I see references to g*lf and j**zz creeping into comments–the world is going to hell in a handbasket. And I just got rid of our Nissan Patrol. Good car, but just too painfully slow. After running an aggressive young prick off the road the other day we decided we need something faster….he got away.

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Property rights? What property rights?

This, from the NZ Stuff’s business page:
‘After more than 200 years of contact with Europeans, just being Maori has become a study in sustainability: Sustaining a population, sustaining property rights, sustaining a language and sustaining a culture.
……Aside from the academic, social and political leaps forward experienced by Maori particularly since the 1950s, the successes of Maori economic enterprises are rarely acknowledged…’
Bullshit and spin. Sustainability?  They’re sustained by European taxpayer’s largesse. They never understood sustainability in any case, despite all the propaganda to the contrary–which is why they wiped out so many species. And why they continue to rape and pillage fisheries. (almost always, those caught taking huge, illegal hauls of undersize shellfish are maori). As for ‘property rights’–that’s brown rights to European Kiwi property, I assume. Something they’re very good at exercising…
“Sustaining a language”? Bawwaahaha! That’d be the written language compiled for them by Europeans, because they never had the means or the desire to do it themselves. And that same language is rammed down Kiwi’s throats at every turn by means of bilingual signs and documents–funded again by the taxpayer, not by maori “businesses” or Iwi.
“the successes of Maori economic enterprises are rarely acknowledged”…perhaps that’s because they were mostly set up with money ripped off the taxpayers–and given special tax breaks?
Kiwis who are aware of this propaganda, and who may object to it are too cowed to speak up or so brainwashed they regard it as normal.

If you ran a company like this, you’d be bankrupt in no time:
‘National has earmarked the $5 billion to $7 billion it expects to make from partial assets sales for feel-good projects such as modernising schools, in a bid to sweeten up its most controversial election policy…’
Pay down some of the billions in debt, and cut back on borrowing by trimming welfare? Nah…..there’s no lemming/maori/green votes in that. God forbid some principles and vision should rear their ugly heads and ruin a good election ploy!

‘Three Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan
The three soldiers were shot by an Afghan soldier during a parade yesterday morning. Seven other Australians were wounded and an Afghan interpreter was killed…’

So we can pull out just as soon as talks with the Taliban can give a veneer of legitimacy to the failure of the doomed “nation building” bullshit. The shit-hole will revert to being the shit-hole it always was and we’ll be importing the same animals as “refugees” and providing them with free housing and money for years to come.
That’s the price of waging a pretend war and allowing the lawyers and human rights leeches to dictate methods and thus cripple our forces.

From the letters page of the Australian:
“I THINK the travelling public should have some idea of just how poorly off our Qantas baggage handlers are.
For starters, they get paid upwards of 20 per cent above the industry rate and earn between $70,000 to $85,000 a year including penalty rates but not overtime. Overtime is paid at double time as are any public holidays…”
And much, much more…via Andrew Bolt
Sack the thieving, useless bastards and offer the jobs to retirees. There’d be minimal industrial action, great attendance records and less thieving from baggage.

Doubt it? Read this!

Via Andrew Bolt:
‘Newcastle’s business community threw its support behind developer Jeff McCloy yesterday with rousing applause when he confirmed he was tackling the Lake Macquarie City Council in court.
The Newcastle Herald reported yesterday the Belmont developer’s decision to fight council legislation to counter predicted rising sea levels..’
UPDATE: Redbaiter just put up a (better) post on this.