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The weirdest thing in whole interview was that Rodney Hide organised Don Brash's coup against him. I'm just like, what the??? It really asks more questions than it answers. Related link: Interview with Rodney Hide ~ The Listener Hide on the Brash coup ~ Kiwiblog

Dave Mustaine from Megadeth on becoming Christian, and his distrust of Obama and the current US Administration. Interestingly, it seems like Alice Cooper (who has been a Christian for a few years) may have helped influence him.

OK, so now schools in the UK are banning children from making best friends , because they might get upset if they have a fight. Society is getting just...just.... I don't have words for it. TEACHERS are banning schoolkids from having best pals — so they don't get upset by fall-outs. Instead, the primary pupils are being encouraged to play in large groups. Educational psychologist Gaynor Sbuttoni said the policy has been used at schools in Kingston, South West London, and Surrey. She added: "I have noticed that teachers tell children they shouldn't have a best friend and that everyone should play together. "They are doing it because they want to save the child the pain of splitting up from their best friend. But it is natural for some children to want a best friend. If they break up, they have to feel the pain because they're learning to deal with it." Russell Hobby, of the National Association of Head Teachers, confirmed some schools were ad...

Strange, how I've not heard a peep about this here in NZ. I almost forgot about it. From a story last week: Same-sex marriages are not a human right, European judges have ruled. Their decision shreds the claim by ministers that gay marriage is a universal human right and that same-sex couples have a right to marry because their mutual commitment is just as strong as that of husbands and wives. The ruling was made by judges of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg following a case involving a lesbian couple in a civil partnership who complained the French courts would not allow them to adopt a child as a couple. Related link: Gay marriage is not a 'human right': European ruling torpedoes Coalition stance

Not really hearing much about this in the MSM. Did a cash-for-access donor influence PM Cameron’s gay marriage policy? ~ Protect the Pope Did Cameron accept cash for gay marriage? ~ Cranmer

Swearing, one of the last frontiers of human degradation, is missing out on the normalisation of a swear word depicting a female body part. Women are being encouraged to rehabilitate this word so that it can become the new "queer", and I presume, the idea is that once women embrace the vulgar world of cussing, then we can all tip toe through the tulips together into nirvana. When it comes down to it however, the wannabe normalised term will still be a vulgar word, as this particular commenter on Whale Oil's site knows full well when he took offence to what he saw as judgement of those who swear. Judge not, lest ye be kicked in the c*nt... Yep, real good argument there. Nothing will change until women demand better from men, and trying to get us to lower our standards even more runs counter to that. Related link: C U Next Tuesday ~ Whale Oil Beef Hooked

His interviewer seems somewhat perturbed by this. In insisting that he does not insult people who believe in God, only their beliefs, Dawkins tries for a distinction I find problematic. On his blog last year, Dawkins called a person named Minor Vidal a "fool" for his expression of thanks to God after surviving a deadly plane crash. (To be fair, Dawkins called "billions" of other people fools, too, in the same post.) Dawkins told me that if he insulted any person, he regrets it. But this example shows how hard it is, in practice rather than theory, to aim harsh language only at a person's belief, and not at the person. Another example comes from Saturday's rally. There, Dawkins noted his incredulity when meeting people who believe a Communion wafer turns into the body of Christ during the Eucharist. He then urged his followers to "mock" and "ridicule" that. (He says this 13 minutes into the video, though it's best to watch the ...

The Dominion Post is running a series of articles on how expensive some of the overseas staff were working in the Diplomatic Service. They rail at the fact allowances are piad for sending Kiwis into foreign countries with their families. However, this puts a strain on those families, where they may have to endure frequent moving, limited access to work for the spouse, children school fees higher and general cost of living issues living in a foreign country on a NZ salary. So MFAT make up for some of these problems by applying allowances. Big deal. But the Dom Post have gone too far today broadcasting "$154K for a repairman". Yes, that's right "The repairman, also known as "the fixer" by Interpol, was paid $154K last year for "structural changes" and "the cleaner" was paid an undisclosed fee for project "persian rug". With one headline, they've blown the cover of our top paid assasins. If I were the editor, I...

