There’s no such thing as a former Marine.

They’re just taking a break.

Meanwhile…

The Casbah

has been rocked.

We win.

Whats their fucking problem???

At least I can get to bloody point…




So I went to get some lunch…

but I had to duck and run to avoid the sniper fire and I only had time to grab a filled roll before the shop was closed for safety reasons and we had to run for the plane. And thats what happened.

Oh yeah shes gonna be president… of fantasy land.

New Olympic uniform for the NZ Team…

Go forth and shop. I personlly am maintaining my strict diet of sugar and grease to ensure I remain unavailable for the team.

Are you doing your part?

Meet Katie..

Katie is an Aries of mixed pine and Dutch Elm descent who likes sitting really still and then smashing stuff from a distance. Although the “new kid” in the game Katie is in fact the biggest machine of her type who can claim a real 13th Century pedigree.

Katie is joining veteran machines Chucky and The Dragon along with another newbie Scipio the ballista at an exhibition at Te Manawa starting on the 7th April. After this they will all be heading off to the Wairarapa where stuff will be smashed, blown up, shot and possibly set fire to if everything fails to go according to plan.

If you are interested in sponsoring Katie or any of the other machines in the exhibition naming rights are available just drop me a line for details.

Well that explains the bumpy forehead

 

  Take the Star Trek Quiz

Amatures get it wrong again.

When I was sitting the test for my firearms liscence I had a sit though a mountain safety council lecture on firearms safety and handling.

The instant they head hunter found out I was army I was a marked man. He gleefully informed the class (90% of whom I wouldn’t trust with a spud gun) that I was “dangerous” and he would take great delight in failing me. Apparently I had an “attitude problem” because like all soldiers I referred to weapons as weapons not “firearms” as all decent peace loving pixies of the mountains do.

This meant that I was a threat to all and sundry because I saw what I was holding as being an instrament of death and destruction while he and his band of tree elves saw them as “tools” for a job.

Long term readers will of course be asuming I didn’t sit there and take it. Quite so. I took the position that he rationale was in fact upside down. I also casually pointed out that he had just gotten through telling us a series of horror stories about all the people who had been killed in the previous months (FIVE) by hunters. This included people leaving things loaded and the number one killer - taking a shot when you shouldn’t. Including shooting at an open ridge line and taget miss-identification.

I followed this up with the fact of the army having fired off several million rounds in the same period and not having killed anyone we didn’t mean to because

a: we hit what we’re aiming at

b: we’re really hard on target indentification and safety.

He got a little bitter and twisted and kept up his “all soldiers are cowboys” rant for the rest of the evening and kept me after everyone else had left so he didn’t have to admit I’d scored 100% of their bullshit paper test and his joy at failing me had met with “defered success”.

There’s a fundemental difference between hunters and soldiers. Soldiers use wepons as a profession. Hunters use “firearms” to be amatures.

You don’t “mistake” a man for a deer, you FAIL to correctly identify your taget.

One man is dead, the guy who killed him will have to live with taking out his own daughters boyfriend, a father, mother and sister have lost someone and the ripples expand to other family and friends.

Because one man shot like an amature.

One round and you’ve turned a lot of lives to shit forever. Thats all it takes.

Assume you’re going to hit what you’re aiming at. If you don’t know where you’re shooting buddy is assume he’s in the splash area and be ABSOLUTELY sure of what you’re shooting at.

Because you can call that thing in your hands a daisy for all it matters, its STILL a weapon.

Just some advice from a man with an attitude problem. Who has never killed anyone.

DPF’s bullshit poll to push his agdenda.

Jesus Dave why don’t you just publish the results now and save the chirade of stacking the ballots?

David first tells us all about how polling outfits can regulate the results of their surveys by stacking the questions.

Then we get his own little capitalist driven poll question on the left.

Should employees be allowed to work on a public holiday

if they wish to earn extra money?

Firstly a strawman question, follwed by what we IN THE TRADE call end loading a question in a double barral format.

Yes - it is their right

No - I know what is best for them

Not just a simple yes or no to his heavily laoded question but if you do not follow Davids line of “he has no family and he wants to be making money 24/7 and everyone else can cram it” thinking then you both have to firstly violate someones “rights” closely followed by forcing your opinions on them.

Firstly it is not anyones RIGHT to work all day every day. It never has been. For those of you that came in late there was a time when you did your shopping once a week on a late night usually either a Thursday or Friday. The concept of Saturday trading is actually quite recent let alone the 24 hour shit we see now.

Secondly David, like John Key is horribly out of touch with working conditions for people at the bottom of the food chain where having a “right” doesn’t mean you’re going to exercise that “right” without consequence. If employers (and employees) were all even handed and fair people there would be no such thing as the employment tribunal.

When an employer tells you to work you have the choice of working or finding yourself getting less hours. If that means your kids know you by a photo and the guy sleeping late on Easter morning thats fine with Dave because he wants you to have the right to have more money!

Screw the fact that to many people time with their kids is actually more valuable than minimum wage. Dave says its all about the money!

For many many low income workers the statutory holidays are the ONLY time they can be sure they will be able to get some family time without being presured by their employer to work.

I challange David to run two polls together. First his neolinguisic programing for his position and then one for the workers.

Should employees be coerced into working on a public holiday

if they wish to spend time with their families?

Yes - If they don’t like it they can be replaced!

No - We’ve already abolished slavery once in this country why are we trying to reinstitute it?

Full marks for trying to be cute DPF. 0 out of 10 for honesty.