So beautiful, so dangerous...

Handmade .50BMG rifle- got US $20k?

Hat Tip: The Firearms Blog

Heritage in the Village of the Damned- so fake it

Rip down the brick crap and forget about wasting money (ours) restoring it. If you want a brick lookalike- fake it with modern materials.

Nine days

...and six nights to go.

Then its two weeks off!

Wandering through life with brains at half-mast

"...New community preparedness survey results, to be presented to Greater Wellington regional council's regional sustainability committee tomorrow, show only 39 per cent of people have a household plan for what to do in an emergency, and where they would meet if it struck while people were at work or away from home....

...More than 70 per cent of householders say they have emergency food, water and other supplies and equipment intended for use in a major emergency.

These figures are similar to the 2007 results. But the average number of supplies has risen to 9.2 items from 8.9 in 2007."

Don't come around here looking for help.

There has been more than enough warning that something like what hit the Village of the Damned would happen.

My supplies are considerably more than the 9.2 items in the above clip.

Especially those supplies pertaining to keeping moochers and looters out...

Don't give in to temper-tantrums

"...Jail guards have been threatened they'll be "bashed" or "stabbed" by prisoners over cigarettes, correspondence released to Sunday News under the Official Information Act reveals..."

News flash- threats in a prison are as common as 'good mornings' outside.

The smoking ban is just another excuse to behave badly and if the crims want to riot, they should be dealt with as rioters should- water cannon, tear gas, short rations and an increase in their sentence- plus no chance of parole.

A bit of buckshot would not be amiss, also!

Bludging, stinking leeches

"Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker says he feels "repulsed" by members of a family evicted from a welfare centre.

The people were members of a family group of about 30 at the Addington welfare centre, some of whom were behaving unacceptably.

The group took advantage of the centre, intimidated others, created a nuisance and then refused to leave, Superintendent Dave Cliff said.

Checks found they had not told the truth about the damage they had suffered..."

Name and shame the scum!

Not that lowlife who would try this on would have any sense of shame.

UPDATE:

"A Christchurch family evicted from an earthquake welfare centre say they more traumatised at being unfairly singled out as bludgers than by the earthquake that sent them fleeing their homes.

The 30-strong Martin family from Shirley, who have links to the Mongrel Mob gang, were called "repulsive" by Mayor Bob Parker after they were trespassed from the Addington Welfare centre..."

Enough said...

Jihad anyone?

Burn in hell

Our book, our book, our book is on fire...

We don't need no water, let the motherfucker burn- burn motherfucker, burn...

Two out of three of life's pleasures covered

All that is missing is a very large drink!

For bonus points, the pic got right up the nose of PETA (people Eating Tasty Animals)

Hang the scum

"...When Jacki Morris arrived at Ferndale School this morning to inspect the site's serious earthquake damage, what she found was far more distressing than the 15cm gash in the lawn.

The Merivale school for special needs children was burgled on Wednesday night. Windows were jimmied open, sheds and filing cabinets ransacked, and thousands of dollars worth of digital equipment taken..."

Anyone that low needs to be hung high. Preferable left in a iron cage to starve and rot.

I mean, a person (and I use that term very loosely) who is capable of such a callous act is capable of anything and needs removing from the face of the earth.

Like a mad dog, they are too dangerous to let live.

Fuck you, ya Jaffa fag

"North Shore Mayor Andrew Williams' late-night text tirades have reached Christchurch, with complaints about the city's nightlife and "Third World" service.

Prime Minister John Key said yesterday that he had deleted "obnoxious and aggressive" text messages sent to him by Williams, some as late as 3.30am.

Key said he had not bothered to keep any of the messages.

Williams has denied the messages were aggressive, and said politicians had to have thick skins.

On July 27, Williams sent a cellphone email to Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker just after midnight after dining with friends in the city. In the email, Williams said he and his party were "most disappointed with Christchurch tonight".,,"

Taking the piss out of the Village of the Damed is the domain of us that have actually had to live there! The mostly excellent Christchurch restaurant scene is the one reason for this carbuncle of a town existing*.

