Tribe ‘closes’ city beach

‘Auckland’s Ngati Whatua tribe is closing Okahu Bay beach tomorrow for a tribal event – the first time since it won co-management of the beach in 1991.
…”Spokeswoman Sharon Hawke said the event had been held in previous years on the land reserve behind the beach, but organisers wanted to include water-based activities such as kayaking this year.
A public notice in the East and Bays Courier says the beach will be closed to the public from 6am to 4pm, but Ms Hawke said the tribe would be flexible.
“The backlash from the people thinking what they think around us using our own foreshore has got people prickly, so there is some give and take in that….’
“Never going to happen” Kiwis were assured by the government. “No practical change to your access to beaches” they were told.
Those of us who said they were lying – that this was a theft of every Kiwi’s birthright – were branded as racists, alarmists and liars.
Well, who are exposed as the racists and liars now?

The ship of State

is rotten, from truck to keelson.
‘Where does one begin to parse the inane and irrational thinking that went into the Obama administration’s public rebuke of Egypt and the United Arab Emirates for attacking the Islamists who beheaded 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians in Libya? Pentagon Spokesperson Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby condemned Egypt’s airstrikes on ISIS stating

We discourage other nations from taking a part in Libya’s issues through violence.  We want the issues solved in Libya to be done peacefully and through good governance and politics and not violence.

Egypt bad, Iran good

Open house

ginger2 Darin’s red cat? There are certain…um…similarities.

3am. Time for a beer, after two coffees and a cigarette, I’m on a health kick.

The imposter’s foreign policy explained:

Obama and the Muslim Gang Sign
Is President Obama a Muslim?  A lot has been written about this, but if photographs speak louder than words, then a photo taken at last August’s U.S.-African Leaders’ Summit in Washington D.C. might shed considerable light.
It shows Barack Hussein Obama flashing the one-finger affirmation of Islamic faith to dozens of African delegates.
The Associated Press took this astonishing photo as the African dignitaries joined Obama, who hosted the event, in a State Department auditorium for a group photograph.  It was published in an article in Britain’s Daily Mail, and it was the only use ever of the photo…’     (bold mine)

Denial, cowardice, bullshit:

‘State Department spokeswoman says jobs, not killing, the key to defeating ISIS’

“…But we cannot win this war by killing them. We cannot kill our way out of this war. We need in the medium to longer term to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups, whether it’s lack of opportunity for jobs…”
That’s very reassuring. So, just as soon as the West has dismantled all border controls and Walmart is hiring again, this business putting people in cages and burning them to death will stop.
I feel so much better, knowing that. Islam has nothing to do with it after all.