How Do The Greens Stack Up?

Fairfacts Media sums up over at No Minister.

"Thus, you see how the Greens want to regulate, control, and more likely ban everything there is. Even for things that might not have connections to what most people consider environmental.
Hence, the Greens are the ultimate nannies, as shown in their promotion of the anti-smacking bill in New Zealand.
This is why they truly are the watermelon Party, green on the outside, red in the middle. They love socialism and marxism for their love of control. Greens seek to tax, regulate, control, not just big business business but people. Scratch a Greenie and you get the ultimate totalitarian. Ban flying, ban cars, ban large families. Ban smoking, but not if it is cannabis."

Read all of it HERE and at The FairFacts Media Show.

Isn't It Time ....

the sheeple saw the real agenda behind the Global Alarm Fest.

Watch the video.



And read about it here at 'Watts Up With That'.

The 'A' Team

Meg, Jessie, Ned, Ben, Pip & Gem.

Pip & Gem.

My Turn ...

When I used to chuck bunnies on the lawn for Jason, one of the locals got to know about it and would regularly cruise over to check what was on offer.

If he spotted Jason's left-overs, he would drop in for a feed.

Harrier Hawk.

Jason

In the mid '90's a friend of ours rang from Motueka to ask us if we wanted a big ginger cat. He told us that the cat, 'Jason Ginger', had been owned by an old lady up there who had gone into a home and Jason was now residing in a cattery.

The cattery had been trying to find a home for Jason but because of his age at four years, there were no takers; the cattery were thinking of putting him down.

We told Dave that yes, we would like the cat but getting him all the way down to Sheffield would probably pose too much of a problem ... wouldn't it?

Dave said, "If you want to have him, I'll get him down to you".

This was at the time when Ansett Airlines were running their very popular cat ad on TV and Dave being a very enthusiastic kind of chap and full of bright ideas, decided to give Air New Zealand a bell and make a proposition. He told ANZ that if they would fly Jason to Christchurch for nothing, he would get the story in the news papers. They agreed!

Jason duly arrived at Christchurch on a 737 and we brought him home.

The funniest thing I've seen in a long, long time was when we let Jace out of his cage in the kitchen, still drugged up to the eyeballs with his mandatory dose for flying on the airline, and our pet baby wallaby went hopping by. I can still see him sitting there watching the wallaby with a pissed look on his face. I imagined him thinking, "Wow! Look at the size of that mouse!"

Dave, true to his word, not only got the story of Jason's flight to freedom on the front page of the Nelson Mail but in the Press also.

The favourite winter spot.

The greatest excitment was when I shot a rabbit and chucked it out on the lawn.

Jason owned us for the next twelve years.

Unfortunately, for the last three years of his life Jason had diabetes and was on a very strict diet; no more bunnies, and I had to give him two insulin shots a day. At sixteen years old it all got too much for him and we had to put him down.

But I reckon he had a pretty good life, with his own pet humans and a farm to roam around.

Inspired by Gecko With Canon.

Just Thinkin

Yesterday would have been a good time for Barry to start drafting his 'Declaration Of Dependence'.

Winter '09

I talked to my brother in Fiji on Skype the other day. He was sitting in his office, dressed in his light, short-sleeved shirt, skiting about how warm it was. 30 deg he said, while we were in the house shivering by the fire with an outside temp of about 3 deg.

Woke up to snow this morning and decided to put some pickies on here to show big bro what it's actually like in the 'real world'!

Looking slightly south of Christchurch. Coalgate centre right.

Through the shoulder of the right hand goat is Springfield ... Torlesse Range behind.

Sou' West toward Whitecliffs.

Animated Knots by Grog

I am so impressed by this site, Animated Knots by Grog, I've put a permanent link to it on the sidebar.

Be sure to read 'The Grog Story' here.

Update: Found another great site for fishing, rigging and equestrian knots in 'Andy's World of Knots' at Marinews ... down the page a bit.

Horse Quotes

• To err is human, to blame the horse is even more human.

• A Horseman should know neither fear, nor anger.

• The most wonderful thing about riding, is getting off and knowing you've both enjoyed it.