*(apart for their extremely skilled courtesans)

No, the pits of hell have not opened-yet.

"A strong smell of sulphur spreading across Christchurch's eastern suburbs is unlikely to be gas and there was no cause for concern, Civil Defence says..."

I can answer this one.

I worked doing drain laying in the Village of the Damned some years ago.

The gas lines from the old coal gas plant leaked and the smell of this gas permeated the soil throughout the city. When you dig, you release the smell.

I'm picking that the subterranean disturbances have released this rater foul but harmless odor.

"A Northland couple and some police officers are being investigated after the couple allegedly forced two men they believed tagged their fence to dance in front of a camera.

A video was made after the couple's house was tagged last Thursday in Otaika, south of Whangarei, police said..."

I would prefer to 'make them dance' in a more piratical sort of way.

From a yard-arm, although a tree or lamp-post would suffice in these modern times.

And then they had a REAL disaster

Essential supplies run out- city in crisis.

Apathetic bloody species!

It's New Zealand.

We have earthquakes on a regular basis-every supposed adult has know a sizable one somewhere in NZ during their lifetime.

And still people have no radio, torch or even the most basic supplies for an emergency.

They deserve whatever shit happens to them!

Extremely nasty scene- you have been warned!

Colonizing a country near YOU!

Hat Tip: Barking Spider

Yes, well...

At a school working bee yesterday.

All the others there were mostly the sorts who work 6 (or more) day weeks- some had come along between milkings to do a couple of hours, some had brought their own machinery- trucks, diggers, chainsaws, mowers.

All had given up a fine Saturday afternoon to do the annual school yard cleanup, and it was a good turnout.

I DID notice that none of the non-working families were represented there. Not one of them could give up a few hours to splash a bit of paint about or rake up leaves.

I guess Saturday afternoons are too precious to them who only have seven days a week off...

Incoming!

That should be here at midnight tonight.

Bad news when your roof is busted...

A thousand reasons to stay in

And not go pillaging in the CBD of the Village of the Damned tonight.

Village of the Damned get whacked

7.4 quake hit Christchurch at 0435

I like to give that town shit, but I do have a few friends down there. Good news is no reported casualties so far.

Damage looks really bad- a lot of the old brick buildings have come down.

You can't get good help...

"The Arms Act should be reviewed because only honest people obey it, the coroner investigating the death of Napier constable Len Snee says..."

Let me explain this using small words, as I know Coroners can be a bit retarded.

This is what happens with ALL laws.

Only the law-abiding comply with them.

If you CHANGE the law, those same folk that broke them before will continue to do so- just as those who obeyed them will continue to obey them.

So just have a big cup of STFU.

Pointed sticks are special

"A man has been jailed for four years ten months for striking a woman with a taiaha, a long-handled club, he was carving - a blow that caused a 13cm-deep gash...

...Judge Jane Farish ordered destruction of the weapon after checking with Te Rupe that it had no special significance for him or his family. He said he had been making it himself and had not yet finished the carving but did not want it kept..."

(Bold mine)

What the bloody hell is with considering his feelings, regarding the weapon?

Would I get the same consideration if I used by home-made Bowie knife or my antique Webley? (Yes- it is the one on the book cover, on the sidebar)

I somehow doubt it!

Where the hell do they find these judges?

Oh- thats right- out of the pool of lawyers who couldn't make it in the corporate world...

Dietary Discipline

Nutraloaf

The Workhouse had gruel

The Army had K-rations

Now- Corrections have Nutraloaf- the complete food that is as much fun to eat as a wool blanket- or possibly a Happy Meal.

I think this is a wonderful idea and should be extended to all those on a benefit- a measured weekly ration of nutraloaf- in lieu of money of course!

scum killing scum

"A woman who fatally stabbed her partner in the chest with a kitchen knife has been sentenced to just eight years in jail.

