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
Good god, Stuff should employ me as their travel writer. How lame is it that their Aussie based writer couldn't even spend 48 hours in Party Town Pattaya in Thailand.
He whines:
Penniless in 'the sleaziest place on earth' ....from the moment I step on to the town's main strip, I know this place isn't for me. My heart sinks further when I go to my hotel.
Although it's a neat little number just off the main strip, when it comes to paying for my room I discover that my Visa card is missing.
Initially I feel I was probably pick-pocketed on the bus. Then it dawns on me that I must have left it in an ATM in Bangkok.
So he is a stupid tourist and a bit of a pussy
Having just $10 to my name, I start to panic. So I ring my mum. She promises to sort something out for me, somehow.
Like Mummy should even be an option in Patty!
To take my mind off things, I go for a walk but within five minutes it's clear that I'm stuck in possibly the sleaziest place on earth.
Neon lights advertising girls, sex and more girls flash incessantly.
Petite girls in mock school uniforms are holding up boards promoting "two for one cocktails" and "free sex shows". A few hours later, I'm awoken by a bleeping text message.
I remember a bar that gave me one free beer AND a cocktail for every beer I bought... insane. And no nudity around me either...
It's from my saviour. "I've wired some cash out to you – be good," Mum says.
Wishful thinking Mum...your "son" is a pussy! At dawn, I head to the exchange office, show my passport and almost bite the poor woman's hand off as she gives me the notes.
I hail a taxi to the bus stop and ride back to Bangkok, breathing a monumental sigh of relief.
Good god, there is a reason why Pattaya is well known for parties as well as pretty good tourist activities. It looks like lame boy booked from an el-cheapo establishment and was dropped off right in the middle of Walking Street. Pattaya also has good diving, excellent nightlife AWAY from the go go's and hotels/shopping that are far removed from upsetting this little delicate reviewers sensibility.
In fact the entire article may as well have not been written. I'm surprised he even got through Bangkok although we have yet to see poor Steves experiences from that big bad town.
I hope he wasn't paid on completion of these travels and I hope his mother charged interest on that loan... I hate tourists like this. Judgemental and utterly pathetically lame. Article here.
Where does he get off to say workers should be taxed more? What is wrong with working hard and being allowed to take home the proceeds of their efforts? Surely this money is better off in your pockets than those of Labour and National politicians?
Jordan states that people like me should get my head read - when essentially people like him who think that Michael Cullen or Bill English are better at spending my money than I am. What would be wrong with a $20,000 tax free threshold and then a flat rate of 12%? As I said in Jordans comments, 12% of $30,000 is far less than 12% of $1,000,000 - and yet greedy Jordan wants his hands on more and more of yours and my money... he's addicted. That is why he tried to get into Parliament, he cannot wait to get his hands on as much as other peoples money as possible.
Worse still...he credits John Key for having the foresight in ruling out a flat tax...
Add that insult to the glorious attack Cactus Kate launches on Bill English. Bill is most certainly the worst person to speak about taxes, trusts, tax avoidance and cuts... I can't even do it justice, read the article for yourself. Bill, like Jordan is a Taxaholic - two peas from the same pod.
I don't know what is worse, Jordan praising Nationals tax pledges or Bill doing sweet FA and ruining a chance to get NZ back on the right track.
One of the most dangerous and explotaive frauds foisted on ill people is alternative medicine.
I recently had the displeasure of experiencing this charade first hand when a elderly relative fell into the clutches of an iridologist.
Without going into the details this charlatan advised this diabetic old woman with heart and lung problems to abandon her Insulin and stop her cholesterol lowering drug.
She was duly charged for such sage advice!
Needless to say, a hyperglaecaemic event ensued and emergency hospitilisation was required.
Where is the metro article villifiying these shisters?
Why aren't the sisterhood baying for blood.
Answer.......this is the sisterhood armed with a bottle of arnica and a dreamcatcher.
Of course I am adopting a heirachal male paternilistic approach, but hey......it fucking works!
