Knives in public.

In New Zealand it is an offence to possess a weapon in a public place without reasonable excuse, under the Summary Offences Act 1981 and the Crimes Act 1961 section 202A(4)(a).

Best to have a good reason for having a knife in your possession BEFORE you stick in in a piece of shit tagger...

To continue:

Now if Bruce Emery had a can of mace or a taser handy, he could have grabbed that when he took up the pursuit.

But no, we can't be trusted with purpose made defensive weapons...

One rule for YOU and another for US

"Council authorities are blaming sabotage for a Featherston sewage spill that may have contaminated Lake Wairarapa.

Greater Wellington regional council today said a valve used to drain the Featherston oxidation ponds had been tampered with, resulting in sewage spilling into Donald's Creek which flowed into Lake Wairarapa..."

Now I live not too far from these third-world cesspits. The ponds are quite large and the sewerage treatment consists of being left to decompose and be eaten by ducks (ever wonder why I don't do the duck hunting thing?)

They are a plastic-lined affair, but unlike a swimming pool they seem to be exempt from any requirement to be fenced, although there is a seven-wire fence to keep the sheep out (this is the same council that spend our money on aerial photography to find illegal swimming pools).

Funny how a blow-up pool in a farm back yard may need a permit and approved fencing, but a couple of acres of plastic lined pond full of turds does not. Remember the recent farm tragedy.

So it's no problem for young bastards out exploring to get in. And open valves or gates that should be locked.

If this were a private company, they would be in the shit over this site being accessible and the control gear not being secured from tampering.

But why would the SWDC care? If the regional council fines them, it's only the ratepayers that will be picking up the tab...

Judge or a friggin' social worker?

"...Judge Epati told Mr Sutton: "He [Kurariki] needs to understand that he, number one, cannot go on using drugs because part of the rehabilitation is to get him off drugs so that he doesn't go back the way he started off."

Then he gave Kurariki a "final chance", before releasing him on bail with a stern warning..."

Well, I'm sure that's all settled then- a stern talking to!

This piece of excrement is ON PAROLE. THAT is the chance he was given.

The public demands that Judges lock away those who are not safe to have in public. Forget rehabilitation- this prick is a walking time bomb.

In summing up, the beak came out with this codswallop:

"...Bailey Junior Kurariki, I don't know whether you'll come before me again but let me make it quite clear to you for your sake ... I really should have refused bail for you, and that is because the record shows that time and time again you have [been] given the opportunity to be at large, or on bail terms ... which is that you are not to consume alcohol and drugs. But time and time again a drugs test has been given and you have failed. And once more, although you have protested that you have not taken any drugs, it wasn't until after you've been administered that test that you realised the game was up. You then admitted that you've been taking drugs. This is not a game, Kurariki."

Yes- that is exactly what you SHOULD have done, you frickin' overpaid snivel servant. DO YOUR BLOODY JOB!!!

Police try to sort it- then the courts sabotage their efforts

You may have heard of this story:

"Mongrel Mob gang members forced a terrified neighbour and her two young children from their home, then ransacked it for nearly all its contents the next day..."

And so:

"...Fifty police officers, some of them armed, made dawn raids on seven houses in and around Pomare's Farmer Cres yesterday.

Ten patched gangsters and associates were arrested..."

Then:

"...Most of them appeared in Lower Hutt District Court on a range of burglary, drug and intimidation charges.

As the gang members were bailed back to their homes, police said it was not safe for The Dominion Post to visit Farmer Cres last night. Police gave journalists an escort, while other police cars patrolled the area..."

You would have to wonder why the cops bother to get out of bloody bed in the morning!

Housing NZ- all gang members and associates to be evicted. Minister to put this into law.

Police- keep up the good work. WE appreciate you doing this.

'Justice'- DO what the public demand of their SERVANTS. Lock the shit up! Minister of Justice- make it happen.

NOW.

As an aside and ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with the above-

"They emptied almost everything from the house a 42-inch TV, electric appliances, whiteware, beds and bedding, even food."

It's a shame my mortgage doesn't allow me to have a 42" TV!

Find a niche and exploit it!

Hat Tip: Abbadon

DNA and diminishing returns

An overlooked part of the DNA debate is that the most benefit (in resolved crimes with crims locked away from the public) is derived from 'capturing' the DNA from a relatively small section of society.

Recidivist offenders.

So by simply creating a database from convicted offenders, the most good is gained.

There is NO NEED to capture the DNA of the whole nation! We all know that most crime is committed by the same group of criminals. By matching THEIR filthy DNA we can keep them out of circulation, thus keeping the public and their property safer.

As I said before, people should be able to opt in at their own expense and as Touchstone has pointed out, it's a good idea for the military to keep DNA records. I don't see why the can't be stored on the same database as long is it is partitioned.

DNA sampling

or more importantly- a DNA database- is something I believe to be a good idea. DNA matching is a very important crime-fighting tool.

IF and only IF the criteria for being added to this database are made crystal clear.

Firstly- you must be a criminal convicted of an offense punishable by imprisonment to make the database. Unless you decide for reasons of your own that you wish to be added to the database voluntarily (say for a scenario such as the possibility of disaster victim ID) . In that case the volunteer must bear the costs involved.

Secondly- If you have been ARRESTED for an offense punishable by imprisonment, a sample may be taken as evidence, but may not be added to the database until you are convicted. For people who need to be eliminated as suspects, samples are at the taxpayers expense and are destroyed when the case is resolved or a set period of time has passed.

Thirdly- All those fans of the Nanny State and those who tell us that DNA database is nothing to be feared by the law-abiding will of course be adding their DNA at their own expense..

Bushfire Donations

HOW YOU CAN HELP:

Donations can be made online at www.salvationarmy.org or by calling 0800 53 00 00. Donations can also be posted to The Australian Bushfire Appeal, Salvation Army, PO Box 27001, Marion Square, Wellington.

New Zealand Red Cross said those wanting to support the bushfire fund could do so by visiting www.redcross.org.nz or calling 0900 33 200 for an automatic $20 donation.

Cheques can be posted to; Australian Bushfire Appeal, Red Cross House, PO Box 12140, Thorndon, Wellington 6144, or donations can be made directly at New Zealand Red Cross service centres.

I would also add that when you support Australia in times of trouble, you are supporting ONE OF A HANDFUL of nations who would return the favour when (not if) we have our own large scale disaster.

