Reviving road kill

A couple of items caught my eye this morning amid the banal trash that is slopped up on the plate as daily news.

Man tries to revive roadkill.

US police have charged a Pennsylvania man with public drunkenness after he was seen trying to resuscitate a long-dead opossum along a highway

another saw Wolfe attempting to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation

the animal already had been dead a while

The things people do when pissed. Never ever will live that down.

The other article? Similar vein - but man is the roadkill in this case. He just has not admitted it yet. And there is alcohol involved.

the mayor urinated outside his council building after drinking at a nearby bar, then drove himself home

It's been clear for some time that Mr Williams is under a lot of stress and is not handling it well

Further inquiries that evening at GPK revealed the mayor was a "very frequent visitor", "possibly one of our most regulars", said one waitress.

WhaleOil will have delicious fun with that story this fine morning.

Hide said the latest incident involving Williams was cause for the mayor to "consider his options".

"I think Mayor Williams should consider his options and whether this sort of behaviour carrying on is in the best interests of North Shore and Auckland."

The last word from the SuperCity roadkill architect himself.

The spectre of the feckless welfare beneficiary

Drunken dole bludgers, DPB sluts, malingering invalids whose ailments miraculously disappear the moment their benefit is banked

Hard to argue with that. Your point is?

Contempt for shirkers and layabouts runs deep in our culture

lacking a basic work ethic

Most definitely, our cherished "heartland values are under siege from moral decay and unearned entitlement". A spectre definitely to be avoided.

The Love Boat ... on wheels

Another businesswoman said she was approached by an interstate group looking to take advantage of the surge of male mine workers, who spent their working week "in a hole" and emerged with cash to burn and "one thing on their mind".

She said they were looking to set up a "Shag Bus" in a refurbished Winnebago to service horny clients up and down the Stuart Highway.between Alice and Tennant Creek

Who'd have thought?

Great stuff. Are we in New Zealand soon to see the wheeled Love Boat , aka the Shag Bus, on Great Barrier and other eco-sensitive areas around the Coromandel?

Korea II?

Reports are coming in that the South Korean corvette Cheonan, 104 crew, has sunk in the Yellow Sea, with damage aft from a suspected torpedo shot by North Korea.

Here we go again.

Got Facebook? You will catch the pox

social networking sites are making it easier for people to meet up for casual sex

cases of syphilis had increased fourfold in Sunderland, Durham and Teesside - the areas of Britain where Facebook is most popular

Nice. Another reason not to go near social media children.

On .cn censorship

Pic flogged from OCR

And just in:

Host name giant Go Daddy Inc. will stop providing .cn domain name registrations in China

"Google fired a shot heard 'round the world, and now a second American company has answered the call to defend the rights of the Chinese people," commented Representative Chris Smith (R-N.J.) in a statement, calling the testimony a "a powerful sign that American… companies want to do the right thing in repressive countries."

A new way to thread a mousetrap

The Quran uses this phrase to express the idea of something that is unlikely to happen:

To those who reject Our signs and treat them with arrogance, no opening will there be of the gates of heaven, nor will they enter the garden, until the camel can pass through the eye of the needle: Such is Our reward for those in sin. Al-Araf (The Heights) 7:40

Help is at hand for all those blind males out there who have often used the excuse * 'I cannot thread the needle' to not do their own darning. A neat new way to thread a needle.

(* A skill not likely to used often in my household whilst I have a duty slave)

You can always invent a better mousetrap. Or get another slave.

[Update] 15 years of fraud gets you only 100 hours community service

Former Immigration Service head Mary Anne Thompson today escaped a jail sentence for fraudulently using her CV to secure senior public service jobs.

What is it with bloody judges? Repeatedly commits fraud over a 15 years, pleads guilty on one to get off the other two and gets a slap with a wet bus ticket. For the MSM repeater: which one did she plead guilty to? Have the rellies who were assisted via this fraud been deported?

Should have been convicted and locked up for repeated fraud.

[Update]
More scum on this saga bubbles to the surface.

Wintringham quickly walks under a cloud and replacement Prebble creates a distraction by perving at the oversized earrings and large breasts of a co-worker.

Tell me that wasn't a staged exit, managed from the 9th floor.

Pull the other one...

The cloud of corruption that accompanies the she-beast's time at the reins continues to expand.

Also Keeping Stock calls for urgent investigation of the matter

UN admits meat-eaters do not cause climate change

The UN has retracted yet another of its headline-grabbing claims about climate change after a scientist criticised the assertion that producing meat creates higher carbon emissions than transport.

UN tried to suggest meat production was actually worse than transportation with fudged figures from McCartney and Pachendra. Who'd have thought, a ex-rock star and a transport engineer would tell such lies to our faces?

that while the figure for meat production included emissions from all associated activities, such as growing fodder, methane from farting cows and meat processing, the figure for transportation only included emissions from the burning of fuel - ignoring carbon produced by the manufacture of vehicles or building of roads etc...