I have no time for Michael Laws, mainly because I have never had anything to do with him and have found him to a bit of a preening wannabe. But he is bang on about the stupidity from the Race Relations idiot Joris de Bres, I mean what on earth did it achieve to give school kids a certificate because they stood up to the mayor?
Laws has every right to be pissed off and Joris should be sacked for even getting involved with this case. Wanganui has voted to keep their name the same, Joris and his meddling department along with the radicals and other tree huggers think otherwise. This is another case of people getting round the democratic processes to push something which is unecessary and a waste of money to push an agenda.
Whatever next? Taniwha blocking state highways? The Nats supporting race based seats in Parliament? Riiiiiiight.
Phil Goff - New Zealands political incredible shrinking man has done the political equivilent of kerb crawling by accusing Rodney Hide of charging people to hear him talk about his political area of responsibility.
What utter stupidity. Are Kiwis *that* stupid that they don't understand that Rodney was speaking at an ACT meeting? Goff is a member of a party that still doesn't admit they were wrong to support Taito Field who CHARGED his own constituents for immigration help. Tiling is quite a big difference don't you think, especially as ACT, like every other party, charges it's members for a function where you get to talk to your party leader.
Rodney is a leader who is worth paying $45 to go listen to. Unlike Goff who is probably jealous because he can't even pay to get people to come listen to his waffle.
Since when did breakfast a few drinks and convivial conversation with Rodney Hide for ACT party members ever be something worthy for Goff to comment on? Is it that bad for the soon to be departing Labour leader? Whatever next? Goff commenting on John Keys brunch habits? He better get started as I did see a few dodgy looking muffins roll by.....
The “low paid” (here read lazy bastards who did not bother to take any notice at school) are already compensated by the rest of us, the “low paid” receive WFF and effectively pay no tax.
National were the party that told the middle class families that they would lighten the load, these same middle class families have been financially raped by Labour for nine years and those same middle class families voted for Key in their droves.
Fuck the “low paid”, I am sick and tired of supporting them and I am sick and tired of being a ATM for this fucking socialist government.
Then we move on to the apartheid party and their latest shockingly racist outburst.
Pita Sharples has once again shown himself to be a bumbling, racist fool.
No other MP would get away with such openly racist statements, no other (non Mowree) MP would get away with "congratulating" gang members and calling for these same vermin to stop fighting each other and turn their attentions to fighting non Mowree.
What is even more appalling is the way our gutless PM says he "was so far comfortable with the public explanations given" It seems that Neville Key is "comfortable" with blatant racism, I wonder if Neville Key would be as comfortable with Gerry Brownlee inviting Kyle Chapman and the rest of the white power racists to a meeting in Wellington?
The final "what the fuck are the thinking?" news is the astonishing revelation that Neville Key is going to ask the victims of crime to pay the first $100 of their treatment under our bankrupt ACC system.
Now, far be it for me to defend ACC, the system is stuffed and open to all sorts of rorts and abuse but innocent victims of crime should NEVER have to pay one cent toward their treatment.
They say that we get the politicians we deserve, well in many ways that is so true, we replaced one liar with another and we continue to placate an openly racist political party for no other reason than they are brown.
What a stupid little country this is and what a stupid race of people we are.
Comrade Sue told us her smacking bill will stop parents smacking and killing children.
On this blog we have seen many instances where terrible parents have continued to kill their kids, beat them and take their lives and yet no comment from Sue on how her law could have prevented this. In fact her silence when this abuse continues is quite telling.
The Families Commission this week have found that the majority of parents still smack their kids. No surprises really considering 87% of Kiwis wanted her law to piss off. Referendums like this makes me glad that Kiwis have some commonsense!
Less than nine months into his four-year term of office, President Barack Obama's record is already one of abandoned promises, sidelined issues and lack of action.
1.PROMISE BROKEN. Mr Obama said he would "not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days". But the "sunlight before signing" promise has already fallen by the wayside with Mr Obama signing three major bills without public scrutiny.
