Open house

Posted on February 4, 2014 by KG

I’m off to Townsville.

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65 Responses to Open house

  1. Ronbo says:
    February 4, 2014 at 07:23

    Going down that long lonesome highway
    Bound for the mountains and the plains
    Sure aint nothing here gonna tie me
    And I got some friends I’d like to see
    One of these days I’m gonna settle down
    But till I do I wont be hanging round
    Going down that long lonesome highway
    Gonna live life my way

    One of these days I’m gonna settle down
    But till I do I wont be hanging round
    Going down that long lonesome highway
    Gonna live life my way
    Yes I’m going down that long lonesome highway
    Gonna live life my way

    Something like that…have fun! :mrgreen:

  2. Andrew Berwick says:
    February 4, 2014 at 09:35

    The most important fact in contemporary NZ politics – the fact that the MSM continually do their best to obscure:

    is that every single poll since early 2008 has demonstrated that only National has the moral right to govern the country

    National is far and away the most popular political party in the country. Any democrat must agree they are the unquestioned first choice to lead the next government, and the only question is with whom will they coalesce. In fact, the public is pretty damn clear about that too: option 1: Winston, Option 2: Colin Craig, Option 3: ACT.

    But instead we get all this flannel about how “The next election is too close to call” and how we could conceivable have an “Everybody But National” government – Labour+Green+Winston+MANA+Maori+Dunny with – who knows – Colin Craig (more money for churches) and Jamie Whyte as well (perhaps they’d let him legalise dope or something).

    But that’s not what “we the people” want. We the people clearly want another National lead government. Ironically, Key screwed himself over the electoral referendum. If he’d gone back to FPP (or to SM, same difference really) National would win an overwhelming landslide victory. On other other hand, if he’d followed the advice of the electoral commission (and the communist parties) and dropped the party vote threshold, he’d be absolutely sure of a National+Conservative government.

    The idea that “Everyone except National” might possible win is nothing but a very specific quirk of NZ’s MMP rules – either a return to electorate votes, or a move to a less distorted proportion system would ensure a strong National government at the next election — the choice of far more Kiwis than any other alternative.

  3. Michael in Nelson says:
    February 4, 2014 at 14:45

    When will the other Maori leaders ban the whole family?

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11196624

    My guess…never, they provide too much publicity and keep the victim business ticking over.

    • dondiego says:
      February 4, 2014 at 15:09

      See those bastards (I’m referring to the press) slipped it in the po-po got no power on the murr-eye…
      Slowly slowly, as an Indian coloniser I worked with would say. Little lies, a flag “debate” again I see, call the country Aotearoa and pretend pre-Cook it was more than pertual internecine vengence cannibal tribes.

      That Indian I mentioned, who is dad with a maori girl by now, thought that matariki* was true. Amongst other nonsense. That visa scammer’s kids are going to grow up with chips on their shoulders, false ‘knowledge’ of “history”, and an ability to theive with higher mathematics.

      *maori new year. A recently invented thang

      • andy5759 says:
        February 5, 2014 at 09:05

        The book “Cloud Atlas” mentions the warlike qualities of the Maori. Wet liberals must have read it.

    • mawm says:
      February 4, 2014 at 17:21

      The admiral had some dealings with the matriarch. She came with some agressive demands she obviously expected not to be met. After agreeing to help her, and after imposing some sensible restrictions, she couldn’t have been nicer. :roll:

    • thor42 says:
      February 4, 2014 at 16:11

      Heeeey, Darin – watch the Superbowl yesterday?

      Some *great* touchdowns – some of the best I’ve ever seen!

      • Darin says:
        February 4, 2014 at 23:36

        No,no stuperbowl for me,two teams I could careless about,and a corporate sellout to Obama in the NFL.

    • Ronbo says:
      February 4, 2014 at 23:33

      MILITARY BUREAUCRACY :mrgreen:

      1951 Front Lines Korea…

      “Radar, what this form I’m signing?”

      “Colonel, it’s the form to get the form we need to fill for hospital bed linen.”

      The colonel signs the form and Radar immediately hands him another form to be signed.

      “What the hell is this form, Radar?”

