Open house

Posted on January 31, 2015 by KG

motivator6ab75b6dab3c75feb1bf991cb1b527bbe9fed402Never mind those pesky academic records…..the dog ate them.

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62 Responses to Open house

  1. KG says:
    January 31, 2015 at 07:13

    ‘ROMNEY NOT RUNNING IN 2016’ (Fox)
    Making way for the Demdarling, the unelectable Jeb Bush?

  2. Michael in Nelson says:
    January 31, 2015 at 07:15

    Justice? We don’t need no stinkin’ Justice. Just show us the money!

    http://www.nationalreview.com/article/397551/scandals-justice-john-fund

    • KG says:
      January 31, 2015 at 07:41

      From your link:
      ‘… Nichols also didn’t spare the office of California Attorney General Kamala Harris, now a candidate for Barbara Boxer’s U.S. Senate seat and a national Democratic star. Nichols wrote that he can recall “no instance in experience over 47 years as an advocate and a judge, in which the conduct of the Attorney General so thoroughly departed from the high standard it represents, and, in every other instance has exemplified.” ..’

      Thes bastards should be in jail, starting with that piece of dog shit Holder. :evil:
      Only justice matters. In the absence of justice, all truth fails.

  4. Ronbo says:
    January 31, 2015 at 08:58

    Mitt Romney has officially announced that he will not be running for president. The statement came on a conference call with supporters and reporters Friday morning.

    “After putting considerable thought into making another run for president, I’ve decided it is best to give other leaders in the Party the opportunity to become our next nominee,” he said.

    Romney says that it is “unlikely” that he’ll change his mind, and he will tell supporters that he is not organizing a PAC, taking donations or hiring a campaign team. The news of his decision was first reported by radio-show host Hugh Hewitt.

    In an apparent jab at former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who is 61, Romney emphasized the need for a fresh face for the GOP.

    “I believe that one of our next generation of Republican leaders, one who may not be as well known as I am today, one who has not yet taken their message across the country, one who is just getting started, may well emerge as being better able to defeat the Democrat nominee,” he told supporters on the call. “In fact, I expect and hope that to be the case.”
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    It sounds like to me that Romney has seen the light…FINALLY :!:

    The only way the Republicans win in 2016 is with a Tea Party type at the top of the ticket.http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_good.gif

    • The Gantt Guy says:
      January 31, 2015 at 10:51

      “Romney says that it is “unlikely” that he’ll change his mind” … unless the stupid Rubes in Flyover Country look like they might make a huge mistake and nominate a … [gasp] … Conservative.

      • Wombat says:
        January 31, 2015 at 11:16

        Romney announced today that the banker cabals running America have not invited him to participate in the political kabuki theater we know as Democracy.
        “They made it abundantly clear” he was quoted as saying, “that they have chosen a candidate more suitably convincing to lose to Hillary Clinton, who they have already given the nod.”
        Meanwhile, a new conundrum has arisen for those plying the ancient trade of vote-rigging. An executive of Goldman Sachs was quoted as saying “we used to have to alter votes to place favorable candidates in the right congressional seats, but the new challenge has been inflating the number of votes actually cast in order to preserve the perceived legitimacy of the whole darn thing.”

        • KG says:
          January 31, 2015 at 11:26

          Too uncomfortably close to the truth, I suspect, Wombat.

          • Warren Tooley says:
            February 1, 2015 at 03:19

            KG, Eustace Mullins explained it this way, their’s the federal reserve republicans and the federal reserve democrats. Because ultimately its the banks that run the show. If I was an American I would have voted for Romney. He had a 5 point plan, that in my view is exactly what America needs.

            Reciprocal trade agreements with China. If they won’t be fair why should the US be fair to China. Let small business thrive, Oil independence for all of North America, let the Saudis sell to others. Thats three can’t remember the others. And also he was for a 20% tax cut, with a conditional slash on low income tax rebates.

            So if the banks don’t want to back him, that doesn’t say good things about the banks. And wanting to back Obama says plenty of negative about banks.

            • Darin says:
              February 1, 2015 at 07:20

              One of the little known myths about American oil consumption is how much oil we get from the ME.
              Everyone sees the amount we get from OPEC and immediately equates that to ME oil.
              In reality we get very little oil from the ME with the bulk of our OPEC oil coming from Venezuela.
              Our #1 and #2 sources of imported oil are#1 Canada and #2 Mexico.
              So when you hear someone say that the wars and our ME policy are driven by oil,it’s partly true that it is,but it’s not our supply that is being defended.
              So who’s oil are we fighting for?A whole laundry list of European and Asian countries who depend on ME oil.
              We recognised decades ago that the world runs on energy,and that the Gulf nations produced most of it.He who controls the Gulf controls the economy of that part of the world that uses oil from the region,or about 2 Billion people.As a result we decided to do what we can to keep the price stable.If the oil market becomes unstable and prices spike,we have the 2007/08 global economic meltdown all over again.

