I am stuffed if I know how he did it, the Vet is just as confused but my mate steadfastly refuses to give in.
To my total surprise he is back home with us, he has a massive number of drugs to take and is confined to a cage for most of the day (so as to restrict his movement).
He is to be let out only to go to the toilet, despite this, he is over the moon to be back with us and back with the other canine members of our family.
I know that his recovery may take some considerable time, and I know that he can relapse at any stage but that does not matter to me right now, he is back home with us for Christmas and that is where he belongs.
On that note, have a great Christmas everybody, I know that when I am finally finished for the day I will sit down with a couple of cold ones and offer thanks to all of you who sent me (and him) your best wishes.
I ventured into the provinces to see the classic Fleetwood Mac line up minus Christine Mc Vie last weekend.
Pissed down with rain. Despite the $250 seats, I was stuck with 50 year old pissed farmers yelling for Eagles songs and the line for booze was so long, for the first time in living memory all my neurons were focused on the music.
Well I like "the Mac". Not cool but in 1987, when I was 14 I heard Lindsey Buckingham on Tango in the Night play "Big Love". I credit this and "With or Without You" as turning a naive 14 year old away from 80's pap and onto other , darker more satisfying music. Say what you like about Rumours, but the songs and the background of emotional breakups and dependency crises produce a standout seventies masterpiece.
Anyway, the concert was more than I expected. Sound awesome, crisp, clear and the flawless rhythm section of Mc Vie and Fleetwood justifies name the band bears.
Stevie. Not a big fan. Reminds of too many girls that wanted to be her. Her singing is not what it used to be, mainly because of the whistling noise that emanates from her nose due to the large septal hole as a result of years of blow.
Buckingham is awesome. Classical technique, powerful delivery and clearly the driving force behind their classics.
Virtuoso performance below. He played this in New Plymouth. People were speechless.
I woke this morning to what I thought was about to be the worst day of my life, I readied myself for the call from the vets to tell me it "was time".
To my surprise when they did call they said he had had a much better night and while there was still an element of lameness in his right front leg he was not in as much pain.
They were quick to say that this does not mean he is out of the woods as he has been confined to a cage not much bigger than him for the best part of the last day, he has only been let out to go to the toilet.
The upshot of all this is that the vet has said he can see no reason at the moment to put him down, however if he suffers another relapse and goes back into obvious agony then they think it would be more humane to put him out of his misery.
Can I also take this opportunity to thank all those who have sent their best wishes on here and via email, even to the religious people who have said they will pray for him, while I am in no way religious I will take any help I can get at the moment.
My best mate is in pain, excruciating pain that makes him scream every time he moves.
It came on suddenly, last Thursday morning I woke at the normal time and we headed out for our walk, I opened the back of the car and he jumped in as he has always done for the past seven years.
As soon as he landed, he started to scream, carefully I lifted him out and took him back into the house, this is no easy task given he weighs 45 kilo’s and was in obvious pain.
As soon at the vet’s opened I took him down, they were/are baffled, various tests have not shown any obvious problem, however he remains unable to move his neck without letting out the most horrible scream.
I picked him up from the vets on Saturday, they gave me some extremely strong pain killers and told me to keep him confined over the weekend, yesterday he began to show some signs of improvement, while he whimpered every so often the blood curdling screams had died down, I went to bed hopeful that things were on the improve.
Sadly, that is not the case, this morning he is worse than ever, the vets came up first thing this morning and they took him away on a stretcher, we discussed various options but the outlook does not look good, the vets parting comment was “you may have to ready yourself for a hard decision”.
They are dosing him up with even stronger painkillers and are going to run still more tests.
They suspect that he has damaged his spine and this is causing the pain, short of major surgery (which has a very small chance of fixing the problem), there is not much more they can do for him.
I always thought I would be able to deal with this, I always thought that once his time was up I would find it a horrible choice but one that I could make with relative ease, how wrong I was..
