monday blues...

An official from the UN (Useless Nitwits) has announced that Maori have repeatedly had their sovereignty thwarted. The lastest gripe being Labour's landgrab over the foreshore & seabed. Hmmm, for all the gnashing of teeth over Clark's Gubmint, I notice the tangata whenua were still keen to re-elect them - talk about sleeping with the enemy! When will they ever learn? A govt only responds to the ballot box.

The Hag has her $00.2 worth; a mouthful of empty political nothing-speak. She hopes:

"he will go away with a well-rounded view of Maoridom in New Zealand"

I bet she really 'hopes' he just "goes away" full-stop! No need to exhume the bones of that pesky FS&SB issue, eh Hel's?

Oh, Good Lord! I hope he goes away too! Listen to this malarkey:

"ethnic & cultural diversity was a fact of life that "should not, that cannot be ignored" when it came to policy...
"indigenous peoples or racial or cultural minorities - have.. a long history [as] victims of discrimination.. colonisation.. oppression.. apartheid.. exploitation.. segregation...
"The "one law for all" argument assumed the playing field was level, but "not everybody has the same opportunities at birth ... So.. states [should] take that into account when they formulate.. policies"

He's another flaming, fruit-cake diversity-drone expecting certain "victim" groups should enjoy special legal status & privilege. No, you Useless Nitwit! That type of legal "discrimination" always breeds resentment and further strife. When one class of people are given preferential treatment to correct a 'perceived injustice', it ALWAYS creates another 'injustice' to the majority who are thus denied equal treatment and opportunity before the law.

Questions for the Haters & Wreckers: Pure self-interest notwithstanding, why is Mike Smith & co so keen on supporting the U.N.? Why do Maori seeking tino rangatiratanga (autonomy, self-rulership) and demanding tauiwi butt out of local affairs, why do they suddenly want a bunch of wonky foreigners playing Judge Almighty? Why give credence to a 'foreign' (tauiwi) body? Who gave them a (Maori) mandate to make rulings about our internal affairs? What if the UN had ruled differently? Would Maori have cared? I don't think so...

Why should anyone listen to what the Useless Nitwits have to say about anything, anyway?
All these hui & talks are a lot of hot air. Perhaps thats why our greenhouse gases have risen by 22%.

Go, the Blacks!

We won the rights to host the 2011 World Rugby Cup. Finally, the NZRFU managed to not stuff something up. The NZH goes into bum-kiss overdrive in lauding Helen, beacon of Kiwi hope and saviour of the universe. I'll forgo TV for the next few days to avoid the Clark love-fest. Elsewhere, our media hacks treat the winning bid with the significance of The Second Coming. Some perspective, please! Meanwhile, our trans-Tasman 'friends' not so friendly in giving their vote to Japan. I was worried that they'd finish their GB tour with 9 losses in a row. Not anymore; let the treacherous ockers wallow in defeat.

Pita Sharples weighs in on the 'women at powhiri' debate with surprising lucidity and reason. Although he's careful not to reveal the true reason women don't speak on marae. Namely, given their propensity to gasbag, if we allow them to speak they'll never shut up :-)

Peachey keen...
The 'other' MP for Tamaki, Allan Peachey pulls no punches either, with an impassioned harangue at the cesspool of soul-destroying Marxism inhabiting (my beautiful city of) Wellington:

"There can be no place for a mean-spirited and socialist ideology which subordinates the individual to the ill-defined greater good of the state. History will shame those who seek to impose the crushing mediocrity of collectivism on our communities"

I think I'm in love :-)
His maiden speech easily outshines Bennet's warm-fuzzy future and Hayes' dour nostalgia.

Feline eloquence
I'm amazed at the extensive repertoire of noises my cats are capable of. Along with the mundane meows, hisses, and howls, my talented moggies can also emit clicks, lip-smacks, moans, growls, yawn-like sighs, plus a wide variety of ultra-vibrato purrs. Very impressive!

Hey, Kofi! Byte me!

Claudia Rosett, the journalist whose investigative efforts helped expose the United Nations' Oil-for-Food scandal, gives a timely smack-down to the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis. An excellent response to Kofi's palaver about the 'digital divide'. Thank goodness, sanity has prevailed with ICAAN retaining daily control of Al Gore's baby.

If the UN grafters, despots and kleptocrats (or anyone else for that matter) doesn't approve of the Internet that America built, they are free to log off or build their own network.

