New Zealand Faces Total Infantilisation

there have been reports to day of New Zealand Army operations in Afghanistan.
It seems that some so called journalists in search of a scoop are prepared to put New Zealand troops lives at risk just to get a story.
Is this treason?
wh do these people think they are.
who needs to know this level of detail so much that the lives of our soldiers are cmpromised.
which editors in the NZ news media are preapred to publish this stuff just because they can.
like crummy dude.
who filed this story.
how old are they?
can they chew gum and whistle at the same time?

no snow on the Tararuas
super sunny
nobody in town?

more drongo stuff
kim campbell of the employers and manufacturers assoc talking to peter conway of the ctu.
discussing new laws to allow contractors to fire old staff when in the middle of it all campbell came out and said, "why are we discussing this anyway when the biggest storm in the history of the last five minutes is hitting New York?"
well what are you going to do dude., like fly off there now and help Mayor Bloomberg get the subway going again?
That is the ultimate in self centredness.
what a fool.
nearly as bad as Pluvial Geofrey Palmer who wants a Lord Mayor for all us folks from around here.
for a start pluvium should stay out of politics.
Look at what happened to his constituion in F_J_.
How do you get aLOrd Mayor from a bunch of plebs is what I would like to know.
And again on 9-noon porirua mayor leggat arguing with Ray Wallace from the hutt that the idea is a goer.
I think mr leggat from porirua thinks that in the big washup he himself might become LOrd Mayor.
yeah right.
anyway my female friends old bulldog is getting on a bit and now has a rash around the old you know what.
I have been invited for tea and bring my own rubber gloves.
yeah right.

gardening notes:
when I did a gig once at the big house in molesworth street  the lawns were magnificent.
the head gardener told me that the secret was to fertilise the grass.
you know.. superphosphate, lime etc and keep mowing it.
these days people seem to want to pile on some toxic spray and not mow.
do they sit up at night with their calculators doing cost benefit analyses, or are they stupid (too much roundup on the brain) or are they just plain mean?

when it is who you know then you have to make it up on the spot.
what do you think?

Marseille

small stuff

the prime minsiter took a back seat to the minister of finance on the nightly news conference last night on teeveee.
thats not looking good for the government.
bill english was never going to be acceptable to the voters and thats why John Key was rung in in the first place..
the only altenative is David Shearer but the party seems to be fractured.
the rank and file and the standardistas want david cunliffe but the greybeards in the party have installed Shearer but there is no guarantee that he will be any better than JOhn Key once he gets the 24/7 media spotlight focussed on him.
if ya aint born to it then it gets ya!
yes indeedy

todays agms:
abano healthcare
new zealand experience
new zealand oil and gas
metlifecare
trade me.
went looking for Statistics New Zealand Business Demography Statistics  for Feb 2012. showing an .8% decrease on Feb last year.
progress dudes.

big stuff...

Boeing Stratoliner

Douglas c-74 globemaster

Douglas C-54

Lockheed Super Constellation

Douglas C-74 Globemaster

Lockheed Constellation

lovely day out there today.

mucho sunshine.

Had to go next door to Carter Court this am and pull the seats back off the path so the old folks could take a walk.

the (ahem) gardener always pulls them onto the path when he mows the lawn with his ride on mower (a black one) but he never puts them back? 

The benches were a waste of money anyway.

doh.

I hear on the radio the constitutional working group (who are they?) are in the north (wow) talking to people about what sort of constitution they want and how the treaty of waitangi fits in.

for a start the treaty is nothing more and nothing less than a contract.

How that fits into a new constitution without dragging a whole lot of aother baggage in is the big question.

secondly they should remember what happened when alcoholics anonymous sent out questionaires for their constitution.

they got so many replies that they realised that nobody would be allowed to join!

In the end they settled for a preamble of about 5 sentences that fits onto a card.

hows that for a piece of arcana.

thirdly they should take a leaf out of the United States experience and hold a constitutional convocation.

instead they are creeping around trying to fashion one out of nothing or in other words opinions.

Let some air into it instead of holding on to it.