Apparently, the "Give Way" rule change did not cause any major problems today. My experience of a T-intersection that I had to travel through several times today was that the rule change was totally ignored. I observed one right-turning driver not even slow down to avoid the left-turning traffic - he just assumed he still had right of way. Oh well, tomorrow will be interesting. Related links: No give way hassles for rush-hour drivers ~ Stuff Two of the road rules have changed ~ NZ Transport Agency

The piece begins He has seven children, attends a Latin Mass and has driven issues of reproductive rights back into the center of American politics. In 2002, he traveled to Rome to express his support for the founder of the ultra-conservative Catholic lay movement called Opus Dei. With these boxes on his religious resume checked, Rick Santorum has convinced Americans, even those who disagree with him, that he’s the Republican candidate who most stands for orthodox religious faith. He has been called “devout,” “traditionalist,” and even — by the Catholic historian Garry Wills — “a papist.”  With nearly one in four Americans in its fold, a powerful lobby and extensive charity work, the Catholic Church is one of the most influential institutions in America. So it is worth pointing out here that Santorum is not, in fact, all that Catholic. Really? Why is he not? Because he doesn't oppose the Death Penalty He doesn't oppose enhanced interogation (cast as torture by the writ...

Wedding - USA 2012 Very picturesque surroundings for the happy day

Madonna is off to St Petersburg, where she will challenge the law which makes it an offense to promote homosexuality among minors. Calling herself a 'freedom fighter' the star wrote: 'I will come to St Petersburg to speak up for the gay community and to give strength and inspiration to anyone who is or feels oppressed.' Well she is really putting everything on the line here in taking this stance. If she does go to St Petersburg, run afoul of this law and find herself convicted she could be fined a whooping 5000 roubles. That would equate to NZ$207.73 at today's exchange rate. Small change to the illustrious one I'd posit. Those who organised a concert where the offense occurs, if it does, could be fined. For them it could be more expensive 500,000 roubles - that's roughly NZ$20,000. I suppose the organizers could deduct this from her performance fee, if they are clobbered. A small price for her to pay to gain posturing rights however it pans out. ...

Continuing the masturbation series, Michael Voris talks about how it is a "gateway sin", leading you to seek more and more, being never satiated.

This particular one, Julie Anne Genter , we didn't of course, she is a Green list MP and according to her Wikipedia entry among other things and "expert" on " parking policy" . In other words she is hired by city councils to provide them with justification for raising parking fees. She is of the breed of people who feel it is their God give mission in life to alter other peoples behaviour to accord with their vision of how they want world to be. And given the opportunity and the power they do this by " sending a price signal ", that means in practice making the activity they disapprove more expensive by way of tax or levy - which has the additional beneficial side effect of increasing the coffers of the people who impose the new burden on the long suffering peasantry. Actually the addition beneficial side effect, the increased revenue, is probably why these creatures are so popular in the hallowed halls of power, be it at the local or nat...

The worm has well and truly turned - A picket in defense of Christians' rights in the UK was held near the British embassy in Moscow on Wednesday. The picket was organized by the Orthodox public movement Narodny Sobor in response to the decision made by the British authorities to fire people for openly wearing crosses, Narodny Sobor told Interfax-Religion. The protesters were holding imperial flags saying "Stop the persecution of Christians!" and "Britain! If you ban crosses, ban your flag too!" "The Moscow division of Narodny Sobor is concerned about the recent developments in the EU in general and in the UK in particular, where discrimination against Christians has become commonplace. We consider it our duty to categorically oppose militant atheism and anti-Christian tolerance in any country of the world," the movement says. According to earlier reports, the British authorities intend to defend the legality of the ban on public wearing of c...

This video by Michael Voris has some concrete things a person can do to stop the sin of masturbation.

