Coincidental timing ?

Sir Loin thinks that the police should have the power to film the bad guys with judicial approval. The morally challenged vermin who expose their children to meth labs deserve no protection from the law.  The Urewera 18 however seem like $2 shop wannabe terrorists, throwing petrol bombs into an old stove seems rather pathetic. I guess vegans and dope smokers don't have the discipline, intelligence or energy to learn how to fly a 737. Still is this a coincidence ? 

"Revealed: What cops filmed in Ureweras" - NZ Herald

"National's bid to overturn a Supreme Court decision to allow secret police filming on private property under urgency is in trouble." - Stuff

VATA NGOBENI - WE SAY SORRY

It sure appears that Taupo police made an awful error of judgement  Much liked and well respected sports journalist Vata Ngobeni found himself the victim of some over eager police in Taupo last night.

Reports indicate he was dragged off to the local cop shop as a suspected drug dealer.

According to other journalists with him at the time he was the only black person  in the bar. 

Admittedly the police have apologised but it should never have happened in the first place. 

Anyway this sort of crap is unacceptable  so to all New Zealanders the pic is of a good man,  a well respected professional man, who is here to enjoy our country  - So lets ensure that Vata  gets the respect and hospitality he deserves for the rest of his stay. We all owe him that. 

ALL BLACKS - WILL THEY DO IT ?

After 2night it looks like they might.

Wouldn't it be nice ?

Will we see the biggest upset of the RWC on Friday ? LMAO & fisting pumping glee.

"Hubris ( /ˈhjuːbrɪs/), also hybris, means extreme haughtiness, pride or arrogance. Hubris often indicates a loss of contact with reality and an overestimation of one's own competence or capabilities, especially when the person exhibiting it is in a position of power." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubris

Schadenfreude i/ˈʃɑːdənfrɔɪd/ (German: [ˈʃaːdənˌfʁɔʏdə]) is pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others.[1] This German word is used as a loanword in English and some other languages, and has been calqued in Danish and Norwegian as skadefryd and Swedish as skadeglädje.[citation needed] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude

Other peoples money

"But Auckland University professor of economics Tim Hazledine said the gain to tourism and the effect of visitor spending has been overstated. He controversially estimated hosting the cup could end up costing taxpayers more than $400 million. Rugby World Cup Minister Murray McCully dismissed Hazledine's analysis as pathetic and contended: "The idea that we should assess the costs of infrastructure that we will enjoy in perpetuity against the direct economic return from a 45-day tournament is ridiculous.” The benefits of the tournament in the years following would "run into billions of dollars", McCully argued.

But Hazledine has had his supporters. New Zealand Institute of Economic Research principal economic Shamubeel Eaqub said people had blown the event out of proportion. He had studied other major events and found the estimated benefit typically fell to about a tenth in post-event analyses, and the rise in visitor spending was mostly invisible on graphs." - NZIM


Stadium Status from Internets Celebrities on Vimeo.

MEURANT IS EPITOMY OF A SHIT COP

Ross Meurant seems to have forgotten a few things over the years - the main one being  that he was a seriously crap cop. 

He has tried very hard to redeem himself by taking every opportunity he can to label  the cops he served with and those who have served since, as bad men. New Zealand has a new top cop. Peter Marshall He is shaping up to be a tough bugger who really wants the NZ police force to be the best in the world. 

And it appears he doesnt take kindly to Meurant  besmirching his force in an article in North and South. 

He has taken on Meurant,  picking apart his  thin arguments and ridiculing his conclusions. 

Meurant was  a shit cop. He served in a time when there was a few of them. 

Marshalls column show he will not truck with smears of our police force. He wont put up with crap from a tired has been  who was involved in some of the murkiest affairs in police and politics.  

Meurant continues to try and blame the culture of his time in the force for the bad things that happened. Meurant was weak and went the flow of his day. He never questioned a thing. 

Marshall is an oustanding cop with unquestionable integrity.

Meurant was never a good cop but he was arguably a bad one. 

Meurant, in  comparison to Marshall, is what every mother hopes their sons never grow up to be - a complete and utter souless narcissistic bully with no balls.  

And if Meurant was to do the country any real favours - he would finally lift the lid on the woeful scampi debacle.

Germany Takes Moral High Ground on Nuclear Power

"The nuclear power plant in the Czech village of Temelin, barely 100 kilometers (62 miles) as the crow flies from the Bavarian city of Passau, has a reputation for being particularly prone to malfunctions. Over the years, there have been 130 reported incidents here. Sometimes it's a generator that fails; at others, a few thousand liters of radioactive liquid leak out of the plant.....

 Still, due to high demand for electricity in Germany, the accident-prone Czech reactor is doing good business. Indeed, when Germany took some of its nuclear power plants offline this spring, the Czech nuclear industry went into the export business. These days, it's sending roughly 1.2 gigawatt-hours of electricity across the border every day. " - SPIEGEL ONLINE

NOISY OYSTERS AND WHITEBAITS

We  got a bit of time off today -so we  had lunch at Shed 5 with some good mates.