Just like the standard.org they are in line waiting for the jobs.

JOBS!

even when they are useless.

just like the nitwits at the standard.

they wouldn't know a worker if they fell over one!

they think politics is played by the rules.

what rules?

Power comes out of the barrel of a gun.

Mao Tse Tung.

not some little turd waiting for their party to get their turn.

thats what it boils down to.

back to the constachewshun.

a frigging mess that only they can understand and so hedged with rules and restrictions that it wont be worth the paper its written on.

but meanwhile these anonymous functionaries will have the JOBS!

Dont let Sir Geoffrey Palmer near it or we will have another Fiji on our hands only here!

hahahahahahahahaha.

Wonderful little doco on Prime TV last night about the Magical Mystery Tour.

Peter Fonda, Martin Scorsese et al deconstructing if for us.

It worked.

Fantastic Artefact from the 60's...

They dont make em like that no more.

As Scorsese said everything is professional, polished and polite these days and the guts have been removed from everything.

circular but true.

its all PAP now.

I dont know how Dave Letterman and Paul Shaffer can keep telling the world how good all the rubbish bands are.

There is no grunt anymore.

Anyway it was good to hear Dunbar Sloane being interviewed this morning on 9-noon.

My dad was a bit of an Antiquarian and he acted as an agent to the wealthy's who wanted to do business out of town and quite often in our little state house we would have Gullies and Chevaliers and Barrauds hanging on our walls.

We had Goldies too.

I got ticked off once for telling someone they were just like the ones on the Railcars.

yep thats right.

ON all the little 44 seaters going over the Rimutakas there was a Goldie in an Oval frame.

I dont know why they never carried on that tradition.

Anyway its time for a walk in the sunshine and sing a little sunshine song.

in a rhinos bum!

here is one for the pissant wannabees at thestandard

1. what is in the interest of SIGINT is in the interest of the state
2. absolute secrecy is in the interest of SIGINT
3. therefore absolute secrecy on the subject of SIGINT is in the interest of the state.
which premise is false?

no good asking the nitwits at the standard.
they got tight underpants and the morals of schoollteachers.
dont do that.
they too busy patting themselves on the back because of whatever fon tthey selected or some other nonsense or perhaps some sub rosa beltway argument that only they know about.
you know.
like real working class.

Everybody's talking at me....

You Gotta Have this one.

dont get caught!

Everybodys talkin at me.

Dave Sinten played a very good version by the 'trucks tedeschi' band on Friday night.

Radio ArrowFM.

stripped down to the max but still potent.

.

Been looking through some old film annuals and hey presto they have all the old movies we saw at the Regent and the State theatres all those many years ago.

those were the days.

We had a lot of fun.

Elvis, Lonnie, Fabian, Little Richard, Jerry Lee.

We didnt know what it was alll about.

Just went down to the Regent for the five o'clocks.

check out the action for Saturday and the rest of the week.

Well I did.

on the radio was Buddy Holly, the Everly Brothers, Chuck Berry.

Fabian, Pat Boone, Perry Como.

Now the kids do it all differently.

They dont know either.

no one is going to tell them.

They have to find out for themselves.

Listen to the bombast of a whole lot of arrogant, truculent little shits , who call themselves artists.

homeboys brought up on the bottle.

You have to get it off the tit if you want your voice to break.

ha ha ha fucking ha.

anyway.

 

Barack Obama.

Hi boss. You should try looking back at this Americana too.

My music mojo came back over the weekend.

Had not played the axe for two weeks.

Let it lie.

Fondled the Jackson every now and again.

But any major dude will tell you.

any minor world that falla aoart baby falls together again.

Amazing to read the reviews of Neils new book Waging Heavy Peace where he talks about wearing the music out.

you dead right there Neil.

even us amateurs get tired.

 backporchers never really learn all the tricks that you can only learn on the road but it  still gets oppressive sometimes.

great to see Rods book has appeared.

too much!!!!!!

.take me back
carry me back
down to gasoline alley where I belong!

the altar song. rip george mcgovern

he was a good guy.