The eternal danger that bloggers run into, especially if they are popular, is seeing themselves as the voice of right opinion. If you can't see this as a danger, then you are probably already too much over the line. Personally, I am very thankful for my periods of inability to blog, where I think that whatever I say is worthless and pointless. These bouts of inertia (I think) have helped to keep me more humble than my natural inclination is to be. Yeah, humility does not come easy to me, as can be many times apparent on this blog. How can a blogger tell if what they are posting about is more about themselves than any sort of wrongs in society. Well, for Christians, if you are going against what is clear in Scripture, then you need to have a long, hard look at your opinions and probably even spend time in the quiet rather than the noise of blog land in order to reorient yourself. For as Our Lord says, "For what does it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer...

Help for those struggling with overcoming masturbation. Well worth watching. It starts half a minute in, as there's an ad at the beginning.

Seems the end game of the push for more and more sexual rights is the outlawing of Christian morality. The focal point of the protest is the possibility that home and private schools that teach the precepts of their faith could be prosecuted by human rights tribunals for “hate crimes” under the Alberta Human Rights Act (AHRA). The AHRA has been used in the past to prosecute conservatives and Christians, most notably pastor Steve Boissoin, who was found “guilty” by a tribunal of “hate speech” against homosexuals after he published a letter to the editor in a local newspaper. That conviction was subsequently overturned by the court system. Related link: Thousands of homeschoolers, Christians rally against Alberta Education Act over freedom concerns ~ LifeSiteNews

Noticed on Defenders of the Catholic Faith .

Daylight Savings this year in New Zealand finally ENDS on April 1 at 3am when we can put our clocks back to 2am and get an extra hour of sleep before going to church in the morning. You guys all go to church, don't you? Anyway, it can't come soon enough. It's far too dark in the mornings to easily get up at 7am anymore and right now, just after 6pm when I should be trying to start dinner, the sun is turning my kitchen into an oven. It's 28 degrees Celcius here, far too hot to do anything except write a blog post and sit at the computer with a glass of red wine. Which is probably not helping, but after yesterday and the intense cold we had, today is a shock! Daylight Savings should have finished last weekend, it always goes for two weeks too long now!

Well what do you know - today is Race Relations Day. The multiculti apparatchiks of the Human Rights Commission have deemed the theme for this year's "Race Relations Day" is - Aotearoa, A Fair Go for All . Apart from applying that designation not much else is happening to celebrate this fine festival of rampant secularism. Next Sunday marks a major Christian Festival - the Annunciation, which despite secularization will still be more widely observed across this land than the UN mandated non event we are celebrating, or not as the case maybe, today.

From time to time the argument is put forward that a certain thing has not made the world end, the implication being that all those that predicted dire consequences if something were allowed, were wrong and those dire consequence did not immediately take place. For example this rhetorical technique is used often in the "Gay Marriage" debate. Whale Oil used it the other day when he posted a number of pictures of men and women who had "married" those of the same sex and said: The first same-sex marriages in the state of New York have occurred. I dunno how we are going cope, it’s the end of the world as we know it. A threat to us all? Let's use this on another example to show what I mean. Say that blowing up Parliament, with all the politicians inside the building is a bad thing to do. I would not condone such a thing at all, and if anyone came onto this website and encouraged such an incredible act of evil in all seriousness, that I would most likely d...

Thou shalt only eat what the Government decree's is best for you or thou shalt not eat at all. Food donations for New York's poor have been banned DHS Commissioner Seth Diamond says the ban on food donations is consistent with Mayor Bloomberg’s emphasis on improving nutrition for all New Yorkers. A new interagency document controls what can be served at facilities — dictating serving sizes as well as salt, fat and calorie contents, plus fiber minimums and condiment recommendations. This is the latest story in the endless stream of stories coming out of Obama's America where Big Government controls are being applied to food items to control what people can and cannot ingest to sustain life and limb. Stalin would be proud .