Bushfires

One amazing sunset out there right now!

Must be the bushfires over the water.

Why try to break out of a cell using your head?

Mostly because your brain is FUBAR!

I hope it really hurt!

And to any soft-cocks who say this piece of dog-shit was insane and did not deserve to die- he wasn't mad enough to stop himself making a million peddling his filth!

Why try to break out of a cell uning your head?

Back on Sunday

Gone camping again

Good riddance!

One down- a number to go!

Something like this

Boy Racer Bollocks

For starters, lets get away from the 'boy racer' crap. The whole 'boy racer' thing was about wannabes with Japanese penis extensions showing off.

They were a bunch of virgins who couldn't drive well enough to get into a sports driving club and didn't have the car/money to play with the real enthusiasts and collectors.

The above are the once that would be punished the most by car crushing and lets face it- most of us who have been woken up by a big bore exhaust and a wanky blowdown valve at 330 am would love to see car and occupants turned into spam in a can!

The problem has gone way beyond those fools and has more to do with the cellphone than the car. The problem is groups of lawless thugs and louts who use the power of text broadcasts to gather in groups too large to be readily policed when they inevitably go feral. Of course cars provide the mobility factor and entertain the morons with burnouts. THESE cars are disposable shitboxes and crunching them more likely would provide some kind of badge of honour amongst the knuckle-dragging fraternity.

So let's get away from cars and look to the REAL problem. Lawlessness, willful destruction of property, intimidation, trespass, offensive behavior, assault and so on. If you think these turds are poor misunderstood yoof who just need somewhere to play (at our expense) you have not had 300+ go feral outside your property as many I know have.

Now these offenses need no new laws to deal with them. What the police need are new tools and the direction to use them.

The good, old-fashioned water cannon is most effective in breaking up a mob. Rioting is no fun when you are drenched. Especially in a Christchurch winter and more so when OC has been injected into the water jet.

I can personally vouch for the effectiveness of 'tear gas' having been on the end of a good dose of it in training, however, I am uncomfortable about using it in residential areas where innocent can be affected.

There are several new tools available for crowd dispersal, one is sonic, this one uses a laser and the other uses microwaves to cause pain.

To use these, we will need a fast-reation unit and, of course, an armed support team to keep the little darlings away from the hardware.

Most of the little arseholes would have watched 'Jackass', so should know what a bean-bag baton round will do to you!

For once I beat Lindsay to it!

Will the recession affect the birth rate?

It won't go down unless WFF and the DPB are cut!

More likely to go up as our serial breeders increase production...

The Law- everyone's resposibility

"Police have praised members of the public who detained a man who allegedly tried to rob the New World Supermarket in Clendon at gunpoint..."

I saw this and was reminded of the oft-heard collectivist cry that 'crime in the community is a problem for ALL of us to take responsibility for'

Bullshit, of course. The great majority of us do not commit REAL crimes (ones with a victim)

What is true is that should be every able and willing persons duty to fight crime- and more importantly- we should have access to the tools to do so. The scrote in the link above should have been hit by tasers, marker spray, pepper spray, spring batons from all points of the compass! After the checkout operator unloaded a .38 into his guts!

While politicians and those in the ivory towers wring their hands about how to deal with the explosion in crime and lawlessness and cry 'But what to do?' there are many of us with at least a partial solution to the problem.

A bit of rough justice for the town ne'er-do-wells. Vandals doing community service in pink overalls and chains. Recidivist families run out of town. Pillory. The good old-fashioned thrashing with someone responsible on-hand to make sure the injuries weren't to permanent. Hard labour breaking rocks in the hot sun- in the middle of the town square. Shunning.

And more importantly- cutting off all funding to those who perpetuate the cycle of deadbeats, criminals and idlers.

Cheaper prisons

Here is the cheaper way to build prisons- prefabricated cell modules.

Made by outfits like this one.

Shipping containers are even cheaper!

Feckin' hot!

Gladstone Weather, near Carterton, Wairarapa, NZ -41 02 37 S, 175 35 43 E
LAST READING AT TIME: 4:00 PM DATE: 31 January 2009
Current Weather	Dry	Current Temperature	33.5°C (92.3°F) (Heat Index 33.5°C ), Apparent temp 32.0 °C , Apparent temp solar 41.0 °C
Maximum Temperature (since 9am)	35.7 °C at: 3:16 PM	Minimum Temperature (since 9am)	27.3 °C at: 9:00 AM

Well THAT was impressive!

Just did a callout to a faulted pump. This usually means I get $70 for driving out of town and pushing a reset button.

I knew it was going to be a bit more than this when I saw the 15 meter fountain in the distance. Very pretty, but not when you have to wade in and shut it off. Against the odds, I got it shut off with nothing more than wet boots.

Looks like Mr Pump has broken loose and fallen down the hole. I'm glad MY work ended with shutting off the mains!

Two dumbass crims on the run

Hat Tip: Theo Spark

Cv.flv
by wellywanger

Completely free from the ravages of intelligence...

Fishing

Any readers out there know anything about softbait fishing?

I'm thinking of giving it a try.

Cheers!

Let sleeping dogs lie

Some things are just better forgotten.

I can't see the point of re-living pain felt many years ago. Some say it is therapeutic, but I believe that in most cases, time is the great healer.

Let the memories fade and the pain fades too. You may never forget but why beat yourself up by continually reminding yourself of the follies of youth.

Forward and onto better things is the way- don't look back!

Anyone else smell a large red rat?

"...The man who brought assault charges against Labour cabinet minister Trevor Mallard pleaded guilty to providing the Inland Revenue false or misleading documents at Wellington District Court today..."

Now the fact that he has pleaded guilty to the sin of misleading thieves is not the issue here.

I see yet another person who has protested against the late unlamented government appears to have had the microscope put on him. Another Tim Selwyn type of case.

For in the environment the apparatus set up, it isn't hard to have broken SOME law- and the state has the means, the time and your money to VERY thoroughly investigate your life.

Shame they don't do the same to the upper echelons of our criminal fraternity- or would that be too close to home...

Prick of the week

Former police inspector Ross Meurant

Someone who should know better than to open his big mouth and let stuff come out.

"...Former police inspector Ross Meurant says the armed offenders squad member who fired the shot that killed teenage courier driver Halatau Naitoko should be tried before a court..."