• A stubborn horse walks behind you, an impatient horse walks in front of you, but a noble companion walks beside you.

• Care, and not fine stables, makes a good horse.

• Never ride faster than your guardian angel can fly!

• The horse stopped with a jerk, and the jerk fell off.

• When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.

• I have seen things so beautiful, they have brought tears to my eyes. Yet, none of them can match the gracefulness and beauty of a horse running free.

• The horse you get off is not the same as the horse you got on; it is your job as a rider to ensure that as often as possible the change is for the better.

• All horses deserve - at least once in their lives - to be loved by a little girl.

• If you take the time it takes, it will take less time.

• Horse's need a strong leader, not a rough and tough leader

• A poor craftsman blames his tools; A poor horseman blames his horse.

• In tug-of-war, the dumber animal always wins.

• Ask not what your horse can do for you - Ask what you can do for your horse.

• A young trooper should have an old horse.

• No one can teach riding so well as a horse.

More from Think Like A Horse .

Prelude du Fornication

The Bear, The Lion & The Pig

A bear, a lion and a pig meet.

Bear says: "If I roar in the forest, the entire forest is shivering with fear."

Lion says: "If I roar in the jungle, the entire jungle is afraid of me."

Pig says: "Big deal.... I only have to cough, and the entire planet shits itself."

Country Calender

When the TV crew rang Dick to ask if they could come on the cattle muster and film it for Country Calender, they asked if they needed to pay for accommodation and food. Dick answered, "No. You bring the beer and we'll bring the tucker!"

And that's what they did!

It was a great muster, enlivened by heaps of raucous hilarity in the huts at night.

It's a real shame they had to edit 8 1/2 hours of video down to 22 minutes for the program.

On the next episode, screening June 20 at 7pm on TV ONE:

While most eight-year-olds pester their parents for a new toy, a trip to the movies or a digital device, Mount White Station's Mark Smith had a different birthday present in mind.

Mark was desperate to take his pony on the Canterbury high country station's annual cattle muster - and when he got his wish, a Country Calendar crew went with him.

According to his dad, station manager Richard Smith, the youngster had been pleading for over a year to join him and the other stockmen on the four-day muster.

Read more and check out the links at the bottom of the page.

See it here.

Spot the WebWrat.

Socialism - Religion Of Peace And Harmony

A wonderful example of how 'Leftards' will attack your opinion and try to shut you down on Kiwiblog.

1. WebWrat (253) Vote: 12 3 Says:
   June 18th, 2009 at 6:12 pm

   How many thousands of words have been posted about this bloody smacking thing? All about the pros and cons of smacking/disciplining kids.

   You are all pissing into the wind and as long as your arse points down you will never convince the ‘other side’ of your point of view.

   The ’smacking bill’ has got nothing at all to do with the welfare of the nations children. It’s all about OWNERSHIP …. the government wants to OWN all of you people. Both sides of the fence. And the lefty lickspittles with their frontal lobotomies want to help them.

   A bill introduced by an MP that was not voted in, working for a socialist people engineering party that got into power with the barest minimum of votes is controlling how a whole nation can raise their OWN children, it is an absolute disgrace.

   I just can’t believe how anyone can support this as an acceptable situation.

   If John Key wants to treat us as ballot numbers, as the previous disgusting government did, he’s lost my vote.

   Be a good poll for you to do DPF …. “How does John’s attutude affect your view of National?” “Good, Bad or Ugly?”

2. Rebel Heart (247) Vote: 3 9 Says:
   June 18th, 2009 at 8:18 pm

   WebWrat: If John Key wants to treat us as ballot numbers, as the previous disgusting government did, he’s lost my vote.

   He had your vote? You must be as stupid as the person who wrote the letter in David’s OP and didn’t know the difference between voting for Labour and ACT. It’s pathetic how all of a sudden people like you get on your moral high horses and think your vote is something that has any value or worth that you can brag about. Key made the compromise with Clark BEFORE the election, yet you still went ahead and voted for him. Therefore it’s your own fault for being such an idiot in the first place dumbass.