2.PROMISE BROKEN. Mr Obama repeatedly said he would negotiate health care reform in televised sessions broadcast on C-SPAN, the public service network. Instead, he his approach has been no different from his predecessors, holding talks behind closed doors at the White House and Congress.
3.PROMISE BROKEN. Mr Obama solemnly pledged that "no political appointees in an Obama-Biden administration will be permitted to work on regulations or contracts directly and substantially related to their prior employer for two years". In practice, Mr Obama has granted several waivers to this rule, allowing lobbyists to serve in the top reaches of his administration.
4.PROMISE BROKEN. Mr Obama said he would end income tax for the elderly making less than $50,000 per year, thereby eliminating taxes for seven million of them. This has not been part of his economic stimulus bill, his first budget outline or any legislation proposed by the White House.
5.PROMISE STALLED. On taking office, Mr Obama announced with great fanfare that the Guantanamo Bay prison camp would be closed within a year of his inauguration on January 20th. Defence officials now concede that this self-imposed deadline will not be met.
6.PROMISE SIDELINED. Mr Obama promised to end the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that prohibits openly gay personnel from serving in the United States armed forces. Despite reiterating the pledge this weekend, Mr Obama shows no signs of taking concrete action on the issue.
7.PROMISE BROKEN. Mr Obama said that in 2009 and 2010 "existing businesses will receive a $3,000 refundable tax credit for each additional full-time employee hired". Democrats on Capitol Hill opposed this and Mr Obama has quietly abandoned the proposal, omitting it from his list of requirements for draft legislation.
8.PROMISE BROKEN. During the campaign, Mr Obama promised that "as President I will recognise the Armenian genocide" carried out by the Ottoman Empire after 1915. Once in office, he travelled to Turkey and made no mention of genocide. In a statement in April on the memorial day for the genocide he spoke of the "heavy weight" of history and the "terrible events " of the period but failed the use the g-word.
9.PROMISE SIDELINED. As a candidate, Mr Obama highlighted his support for abortion rights, stating he would back this up "by passing the Freedom of Choice Act as president". At a press conference marking his first 100 days, Mr Obama said this was "not my highest legislative priority" and that it was important to "focus on those areas that we can agree on".
10. PROMISE SIDELINED. Mr Obama promised to end warrantless wiretaps on the domestic communications of Americans and to "update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to provide greater oversight and accountability". So far, he has taken no action.
It's nothing personal Mr President; micro-expressions and lie-detecting expert Emanuel Maisel reckons we all do it.
"It's human to lie but the truth is written all over our faces," says the Te Awamutu-based expert, who is hosting a workshop on micro-expression detecting on November 10.
The South African-born former prosecutor and self-described "lie-catcher" was trained by some of the world's top micro-expression experts. Mr Maisel, and his son Kan, 18, are both experts at micro-expression detecting, recently made popular in the TV show Lie to Me.
And there's not much you can get past either of them.
"I don't like to be bullshitted," says Mr Maisel, also a trained mediator, arbitrator, and hostage negotiator.
A face will commonly portray seven different emotions – anger, fear, disgust, contempt, joy, sadness and surprise.
A dishonest portrayal of these emotions, or "leakages", will give away a liar.
"There's always two faces to every person. Eventually you'll get caught out."
Body language is also important, with hand and body movements playing a big part in identifying if someone is telling a lie.
Lying, Mr Maisel says, is unavoidable. Everyone tells the odd fib. He himself admits to doing it on occasion.
But he reckons the old adage, that politicians are the best at it, rings pretty true in his observations.
"You can see the bullshit written all over his face," he says, pointing to a picture of former US president George W Bush.
He also picked out former president Bill Clinton as an expert liar, citing the Monica Lewinsky scandal and attempted cover-up as an example of "Slick Willy" at his best.
US President Obama is "pretty good at it too," Mr Maisel says.
According to research, people lie about three times in every 10-minute conversation.
Mr Maisel says it's usually done for personal gain, or to create a false or inflated image.
* Emanuel Maisel will be hosting a two-hour workshop on micro-expressions in Hamilton on November 10. For more information, email fifthprofession@gmail.com.
