Busy making and fixing stuff.
News headline: ‘Almost 200 crashes on NZ roads since 4pm on Christmas Eve, including one fatal. ‘ Great drivers, Kiwis…… 
CrusaderRabbit
FOR LIBERTY
Busy making and fixing stuff.
News headline: ‘Almost 200 crashes on NZ roads since 4pm on Christmas Eve, including one fatal. ‘ Great drivers, Kiwis……
Ratbastard Google: Our friend Oswald Bastable is under attack. His site is no more “adult content” than Mary Poppins. There’s a war on free speech underway and we could lose it.
http://oswaldbastable.blogspot.co.nz/
Too much truth. The chattering classes cannot handle the truth.
Hell no! It’s like garlic to a vampire.
Fixed it. Adult seems to be the new default for ‘non right- thinking’ folks.
Yep. And Google has to be one of the most evil companies on the planet. Bastards.
The headline:
‘Crash figures link drop in speeds to lives saved’
…Figures released under the Official Information Act suggest a lowered speed limit on an infamous stretch of State Highway 2 has brought early safety gains – reducing deaths and serious injuries by 27 per cent and cutting the crash rate by 26 per cent…’
However…
‘But not all are convinced the data is conclusive. Road safety campaigner Clive Matthew-Wilson, who edits car review website dogandlemon.com, says although it’s reasonable to lower the speed limit in high-risk areas, the SH2 statistics are not reliable.
“These are not reliable figures, because there are always jumps and falls from one year to the next,” he said.
“For example, in the year after the lowered speed zones were put in place, the number of fatalities actually increased substantially, from two to three. Similarly, there was one serious accident on this stretch in 2012 and three in 2013.
“It would be ridiculous to claim that the lowered speed limit had tripled the number of serious accidents. Any statistician will tell you, you can’t use single-digit figures over a relatively short timeframe to try and prove or disprove the effectiveness of a campaign.”..’
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11566172
Nannying propaganda is no substitute for properly trained drivers.
In Germany you have to go to driver’s education for six months – and you can only miss a couple of classes.
This you pay for out of your own pocket and they say it’s easier to get a private pilot license in America than a driver’s license in Germany.
The result: drivers who drive a car at top speed everywhere like an ME-109 in the Battle of Britain!
It all comes down to driver training, does’nt it? It can be a shitbox car and tricky road and weather conditions, but a good driver takes those things into account reflexively.
All else is simply excuses.
I have been fighting a two year battle at work to get advanced driver training for those who are on the road a lot. I have- as have others- pointed out that this is the activity most likely to result in death or serious injury, but the H&as wonks have chosen to ignore the inconvienient truth.
Got new on the last day that I have won and money for defensive driving courses has been put into next years budget.
A great win, Oswald!
You wouldn’t think it would be necessary to argue for such a commonsense measure, would you?
Always baffled me.
Tick someone off for a drivers license after they potter around the block as if they’re driving miss Daisy?
My ten year old could do that.
So what happens when a roo runs out in front of them at 100kph?
As we know, they panic, swerve, hit the brakes and then they hit the ‘roo AND a tree.
Or some poor bastard coming in the other direction.
Ah, busy making and fixing stuff. The difference between the Antipodean Christmas and the English Christmas in a nutshell. During a normal winter here we don’t want to leave the house for a week or so. The only making and fixing I’ve ever done this time of year is make quill floats and re-whip me rods. Anyway, it’s still Christmas night here, bottle by the neck, roaring fire, and good blogs to read. What more could a man ask for? Before you say it, I’m too old to bother about that, unless I can get me armchair widened a bit.
“I’m too old to bother about that..” There’s always a way, Andy.
Pleased to see you’re a fisherman, too.
Yup,I’d say that’s a close formation
https://youtu.be/SDKfQA1PIHk
Excellent! Perhaps Europe will rise…
‘A crowd has vandalised a Muslim prayer room in Corsica a day after an ambush left firefighters injured on the French island.