Yesterday, the new Crimes Amendment Act came into force, apparently making it a crime "to stay silent when it is known that a child or vulnerable adult is at risk of death, grievous bodily harm or sexual assault," according to the press release by Judith Collins. News items that I've read, such as this one by The Herald , continue this theme, writing that that it has become "an offence to not report known child abuse" . Report to whom, I wondered? So, I looked up the Amendment , and could see nothing that indicated that reporting the abuse was the action that needed to be taken when child abuse was known by the person.  All it said was that if a person " fails to take reasonable steps to protect the victim " at " risk of death, grievous bodily harm, or sexual assault ", then they could be imprisoned for up to 10 years.  Likewise if a person, " intentionally engages in conduct that, or omits to discharge or perform any legal duty th...

" Blood crazed ferret ", journalist and blogger, Damian Thompson believes that the Churches will lose the battle against "Gay Marriage" in Britain. He's probably right. Marriage is a Mystery that cannot be adequately explained to the unbeliever. It's always reduced back to the only seemingly important aspects being that two people who "love" (or feel lust for) each other should have the "right" to get married. Though, I'm not sure how important love is, as wanting to get "married" and not to be limited by the mystery of marriage appears to be more important than anything else. As to why an apparent "conservative" leader is supporting the cause to break the definition of marriage, Damian offers the following: The passing of this legislation will mark a significant moment in Britain’s history: its emergence as a post-Christian society along the lines of Scandinavia or France. The traditional definition of ...

What a really interesting segment by Glen Beck that I found on Fr Z's site . Fr Z. points out that the demographics of Beck's audience makes the clip even more interesting. He talks about the Obama Administration’s attacks on the Catholic Church and brings in another wrinkle about the State Department that was not on my radar. A few quotes from the video: “I believe the Vatican is actively engage in a very different kind of battle…They are in a spiritual battle…They are gearing up for a spiritual battle unlike anything we have ever seen.” “Catholics. You have to be… you have to understand. Read Ephesians 6. You have to put on your spiritual armor. You are not battling man. You are not. You are battling evil. This is Obama’s way of saying back off and play ball our way.” The second quote is in relation to the Obama administration adding the Vatican to it's list of countries that they think are involved in money laundering (ie, doing that put pressure on Catho...

Is Climate Change responsible for madness or, maybe madness is responsible for climate change? The latter might explain some of the Climate Change press releases. Already trained psychiatrists seem to be diagnosing some of the more ardent members of the Green Party, Greenpeace and large portions of the the University of East Anglia as being deranged: Climate change is making people mad. More than a quarter of patients with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) in a recent study in Australia were found to have obsessions which directly related to climate change. The majority were male. The patients were found to be carrying out rituals, such as checking lights, stoves and taps were turned off, so they could reduce their global footprint. And Australian psychiatrists have discovered the first case of climate change delusion. Dr Joshua Wolf and Dr Robert Salo, of the Royal Childrens Hospital in Melbourne, treated a 17-year-old who was convinced that if he drank water, millions o...

The leaders of the free world. The worthy successors of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.

Good old BBC which can be relied upon to promote any and every liberal insanity has a wonderful piece that is almost beyond satire promoting unnatural marriage. Follows the usual template, relatively presentable people whine that they are oppressed or hard done by because they cannot "marry" their "partner". They are second class citizens they claim. Of course being the BBC they find a "devout Catholic", about to be civil unionized gay couple to have their say "The word 'marriage' is important to me because it would help in fighting for equality . "I would like to start talking in the same language as heterosexual couples. It will help dialogue ." He believes the Catholic view of marriage - defined as a union between man and woman - is misleading as that has not always been the case. However, he says the components of traditional marriage - love, family and raising children - are "exactly the reasons why I would like ...

A good article by Eve Tushnet at The American Conservative on marriage and how the biggest threat to it today is the fear of divorce.  Focusing too much on the scapegoats for family breakdown, we don't spend enough time building up marriage itself. If America has endured a “divorce revolution” since California passed no-fault divorce in 1969, we’ve now entered the counterrevolutionary phase. Divorce rates have fallen from their peak in the early ’80s, the deep pain often felt by children of divorce is openly acknowledged, and young Americans typically express both fear and a moral horror at divorce. They are determined not to repeat the mistakes of previous generations; avoiding divorce is a constant anxiety, even obsession. But as with most purely reactionary cultural movements, the revolt against divorce has been much better at targeting what it rejects than figuring out what it’s for. In a strange, sad twist, the divorce counterrevolution has only weakened our mar...

