Sorry- your reality cheque just bounced!

The latest election bribe was always doomed to failure.

Look at the target market- they either:

• Already vote Liarbore or Green

• Have grown up already and wouldn't give Liarbore or the Greens the steam of their piss.

The only ones left are swinging voters on decent incomes who want somebody else to pay for their brat's education. Heaven forbid their offspring should have to study AND work part-time.

Update:
Whaleoil has a Stuff poll that confirms this.

Big deal, so what?

"The final printed electoral roll has 200,000 people missing from it with 89,000 of those aged between 18 and 24 years, Electoral Enrolment Centre manager Murray Wicks said today..."

I have one word to say:

GOOD!

Space cadet newsflash!

The aliens are coming!

Hmmm- every day I'm meeting people who I'm sure come from a place where the sky is a different colour...

They would be right...

The parents of the victim would be right!

"...Mr Irons also said he was happy the arrests were made but was concerned that, given two of the alleged attackers ages, they might get off too lightly.

"I'm pleased they got someone & but those little bastards will get off with nothing..."

The bastards (which in all probability is an accurate description) arrested are aged 15, 17 and 25. One will get the wet bus ticket, another a holiday in the Youth unit, playing with taxpayer funded playstations and the older scrote will get a hopelessly inadequate sentence in what passes for a prison in NZ.

The victim survived, against the odds but the outlook for the future is not good. That won't count for much in the sentencing. As they failed to kill him, despite clear intent otherwise- it will out out with the wet bus ticket.

Going by local talk, this looks to be a random attack, these shitheads were apparently 'out to beat someone up'

Are these the sort of people who deserve another chance? I'm betting they are no strangers to the courts.

Think about the various law & order policies before you vote next month.

Update:
Now it's murder. What do YOU think the guilty parties should receive?

it was horrible!

Occasionally I find myself caught between a rock and a hard place.

That being pack & save with children.

The human equivalent of being a frog on the suction side of a 55 KvA pump.

Quite literally as you attempt to maneuver between laden trolleys navigated by she- mountains who function like the blast doors on star wars I.

My six-year-old , like Han Solo, reminds me to never consider the odds, as we charge towards the ice-cream freezer, avoiding the asteroid fields of the geriatric chat-club that seems to reside there.

This would be easier/more enjoyable if my trolley had the sort of firepower that was a part of the Millennium Falcon!

An if Jabba the Hut's cuzzies shopped elsewhere....

Wrong!

"...However, Alcohol Advisory Council chief executive Gerard Vaughan said the law should be changed to allow police to let people lie when taking part in the operations. It was important for stings to be realistic and under-18s regularly lied about their real ages when trying to buy booze..."

Bullshit!

It is NEVER right to lie in a court of law- or in any time especially in a part of the legal process!

Would it be right because a cop lies on a speeding charge 'because it was in the public interest'?

Absolutely not- even when the PM is in the car!- ESPECIALLY when she is in the car!

TO try and justify LYING is CORRUPTION!- nothing less.

Want to know pain?- vote for this twat!

Hat Tip: Last of the Few

Good Onya!

"When feisty Levin baker Raewyn Gardiner turned up the heat on a gun-toting cake thief, he knew it was time to get out of the kitchen.

The 57-year-old grabbed him by the shirt and held a knife to his face after finding him with a handful of her cookies and cakes - tasty goods she says are "to die for..."

That lady deserves a DB!

It's a shame she didn't fillet the scumbag, but with what passes for justice in NZ, they would be throwing all the resources of the SState against her!

Be prepared

Aftershock was well worth a watch, as was the follow-up program yesterday.

There is nowhere in NZ that is not at risk from being flattened by an earthquake. You get that living on a plate boundary!

Personally, my family is very well set up for a major event. Based on information I have got from involvement with several agencies, I geared up for three weeks plus- not three days. That estimate is pure optimism in the case of a major earthquake.

Certainly, those of us living in small rural towns would most likely be fending for ourselves as the bulk of outside resources are poured into the major cities. Unlike the townies we saw on tv, we have things like firewood supplies, experience at living outdoors and a bit of foraging is a way of life. Try potting a few rabbits for dinner in downtown Wellington!

Living in NZ, it's impossible to plead ignorance, should you be caught for your pants down in a disaster. You won't find any sympathy around here!

But I'm well enough set up to provide a feed for somebody who has no food.

Once they have payed their way splitting firewood, hauling water or digging a new dunny!

TANSTAAFL!

No sympathy

"An occupant of a Toyota Hilux, which police say was stolen, has been rushed to hospital and will undergo surgery in an attempt to save the person's fingers after the vehicle rolled..."