Now he of all people should know that first there is an inquiry into event, which will determine whether or not charges (and which ones) should be laid.

For the leftist retards who inevitably cry 'whitewash' these internal inquiries are run by a certain type of person who is hell-bent on finding fault. They are the hall monitors and prefects of the world- nasty, officious and pompous wannabe prats with delusions of adequacy and as likable as a Wolverine with diarrhea. (based on my experiences with these types in the services)

The correct comment for this twat to have made would be: "let's wait until we have the full story"

Bludgers, bastards and freeloaders in general

Freeloaders of the Day;

The South Wairarapa Swimming Clubs (especially the bludgers in Greytown).

Now here is a sports body that REALLY wants us ratepayers to dig deep!

While the local rugby clubs get their grounds mown at the ratepayers expense, these clowns want a pool maintained with all the power, chemical and service costs paid for- so they can then monopolise the pools after 5pm when hot ratepayers (the poor bastards that actually fund this) get home from work and wouldn't mind a dip to cool down! Heaven forbid they could share the pool, by roping part of it off!

They obviously have 'contacts' within the local council as they get a grandstand build at the Featherston pool for about 80 grand, Thi swill get used on about two days a year, while the rest of the facility is in an advanced state of disrepair- the toilets look like those found in France!

Will any of these bludgers ever turn out for a working bee? No leave THAT- to other volunteer service groups- Lions, last time it got painted. Every man woman and child should have been down there with sandpaper and paintbrushes.

The Greytown mob wanted the ratepayers (from a town with approx. ratable properties) to fund a 50 meter covered and heated olympic frickin' pool!

Even the SWDC morons realized that this would be political suicide and politely told them to sod off and find the money themselves.

Now if I want a game of golf (I don't) I would be expected to dig ito my pocket and pay subs which fund the groundskeeper and the green upkeep. I don't see the fricking council paying for the green to be mowed. Nor do they provide mowing, weed-control or electricity to my gun club. I pay subs for that and attend frequent working bees- which is as it should be.

They could travel a bit further north and look to the shining example of the Carterton Swimming club, who run the pool for the council and keep an old pool pristine and well-staffed with friendy helpful lifeguards.

These fricken swimming clubs need to get their hands back into their own pockets and their face out of the public trough. And stop playing the 'what about the children' card.

If those who cry this one really gave a shit, they wouldn't hesitate to get their own chequebooks out!

And then I walked into the camping ground TV room...

No- seriously- this happened to me this morning!

Except the were all friggin' gingas! (even scarier)

All mesmerized by frickin' Pokemon!

Camping- it works

Why go live in an un-air-conditioned tent with no broadband access or HD TV?

Wife lies about in the sun drinking wine and is happy.

Kids orbit the camping ground with other kids and are happy.

I get to drink beer all day and barbeque mammal-flesh twice a day.

Once a day I have to go the the supermarket for more beer, wine, ice and mammal-flesh and take the kids to the pool in lieu of bathing.

When you have all the gear, it works.

You will need:
300 litres of chilly bin capactity (that's an Esky to you chaps in the West Island) You will need more if you want to keep food cool.

A good lamp- the new LED lamps go for ages on a set of batteries.

Air mattresses and a blower that runs off the car battery

Duvets- forget that sleeping bags unlesss you like extreme bondage

A big tent -preferably two- one for the kids.

An automatic bug spray dispenser

MP3 players and car rechargers

PSP or equivalent for child distraction

Comfy chairs

lots of change

On holiday

Off camping again- back on Sunday!

Privateers Prize

This is my invention. It gets a mention in the space opera I'm currently writing, thus the name.

Take:

One large glass (chilled)- a pint is good.

Add:

Ice cubes
Two nips Southern Comfort
One nip Galliano
One nip Coconut Rum
One nip Rum (any kind)
A dash of lime cordial

Fill with orange juice and soda water.

Or:

If you are Cactus Kate, order a minion to do the above.

It's very smooth and appeals to the girls.

It also knocks them on their arses!

The Final Cut

"Losing the powers of government is like being publicly castrated, says the ousted deputy prime minister..."

I thought neutering went with his job!

There are those who accept the power when they take on the job.

The others take on the job for the power.

I know who I believe are the right ones for the job...

Cafes to not bother with.

Last Thursday I posted on the Invercargill cafe owner that refuses to serve Jew's. Now another Cafe has joined in the rush to commit economic suicide (hopefully)

I said:

"...Well, however you may feel it IS his shop and he should be able to serve-or boot out whoever he likes. It's called property rights and they don't change because the property owner is a prize prick..."

And that holds true.

Principles like property rights and freedom of speech are unchanged just because you find what the others are saying is repugnant, racist or hateful. It's also a two-way street as those who don't like your opinions or actions are free to tell you that you are a complete and utter pick and to take their business elsewhere.

However, as has been rightfully pointed out- this is MY opinion on how things ought to be.

It's not how things are in law. Regardless of what I think of the law, we are currently stuck with it- and these 'hospitality providers' are in breech of the law.

A law which appears to be taking the 'softly, softly' approach.

Would that they do the same when you dare to open your business during Easter? Or put up a sign- 'No Maoris or Islanders' (the later had better be on a plyboard sheet big enough to cover the whole window!)

Another clever NZ inventor

"...The Auckland entrepreneur has invented a cost-effective, easily installed and unobtrusive automatic fire suppression system which quickly and efficiently puts out stove-top fires...

...He plans to market his Sensorjet unit for around $250, with installation bringing all-up cost to between $300 and $400..."


Sounds great- simple and affordable.

Now what chance that people who won't spend two bucks on a smoke detector battery will actually buy one of these?

Of course we will all be paying for state houses to have these installed. Let the drunken fry-ups continue to roll...

Comprehension

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

Hot Tip- where else?- Theo Spark

Doing the right thing

"A woman has handed her son over to police investigating the rape of a young Dutch tourist in Tuatapere after recognising her own filleting knife and teatowel on the Southland Times website..."

This is something not too often seen these days. All too often the relatives and associates are shielding the suspect- even and especially when they know he is guilty as sin. This is particularly immoral when the crime is a repugnant one such as rape or murdering a baby(or two)

All things said, it can't be easy to turn in a child and this women is to be praised for doing the right thing.