LMAO
Pare sends me a philosophical e-mail:

Life is all about ass;
you're either covering it,
laughing it off,
kicking it,
kissing it,
busting it,
trying to get a piece of it,
or dealing with someone behaving like one .....

the two faces of Tariana

Tariana says TMP supports the Taxation (Annual Rates and Urgent Measures Bill). She applauds the interest write-off on student loans, parroting the old cannard about a "free" education being an 'investment our future'. So far, so left! Then in a startling burst of right-wingery (and despite voting FOR the Working for Familes package) she declares:

"Our preference would have been for lower taxes for these families. We cannot understand why it is that tax is taken from a low wage worker and then given back to them, under another name."

So that's what Rodney's been chatting to her about during their recent, cosy tete-a-tetes :-)
Revealing her inner-neocon, she explains:

"By the Government redistributing the tax, they deny the initiative, entrepreneurship, and creativity that should be rewarded by a higher working pay"

What to make of this logic-defying, contortionist, fence straddling? Perhaps being "bi-cultural" means always being able to see both sides of the coin?
Maybe it's a Maori thing ;-)
Ask Winny, the Minister in/outside of Govt.

news to moan & marvel at

heads up...
The mokomokai issue raises its ugly head again with the repatriation of 3 tattooed skulls from Glasgow museum.

"These are the remains of the dead ancestors of someone," said James Te Puni, of Te Papa.
"They will be someone's great, great grandfather back in NZ, so it's important that they be returned home"

This is madness. Since the descendents of these 'heads' are unknown, to whom should they be returned? If Te Papa retains guardianship, what difference does it make to 'aggrieved descendents' whether they're held in a 'pakeha' museum here or a 'pakeha' institution overseas. Most likely they'll end up locked away in a vault, unseen by the viewing public.

This thorny topic prompts further questions. Should Te Papa return its mummy skeleton to Egypt? Should the remains of our fallen soldiers likewise be returned? And what of other foreign artefacts in our care? Give 'em back? The axiom "finders, keepers" seems apt to me.

Techno-thrills...
The BluGene/L system reaches new supercomputing record 280.6 teraflops (1 teraflop = one trillion calculations per second), compared to a sedate 91 teraflops of the 2nd fastest, Watson Blue Gene. A list of the top 500 supermachines here. [hattip 'toonist]

and spills...
Scary news about Sony using rootkit 'spyware' technology to prevent people pirating their DVDs. The application installs itself, can't be (easily) uninstalled and it may interefere with a system's security. [hattip 'eagle]

NZ green...
Our PM suggests the US should 'move on' from the NZ no-nuke stalemate, dismissing comments by US ambassador that the "ball is in our court." For a pragmatic lass, she's remarkably naive to believe Uncle Sam will ever turn a blind eye to our shunning of warships. It's also naive to believe our stance will soften any time soon. Remember Brash's painful hedging and vacilation during the campaign? If he's our Great White Hope, then forgetaboudit! Remember also when ACT introduced a bill allowing nuke-propelled ships in? Not one single MP from any other party voted for it. We need a good war to shake ourselves from our lazy, smug, pacifist wimpiness. God Defend New Zealand, coz we sure won't be able to do it, ourselves.

dig archaeology?
Reuters has a photo of a pottery fragment, recently unearthed in Israel, inscribed with the name "Goliath." Checks out pretty well with the scholars. Could be the McCoy...

Hear, hear!

"ko ta te rangatira kai he korero"
the food of chiefs is discussion

Obituary: Tama Poata
Pita Sharples & Tariana Turia release statement farewelling Tama. A nice tribute.

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The Te Ra o Te Reo ("Maori language day") Festival was opened today with Tariana wildy eulogising NZ's indigenous tongue in an effusive, ornamental speech... in English. Good thing it wasn't Pita, with his PhD in linguistics & passion for te reo, we might've endured a Guiness Book type soapboxing.

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Speaking of World Records, count the number of cliches in Maharoa Okeroa's speech. This was manufactured by a computer program, has to be! I'm somewhat alarmed when he says,

"Over the past 6 years Maori have gained wide spread recognition to explode on the national and international stages"

Confusing us with Muslims, perhaps?

