Mangled Thoughts

Yes, it’s the latest and the best and has a special feature, soldiers can indulge in a corroboree at the front.

British bobbies have decided a didgeridoo is an offensive weapon when it is waved.

Well, the gangs of Chicago carried violins during prohibition.

Infantry are need something better than that Swedish bit of plastic rubbish the steyr rifle. I’ve got a special deal for the army in harmonicas. They have all the plusses of a mutlti-barrelled machine and the soldiery can have a right good old fashioned hoe- down as they hose down the enemy.

But in the big guts-ache numbers, we have in stock bassoons, much nicer than bloody didgeridoos. Throw in a few violins, and the heavy machine guns cellos, the heavy shell firing drums, mortar firing cymbals and, heck, the lads can really frighten the enmey playing Tchaikovsky’s 1812 overture or a bit of Wagner. The Wermacht fielded that, in armoured car version blaring out Ring Cycle and so forth, frightening the dickens out of allied troops.

And since its a govt purchase , you can’t get a better deal than 10 times the price to the man in the street.

Rommel: Gads, if only I had a few more musical divisions at my command.

Guderain:After Hitler, Rommel is one of the bastards who have ensured we have lost entire campaigns and the war.

After the war , in retirement, Guderain took up attending opera and symphonies.

The Oz `Gun Laws’ must be struck down.

Some friends had a pleasant evening a few days ago. A burglar visited them, arriving by way of over the backyard fence. He, ventured into the garden and the burglar coshed him on the head. She, inside, heard, rather like the Goon show - `Ow’ , the goons would add, `…me nut, mate’.

An ambulance had to cart him off to hospital. Lying on a bed, the doctor mused whether to sew the calp back together or not. pal cracked a reply, `So, you’ll aquadere the sking together.’ Doc gave him a studied look as if the blow had sent him slightly gaga, and reply, `perhaps we’d better stitch it back together right now.’

Point is, it could have been worse, far worse. Secondly, it was only one burglar:

My friend is tall but slight of build and his wife, a will-o’- the-wisp of gal, particularly against a heavily built, fit, young scumbag.

No matter a chap’s willingness to defend hearth and wife, most burglars these days are fit, young thugs, and not the old timers, portly, slow and averse to coshing.

It’s o.k taking them on when one is young, I did once,two of them when I was in my early twenties. For a peculiar reason, I’d decided to keep a 4×4 under my bed on the off- chance and, blimme, one evening, enjoying a nice read, I heard the wrong noise. 4×4 in hand, I moved silenlty and took them by surprise. What I treated them to was far better than, if they could have been identified and arrested by police, would be dealt to such types in court, a quack of a character witness reducing Judge and Jury to tears by relating how badly they were oppressed as children, because their parents refused to by them bubble gum, and the Judge’s verdict guilty matched by the heady sentence of a kiss on the cheeks and a cautionary.

Being older and not so agile and muscular, the prospect of taking out a couple of toughs without a handgun doesn’t appeal. One does not fancy, for example, tucked up in bed, being surprised by two scumbags dropping in by their favoured entrance, through the roof. I wouldn’t fancy, either, being confronted during the day by nasty, big, fit, violent scumbags without a handgun these days, let alone at night resting in bed.

If that 80 year old granny was free to carry a hand gun in her handbag, and had trained to use it efficiently, instead of being dealt blows and being dragged on the ground, those three big fit scumbags would, instead, have been rolling on the ground in considerable pain or, better, still and stone cold dead.

Police come after the fact, they don’t prevent crimes. I want a handgun, I want to do as those in the U.S. gun-toting states do, train at a firing range under instruction so as to weild it nervelessly and acquire the right reflexes and gun handling control. I want to have not an edge, but the advantage, I want to be able to eliminate their advantage, they have the momentum which is eliminated when they stare down a barrel or, because there may be no time to warn them first - `stop, or I shoot, down on the floor, hands on your neck’, are lying on the floor shot. I want that advantage, I do not wish to be coshed by scumbags, and not just in the house either, at best or, even sent on the one way trip to the morgue.