Great Flying!

"Former fighter pilot Chesley Burnett "Sully" Sullenberger III has saved the lives of more than 150 people after safely guiding a plane into the freezing waters of New York's Hudson River, moments after a flock of birds reportedly cut the jet's engines..."

I hope somebody is right now buying this man a large bucket of beer!

Crush the boy racers AND the cars!

"Christchurch mayor Bob Parker is calling for the Government to tell the city how to deal with the problem of boy racers..."

This is the trouble with public roads. Every sod is free to use them and these pricks seem to have next to nothing to stop them abusing them.

No need to involve central government unless you really want the dickhead control SNAFU. Just tell the police to sort it out.

Resource them properly to do the job.

Then stand the hell out of their way and let the experts get on with their job.

Without the hand-wringing when some poor, disaffected Yoof get a richly deserved clip around the swede with a aluminium bar.

Without the whining when some kid with wealthy parents has to spend the weekend in the pokey with the dregs of 'TheVillage of the Damned'

With no sympathy when the japper shitbox brought on a student loan is reduced to a paperweight. And the loan is still outstanding.

Not the right way to deal with this

"An Invercargill cafe owner's refusal to serve Israelis on the basis of their nationality is a clear human rights breach, Race Relations Commissioner Joris de Bres says.

Sisters Natalie Bennie and Tamara Shefa were upset after being booted out of the Mevlana Cafe in Esk St yesterday by owner Mustafa Tekinkaya..."

Well, however you may feel it IS his shop and he should be able to serve-or boot out whoever he likes. It's called property rights and they don't change because the property owner is a prize prick.

Of course everyone who doesn't like what he has done is free to take their custom elsewhere, to tell him why and to persuade all their friends and acquaintances to do so.

His suppliers should also be free to stop supplying him, should they choose to do so.

Bagel & Lox, anybody?

Big Bada Boom!

My other WTF! pistol*
.562" lead ball and 50 grains of FFFG.

And I'm actually hitting the target now that I'm getting used to the bloody great flash in front of my face!


*When you fire it , people come over and ask say "WTF was THAT!"

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Hat Tip: Theo Spark

Dumb and Dumber

"Reina Hardesty, 13, sent 14,528 text messages in December - about 470 text messages a day, at an average of a message every two minutes if she was awake for 15 hours each day, the New York Post said..."

Kick her arse, cut the phone in half with a disk grinder and send her to Military school!

That is just friggin' ridiculous!

She seriously needs to get a life...

What's new?

I have been wondering what new gadgets will be coming over the next couple of years.

Looking backwards 10-20 years at the rate of progress and trying to project forward is always a bit of fun.

I have made a few predictions that panned out- most of which were scoffed at by 'industry experts'

Pre-paid mobile phones, huge growth in the computer gaming market, video phones, colour printers and the MP3 type music player were all things I had picked for the early 21st century (this was 20 years previous)

I got a few wrong- teletext was nobbled by the internet and a universal personal phone number hasn't happened yet.

It's not that there a re great new inventions coming onto the market- it's more a steady refinement of existing devices and the drop in price for these goods. In another decade, the old CRT tv will be as much an oddity as a wood cabinet black &white set. And today I read that 3-D tv is in development. That will probably arrive about the time I have replaced all my favorite movies with blu-ray!

So what are my picks for the upcoming hot items?

USB data stick systems- just plug into another computer or a dumb terminal and all your stuff is there.

LED panel lighting

Internet notebooks will take off like the mobile phones they will eventually replace- the ever decreasing size of these devices will drive the development of voice interface software.

Flexible LCD screens.

Jack Ketch

I would do it for a far more modest fee!

After all, I would make it up by repeat business...

The things kids come out with

My six-year old son's interest in the Tintin books has certainly increased his vocabulary!

Everything is now 'Thundering Typhoons', 'Billions of Blistering Barnacles' and his brother is a 'Squawking Popinjay!'

It could be worse...

CONSIDERING charges!

When a moron shoots a crossbow in a residential area and hits some poor sod, he should be in jail NOW awaiting trial.

There is no doubt about who did it, that this was an act of causing serious injury though sheer bloody stupidity.

What was the possum-brained prat thinking? (well- obviously he wasn't!)

And police are "considering laying charges."

Considering indeed- throw the book at him!

Future inventions

I was about to predict the LED glow panel as often used in science fiction and thought i should google it first.

It appears I was a bit slow making this prediction.

Facial piercings

SO why is she bitching?

She seems to think holes in the face are OK.

Under Canvas

Camping grounds- you probably know them well.

Camping sites that measure exactly one meter more than your tent or caravan.
Toilet and shower blocks of bare concrete that are about as clean as the average milking shed.
Surly caretakers.
Route marches to the nearest water/toilet/shower.
Living two meters away from the Addams Family (and cousins)
Bins overflowing with Lion Red bottles.
Flies for Africa.
A kitchen full of fat German tourists cooking lard.
Drunken Bacradi Breezer-belching teenagers talking (and screaming) at 105 decibels at 2am.
Did I mention the toilets- almost as filthy as those found in France?

Well, I found none of this at the Carterton Holiday Park - believe it-or not!

The grounds were like- well- a park. Plenty of shelter from sun and wind and well-groomed grass. We picked a site under one of those spiny fir trees for our tent (hint: birds can't roost in the outer branches of such trees!) We had room for a station wagon and a ute, plus had a large wooden picnic table out front of the tent. The grounds are next to large sports fields and a chilrdens playground (with a REALLY big slide)

Pete and Di, who run this example of what a camping ground SHOULD be and seldom is- were always helpful and friendly.

The toilets, showers and kitchen were always spotless. I have never seen such clean communal facilities outside of an Army barracks on inspection day! The showers required a $1 token for five minute- which gets around the problem of shower-hogging girlies (so says the wife) You can have a cold shower for free and at this time of year that is what I want-34 degrees C yesterday!

The office had a few basics for sale- washing powder and packets of cereal and tokens for the showers ($1 token for five minutes) but just outside the gate was a well-stocked dairy and there was a supermarket about 1km away.

The town is about 800 meters away and full of great restaurants, cafes and takeaways. Tasti Takaways do huge feeds of Fish & Chips and Chinese food for very reasonable prices and there is something for all budgets.

