Quickies

Posted on January 27, 2014 by KG

Lying for safety
How long before somebody claims its “for the children”?
‘Our debt to Christianity’.
Perhaps militant atheists should consider this?
‘Abbott insults conservatives on his racial “crusade”..’
Racism takes many forms..and this campaign is one of them.
‘..the costliest scientific mistake ever visited on humanity’
And the perps will walk away free and wealthy.
It’s your money in the bank
Well, sort of….maybe. So far.
Kiwis captured by primitives
and feeling morally superior about it.

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38 Responses to Quickies

  2. KG says:
    January 27, 2014 at 05:44

    Every time this government does something good like this, they then go and do something brainless and PC like wanting to change the Constitution to “recognise the indigenous people”. They seem to have no coherent conservative principles, but rather bend to pressure to adopt the odious “middle way”. :evil:

  3. Mathew says:
    January 27, 2014 at 08:08

    “Lower speed limit catches 58,000” – That’s from the Herald website too. Apparently they’re doing the same thing down in Victoria, which already has the lowest and harshest speed limits in the country. They usually also have the highest number of road fatalities, real shock that.

    And i’m reasonably sure the militant atheists and lefties would rather shoot themselves in the privates than acknowledge anything but spit at Christianity, militant islam maybe, but not Christianity. Come to think of it, we owe a lot to Judaism too, but as you can guess, they’d be more interested in driving those people into the sea. Go figure.

    • KG says:
      January 27, 2014 at 08:29

      I can’t figure it out, Mathew. That level of ignorance and stupidity just leaves me baffled.

      • Michael in Nelson says:
        January 28, 2014 at 14:50

        It is epidemic KG…fix a non-existent danger and make things worse. There is an intersection not far from my place where a well used side road empties onto a main thoroughfare. It was a problem getting onto the main road during rush hours but I don’t recall a single accident happening there (and neither did the cabbie I asked today) BECAUSE everyone knew it was a traffic bottleneck. The ‘Traffic Safety’ assholes installed traffic lights recently (it took two months of disruptions) and within days some doofus rear-ended a motorbike waiting at the light.

  4. Wombat says:
    January 27, 2014 at 10:08

    “Lying for safety”
    See “the boy who cried ‘wolf'”.
    “Our debt to Christianity.”
    A debt implies an imposition for repayment. I am thankful, but not indebted :smile:
    “Abbott insults conservatives on his racial “crusade”..”
    Aboriginals, to take their place somewhere between citizens and semi-domesticated animals. The subtle racism of diminished expectations.
    “..the costliest scientific mistake ever visited on humanity”
    The worst thing you can bleed is credibility. The term “scientist” and “academic” are now synonymous with “quack” and “charlatan”.
    “Kiwis captured by primitives”
    Politicians captured by primitives. We can vote to ignore reality but we cannot vote to ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

    • Wombat says:
      January 27, 2014 at 10:46

      Oh, and…
      “It’s your money in the bank”
      Anyone who’s still got their cash in a bank after the Greece/Cyprus incident is asking for trouble. It’s bad enough that our super is beyond our reach. If you can’t stand in front of it with a gun then you don’t really own it. :|

      • Ronbo says:
        January 27, 2014 at 10:57

        This may be the start of the Great Global Economic Meltdown that’s been predicted since 2009….In fact, I can’t see how we have avoided it this long. :sad:

        • Wombat says:
          January 27, 2014 at 12:29

          Events like this banking incident typically seem to me to be a “testing of the waters” moment. They gauge the public’s reaction to see what will happen when they trot it out across the entire globe.
          I’m surprised it wasn’t spun as a “war on drugs/terror” issue. Perhaps they assumed that there would be little to no support for anyone “rich” enough to have that much money in the bank.
          That said, I’ve been asked for a reason for withdrawing 5k (several years ago now). I told the clerk that it was capital so I could become a drug dealer. Slight pause. We both “laughed” :lol: :| :lol: :| (but she still wasn’t sure if I was serious or not) and I left with the money. No 3am visit by the police so far, so I assume it was idle curiosity… :mrgreen:

          • KG says:
            January 27, 2014 at 13:04

            I walked into a branch of our bank and withdrew 10k in cash last year, and the teller didn’t raise an eyebrow, to my surprise.

    • KG says:
      January 27, 2014 at 12:19

      Nice summation, Wombat. Although I’d argue that a debt doesn’t necessarily imply an imposition for repayment in this particular context. Perhaps merely acknowledgement? ;-)

  5. KG says:
    January 27, 2014 at 12:22

    Stock markets are looking fairly ugly again, Ronbo. Q.E. was never a long-term strategy and the piper is going to have to be paid sooner or later.
    As an economist I’d make a fine plumber, but even I can see that.

  6. KG says:
    January 27, 2014 at 15:39

    These guys are just brilliant!
    The only problem is, every time I watch one of their segments I end up watching a half-dozen more. :lol:

    • The Gantt Guy says:
      January 28, 2014 at 03:05

      Clarke & Dawe are what was intended by CER and the Special Relationship. The best thing Fred Dagg ever did as leader of the Dagg Party was go on a fact-finding mission to Australia, disappear for a few years and emerge as Clarke partnered with Dawe! http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_yahoo.gif

  7. KG says:
    January 27, 2014 at 15:51

    ‘Judge’s laptop ruling challenges the Constitution – and your privacy
    It’s pretty obvious that we as a society are now made up of two groups. There are those who, for better or worse, have moved their lives into the digital realm, and those who haven’t.
    I would like to introduce you to someone in the latter category. His name is Edward Korman and he is a federal judge in New York state. He had a case before him involving a U.S. citizen – a Ph.D. student at McGill University in Montreal – who had his computer confiscated while returning to the States. The judge ruled, sweepingly, that, yes, the federal government had a right to confiscate laptops at the border without probable cause…’
    http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/01/25/judge-laptop-ruling-challenges-constitution-and-your-privacy/?intcmp=obnetwork
    ‘The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized’
    The judge should be jailed.