              That is why I have always supported the Keystone XL pipeline.The same way the Alaskan pipeline halted future price spikes and limited the leverage other nations had over not only us,but 1/3 the worlds developed population,the KSXL will help stabilize prices,increase domestic stocks and limit China’s expansion by denying them access to Canadian oil.
              The KSXL is a win-win for everyone involved,which is why I say Obama’s blocking it is a clear sign that he is an Anti-American,anti-free market marxist traitor.

              • Warren Tooley says:
                February 1, 2015 at 11:17

                Darin, I’ve been reading ‘oil beneath our feet’. In it, it explains how their is plenty of oil in Alaska. However, Henry Kissinger made a deal with the Arabs that they would keep on buying their oil and not Alaska’s if they would have confidence in US dollars. At that time the US had stopped guaranteeing that $35 was guaranteed to buy you one ounce of gold. So their is plenty of oil, but these people want to create problems. Anyhow I wasn’t aware that Venezuela is suck a significant part.

  5. KG says:
    January 31, 2015 at 11:40

    If true, Clint Eastwood just went up a few notches in my estimation:
    ‘Clint Eastwood threatened to KILL Michael Moore: Documentary maker reveals that American Sniper director claimed he would shoot him if he appeared at his front door with a camera’
    (Via Lucianne.com)

    • Wombat says:
      January 31, 2015 at 16:33

      The caption of one particular picture:

      “Death from above: This rocket could have been fired from American-led coalition forces whose airstrikes targeted IS fighters in the city”

      As if anyone needed more evidence that the average journalist doesn’t know shit. Nothing says “first-world air-to-ground weapons” like a rusty iron pipe with fins unevenly spot-welded to it. :roll:

      Where’s Fred Reed when you need him?

  7. mawm says:
    January 31, 2015 at 17:48

    Isn’t it nice to know that Australia and New Zealand are respectively the 6th and 7th most expensive countries to live in? But why? It is not as if we in NZ have a vast public transport infrastructure, nor do we spend nearly as much per capita on health care as the majority of other OECD countries, nor do we have a defence force (well, not really anyway), and our spending per capita on education is again below the OECD average. I’m sure I could find many other things we are below average compared to other OECD countries. :roll:

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-30/visualizing-cost-living-around-world

    • KG says:
      January 31, 2015 at 18:02

      I believe a very large part of the problem is the numbers of people on welfare and in unproductive “work” Mawm.
      Add to that the insane prices for land and houses….
      The other thing we’ve noticed since being back here is the rip-off prices in retail outlets. I can buy tools and goods online (new) often for 30-50% less than in NZ. And that’s including freight.
      I posted a long time ago about how many senior defence force staff are sitting on their backsides in Wellington. I forget the figures, but they were very, very high.
      That extravagance permeates the whole of this society. It seems Kiwis have never heard the expression “to cut one’s coat according to the cloth”.

      • mawm says:
        January 31, 2015 at 18:16

        Land prices in Auckland are ridiculous but with the cost of materials and labour I can’t see how they can build a house for much less – although I see we have large houses by British and European standards. (sorry, no link). And of course there are the costs in getting “consent” and other endless bureaucratic hoops to jump through.

        Profit margins on imported goods are high, especially for marine items, but when you suggest you can buy it cheaper on line the agents waffle on about (their non existent) after sales support.

        Do we really have more welfare bludgers and a more top heavy military than our British, and American cousins?

        For the actual work I do I think I’m extravagantly remunerated…..well, certainly compared to my earnings before, and I’ve never paid as little tax as I do now. http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_yahoo.gif

        • Warren Tooley says:
          February 1, 2015 at 11:34

          Mawm, Gantt guy and KG. New Zealanders have taken for granted their natural resources. Because we have the best farms, and the best weather for it, and we have accumulated technology for it over the years, farming is what we do. We also have tourism. We cannot expect to be an ever wealthy country, if all we do is just those two things. Especially with all the migrants expecting that someone will just give them a job.