Fuck it must feel really bad having student power used against you! Watch this clip, watch the desperation of the VUWSA flunkies as they see democracy being used PROPERLY - against them.
VUWSA shut the meeting when they realised they were going to lose. This is NOT democracy and well done to ACT on Campus and especially Peter for rarking up these idiots. VUWSA is proof that VSM is needed NOW. They should bring these tapes to select committee!
DPF has had a crack at the CTU because of the CTU suggestion that we should be borrowing more to keep the economy going.
DPF points out quite rightly that any money we borrow we have to pay back at 5.5%, he also makes the point that this means less for education and hospitals etc...
So why is DPF not up in arms about Bill English borrowing 1 Billion dollars a month to keep our emerging third world nation going?
This gutless government no longer has any right to have a go at Kullen and Klark for their miss management of our economy when Key and English steadfastly refuse to do anything about the obscene level of public spending or the outrageous extravagance of our social welfare system.
If you were a busy everyday non political (or even remotely interested in polics) student and you walked past this tiny little sign... would you read it????
The above notice, is notification that VUWSA are planning to hold a semi secret meeting to quash the VSM motion made by the students.
Behaviour like this is just more coal for the VSM fire... VUWSA are helping us bring freedom to all student associations. If I was a far left OUSA exec member I'd be calling VUWSA and telling them to STFU. :)
See also,Jennas account of the meeting, quite compelling and yet unsurprising tactics by the freedom haters to shut down the meeting.
One mans “bail out” is another mans tax increase. Neville Key promised us tax cuts, instead we are now faced with having more money stolen from us to fund an organisation that is being systematically ripped off by so called medical professionals and assorted others. A real National government would see any increase as going against it’s beliefs and principals, a real conservative government would look at this as a once in a lifetime opportunity to break ACC down and start again, what a pity we do not have that government, what a pity we have a bunch of socialist wankers who are more concerned about staying in power than doing what is right. Never again do I want to hear another National party apologist or cheer leader talk about how Klark and Kullen “wasted” the last nine years, in eleven short months Neville Key and the rest of his socialist MP’s have passed up numerous chances to start on the long road to recovery, I would go as far as to suggest that in eleven months Key as “wasted” more chances than Klark and Kullen had in nine years.
I can just see this being played out in Socialist Norway, the country that lets rapists and child sex offenders home for weekend leave.
Nobel fool 1: “Who are we going to give the peace award to this year?” Nobel fool 2: “Well, it cannot be anybody from the right can it” Nobel fool 1: “That is very true, does anybody have a suggestion?” Nobel fool 3: “Somebody mentioned that dark chap from Africa, his name escapes me at the moment” Nobel fool 1: “Mugabe?” Nobel fool 3: “Not him, we did briefly consider him a couple of years ago but in the end we gave it to Al Gore, I am thinking of the other dark chap” Nobel fool 2: “Do you mean Morgan Tsvangarai?” Nobel fool 3: “Yes, that’s the one, he might be a good choice” Nobel fool 1: “It cannot be him, he asked Bush for help a few years back, plus he has some silly ideas about how to run a government” Nobel fool 3: “Really?, he is a capitalist?” Nobel fool 1: “I am afraid so, for obvious reasons that rules him out, anyone got another name we could consider?” Nobel fool 2: ” It is a pity about his politics, I quite like the idea of a black man winning the award, are there any other black leaders we can nominate?” Nobel fool 3:” Mandela?” Nobel fool 1: “Nope, we gave it to him a few years back, there must be somebody else we can pick” Nobel fool 2: “I got it!, what about Obama?” Nobel fool 3: “Perfect!, he needs all the help he can get right now” Nobel fool 1: “Might somebody ask or point out that he has done nothing as yet to further world peace?” Nobel fool 3: “What the hell has that got to do with anything?, he is perfect, he has the right political ideals, he is a socialist, and he is black, it’s a win win for us, and hell, given time I am sure he will at least try and make good all the promises he made during the election campaign.
