Clearing House new-Seppo style

The Headline: 

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• Auckland dialysis patient says deportation of Tongan wife will kill him, case is with Associate Immigration Minister

‘I am dependent on her’: Man says deportation of his wife will kill him

 Is it just me or do others also think "Neat, two birds, one stone"?

 

 

Traditional?

 I was just perusing the New Zealand "news" sites and I came across an advertisement that was promoting herbs and spices.

Fair enough but the ad' claimed that you create a "traditional" New Zealand roast by taking (a hunk of) lamb and infusing it with herbs and spices before and during cooking.

Actually they called it a "traditional kiwi roast" but New Zealand has no tradition of roasting kiwis and, as the kiwi is a nocturnal, flightless bird of the not very bright type I doubt they use fire (or electricity) in preparing their roots and leaves and so that is wrong as well.

 All of that is wrong.

A "traditional" New Zealand roast is made by taking a hunk of dead sheep, more often than not hogget and throwing (almost literally) it in the oven in a bath of rendered animal fat for a couple of hours until all life and taste has been burned out of it.

Some fancy the roast up with parsnips, peeled hunks of spud, even, god-forbid, bloody awful tasting orange stuff but that is it.

It is not the grossly overcooked sheep meat I'm complaining about (although most genuine eaters do) but the bullshit use of the word "traditional".

Paltry?

 The headline:

Paltry $970,000 saved as Govt freezes incomes of 3000 families

 

 The Government (read "The poor bloody taxpayer") pays lazy bastards to just work 20 hours per week - or less.

 They use tax credits for this payment and it affects few people. 2943 families according to the linked story.

The Government has decided not to increase the limit of this credit this year.

The story appears in the NZH and is written by an obviously barely literate slime using the name  Thomas Coughlan 

Coughlan describes the amount the taxpayer saves as "paltry".

 Now, to me, $970,000 is a reasonable saving. A few Government savings of this type and maybe even old white men might qualify for medical procedures currently limited to racists. Hernia operations being the most pressing for yours truly.

But I'm always willing to be shown the error of my ways and be corrected. This time the means suggests itself.

Mr Coughlan should pay me (out of his own pocket) $970,000.00 and I can find out for myself just how paltry it is.