In the secular and liberal world, the concept of consent is the cornerstone of a liberal's approach to moral issues. Beyond consent though is a more fundamental human desire - the wish for public endorsement of a person's actions. For example, things that were originally only an issue in the "privacy of the bedroom between consenting adults" now require not just state endorsement but full acceptance from the Church. Whilst liberals say they tolerate anything with appropriate consent, they tend not to tolerate wildly different opinions. So we fall back to the issue of consent, which isn't a bad place to fall back to. An extremely important event then, was the recent ruling that failure of one party to disclose AIDS to their sexual partner could be treated as a crime tantamount to rape , because the partner cannot provide fully informed consent. There are groups that oppose this move. The AIDS foundation is worried: The Aids Foundation says that a Court...

What happens when you have a couple of dysfunctional departments in government? Merge them and hope like heck the good ones stay and the bad ones go. Hardly ever works out that way though. Key grants super powers to Government, but that doesn't create super heroes .

It's extraordinary that New Zealand somehow managed to produce the generation who fought the Second World War without Government Funded Positive Parenting Courses . I just don't know how they managed to accomplish that. H/T Homepaddock

Yes The debt per capita for citizens of the United States $49,712.40 ! The total debt grows by $4 billion dollars a day. So what is the pressing issue on the minds of American leaders? Forcing the Catholic Church to pay for contraception in a country awash with contraceptives - where they are handed out like candy to anybody who wants them. America is in the process of loosing two wars, Iraq and Afghanistan - so what is it doing? Putting soldiers into pregnancy empathy bellies so they can understand how pregnant soldiers feel! And England is no better as Europe stumbles through the so called debt crisis and several European Nations are on the brink of civil war the pressing issue of the day is ..... "Gay" marriage - I kid you not. The children of the sixties, a generation whose name will echo in historical infamy throughout the ages.

Fr Martin Fox of Bonfire of the Vanities blog talked last week about what this looming battle between the Federal Government of the US and the Catholic Church might mean. He believes something momentous is happening, and that this issue matters very much to God. If you do not believe in God, or you wonder if he is largely absent from human affairs; if you wonder if the Catholic Church's claims really hold water, consider these events. Why should this battle even be happening? Why on this ground--over claims the Catholic Church almost alone makes? Had this been a battle over abortion or same-sex marriage, then it would not involve claims that are uniquely those of the Catholic Church. I predict there will be many folks who will, in these events, realize God is validating the Catholic Church--with all her blemishes and wounds--as the visible Body of Christ on earth. Fellow Catholics, if you have ever wondered about, or doubted, the claims of our Church--if you have wonde...

By way of background, the "Conservative" government of England has started the process to legislate unnatural marriage. The Catholic Bishops of the England are opposed and issued a letter to be read at Mass on Sunday. Here is what happened in one church yesterday.

A huge boulder has ended its 105 mile journey from rural California to its new home in Los Angeles. It took 11 cold and grueling nights on the road navigating tight corners, "crabbing" across bridges and narrowly avoiding collisions with towering utility poles, but LACMA's monolith arrived at exactly 4:25 a.m., illuminated by string lights and resting in a steel sling on its custom transporter. snip The boulder might have arrived at LACMA several hours early if it weren't for continual holdups caused by illegally parked cars along Wilshire that needed to be towed away. Remarkably, considering the logistical challenges involved in moving a nearly two-story-high chunk of granite through densely populated urban areas, there were no major mishaps. It will take at least a month to dismantle the centipede-like transporter with 176 wheels and erect massive gantries needed to install the rock on rails spanning a 456-foot-long concrete slot near the museum's Resnick ...