Jacqueline Elaine Wihongi, 33, "self-medicated" with alcohol after a tragic "history of victimhood", a court was told yesterday. She is believed to be just the second person to receive less than a life sentence for murder..."

So would I get a discount for slotting out some of the local scumbags?

Fat chance.

Wrong sex, wrong colour...

Hey teacher- leave those kids alone!

"Key has lashed out at the teachers after 95.1 per cent of the Post Primary Teachers Association (PPTA) voted to strike over stalled pay talks.

Strike action is set to start on September 15 and the PPTA has penciled in further strikes in the last term of the school year if they cannot reach agreement with the Ministry of Education..."

GOOD!

I can take more time off to spend with my children. It's not like they will miss out on an education- we can do firelighting, navigation, maths, field hygiene, cooking and all the other fun stuff we out in the bush and out of school. Along with reading books, listening to stories and just being with MEN who work for a living and learning how they do that.

GO on strike more!

For Chris Muir

Exquisite; lavishly elegant and refined.

DBD fans know what I'm on about.

The rest of you need to bookmark DBD

OTC madness

"Wairarapa could be the toughest place in the country to buy a pack of Panadol under new restrictions aimed at preventing suicides.

The Wairarapa District Health Board will ask dairies, super-markets and pharmacies to sign a voluntary code next year limiting the amount of paracetamol they dish out.

Overdosing or mixing para-cetamol is a known method of suicide and the DHB hopes limiting access to the medication will lower the region's suicide rate..."

Right...

What next? Put covers over all lakes, rivers and ponds?

Security fences around the roads?

As a public service, I will inform all those contemplating a paracetamol-assisted supreme being consultation- DON'T!!!

It is one of the nastiest ways you could pick to end your lot.

A slow lingering death as your internal organs irreversibly fail.

Stick to the old hose over the exhaust pipe, into the car.

Easier for you, far kinder to the poor bastards that have to stuff your sorry-arsed corpse in a plastic bag.

DIY experiment

Having spent a very frosty night in double-glazed hut, I'm a great fan of this type of window- something that is way underutilized in NZ.

Rather than spend many thousands which I don't have- as my taxes are being spent insulating poor people's houses- I'm going to retrofit my existing wooden framed windows.

I saw a system using acrylic sheet held in place with magnetic strips- looks easy enough to fabricate, but the magnetic strip costs more to buy than the acrylic sheet, so I will use draft exclusion foam and screw the acrylic in place. I'm hoping a small bag of silica gel will keep the internal fogging down.

The project starts next school holidays when I buy a couple of sheets and fit out the bedrooms.

A bonus is the safety angle, as I have a boy who has no idea about the properties of glass (as if any boys do!)

Plan is to have the house retrofitted by next winter, so I will keep you posted when the sun starts to hide again!

Get a grip- brutal cuts indeed!

"...The Government announced in the May Budget that the top rate of funding for early childhood education (ECE) centres with more than 80 per cent qualified staff would be removed.

Kindergartens operate with 100 per cent qualified staff. They estimate they will lose about $14m funding as a result of the change..."

This is because kindergarten 'teachers' are grossly overqualified. You do not need a bloody diploma or degree to teach the alphabet and make sure there is no pushing in the playground, throwing sand in eyes or eating the playdough!

Although I lean towards needing a qualification (or at least a simple IQ test) before breeding...

The neutering of society

Don't:

Chase the speeding car

Confront the rioting drunken teenagers

Tell the thug smashing windows to stop or else

Try to break up the rowdy party

You MIGHT provoke the pinheads BREAKING THE LAW to do something worse.

Just take some photos- but not up close because that could provoke a bad response too!

Shall we just issue the police with scoutmaster's uniforms and give them bicycles?

I think the pursuit guidelines are about right. Sometimes they DO have to cut their losses and break off the chase. Perhaps that might have happened had the Christchurch pursuit continued for a bit longer- they had only just started.