The Nobel Prizes used to be about the best of the best in peacemakers, the ones who stood out as making the world better, visionaries... blah blah blah.
I'll cut to the chase. This years winner of the Nobel Peace Prize:
President Obama. WHY? For giving the world "hope for a better future" and striving for nuclear disarmament and "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." and "very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future"
Oh and he'll get $1.4 million USD as prize money.
I think the Nobel committee has bought into the Obamamania gimmick. Put it this way, the nominations CLOSED Feb 1st this year - Obama was only just President.
When I say JUST, he was inaugurated TWO WEEKS before the deadline. Two weeks and we are to expect he was on the shortlist? Give me a break.
As some of you may know I have been on jury service this week, as a result I have has less time to read the blogs, however, yesterday during our 1 & 1/2 hour much break (why does the legal system need such long lunch breaks?) I managed to jump onto the net and have a quick surf.
When I am short of time I do not fuck around with the pinko crap, I take a look at this site, DPF's, Whale's (although a lot less frequently since his move to Gotcha) Cactus Kate's (if only because Clint assures me she has big tits) and Lindsay Mitchell's blog.
Anyway, Lindsay posted something that I thought would have taken a complete strangle hold of our news media, she posted something so shocking that I was left in no doubt that it would have headed the news last night or today, instead we have silence from our gutless and pathetic media.
For those of you who missed it or cannot be fucked clicking on the link I will briefly outline what the story is.
The apartheid party and the apartheid parties female co leader has seen fit to blame the white man for the never ending list of Maori child killings, here is just a sample of what the fat, useless tub of lard had to say .......“I support Ngati Manawa’s call for help to address the cultural dislocation and disconnection that leads people to commit acts of violence, and as a minister I will do my very best to help them." So there you go, the only reason the Kahui twins, Nia Glassie, Lillybing, Dulcia Whittaker, James Whakaruru and all the other little kids were killed at the hands of their "family" is because the white man forced them to do it.
Needless to say our Media have run a mile from this story, no other political party would get away with this crap but for some reason the Mowree party seem to have a free pass.
Anyway, big ups to Lindsay for posting the story, she covers it in more detail that I have the time or desire to do, all I will say is this, clearly Turia and all the rest of the apartheid MP's care far more about rugby world cups and the spelling of Wanganui, than they do about the continuing genocide among their own kids.
Over the last two days I have been on jury service, in the last four years I have been called five times, from that I have served on three juries.
I don't mind doing it, I see it as my civic duty and to be honest I also see it as a chance to make sure that at least a few cases in our fucked up legal system end up being about justice rather than the law. Now obviously I am not allowed to talk about these cases, however, I am going to talk about the scum who appear before the courts.
I live in a medium sized rural town, we are not far from a major city (major by NZ standards) so when one is called to serve on a jury in that city one would expect to see a cross section of the community represented among the accused. Sadly that is not the case, on my five visits I have not seen any Somali's, no Asian's, nobody of obvious middle eastern ethnicity, and no pacific islanders. What I have seen are a few people of European heritage and an endless line of Maori scum.
These Maori low life hang around the main doors to the courts trying their best to intimidate the public, they smell, they look like shit and many make no secret of their gang affiliations, they insist on bringing their families and friends along with them. Often these "friends" feel they need to show all the other Maori losers how "staunch" they are, frankly they are nothing short of vermin.
Every time I hear the usual apologists for Maori low life talk about the way our "justice" system fails Maori I am reminded of the scene that plays out each and every week at court houses all over this Nation, not for one moment would I think that what happens at my local court house is unique, I am reliably informed that this happens at every court house in NZ.
It has been said before, but if you really wanted to make NZ a safe and law abiding place to live in then you need a government brave enough to deal with the "Maori" problem.
It seems that 1400 state house tenants want to buy the state provided home they currently live in. Many see this as a good thing, certainly, home ownership is something to be encouraged.
Of course not all of these 1400 will be able to complete the purchase, however the very fact that they have registered an interest should send warning signals to any government who is genuinely interested in getting people off benefits and reducing the social welfare burden.