My post below is a condensed and slightly modified excerpt from H.W Crocker III: "Triumph - the Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church" we get a brief summary of the Edict of Milan. I was reminded of it as I watch the rising tide of resistance to Obama's steadfast efforts to make the State trump individual rights and freedoms. Freedom of conscience is one of these under threat, and it requires us to unravel Obama's doublespeak to understand this. Unravel away, and keep history in mind. Edict of Milan - AD313 The Emperor, Maxentius, decided to crush upstart Constantine. In the early morning of October 28, AD312, Rufius Volusanius, prefect of Maxentius's Praetorian Guard, led his crack troops across the river Tiber in a surprise attack on Constatine's sleeping forces. Constantine, a pagan, had no real belief in Christianity, but his mother and stepmother were Christians. At Verona, he had called upon the Sun God. Here, outside of Rome though he ha...

Dim Post offers this stereotype , where the left wing position is moral, the right wing, economic: Maybe I’m being wildly optimistic here, but it could be pretty smart for Shearer to go back to the very principles of left-wing political philosophy, and simply make the argument that we’re a society of people with obligations towards each other – in contrast to the right-wing view-point in which we are a competitive market-place with no responsibility to each other outside of inter-party transactions. It's a false dicotomy, offering a largely moral position directly against an economic stance. It's also what is often described as "framing the argument". DimPost basically offers a moral justification , but fails to mention that the left wing solution for "a society of people with obligations for each other" is greater government control. The economic argument of left versus right is moreso the spectrum of State supremacy versus a free market place. In ...

Over paid (by you) upper middle class twits continue to push their obsessions Dads' lazy eating habits are partly to blame for childhood obesity in New Zealand, a leading paediatric health researcher says. Professor Barry Taylor hopes his latest research will get to the bottom of the alarmingly increasing rate of childhood obesity . About 20 per cent of New Zealand children are regarded as overweight, with a further 10 per cent considered obese. Taylor, head of paediatrics at the Dunedin School of Medicine, is investigating methods to prevent rapid weight gain in early childhood. He's got a 2.3 million grant to fund his latest research but he has already decided that blue top milk should not be given to children. "I'll often find that the father has insisted on having [full fat] blue-label milk because they don't like the [low fat] green-label. Even though it's been recommended for many years after the age of two that you should not drink blue milk ...

Of thy Mystical Supper, O Son of God, receive me today as a communicant; for I will not speak of the Mystery to Thine enemies, nor will I give Thee a kiss as did Judas, but like the Thief do I confess Thee: Remember me, O Lord in Thy kingdom. Let not the communion of Thy Holy Mysteries be unto me for judgment or condemnation, O Lord, but for healing of soul and body

It's easy to dismiss the power of prayer until that's the only thing that keeps a person going. So, I'd just like to thank all those people who prayed for me during my time of trial. I really, really needed those prayers, and hopefully those of you that did pray will find out how much, if not in this life, then the next. Thank you to all those who sent me their best wishes and thoughts. These very simple acts of kindness reinforces my belief in the community that we've formed here through these blogs. That I have had a sword pierce my heart and yet I am still functioning and everything is ok, is a testament to the love of God.

Οὐκ ἔσται σκεύη ἀνδρὸς ἐπὶ γυναικί, οὐδὲ μὴ ἐνδύσηται ἀνὴρ στολὴν γυναικείαν, ὅτι βδέλυγμα κυρίῳ τῷ θεῷ σού ἐστιν πᾶς ποιῶν ταῦτα. A man’s armour shall not be on a woman, neither should a man put on a woman’s robe, because everyone doing these things is detestable to the LORD your God. A man’s armour shall not be on a woman, neither should a man put on a woman’s robe, because everyone doing these things is detestable to the LORD your God From the Stars and Stripes The Army is ordering its hardened combat veterans to wear fake breasts and empathy bellies so they can better understand how pregnant soldiers feel during physical training. This week, 14 noncommissioned officers at Camp Zama took turns wearing the “pregnancy simulators” as they stretched, twisted and exercised during a three-day class that teaches them to serve as fitness instructors for pregnant soldiers and new mothers . My friends the most important thing we do as a people, as a culture, is to raise children!...