Sometimes the cops get it wrong, for sure- but things would be a hell of a lot worse if they could not pursue at speed- EVERY piece of shit WOULD run for it, if they knew the police could not speed after them.

As with all things, they will be room for improvement. Perhaps more use of image capture of fleeing vehicles- digital imaging is continually improving- although I then go back to the point in my previous post:

"They need to nab the driver as some smarmy lawyer will raise questions about identity in court- they would do this if a man in a black cape was driving the friggin' Batmobile!"

Certainly there needs to be a clear deterrent to those evading the law by further criminal activity. The maximum fine is $10k, but that had never been given, nor is it any deterrent when boy racers rack up six-figure sums in fines and sneer at the courts.

No, it needs to be prison. A prison where the daily routine is hard labour to work off the excess hormones- say, quarrying rock in a traditional manner.

Now from the Crime Act:

167. Murder defined---Culpable homicide is murder in each of the  following cases:    (a) If the offender means to cause the death of the person killed:    (b) If the offender means to cause to the person killed any bodily          injury that is known to the offender to be likely to cause          death, and is reckless whether death ensues or not:    (c) If the offender means to cause death, or, being so reckless as          aforesaid, means to cause such bodily injury as aforesaid to one          person, and by accident or mistake kills another person, though          he does not mean to hurt the person killed:    (d) If the offender for any unlawful object does an act that he knows          to be likely to cause death, and thereby kills any person,          though he may have desired that his object should be effected          without hurting any one.      Cf. 1908, No. 32, s. 182

167 (d), to this lay-person, suggests that MURDER has been committed.

I know these types are not big on thinking and considering consequences. The thought of facing a murder charge will totally fail to get through to many of them- but it will get through to many others who are young and foolish, but not terminally stupid.

Just shrugging off the slap-on-the-hand treatment with "there is no point in ruining the perps life, as well"- just does not cut it.

This liberal crapola has been an epic failure.

Time for the pendulum to swing back to the harsh side of severe!

Killers in cars- and those who make excuses for them

Immediately after last nights post on the 'poor little ol' me' attitude of the drunk that fled a checkpoint to destroy a couple of lives- we have YET ANOTHER incident in the Village of the Damned.

Another pair of lives snuffed out by totally self-absorbed yoof, who seem to believe they have the god-given right to drive as, where and how they please.

And who do the disingenuous media portray as the perps?

The police- who are damned if they chase and damned if the do not.

The usual intellectual lightweights (who the media play to) ask the inevitable "Why don't the police take the rego and arrest the hoons later, rather than risk a pursuit causing collateral damage?"

There are many good reasons the police try to catch the offender right then and there:

• They want to screen for alcohol BEFORE the perp sobers up
• They need to stop the bad driving NOW.
• They need to arrest the ACTUAL driver- who may not be the registered owner.
• The plates may not match the car. (Just watch Motorway Patrol)
• They need to nab the driver as some smarmy lawyer will raise questions about identity in court- they would do this if a man in a black cape was driving the friggin' Batmobile!
• A car being driven erratically may be involved or have been involved in some other crime and they need to investigate- it's a police thing

Clear enough?

Continued:

Today on the talkback, I heard the poignant tale of a woman who lost her parents and a brother to a teenage idiot attempting to drive a car. Leaving her orphaned in her teens and another handicapped brother who had to be placed into care. The fact that a intellectually handicapped child had to be placed into the care of strangers touched a sore point in me. I have a child like this who was almost put in this situation by a drunken hoon near killing me.

If they established a hard labour facility for those who make stupid decisions while in control of a deadly weapon, I would be tempted to go back to Corrections.

Hell, if they started hanging these idiots I would apply for the job!

Dead is harsh

"A drunk-driver who killed a Blenheim grandmother when she crashed into her vehicle after speeding off from a police checkpoint says she has been judged "quite harshly" by the public.