3. WebWrat (253) Vote: 6 1 Says:
   June 18th, 2009 at 9:05 pm

   Rebel Heart.

   Do me a favour an point out where I said I voted for National.

   There’s a good boy.

   Now you can wipe the shit off your chin.

4. Rebel Heart (247) Vote: 0 11 Says:
   June 18th, 2009 at 9:35 pm

   WebWrat: Rebel Heart. Do me a favour an point out where I said I voted for National. There’s a good boy. Now you can wipe the shit off your chin.

   You said he lost your vote, implying that he had it in the first place, dumb fuck. Eat your own shit that you failed to wipe off your own ass fool.
   

5. WebWrat (253) Vote: 3 0 Says:
   June 18th, 2009 at 9:38 pm

   Actually I didn’t vote at all.

Bullshit Baffles Brains

Graph from NRO .

I hear people are quietly peeling their Obama bumper stickers off while guiltily looking around with a "Who me!" expression on their face.

Winter 2006

A couple days ago I was over at No Minister and read Fairfacts Media's post on Gorbal Warming.

Seeing the sat shot reminded me of the big dump of Global Warming we had in 2006. In fact I think the sat photo I lifted from Fairfacts is of said dump.


From NIWA:

Two severe winter snowstorms accompanied by bitterly cold conditions, and later heavy frost contributed to a particularly cold June. The national average temperature of 7.3 °C was 1.2 °C below the 1971-2000 normal. This was the coldest June since 1972 which recorded 6.7 °C. The regions with the largest anomalies, more than 2.0 °C below average, were Waikato, King Country, inland Marlborough, South Canterbury, and North Otago. Parts of South Canterbury and North Otago recorded their lowest June mean temperatures in more than 50 years of record. One snowstorm hit Canterbury over 11-12 June, producing snow depths of 15 – 90 cm. The other affected the central North Island over 20-22 June. These were accompanied by bitterly cold conditions, and later heavy frost. There were more days than average in June with air frost over much of New Zealand, especially in the central North Island and the southeast of the South Island. Precipitation was about 200 percent (twice) of normal in South Canterbury. In contrast, June rainfall totals were 50 percent (half) or less of normal in much of Bay of Plenty. June was much sunnier than normal in all western and southern regions, with record high June totals in Northland, Auckland, and Waikato, and coastal Otago. Anticyclones ('highs') were much more frequent than average for June in the Australian Bight with ridges of high pressure extending into the south Tasman Sea. This pattern resulted in frequent cold southerly winds over New Zealand.

It was bad enough here where we had no power, water or phone for about two weeks, but it was far worse down in South Canterbury where the severe frosts prevented the snow from melting for 8 or 9 weeks. For all that time there were dozens of farms without power because of the exceptional number of power poles that were brought down by the snow.

I think Mitre 10 and Bunnings had a boom in selling portable generators!

We were lucky in that we didn't have the severe frosts here and our snow melted in about a week. The down-side was that the hillsides were so wet I had to use the wee dozer and trailer to feed the deer for three weeks.


HELP! How do you change the publish date on a post that has been saved in 'Draft's for a few days?

Posted this on the 20th.

Gem Surveys Her Realm

Goofy

Phil-In Goof poses for a photo after the 'Honey Pot' sting he orchestrated, in collusion with a couple of fraudsters, to remove a National MP and smear the PRIME MINISTER of New Zealand.

Happily Murphy stepped in and Mr Goof's corrupt and dishonest intent was exposed by Mr Whaleoil (among others but with absolutely no help [well they wouldn't would they?] from the Lame Steam Media) as being a pathetic and dishonest attempt to use gutter politics to further Labours own agenda.

Wouldn't it be nice if they were actually concerned for the citizens of this country?

Happily (I don't want to over-use this word, but it seems appropriate), Mr Goof was sprung and he was shot down with a ball of his own shit.

Wonderful.

Of course the Lame Stream Media still think the sun shines out of Mr Goofs arse, but they would, wouldn't they?

The Far Side

Charlie Chaplin - Hitler

Charlie provokes some thoughts.



Change we can believe in!

Dangerous Demographics