  8. nominto says:
    January 27, 2014 at 20:12

    “Lying for Safety”
    I use this road every work day..I blame the one person responsible – fucking Transit NZ..the biggest-arseclowns on the planet..they caused this bottleneck/ they fucked the road up /they squished in 6 lanes into 3 then 2 /they cause massive every day gridlock..they are solely responsible ..they should be all arrested, charged with no defence, thrown into jail.period.As for the damned politicians who pushed this road farce through..the noose…I know who they are and boy this is one score I WILL SETTLE.

    • KG says:
      January 27, 2014 at 20:48

      Useless prick bureauclowns….and they NEVER have to answer for their stuff-ups. :evil:

      • Darin says:
        January 27, 2014 at 23:41

        “There is no problem of road contruction that can’t be solved with dynamite and heavy machinery”-Arthur Clark (one of the original construction supers on the US interstate highway system)

        Now,it’s endless buraecrats,environmetal studies and work crews led by civil engineering flunkies. :evil:

  9. Bill The Bunyip says:
    January 27, 2014 at 22:56

    Like Wombat I think HSBC was a test case for the banks.
    More of the same will follow and each time the method will be refined so it can be used when needed.
    Mr Wabbit, you don’t need to be anything to see that printing funny money is going to end in tears. Economists are todays soothsayers and about as useful.
    Meanwhile I will continue to pick up my specks of gold and keep them in a safe place.

  10. KG says:
    January 28, 2014 at 00:26

    want to see something truly disgusting? I HATE these bastards..
    Andrew Bolt on taxpayer-supported “artists”:

    ‘..Let’s start with a simple question that I as a taxpayer have a right to ask: how much taxpayers’ money has Alison Croggon received in arts grants? 
    Here are some I know of: 1989 Victorian Council for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, a Victorian Ministry for the Arts fellowship, 1993 Australia Council Fellowship, 1995 Australia Council Fellowship, 2000 Australia Council Writers Fellowship, a 2004 Australia Council grant of $25,000, and a 2013 Australia Council grant of $40,000.  One biography states she received Australia Council grants to write full-time in 2004 and 2005.  She has worked for taxpayer-funded magazines, supplied scripts for taxpayer-funded theatre companies, written for the taxpayer-funded ABC and penned a libretto for a taxpayer-funded opera. Exactly how much of our money should go in grants to Alison Croggon before some bureaucrat decides enough…
    ….Eight years ago, after Alison Croggon had received her first four Australia Council grants (and others beside), I was pondering this very question and received a heated defence from Croggon, who protested: 

    I am one of those artists supported – as Les Murray says – in order to be paid now what otherwise posterity will owe me.
    :shock:
    http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/our_grants_arent_meant_to_sponsor_mccarthyism/

  11. Darin says:
    January 28, 2014 at 05:12

    Art is like any other business,if people like the work they will pay for it.If not they won’t,simple as that.I don’t see any need for government grants(tax dollars) to go for it,especially if I have no say in what gets the funding.

  12. KG says:
    January 28, 2014 at 06:53

    These people are so often sneeringly contemptuous of “ordinary” working people, but they have no fucking objection to living off money stolen from them.
    :evil:

    • Wombat says:
      January 28, 2014 at 07:29

      The -new- new world order.

      “I have a great idea, and we cand fund it with the small imposition of a..”
      *BANG!*
      *Thump.*

  13. KG says:
    January 28, 2014 at 07:30

    How limp-wristed and useless was the bloody teacher?? :shock:
    ‘ A REFRIGERATOR lightbulb retailing for about $3 at a hardware store ended up costing a far north Queensland state school almost $500 after Queensland’s Public Works Department sent an electrician to install it in a teacher’s government-owned home.

    Doomadgee State School, on the Gulf of Carpentaria, was billed $200 for labour alone after the teacher was told workplace health and safety regulations prevented any staff member from buying and replacing the bulb themselves, The Australian understands…’

    • Darin says:
      January 28, 2014 at 10:10

      “Those that can,do.
      Those that can’t,teach”

      Either that or perhaps any sort of physical work is considered beneath them?

      • KG says:
        January 28, 2014 at 15:09

        We’ve lived in Health Dept. houses a lot, Darin and whenever anything breaks, blows or squeaks, we simply fix it.
        I can’t imagine being too effing useless to replace a ‘fridge light. :shock:

  14. KG says:
    January 28, 2014 at 09:39

    This tells you all you need to know about the U.N.:
    ‘ Helen Clark, next UN head?
    Speculation Helen Clark could be the first woman to run the UN is picking up steam.’

  15. Darin says:
    January 28, 2014 at 10:19

    Somebody sent me this-Parrot caught singing “Let the bodies hit the floor” :lol: :mrgreen:

    http://youtu.be/7jGbtIdOZ-M