Blenheim woman Frances Stubbs made the comment during an interview on TV3 current affairs show Campbell Live last night..."

Perhaps that is because so many of us have had someone close killed or maimed by a mindless cretin like you.

Or had to clean up afterwards...

Tell them to sod off!

Important

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Click on the link below to opt out , and send this to everyone you know.

The government is NOT your friend!

Dont let that stalker find out where you live
Or the guy you just cut off while driving!!!
Or if you are away on holiday they can ring a mate to rob your house

Dirty rotten scoundrels

My advice to Veuve Clicquot :

Cough up a few crates and salvage this PR clusterfuck!

And advertise on blogs- not shonky magazines that only exist to appear on corporate reception tables and never actually get read.

The Clayton's competition...

UPDATE:

A HAPPY result!

Good show!

"An autopsy today is expected to determine how a man, believed to be burgling an Auckland pharmacy, died in a struggle with the owner yesterday.

The aging pharmacist who struggled with an intruder moments before the man died during a break-in has been told to rest by doctors because of stress..."

Cause of death- being a dumbarse criminal scumbag.

Now give Mr Grant Gillard a community award and pass the hat around!

Note to the police prosecutors:

DON'T

You already have a shit public image- don't make things worse.

Raise the drinking age to Thirty!

"...Teenage students would think it was ridiculous that they could go to war, marry and take on debt, but not buy a bottle of wine to have with dinner at the supermarket..."

If you are a student, you ain't in the armed services and thus are not about to go to war.

Wait until you grow up.

Don't usually quote the entire article-but...

"Maori leaders have been told to make a stand and pay up for child abuse.

Social Development Minister Paula Bennett delivered her blunt message to a closed-door meeting of iwi leaders last week.

They were told to "face up" to child abuse by identifying mothers who let "mongrel men" into their homes, and to stump up with their own funding so abused children could be placed in iwi instead of state care.

Bennett presented the leaders with their own lists of shame - the numbers of abused children from each of their iwi who were currently in state care.

"You know who they are. I need you as respected leaders to go back to hapu, iwi and whanau and say it's time to face up to this. It's time to face up to the fact that Maori children and babies are being beaten, abused and killed.

"It's time it stopped," she said.

About a quarter of all children were Maori, yet they made up half of the substantiated abuse cases and family violence deaths.

Bennett said effort had to go into finding children before they were abused, by identifying mothers with low self- esteem who let "mongrel men" into homes as they searched for "some warped kind of love".

She challenged the Iwi Leaders Forum in Hopuhopu, near Ngaruawahia, to "put your hands in your own pockets" to help find families who could take on children from within their own iwi "because the government doesn't have the money for it right now, quite frankly".

But Ngati Kahu chairwoman Professor Margaret Mutu said what Bennett was saying was nothing new, and although the leaders would always support measures to ensure children remained within their own whanau, the suggestion iwi provide funding and resources was ridiculous.

"We can't. We don't have them. It's a state responsibility. We know how bad it is, we know the helplessness and hopelessness of it, and that we are the only ones who can save ourselves. But we also need resources and the support of the state to do that."

Bennett said some of the leaders were uncomfortable with her address but others were supportive.

"I was saying if we really are in this together, and those are your children, you can't just expect the state to pay for everything."

She proposed a partnership with iwi under which Child Youth and Family "whanau finders" could help iwi identify families who could be called on when a child needed a new home, rather than see them placed in state care.

Bennett told the leaders there were 2227 Maori children in state care. About half of those under five were placed within their own iwi, but she believed work was needed to ensure more found permanent homes within their iwi."

You keep banging on about how precious your kids are. Money where the mouth is- you have had a good enough go at the trough!

We found a weather balloon

Yep, we WERE up in the clouds!

(I know it's weather balloon- I used to launch the buggers!)

Found at about 900 metres up.

Off for the weekend

Hopefully without the white stuff!