I know what I should do, I know what has to happen, and in the next 24 hours, I am going to have to make that choice, but man, it is heartbreaking choice to have to make.
With a mixture morbid fascination and incredulous dismay I have followed the so called Coup attempt within ACT and its blogosphere reaction.
Firstly, before we all disappear with the Alliance, Future NZ, The Social Democrats and least but not last..NZ fucking First, into that cosy political oblivion where everyone can congratulate themselves for sticking oh so strongly to their beliefs,whilst taking a bath at the polls, a little perspective.
Do we know what really happened? Sure there were some movements against the leader (more of that later), but ultimately there wasn't a coup. Personally I doubt the veracity of the "SuperKey saves the day" scenario. Sounds more like a journo trying to give a story more heat in a slow politics week. Sure there has been no denials from the instigators, but that is the most appropriate course. Don't give this pig oxygen.
Hide has not had a good year. That's politics. It all comes down to that trip. Personally, I am livid that he did it. He took the focus of what ACT was working so hard to achieve and returned to "Circus Hide". However he apologised with a sincerity and openness I have not seen in a politician. Ask yourself this....Do you really think Rodney Hide is in politics for the perks? 1996 to 2005 on a crap salary with little benefits just so that when the unlikely event occurs of him becoming a minister he gets a discount for his girlfriend on an international flight?
There have undoubtedly been movements against Hide. In many ways this is understandable. ACT still polls consistently below 2%. But Cactus and Whaleoil are right. This is political suicide. Firstly the debacle of a small coalition partner fighting in public. Secondly the problem that Rodney holding Epsom poses and thirdly, and I hate to say it but Sir Roger is a political liability. Also none of the other MP's have the gravitas to be leader.......yet.
Where I disagree with Cactus and Whaleoil is what the consequences for the "plotters" should be. I believe a bloodletting would do more harm than good. The constitutional farce, the debate over who should be next, the inevitable splitting into farcical factions will place ACT firmly in the Alliance circa Alamein Kopu era copybook of political practice.
My advice (if anyone wants it)
Ignore this. No more oxygen. It is two years to the next election, there is plenty to be acheived. This news will be rotting in a landfill come 2011
The 5 MP's work their arses off.
Rodney gets the message.
The board seriously start thinking about the list for next years election with a view to the future.
I was going to write a post on the vacuum that exists in Centre Right politics in New Zealand today and how ACT with clever politicking and some changes to policy could call it it's own.
Sir Roger in a leadership role cannot achieve that and neither can a public disembowelling of the caucus.
I am leaving snowy London for the quite extraordinarily cold minus 20 degrees of East Czech Republic in a few hours. As many readers know, the Czech Rep is like my second home - and not just because of their excellent President or their low flat taxes and not just about the beer!
I hope all my readers have a great Christmas holiday, eat drink and be merry and all that and I will be back in a few days fired up for more of the same in 2010.
The race is on for Xmas number one. Will it be Simon Cowells boy Joe Mcelderry or will it be the protest song Rage against the Machine's - Killing in the name of... who also help line the pockets of Mr Cowell? The Xmas number one is a great bit of sport every year for the Brits, even I have been caught up in it a few times in the 6 Xmas's I have had here. The worrying thing is that Simons songs have saved us from abysmal songs from Mr Blobby, Bob the Builder and even worse... Cliff Richard. I really don't know what people are complaining about. Scarily enough as I write this, the protest to get Rage as the number one is winning!
