With the death toll at 7, with another 10 injured, after a car is used as a weapon to attack Queen Beatrix, of The Netherlands, who needs guns? A terrible tragedy, terrible for the senseless loss of innocent life, all for a pathetic plan that seemed as likely as succeeding as trying to kill her by spreading Mexican Swine Flu.
Other pathetic plans would have to include Egypt killing all of the country's pigs. Was this to curb the spread of Mexican Swine Flu? Well, looking at the facts, it seems no Mexican pigs had holidayed in the middle east or North Africa for the last 3 years.
It was indeed a dodgy call, particularly when all the pigs are owned by the minority Christian communities, struggling to pay the bills in a Muslim pig-fearing country. It's not religious persecution if it's for health reasons.
In New Zealand, the Bishops of the Catholic Church have declared no more communion on the tongue, and no sharing of the communion wine. It's not religious persecution if it's for health reasons.
Just be pleased Ahmadinejad didn't rename it the "Jew Flu" or they would have killed all the ... media reports coming out of the country.
Speaking of diseased swine, no - I shall not continue my comment on the police's sad attitude to self defence in this country. They are typically top blokes, and this case of foot in mouth disease is hopefully temporary.
Now, they could come out and explain themselves, but that would be hypocritical. By definition, they have to just sit there and take this criticism. Of course, I risk being fined for speaking out, although given I'm using a pseudonym, it's justice policy to write off any infringements they give me.
And what would they do with all the money they collect anyway? According to our Foreign Affairs Minister, Murray McCully, we are going to give it away. The budget for overseas aid is going to rise to 500M, up only slightly from 471M last year. McCully argued that NZ foreign aid to the Pacific had been a failure under Labour.
Given that ex-Prime Minister Helen Clark now has a job overseeing a multi-billion dollar aid budget for the United Nations, that sounds about right. Maybe NZ under National, with less staff and less funds, can still do a bit better than Helen at the UN. If anyone can, a Kiwi can.
Now you might argue that Helen is a Kiwi too. Not so. That option isn't really on the census papers. Senseless, I know. Some may have wondered if Helen filled something else under the category of "other", but that's off topic. Nope, Helen is, under the rules of the games Labour liked playing, some kind of European Pakeha. It's really a Brash idea, a Key Concept as it were, that we all be one under the Long White Cloud - and that one is simply "New Zealander", or affectionately as "Kiwi". So next census tick "Other" and enter "New Zealander" with pride, with certainty, with defiance and with a blue pen.
Have a good week.
Other pathetic plans would have to include Egypt killing all of the country's pigs. Was this to curb the spread of Mexican Swine Flu? Well, looking at the facts, it seems no Mexican pigs had holidayed in the middle east or North Africa for the last 3 years.
It was indeed a dodgy call, particularly when all the pigs are owned by the minority Christian communities, struggling to pay the bills in a Muslim pig-fearing country. It's not religious persecution if it's for health reasons.
In New Zealand, the Bishops of the Catholic Church have declared no more communion on the tongue, and no sharing of the communion wine. It's not religious persecution if it's for health reasons.
Just be pleased Ahmadinejad didn't rename it the "Jew Flu" or they would have killed all the ... media reports coming out of the country.
Speaking of diseased swine, no - I shall not continue my comment on the police's sad attitude to self defence in this country. They are typically top blokes, and this case of foot in mouth disease is hopefully temporary.
Now, they could come out and explain themselves, but that would be hypocritical. By definition, they have to just sit there and take this criticism. Of course, I risk being fined for speaking out, although given I'm using a pseudonym, it's justice policy to write off any infringements they give me.
And what would they do with all the money they collect anyway? According to our Foreign Affairs Minister, Murray McCully, we are going to give it away. The budget for overseas aid is going to rise to 500M, up only slightly from 471M last year. McCully argued that NZ foreign aid to the Pacific had been a failure under Labour.
Given that ex-Prime Minister Helen Clark now has a job overseeing a multi-billion dollar aid budget for the United Nations, that sounds about right. Maybe NZ under National, with less staff and less funds, can still do a bit better than Helen at the UN. If anyone can, a Kiwi can.
Now you might argue that Helen is a Kiwi too. Not so. That option isn't really on the census papers. Senseless, I know. Some may have wondered if Helen filled something else under the category of "other", but that's off topic. Nope, Helen is, under the rules of the games Labour liked playing, some kind of European Pakeha. It's really a Brash idea, a Key Concept as it were, that we all be one under the Long White Cloud - and that one is simply "New Zealander", or affectionately as "Kiwi". So next census tick "Other" and enter "New Zealander" with pride, with certainty, with defiance and with a blue pen.
Have a good week.