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Not to be outshone, Mr Harawira shows he's a dab hand at Te Reo Parliament. The melifluous bureaucrat wants,

"an urgent briefing on the numbers, characteristics and experiences of children and young people across the range of places in which they may be detained"

Parekura & Maharey have taught him well! Not just eloquent, but highly ingenious - he recommends,

"[CYA] try.. a night in the cells.. to think of better ways to respond to youth offending"

(I thought there wasn't enough room) And in an enlightened moment finally realises,

"our police are not equipped... to respond to the complex needs of our young people"

Neither, we'd argue, are politicians full of high-falutin rhetoric. Who is primaily responsible for Maori youth crime, Hone? Clue: "It's all about whanau" - where have I heard that phrase before?


I shouldn't really knock the Maori Party...
not after I ticked Monte Ohia on Sep. 17- not that it helped - plus I really do like Tariana. I'm AMAZED people find her scary* - especially after her 'soft' makeover since leaving Labour. Most'd be surprised at efforts to distance TMP from the real 'haters & wreckers' -- a point not lost on the Tino Rangatiratanga fringe. Poor Tariana! Even the radicals aren't impressed - LOL. For a so-called 'hardliner' she's more airy, flakey & new-agey IMO. Perfect example is her vision of a world without violence. ROTFL. Someone remind her we ALSO descend from Tu-mata-u-enga, God of War!

* My 'scary' rankings for TMP:

1 - Hone :-o
2 - Pita
3 - Te Ururoa
4 - Tariana :-)

TU edges out TT for the bronze medal coz he's Labour deep-down, far more so than TT.

serene Sunday

the game they play in heaven
All Blacks hammer Ireland 45-7 in Dublin. Shame they let in the late try. Shame I slept through it AND the replay this mornin' (a sign of l'Age d'Old methinks). Oh well, could've been worse I could've been an Ozzy. The Lucky Country not so fortunate crashing to a seventh consecutive defeat, 26-16 to England, their biggest losing streak in 36 years. That must be why they're seeking divine intervention.

no bias here...
Ridiculous ruminations about Gerry Brownlee's colleagues unhappy with their Maori affairs spokesman. No actual names mentioned, no unhappy quotes or grumpy Nats cited, just insinuation & vague whisperings from anonymous disgruntled "sources." This is cheap rumour-mongering; disappointing from a political journo. Oh, I forgot - it's the Herald on Sunday. Well, there you go...

Could it be our msm are slowly cottoning on the threat of Islamic fascism? Cops becoming suspicious of Islamic fundraisers here in NZ. Lucky we live in "an incredibly benign strategic environment," eh Helen?

Reinforcing my disdain for the msm (& Helen) is last night's Qantas TV Awards.
Mark Sainsbury, head Clark-sycophant, gets Best Current Affairs Presenter. (The lengths they'll go to get get rid of their Sue Woods problem!) :-)
Marc Ellis, Most Popular Male Personality, evidence enough of our shallow talent pool. He's Sport's Cafe funniest presenter and deserves it for blokiness alone (& the lack of decent competition). I woulda picked Newsboy for his irreverent pranksterism & acutely perceptive intellectualism - The thinking man's comic.
Janet McIntyre - TV journalist of the year. Oh, gimme a break!

Perhaps that's why MPs are gunning for inquiries in to TVNZ. Both Finance & Expenditure and the Commerce select committees have numbers to demand an investigation into our shonky public broadcaster. Go, Rodney! I promise you my party vote in 2008... or sooner... hopefully ;-)

obstreperous obstetricians
Amid increasing chaos in our child birth services, 5% of midwives refuse to conduct proper internal examinations decrying it 'inappropriate' & an "invasion of privacy." Despite patient requests & medical expertise accumulated over centuries, some midwives feel the procedure too "intrusive." Yeah, well come labour & birth time it's gonna feel pretty 'intrusive' alright! Can't believe these dipsticks are entrusted with delivering our pepi. When feminist & Maori ideologies trump science & technology we're regressing to shamanism & witch-doctoring.

more medical mishaps
Dr Pervert wants his job back after: [1] taking pics of his genitals, [2] downloading pics to work computer, and [3] sending to wrong e-mail address. The guy needs hospital care, preferably a lobotomy. Coz unless you're an on-line doctor specialising in do-it-yourself-urology, there can be no excusing. Luckily, my email's configured to not accept other people's "attachments."

Unbelievable

I Can't Believe...