About 500 meters away is the local swimming pool and a swim may be had for the sum of $2.00 The pool is a outdoor one and much nicer than the run-down holding ponds that pass for pools in the South Wairarapa.

With small children, this camping ground worked well for us, as it was small, well-fenced and we could easily keep track of straying kids. For me, I could travel to work each day and leave the family to it and return each night with fresh supplies of food, drink and ice.

If the weather obliges I shall return in a couple of weeks!

Away until Friday

Gone camping.

Tale of woe to follow.

More on climate

The Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change

‘Global warming’ is not a global crisis

We, the scientists and researchers in climate and related fields, economists, policymakers, and business leaders, assembled at Times Square, New York City, participating in the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change,

• Resolving that scientific questions should be evaluated solely by the scientific method;


• Affirming that global climate has always changed and always will, independent of the actions of humans, and that carbon dioxide (CO2) is not a pollutant but rather a necessity for all life;


• Recognising that the causes and extent of recently observed climatic change are the subject of intense debates in the climate science community and that oft-repeated assertions of a supposed ‘consensus’ among climate experts are false;


• Affirming that attempts by governments to legislate costly regulations on industry and individual citizens to encourage CO2 emission reduction will slow development while having no appreciable impact on the future trajectory of global climate change. Such policies will markedly diminish future prosperity and so reduce the ability of societies to adapt to inevitable climate change, thereby increasing, not decreasing, human suffering;


• Noting that warmer weather is generally less harmful to life on Earth than colder:

Hereby declare:

• That current plans to restrict anthropogenic CO₂ emissions are a dangerous misallocation of intellectual capital and resources that should be dedicated to solving humanity's real and serious problems.


• That there is no convincing evidence that CO₂ emissions from modern industrial activity has in the past, is now, or will in the future cause catastrophic climate change.


• That attempts by governments to inflict taxes and costly regulations on industry and individual citizens with the aim of reducing emissions of CO₂ will pointlessly curtail the prosperity of the West and progress of developing nations without affecting climate.


• That adaptation as needed is massively more cost-effective than any attempted mitigation and that a focus on such mitigation will divert the attention and resources of governments away from addressing the real problems of their peoples.


• That human-caused climate change is not a global crisis.

Now, therefore, we recommend—

• That world leaders reject the views expressed by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as well as popular, but misguided works such as An Inconvenient Truth.


• That all taxes, regulations, and other interventions intended to reduce emissions of CO₂ be abandoned forthwith.

Agreed at New York, 4 March 2008.



Hat Tip and to see more- The Devil's Kitchen

I know the feeling...

Just substitute 'Featherston' for 'Wyoming'

(We actually have had trains blown off the lines here)

A New Market

The rise of- The Speak Easy!

Not quite the prohibition era style, but neighborhood garages that have been decked out as bars.

Attracting a selective clientele of locals- word of mouth only, these bars provide what the pubs and clubs cannot.

A place free from louts, bogans and thugs.
A place where you can hear somebody across the room talk.
A safe place to have a drink amongst friends.
Quite probably somewhere where you can smoke a cigarette without a trip out into the cold!

Drinks marked up a bit from the supermarket price- not a 300% markup. The wine, beer and spirits may even (shock-horror) home-made!

That charming Kiwiana decor - the style of the real Kiwi bach- no two items match! Carpet squares salvaged from the dump over the concrete floor. An old piano with a couple of keys missing. A mangy stags head with an old bra over one antler. Ashtrays stolen from pubs back in the days when they had them. An old dog sleeping next to a permit-free pot-bellied stove in the corner.

The more ambitious may have an old pool table and the Tv that was retired when the owner got an LCD. Only for when the rugby or cricket is on, of course!

There is an outdoors toilet that may or may not be connected to the sewers, depending on the skills of the relaative that illegally onstalled it.

This is nothing new- I knew of one years ago in a town that will not be named. This was a house brought by a bunch of blokes who wanted somewhere to go for a drink and to watch the game. The only pubs in the area were populated by the local PWT and knuckle-draggers, so they made their own. You had your own lock-up fridge and it was BYO, thus totally legal. They paid subs which covered rates, power and a cleaner.

A great arrangement!

The Speak Easy is alive and well in the UK- The Pub Shed

So news is slow

When you publish this sort of tripe!

I bet they all ask him to have sex with them...

Gentile Tramping

Cactus Kate was written a piece on her idea of wilderness travel.

I totally agree- I have often said that any fool can rough it and that the outdoors are far more enjoyable when you take a few comforts along- and don't have to carry heavy things!

She provides a link to an Aussie outfit, but we also have such things here.

It's really just reinventing the wheel- it used to be called 'going on safari'

Much more pleasant than tramping!

If only we could still get coolies with a work ethic nowadays- that's what happens when you do away with flogging!

In a nick of time

One good thing to come out of this incident is that an obviously unreformed nutbar will now not be released.

If this piece of refuse is in for murder and rape he shouldn't be up for release in any case. He should have been ashes some years ago.

Those feral cats are a bloody nuisance- they thrive around all institutions- prisons, hospitals, army camps. For some reason all the other vermin get poisoned but the cats seem to escape- or perhaps they are just more obvious.

This one had at least been useful.

It's helped make a scumbag show his true colours .

Suspect..

Normally a story like this stays about for a bit- it's already under the radar at Stuff.

A brave 12-year old girl gets five younger siblings out of a fire. The media- rightly- loves this stuff.

And the parents? What were they doing...

I would guess charges are forthcoming.

More bleeding-heart bollocks

'Desperate need' for detox centres in major cities

"Waking up cold and sweaty in a police cell while coming off drugs or alcohol is a sobering experience, in more ways than one.

Not only for the people being arrested, but for the police officers who have to deal with them regularly.

Detoxification centres where people can sober up or come off drugs safely before appearing in court are desperately needed, says Michelle Dianne Kidd, who works for Lifewise, formerly known as Methodist Mission Northern, at Auckland District Court..."

These facilities used to exist and were known as 'Drunk Tanks'

Where all the drunks and druggies were tossed, to spend the night in their own vomit and piss. A great incentive to those who could and would learn that this was extremely unpleasant and that public drunkenness should be refrained from.

It must be remembered that in order to gain entry to this establishment, you usually had to attract the attention of the constabulary. Wobbling up the street singing might work- depending on what sort of a shift PC Plod had so far had, but loutish and offensive behavior made a trip to the cells near a certainty. A polite and respectful drunk would often be offered the choice of a cell or the city mission but would usually avoid the communal accommodation.