He was lucky. He only endured split skin and a long line of stitches, along the centre of his scalp.

Funny thing, the scumbag took a fine haul of: nappy san; laundry granulated detergent; sundry agents stored in the laundry . Cleaning agents?!

Corby’s defence has botched much of what they have laid their hands on. It was a gross mistake to refuse the services of 2 Oz Q.CS. for the first trial, let alone prevaricated for this new trial. Having attacked the Indonesian customs, police, govt. and judiciary during the first trial and preps. for it, they are doing the smae but against Oz counterparts. Pity, there seems to be no end of good will towards Corby, and first rate help if, Corby’s lawyers were not such great pillocks.

Opas Q.C. has something very intersting to say which would have served very well an appeal, as oposed to this secfond trial which is not an appeal:

Dr Opas and Mr Wagner want Corby’s case to go before Indonesia’s Constitutional Court, after comments made by chief judge Linton Sirait during the trial.

“It becomes evident that Chief Judge Sirait got it wrong in law when he said during the trial in April she had to prove herself not guilty,” Dr Opas said.

“That completely flies in the face of what their system is supposed to be about.

Excellent point, since, the Judge had used `prove…innocent’ which is reversal of burden of proof onto the accused. If reversal of burden is contrary to Indonesian principles, a clear cut cause for appeal existed and, the defence missed it! For an Oz Q.C. would have seized upon it and, soon as the verdict had been handed down, notified the Court defence will be appelaing, they didn’t, and Corby now has to fight a trial instead.

Opas’s motive:

In Schapelle Corby’s case, under the almost primitive conditions that she has to endure in hygiene, sanitation and food, the chance of a woman delicately brought up in our environment surviving 20 years

Not so sure of the delicacy, Corby’s family are not the types one would assume to entetain anything more sensitive than bombing out on the weed. Yes, it is harsh, though not as harsh as the risk she now faces, the death penalty.

On the other hand, if reversal is assumed by the trial judge for the second time, the appeal wheel will spin fast if, Corby takes matter in hand and get herself some heavy hitting Oz silks to fight her case rather than the Groucho and Chico wannabes - they are good but not that rib-tickling good.

The judge for this trial, which opens today, however might be alert to that point and will make sure the breach doesn’t occur during this trial. The prosecution, presumbaly, is alert to it and wary that thier objective fails because of false reversal.

An interesting development.

The Party of which Rodney Hide M.P. is a member. ACT happily damns both NZ’s major socialist parties, the Nationals and the Labour Party, except, as in Oz, the L .P is worse.

The only Coalition M.P.s who took the position throwing money at a police force doesn’t improve the crime problem, rather, there’s no positive relationship between spending hand over fist on police forces, was the Kennett-Stockdale Cabinet. ACT, through Mr. Hide go further and state the bloody obvious, with rule of law not comrpomised by polticians and activist judges, there is no need for one but a skeleton of a force, mainly C.I.B.. It was Peel in England who forst set up a `police force’, and it has been all down hill ever since. Vic. Police are just another branch of tax collecters.

ACT, unlike the major parties and their keynesian gurus, has grasped the nettle, only economic liberty, and production yields and raises incomes.

Production vs Redistribution
Frustrating how lefty politicians so waste their time and squander our opportunities. New Zealand politics is all about redistribution ? not production. I wonder what Cullen would make of this article, if he ever read it?

Posted by Rodney @ 3:41 pm on 15 May 2005
Nobel Laureate Robert E. Lucas Jr. summarises world economic history and concludes:

Of the tendencies that are harmful to sound economics, the most seductive, and in my opinion the most poisonous, is to focus on questions of distribution? But of the vast increase in the well-being

I can’t imagine the Coalition Parties holding that position, and it is the position of ACT.