If 1400 people feel they are able to buy a state house then those same 1400 people should be immediately investigated by Housing NZ, any state house tenants who do qualify for a mortgage should be evicted from their state house without delay. It is not the job of the long suffering tax payer to provide accommodation for bludgers who have the ability to service a mortgage of their own, indeed, in a perfect world the tax payers would not provide state housing at all, that is better left to the private sector.
So there you go Mr Heatley, stop pandering to left wingers and Labour voting scum, remember what party you are supposed to be a member of and get rid of any bludgers who are living in a state house when they have the ways and means to purchase one of their own.
I am really glad I have Boris Johnson as my Mayor. He not only is able to get the job done and entertain, he is a man who follows through with his pledges. He has managed to save the city £5 BILLION off non operational costs of the underground without losing any driver their job - AND he is going to freeze council tax bills.
The Tories were surprised that Boris did this so easily - and yet for us who voted for him we were quiely confident! Boris said he would get rid of waste and he has now laid down the challenge for the incoming Tory party to follow his lead.
Here are some of his highlights of his speech today for your entertainment :>
WELLINGTON: Slavery should be rebranded as an ‘opt-out labour arrangement’, the New Zealand University Students Association (NZUSA) said today.
“Let’s face it, slavery has a bad name,” a NZUSA representative said. “For thousands of years slavery has been associated with force, compulsion and the negation of civil rights,” he said, “however we think slavery needs a new image”.
After exhaustive research conducted over two and half days NZUSA has suggested that slavery should be thought of as an ‘opt-out labour arrangement’.
“After all, even though slaves were forced into labour against their will, they could always leave—or opt-out—if they wanted to. They could run away or buy their freedom,” NZUSA said. “If slaves were really unhappy about servitude all they needed to do was make a bit of an effort. If they didn’t make the effort we can only assume they were happy.”
“The ability of any slave to opt-out if he or she chooses means that slavery doesn’t breach civil rights,” NZUSA said.
Legal expert Sir Geoffrey Palmer said he hadn’t seen the NZUSA report but would be willing to read it for his “usual fee”.
NZUSA said their work on slavery was the first in a series. Future reports include: ‘Compulsory military service – opt-out warriors’ and ‘Prisoners – opt-out guests of Her Majesty’.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health has reported it will be investigating the air quality at NZUSA’s offices. “We’ve read the NZUSA report,” a Ministry official said, “and we’re very concerned. It’s obvious they’ve been smoking some pretty strong stuff down there.”
I guess for 99.7% of my readers, the EU constitution doesn't really affect you. I personally didn't think too highly of it the first time they pushed it on the Irish and was very surprised the cheeky bastards tried it again. The Irish were taken advantage of during the recession and were tricked into voting yes.
These tactics worked after WW2 when much of Central/Eastern Europe voted in communist/socialist parties who were aligned to the Soviet Union and as a result were pulled into the Iron Curtain. Nations were politically and economically destroyed and the citizens had nowhere else to look to. The EU has taken the economic downturn to their advantage and done the exact same thing to Ireland. Disgusting.
The Poles are going to fall into line with this as well. To their credit they have held out on this a little longer, but everybody expects them to ratify it soon.
That leaves us with the Czechs. Not content to have a President who speaks more commonsense about climate change than any other world leader, Vaclav Klaus is also sceptical about the treaty and wants to hold out for a bit longer. It is a remarkable turnaround for a country that was part of the Soviet empire to now be the lone wolves fighting against European pressure and freedom for its citizens. The Czechs are right to be worried, their economy is doing ok and they quite like their political independence over law making. Ratifying the constitution will mean that laws will be decided in Brussels - which has the potential to have the same affect as laws being made in Moscow, if the proper checks and balances are dispensed with.
The Telegraph has a brilliant post on the Mayor of Teplice, Jaroslav Kubera and his opposition to the treaty. Well worth a read. The Brits would hope the Czechs can hold out a little more but we all know what Brussels wants - it always gets!