1. There wasn't ONE news article today that didn't p*ss me off enough to start moaning about it.
2. It's been 5 days straight without ONE crybaby police-bashing article @ the NZH
3. How much porn there is on the net & how many specialised categories of smut there is catering to all tastes. There's some sick puppies out there.
4. Victoria University has 2 islamic prayer rooms. Why are we appeasing this death cult?
5. Mike King's Penguin History of NZ was a best-seller. That is, I can't believe those that bought it managed to slog all the way through its numbingly tedious prose.
6. The Home Detention scheme. How can staying in the relative freedom & luxury of your house be called "punishment"? What flakey weirdo thought up this scheme?
   
7. I might not ever have kids :-( What a waste of my brilliant DNA! ;-)
8. We import plums from California. Plums?!!? They're everywhere! They're practically a weed! Why import them from the other side of the world?
9. The lionization of Achmed Zaoui, & the amount of $$$ & effort he's cost us. Send him home!
10. How easy it is to ruin a cop's career by merely annoying the right people at National headquarters.
    

political 'I Can't Believe's...

1. 40% of Kiwis voted for the Hag - after 6 long years of her.
   
2. How many Maoris voted for her. You deserve your crappy lives!
   
3. 5% voted Greens. 1 in 20 kiwis is a Major Fruitcake Painty-waist. Scary!
   
4. Anyone thinks the US will amend foreign policy merely to accomodate our anti-nuke whims.
   
5. Hone Harawira urging Maori to give Labour the party vote.
6. Hone being sucked in by Shane Jones' "Nat scare" that lead to #5. Can't believe HH's gullibility & SJ's ruthless cunning.
   
7. The Maori Party encouraging open immigration. Hello? Remember the 1800s?
   
8. God allowed Phil Goff back after constantly dissing Israel.
9. How sleazy Winston the Baubled One really is. (only slowly dawning on me - Duh!!)
   
10. I voted National - 1st time ever. Ditto my sisters. I can't believe we're 'Tories' now :-) I can't believe I actually voted for Don "The Maori-Killer" ;-)
    

the weekend at last...

There's our boy!
Rodney Hide seeks an inquiry into TVNZ. About time:

"We've had the CEO quit but stay on full pay. . a very damaging court case with Susan Wood that TVNZ lost.. ratings slide, taxpayer value is lost,

"TVNZ is demoralised & directionless. It's the proper role of the finance & expenditure select committee to take an interest on behalf of the public of NZ in the investment and ongoing funding taxpayers provide to TVNZ."

Sing it, brother! There's quiet grumblings from the Nats, too. I'm with everyone who thinks we should just sell the dang thing. Odd this news hasn't been mentioned (yet) at TVNZ's news site.

LOL
Our new American ambassador has a sense of humour. Asked why he was appointed by the prez:

"I was the only guy he could find that was better looking than he was."

Well, he must be Fine Indeed if he's cuter than our Dubya :-)

Ouch!!...
...er ...actually ...that wasn't so bad after all!
Guy roughed up by cops gets $10K in damages. Nice work if you can get it.

Southern Belles
Nutcase who 'accidentally' killed husband with 48 sleeping pills, recalls final words:

"He made a 'grrrererrerewre' noise,"

Parting is such sweet sorrow:

"I thought f**k - I better do something about it. So I got my spade and dug a hole."

What can ya say? Calm under duress? #8-wire kiwi ingenuity? Sounds like old-fashioned, cold-blooded scum, to me. They'll be plenty chances to dig holes in the gardens at Arohata. Go to jail, you loopy tart!

Te Hokinga Mai
Pania's back amid a flourish of fanfare. Napier's favourite daughter to receive formal welcome upon return. Unsure whether a powhiri will be included (or where Nat women will sit at such event).

RIP, Tama Poata

He Aitua

Katahi ano, ka tae te rongo, kua hemo a Tama Te Kapua Poata i tona kainga ki Makara.

Haere ra, e hika, ki to wa kainga
Hoki ki nga tipuna, ki a Ruataupare
Noho i te poho o Hine-nui-te-Po
Moe mai ra i to moenga roa
Haere, haere, haere atu ra

Inanahi ra, ka haria a Tama e te whanau pani ki te Horo o Makara, takoto ai.

Aue, taukuri e!
Papaki taku uma,
ka mapu,
ka aroha ki ona karangatanga maha me ona whanaunga

RIP, e hoa.

Tena, ka huri ki a tatou te hungaora... Tihei Mauriora!

