Ah, a holiday weekend, an extra day of freedom and the weather is benign. So why not spend a holiday Monday at the beach on white sands under azure skies. And you never know who you might come across while you are there .
Rena: NZ 'racist right' condemned Because a Filipino second mate drove a ship onto a reef New Zealand Filipinos are being harrassed by "right wing" elements of New Zealand Society? If it is true that Filipinos are getting some stick over the Rena stranding it is not coming from the "racist right" I'd posit, it is coming from the mindless moronics who protest outside the court where the Master and Second Mate appeared on charges related to the stranding and call for their hanging .
We slaughter 17,000+ of these every year in New Zealand and nobody bats an eyelid. And yet if one of these gets accidently covered in oil it is a sure sign of how wicked mankind really is It's a mystery to me.