Out, Damned Spot

Shouldn't the "decolonise" crowd be pushing for the removal of recent immigrant African/Middle Eastern/Sub-Continent crowds from Western countries?

1800 years, then USA, then BOOM!

" Yet Christianity has been a cornerstone of Western civilisation for nearly two millennia, shaping its moral, cultural, and institutional foundations". 

I'm not going to link to the AI-produced bullshit that quote came from - I'm not that nasty.

Suffice to say it was at the top of yet another article I didn't continue reading but the line actually does contain a grain of truth - albeit accidentally.

For 1,800 years (AD) man did not progress. In particular Christianity, based on happenings over the last 225 years, proved the handbrake on western advancement.

Some art was produced, China had some invention but real progression for man only genuinely jumped ahead after the formation of a country that forbid religion from taking part in governance. The United States of America.

The USA did not invent all things but they created the environment where the industrialisation of those inventions could flourish.

Finally free from the restricting influence of religion, invention and industry that allowed more than just the elite to be advantaged jumped ahead and in the last 225 years most men have gone from stone-age to industrial age.

With this in mind this column is worth reading. It is 

David R. Henderson: Giving Thanks for Freedom and Growth 

I stole it from Breaking Views 

Mr Henderson goes back 6,000 years (correctly IMHO) but my quote was about Christianity rather than general God-bothering.

Cricket? Updated

 Spring and Summer weather in Canterbury, particularly for the Canterbury Plains, is predictable: Almost every year late October and November produce warming, dry and settled conditions, December and early January have all sorts of crap conditions, often hot and cold in the same day with constant showers (rather than steady rain), late January, February and March are usually back to warm settled stuff, all with the possibilities of the odd hot (36-40C) day thrown in.

So why does NZ Cricket continue to schedule Hagley Oval test matches in ChCh for December?

Do they hate test cricket (The only form of real cricket!) that much? 

After watching and listening to this game (or much of it) on free-to-air TV NZC are not the only cricket haters, most of the commentary team do as well.

They were terrible! 

I listened to two sheilas who have never payed the game, a group whinging and whining about a warm day with a gentle breeze and a lot of grizzling but no genuine or informative comments on New Zealand failing to produce test wickets or the failure of the NZ team trainer to get players fit for the strains of five-day cricket.

As an aside, well done Tom Latham, well done West indies. 

Maori Electorate Voters

 I draw attention to the Point-of-Order column: Labour winning all the Māori seats would be good for NZ

It's not worth reading but it only takes two minutes so go for it.

I draw attention because it is the latest column I've seen of utter irrelevant rubbish fed to gullible readers. 

The only thing good for New Zealand that can be done is a general information campaign explaining to most people with Maori heritage that removing themselves from this elitist racism bullshit and signing up for a General electorate, therefore avoiding the circus sideshow that is Maori-only elections, will give them far more influence on the governance of their country.

Such a campaign will need to be, and should be, led by a non-political organisation maybe based around Hobson's Choice or similar. 

Super?

 The headline: NZ Pravda

Kiwi actor on becoming a gladiator: 'Māori blood is like a superpower, eh?'

 Only if the target is White men's money or the things they create mate!

A Rare Display of Sense

 And it comes from a Judge, so very rare indeed.

Ignore the headline:  'Sorry would have gone a long way': Teen's remorse questioned after fatal RnV crash and read the story.

The story is about a young lady who made a mistake. A bad mistake that caused the death of her friend.

The key word there is "mistake".

The New Zealand policing system (Can't call it "justice") is such that everything has to be blamed on someone and that person penalised. 

Mistakes are non-existent and every happenstance is a deliberate action according to the "Law". No accident can happen without someone being penalised.

In fact most of that policing system has one purpose: It's a "yob" scheme for shysters, keeps the useless bastards off the streets.

The prosecution of the young lady, as is the regular prosecution of people in similar situations where a mistake or an accident has caused the ire of the always corrupt porcine types, was for no reason other than State revenge - the young lady had a life.

The judge erred in not pointing that out to the otherwise unemployable lot but then, one can only assume in a fit of remorse, took the very correct course and has recognised that to further penalise the young lady (She had already offered financial compensation) would be unfair.

Well done Judge  John Berseng!

 

 

High Court

 The headline:

 ‘Left with no choice’: Ngāi Tahu takes Govt to court over conservation law changes

intrigues me.

Not the action, given the fact that all the lower courts of New Zealand can't wait to kow-tow to their brown-skinned mates (as the recent Uber ruling proves), the concept.

What I can't understand is why the highest court in the land doesn't tell the lower courts "Stand aside children, the big boys (us) will decide this"?

The lower courts being the laughingly called "Supreme Court" and down, the highest court, the House of Representatives.