Through a night in a cesspit with the dregs of city life and a refreshing cold shower in the morning, courtesy of a fire hose- one learns that actions have CONSEQUENCES. A lesson that is sadly seldom taught today- until one goes way too far and the consequences are extreme.

Usually for some other poor sod. (Thanks for the reminder about that MK!)

The Honours List

What a load of arse!

It might actually have some merit if you removed:

• Those getting an award for doing their job- news flash- you are actually MEANT TO do your job well- and you get paid for doing so!
  

• Sportsmen- they already get trophies, awards and prizes for winning events.
  

• The Military- they already have their own honour awards- they are called medals.
  

• Services to country music- Do I even need to say why this is sooo wrong!!!

Oh!- the humanity of it!

The crash scene was horrible- just terrible to behold.

Something nobody should ever see.

You will look, though- won't you!

Other solutions

Israel has its back to the wall- although they are very far from out of the fight.

Now given that the Arabs want them gone (preferably dead), the left-dominated media condemns them for daring to fight back against a mere few thousand rocket attacks and the felching rimjaws of the UN want them to likewise disappear.

Would another country with lots of underused land invite the whole country to pack up and move there?

Like New Zealand?

We could do a lot worse that to welcome a nation of hard-working go-getters to relocate to our mostly empty spaces. Look what they did in a desert in sixty years! It would be a huge task and would take some years to complete but all things are possible. Like surviving with bomb-toting pychos all around your homeland!

With there wealth and workers plus help from all the arseholes who want them gone from the middle east- dig deep you scumbags and put it where your mouths are!- new cities would soon be built along with all the needed infrastructure. If we went with this idea- we could surely can the RMA!

We would also have one kick-arse army and a real air force!

And last but not least- all the ingrate rag-heads living here now would have plenty of spare room back in Palestine- back with the faithful!

Tell me what is wrong here

5.5 meter runabout about $40k second hand

Marine Radio- $ 248
GPS- $269


If you can afford the first one, you can afford the other stuff.

Of course, when you get the bill for the rescue because you were a dumbass and went out unprepared- you won't be buying any of this sort of stuff for a bit...

Retards on the road

It's my favorite time of year- when all the non-drivers take to the roads!

For once they get past the 50kph sign and are from that point in brain arrest.

There are several main groups.

The- 'I drive EVERYWHERE at 65k' group - on the open road, down the driveway, though snowstorms and in front of ambulances with beacons and sirens on.

The 'I'm Fuckin' Speed Racer' types- they must overtake at all costs- anywhere, in all conditions and with total disregard for anyone else using the road. It's a damn shame more of them don't die in flames, down a bank out the back of nowhere.

The 'Nervous Nana'- only travels at 2/3 the speed limit 'to be safe'. Drives a new three-door or a Pirus if they have money.

The 'I haven't got a fucking clue where I am/are going/how I'm going to get there' Too mean to buy a map or a GPS. In the unlikely event that they ask you for instructions, it is always fun to put on a German accent and act confused. That's the payback for being trapped behind one for an hour as they slow down to look around like those fairground clown's heads.

The 'Harrased Parent'- easily recognised by the overloaded station wagon and obnoxious children/wives. Avoid them they may be armed when the snap.

The 'Non-driver'- for the rest of the year they only drive to the railway station, kids school or shops. This is the first time in a year they have driven more than five km. They may display any or all of the above behaviours.


I'm working in a point between the holiday spots.

I wonder how long it is before I'm first on the scene to some bloody mess this year?

(last year was a doozy!)

And?

"Israel has launched air strikes on Gaza for a second successive day, piling pressure on Hamas after 229 people were killed in one of the bloodiest 24 hours for Palestinians in 60 years of conflict with the Jewish state..."

GOOD!

Those pricks don't get half the kicking around that they deserve!

Carry on!

Blogging made more difficult

By the arrival of Christmas presents.

Namely, two MP3 devices.

Now I knew these things could play movies- but I thought "who would want to watch a movie on a teenie-weenie screen?"

Now I know- and not content with ripping all the music CD's, they spend all day downloading stuff to play on them!

When I first got the InterLink on, I had a 3 MEG allowance and started to pay about $2/meg. Now we are downloading a couple of Gig a day!

If it's not that, it's looking for cheats for the PSP games.

I'm glad I signed up when they offered an unlimited downloading package!

Britney in secret sex tyrst

Hell, I wouldn't tell anybody if I had if I had shagged her, either!

It ain't Christmas now

But we don't forget those who are STILL WORKING.

The soldiers, sailors, airmen, policemen, firemen, ambulance officers, nurses, doctors, CO's, water & sewer workers, power line workers and all the many others that work 365 days a year without us giving them a thought unless something fucks up!

I'm one of you and right now raising a glass to my brethren on duty today!

Bugger!

Dago Red- empty
Vin Rouge Ordinare- empty

Back to Coopers Bitter.

On the uniformed branch of the IRD

On the subject of 'speeding', I can't say it much better than the chap here

There is a speed trap here at the bottom of an incline, the camera being placed near where the road goes from 50 kph to 100 kph and of course everyone but Horace Wimp is accelerating before actually passing the 100k sign.

I know this because I got pinged there twice this year. Watching the road, not the gauges, in my diesel ute which accelerates like a mule train (and has a similar top speed)

Also, being a local, I happen to know that the injury accidents in this area are a number very close to- if not actually-ZERO.

It's just a bloody cash cow!

I wish the cops were as well resourced for nabbing the boy racers doing burnouts, the wankers hooning on minibikes about town and the bloody non-road legal profusion of tractors and agricultural vehicles clogging the roads driving from one town to another at 40kph!

The 12 Days of Christmas

Have a damn fine Christmas!

Time to become comfortably numb!

Trampoline finally assembled
Drive software for new toys loaded
Mammal flesh charring on flame-pit
In-laws visited
Beer kegs connected to tap


Shot over.
Shot out.

Drink for effect- out.

For you Matrix fans

Q- What does the jump in the Matrix training software have in common with kitsets from the Warehouse?

A- NOBODY makes it the first time!

(now it's back to trying to dissolve the cholesterol from breakfast with Navy Rum & coffee)

An impressive feat!