…On Friday, a gathering that started as a show of support for the injured emergency officials turned violent, and some in the crowd vandalised a prayer room. France 3 reported new police reinforcements at other prayer rooms…’
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/muslim-prayer-hall-in-corsica-damaged/news-story/4bb85ece08f2fc0495bac170e3318b3a
A fine post by Daniel Greenfield:
‘Trump, Dictatorship and Competing With An Illiberal Left’
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com.au/2015/12/trump-dictatorship-and-competing-with.html
Great article,This comment strikes the nail square-
“An ominous prognosis, Daniel. “The support for Trump without regard to his qualifications, statements, integrity, credibility, knowledge, consistency, etc is the end result of this state of affairs.” One could just as well say, “The support for Obama without regard to his qualifications, statements, integrity, credibility, knowledge, consistency, etc. is the end result of this state of affairs.” 2016 will reveal Trump’s inner angels and inner demons. If he keeps up his “act” I can’t help but see him winning, regardless of what the GOPHERS do or say to him or about him. They’ll need to out-Trump Trump and say things we all know they don’t want to say. But I sense that they can’t decide which they fear most: Trump or actually standing for something and not succumbing to the temptation to screw their voter base again.”
At least, not succumbing to that temptation until after the election when it’s back to suspended debt ceilings and trillion dollar deficits.
Thanks for the tip. I had an issue with his last analogy. So I posted the following comment with questions. I hope he answers (if he can).
An oldie but a goodie.
https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2007/07/05/walter-mittys-second-amendment/
Depressing as hell, though.
‘…In that land, an astronomical number of regulations, filling more than 96,000 pages in the government’s “code of regulations,” were promulgated by persons who were not elected by the people. The regulators often developed close relationships with the businesses they regulated, and work in “agencies” that had the power both to make law — and to enforce it.
The agencies were not established by the government’s constitution, and their existence violated that instrument’s principle of separation of powers. Yet the people retained the right to keep and bear arms. Just in case their government, some day, ceased to be a “government of the people….’
Damn right. Depressing or not it’s the truth.
One central truth will need to be grasped before anything changes…
This series of usurpations and atrocities will not end until rebellion and civil war end it. Take up arms, kill the enemy or live as slaves.
Anything short of that is impotent dreaming.
Absent those measures, why would the tyrants ever cease and desist?
And that’s a question that needs to be asked of anybody who still believes in the ballot box as the answer.
Since I’m doing good this holiday season money wise after the generous 5-figure insurance settlement from my “Hit And Run” rendezvous with a “Death Mobile” going 40 MPH driven by an elderly 80 year old driver tourist – who allegedly got the gas pedal confused with the brake pedal – while I was innocently crossing the street at the corner of Pike Street Market in a crosswalk that was controlled by a “Stop Sign.”
Details here: http://ronbosoldier.blogspot.com/2015/08/i-was-almost-murdered-today-in-seattle.html
Anyhow, the extra cash has allowed to engage in one of my favorite hobbies – reading. I don’t buy or borrow books from the public library – I purchase the reading material by way of Kindle – and read them on my PC or tablet. This holiday season I’ve downloaded several Kindle books to include Michael Savage’s new masterwork: “Government Zero” (What Savage means in this context is “MAXIMUM GOVERNMENT”)
Excellent book review here:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/10/michael_savages_emgovernment_zeroem.html
After reading this book review, I immediately purchased the Kindle book, because I couldn’t lay out a better case for American Revolution 2.0!
I’ve only read part of Chapter I, but whether or not Savage intent is to be making a pitch for the violent overthrow of the U.S. Federal Government (USG) by Patriots (nationalists) he does achieve that very aim.
Great minds in the West World are thinking alike – more and more – and what they’re thinking is that only by a violent seizure of power on the part of WE THE PEOPLE can representative democracy be restored.
