Death with Dignity is back in the public arena and there is, I feel, a genuine ground-swell of support from Kiwi’s for some form of euthanasia to be on New Zealand statute-books (N.Z Herald Poll a massive 82% support from received from respondents)
But I know, realistically, this will never become law whilst we have National in power.
Back in 2003 Peter Brown (N.Z First) proposed his ‘Death With DignityBill’ and MP’s voted by conscience for it’s inception, rather than say Party lines. At least that was the way it was suppose to work in principal.
In practice most Nationals MP’s (added and abetted by United Future) voted against the bill, and as a result was it failed to pass by the close margin of 60 votes to 58.
Let’s take a look at the some of those, then opposition, National MP’s that voted ‘No’ seven years ago:
Trevor Mallard Wayne Mapp Gerry Brownlee David Carter Tony Ryall Bill English Judith Collins Paul Swain Phil Heatley
These names are familiar to all of us, and form the backbone of the current Government running our country.
If just two of those names from above had have voted ‘Yes’ euthanasia would now be a reality.
So don’t hold your breath.
The Reading of Peter Browns Bill and subsequent Parliamentary debate is available here. Rodney Hides impassioned speech is worth a geez.
In February Middleton Grange School in Christchurch, hired a 28 year-old guy to coach their girl's netball team (footnote: a male coaching a female sport like netball was surely a warning sign in itself?)
In case you are not from Christchurch, Middleton Grange is open to Christian children ONLY.
But mind-you - not just any Christian brats qualify - no siree.
Oh no, according to the righteous God-fearing folk who run Middleton Grange - Catholic’s need not apply.
Don’t even ask if your spawn happens to be an Atheist, Hindu or one of the other heathens doomed to ultimately burn in hells flames.
So back to the matter in hand - as it turns-out the part-time Netball Coach happens to be gay, and this touchy-fact gets back to The School Board.
As you would appreciate all Christians hate homos, and New Zealand is no exception to backward bigotry. Nothing gets a Christian zealot more worked-up than man on man sex and people spilling their seed for the fun of it.
The School Board at Middleton Grange was faced with the terrible realisation of having released a real-life sodomite onto its hallowed-grounds.
Their romper-festooned virgins needed protection from this inherently sinful man (not in a Biblical sense of the term of the word ‘man’)
So they simply fired him.
The coach departs to another school and subsequently complains to the Human Rights Department who rightfully demand that the School apologies. Middleton Grange also ended-up paying him reparations.
What is rather ironic in this whole affair is how on one-hand The New Zealand Government sees sexual discrimination as a crime worthy of admonishment, and yet in the next breath it is happy to allow Schools like Middleton Grange to openly discriminate based on a child’s beliefs?
“Our aim is to develop reflective, compassionate and articulatemen of Christian faith and hope who will give service and leadership in our world” (Mission Statement of Xavier College) Xavier College is a Jesuit school and one of Melbourne's most elite private boys Catholic colleges. Its fees are about NZ$18,000 a year so clearly the snobby Papist parents of brats who attend Xavier College, are well able to pay for an overseas school-trip to New Zealand for some outdoor recreation (read: skiing) and the accommodation-bill at the towns four star Goldridge Resort.
Evidently 16 boys from a total of 30 pupils, aged 14 to 17, saw the overseas-trip as a green-light to exhibit feral behaviour befitting of Jesuits – by undertaking a mass coordinated shop-lifting spree the day before their plane was due to fly them home.
The sixteen teenaged Catholic criminals roamed the streets of Queenstown on Saturday and stole clothing worth NZ$6,000 from at least seven stores.
Ultimately their thieving was detected by shop-owners and The N.Z Police became involved, as were the embarrassed teachers.
All the boys bags were searched and Queenstown police returned recovered stolen goods to businesses yesterday. Compensation for the clothing damaged when the boys tore off the security tags, was also paid for – by the schools representatives.
Remember folks: Catholic Education makes better citizens.
Just how sick, repugnant and out of touch with the norms in society is The Catholic Church?
It actually churns my guts to think they have the right to educate kids.
I mean to say is there anyone you know that would deem the following two actions to be on the same par – worthy of the same admonishment and punishment?
