‘..A criminal lawyer charged with delivering a cellphone, cigarettes and a lighter to a high-profile murderer serving a life sentence has lost a four-month bid to keep her name suppressed.
Davina Valerie Murray, who ran as a candidate for the Maori Party in last year’s general election, was charged in November with smuggling an iPhone and other items to Liam James Reid…’

‘Photos taken by a French satellite show glaciers in a mountain range west of the Himalayas have grown during the last decade.
….The researchers are unsure why the region bucks the global trend – but they know from other studies in other parts of the world that in very cold regions, like the Karakoram range, climate change can cause extra precipitation, which then freezes and adds to ice mass.

and it’s a beautiful thing

“The Affidavit is on its face a political document.”
John Hinderaker, ‘Powerline’
Clarice Feldman: ‘Lynch Mob Justice In Florida’
‘..a story that shows how a media rife with malpractice and incompetence, a black grievance industry supported by a corrupt Attorney General , and a special prosecutor in a difficult re-election fight can twist facts and put to jeopardy a man already cleared of wrongdoing despite the lack of persuasive, dispositive new evidence sufficient to meet the  state’s burden of overcoming a claim of self-defense.’

The excellent Wolf Howling has some fine wolf pics on his site, along with some of the best political posts around.

Trafalgar: (from a book Wabbit just finished)
‘..Sharpe just gazed at the fleet in awe,doubting he would ever see a sight like this again. This was the majesty of Britain, her deep-sea fleet, a procession of majestic gun batteries, vast, ponderous and terrible.
…Their sails, yellow, cream and white, made a cloud bank, and their names were a roll call of triumphs: Conqueror and Agamemnon, Dreadnought and Revenge, Leviathan and Thunderer, Mars, Ajax and Colossus. These were the ships that had cowed the Danes, broken the Dutch, decimated the French and chased the Spanish from the seas. These ships ruled the waves, but now one last enemy fleet challenged them and they sailed to give it battle..’
From ‘Sharpe’s Trafalgar’. Bernard Cornwell.

‘The widows of Indonesian fishermen who died when a Korean boat sank in New Zealand waters in 2010 have finally received compensation – not from the vessel’s owners or insurers, but from the taxpayer-funded Accident Compensation Corporation.
…So far South Korea’s Sajo Oyang Corporation, owners of the 38-year-old trawler Oyang 70, have done nothing for the families of five Indonesians killed when the vessel sank in 2010 in calm waters 740km off the Otago coast.
…Under the Accident Compensation Act, foreign charter vessel crew are not normally entitled to ACC payments because they are not tax residents. The charter company – in this case Southern Storm Fishing (2007) Ltd, an Oyang shell company – does not pay ACC levies.
….But (University of Auckland Business School researcher) Simmons and family advocate Daren Coulston campaigned to get the money because Oyang would not pay.
It’s not really hard to be generous–when it’s other people’s money. I suggest these two draw the money out off their own fucking bank accounts and reimburse the NZ taxpayers. I don’t view this as anything better than -or different to- outright theft.

“They were just buried there in transport crates,” Mr Cundall said. “They were waxed, wrapped in greased paper and their joints tarred. They will be in near perfect condition.”       source

He deserved to lose his licence..VB is crappy beer.

Judge Andrew Napolitano:
‘..What if the Constitution has been tacitly amended by the consent of both political parties, whereby instead of ratifying amendments, all three branches of government merely look the other way when the government violates the Constitution?
….What if enough is enough? What do we do about it? What if it’s too late?…’
It’s time to water that tree…