The Ashes part 1, A Travesty!

 The first test of The Ashes for this summer.

The match lasted just three and a half days. I watched damned near all of it.

Except for a session on day three when both teams seemed bereft of ideas on how to advance the game it was good cricket. The Poms were at that stage batting time as much as anything, the Ockers a bowler down and with a totally ineffectual spinner.

The fourth morning changed that and the Poms collapsed for a second time.

All good stuff.

Unfortunately I read this morning that the Poms were docked all of their match fees for a slow over-rate on day two.

Why, for christ's sake?

I can understand if there was a deliberate go-slow but for most of the day the Poms were two bowlers short and, notably, it was the first game of white-clothing cricket the two teams had played this summer.

It was the best day's cricket of the match!

Add to that that, as a spectator, I didn't feel the least bit short-changed by that over-rate.

This type of utter bullshit will accomplish only one thing: The demise of test cricket.

Players will avoid the longer form of the game.

Stop it! ICC get some sense in your rules.

Death Penalty Part II

 I stated before I'm opposed to a State killing it's citizens.

I'm also opposed to war and, for that matter, abortion of any viable fetus without abnormality.

I do however make some slight exceptions: I would provide ropes hanging from the ceiling of all prison cells holding rapists, kiddie-fuckers and gang members convicted of assault, robbery or murder.

The other exception I would consider would be abortion for any left-wing policians, up until the age of 50.

After 50, life without parole or contact with the real world would suffice.

The Death Sentence

 I notice a resurgence of the debate over the death sentence in the USA.

I find this remarkable, not because of the debate so much as the alternative suggested, usually life without parole.

I'm opposed to The State killing it's citizens, I admit. Equally I'm opposed to a State killing citizens of another country, usually referred to as "war".

However, most States that have removed the death penalty happily retain imprisonment for life without the chance of parole.

Isn't this simply the death penalty with only the time of death altered?

Polls and the Slime

 There is a new political poll result out in New Zealand.

It has the centre/right (National and ACT) slightly ahead of the communist dictatorship New Zealand now suffers.

This is significant because up until now the gutless cowards forming the majority in New Zealand have joined the communist racists to give the left a lead.

Notably, however, not a single mainstream "news" organisation has commented on or highlighted this poll.

The bought-and-paid-for are earning their pieces of silver!

Keep Out!

 I  notice John Hatfield, unelected Governor of Northland, has said he doesn't want white Jafas heading north.

Going to be an interesting second halk of December.

Climate Alarmism May Not Be Biggest Scam Ever

 I notice Jordan Peterson is calling climate change alarmism the "greatest scam in the history of mankind" .

While it certainly is a scam, a fraud aimed at keeping a certain part of the elite in power and putting the masses back in their place, I'm not, yet anyway, sure it's the greatest ever.

Climate alarmism, in my view, still has a long way to go in the greatest scam stakes to surpass chicken wings.

Really? I doubt it!

I notice this headline on one of NZ's bought-and-paid-for propoganda sites:

 

Labour crunch: NZ unemployment hits lowest level on record

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/labour-crunch-nz-unemployment-hits-lowest-level-on-record/MOHCSAB5XTXKJM25MBISKFV6FE/ 

I wonder what they were counting? Maybe it's the country's cows.

Certainly not the number of those who are not working, even if you exclude those on subsidised wages because their employers can't operate.

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