Beneficaries Dean Evans and his teenage girlfriend Catherine Scott have a message for families who are struggling at Christmas.... SAVE UP! This story, probably not a "only in the UK" exclusive, is really quite appalling. The couple, who live in a four-bedroom house paid for by the council, managed to save the money after Miss Scott, 18, gave birth to twins in May - resulting in their benefit allowance being raised from £7,000 to £23,000. 'I feel sorry for people who'll struggle to buy presents, but they should've budgeted,' Miss Scott declared. They do, however, say they need even more from the state to get by. Miss Scott told Closer magazine: 'Babies are very expensive and although we get extra money, it's not enough.' Mr Evans, 41, added: 'Our only luxury is the £47-a-month Sky package for the TV. 'I did buy a new Alfa Romeo recently, but we needed it because the BMW was old.'The couple met when Mr Evans was dating her friend. They soon moved in together and Miss Scott became pregnant within months. As well as their seven-month old twins, Presley and Amber, Mr Evans has five children with three different women. He is unemployed and receiving disability allowance. He has no desire to return to work after an accident on a building site hurt his groin
I can tell you MOST of Great Britain disagree he has anything wrong with his groin. That story is yet more evidence that the welfarism ways of the Western world are leading us down the path of destruction.
I'm off to the Czech Republic for Christmas from Friday. if I recall correctly, the Czech have a great flat tax system and an economy that will most likely bounce past NZ in a few years. I always get teased by the locals in the villages when I explain the high taxes vs value for money ordinary workers get in NZ. Sadly, when you're getting harrassed by ex communists about our lack of fiscal prudence you know you're backing the wrong horse!
A few of the blogs have talked about the girl flashing cars in Invercargill and almost getting herself killed. On the outside of it, it's quite a funny story. Silly girl gets out her tits and causes mayhem. If an attractive girl pulled her tits out on me I'd be distracted - in fact I see more than my fair share of them and they always manage to put a smile on my face. (this girl isn't attractive) Some things I'll never grow out of!
However - this incident isn't nearly as funny as the first impression. Cherelle May Dudfield is 18 and a mother of a young boy. This isn't her first visit to the Invercargill court either. She was sentenced to 65 hours' community work and disqualified for driving for six months for being caught with a 623mcg alcohol limit in October as well.(last line). I struggle to see what sort of good example she is being for her child. Her Bebo profile is also an interesting read if you want to get into the head of somebody like this... I hope she grows up!
Is there no limits to Al Gores bullshit? Speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, Mr Gore said new computer modelling suggests there is a 75 per cent chance of the entire polar ice cap melting during the summertime by 2014.
However, he faced embarrassment last night after Dr Wieslav Maslowski, the climatologist whose work the prediction was based on, refuted his claims.
Dr Maslowski, of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, told The Times: “It’s unclear to me how this figure was arrived at.
“I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this.”
And yet Al has managed to use exaggerations like this to make himself a lot of money.
Challenged to explain the decision to award Mr Obama the most distinguished Nobel prize, even though the deadline for nominations fell 11 days after he took office, Thorbjørn Jagland, the committee chairman, said in October: “Alfred Nobel wrote that the prize should go to the person who has contributed most to the development of peace in the previous year. Who has done more for that than Barack Obama?” From the Times
Say what? Are you saying that Obama the Presidential candidate contributed the most to world peace or that in the 11 days since taking up office, he did more to solve world peace than others? The Nobel committee has proven itself to be a fraud and committed only to sheer shortsighted populism. Perhaps this award has had its day?
How nice of Obama to then prove the Nobel committee wrong by authorising more troops to go into the war zone. Something Obama himself opposed and then backtracked on during the campaign. Tell me again how his campaign did such wonderous things?
The usual suspects are out and about claiming their undying support for the 'oppressed' retail workers who will once again be 'denied' the chance to work on Easter Sunday and Good Friday.
Some want the law changed because they think it is wrong to ‘deny’ workers the chance to earn extra money, others say it will decimate our tourist industry, and yet others see it as some great socialist conspiracy, still others tell us to ‘trust John”, well, we have seen how trust worthy the PM is and as far as I am concerned he is nothing but a first class bullshitter and the last person I would trust.
I suspect the ones making the most vocal arguments to have 365 day shopping are the very people who will NEVER have to work those days, to them this is an ideological issue, they argue their point with passion and they argue their point with no regard to the ordinary worker who will have NO SAY in the matter.