E kii ana te e-mail (tena koe, GP) e whakapaohotia ana i runga i te TRT listserv:

Known to many as an activist in the areas of Maaori trade union and socialist politics, and land rights issues. The coining of the HART ("Halt All Racist Tours") name for the anti-Springbok Tours umbrella coalition was attributed to Tama (also a Nga Tamatoa activist) in the late sixties. He was also a noted screenwriter (Ngati) and film-maker (Te Hokioi Films)

BIG FAT PASS on the commie, union rubbish! Engari ano, e tika ana me poroporoaki ratou ma kua wehe atu. Farewell, e Tama. Haere ra.

I need to get out more

WANTED: A life.
Inspired by an American cyber-pal, I've decided to commit one hour p/w to becoming a troll site-pest on some of those (kiwi) commie, lefty, progressive chat rooms & email lists. Hoping to annoy, provoke & become general nuisance. Until I get booted off, of course - then I'll have to do the hotmail thing & repeat.

I feel all those LPG voters deserve it, and that's what a 'good opposition' should do - heckle them.

It is morally allowable as their sins of idiocy should not go unpunished. Besides, they annoyed me first, so it's retribution. I only ask that "justice" be served :-)

Article of the Month

Sublime reading: "Internet Killed the Alien Star"

How & why UFO sightings & abductions (in America, at least) are becoming rarer as everyday technology advances.

Must-watch crap TV show of the Month: Project Runway
Travesty of the Month: Austin not winning best dress for his lovely, floral number in Project Runway
Fave new word OTM: "Mulatto" - half-caste, but sounds like a yummy exotic coffee
Brilliant kiwi genuis OTM: Jeremy Wells
Fave rerun OTM: LOST
Islamaniac highlight OTM: Paris riots
Caint git that song outta ma head OTM: "Te Kokako" - Hirini Melbourne
Regret OTM: I'm such a lazy, useless b*stard
Painfully honest self-realisation OTM: See above
Irrational fear OTM: mercury in fillings is causing insomnia
Never-tried-before taste sensation OTM: Nutella chocolate spread on fresh bread
Cruel blow of fate OTM: realising the object of my unrequited love is not The One
Neurosis OTM: refusal to accept The One really 'isn't' and fantasising regardless
Overhyped bore I plan to studiously ignore in future OTM: King Kong
Thing requiring serious thought OTM: Getting broadband unlimited for under $30 p/w
I'll never buy that again item OTM: Liebestraum in a cast
I'll never do that again deed OTM: Drink half cast of Liebestraum on empty stomach, puke violently. Next day repeat with same results.
Dysmorphic Body Image problem part OTM: my shocking fingernails
Thank God I'm not one of those OTM: Green party supporter in post-Donald era
Really bugging me like never before OTM: My cats' extreme fussy eating habits

Ozzy

Wallabies Squad vs Poms at Twickenham this Saturday:

Chris Latham, Mark Gerrard, Lote Tuqiri, Morgan Turinui, Drew Mitchell, Mat Rogers, George Gregan (c), George Smith, Phil Waugh, John Roe, Nathan Sharpe, Hugh McMeniman, Al Baxter, Brendan Cannon, Matt Dunning.
RESERVES: Tatafu Polata-Nau, Greg Holmes, Mark Chisholm, Scott Fava, Chris Whitaker, Matt Giteau, Wendell Sailor.

Just a thought: If they lose to England, Ireland & Wales on this tour, that's 9 in a row. NINE!

Janet Albrechtsen nicely slaps-down the increasingly shrill & erratic Germaine Greer, over women's rights in Islam and vapid Western hypocrisy. JA is always superb.

Major Breakthrough in understanding of Parkinson's disease. Neuroscientists find dopamine-protein link in cell destruction in sufferers. Discovery heralds new areas of research for treatment focusing on chemical interactions leading to symptoms of PD, rather than treating the symptoms themselves. Awesome news for those of us with loved ones afflicted by horrendous degenerative nervous disorders. Truly some of the cruelest of deaths.

Baby killers

Routine Genocide Kiwi-style

"The number of abortions performed in NZ dropped last year, for the first time since 1998."

18,211 New Zealanders murdered last year.

Death toll = six "9/11"s

Where is the outrage?

Mercifully number is 300 fewer than previous year.

Pray for these most innocent, most defenceless of souls.

I hate baby-killing.