The only surgery a thief should be getting is a cheap amputation.

Save the hospital budget for somebody who deserves it. The best this idiot deserves is have a medical student have a go at doing an amputation.

Handsaw and a bit of hot tar...

Wishful thinking

Pork

Here are a few piggies to stick!

(Hat tip: Not PC)

• Cindy Kiro's Office for the Children's Commissioner (she hasn't stopped the killing, has she)
• Peter Dunne's Families Commission (ditto)
• Paula Rebstock's Commerce Commission (AKA Communist Commission)
• David Lange's Ministry for Women's Affairs
• Jim Anderton's Ministry of Economic Development (the economy would develop quite nicely without Jim, thank you)
• The Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs
• The Ministry for Maori Affairs (let all 'their people' organise their own damn affairs)
• The Race Relations Conciliator (have you noticed him successfully conciliating any races? No, me either)
• The Ministry of Youth Development (let hoodie-wearers buy their own spray cans)
• Alcohol Advisory Council of New Zealand
• Asia New Zealand Foundation
• Electricity Commission (nice work, guys, well done)
• Energy Efficiency & Conservation Authority (ditto)
• The National Advisory Council on the Employment of Women, part of Department of Labour (bet there's some unemployable women on this 'council,' right?)
• The Department of Labour (let's see them work for their money)

This lot are A START! A more extensive list can be found here.

I would like to hear a few more piggies squealing come November!

The elimination of the lot above should help John Boy cut our taxes and stimulate the economy.

They should all be able to find work picking fruit at that time of year. Just remember- now it's going to be really important to wash your apples before eating!

Bullshit!

Lotto dreams can have a downside

"It sounds like a dream come true - enough money to buy that mansion, that flash car, that around-the-world trip, with enough left over to put you in the lap of luxury for the rest of your life.

But though a $24 million Lotto payout sounds good, the sudden influx of cash can turn reality into a nightmare and becoming a millionaire overnight can leave winners disgruntled, a psychologist says..."

I'm willing to take that chance!

"...Lotteries spokeswoman Karen Jones said yesterday that a lot of people did not understand the planning required, long after the winning numbers have been circled. "With large sums of money comes large amounts of responsibility," she said..."

Great responsibility??? I thought with large sums of money came hot bitches!
I think she may have watched X-Men once too often!

Sign of the times

I have noticed something regarding election hoardings. (at least locally)

In the past- over several elections- it was always the National ones being hit by vandals.

This time, its all the Liarbore ones being defaced.

A sign of things to come?

Rust in peace, good & faithful servant

My Simpson Washing machine 1990-2008.

Died suddenly after years of neglect and abuse.

Not a bad innings, 18 years.

(It's an older model than the picture)

My Lotto fantasy

This will be the South Island holiday home [insert Tui ad here]

The media blows goats

This about says it all...

School holidays

Shouldn't have them! At least not as frequently as they do.

Let the little brats learn what's coming up later in life- they can have four weeks at Christmas and stat days.

Whinging bloody teachers need to learn what a year's work is all about too!

Hell, in place of the continual breaks they have now, the kids could have a 'sports week' where there is no classwork, just physical activity.

Every holiday we have a spate of vandalism about town. Today it was half the windows at a swimming pool smashed out and the other pool broken into, along with a whole lot of senseless damage to the parks & gardens.

A sort of PD for little shits that like to bust stuff up is one idea of mine. PD that involves the separating and sorting of recyclables at the local dump. Dirty and less than pleasant work, outside in the weather.

Holidays sorting beer bottles by colour might discourage them from breaking them on the road!

One of lifes questions

Why is it that as soon as you you attach yourself to an MP3 player- somebody decided that now is a great time to talk to you?

Then gets upset when you tell them to fuck off!

NOBODY interrupts 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'!

Cactus Kate calls it right again!

Cactus Kate was right about Masterton!*

"...Annual New Zealand Police statistics published yesterday, show that in the 2007/2008 year to June Wairarapa had 1043 recorded crimes for every 10,000 people followed closely by Lower Hutt at 1041. Kapiti-Mana had the least at 819..."

I'm sure she won't be visiting Lower Hutt any time soon either!

What can you stay about a town that about 25% of Rimutaka Prison calls Home?

I lay much of the blame on Trust House for providing cheap housing for the undeserving- they brought up when most of the state houses were flicked off.

It's what I call 'Feeding Pigeons'

You feed the friggin' things- they breed like crazy and then they and their offspring flap about crapping all over you.

DON'T FEED THE PIGEONS!

* in no way does this apply to the outlying parts of the Wairarapa, especially Morrisville and Featherston