      “This is the form the Pentagon sent for filling out Form 123-4 in triple without the Colonel’s signature. I signed the damn thing in order to get the necessary blood supplies from the medical warehouse at grid Oscar Romeo. This warehouse, as the Colonel knows is 50 miles away, and I didn’t have time to get back and have you sign the Form, as the MASH needed the blood immediately to keep the wounded alive…So I signed the Form Corporal Radar O’Reilly and I guess some clerk at the Pentagon noticed it.”

      “Damn clerks!” says the Colonel as he signs the Form, “No offense Radar! You are a SUPER clerk who understands how to deal with Army bureaucracy.”

      Radar hands the Colonel Another Form, “What am I signing now?”

      “Colonel, this is Form 001/2 is a request to the Pentagon not to bother the 4077 MASH with anymore stupid Forms.”

      “Will this work? No more bureaucratic bullshit? Radar, I’m going to get you the Medal of Honor if it does!”

      “Colonel, I need your signature on all three copies.”

      Radar suddenly yells, “Helicopters! Incoming wounded.”

      The two men rush out of the tent, which is blown over by the helicopter blades and thousands of the Forms fly up and are captured by the north wind that blows into the Red Chinese lines. The Chinese infantrymen gather up a pile and send them to 1st Army Group, Chinese Army, Korea. The 20,000 or so Forms are stamped “Top Secret” and sent to Peking for analysis under Chinese Army Form 1006-3 “Captured Enemy Documents Korea” where they are routed to the desk of an overworked Chinese clerk to fills out Form 1007-3 which routes the documents to the Giant Chinese Army Document Warehouse. In 2014, the Chinese Army Intelligence Service finally gets the time to read the 4077 MASH documents and finding them to be of no value fills out Form 1008-5 “Return of no value captured enemy documents to source.” The boxes are then loaded on to a truck and sent to the U.S. Embassy. The receiving clerk immediately fills out Form 909/7 “Return of documents to the Pentagon.” The boxes are placed in the diplomatic pouch and jetted back to the Pentagon. The receiving clerk immediately fills out Form 001/7 “Sensitive documents from the Red Chinese” and has them trucked to the Giant U.S. Government Document Warehouse near Culpepper, Virginia. In 3000 A.D. the documents are discovered by the new Alien masters of Earth while digging for the Fountain of Youth in Virginia and sent to their home planet for analysis. The receiving alien clerk immediately fills out Form 1003/9 “Alien Documents For Analysis” and they are transported to…. :mrgreen:

  6. Darin says:
    February 4, 2014 at 23:38

    Gibson guitar gets some of it’s wood back in a partial victory.Still had to pay extortion to the criminal gang that is the US government.

    http://www.tennessean.com/article/20140204/BUSINESS06/302040043/New-Gibson-guitar-uses-wood-seized-raids

  7. HarvardPotatoHead says:
    February 5, 2014 at 02:41

    !!!STOFP*!!!Diplomatic pouch has twerped yours very trulilily a trending policy decision re** 2 enroll unemployed folks in an evolving lecture series “Miley Cyrus Tongue and Hair Design Techniques.” The lecture, sponsored by Harvard University School of Multiculturalism, features visiting professors Dr. Elsi von Sendenhorst
    Dr. Von Tong depressor, Dr. Helmut von Volkswagen, Dr. TreVon Smith, Dr. LaVontonio al Expresso, and also expected to attend Dr. Willhelm von Klinton. What these esteemed lecturerz will speak on EEEIIII!!!here come Dips Mother duck fast gotta go Hi 2 our fellow folks in our 56-57th Steaks!!!
    *STOP = sales tax on folk’s pussy
    **re = concerning

  8. Contempt says:
    February 5, 2014 at 02:48

    :shock: Thank goodness for small favors. That long winded Harvard is a prime subject for extensive medical and scientific examination, imho. Guess we should be grateful for Diplomatic Pouches mom.

    Now, let us all comprende, it will get worse before it gets better. It is what it is. If anything can go wrong, it will. Life on life’s terms. Bend over and take it. Use the rectal snare to remove the offending object.