Crime(?)One: A female becoming an ordinate priest and having the same status as her male peers.
Crime Two: A Catholic Priest raping a 12 year old boy.
The Vatican has just codified both these so-called ‘grave crimes’ placing them on the same level, subject to the same set of procedures and punishments under their own twisted in-house laws.
Yet, the same unbalanced minds that dreamt this warped ‘law’that want you to look to them for moral guidance!
Imagine a world where the Catholic Church ruled society and put in place it's social agenda?
Oh yeah, that’s right, there was such a time in mankind’s history – it was called ‘The Dark Ages.’ Enlightenment is clearly centuries away for this bunch of flat-earthers.
It’s official, well as official as it can be publicly construed, when it comes to the global fascist cult called The Catholic Church.
Get this stunning revelation fresh from Rome: “Child pornography is a crime against Church law”
Backing the truck-up here and looking at this announcement in the larger context, what we need to ask ourselves is “what sort of organisation needs to tell its members & staff this sort of stuff in the first place?”
Can you remember ever been told by anyone at all specifically - that looking at child porn was a crime and not to do it?
Has say your boss at work ever made specific references to the ramifications of down-loading kiddy porn?
The short answer is “no” – it’s just common sense and an innate trait of decent well-adjusted human-beings.
The Police, Internal Affairs, Parents, Companies etc don’t need to tell you, me and the other decent members of society that looking at child porn is a crime.
So what makes this press-statement significant is its very necessity.
We need to remind ourselves that The Catholic Church is riddled & infested with child-fuckers, deviants and moral reprobates – that we are not dealing with normal ‘Joe Bloggs’.
These are sick people in constant need of moral parameters, and not you and me.
Unlike other sectors of society Catholics, and in particular their clergy, need to be officially reminded not to perv at children being fucked by adults.
Television programmers take head of this idea for a reality show.
An anointed representative of every religion on the planet lines-up for a 12 hour televised ‘boom or bust’ experiment with a global audience measured in the billions.
Trust me - this will be the biggest T.V program ever screened!
Catholics, Baptists, Jews – you name the superstition – as long as they believe they have a telephone-line to God – there’s a place for their chosen warrior on the show (think ‘David’ in the story with Goliath) In-fact this is one show they couldn’t afford to miss.
Oh yeah, there will also be one Bonobo Chimp as well.
The chimp will be representing the non-believing heathens.
The religious representatives are all lined-up and then given a set of six dice (specially manufactured and tested, then randomly drawn from a lotto type machine on the day)
The chosen warriors of God plus the chimp then have 12 hours to throw as many sixes as they can – an average count of which will determine the ‘winner’ (rest assured it will be all above board and it won’t simply be a matter of the individual who throws the most dice but the average result)
The representatives and their supporters watching at home will be encouraged to evoke Gods support for their cause.
Believers will be motivated to prove to the world it is ‘they’ who have Gods favour above all others.
The chimp will get bananas and beer.
What do you think would be the result after all the dice had been thrown?
Now and again a more devout Christian will attempt to literally test-out their Gods magical power for intervention (can I take her for a ride around the block?) undertaking some foolhardy enterprise - often with tragic and/or amusing results.
Presumably the high failure rate means God was down at ‘the local’ or too busy starving African children to intervene in a circus side-show.
Who knows?
Theists and the plain-stupid scripting their own demise have always appealed to my own dark sense of humour.
Similarly sometimes Christians also take their Bible way too literally e.g. say that story about Daniel and the lions.
The media is abuzz with reports of the alleged sighting of a T.Rex roaming the forests on the outskirts of your city.
A family is adamant it was a five metre tall, fearsome giant lizard they saw in a wooded area only 10 kilometres from where you live.
Naturally experts are highly dubious at these claims a large carnivorous dinosaur had somehow survived human detection for the past 60 million years.
The media makes fun of the claims, satirising the passionate claimants reports.
Now imagine how you would react to these anecdotal assertions?
What corroborating evidence would you need for you personally to attest to the notion “a T-Rex is indeed on the loose”?
Pictures? DNA samples? Expert confirmation from biologists? Seeing the beast with your own eyes? A combination of some or all of the above?