We Kiwis are full of good ideas, full of seemingly logical suggestions to the government about what to do with other sectors of society and how to fix their problem, however, all the pain and change should be suffered by those groups thank you very much, under no circumstances would they want to be forced to work Easter Sunday or Good Friday, as with other issues, the change is for other people to make.
So here is a challenge to all of those who just cannot go without their retail fix on Easter Sunday, if they want a law change then lets make it one that is right across the board, if they so desperately want to see Easter trading then lets have EVERYTHING OPEN.
Yes, that is right, all office workers, all Parliamentary staff and all MP’s, all teachers, all clerical workers, all government staff, every plumber, builder, mechanic, librarian, council worker, lawyer, doctor and dentist, every single job and every single trade.
If it is good enough for them to express their undying support for those poor bastards who will be ‘denied the chance to work in the retail trade then the very least they can do is be forced to work themselves.
It will be fun to read the excuses they come up with why they and they alone should be excused from working Easter Sunday and Good Friday.
This ladies and gentleman, is the face of a low life piece of shit, this is the face of William Campbell, 25 years of age and a resident of Porirua.
Today Campbell admitted seven charges of dog fighting and failing to seek treatment for the injured dogs. He will be sentenced later this afternoon.
On Easter Monday, Campbell took Lincoln, a ridgeback-cross, from Titahi Bay.
He locked the dog in his car boot and drove to Shelly Bay in Wellington, where he pitted Lincoln against Dukes.
"When I started the dogfight I knew there was no competition. That dog was old, mine was young," Campbell told The Dominion Post.
He said another friend filmed the dogfight with the intention of putting the video on YouTube.
Lincoln suffered deep bite wounds in the attack and was deserted by Campbell. He was found later, injured, bleeding, and hiding in a toilet block.
While this low life c**t deserves nothing short of a custodial sentence I suspect the judge will decide that a small fine (which this piece of shit will not pay) is sufficient.
Well Judge, forget the fine, give me ten minutes alone with this piece of shit, in ten minutes I will exact enough revenge for society and ensure this scum bag is not able to repeat this shocking type of animal abuse, and like Campbell, I will post it on you tube as a warning to all the others who think that abusing animals is 'fun' or 'cool'.
UPDATE....
Well done to the Judge, Campbell has been sentenced to ten months in prison and is banned from ever owning an animal again. The only area of dissapointment is the fine the Judge imposed, "Campbell was ordered to pay reparations of $4362.47 at a rate of $10 per week starting from one month after his release"
It is a pity that the reparations will only be paid at $10 per week.
Lets just hope that when this prick drops the soap in the shower that the other cons decide to administer a little bit of jail house justice.
Gareth Morgan is talking tax overhaul. Sir Roger (on Facebook) likes it. I like it. The audience liked it...
Labour won't like it. Labours entire philosophy is that our money is theirs and they should have the control of it.
New Zealand needs tax reform or we'll always be at the whims of politicians who want to buy votes or waste money on schemes that will further keep us in dependency. Little wonder why Labour increases benefits and creates entirely new ones like Working For Families - it keeps people NEEDING Government. How can anybody win an election by telling people they won't get more "free" money? John Key didn't even try to.
What we need to do while we have Labour away from the reins is to get some momentum going and continue the debate that ACT started.
Friend of ACT and ex MP Don Brash has been working hard on the The 2025 Taskforce report to drag NZ towards closing the pay gap with Australia. It is beginning to look quite juicy - the media have jumped immediately on the proposal that NZ adopts a flat tax.
This will no doubt get Labour and Green MPs into quite a state. How dare the Government start to watch its spending? What on earth would Labour politicians do if they didn't have a slush fund to bribe taxpayers with at election time? Why should top wage earners have to pay an equal amount of tax than everybody else?? I can imagine this will not go down too well at all with the left - after all, high taxes and we know best Government is the only way they can have power over the citizens - letting people make their own choices is the first step away from socialism and statism.