The real truth below.

transportation actually contributes 26 per cent of carbon emissions in the US, while raising pork and beef are only responsible for three per cent.

"We certainly can reduce our greenhouse-gas production, but not by consuming less meat and milk," said Mitloehner, of the University of California, Davis. "Producing less meat and milk will only mean more hunger in poor countries.

Now off to get that big juicy steak out for dinner...

"... her day is already ruined"

"You know why Bresso is always in a bad mood?" the 73-year-old prime minister told a rally in Turin on Tuesday night. "Because in the morning when she gets up, she looks at herself in the mirror to put her make-up on ­ and sees herself. And so her day is already ruined."

The pot slags off the kettle.

"Secondly, when it comes to make-up all I can say is that I use a lot less than Berlusconi. I am younger and much better preserved and I haven't had a facelift."

The kettle replies.

Key distractions [updated]

Whilst John Boy distracts all manner of feral tree-hugging greenies and rabid Forest & Bird bearded loons with the thinly veiled threat of turning the conservation estate into one big open-cast mine, a distraction is served up.

We're focused on sending the right message that someone on a benefit has to do everything they possibly can to get a job

One that has been well advertised and long awaited as small steps in the right direction.

The key changes, to be phased in from September, are:

* Expectations of part-time work for single parents on the domestic purposes benefit when their child reaches six and for people on the invalids benefit deemed capable of part-time work.

* Allowing Work and Income case managers to cut benefits by half as a sanction, followed by a full suspension then a cancellation.

* Employment benefits limited to 12 months. Beneficiaries must reapply after a year with a comprehensive work assessment.

* More frequent assessments of people on a sickness benefit, with three medical assessments during the first twelve weeks, a further assessment every twelve weeks thereafter, and a more comprehensive reassessment after 12 months.

* An increase from $80 to $100 in the amount that people on the domestic purposes benefit for single parents and the invalids benefit can earn each week without affecting their benefit.

Well done. I await the rabid right-of-reply from the left screaming the sky will fall.


[Update]

Didn't take long:

NRT - "a nasty, sadistic move, by a nasty, sadistic government"

THM - "Way to ruin my Tuesday..."

Tumeke - "Bash the Bennie time"

Shades of Goodnight Kiwi

From down the back of the Internet.

Doing the work of a higher being

Let's get this straight on that precedent setting court case yesterday.

If I walk into the bear pit at Question Time with an Uzi and spray a few around the chamber taking out those that often themselves proclaim 'to be doing God's work', I will be alright in the subsequent court case? After all, some might say that I could not only be doing the country a massive favour, but also be acting on directions from a higher being, protecting the humanity of New Zealanders from politicians.

Possibly a valid defence with a real worthy outcome in my view rather than the mundane physical destruction of government property as was in this case.

Unfortunately I would not do such an act. I do not have the gall to believe such a defence would ever work. Ranks as bad as that other defence line used in the Weatherston case.

A mickey-mouse verdict to say the least. One that sets a path for all manner of precedence claims. And in a supposedly secular state.

SOS: The new cause celebre?

Shellfish planted to test contamination levels in Auckland's inner harbours have revealed rising levels of toxic metals

Two articles in the same paper on the same day on the same subject by the same repeater? Must have been council press release day yesterday.

Post the dramatic failure of the IPCC in NoHopenhagen to get traction on the the false science that was GoreBull, our very own 'scientists' in local government have a Plan B on the burner to spin for all it is worth.

But I don't think we can carry on in the same vein - not in my view and not in the view of the [other] authors of this report

has warned that rising contamination could hint at problems to come

These emerging chemicals are a cause for concern

The doomsayers are still there, just changing tack. And no doubt, looking for continued funding.

their effects are relatively unknown

I know exactly what effect such statements will have upon the cobwebs in my wallet as a ratepayer.

How long before some nutter 'legend in their lunchtime' celebrity adopts 'Save Our Shellfish' as the new cause celebre?

Seems the greenie loons that infest our councils are already there in spades.

A business to avoid like the plague?

A computer company headed by Auckland City councillor and Auckland Rugby Board chairman Ken Baguley has gone under, owing Inland Revenue hundreds of thousands of dollars

Mr Baguley has impressed the C&R hierarchy as a measured and effective chairman of the transport committee but has limited political skills.

The recession exposes yet more of the Rugby Board. How many unknown others with their jobs for mates associations are feeling rather exposed?

Another high-profile rugby figure, New Zealand Rugby Board chairman and former All Black captain Jock Hobbs, was, until last September, an executive director of Strategic Finance, which was placed in receivership last week owing $417 million to about 13,000 investors

Tarred with same brush I'd say. And these buggers have had a hand in stiffing Orklund ratepayers for their one chance at world glory. One does wonder how much business acumen was applied to that task. Too busy arranging for their names on brass plaques for next year to be worried about minor business details like income.

Remind me just how much the Rugby Board has put up for their their expensive meme to be held next year?

A plague on all involved with the RWC.