Now replace T-Rex in your mind with the word/concept of ‘God’ (as in the popular Abrahamic notion of the term)
As outlandish as the stories of a T-Rex running loose in local forests sound, they pale into insignificance when placed against the idea of a super-powerful all-seeing interventionist 'being' who created all life in the universe, existing undetected, watching & influencing all activities – from the birds in the sky to the deepest ocean – from birth to death and then even into the after-life.
Why is the stringent evidence even a layman needs to corroborate say a modern-day T-Rex, never applied to quantify the far more unbelievable being(s) known as ‘God’?
Apparently no mainstream television station would touch this video by the spunk-goddess, Fuji Minx.
She can put her leather boots and slinky French corset under my bed any-time (even if it meant the body paint she wears never came-out in the wash and she brought along her pet sheep along for ‘the ride’)
I mean to say what’s wrong with a chick getting her tits out and some hard-core blasphemy?
Its anti-Papist rhetoric has attracted the mind-police at You Tube to pull this video under the guise of it being in-appropriate (read: upsetting for the poor Cath-lick bubbsies who want to censor anything that offends their brain-washed minds)
There’s one thing to be said about the ‘Interim Fijian Regime’ (read: Military-Lead Government) – they don’t take fools lightly.
For the last month or so Pastor Laione Lutumaimuri Nacevamaca (above) and his side-kick Bill Govaka (ironically the one time former head of The Fiji Visitors Bureau) have been telling anyone who is interested, that a major natural disaster was about to hit Fiji – specifically 2:30 pm on Wednesday (23rd) this week.
The reason why the time/date is so specific is because it was God that personally told Pastor Nacevamaca, by way of his cell-phone clock.
That’s right: God telepathically communicated with Nacevamaca, then texted him!
“This is the date and time, mark it on your calendar” is what the excitable & delusional Pastor told the local press.
Sadly there were large tracts of the Fijian populous that believed his prophecy, so when whole villages began moving to higher-ground, tourist resorts were cleared following warning emails sent by Govaka, business’s & schools closed to avoid the impending disaster(s) - the Government acted decisively - by arresting & imprisoning the pair on Tuesday for spreading rumours.
Nacevamaca is charged with maliciously fabricating and spreading by way of mouth that there would be a tsunami, earthquake and strong winds, causing public alarm.
Mr Gavoka was charged with spreading the rumours by e-mail about the tsunami and earthquakes and causing public alarm.
Needless to say the time/date passed without either a ripple on land or sea, nor more than a warm sea-breeze.
Whether God bothered to text Nacevamaca to say “sorry for standing you-up” has yet to come-out.
Note: Off-Air for 10 days (may be less - who knows?)
Why is it, that by-in-large American sports-fans are so insular?
Why don’t American sporting teams take pride in representing their country – is it because no one back home gives a rats-arse even if they do well?
More importantly why are American sports teams, with their vast financial resources, so fucking useless?
Whilst most of the planet is embracing The (one true) Football World-Cup, the whole scope of tournament has typically escaped vast tracts of America.
The easy, glib answer to this is of course ‘Football (ooops ‘soccer’) is not a big sport in ‘the states’ even though in reality there’s 18 million players, and it’s the largest participant sport for kids.
By the way neither is football it a ‘big sport’ in New Zealand, but yet the whole country still gets behind its team.
Now go & ask yourself - "what are the ‘big team sports’ in America?"
Well there’s basketball, which it has to be said is a global sport, and with all those NBA players, billions of bucks floating around, surely the U.S should clean-up at every international tournament they turn-up at?
Boy, have I got news for you - the current world-champions are Spain and the tournament before that it was Yugoslavia. The U.S hasn’t been World Champs at basketball for 18 years!
Ice-Hockey, now that’s a popular team-sport in North America.
It goes without saying The U.S must be competitive at The World Ice Hockey Tournament - right?
No, they have performed abysmally and last made a final fifty years ago!
What say Volleyball, another global sport, popular in American schools and colleges?
In the sixty years, no American team (men’s or women’s) has even made the finals at a World Champs.
So what other global team sports do Americans play to any great degree?
Sorry I can’t for the life of me think of any?
Baseball does have a World Championships – but it’s similar to running a so-called World Series - played amongst such a small gene-pool to be unworthy of the mantle ‘World’.