We started with Bluff oysters for entree. They were served  almost as we like them  - naked on a rocky bed of  ice. The wee plastic squirty things with some sort of vinegar  in them that accompanied the plump oysters were just plain gauche. Raw oysters served with any plastic utensil is a travesty. We photographed the squirty thing, that looked like a turkey baster for quail, with the oysters - its to the right of the plate in the ice. Awful wee device.

We do no like our food  fancy schmansyied but they did it again with the main of whitebait fritters . Fritters unadorned but for a gentle drop of lemon juice, cannot be beaten. But no - they served them with oily undrained mussel fritters and a smudge of carrot puree. It was just wrong. 

Where is Gaults simple but deft touch?

Stunning food is like a stunning woman - she is mouthwatering naked and only needs a simple adornment to bring out her inner beauty. 

Sadly our meal at Shed Five was like Audrey Hepburn  dressed in trackies from KMart. 

Luckily we supped on the superb Daniel Le Brun  bubbles. A fine New Zealand  methode traditonelle  to have with  New Zealands finest seafood.  It made  up for the missing citrus on the whitebait. 

So our advice to Shed Five is to undress the plates. Seafood  of this quality happily shines on its own. 

However for location and service Shed 5 is hard to beat and the two big  fritters were exceptional value. 

We recommend this restaurant to any Rugby World Cup visitors 

Kill 1 you are a monster , kill 5 you are a hero

"Taliban insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades, heavy machine guns and assault rifles at the U.S. Embassy, NATO headquarters and other buildings in the heart of the capital Tuesday while suicide bombers struck police buildings in an attack blitz that displayed the ability of militants to bring their fight to the doorsteps of Western power in Afghanistan. The coordinated assaults - coming two days after the United States marked the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks - carried an unsettling message to Western leaders and their Afghan allies about the resilience and reach of the Taliban network. It was the third major attack in Kabul since late June, casting fresh doubts on the ability of Afghans to secure their own country as the U.S. and other foreign troops prepare to withdraw by the end of 2014." - The Seattle Times If the involvement of the New Zealand Army in Afghanistan is about killing terrorists , gathering intelligence , supporting the CIA then it makes sense. If it's about helping the Afghan people to free themselves from a barbaric religious group then they should leave now. True religious believers will always win while the population are gullible enough to carry on believing in the religion even if in a less virulent form.

HOW THE WORLD SEES MAORI

mediarwcopening

Tumeke!!!

GETTING A LOT IN LITTLE RIVER

I was lucky enough to be over on the Banks Peninsula today and even luckier to have lunch with some friends at the Little River Cafe and Gallery.  

The food is fantastic and reasonably priced. We had the beef pie - it  was full of dense beef  topside in a thick and tasty gravy studded with mushrooms. The cafe sells smoked salt and I would bet a dollar to a donut that the chef seasoned the pie with this wonderful seasoning. 

Desert was a baked cheese cake. The place was packed  as any good cafe is.  And the coffee was strong with any trace of bitterness. 

If you are on the way to Akaroa during the Rugby World Cup then make Little River your brunch stop . You wont be disappointed

I LOVE NEW ZEALAND

A friend of Lambcut's was in the National Bank branch that is nearest the Parliament end of Lambton Quay, today. Bill English happened to be there too. Apparently, our Deputy Prime Minister fronted up to the teller, as one does, regarding whatever transaction he had in mind. The teller asked him for ID. I love New Zealand.

Dumb & dumber

"Hon Bill English to the Minister of Education: How much funding, if any, was allocated... for ... courses: the animal homeopathy course run by Bay of Plenty College of Homeopathy,...?

 Hon Trevor Mallard (Minister of Education): ... I am advised that those courses will, this year, receive around $180,000." (2005)

 Green Party


 "She is currently a candidate for the Republican nomination in the 2012 U.S. presidential election."

" which is run by her husband ... has denied allegations that ... provides conversion therapy... which attempts to transform homosexuals into heterosexuals"

 "was a longtime member of Salem Lutheran Church in Stillwater. ...denomination's belief that the Pope is the Antichrist"

 " introduced the Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act"

 "has charged that global warming is a hoax"

 "supports the teaching of creationism alongside evolution in public school science classes."

 "when asked if abortion should be allowed in cases of rape or incest, Bachmann responded that she is "100 per cent pro-life"

  Michele Bachman

SCAREDY FLOYD

Poor Floyd didnt take the news that I had gained a few pounds in Christchurch particularly well.....

Nicky Hager: CIA Bad - Islamo-Fascists Good

"There will be those who argue a war is a war and no one should therefore be hugely surprised those soldiers have been found to be sharing their base with operatives from America's Central Intelligence Agency." - John Armstrong

"He said the truth was that despite media visits and hundreds of soldiers passing through, "the New Zealand military managed to keep secret the fact that they shared the Bamiyan camp with a US intelligence base" whose personnel shared meals with the Kiwis and relied on them for protection and other practical support.

He said evidence pointed to the intelligence officers being CIA. They were dressed in civilian clothes and told the New Zealand soldiers nothing about what they were doing but had free access to what the New Zealanders were doing.

"The New Zealand public was contributing to the protection and support of the CIA base," Hager said." - TVNZ

Ooooh scary , NZ soldiers sharing information with CIA intelligence officers that might just keep them all and us safe from religious extremists. Personally Sir Loin is glad to be deceived if it keeps those he loves safe from those who want to destroy us.