"I ran around and all I could see was this baby's head sticking out from under the grille. He wasn't breathing."

"All I could think of was I had to get that train off him, but I couldn't get it to budge by myself. I screamed out at Marie and somehow I don't know how we did it we lifted it up and shoved it back about two metres.

"The strength came from nowhere; it was that mother's natural instinct that just kicked in like an adrenaline rush. I knew if we waited any longer that little boy was going to die right there."

More here:

800 kg of engine alone.

Those two deserve a DB!

Rage against the Machine

This blogger has previously warned that the gloves are off.

I refuse to subscribe to the pretense that we must all be civil to each other. In other words, those on the left must be allowed to vent their spleen on us and in return get a civil retort. Not friggin' here!

If you dislike me or my views, fine. Make your feelings known on YOUR OWN blog. The one that gets four hits a week, in all probability.

This is my soapbox- find your own!

Be assured that those SEEKING information may do so freely. I'm more than happy to explain or elaborate.

If you come to sneer or take the piss- you will get the blog equivalent of a size 12 steel-cap in the gonads.

And for the record- if you had ANY understanding of the Libertarianz, you would know that the one thing we are NOT are herd beasts. We come in all shapes, sizes and temperments. There are some that will give your digs a well reasoned rebuttal. There are others that will give you an invitation to sex and travel.

I'm one of the latter.

The colour of the sky on your planet is...?

"Associate Corrections Minister Pita Sharples rates the Christmas meal prisoners will eat next Thursday in 20 jails as better than basic average lunchtime restaurant fare..."

If I got a restaurant meal worse than prison food, someone would be washing it out of their hair shortly after!

I know all too well what prison food is like. Nutritious, adequate and that's about it. Way behind army rations and hospital fare.

As it should be.

In fact, it's too good for most of the filth that receive it.

I have dined in Nz's finest restaurants- and a few at the other end of the market. Never have I been served up anything like prison food, with the possible exception of 1965 Army canned rations that were handed out during the late '70's. And while those trailed on the quality side, they were ahead in quantity!

Pita Sharples, you don't know what you are talking about- if you find Corrections food that good- you would be more of an ascetic!

Friday Funnies

Peter Rabbit- Tank Killer

Since we are over this greenie bullshit...

How about a few of these?

They will buy us the time for this new nuclear technology to come on line.

Or the 8% that voted green can all get busy in a giant treadmill- for the common good...

Laws has it right!

"Wanganui mayor Michael Laws has joined the debate about parents sharing beds with babies, calling a warning by the Whanganui District Health Board "little more than politically correct nonsense...".

I actually listened to this show. He has it right. Almost all parents- at some point- put a grumpy baby in our bed to sooth them. We don't smother them because we are acutely aware that they are there. AND want them out at first opportunity!

MOST of the smotherings- and I want to emphasis- NOT ALL- are from she-elephants and/or the drug or booze addled with a BMI larger than their IQ.

I'm sure many large mammals kill their young this way.

By being large and dumb, that is!

Assholes that really wind me up

... are often heard on the radio.

Today' s arse-wipe was a towel-head called up to explain the significance of throwing shoes. The jumped up sand-ape started on a rant about the evil George Bush and what a great thing it was that this tit of a journo threw his jandals.

Never mind the actual question he was asked.

This prick was a so-called Iraqi community leader from the 'Village of the Damned' (AKA Christchurch)

I suggest he get his arse back to the filthy shithole he fled, given that the West is such an evil place.

NOW.

Art appreciation

Bettie- you will get a cameo in my next book!

You will not be forgotten...

To correct an inaccuracy

I have received an email informing me that my picture of the late Bettie Page was, in fact, that of an actor playing her.

The above picture is indeed Bettie!

If there is to be a heaven, Bettie would have to be there. For without her- it would not be...

Eggnogg made easy

Forget all the recipes involving cooking eggs and more steps than the Palliser Lighthouse.

Take the following:

1 litre of ready-made custard
300 mls cream
one teaspoon vanilla essence
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg

mix well, adding dark rum until you can't taste all the other shit.

Easy!

She disagreed with something that ate her

"A Hastings family were forced to escape their house through a window after two dogs began fighting inside yesterday evening, police said today..."

What can I say but:

HA! HA!

You get everything you deserve owning these friggin' beasts.

I'm just glad to see that it isn't some other poor sod being mauled THIS TIME!

Told you so!

I do believe I said (although it may not have been here) that this arsehole should have had his balls removed!

Now WE are paying for not doing so!

RIP Bettie Page

April 22 1923- December 11 2008

'They don't make them like that anymore!'

The Jar Jar Binks Prat of the Week Award

"...Labour and the Greens are furious at National's tactics.

Labour leader Phil Goff said that by the time National had passed its bills under urgency it would have rammed more through all their stages without going to a parliamentary select committee than Labour had done during nine years in office.

While Labour had often used urgency, it was rare for it to push a bill through all three stages under urgency, he said..."

Now let me see- Before the election, the Nats said they would bring in these laws. They said they were going to hit the ground running.

They won the election, presumably on these election issues.

They delivered.

Eat shit and die, Phil!

You lost- suck it up.

"Prime Minister John Key is under fire over plans to rush through law changes before Christmas giving employers the right to sack staff in their first 90 days on the job.

Unions criticised the Government's refusal to allow a public debate and called it an attack on workers' fundamental legal rights..."

It was a well-publicized move and going by the way the vote went at the elections, one that has plenty of support.

Of course the usual hand-wringing apologists for the terminally useless are whining like a bus-load of Pommie tourists!

Meanwhile , in the real world- employers don't actually want a constant churn of new employees. They need training and that costs time and money. But when you hire a dud, you want to get rid of them like dead fish- now- not after 'going through the process', that being heavily weighted in favour of the dud.

Here is another news flash- they other employers want them gone and replaced too. Nobody likes carrying some useless bastard who should be capapble of doing the job. I've seen more than a few of them come and go over the years- and they never went soon enough. Sometimes it's not a matter of competency- they are just possessed of a toxic personality and as welcome as Phillip Alpers at a gun club function.

Personally, I would have liked to have seen the period extended to six months, as in a more technical roll it can take longer than three months to do a fair assessment of a newbie- although you generally have a fair idea they won't cut it.