Michael Voris says in this you-tube clip that if you look at the Republican results and consider if there were only one conservative candidate, then the conservative would be facing off with Obama in November.

I've just been reading Peter Hitchen's blog and need to share it with you guys. He's written about the "revolution" in Syria , which he believes is encouraged by those who don't like the Syrian Government, but don't care about the people, and contracting out of police work to private security firms , which he finds very disturbing, and much more. Worth a look.

Joseph Kony is a very very bad man who has caused a great many deaths and much human misery over the past thirty years. A viral video has bought him to predominance in the past twenty four hours or so. Awareness has been raised , as they say. But of course raised awareness™   will do absolutely nothing to catch the man who is apparently holed up somewhere in a remote and isolated part the Congo or is it a remote and isolated part of the Southern Sudan, who knows. You can make yourself feel better about it all by watching a viral video and perhaps buying a $30 bracelet you can wear to show how much you care. And if you are a celebrity you can raise awareness™   by tweeting a topless photo of yourself .

The military is one area of Government we should support - it is something Government should do. But this The New Zealand Defence Force is recruiting in the United Kingdom after a round of redundancies and a mass exodus of staff. Today the Defence Force announced that 685 people left the service voluntarily between August 2011 and January 2012 last year. On top of that, 212 were made redundant last year, as part of the defence force's White Paper review. Defence spokesman Squadron Leader Kavae Tamariki said the current rate of attrition was high, and the need to recruit overseas was vital. "The decision to recruit personnel from the UK is part of the NZDF overall recruitment strategy to recruit the right amount of the right people, with the right attributes, at the right time and place to sustain NZDF operational outputs," he said. "The process of overseas recruitment is part of lateral recruiting, and is focussing on shortfalls arising from attrition and n...

Today is a high feast day in the Church of Socialism - International Woman's day Silly women think this is about their freedom. They have been duped - it is about turning them into worker ants and taking control of their offspring and raising them in "nursery's" run by indoctrination experts so as they can be turned into compliant worker ants for the benefit of the State.

"We weren't going to get married at all, we were just going to live in sin for the rest of our lives." National MP Tau Henare was married to his partner yesterday in Parliament so that they could both travel to Egypt and Uganda and presumably not have issues with checking into hotels under different names. He made no effort to display his desire to commit to his new wife, and instead talked about how they were originally going to "live in sin" until this problem came up. So, what they are doing is taking their relationship with whatever levels of commitment they have now, and applying a piece of paper to it. I wish them all the best, however they should know the divorce rate for cohabiting couples who marry is 80%. Related link: Tau-tally devoted: MP's quick 'I do' ~ Stuff

Obama has awakened the sleeping giant in the United States. By persisting in his desire to see Catholic institutions pay for contraception for all employees, he has chosen the one issue that has hardly been talked about at all in the Church, and now is galvanising the Church in America into action. And as per usual, the MSM here in New Zealand totally misses it. Related links: Priest warns Obama: Better knock the Catholic Church out now - you’ve awakened the giant I Have A Say Because My Parents Didn't Abort Me or Use Contraception

So this is propaganda, aimed at children. The purpose of which is to normalize unnatural love and unnatural marriage. And the cultural elite have been bombarding us and our children with this for years now. How many TV shows do not have a "gay" character or characters treated sympathetically. Not so Christians who are treated with scorn and derision if not outright hostility. The cultural elites have trashed everything worthwhile we have inherited - a shallow talentless decadent bunch worthy only of scorn and derision.

The European Union made this advertisement promoting growth of the Union. Then promptly withdrew it. Because it is "racist" apparently .

Good Christian Bitches .

Warming a swimming pool with the heat from a crematorium - have these people no sense of decorum or no memory of historical horrors? Sir George Young, leader of the House of Commons, said the proposal to warm a Worcestershire leisure centre with heat from a nearby crematorium was a “groundbreaking scheme”. He said the Government is considering whether the plan could be duplicated elsewhere in Britain. “The Government is aware of this particular scheme,” he said. “The Department for Energy and Climate Change will shortly be publishing its heat strategy and this will explore the potential for better recovery and reuse of wasted heat in schemes such as this one.” He added that he would “die a happier man” if he knew heat from his cremation was warming the waters of a local pool. Obviously not .