National too will be nervous from this report. Key has built up an image which doesn't stray too far from what Labour has done - and is immensely popular for doing it. Goff is on 5% popularity - so John doesn't really have to do anything.
Of course Brash is right, which is why he was never truely accepted by his Party. A crying shame considering he saved many of their political lives and built Nationals support base up again to help Key get to where he is. The little case of $800,000 overspending by Labour (of taxpayers money) also played a part in that.
What is unfair about making everybody pay a flat amount of tax? 20% of 1 Million is still more than 20% of $30,000. Any idiot can see that it removes the complexity of the system and will help fight tax avoidance. I don't think in my lifetime NZ will wake up to the sheer brilliance of flat tax - so expect us to languish behind more progressive countries like Czech Rep, Russia, Slovakia and Latvia, all who have citizens very grateful that they keep the proceeds of their hard work away from the politicians.
Also see Sir Roger Douglas's take on cutting the gap. It's even better and pledges to cut Govt expenditure and the growth of Govt. After all, when they invented the concept of Govt there was no way they intended it to be like it is today.
Hide your Facebook - Creepy Charles is watching you
Over at Red Alert, Charles Chauvel is delighting in some internet sleuthing he thought would be newsworthy. Somebody in his circle of friends figured out how to screen dump the profile page of a good mate of mine.
Whats worse, Charles thinks it's relevant and worth posting about in order to make a point... about what? That you are a creepy internet curbcrawler?
Times like this it's good we can have profiles blocked on Facebook, but if you are already a friend of Creepy, then I suggest you defriend him or not say anything unless he puts it on his blog.
I hope Trev the Muss sorts him out....
**Update**
Charles passes it off as a random one off peeping, however silly me forgot that he did the same thing to Nat staffer Christopher Bishop during earth hour last year. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
WTF is going on over at Google? For 8 years people have googlebombed President Bush on webpages and have created insulting photos of him. Did we hear apologies ringing from the Google Powers That Be (GPTB) whenever these images appeared when we searched for the former President? No.
So why now would Google apologise for an image of Michelle Obama that appears on their site? It's of the SAME animal that has been used by the Bush haters. The GPTA have remarked: Google placed a text ad above the image titled "Offensive Search Results" that states "Sometimes our search results can be offensive. We agree
I don't agree. You either have a consistant policy or you have none at all, free from political and personal bias. Story here.
Jon Voight has ruffled a few feathers by suggesting the NZ health system is set up to fail. Quite right too if you think about it.
Voight, who has starred in dozens of movies including Midnight Cowboy, Catch 22 and Deliverance, took to the streets beneath Capitol Hill with thousands of other activists.
They were protesting President Barack Obama's plans to restructure the American healthcare system.
The 70-year-old Oscar-winner addressed the crowd shouting, "We would be no better off than the European countries and Canada and New Zealand who suffer greatly from a poor healthcare system. Their rationing system creates many deaths."
We have people dying on waiting lists due to ideological reasons and not commonsense. If there are doctors available and hospital beds free, people should not be blocked from accessing them - people should be rewarded and not restricted from accessing the best healthcare for themselves and their family. Labour are opposed to any form of private provision and the Nats don't seem to want to discuss this at all - and the people are stuck in the middle. What is wrong with NZ? We pay high taxes and healthcare isn't free - and yet elsewhere people either pay taxes and get free healthcare, or they pay insurance and get healthcare. NZs system doesn't make sense whatsoever. What a LOT of waste, and it all seems to be wasted on bureaucrats and politicians who really don't have a clue.
A system that allows only the well off to access the best healthcare doesn't seem very fair does it? So why do our main parties support it?
I do not often bother reading the EMPU and Labour party funded Standard, I find the high level of censorship to be rather irritating.
However, yesterday I went and had a look as they were commenting about the Nat's new blog, I am now glad I did, one comment made me laugh out loud and helped improve what was otherwise a bloody shitty day.
