any day now, anyway now...

when you bathe in a creek and an eel bites your cheek its a moray!
what a fuynny looking dog.
my dad was a great dane and my mum was a chihuahua.
therefore I'm a great wah wah?

Match Fixing Legislation?
House under urgency for this.
Pull the other one.
Just Judith Collins Grandstanding!

Hanmer Springs.
What to do with the old hospital.
Are you people complete simpletons?
turn it back into a proper treatment centre for alcoholism.
and stop development in the town.
bye an bye it will soon be a Mac Hanmer springs where people drive for two hours and arrive at somewhere that  looks just like the place they trying to escape from.
more simpletons.
doh!

Mike Field
Fairfax Correspondent to RNZ.
Look Mike.
If you go exporting breadfruit trees then there will be a lag but soon
 enough there will be more people wanting to fish out the Tuna stocks.
What bit dont you get dood?

key changes...

the cold hard facts.
nz is sclerotic and overspent on consumption and toys.
things must change.
the baby boomers are a dying race.
but you gotta watch out for old hippies.
hehehehehehehehehe...
now is a goood time.
it is not hard to create new industrys if you really want to.
you just have to be prepared to wait for a while for significant roe and find a way to obtain comparative advantage without degrading the environment. tricky huh.
anyway
bruce scott is  national party candidate for the wairarapa in the general election.
an investment banker.
good.
lets see what sorts of deals he can do for the wairarapa.
if he can really unlock the reasure buried here.
I have known a few investment bankers.
the best one was a real nice guy and a bona fide billionaire back then.
he offered me a job.
shoulda gone but some one had to mind the candy store.

a real fairy story...

A real fairy story.
Opens with an every day event.
Transforms itself into a supernatural situation and allows children to deal with real psychological developmental questions by presenting them in a remote and symbolic form.
It is a vital step to full maturity and an ability to deal with lifes other questions and ambiguities.
They don't have illustrations and listen closely here children.
This is a story that is best told to a child in your own voice
They always have a happy ending.
The purpose is not to rely on a happy ending but to let them know that the hero/heroine will always emerge triumphant as long as they persevere and believe in the outcome.
Acquiring the ability to workout your own vision of what is happening in the world in this way becomes a powerful tool to mastering yourself and the natural world.
q.e.d.
So that is the value of fairy stories and those who scoff or would work out some psychological
reality/rational theory and present it to the child as a problem are totally misguided.
The same goes for those who would tell the story by illustrations and thus prevent the child from using their own imaginations.
Is all this clear enough.
I hope so.


The Uses Of Enchantment.
Bruno Bettelhiem.

I was so much older then I'm younger than that now...

Guess?

 

 

 

peanuts popcorn candyfloss...

You Ain't the Only One!

Last Man Standing!

It is an axiomatic inverse square law that when utilitarian objects fashioned by man beome adorned and ornate then the efficiency goes down.
e.g. I went to Parliament yesterday to exercise my democratic right to watch the proceedings.
The staff stopped just this side of being rude but what really annoyed me was the two large size tv screens that have been installed in the press gallery.
now that is just downright pandering to whom I'm not sure.
Next thing you know there will be someone selling hotdogs in the lobby and signs on the beehive advertising finance companies.
What the fuck is going on.
Anyway when I read the rag  on the train down to town it said in a swingeing way that people were wearing sunglasses down Lambton Quay when it was raining.
I had done my biz by about five when it was darkening so I put my shades on.
Fingers to you jobs.
I was the only one!!!!!!
hahahahahahahahahaha.
Nobody ever looks happy in Wellington anyway.
This morning I had to go up to Masterton to see a relly and that was much better.
up down turn around yas yas yas.
Before I left home I was listening to RNZ and deborah hill cone was on talking about trade training.
well she knew all the words and kept repeating them till I got sick of hearing about pathways.
Has cone ever had a trade except blabbing?
You learn a trade on the job.
not by listening to someone blabbing buzzwords.

"Anyone can learn any job in three months"
W.D. Rockefeller snr 

The theory is learned in block courses.
At least that's the way it used to be done.
Now all the smart asses think it can be done by vocational training.
that just translates into jobs for more lardasses.
see everyone in New Zealand knows all the words but they don't really know how to do anything.
A Nation of users.

The best star photographer at Mount Wilson Observatory in the USA turned out to be the roadman who took a shine to the Astronomer in chiefs daughter and caught a break.
beat that! 

Had to redo my media player Ricky Nelson Tracks the other day.
Whenever the PC shits itself stuff vanishes off My Music and it can be quite a rigmarole to restore it.
anyway I really enjoyed listening to hello Mary Lou and Poor Little Fool.
PLF has one of those fifties progressions that is way cool.
1, ii minor, IV, V.
Easy when you  how!

Billboards for the general election going up everywhere now.
All the Tory ones have John Key First and then the Candidate.
tacky.
I don't think I'll vote this election.
The Labour Party seems to have run out of Juice.
They listen but only to focus groups.
They need to go out and start talking to real people.
In the Street.
But I wouldn't vote for the National party candidate in the Wairarapa electorate.
He is a money pig (banker) with a vineyard who lives in Wellington.
He just a carpetbagger!

anyway the wind blows...