There is this democracy thing

"One in three Kiwis want Maori to become a compulsory school subject, a survey has found..."

So two in three don't want that.

Sod off.

Grow up!

"A Nelson skateboarder hit with a $750 fine for cruising down New St on his board is refusing to pay the "overly excessive" infringement.

Sascha Krueger, 33, says the police officer who dished out the ticket had not done his homework properly, and it was only illegal to skate on the street's footpath – not the road..."

Stupid BOY. What are you doing riding a skateboard at 33 years of age?

You are going to have to deliver a lot of newspapers to pay your well-deserved fine!

Cowboys ain't dumb

Three guys and Bruce

Three guys were at a deer camp. No one wanted to room with Bruce, because he snored so badly.
They decided it wasn't fair to make one of them stay with him the whole time, so they voted to take turns.

The first guy slept with Bruce and comes to breakfast the next morning with his hair a mess and his eyes all bloodshot.
They said, "Man, what happened to you?" He said, " Bruce snored so loudly, I just sat up and watched him all night."

The next night it was a different guy's turn. In the morning, same thing-hair all standing up, eyes all bloodshot.
They said, "Man, what happened to you? You look awful!"
He said, 'Man, that Bruce shakes the roof with his snoring. I watched him all night."

The third night was Fred's turn. Fred was a tanned, older cowboy; a man's man.
The next morning he came to breakfast bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. "Good morning!" he said.
They couldn't believe it. They said, "Man, what happened?" He said, "Well, we got ready for bed.
I went and tucked Bruce into bed, patted him on the butt, and kissed him good night.
Bruce sat up and watched me all night!

Manslaughter my arse

"...Adam Christopher Lock, 22, pleaded guilty to a charge of manslaughter and a charge of assaulting Jayrhis Ian Te Koha Lock-Tata when he appeared before Justice Edwin Wylie in the High Court at Rotorua yesterday, the Rotorua Daily Post reported.

Jayrhis died in Starship Hospital on March 7 last year from massive bleeding between the skull and brain, two days after Lock forcefully grabbed the baby around the ribs, shook him violently and smashed his head against a hard surface..."

I call it bloody murder!

The murder of a helpless infant child on ones (supposed) care can only have one penalty- assuming the perp does not have the decency to destroy themselves immediately.

To be chained to a concrete block at the low water mark and watch the tide come in.

Funny- I though this was meant to be a serious matter

"A 20-year-old Blenheim woman who fled a police alcohol check-point killing another driver has been sentenced to eight months' home detention.

Frances Carol Stubbs had admitted driving with excess blood alcohol causing death and was sentenced by Judge Bruce Davidson at the Blenheim District Court this afternoon..."

Strange- for some time there there has been a huge amount of noise on how serious and dangerous the whole pissed-driving thing is. Sounds like the judge doesn't watch TV. Home D for a killing, indeed!.

Just don't steal sheep- you WILL do time for THAT!

"...Two men have been sent to prison for sheep rustling and animal cruelty, after they were caught with 14 sheep crammed in a car..."

Nothing to see here

"...Green Party MP Keith Locke said the New Zealand Defence Force had to share responsibility for what happened to insurgents it captured.

He supported the withdrawal of the SAS from Afghanistan.

"We don't want New Zealand's good name muddied by links for the torture of prisoners, which is reputed to include beatings, electric shock treatment, and sleep, food and water deprivation..."

Ho Hum.

Locke has lived a very sheltered life. With the exception of electric shock treatment*, the rest was inflicted on us under the name of 'Training'.

Sissies need not apply...

*- Batteries were hard to get out of the Q store.

Here's a clear result

What do you think about slow drivers?

I'm a slow driver - what's the rush?

320 votes, 2.5%

I don't mind them at all

223 votes, 1.7%

They're fine as long as they let people past

6859 votes, 53.0%

Slow drivers can be a road hazard

5535 votes, 42.8%

Total 12937 votes