Don’t even suggest American Football – probably one of the worlds least played sport when it comes to countries who participate. Is there even a American Football team as such?
So the only conclusion one can make is Americans don’t care about World Championships and their athletes, teams aren’t interested in succeeding on the world sporting stage at events every-other country takes seriously
They are too interested playing amongst themselves.
What do you call playing with yourself again?
PS: From Saturday on I’m taking a sabbatical for 10 days to catch-up on some things on the home-front. Comments will be cleared when I get other projects finished.
This is a Napier rest home resident Whetu Abraham, 54, a partial tetraplegic with head injuries, the result of being hit by a car in 1986. What also makes him further vulnerable is his lack of family – basically he’s a loner with obvious ‘issues’ and sadly little to no immediate support.
Over the last two years Abraham has donated his entire life saving to the Napier City ‘Oasis’ Elim Church, in the belief he was in-effect buying his way into heaven.
When she learned of what was happening the rest home manager, Lucy Dever, tried to intervene on Abrahams behalf with the churches pastor Bruce Collingwood, and make him aware that Mr Abrahams survived on a sickness benefit and was not in a position to be granting them six-figure donations, let alone his entire nest-egg, given he has no other income source.
Pastor Collingwood dismissed her protestations and banked the monies (approx NZ$20,000) telling Dever dismissively it was Abrahams choice.
I ask you what sort of person is this ‘man of god’ Pastor Bruce Collingwood?
What sort of organisation could take the last cent of a vulnerable person – a man clearly not fully in control of his facilities, down on his luck?
The Napier Oasis Church should be hit where it hurts them most i.e. in the pocket.
Their charitable status should be immediately cancelled.
PS: By the way The Oasis Church in Napier happen to have a Facebook site to vent your anger – so why not join in the fun and tell these creeps what you think? The last couple of posts on their ‘wall’ are gems and sum-up the publics anger at their despicable actions: “scum sucking mutha f*cking arrsehole!” and “complete scum”.
Footnote: Bruce Collingwood has commented on this article (comments section below) giving his side of the story. Far dues to him.
1.) Fans actually get passionate about football and don’t sit like mannequins in their seats chanting like they all have downs-syndrome 2.) The skinny white guys can get in the team, as well as the odd skinny Maori or two (interestingly there were five Maori players on the field against Italy at the end of last nights game and only two playing for The All Blacks on Saturday, no calls a Maori version of the national anthem either) 3.) When you play a meaningless international game of football they call it for what it is – a ‘friendly’ and not a ‘test’. 4.) The 76th ranked nation can draw against the World-Champs (imagine The South African Rugby team failing to beat The Cook Islands!?) A bird-bath has more depth than International Rugby. 5.) The World Football Cup is a ‘World’ Cup and not a beefed-up Commonwealth Tournament. 6.) New Zealand Football doesn’t need to raid The Pacific Islands for its players. 7.) Rivalry in sport generally means some sort of historic competition between two players/teams, rather than miss-matches eg. Everton versus Liverpool. Wales last beat New Zealand at rugby fifty-seven years ago meaning most New Zealansers weren't even born when the term 'rivalry' had any significance in the context. 8.) When New Zealand Football team plays at The World Cup the team over-performs pundit’s expectations. When The All Blacks play at a World Cup Tournament traditionally they under-perform. 9.) You can actually understand the rules of football and the basics of the game don't change season by season and one hemisphere plays by one interpretation and the other by another. 10.) Football is an international language and at this very-moment most people on this planet will know New Zealand is in The World Cup and doing bloody well! It’s currently one of the head-line stories on CBS Sport, ESPN, Telegraph, Guardian, The Sun etc. How many would know about the so-called 'test' in Dunedin?
Defiling corpses is as much an entrenched part of Catholic culture, as say Latin rites or getting a bag of lollies for playing with Father O’Grady’s diddle.
Indeed as you’ll see no part of a dead body is off-limits to the ghoul’s dressed-in dog-collars and women’s robes.
The following is but a small list of some of the venerated human-parts Catholics, in the year 2010, believe still to hold magical powers.