The Coalition won’t even face up to the corrosive plunder of plunder, spend, and transfers:

Posted by Rodney @ 2:13 pm on 15 May 2005
You don?t get any choice about paying rates and taxes. And you get little to no choice about how it gets spent.

The argument is that the money must be thumped out of you for ?essential?? services. Things you wouldn?t pay for if it were left up to you ? but which we all need.

The problem is that lefties endlessly expand what is ?essential”.

Tax cuts cause inflation!
Posted by Rodney @ 5:39 am on 15 May 2005
From the Sunday Star-Times:

Across-the-board tax cuts would stoke inflation, Cullen has warned.

That?s the great thing about government spending your money for you: it?s non-inflationary.

Would the Coalition declare, forget the ALP, they are now so far left they are competing with Bob Brown for the Pol Pot’s Lurve child Prize - though the Coalition, States and Federal, on the bilge of environmentalism are in the contest too:

Involuntary unemployment caused by regulations designed to benefit those with jobs at the expense of those without jobs is highly unfair to the least skilled.
High taxation and greater regulation reduce wages and employment.
The Employment Relations Act 2001 is destroying jobs.
The longer the Benefit dependency, the harder it is for people to obtain work, and see themselves as employable.
Unemployment is a significant economic waste through lost production and the costs of raising taxes to fund welfare.
New Zealand can get unemployment down to around 2-3 percent.
Achieving full employment requires a full range of policies aimed at allowing markets to work, as does achieving economic growth.
Lower taxes help people to shift from welfare to work.
Getting people into the jobs is far better than keeping them on welfare.
A job, not welfare, is the only way to escape poverty. Welfare should be time-limited for the able-bodied, not a life-style choice.
The specialist Employment Court has been a failure, general courts are capable of handling all legal issues that arise from employment.

Executive summary

In New Zealand there are 170,000 registered unemployed, 55,000 have been unemployed for more than two years. Unemployment has huge personal and economic costs. They are denied the dignity of work and the sense of purpose work delivers. ACT believes it is the right of all citizens to be gainfully employed, and believes government has a duty to ensure that this is so. Paying people to do nothing is sending the wrong message to society, and condemns the individual to state dependency.

Anyone expecting even the Oz Liberal Party to embrace the followoing are pizzing into a stiff breeze:

ACT’s goals

Restore freedom of association in the private sector. Restore freedom of contact in both public and private sectors.
Help employers create more jobs by reducing tax and regulatory barriers.

Foster prosperity generally by reducing taxes, crippling regulations and welfare dependency.
Repeal the Employment Relations Act 2001.
Abolish all specialist employment authorities, tribunals and courts.
Restore the common law freedom of contract between employers and employees.
Restore common law freedoms of association and of speech in hiring labour and in communicating with staff.
Review other regulations affecting employment with a view to replacing regulation by common law

Or this:

ACT believes:

? Liberty and prosperity depend on having quality institutions that secure and sustain a high level of economic freedom - open, competitive markets, low taxes, the rule of law, security in person and property and freedom of contract.

? Welfarism, high taxes and stifling regulations are the enemies of liberty and prosperity.

? Misguided government spending, taxes, red tape and bureaucracy are destroying jobs and businesses.

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The sound of silence from Oz politicians but not ACT on:

Principles
The flaws in the RMA are so fundamental that no amount of tinkering can solve them. Centrally planned development is not a sustainable activity.
A much greater role for common law actions and remedies must be restored.

Proposals: Reigning in the RMA
Review the RMA on a first-principle basis, removing all the generalised central planning and command and control elements. It would be replaced by case-by-case regulations where they are necessary to supplement the common law.
To alleviate its excesses, while it remains in place, by seeking opportunities to move back to common law disciplines in terms of standing, definition of harm, and awarding of costs and remedies.
To provide for compensation for the removal of common law property rights.
Private property rights must be recognised and never appropriated without compensation.
Refocus it on achieving a balance of benefits and costs rather than on particular outcomes.
Remove the extremism embodied in the presumption that there are absolute environmental and conservation values. Benefits, as valued by persons, must be balanced against costs.
Costs should be awarded against individuals and groups who make spurious objections.

