‘CDC: More Children Killed by Fire, Drowning Than by Firearms
According to the 2010 Death and Mortality numbers released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more children under the age of ten are unintentionally killed in fire or water-related incidents than are killed in accidental gun deaths.
Gun scholar John Lott pulled together various CDC tables showing that thirty-six children under the age of ten were killed in firearm-related accidents in 2010.
The number of children under the age of ten killed in “unintentional fire/burn deaths” was 262, and the number killed in “unintentional drowning” incidents was 609…’
Ban fire and water. Register all barbecues and garden hoses.

  ‘UN issues NZ 155 human rights tasks’
I see in the article the U.N. is described as “the international community”.  Community my arse. A pack of unelected, totalitarian pricks interfering in national sovereignty is about as much a “community” as a slug is a racehorse.

 The cyclone brought rain to some areas, and it’s most welcome. We largely missed out, but cattle stations closer to the coast and south of here got some life-saving rain at last.

‘On the nauseating spectacle that is the State of the Union address

The annual State of the Union pageant is a hideous, dispiriting, ugly, monotonous, un-American, un-republican, anti-democratic, dreary, backward, monarchical, retch-inducing, depressing, shameful, crypto-imperial display of official self-aggrandizement and piteous toadying, a black Mass during which every unholy order of teacup totalitarian and cringing courtier gathers under the towering dome of a faux-Roman temple to listen to a speech with no content given by a man with no content, to rise and to be seated as is called for by the order of worship — it is a wonder they have not started genuflecting — with one wretched representative of their number squirreled away in some well-upholstered Washington hidey-hole in order to preserve the illusion that those gathered constitute a special class of humanity without whom we could not live.
It’s the most nauseating display in American public life — and I write that as someone who has just returned from a pornographers’ convention….’
And it gets even better….