          Another person in the country means another person looking for a service job. It is high time that New Zealand started to think about developing new industries. And don’t say IT, IT is a service industry. One of the big things holding NZ back is lack of business capital. NZ has the third lowest capital intensity per person in the whole OECD. So Germany has double what we have. Its like Germany is using a petrol mower, while we are using a push mower. You can’t expect the same hourly pay, if it takes you twice as long.

          Is the government helping? The banks lend to the government, that means less for businesses. And when they lend on property, this means people can afford more on property, which makes rates go up. Until NZ starts to develop new industries, we will continue to have more people coming into the country looking for more service jobs.

          Its not going to be easy, but three of the things that need to go is this Maori privileges at the taxpayers expense. Another thing that has to go, is universal DPB with those on the DPB getting the same state pension as those who work hard, and finally the ETS.

          While their is plenty of waste, if we just deal with those three things, it would mean more loan money would be available to those who want to develop new industries. And yes Gantt last time I brought this up we violently agreed, at least on the savings and capital intensity part.

          • KG says:
            February 1, 2015 at 11:47

            Sounds pretty right to me, Warren. But I can’t see things changing in a hurry, because most people prefer the feeling of “security” that comes with putting up with the imperfect rather than trying for something better.
            The ones who are even aware that there’s a problem, that is….

            • Warren Tooley says:
              February 1, 2015 at 17:42

              That’s exactly it KG. If people keep on listening to these silly politicians with empty promises. Same failed solutions to same problems, we’re going to go nowhere. Only when enough people realise what the problem is, will things change.

              And I think college students is ideal. If a college graduate will try something, that will make a difference. Once they have a secure job, they won’t want to risk it.

              The other side is technological automation. Technological automation makes people obsolete, so they don’t have security anyways, once they’ve lost their job. But yes, it will take a lot before people will go for it.

      • The Gantt Guy says:
        February 1, 2015 at 08:30

        Yep, you nailed it KG. There are simply too many New Zealanders content to spend their lives sitting on their arses and letting everyone else fund them. And, when that occurs, of course there are equally too many cardigan-wearing do-gooders (mostly in Wellington, but also liberally sprinkled throughout the rest of the country) more than willing to latch on to the taxpayer teat and spend their lives telling everyone else what to do, what not to do, and how to live.

        That’s how you get into a situation where “government spending” sucks up more than 40% of GDP, and where “government” debt is running at 36% of GDP.

        See, every single cent of that money – both the borrowed and the stolen – is taken from those who earned it (or who will earn it) and given to those who didn’t, whether to fund their sloth or to fund their predilection for telling others how to live.

        Prices are so damned high for two reasons: first, they need to steal more and more from the productive in order to fund the unproductive, and secondly the cost of the meddling by those who enjoy telling everyone else what to do – whether it be form-filling, or inspection-getting, or IWI-appeasing, or OSH-requirement-complying – is a MASSIVE drain on the productive sector.

        This situation is directly caused by the universal franchise. By allowing those who have made no contribution to the treasury, and whose lives depend on taking from the treasury, politicians are incentivised to create ever-greater numbers of those whose lives depend on the taking at the expense of the givers and they do this by creating ever-greater numbers of “programmes” which are nothing more than increasing intrusion into peoples’ lives. Like socialism itself, the universal franchise has not worked, will not work, can not work.

        So first, let’s shoot all the politicians.

  8. KG says:
    January 31, 2015 at 18:29

    “Do we really have more welfare bludgers and a more top heavy military than our British, and American cousins?”
    I doubt it. But a tiny military such as New Zealand’s ought to be capable of being run far more efficiently than the big boys’. How many bloody Admirals and Air Commodores do we need?
    As for welfare…I simply don’t know. But I do know that the capacity of a tiny economy to absorb costs is necessarily constrained by a lack of flexibility.
    A large workforce can absorb and handle – say – 10% of them being useless. A small one can’t.

  9. Wombat says:
    February 1, 2015 at 00:26

    It’s politically terrifying that just one term after QLD Labour’s debt-a-thon the Liberals are again facing defeat.
    As always, I don’t trust any of the bastards.
    What concerns me is how it reflects on the politics of the average Australian.

    • KG says:
      February 1, 2015 at 08:55

      “What concerns me is how it reflects on the politics of the average Australian.”
      Me too, Wombat.
      How Queenslanders, after the Anna Bligh disaster, can vote out the only hope of fixing the massive debt her government left behind them just boggles my mind.
      But what I have noticed in recent years is how much the population of urban Queensland has changed in character. The resources boom has brought vast numbers of Southerners from the failed states of S.A. and Victoria to live in Qld.
      And too many of them have brought their screwed-up attitudes with them.
      For some reason, these clowns think the attitudes that caused their own states to fail won’t also screw Queensland. :evil:

      • MvL says:
        February 1, 2015 at 09:33

        “The resources boom has brought vast numbers of Southerners from the failed states of S.A. and Victoria to live in Qld.”
        Add the locals into the mix and you get a
        reflection on the politics of the average Australian..