And this reads a lot better than Oz politicians penchant for disarming Australians, and they, ACT, say, bugger off to the U.N. to boot :

Executive Summary

Outdoor recreation, hunting and shooting sports are part of New Zealand?s heritage.

ACT believes

ACT will keep New Zealand?s current firearms law, and will:
impose tougher penalties for carrying firearms in crimes of coercion or violence, and
abolish 10 yearly licence renewal, but charge the cost of checking and updating licence data to licence holders who have not kept it current.
ACT will not allow U.N. treaties to force changes to New Zealand?s firearms laws.

Hunting

A vote for ACT is a vote for New Zealand?s current firearms laws, and toughening up on the misuse of firearms, and for preservation of hunting, shooting and outdoor recreation.

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And this:

ACT’s core values are individual freedom and choice, personal responsibility, respect for the rule of law and the protection of the life, liberty and property of each and every citizen.

I can’t imagine the Coalition even attacking political correctness, but ACT gets stuck into the little totalitarian p.c. bastards.

Sure, some things ACt states needs stiffening, such as

Government is failing in its responsibilities to provide key public goods because it is spending on the wrong activities.

On the whole, they are genuyinely liberal as opposed tot eh Coalition.

They are prinicipled, guts ladies and gentlemen the m.p.s of ACt, and it shows. While yet a minority party, they are pounding the L.P. Castroistos. Compare the Victorian Coalition, wet, sooky greeny hugging socialistos twits who have a sitting target in the Stalinisto bastards on the Treasury Benches, and, the Coaltion can barley land a soft tap.No wonder, their position is filled with a long list of scoialisto wet dreams too.

And ACT are energetic, as opposed to the Coalition in Victoria , they are slower than an old granny crossing a bog on crutches. Gad, it would be nice to exchnage the whiny sookies of the Coalition for ACT, so they can pulverise bracksie wacksie and his band of criminal thugs and bring an end socialisto noddy land, and then they can go to Canberra and rid Oz Federal of Socialisto Plagues, including ABC.

Oh, and ACT won’t have any truck with other leftoid scams such as multi-cultrualism and blasphemy laws, and apologising for the settlement of New Zealand and other such rot. ACT are not fond of sookie wombat socialistos. And, they look set to belt Nats and LP around the chops at the election. Who can tell, they might win against both packs of sociaist yob mobsters.

Link to ACT website.

A new wheeze is in the wind: bulging cross eyed little freaks are victims, and lawyers can hit good old taxpayer for compensation of victims of parents whose urge to procreate is criminal.

No, the headline referred to the antics of enthusiastic parents who are torn between the pleasure of watching their genetic droppings play sport, such as that pleasure is, and fancying themselves as boxers, belting up opposing players, umpires, the uglies of children on the other team. Perhaps if they had given each other a thorough belting when they were younger, they wouldn’t have contributed to the global warming apocalypse by dribbling out bits of DNA.

Meanwhile, Abbot was cuckolded, the son is not his son.Fat Aunty has made it its no.1 news report of the morning. Yawn. To be fair, Abbot’s freiend and mother of the boy raised the suspicion after a recent telephone call from someone who claimed he was the father. They had DNA tests, which showed, Tony’s, then, had not sprouted two legs, arms, bubbble eyes, a nut with blancmange rolling around in it.

Why is it, DNA dribble of ugly parents migrate swiftly to Fat Aunty Bolshevik Collective? That’s the real mystery.

Meanwhile, a calamity has shocked the Irish. The Irish Sea Scouts went camping for the first time and their tents sunk.