One of the idiots even had the temerity to moan about 'his tax dollars' paying for the site.
That is bloody rich coming from the Standard, this is the same Standard that was part funded by the previous Labour government using tax payer dollars.
Why has immigration policy been changed so that the child of a person legally in New Zealand on a work permit under the essential skills policy will not be able to freely attend school if his or her parent or parents earn under $33,675?
Rather than flatten Hodgson early on Coleman gives a reasonable answer.
Hodgson then demands, nostrils flaring, eyes glaring, sweat dripping of the brow of this fine warrior for social democray's head, that Coleman answer who was lying, the media or the officials.
Coleman now with a sigh, and without the merest of smirks takes aim and mercifully attempts to put this aged standard for socialism to sleep....
The member might be interested to note that this change to policy was signed off by the last Labour Cabinet, of which he was a member. I quote the Cabinet minute from July 2008, which stated: “This Cabinet agrees that a minimum income threshold be introduced under the essential skills policy to ensure that temporary migrants can properly support their dependent children in New Zealand.” I ask the member, if he thought it was such a good idea then, why he thinks it is a bad idea now. Is he just too tired to really take notice any more?
Now all hell breaks loose, the treasury benches are in hysterics and poor old gollum vainly shrieks that the Labour party would never engage " in such child abuse"!!!! Despite just being given the evidence that they did.
Gollum thrashes around after the fatal blow with such vitriol aimed at his assassin that the Speaker deducts him a supplementary and there he is left, a vanquished ill informed aged corpse on the bonfire of the present day Parliamentary Labour Party.
28 % in the polls and your leader has just announced a return to "funny money" social credit monetary policy and this is how they perform in the house, bring on 2011. Bring it on.
Fucking roll out the red carpet New Zealand, we're sitting on over 60 billion dollars of black gold!! This is a time that naturally we should be very excited for New Zealand... and exactly the right time for the killjoys from the Green Party to piss all over the fire.
New Zealand is in debt, thanks to Labour and their Green buddies - and over the last decade, the lefties have shown us that they should never ever be allowed to get their thieving hands on it again. Not that National is exactly a shining light of financial shrewdness themselves, but I almost trust John Key with the money more than anybody in the Labour Party.
The Nats are spending like drunken sailors as it is at the moment, so my wish list for the money coming in isn't exactly something similar to what our politicians promise every three years - the types of grubby vote winning bribes with our money that the country can't afford.
Wish 1 - Eliminate Income Tax, fuck it - the entire country will celebrate.
Wish 2 - Cut Government down to the bare bones. Get rid of all ministries that are a net drain on society, ministry of maori/womens/pacific affairs and the Ministry of Economic Development are first on the chopping block.
Wish 3 - Cut the number of MPs down to 45...and make plans to review this for lower numbers every 3 years. We need people there who will NOT want to blow this money on pet schemes and self interests.
Wish 4 - Legislate that NO future Government will nationalise or increase spending levels.
Wish 5 - make sure our police and military have ALL the right equipment to perform their tasks anywhere - anytime.
Wish 6 - Put Sir Roger Douglas in charge.
Wish 7 - Those who cannot look after themselves and the disabled, poorly etc, to be given free private health insurance and gold plated care.
Wish 8 - Oil tax profits cannot be wasted on propping up state infrastucture that can be easily replicated in the private sector.
Wish 9 - Eliminate benefits for the work shy. If the lazy bastards want to sit at home on the dole they will have to work for it. If they want to be part of the no tax workers paradise then they will have to join the rest of us.
Wish 10 - Fire Sue Bradford into the sun. Put it on Pay Per View. :) Story here.
I know it is a bit early to be sending you my Christmas present wish but I thought I would get in early.
This year I have decided to be generous with my wish, this year I have decided that instead of asking you for something for myself I want you to give a present to somebody else.