As is well known, I’m a limited government nationalist of the James Madison constitutionalist school – but I think – as do many American Patriots – that in these critical times we join forces with nationalists in other countries, who want a more extensive central government – for instance, the nationalists of France.
HAPPY NEW YEAR GREETINGS to the Crusader community and be aware whether you intended it or not, you have joined the WORLD NATIONALIST REVOLUTION…
“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers (and sisters)…” heh?
…and like Leonard Cohen said, “First we take Manhattan then we take Berlin…”
I envy you,I do tons of reading,but it’s all boring technical and business inventory crap
Sitting out here on the edge of the desert I read the following article.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/75271603/afghan-interpreters-looking-to-leave-hamilton-amid-security-concerns
What a surprise, I mean who would have thought that the return of person from prison could cause such a kerfuffle in a city that has won awards for its diversity!
Welcome to Godzone folks.
Roy Orbison -American Bandstand 1966
https://youtu.be/te4K8YIKcMQ
Much,much better than today’s crap.
A late entry for the idiot driver of the month nomination, but I’ll suggest a worthy one.
http://www.wdrb.com/story/30830559/truck-wedges-itself-in-paoli-bridge-causing-it-to-collapse
Yup,idiot driver for not heeding the warnings,but I never understood all those little townships that insist in keeping those old horse and buggy era relics open to vehicle traffic.They are nice to look at,but are death traps in the modern day.
Hey, Mick. That truck of your is insured, right?
Yeah, Jim.
Interested in helping me with a redevelopment and zoning issue? Pay’s good.
Years ago my grandfather in NW Ohio farmed about 1500 acres,600 he owned and the rest he leased.
The leased land was just a mile down the road,but it was a 20 mile trip by tractor because the only bridge crossing the creek on that road was an old quarried stone bridge left over from horse and buggy days that the county refused to replace.
Then one day a scrap truck driver made a wrong turn and down went the old bridge forcing the county to replace it.My grandfather found out who the driver was and bought him the best Steak dinner in town
More than one way to skin a cat.
Observation for the day.
The right talks about secession routinely but the left never does. Odd, considering they profess to hate us so much and have a solid hold on the only parts of society they think are of any value.
Clearly, deep down, they realise they need the right as tax slaves.
And I’m not talking about the leaders. Even the socialist-on-the-street never speaks about secession
If the right seceded from the left (no surgical operation, but you get the gist) we would have little to no problem. The left? All the basics. Food. Water. Electricity. Gone within weeks if not days.
No competent police or military men. Thousands of teachers working for people who never bothered to have any kids. The list is infinite.
All we have to do to win this is to have the guts to step away. Up roots if we have to. We won’t be gone long before we’re moving back to clear out the corpses and reclaim what we left behind.
I have noticed a trend,white collar workers and degree holders are a dime a dozen and more often than not unemployed,except in the medical profession.
People like me that don’t have a degree,but know how to build and fix almost anything are in ever increasingly short supply.There are few coming up in the skilled trades and as we get older there are less and less people who can keep the world running.
The elites think they can just import labor,but as they are finding out it’s hard to say run a sewer plant with people from a country that doesn’t have sewer plants.
“All we have to do to win this is to have the guts to step away.”
YES!
“but as they are finding out it’s hard to say run a sewer plant with people from a country that doesn’t have sewer plants…”
Yep. Even if they force the retiring (or terminated) workers to “train” their replacements, the result will be a disaster. Especially if the replaced Americans indulge in a little Midnight Modification.
“The elites think they can just import labor,but as they are finding out it’s hard to say run a sewer plant with people from a country that doesn’t have sewer plants.”
Classic. If you don’t mind I might borrow that elsewhere.
Simply amazed, we are:
‘Muslim Charities in Britain Face Growing Threat From Islamic State Infiltration’
Let me demonstrate my talent for translation.
“Local muslim troughers lament growing loss of jizya to foreign muslims.”