Ooops should be the words coming from Obamas White House after a week where he withdrew the proposed missile defence shield because apparently the Iranians and other rogue powers were nowhere near as ready to deply weapons.
Oh dear indeed Obama. It seems that the Iranians have got at least another uraniam enrichment plant which was now known about which has led to many wondering how many others are out there. Whats worse is that this week after this knowledge became available the Iranians made some surprisingly successful missile tests which puts Iranian missiles within easy reach of Israel, parts of Europe and U.S. military bases in the Mideast.
Suddenly the policy of appeasing the Russians doesn't sound too good anymore does it?
I wonder what the Europeans think of all this after that disgraceful backdown to Russia by the Obama administration?
**Update**
Two more things I thought I would post here in lieu of another post. First, the truely excellent speech by Czech President Václav Klaus given to the UN about Climate Change. Václav has been for a long time an excellent speaker against the stupidity of the great climate swindle and this speech doesn't disappoint! Pity the poor Czechs were shafted by the Americans last week eh? Hat Tip NZ Conservative.
And the last thing is the little issue of some schools in America getting school kids to sing songs about Obama. A little worrying to start worshipping a president. Obama doesn't have a clean slate, especially with his dodgy background and "friends". This grassroots stuff is just trying too hard. Story here.
Can you imagine the near orgasmic state of the civil defence leaders as their pagers or cell phones went off this morning.
All over the east coast of NZ bearded men in walk shorts and long socks would have leapt to attention full of self importance, their partners would have asked them if they had time for breakfast, “no, we have an emergency” would have been the well practised reply.
Thermos’s would have been hurriedly filled, cut sandwiches would have been cobbled together and high visibility vests and hard hats donned as they walked briskly (no sense in placing ones self in danger by running) to their Lada’s.
The drive to civil defence headquarters would have been made at just over the speed limit (102km per hour), headlights would have been blazing, the radio’s would be tuned to national radio looking for updates, and thoughts of “I live for this” would fill their heads, as they arrived at headquarters they would again walk briskly up the stairs before grabbing hold of their favourite clipboard.
One can almost see the disappointment on their faces when the news came in that the approaching tidal wave was only 1 meter in height.
Sadly another little Maori child is dead, this takes the toll to eighteen since the passing of Comrade Bradford's anti smacking bill, the same bill Bradford told us "would keep our children safe".
Have we heard anything from the apartheid party leadership? have we heard much from our useless pinko media?
Nope, dead brown kids are obviously not sexy enough for them, they would much rather spend their time worrying about the letter "h" or covering a funeral in Rotorua.
Sir Robert Jones once used the term "slime" to describe our media, as always, Sir Robert is dead right.
Mrs Bruv is one of these (almost) middle aged chicks who has been bitten by the cycling trend, like all "trends" this one is costing me a small fortune and I suspect like all trends it will be over by this time next year.
Never the less, she is into big time, just last Sunday she and her pals set out on one of their 60k Sunday rides, I had the afternoon well planned, cut the grass and then sit down in the spring sunshine with a few beers.
Just as I had finished the grass and just as I was about to take my first sip of beer the phone rang, "could you come and pick me up please" she said, "what the fuck for" was my reply.
It seems Mrs Bruv had strained a muscle in her thigh and could no longer continue with her ride.
Anyway, yesterday she went to the physio, she told the physiotherapist exactly what her injury was, and how it had happened, the physio immediately told her that if she wanted her treatment (at least six appointments) funded by ACC she should change her story, she was told that she should say that she "fell off her bike".
Quite rightly Mrs Bruv was horrified at this suggestion, when she told the physio that she was not prepared to lie about how her injury came about the physio was shocked, "but everybody does it" was the response, Mrs Bruv's reply is not for publication and given that Mrs Bruv is of Glaswegian stock I am sure you can work out for yourself what she said, anyway, luckily for us there is more than one physio in our medium sized rural town.
This, ladies and gentlemen is exactly why our ACC system is stuffed, when our medical "professionals" are so openly rorting the system you know that major changes are needed and you know that nothing short of a complete overhaul of ACC is needed.
