A Solution?

 Taken from a screenshot of NewstalkZB, 18/01/2025: 11.20.

Keep her too busy for shoplifting?

Committee.

 Paraphrasing, Sir Brian Roche has, as he was commissioned to, found the cause of much waste in the Public Service.

Too much "administration, too many committees.

To find the way to overcome this problem he has set up a committee.

Meat

 I like cold meat, particularly cold roasted beef. 

Just before Xmas I parked outside of a butchery in Rangiora. 

Having pretty much given up on meat and limiting myself to just buying cheap cuts because of the water content added to meat by most retailers I no more than glanced in the window but I did note a sign advertising beef mince on "special".

I wanted some (hamburger steaks are a favorite) so I purchased a kilo.

It was edible so I decided this week to investigate the shop more.

I wandered in and, after a look and noting prices were about what I paid elsewhere, I purchased some more minced beef and a topside roast (in sealed packaging). The roast was about 1.3Kg and cost me $22.

I cooked the roast on my BBQ.

To my surprise it didn't shrink to half it's size. It was all meat.

I have just shared the fourth meal off that piece with the flies and there is still plenty left (probably one more cold-meat meal, a snack and some rissoles to finish).

It also tastes bloody great!

The butchery is PNP Farm's Butchery specialising in Angus Beef. High Street, Rangiora. Their website advises that they are also in Auckland and Christchurch.

I recommend it - further I intend to purchase all my meat from there from now on.

Well done that butchery!

A Plea

 A lot of talk about the USA acquiring Greenland right now.

Greenland, often described as the World's biggest Island (I thought Oz held that distinction), is apparently open to an agreement where USA has full defense and mineral exploration rights and obligations while remaining independent.

Seems like a win-win.

Meanwhile can someone tell The Donald about a group of Islands in the South Pacific being currently destroyed by communism and racism and of strategic importance for USA access to the World's richest and least developed continent.

Purchase price right now would be about $US0.03 including tax.

The Donald buying these islands would improve both the USA and New Zealand while saving the latter from 3rd world status and bankruptcy.

Brekkie

I loathe milk!

I went to school in New Zealand, starting in 1958. Part of the torture of those years was the daily, compulsory (1/2 pint a day), dose of warm, sun-affected, day old milk.

It was foul.

Since that time I have avoided the stuff. Coffee I take black with honey, I break my fast with toast and coffee, etc.

That has meant I don't use cereals but, due to a life-change, that has to be reassessed. In my re-assessment I have discovered I can stomach whipped cream (without sugar or vanilla polluting it).

A bit of experimenting and I've come up with a Muesli-type mix that works for me.

The recipe: 

2 cups rolled oats

2 cups prepared Quinoa

1 cup chopped peanuts

1/2 cup (approx - more = sweeter) Kanuka honey*

1/2 cup (good) Olive oil

1 tbsp vanilla

1 tbsp cinnamon.

Mix ingredients in a large bowl, spread on baking paper on a dished oven tray (one with sides) about 2-3cm thick.

Bake in heated oven at 180C for 9 minutes, stir thoroughly and bake until mix is dry and crisp (ensuring top does not burn), usually about 10 minutes.

Remove from oven, add 1 cup of any dried fruit** you have or want and stir in.

Turn off oven and use residual heat from oven to finish off.

When cool refrigerate mix in container with lid.

I've found that separating the mix in serving-sized bags the next day and freezing keeps the mixture for weeks.

Serve with whipped cream.

* Kanuka honey is not overly sweet and has good anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties. I prefer it but any honey will do or try Maple syrup.

** I like cranberries, goji berries and often add blueberries when serving.

One Law for Them - One for Us

 200 blatant racists assembled at Omaha near Hastings on Friday to promote apartheid and preach sedition.

The only reason there weren't white sheets and pointy hats is they were slightly brown although I would be unsurprised if crosses were burnt..

As yet no reports of arrests from these illegal and nefarious activities.

Why not?

Are brown racist scum above the law in New Zealand?

Six Hours in Sunlight - Brilliant!

 I sat in the sun for a very almost six hours yesterday.

I reiterate: I sat in the sun for almost six hours yesterday.

I was making an item out of black leather that required black stitching and only direct sunlight gives me the ability to see it properly - I'm old and so are my eyes.

However I sat in direct sunlight for at least five of the six hours between 09:30 and 15:30. I went in for lunch at 15:30. I was wearing T-shirt and shorts with jandals and a fedora hat.

Not once in those (almost) six hours, remembering it was the 10th of January yesterday (middle of summer) and I'm located in Kaiapoi, Canterbury, New Zealand, did I feel like the sun was burning me, nor today do I feel burnt.

So, the middle of summer, right under the hole in the Ozone layer, with minimal clothing and yet no real heat from the sun.