    Happy birthday KG, you old fart.

  9. KG says:
    February 5, 2014 at 07:38

    Thanks, Michael, and Mawm.
    a) it’s a few days premature and
    b) my birthdays and our anniversaries are are ignored by mutual agreement in this household.
    (if a nomad camp may be described as a “household”)

    • Cadwallader says:
      February 5, 2014 at 08:25

      Being born increases your chance of dying immeasurably! Happy Birthday! I too treasure being a grumpy old prick….

    • Michael in Nelson says:
      February 5, 2014 at 09:21

      There was a recent (like this week) report that it is impossible to predict if an individual will suffer a heart attack based on the ‘trigger factors’. It is like trying to predict which uranium atom will degrade. You can talk about the group as a whole (a percentage of the population that have the trigger factors) but not a specific individual.

      Sort of like the smokers’ lugs used in transplants not increasing the risk of cancer in the recipients.

    • mawm says:
      February 5, 2014 at 10:19

      Well…. (short version) A raised blood sugar alters your low density lipoprotein which then promotes the formation of atheromatous plaques on the inside of your coronary arteries……..which leads to heart disease.

      OTOH, smoking counteracts all the bad effects of a high sugar diet……….(just joking). :mrgreen:

      • KG says:
        February 5, 2014 at 18:27

        OTOH, I have coffee with 3 sugars at least eight times a day, eat sweet food such as cream cakes etc and my blood sugar level is normal every time it’s tested… ;-)

        • mawm says:
          February 5, 2014 at 19:29

          Yes, but what is your blood sugar spike after eating the a high sugar meal?

          • KG says:
            February 5, 2014 at 22:01

            Dunno, Mawm. No doubt it spikes, and often.
            But since a scan and blood tests show no sign of heart disease it would seem the spikes aren’t having much effect.
            Probably too simplistic a view, but I’ll take it. :lol:

            • The Gantt Guy says:
              February 6, 2014 at 04:14

              hmmm. Seems like a high-risk lifestyle to me. You should ensure there’s a nurse close-by at all times. You know, just in case. ;-)

  12. Ronbo says:
    February 5, 2014 at 08:41

    As if we didn’t know this is the plan of our Communist government in the next few years.

    http://washingtonexaminer.com/justice-antonin-scalia-says-world-war-ii-style-internment-camps-could-happen-again/article/2543424

    It’s very simple (1) Declare martial law. (2) Lock up the opposition. (3) Gas the opposition.

    …but the best laid schemes of mice and men…. :mrgreen:

  14. mawm says:
    February 5, 2014 at 11:17

    Let’s get this right. Two women leave a nightclub at 0230h. Somebody snatches their purses and shoots one of them. And now the other is whining – “Where are our men? Why are they not protecting us?”. Her “political advisor” (Mannwell Glenn – yep, that’s its name) commented that the old code of the streets, that thieves don’t hurt women and children, is no longer honoured. Huh!

    Bwaahhhaaaaa………. So after decades of running down men and claiming equality with men you expect men to give up their lives for you? Behaving like a pair of drunken tarts and being on the streets at 0230h makes you a target. It is your behaviour that needs to be altered, not having street demonstrations called “Handbags 4 Peace”. http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_wacko.gif

    http://www.philly.com/philly/living/20140204__Men_are_failing_us___says_woman_planning_demonstration.html

  15. KG says:
    February 5, 2014 at 18:01

    “..So after decades of running down men and claiming equality with men you expect men to give up their lives for you? Behaving like a pair of drunken tarts and being on the streets at 0230h makes you a target.”
    AMEN!

  16. KG says:
    February 5, 2014 at 18:02

    urrrrgh…! I just paid $800 for a new pair of reading glasses.http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_wacko.gif

    • Darin says:
      February 5, 2014 at 23:19

      Similar story here with a lady who’s husband was a Dairyman.After he passed she began managing the farm fulltime.About a month in she said she never fully realized just how much work he did everyday,but was glad to carry it on for him after he was gone.

  18. KG says:
    February 5, 2014 at 23:35

    There are plenty of real partnerships and love stories out there we seldom get to hear about. Which is a pity.
    Instead we get effing celebrity gossip and fake relationships invented by PR agents.