        • MvL says:
          February 1, 2015 at 09:34

          Sorry should have tipped the hat to Tim Blair for the above link :oops:

          • KG says:
            February 1, 2015 at 09:53

            I don’t think the photograph shows anything at all about the politics of the average Australian, MvL.
            Whatever an “average Australian” is nowadays, because the attitudes of urban Australians are mostly very different to those who live out in the country areas. Australia’s tragedy is that the urbanites pretty much dictate the country’s direction.

            • Wombat says:
              February 1, 2015 at 12:13

              Perhaps instead of “average” we could use the term “median”.

              Personally I think the change is less migratory in nature and more to do with the age demographics.

              Now that the boomers are hitting pension age hardcore socialism will go full-steam-ahead.

              The migration (IMO) is less to do with failed states and more to do with retirement. Queensland is Australia’s Florida, and when you’re on the public tit you can feel free to chase good scenery and pleasant weather rather than jobs.

              Of course, I’m referring to the median baby boomer here. They aren’t all politically poisonous moochers. :mrgreen:

              Aside, my home of Tasmania is also becoming a gigantic retirement villa for those who prefer cold to heat. Sadly, it seems that in spite of the fact that the boomers spent their working years in a period of unrivaled prosperity with minimal environmental regulation many of them are now demanding a public pension AND demanding the younger generations shackle their own ability to earn a living with massively onerous environmental obligations, y’know’ so as not to damage their precious fucking scenery. It was real nice of them to grow an environmental conscience AFTER they retired, but they’ll tell you it’s for the fucking grand-kids, right?

              Again. Some, not all, but enough to make life a lot tougher.

              • KG says:
                February 1, 2015 at 15:06

                “The migration (IMO) is less to do with failed states and more to do with retirement.”
                Perhaps, but I know Townsville was full of young people who’d moved there from Southern states. And retailers I spoke to said the same thing.

                • Wombat says:
                  February 1, 2015 at 18:55

                  A mix of issues, no doubt. I know a lot of youth are moving from the sticks to the big smoke because they were raised lazy and farm work is hard.

  10. KG says:
    February 1, 2015 at 09:15

    ‘Islamic KiwiSaver ready to go
    New Zealand’s first Islamic KiwiSaver fund has been launched with a promise not to invest in alcohol, Western entertainment or pornography.
    ….It will invest in line with Sharia law, ruling out many investment funds, and also requiring interest “purification payments”…’
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11394784

  11. KG says:
    February 1, 2015 at 11:19

    Sigh……there’s never a shortage of idiots, is there?
    http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff-nation/11149502/I-m-childfree-for-Mother-Earth

  12. Oswald Bastable says:
    February 1, 2015 at 11:25

    Excellent- if she sticks to the plan. More likely she will change her mind past 40 then bemoan the cost of fertility treatment and demand ‘the government’ pay for it… :evil:

  13. KG says:
    February 1, 2015 at 11:32

    Of course. It’s free money, donchaknow.

  14. KG says:
    February 1, 2015 at 11:38

    Speaking of idiots……
    ‘Obama Ready to Help Finance $160 Billion in India Green Energy
    We’ll be paying China so India can install solar panels with money we borrowed from China…’ http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_wacko.gif
    http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/dgreenfield/obama-ready-to-help-finance-160-billion-in-india-green-energy/

    • Darin says:
      February 1, 2015 at 14:55

      The Indian economy is growing at a better rate than our own,they can buy their own great green bird blending crucifixes.

  15. KG says:
    February 1, 2015 at 12:57

    Good grief! It’s raining! More of a drizzle, really, but useful.
    Now I’ll be mowing the grass every other day by next week.

    • KG says:
      February 1, 2015 at 15:00

      I like this comment under that item:
      ‘Turn a sprinkler on over night and lock the car in place until spring.’
      http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_good.gif

  17. KG says:
    February 1, 2015 at 19:53

    NZ headline:
    ‘A celebrant who asked mourners to put aside their anger when she officiated at the funeral of a Taranaki shooting victim is now herself dead, and a homicide inquiry is under way.’
    Why the hell should they “put aside their anger”? And what right had she to suggest they should?