I mention this because this morning I saw a headline (no, no link. Look it up for yourself) about how much hotter 2024 was and suggesting run-away global warming is here at last. It will be the first of many.

Despite several international stories over the last month on the dishonesty and disgrace of the "climate change" industry in sighting sensors in hot places and at least one verified report of a Pom outfit actually inventing weather and temperature records to fit their narrative.

Despite scientists (real ones) reporting a lack activity on Sol.

Yesterday's six hours demonstrates exactly what these "climate bullshitters" are; complete fuckwits who want nothing more than to tell you what you may or may not do.

Hopefully today's overcast lifts soon and I can start another six hour stint.

Submitted? Nah, you're a Bot!

 It has started.

This: 

Record Treaty submissions could be result of nefarious activity - tech expert

If you are one of the hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders who submitted on the Treaty Principles Bill and were on the non-wet side of the divide get prepared.

Almost certainly your submission will be discounted as being "by a bot".

Of course you won't know but my guess is the official figures of those submissions deemed "legitimate" will be approx 90% against The Bill proceeding and 9% for with 1% being neither.

In New Zealand "Democracy" is just a system started in the desert about 500BC that has no bearing on the present.

In New Zealand the People don't count!

A Minor Addition to a Good Column

 There is another excellent column at Breaking Views today.

The column I speak of is headed Owen Jennings: Where is the partnership?

I recommend the read and will add a minor point to it.

There has been a great deal of comment recently that most of the Maori chiefs signed the "Maori" version of the Treaty.

This appears also to be accepted by the brain-dead and the non-thinkers (read "politicians").

It is in fact just more Maori greedy-activist fantasy.

There was only one treaty (the one currently called "The English version") offered and while the piece of paper used for the Maori chiefs to sign their agreement may have contained an attempted translation the Treaty signed for by the largely illiterate (i.e. they couldn't read any "version") Chiefs, they signed up to Hobson's Treaty - written in English.

I won't comment on any motive they may have had to sign that Treaty except to note that there were many more Maori in years before the agreement and after a few years of signing the agreement than there were when the signing took place.

I will note that after signing the agreement they happily wandered off and broke the treaty at will until finally brought to heel later in the 19th century.

Maori Party Noise

 I refer you to a column I found in Breaking Views.co.nz written by Geoff Parker.

This column details the demands of the Maori Party.

Unfortunately I think the column, while informative and, thankfully short, is waste of space.

Let me explain: I believe in free speech and therefore believe that even those with abhorrent, disgusting ideas should have the right to express those ideas if they so wish.

That includes the racists.

But more, the Maori party always will be just a small, noisy, very greedy minority.

Without the assistance of others they will remain simply a noise.

The people Mr Parker et al should be berating are those who will enable the Maori Party to have any influence in the progress of New Zealand.

I'm not referring, of course, to the Green Party, who are brain-dead, reality denying halfwits elected by brain-dead, reality defying halfwits.

I refer to Labour party voters and uncommitted voters (one must question the mental ability of anyone uncommitted in today's political climate).

These people, and only these people, can determine whether the racists become more than an unpleasant noise. By electing people (at all levels) that will oppose the noisy ones these people can help protect New Zealand.

They're not very bright that lot. Use short words and repeat them often.

Death in Nelson

 I'm back, but for how long I don't know.

The news recently has been full of the death of a Nelson Policewoman. I didn't know this Policewoman.

I first make this disclaimer: Over the approx 30 years in dealing with the NZ Police regularly - as part of my job - I have never yet met a Policewoman who I either respected or liked.

100% of policewomen I've dealt with were bullies, usually too lazy to get out of their own way and a disgrace to the uniform. Most males, and all older, experienced males I met were the opposite.

Nelson was one of the places I worked.

Despite this disclaimer I don't believe killing Policewomen is right - it is wasting too much of the tax-payer money used to train them.

I digress.

Reports of the incident have been strictly censored and I (we?) don't know a lot of details. Part of the censorship is the police-requested court-ordered suppression order that includes the ethnicity of the vehicle driver.

I wonder whether this is simply to emulate big cities overseas that see much racist violence and pretend Nelson has similar characteristics or whether the perpetrator is of the protected race?

Worldwide we are seeing far more use of the motor vehicle as a deadly weapon.

In that Nelson may be a pioneer of sorts. In 2001 I moved to Nelson temporarily after a contract fell through.

The first night I was there a man was deliberately run over - in the same carpark as the policewoman was killed.

That man, luckily, wasn't killed and, later, became a regular customer.

Back to the point; The suppression of details and history makes me wonder whether this was a drunk/high aggrieved member of the public or something more organised?

Something we should ALL be concerned about.