them, Japan did. Germany would have been on the the recieving end too, had they held out a bit longer. Instead, they got cities incinerated in firestorms, with an even greater loss of life.

The assault on Japan would have cost more than a million Allied troops. Better a couple of hundred thousand aggresors get the big firework. Before you start crying about the civilian population, do a little research on Japan's biological warfare unit and what they did to China- the legacy of which continues to today- just like with radiation.

Moral of the story?

Don't friggin' attack Pearl Harbour!

From the 'Yeah-Right!" files...

National News


Link:

'UFO sightings' reported in Manawatu
4.00pm Friday August 4, 2006

Mystery surrounds a number of strange sightings in the Manawatu skies last night.
Several people have contacted Newstalk ZB claiming to have spotted a UFO after seeing lights darting around at speed.
One informant from Feilding said he saw lights doing strange manoeuvres which seemed to violate the law of physics.
Police have been at a loss to explain what the lights may have been.
The Wellington Observatory said a possible explanation could be a bright star low on the horizon but that did not account for the strange movements the lights were making.
Staff at Palmerston North's control tower offered the strongest explanation saying a couple of air force planes were flying around the area before 8 PM.


Now come on- do you think people will believe anything in the news?

Just how gullible do they think we are!

Air Force Planes?- flying?

What is this? 'The Twilight Zone'

Again we take the gold-plated option!

$100 million for a chopper!

Bugger that!

Not that there is anything wrong with them, but we don't get many for OUR money.

What we have now works- we just need new ones and more.

Like these:

Let's get real- they are used here for SAR and civil defence more than anything else.

or is it not PC to buy from the US of A?