Really, this is geared towards the non-skilled or entry point worker who does not have a checkable CV to offer. (and employers SHOULD check bloody CV's!) I don't see it being a problem to the skilled or professional worker. Including those contemplating moving back to NZ- despite what the Chicken Little red team are squarking.

Of course there will be the inevitable asshole employers who will use this to perform some kind of employment rort.

But ask yourself- would you really want to work for one of these creeps?

Community based sentencing- make it HURT!

Now I find crimes like this totally inexcusable. What possible harm or offense can a kindergarten have ever caused these crap-heads?

"...The vegetable garden was ruined, spouting broken and a window smashed after about 20 youths went on a mid-afternoon vandalism spree..."

Now some may wonder why I bother about this sort of thing when people are being killed, robbed and generally assailed.

Because this sort of lawlessness is where it starts. I saw it so often when reading case histories- the first charge on many record was Theft of a Bicycle. Small stuff that goes on along the path to being a lifer. Crimes punished with a slap on the hand with a wet WINZ voucher.

When one complains, it is good form to propose a remedy.

I think this sort of offense (for a first offense) is best served with a non-custodial sentence. A couple of years of community service should teach a lesson. None of these 150 hour sentences.

Failure to turn up and do your time gets the time doubled. Each day missed gets a day in the local stocks!

Technology

Now I know how to download a movie and reformat it to get it on a IPod thingy.

Gee- how did I manage to live without knowing that!

Probably the same way I manage to get from A to B without a GPS.

I often wonder why people put these in their vehicles when they can't even operate the friggin' indicator switch, the rear-vision mirror or the speedometer!

And don't get me started on texting! Never has so little been said by so many at such great expense!

Martinborough Water Quality

The saga continues here:

A word of advice to the amateur journos at the Wairarapa Times-Age-

Just ask this question, which is a simple yes-no.

"Does the Martinborough town water meet the NZ Drinking Water Standards 2005? "

Easy, aye?

A killing is a friggin' killing!

Enough with the 'Hate Crime' shit!

Murder is despicable whatever the motive!

Cut the PC shit- It's just another unlawful taking of a life.

It's no worse- or better- when the victim is somebody you don't like.

The song remains the same

"Motorists face a blitz from 43 new speed cameras - with the first due to be introduced in time for Christmas holiday traffic..."

I'm sure these were ordered under the old powers-that-be, but the new masters have no hesitation in milking this old cash cow!

(National don't get a free ride, in case you were wondering!)

More on toys

After much waiting and deliberating, I brought a new TV today.

Got a Samsung 32" LCD and what a difference! The picture is fantastic- with my eyes, I see no need to buy the expensive full HD set!

Right now it is like looking out a window watching the BBC's 'Walking with dinosaurs'.

I looked at a bigger set, but at $849 for the one I got,I decided not to go for the bigger one at 50% more.

Maybe one day I will get a 40+ inch set (now why the hell do they still use inches!)

Musing on Toys

4 gig MP3 player- $129

It's not so long ago that I remember memory selling for $100 per meg!

And some time before that a portable Walkman-type tape player cost $500 and used one change of four batteries per tape!

It's a shame motorcycles don't follow this trend- not that I would be allowed one these days!

Sharps Shooting

45-70- 2 1/2 inches at 200 yards

And I'm still sighting in

That beats the hell out of the WEATHERBY 1 1/2 inch guarantee at 100 yards.

And I'm using peep sights

Drug users- go for it!

I'm all for ALL drugs being made totally legal.

The flip side is that I'm ALL for crimes committed whilst using drugs being punished most severely.

In other words, drug-fueled crims go to the great gulag in the sky.

For the worst ones- murderers and KF's- Jack Ketch.

For the rest- it's off to the loser colony, where you get your drugs supplied by Mr Taxpayer.
The cost being that you remain their forever. Oh- and while the drugs are supplied by taxpayer's largess - the food must be earned- by sorting the recyclables out of the countries rubbish.

If you want out- its five years of testing drug-free- easy in- not so easy out!

When Fucktards Attack

You nail their arses to the wall!

"A group of Palmerston North schoolgirls were left bruised and stained after a drive-by paintball attack..."

The idiot that did this needs to be dealt to with the full weight of what the law permits.

Paintball is a lot of fun. It's a full-on contact sport and the paint balls hurt. Like being tackled hard- that's OK when its between two players.

It's very not OK to tackle some stranger walking down the street! Which is analogous to shooting a stranger with a paintball.

I'm betting the paintballers are pissed at this. This sort of bullshit is what puts a shitload of restrictions on a sport. Like making them have firearms licenses and all the expenses that go with them.

How about just whaling the hide off the cretin that thought it might be a good lark to shoot up a few random folks on the footpath?

I think that would put it right!

More prison- Sherriff Joe Style

"The new Government's hardline stance on crime means more inmates may have to share cells, increasing the risk of prison violence..."

That's a big fat 'so what'.

Put up tents.
Ring them with razor wire.
Concrete shower blocks.
Concrete kitchen consisting of big pots to boil potatoes and cabbage.
Army to provide border control.

Easy and cheap.

If the scrotes behave REAL well, they MAY get a transfer to a regular prison!

Oh- and make them work 14 hrs a day, seven days a week sorting rubbish into recyclables, to defer costs. Their rations depend on meeting quotas!

Bullshit Alert

"...The survey found one in four Kiwis say the poor quality of their home has made someone living in them sick, and indicated the severe cost of poorly performing homes..."

If we were such a pathetic weak species we never would have made it this far.

MOST OF THE WORLD would love to have houses like the million supposed sub-standard ones mentioned in this beat-up.

So modern houses are better than those made thirty-plus years ago? Is that not how it should be? My house is 1960's. It isn't cold or damp. The previous owners fitted ceiling insulation, bathroom ventilation and a log burner, I have added a heat pump and low energy lighting. AT OUR OWN EXPENSE and without some government directive.

This is what you do if you want to be a bit more comfortable, pay for less power and want to cut maintenance costs due to damp. If you chose not to heat, ventilate or wear a friggin' jersey when it's cold- that is your outlook.

So stick the mandatory energy standard for houses where the monkey hides his nuts!

This all smack of the 'won't you think of the children!' cry heard when some group has an axe to grind.

Or some prick is after regulations that will drum up trade for HIS business- this being the more probable scenario.