  19. Contempt says:
    February 6, 2014 at 01:54

    :shock: KG, they have drug store glasses down there? At a recent eye apt I was told one eye is smaller than the other and I need my lids done. Could this explain why I go around in circles? If I like my eyes, I can keep my eyes. Period. Yo it’s worse than that. What did he say? Onward and upward and remember, do not mention that Ivy League dude please.

  20. HarvardPotatoHead says:
    February 6, 2014 at 02:12

    !!!DSSL?!!!*Holy Cow here come Diplomatic Pouch wid a cattle prod!!!outta here folks next time good thing YVT is a trained triathelete I ya ya ya Yiiiii

    *DSSL did someone say lids? Pray tell where can Yours Very Trulilily buy a few? BlackBerry needs more since he used all he had on that O’reilly interview. Undt in factular, word trends that most everybody down here in BlackBerry’s Underground Kompound is revolving 4 anything evolving to enable folks thru the takeover what may have already happened they say D Lexckture 2nite @ O’Keefe’s Feed & Seed Lot is “What does Harvard University have to do with it**”
    **the Harvard University Choir et Music School will entertain us with the preceding topic as tongue vocal chorded 2 D tune “What’s Love Got 2 Do wit hit” as vocalized by Tina Turner***with Tube “Snake” Boogular on bass, Dick Jvon Flabby on tenor, Jennifer GrabaRod, soprano, and Roberta Goodfook on rectal snare. Certain 2 B a really good shew.
    ***who leads honorarililyular the Harvard BUK**** Choir.
    ****BUK = BlackBerry’s Underground Kompound

  21. Contempt says:
    February 6, 2014 at 02:16

    :shock: Something tells me we are either fucked good or good fucks. :roll: I thought they had Harvard under control.

  22. KG says:
    February 6, 2014 at 08:00

    Picked up the new mag for the Sako. :grin:
    And this is interesting…is the new G2 RIP ammo all hype?
    ‘G2 RIP 9mm: no more effective than a .22 LR’
    http://knuckledraggin.com/2014/02/told-ya/

    • Darin says:
      February 6, 2014 at 12:32

      Maybe,maybe not.If given the choice I would rather have a .22lr than a 9mm.Reason being both will kill effectively,niether will punch through a car windshield reliably,but I can carry twice as many rounds of .22lr in the same space.I’m not a big fan of anything 9mm.IF the objective is to stop an attacker .357m .40sw and .45acp are still the go to pistol rounds IMO.

      All that said,here is a better review of the RIP –
      http://youtu.be/CQt3He4K5L8

      Notice that it penetrated both vests,also notice what the wound path looks like using clear gel.I guess if a fella already had a 9mm the RIP would deliver a bit better stopping performance.I would also like to see this applied to the other rounds mentioned since I think the results would be fairly impressive in say .45acp :twisted:

      Have you had a chance to try the Sako mag yet? :grin:

      • KG says:
        February 6, 2014 at 14:28

        It baffles me that the .22mag isn’t more popular, Darin. It’s a great little round, much more punch than the 22LR.
        No chance yet to try the mag, other than to cycle some rounds through. The last few tend to be a bit sticky, but I’m guessing they’ll feed just fine when they get the benefit of some recoil when live firing.
        In any case, the metalwork needs a bit of fine finishing and that’ll help.
        I’ll fire off some on the way home.
        Gecko is back in hospital for a couple of days (due, we suspect, to an effing GP not doing her job properly – or rather, failing to do it in a fit of pique :evil: )

  23. KG says:
    February 7, 2014 at 03:02

    Thanks guys. Gecko will be reading this on her iPad, and it cheers her up a lot. http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_good.gif

  24. The Gantt Guy says:
    February 7, 2014 at 04:06

    Apparently, even the term ‘asylum seekers’ is no longer palatable. Now, they’re “migrants”.

    Not asylum seekers
    Not illegal immigrants
    Not (the most accurate term) an invading army using the Camp of the Saints as a playbook.

    Nope. Migrants.

    Words fail. :evil: