Finally a solu­tion to two world­wide prob­lems has been found. Obe­sity and Sus­tain­able Fuel sources.

The beauty of the solu­tion is that it is the same tech­nol­ogy for both.

We get to suck fat­ties of all their excess lard and turn it into biodiesel. Ok so it is ille­gal at the moment but what’s a lit­tle law here or there that can’t be over-ridden for the greater good.

The Labour Party rammed through the Elec­toral Finance Act under the barest of par­lia­men­tary majori­ties. Surely for the sake of all the fat­ties and in order to make our own bio-fuels from their lard we could pass a law that puts fat­ties into fat farms and lit­er­ally suck them dry.

Wow! I just thought of an added bonus, reduc­ing the ram­pant wel­fare depen­dency in South Auck­land by employ­ing all the fat­ties there as fat pro­duc­ers. Imag­ine if we had this solu­tion last year. Mrs Muliaga might never have died and Bren­den Shee­han could make some money off the other fat­ties in the Muliaga family.

It has already been tested by a Kiwi inven­tor in his Bio-fueled boat. The Gree­nies can hardly com­plain, the med­dlers won’t com­plain either. I think we have got a real win­ner here.

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The lefty twats of the media are being shown up almost hourly by blog­gers point­ing out the idiocy of state­ments decry­ing Israel’s “dis­pro­por­tion­ate” response to a “few”(6800) glo­ri­fied sky-rockets.

This is plain idiocy on their part.

Michael J. Tot­ten won­ders exactly what they mean by proportionate;

Now that Hamas’s long war against Israel is matched with a short war in Gaza, protests are erupt­ing every­where from the blo­gos­phere and Arab cap­i­tals to the United Nations, and they began on the very first day. Salon.com blog­ger Glenn Green­wald calls the Israeli retal­i­a­tion to more than a year of rocket attacks a “mas­sively dis­pro­por­tion­ate response.” UN High Com­mis­sioner for Human Rights Navi Pil­lay “strongly con­demned Israel’s dis­pro­por­tion­ate use of force.” The Israeli coun­ter­at­tack is, indeed, dis­pro­por­tion­ate, but it could hardly be oth­er­wise. “At last count,” J.G. Thayer wrote, “one Israeli and two Pales­tini­ans (sis­ters, ages 13 and 5) died from rocket attacks. So a pro­por­tion­ate response, one pre­sumes, would have required Israel to kill a sin­gle Pales­tin­ian and two of its own citizens.”

There were, I sup­pose, other “pro­por­tion­ate” responses avail­able aside from killing one Pales­tin­ian and two Israelis. The Israel Defense Forces might have launched thou­sands of air strikes against tar­gets in Gaza to match the thou­sands of Qas­sam rock­ets fired at the cities of Sderot and Ashkelon. It’s unlikely, how­ever, that this is what Israel’s crit­ics have in mind.

Vic­tor Davis Hansen pro­poses some mod­er­ate sug­ges­tions to intro­duce more pro­por­tion­ate responses from both sides;

1) Request that 50% of Israel’s air-to-ground mis­siles be duds to ensure greater proportionality.

2) Allow Hamas another 1,000 free rocket launches to see if they can catch up with the body count.

3) Have Israeli sol­diers con­gre­gate in bor­der bar­racks so that Hamas’s ran­dom rock­ets have a bet­ter chance of killing mil­i­tary per­son­nel, to ensure it can claim at least a few mil­i­tary targets.

4) Rede­fine “holo­caust” to refer to deaths of ter­ror­ists in num­bers under 400 to give greater cre­dence to Hamas’s cur­rent claims.

5) In the inter­est of fair­ness, allow Hamas to estab­lish both the date that war is sup­posed to begin and the date when it must end.

6) Send Israeli mil­i­tary advis­ers to Hamas to improve the accu­racy of their missiles.

7) Take down the bar­ri­ers to return to Hamas a fair chance of get­ting sui­cide bombers back inside Israel.

It is inter­est­ing also to note President-elect Barack hus­sein Obama’s com­ment on Hamas rock­ets and the typr of response they should expect.

“If some­one was send­ing rock­ets on my house where my daugh­ters were sleep­ing at night, I would do every­thing to stop it, and I would expect Israelis to do the same thing.” – President-elect Barack Obama

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Bloody relatives…..playing with knives.

Here I was cook­ing for the pod, just BBQ’d the meat and was deliv­er­ing it into the kitchen when the evil MIL stabbed me with a kitchen knife.

For­tu­nately I am skilled at emer­gency first aid and applied suit­able field dress­ings. Unfor­tu­nately for the left­ist lick­spit­tles and panty wet­ters out there I am per­fectly fit and able to con­tinue blog­ging despite my injury.

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Much has been made of israel’s dis­pro­por­tion­ate response to a few “glo­ri­fied sky­rock­ets. The Israeli Min­istry of Defense put out a press release out­ling some of Israel’s response.

• 12 Pales­tini­ans entered Israel for med­ical treat­ment in Israeli hospitals.
  
• Two of those evac­u­ated were chil­dren injured dur­ing the mil­i­tary acti­vates, the remain­ing are chron­i­cally sick peo­ple, and their escorts, that entered Israel for treat­ment that is not avail­able within the Gaza Strip.
• despite ongo­ing rocket fire approx­i­mately 2500 tons of human­i­tar­ian aid, med­ical sup­plies and med­ica­tion were con­veyed through Kerem Shalom cargo terminal. 
• Ninety three trucks, with­The World Food Pro­gramme has informed Israel that they will not be resum­ing ship­ment of food com­modi­ties in to Gaza due to the fact that their ware­houses are at full capac­ity and will last for approx­i­mately two weeks.
• Since the begin­ning of oper­a­tion “Cast Lead” some 6500 tons of aid have been trans­ferred at the request of the inter­na­tional orga­ni­za­tions, the Pales­tin­ian Author­ity and var­i­ous governments.

There doesn’t appear to be any indi­ca­tion yet that any aid pack­ages have been strapped onto the 6300 (and count­ing) mis­siles those human­i­tar­i­ans from Hamas have fired into Israel since 2005. The only things Hamas are send­ing to Israel are sui­cide bombers, rock­ets and mortars.

It seems to me this Israeli aid is very dis­pro­por­tion­ate.  We’ll be back to let you know if the boys at Tumeke think it should stop until Hamas catches up.

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The NZ Her­ald edi­to­r­ial calls for the de-politicisation of the Hon­ours sys­tem.

I think this is a good call, for far too long the sys­tem has been cor­rupted by the award­ing of dubi­ous honours.

On this week’s list, the last of the Clark Gov­ern­ment, a num­ber of peo­ple have received high hon­ours even though it is hard to see what spe­cial ser­vice they gave to the nation over and above the jobs they were paid to do.

For­mer Speaker of Par­lia­ment Mar­garet Wil­son – Dis­tin­guished Com­pan­ion of the New Zealand Order of Merit – and for­mer Cab­i­net min­is­ter Steve Maharey and for­mer State Ser­vices Com­mis­sioner Dr Mark Preb­ble – Com­pan­ions of the Order – all played promi­nent roles in the period of the Labour Gov­ern­ment but it can hardly be said they achieved great things beyond what is expected of peo­ple who take on such roles.

Indeed, Wil­son was inef­fec­tive as a Speaker and Preb­ble, as the country’s top pub­lic ser­vant, failed to deal firmly with min­is­te­r­ial pres­sure being applied over staff appoint­ments in the Envi­ron­ment Min­istry. It is hard to escape the con­clu­sion that such hon­ours are given partly for merely occu­py­ing a par­tic­u­lar job and partly for ser­vices ren­dered to a polit­i­cal party rather than the com­mu­nity as a whole.

Wil­son in par­tic­u­lar should never have been hon­oured. I know that it is tra­di­tion to hon­our the for­mer Speaker but that, I beleive should be pred­i­cated by the fact that they deserve the hon­our or that hon­our is indeed con­tained within their job and/or actions. Wil­son doesn’t even remotely qual­ify, she was per­haps the most par­ti­san Speaker ever, she ruled noth­ing except with­out the nod from Cullen and con­stantly failed to main­tain order in the House. It is a trav­esty that she was so hon­oured. Like­wise Maharey and Clem Simich. Both men have had a life­time of suck­ing off the pub­lic tit and of hav­ing less than spec­tac­u­lar if not invis­i­ble careers in par­lia­ment, they deserved noth­ing but the pay and perks they got for warm­ing a seat, and some would say that was too much.

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Doug Somers-Edgar has spi­ralled another com­pany into the ground.

Auck­land prop­erty lender Orange Finance has frozen deben­ture repay­ments while its trustee decides whether to call in receivers.

Sole direc­tor Doug Somers-Edgar, who founded the invest­ment advi­sory busi­ness Money Man­agers, has told deben­ture hold­ers the prop­erty mar­ket squeeze has put some of Orange’s largest loans at risk.

The com­pany has there­fore decided to stop repay­ing matur­ing deben­tures and inter­est from Decem­ber 22.

Mr Somers-Edgar was enter­tain­ing guests at his Tor­bay home last night, and his fam­ily said he was unable to come to the phone to pro­vide details of the company’s finances.

Doug Somers-Edgrs has the reverse Midas touch when it comes to other peo­ples money. He has an uncanny abil­ity to make their money dis­ap­pear. It seems fools and their money are still eas­ily parted.

Another finance com­pany that may well be on the ropes as well is Rifle­man Finance, the per­sonal play­thing of Jamie Peters (yes, he is a cousin). Their web­site has strangely dropped offline and has been down for at least a week. If any­one knows details about Rifle­man Finance or Orange Finance then you can con­tact WOBH on the Tipline.

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The IDF has released sev­eral new videos. Once again they prove that Israel isn’t pre­vent­ing med­ical atten­tion for Gazans. The Video is of Israel admit­ting a Gazan child for treat­ment at an Israeli hos­pi­tal via the Erez cross­ing. This child, who was not hurt as part of oper­a­tion “Cast Lead,” will join hun­dreds of other Gazans hos­pi­tal­ized in Israel.

IAF strike on Qas­sam Launcher

IAF strike on Grad Launch­ers (note one of their “glo­ri­fied sky­rock­ets” gets off the ground before the strike goes in)

IAF strike on Hamas Offices and Grad Launchers

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War­ren Kin­sella blogs on 6 points to counter Hamas Hug­gers and Apol­o­gists. How many of these has cliches has Bomber used in the past 4 days?

My favourite is Point 1.

1. “Israel’s response in Gaza is dis­pro­por­tion­ate.”

Since when is war a math­e­mat­i­cal equa­tion? The basic objec­tive of any war­ring party is to inflict max­i­mal dam­age on the enemy while min­i­miz­ing its own casu­al­ties. Was there any­thing pro­por­tional about the US war in Iraq? Or about Iraq’s inva­sion of Kuwait for that mat­ter? Or about Russia’s recent war against Geor­gia? Israel is doing exactly what any other coun­try has done in the past. This is how war works.

Would a British cit­i­zen com­plain that “too few” British sol­diers are being killed in Iraq? Prob­a­bly not.

And on a more ele­men­tary note: Pales­tin­ian mil­i­tary infe­ri­or­ity is not an indi­ca­tion of moral supe­ri­or­ity. Pales­tin­ian insis­tence on resort­ing to vio­lence despite this mil­i­tary weak­ness is an indi­ca­tion of poor judg­ment per­haps – yet it is by no means an indi­ca­tion of moral virtue. Being mil­i­tar­ily weak does not make the Pales­tini­ans right.

Go read the rest and then go tell Bomber and Tim what you think.

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Juice Hate Signs sent in by readers

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Adam Smith at Inquir­ing Mind has a despi­ca­ble let­ter to the edi­tor from the DomPost.

J K Calvert of Tau­ranga should be egged.

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Two pro­nounce­ments and two price cuts on fuel so far Gerry Brown­lee is bat­ting 2 – 0.

Fuel com­pa­nies announced today a fur­ther drop of three cents a litre.

Gerry should speak out more often.

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Faced with a hos­tile main­stream media the IDF has opened its Web 2.0 offen­sive by upload­ing its gun cam­era footage onto Youtube and Live Leak amongst other video sites.

You Tube reacted almost imme­di­ately and pulled a cou­ple of videos includ­ing one I showed yes­ter­day of the Hamas goons cop­ping a bomb while load­ing rock­ets. Blog­ger high­lighted the issue and view­ers and sup­port­ers have shamed Youtube into rein­stat­ing the video.

Con­trary to Hamas loyal news agen­cies Israel is send­ing aid to Gaza.

This video shows how those peace lov­ing Hamas folk like to keep mis­sile launch sites in civil­ian areas.

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The New Year Hon­ours List is out and my, my hasn’t Labour rewarded their failed, their pathetic and their loyal toad­ies and lickspittles.

Mar­garet Wil­son
Steve Maharey
Paul Swain

All got hon­ours for dubi­ous achieve­ments, Wilson’s in par­tic­u­lar seems egre­gious in the extreme as she should have been noted in his­tory as New Zealand’s worst ever Speaker.

Clem Simich also got an award, it seems for never deliv­er­ing his mes­sage to Welling­ton and warm­ing a seat for over 20 years. His achieve­ments in par­lia­ment could be writ­ten on bus ticket.

Other loyal lick­spit­tles to receive awards were Mark Preb­ble, pre­sum­ably for hold­ing inad­e­quate and ridicu­lous inquiries where the result was never in doubt as instructed by the ninth floor and Brian Cor­ban the ever loyal lefty, per­haps now he has his gong he will give up all his gov­ern­ment board appointments.

Noth­ing at all for Owen Glenn which seems strange.

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The old style media are fond of say­ing that Gaza is one of the most densely pop­u­lated places on earth, most just accept it and oth­ers like Bum­ber scream it from the blog-tops.

How­ever the facts show that to be very mis­lead­ing in fact it is so mis­lead­ing as to almost be a lie;

It is “one of the most”, but far from the most pop­u­lated if you com­pare to some cities and counties.(Per square mile, fig­ures from Wikipedia)

Gaza 8,666
Dis­trict of Colum­bia 9,176
Lon­don 12,331
Gibral­tar 11,990
Sin­ga­pore 17,751
Hong Kong 17,833
Tel Aviv 19,505
Monaco 41,608
Macau 71,466
Cairo 82,893
Cal­cutta 108,005
Manila 113,810

Gaza’s den­sity is almost three times that of Auck­land which sits at 3,131.8. Hardly packed in. Espe­cially ironic twhen you con­sider Tel Aviv is more dense, they don’t seem to be mak­ing rock­ets and mor­tar and blow­ing up their neigh­bours up in Tel Aviv. And we aren’t hear­ing too much about mad ter­ror­sits hurl­ing rock­ets around in Hong Kong or Sin­ga­pore either.

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