It is not easy deciding who should be the recipient of the present Santa, there are many people in this world who have desperate needs, I did think about asking you to give Philip Ure or Natasha Fuller a job, I even gave consideration to asking you to supply D4J with a years supply of Valium, however, that would only fix one small problem.
I figure that if I am going to give away my Christmas present then it should go to the person who can do the most good with their new gift, somebody who needs this gift and somebody who upon receiving the gift will be able to change the way millions of Kiwis live.
The gift I have decided upon will make all of the people in this nation a little bit richer, each and every tax payer would find that they have a few dollars a week more in their pay packet and every single person in New Zealand would be better off.
So Santa, this year I would really appreciate it if you could send Mr John Key a pair of testicles, only then will Mr Key be equipped to do what is really needed with our out of control social welfare system, only then will Mr Key be able to start slashing and burning his way through the thousands of bludgers who steal from their fellow Kiwis week after week.
Thanks for reading my letter Santa, I hope you can help.
There has been a little talk on Kiwiblog about the fall of the wall. Pubic Address's Russell Brown, huffed and puffed all he could to diminish the role of Reagan in the events leading to the end of Soviet adventurism in Eastern and Central Europe. Russell playfully tried to revise history by stating trade unions amongst others had a bigger effect on the downfall of this dark period in history... WRONG. Russell has close friends who wept when the Soviet Union broke up, and Russ still advocates for a big state that restricts economic and personal freedoms. His buddies in the trade unions were closely aligned to the Soviet communist parties as well - so don't blame me for not believing his crocodile tears.
Read an interesting story on how Obama chose to avoid the celebrations in Berlin here.
"Under the confused assumption that we can carry on consuming power as we do now into the future,"
Yes we can Thommy boy. It's called progress, or development. It's the idea that fuelled such things as the cure for polio, the telephone or the internet.
All seemed impossible at some stage in human development and if we had given up as it was in the too hard basket we would be right back in the dark ages.
But here is the killer.
the British government is committing to build a new round of nuclear power stations for which we don't have the money," Yorke wrote.
When has any leftie raised ANY concern about the public financing of vital infrastructure....EVER.. This is the moment in any argument with a leftie that you know you have them beat.
The left seem to have this narcissistic denial with regards to nuclear power. It was their beautiful rasion de'tere in the 60's, 70's and 80's and they cannot look away from that illusory golden era of activism.
Fact is we won, they lost. There was no yearly Chernobyl's and there was no global holocaust. The science and safety of power stations and the nuclear deterrent worked.
People like Yorke use smorgasbord science to justify their world view and try to maintain there ever dwindling credibility.
Nuclear science.......bad Genetic modification science.........bad Climate change science........some good , but anything contra to their deeply held beliefs is very, very evil.
If climate change is such an issue then everything should be on the table. On the face of it the safety record of nuclear power and its zero emissions make it a real alternative that should put it centre in the middle of the table. For a carbon guzzling pop star to dismiss because it offends his heritiage of CND and greenpeace activism exposes them for the hollow, hollow men they are.
Throughout the past few years he has managed to do everything to turn a free Venezuela into a hardline Socialist dictatorship. It would be safe to say he has followed the script nicely; using the oil wealth to buy votes and support, pushed through laws allowing him to run for President for an unlimited time; shut down private TV and newspaper networks, authorising crack downs on opponents, attacking his Capitalist enemies while cuddling up to his comrades (Castro etc), telling the population that he has been the target of assassination plots during election time, secretly funding organisations to hurt his enemies (FARC in Columbia), heavy rhetoric against regional powers who oppose his leadership - and accusing them of being American stooges (Columbia)... etc etc... not to mention the BILLIONS he has spent rearming his militia and upgrading his military with Russian weaponry.
It was all doomed from the start and yet he is not doing anything differently.
