Fielding steam festival, this morning. And a friend (who shall remain nameless) playing engine driver. Now she wants a steam train.

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EXCLUSIVE–Photos: Texas Busts Palestinian-Run Alleged Underground Casino Near Border
A Complete Timeline of Obama’s Anti-Israel Hatred
Haitians Say Corrupt Bill Clinton ‘Couldn’t Be Elected Mayor’…
Report Finds Austria Increasingly Hostile to Christians
South L.A. Ban on Fast Food Restaurants Increased Obesity
Disabled Army Veteran Shoots Two Alleged Attackers to Protect Pregnant Woman
Mom Shoots Intruder: It Was Either Him or Me and My Daughter

Breitbart

‘..Nearly 400 British girls as young as eleven are believed to have been sexually exploited by Muslim rape gangs in Oxfordshire over the past 15 years, according to a chilling new report. It charges local officials with repeatedly ignoring the abuse due to a “culture of denial.”
The scale of the abuse in Oxfordshire, a county in southeast England, mirrors similarly shocking accounts of the sexual exploitation of white British girls by Muslim gangs in Bristol, Derby, Rochdale, Rotherham and Telford, and implies that the problem is not isolated, but endemic…’             Andrew Bolt

Let’s ring-fence the place and leave ’em to it:
‘MASSACRE IN YEMEN: Terror blasts at two mosques reportedly kill at least 137′

‘Dame Susan wants door open to refugees
Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy will today call for New Zealand to increase its quota of refugees.’
This is feelgood bullshit that will achieve almost nothing, cost the NZ taxpayer even more money and do absolutely nothing to address the causes for the “51 million refugees” figure she quotes.
Of course, it’ll give clowns like her a nice warm fuzzy glow – on somebody else’s buck, as usual. If she’s so concerned, perhaps she’ll let us know how many of these people she’s prepared to accommodate at her place?
UPDATE:  See the “Shia vs Sunni” post above. Does Devoy seriously believe these primitives will magically leave their sectarian hatreds behind if they come to the West? The Australian experience would indicate otherwise.

Can Kiwis trust the police?  Mostly, I think they can. But this item throws an interesting light on their top brass…..

 ‘Heartbreaking photo: Doctor steps outside after losing 19-year-old patient’

Top violator of women’s rights? It’s Israel says UN

Guess who is the number one violator of women’s rights in the world today?  Israel.  Violating the rights of Palestinian women.
At least that is the view of the UN’s top women’s rights body, the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).  CSW ends its annual meeting on Friday, March 20 by condemning only one of the 193 UN member states for violating women’s rights – Israel.
Not Syria. Where government forces routinely employ rape and other sexual violence and torture against women as a tactic of war. Where in 2014 the Assad regime starved, tortured and killed at least 24,000 civilians, and three million people – mostly women and children – are refugees….
..In fact, not only is there no possibility that the UN Commission on the Status of Women will criticize Iran, Iran is an elected member of CSW.  Sudan – whose president has been indicted for genocide and crimes against humanity – is currently a CSW Vice-Chair…’
The biggest threat to freedom today isn’t ISIS or any other islamist band of nutters. The biggest threat is the support of Western governments – using our taxes – for a far more dangerous organization. There is nothing benign about the U.N. NOTHING. We find ourselves bound by treaties and protocols and agreements which we the people have had no say in and effectively we are being forced to pay for our own subjugation to this collection of thieves, liars, zealots and murderous assholes.

‘Customs boss Carolyn Tremain has told MPs the department would only request travellers hand over passwords to their electronic devices if it had a reason to be suspicious about what was on them.
..That would be without Customs officials having to show they had any grounds for suspicion.
Although the proposed power would let Customs request passwords from any traveller or do random checks on electronic devices, Tremain told a parliamentary select committee that was not its intention…’
If that’s not its intention, then why isn’t the proposed legislation worded in a way that reflects that?
Intentions can change and the proposed legislation gives Customs a reserve power they could use on a whim should a traveller piss one of them off for any reason.
I don’t trust the bastards. Ever.