‘Christchurch rebuild plan revealed
A covered sports stadium is the showpiece inclusion in the rebuild blueprint
…and Ngai Tahu cultural centre…’
And the taxpayer will be footing the bill, whatever the government claims. Hell, the ‘quake has caused enormous damage to the NZ economy, damage which will take years to repair and they’re building a bloody stadium and a “cultural centre” for maori?

tomorrow morning, to do a job on a big, remote cattle station. No ‘phone, no internet, no gas station or store. No anything much, in fact. So Gantt will be both the Hammer of God for trolls and your genial host. Not sure how long I’ll be away.

‘The nanny state is going after moms. Mayor Bloomberg is pushing hospitals to hide their baby formula behind locked doors so more new mothers will breast-feed. Starting Sept. 3, the city will keep tabs on the number of bottles that participating hospitals stock and use — the most restrictive pro-breast-milk program in the nation. Under the city Health Department’s voluntary Latch On NYC initiative, 27 of the city’s 40 hospitals have also agreed to give up swag bags sporting formula-company logos, toss out formula-branded tchotchkes like lanyards and mugs, and document a medical reason for every bottle that a newborn receives…’       source

‘A law graduate has avoided a prison term despite deliberately taking the wrong man for DNA testing to get her ex-partner’s name removed from her son’s birth certificate.
Crown prosecutor Claire Robertson said a term of imprisonment was usually warranted for such a crime, but she did not think it was appropriate given mitigating factors, including her duty as a mother and the impact it would have on her becoming a lawyer.
..Defence lawyer Owen Harold sought a discharge without conviction so she could become a barrister, obtain a private investigator’s licence and travel overseas…’
Now, imagine a man – a newly-qualified mechanic, let’s say – up before the court on the same charges. Does anyone here seriously think the outcome would be similar? And name suppression “to protect the child”  is nonsense. It’s to protect this criminal.
If any Kiwi reader would care to mail me her name, I’ll publish it here.

‘The mayor of Baltimore, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (D), deliberately wants the city compete to become the nation’s largest sanctuary city.
Baltimore’s unemployment rate is at 10 percent. For blacks in Baltimore, the unemployment rate is over 20 percent. People are fleeing Maryland — and its major cities like Baltimore — to states like Virginia and North Carolina that have better conditions for economic growth. But none of that seems to matter to Rawlings-Blake, who thinks opening up Baltimore to illegal immigrants (her goal is to attract at least 10,000 immigrants to Baltimore) will solve — and will not exacerbate  — the city’s economic woes and counteract population decline…’
And of course, the DOJ will prosecute her for aiding and abetting criminal behaviour, right? Right?

The NZ and Australian media, AP and the lazy jerks who simply recycle agency garbage as “news”.
The headline: US ‘cowardice’ stalls arms trade treaty
‘…Hopes had been raised that agreement could be reached on a revised treaty text that closed some major loopholes by today’s deadline for action. But the US announced early today (NZT) that it needed more time to consider the proposed treaty – and Russia and China then also asked for more time.
”This was stunning cowardice by the Obama administration, which at the last minute did an about-face and scuttled progress toward a global arms treaty, just as it reached the finish line,” said Suzanne Nossel, executive director of Amnesty International USA. (that organisation which–like the Red Cross–has become little more than a front for marxists. kg) ”It’s a staggering abdication of leadership by the world’s largest exporter of conventional weapons to pull the plug on the talks just as they were nearing an historic breakthrough.”
She ignores the facts of the matter, almost entirely. And the media dutifully give her free exposure…and it seems the U.S. is expected to be the “leader”…but only when it suits these slimy, lying assholes.

Grrr…Wabbit is heartily sick of the currently fashionable womb-centric view of the universe….for example:
‘..The back is literally your body’s support system, made up of more than 30 bones and hundreds of nerves, muscles, ligaments, and tendons.
“Women are particularly susceptible to pain because they lug around extra weight every day, from purses and grocery bags to a kid on their hip,” says Heidi Prather, DO, chief of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis…’    source
Men, apparently are less susceptible. Must be something to do with them bending over all day welding steel, wrangling cattle, lifting heavy loads of timber and bricks and wheeling barrowloads of concrete.  My word, compared to carrying purses and grocery bags, we have it easy.

‘..“Likable”? Pardon me while I laugh in your silly face. He’s a bully and a thug; a conceited, supercilious ignoramus wrongly convinced of his own innate superiority; a thin-skinned, whiny bitch whose self-styled Chicago “toughness” collapses into blubbering, excuse-making, and buck-passing at the first hint of dissent or failure; a vengeful, spiteful wretch who seeks not only to defeat but to destroy his opposition; a petulant child who expects everything to be given him without real effort on his part, merely on the basis of his obvious righteousness alone; a man convinced of his own shining genius whose intellectual “gifts” are actually very, very modest–to be kinder to him than he deserves.
He’s a sorry excuse for a man; he was a lazy, irresponsible fraud as a student; an arrogant, duplicitous goniff as a “professor” and “scholar”; an entitled, timid, over-ambitious zero as a Senator; and is an unmitigated disaster as a President. Everything else is subterfuge, smoke, and mirrors…’    Cold Fury
That about sums the Boy Wonder up, I reckon!

Dancing nurses, bouncing sick children, huge hospital beds…
Opening Ceremony reflects ‘deeply left-leaning sensibilities’ of producer Boyle…
‘Royal Family looked bored’…
Queen snapped picking her nails when Great Britain marched into Stadium…
Pause to honor dead Brits, not Israelis…’        Drudge Report
UPDATE: Tim Blair nails it.   Beautifully!

‘Gun carrying man ends stabbing spree at Salt Lake grocery store’
And:
‘..For those of you interested in the raw numbers, the figures of between 2 million and 2.5 million uses of guns for self-defense annually can be found in studies and reports by John Lott, Gun Owners of America, and the National Rifle Association. These are countered by the use of guns for criminal purposes at a rate of 100,000 to 135,000 times a year. .’ source