Several people have sent me a link to this: The New Scar on My Soul . And I have felt sick on reading it. What have we come to? What are we doing? In the 1960s we opened a Pandora's box with the advent of "Reproductive Technologies" by controlling fertility and this is not a blessing it is a curse. I have never ever understood why, when people use science to engineer pest resistant onions which can help feed more people, there is a fuss about "Franken-foods" and yet tinker with the very essence of humanity and there is silence. I hate to be a Jeremiah but the outcome of all of this, is the end of our civilization at the very minimum and you can see why - the writing is on the wall.

And to nobody's great surprise, but to the dismay of the usual suspects , Vladimir Putin is once again President of Russia. A leading public figure, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all the Russia, casts his vote. "God grant that as a result of this election, our Fatherland continued peace, calm, purpose , and spiritual development, and in the material field, and let the blessing of God abideth on all today, all the inhabitants of our Fatherland, who perform their important civic duty."

Mr Whale is still on his unnatural marriage jag. Two more posts today and it isn't even lunch time. Both take swipes at the Catholic Church - one in a poll . Anyway a "gay" German politician took a swipe at Alexander Lukashenko, “It is intolerable for us as Europeans to see human rights and citizens’ rights in Belarus thus violated. This is the last dictatorship in Europe,’’ German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle declared.the President of Belarus And Alexander Lukashenko took a swipe right back “It’s absolute hysteria. When I heard him – whoever he is, gay or lesbian – talking about dictatorship, I thought – it’s better to be a dictator than gay.” This is exactly how not to make friends or influence people within the EU .

It's a strange old world - Mr Whale has three posts today promoting unnatural marriage and he had a couple yesterday besides. In one of those posts he suggested Nikki Kaye (National) Auckland Central has on her to do list the promotion of a Gay Pride Parade for Auckland. Gay Pride parades celebrate the culture of hedonism and self worship, which those with wisdom understand is really the culture of DEATH . The video below is of an event with quite different character that promotes and celebrates LIFE - would that our civil authorities would turn their faces in this direction.

The picture below is as it appears in a New Zealand Herald story about a "gay" Marine . Their version has been judiciously cropped to reduce its impact upon sensitive souls. Mouseover the picture to reveal it in its full glory.

Talk on Stuff about changing the emergency phone number to something other than 111 reminded me of the clip above from The I.T Crowd :) Enjoy!

If people don't have children then the children they don't have don't require health care and money is saved. Voila! And they don't have a carbon footprint either so the planet is saved. Win win. So abortion and contraception are a good things . Do you ever get the impression that leftists don't really like people.

Christchurch's "iconic" Cathedral is to go. I wonder how many of the " Heritage campaigners " who are upset worshiped there every Sunday morning?

A Catholic Funeral Mass, the deceased's a daughter "married" lesbian activist, while the presiding priest traditionalist and leading anti-abortion advocate. One side of the story: Woman: Priest denied me Communion at mom's funeral because I'm gay There is a lot more to this than meets the eye of course, a great deal more I am sure.

The protesters are upset about a city ordinance that will prevent Gay Pride Parades to taking place in St Petersburg. The New York Times is a bit sniffy. Vitaly V. Milonov, the law’s principal drafter and an outspoken proponent of Russia’s Orthodox Church who has referred to homosexuals as “perverts,” has accused gay rights activists of waging an aggressive campaign of conversion among Russia’s children with the backing of Western governments. “This is a declaration of Russia’s moral sovereignty,” Mr. Milonov said in televised remarks shortly after Wednesday’s legislative session. Under the new law, which passed 29 to 5, “public actions, directed at the propaganda of sodomy, lesbianism, bisexuality and transgenderism among minors” will be punishable with fines of up to $17,000. The law defines propaganda of homosexuality as “the targeted and uncontrolled dissemination of generally accessible information capable of harming the health and moral and spiritual development of minors...