Nice day but bad start. Two kiwis drove on to the property and started banging down a neighbours fence and woke everybody up.
I wouldn't of minded except when they got their POWER tools out they put on ear muffs!
I told them they had woken me up and they didn't care and when I went out and came back later I found the stuff on my patio interfered with.
Bad form guys.
I went to Wellington for the day to see a dear friend and have some lunch with them.
It was great.
Went up to the National Library to fill in some time afterwards and then ducked over to parliament to catch the last of the afternoon session.
The place was packed with people going to some bunfight or another.
Who pays for them?
I see the dompost retailing wailboils half truths at full price about mp's spending but who pays for these huge bunfights and the overtime for the platoons of security guys who are more than surly.
One of them (paul) dropped my bag right on the camera in it. He was contrite when I told him I would sue if there was any damage but he really didn't give a stuff.
Inside the house one time firebrand Annette King was giving a speech on the arrogance of power and ministers who wont listen any more after 6 years on power.
Go Annette.
Kick them in the balls. Make it hurt.
Well the whole country has become arrogant.
They go home at night and google stuff and wiki it and think they know everything.
Yeah right.
See the upper echelons have become complacent and sclerotic.
Take the case of the balloon tragedy in the Wairarapa.
The director of the company that owned the balloon is an officer of the Civil Aviation Authority in his day job but didn't take the time to make sure that the pilot of the balloon had an up to date license.
That's just plain unconscionable.
Everywhere you look in NZ people are doing stupid stupid not to say bad stuff and getting way with it and meanwhile the use to much soap brigade are patting themselves on the back for putting some poor dude away for smoking a joint.
Or listening to some little toe rag seeking to deny responsibility for their actions by saying it woz the druggz wot made me do it.
Yeah pull the other one.
More likely undiagnosed tobacco addiction.
Heard some lady on RNZ this morning making a claim that Harry J anslinger was a racist and that was his major reason for demonising marrawanna.
Nup.
After booze was legalised he was out of a job and he just found another cause.
The drug of choice for poor people which incidentally can be grown at home.
What a jerk.
Now all the people who use to much soap and wear socks and underpants with too tight elastic have taken the moral high ground.
They think they are doing the right thing but they are just playing into the hands of Screwtape and Wormwood.
They like the people who want kids to bring their own devices to school.
How long do they think a laptop is going to last being dragged around in a school bag.
Its not so much that they need them but in the usual misguide kiwi way they just want to even the score with the rich kids.
Its just more humbug.
Anyway great to hear that the Searchers are playing Upper Hutt tonight.
When You Walk In The Room has one of the all time great riffs.
Have a good time guys.
Anyway after the the Lady who was in recovery from cocaine and heroin there was an item on religion in schools.
This is a christian country and those who deny it are those who think they are little gods themselves.
Take a hike.
There is no country in the world that does not have a national religion but you twerps think you can do it all yourself.

HIgh time for the right time...

 

New York Times Calls for repeal!

 

 

Repeal Prohibition, Again

By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

It took 13 years for the United States to come to its senses and end Prohibition, 13 years in which people kept drinking, otherwise law-abiding citizens became criminals and crime syndicates arose and flourished. It has been more than 40 years since Congress passed the current ban on marijuana, inflicting great harm on society just to prohibit a substance far less dangerous than alcohol.
The federal government should repeal the ban on marijuana.
We reached that conclusion after a great deal of discussion among the members of The Times’s Editorial Board, inspired by a rapidly growing movement among the states to reform marijuana laws.
There are no perfect answers to people’s legitimate concerns about marijuana use. But neither are there such answers about tobacco or alcohol, and we believe that on every level — health effects, the impact on society and law-and-order issues — the balance falls squarely on the side of national legalization. That will put decisions on whether to allow recreational or medicinal production and use where it belongs — at the state level.
We considered whether it would be best for Washington to hold back while the states continued experimenting with legalizing medicinal uses of marijuana, reducing penalties, or even simply legalizing all use. Nearly three-quarters of the states have done one of these.
But that would leave their citizens vulnerable to the whims of whoever happens to be in the White House and chooses to enforce or not enforce the federal law.
The social costs of the marijuana laws are vast. There were 658,000 arrests for marijuana possession in 2012, according to F.B.I. figures, compared with 256,000 for cocaine, heroin and their derivatives. Even worse, the result is racist, falling disproportionately on young black men, ruining their lives and creating new generations of career criminals.
There is honest debate among scientists about the health effects of marijuana, but we believe that the evidence is overwhelming that addiction and dependence are relatively minor problems, especially compared with alcohol and tobacco. Moderate use of marijuana does not appear to pose a risk for otherwise healthy adults. Claims that marijuana is a gateway to more dangerous drugs are as fanciful as the “Reefer Madness” images of murder, rape and suicide.
There are legitimate concerns about marijuana on the development of adolescent brains. For that reason, we advocate the prohibition of sales to people under 21.
Creating systems for regulating manufacture, sale and marketing will be complex. But those problems are solvable, and would have long been dealt with had we as a nation not clung to the decision to make marijuana production and use a federal crime.
In coming days, we will publish articles by members of the Editorial Board and supplementary material that will examine these questions. We invite readers to offer their ideas, and we will report back on their responses, pro and con.
We recognize that this Congress is as unlikely to take action on marijuana as it has been on other big issues. But it is long past time to repeal this version of Prohibition.



The same goes for New Zealand.
The only people making money out of it are the lawyers, the prisons and the cops who are not trained in social problems and rely solely on statistics and their own personal preferences and observations.
The problems in New Zealand with New Zealand with marijuana are a result of its illegality and would disappear overnight if marijuana was legalised.
There is also another problem with the rooting compound and the gentic disorders that are about to start showing up sometime soon.