Now he is beginning to flex his muscles. His domestic support is waning and he needs to find a distraction... so he has told troops and citizens to prepare for war with Columbia. The reason? Washington wishes to have more access to fighting the war on drugs within Columbian borders and Chavez has lept on this as an attack on his authority in the region. Chavez already helps fund the FARC terrorists - and enjoys their support and endorsements. If the US attack and kill more of them, he will lose his influence in Columbia which has politically turned their backs on Chavez's socialist agenda.
As discontent grows over water rationing and power cuts - Chavez believes that war against Columbia will solve his problems and cement his legacy as the Socialist saviour of South America. Realistically it is going to lead to more long term suffering for both countries and political instability for Columbia. If the Chavez revolution cannot even provide water for the poorer classes who were manipulated into voting for him - then how do we expect him to do anything encouraging for his country?
Until today I had never been quite sure how one goes about being completely politically correct, obviously, one picks up little bits here and there given the way the cancer that is PC has infested our society, but, I had never really grasped it in its entirety.
Well today I finally found out what it means to be PC in New Zealand.
Being politically correct in New Zealand is far more simple than I ever thought it would be, being throughly politically correct in New Zealand is a easy as pie, all one has to do is forgive, make excuses for, or totally ignore everything that might cast Maori in a bad light.
Ignore the endless line of child killings, ignore the vast number of Maori in our prisons and ignore the shocking Maori heath statistics, but most of all you have to totally ignore any blatantly racist statements made by John Harawira, Maori party MP.
You may ask how I came to this shocking conclusion, the answer is fairly simple really, I simply took the Green party stance.
National, Labour, ACT, and even United Future have all spoken out against Harawira, however, not a peep has been heard from the Greens.
This is because the Greens agree with John Harawira, the Greens best epitomise what it is to be politically correct, the Greens believe that only white people can be racist and that Maori can do no wrong.
So there you go people, being politically correct is not as hard as you once thought it might have been, the next time a little Maori child is killed or John Harawira makes a racist comment just blame it on the white mother fuckers.
British climate change campaigners have launched their new website and movement this week aptly called The Wave.
Well read people may recall that this is also the same name for a book where a history teacher conducts a psychological experiment on his students who are studying Nazi Germany. The book shows how easily people can be brain washed under the right conditions and if the right techniques are used.
Sounds awfully familiar doesn't it?
These Climate Change zealots have chosen their name well. Strengh through ignorance!
The last few days have been bloody busy at work, I have been running around like a blue arse fly. Most of our clients pay by internet banking or EFTPOS, however, for some reason we have had a lot of them pay with cash over the last couple of days.
I am not keen on leaving large amounts of cash laying about the place for obvious reasons so at about 4.00pm I thought I would race down to the bank and deposit the cash.
I eventually found a park, locked the car (there were a few Labour voting losers hanging around) and made my way to the bank, when I got there the fucking place was CLOSED!!!
Apparently some middle manager at head office had decided it would be a good look for the bank to close one day and for the staff to "spend a day in the community".
What fucking moron made that decision?, how are banks going to be more profitable or "user friendly" by spending a day "in the community", I do not want my bank spending my money on crap like that, I want my bank to be open during normal business hours so I can bloody well bank with the bastards.
A week AWOL is a long time off the blogging - been flat out with work and pleasure meaning the blogging took a back seat. Back now and after reading this article, am all fired up!
Al Gore is going to be a billionaire after fooling enough people to allow him to recieve Govt grants to fund his green ventures. His fictional drama Inconvienient Truth brainwashed others to not question his ideas while the Nobel Peace Prize hit new lows (only beaten by this years recipient) by giving him further street cred - and working up the Greenwashers into a frenzy. And for what?
MORE FUCKING TAXES.
Al Gore through his contacts has spoken (and jetted) around the world putting the shits up Governments and organisations and is set to cash in. He invests in green companies and then reaps the returns. This is the same guy that has not once fronted up to debate his extraordinary claims from him movie and doesn't have the backbone to debate with Czech President Vaclav Klaus over the issue, choosing to hide behind his rabid supporters. Story here