- The toe of ‘Saint’ Francis Xavier as well as three arms that are also claimed to be his - What’s left of the decapitated head of Saint Catherine - The heart of St Vincent de Paul - Jesus Christ’s foreskin as well as his umbilical cord - The breast milk of Mary Madeline as well as a range of her hair ranging from black to blonde (pick a colour, any colour) - The finger of Saint Nicholas - Skull of St Valentine - Thigh and foot bones of St Thérèse of Lisieux - Rib(s) of Saint Luke
When they get all worked-up and foaming at the mouth with religious fervor - no part of a body is considered sacred and off-limits to Catholic grave-robbers.
Like some sordid pages of a Dan Brown novel & even before the corpse of a yet-to-be-confirmed saint is cold The Popes henchmen are on the spot hacking the body-apart limb for limb and distributing the parts all over the planet.
A finger is Fedexed to Mexico.
The arm is taken as carry-on luggage to Brazil.
A tooth is wrenched-out and sent for Catholics in Uganda to adulate.
When they get short-on parts The Catholic Church even robs graves!
Centuries old bodies are dug-up, then defiled in the name of their cause.
This debased behaviour is some-how mitigated by calling the remains ‘relics.’
And if this wasn’t morbid and primitive enough for you to contemplate, there are even Catholic churches ‘decorated’ with the bones of dead friars/priests like this one, The Church of Santa Maria della’Immacolata Concezione in Rome.
The whole practice of venerating human remains is uncivilized in the extreme.
Totally primitive and barbaric behaviour & all coming-from people who have the audacity to try and tell you how to run your life!
PS: I've covered the bizarre story of The Holy Prepuce, or Holy Foreskin before. Read: 'Jesus had a big Cock'.
A question to all males: if you were offered a million dollars to be chemically sterilised, rendered permanently impotent – would you take the money?
Hell no!
Males are hot-wired to seek-out sexual gratification.
The only males I can think-of that would deliberately deny themselves out of volition, as opposed to medical reasons, are lacking a chromosome or two.
Dare I suggest effeminate, thus well suited to an all-male society?
As young boys they were the ones that liked dressing-up-in their mothers underwear and never had friends who ‘understood their feelings.’
Voluntary celibate men are by definition abnormal, biological freaks of nature.
Regardless of sexual orientation, heterosexual, bi-sexual or homosexual – male celibacy is only for weirdos & fringe dwellers in society.
Abnormal behaviour such as sexual-denial invariably spills-over into psychological issues.
These psychological issues could be cured simply & easily with the services of a $50 hooker. Male or female, take your pick.
Until priests are provided with a sexual-outlet for their natural desires (over the age of consent) they will remain by-in-large to be dangerous, ostracized head-cases - never to be left-alone to their own devices & impossible to take seriously.
The mission statement from St Francis de Sales School in Wellington reads:
To provide quality education, incorporating Catholic principles and beliefs, giving each child opportunities for their full development
Showing scant regard for human decency and total disrespect for the dead The Vatican ordered the heart of the original St Francis’s to be ripped from his corpse. De Sales ‘ticker’ is now on display in Rome for the morbid fools to drool over. Mind-you when you think The Catholic Church worships a zombie and ritually drinks his blood – having century old bodily parts strewn about the place seems almost ‘normal’ for this lot.
Perhaps the school in New Zealand that bears his name could ask Rome for some of St Frances heart?
They certainly appear to need a 'heart' of some kind.
Here we have a primary school that has placed a ban on something that is intrinsic childlike behaviour - jumping in puddles.
Following-on from the fine Christian heritage exhibited by Rome, who shamelessly violated the corpse of poor old Francis de Sales, the school-board in Wellington has paid no regard for the part of their mission-statement that claims to “give each child opportunities for their full development.”
These Kiwi children of St Francis de Sales School are being taught a short sharp life-lesson on how fascism works and never to question the authority of ‘the’ church.
Basically they are receiving the ‘good Catholic education’ their parents so-desired.
Wow what a massive and shocking revelation: a New Zealand man has actually been found looking at pornographic movies!
Next they'll be saying males like sport.
The individual that has been ‘outed’ enjoying porn is current opposition politician, former Cabinet Minister and father of seven, Shane Jones.
Pandering to what he perceives as adverse public opinion a guilt-ridden Jones had dubbed his exposure as "Shane's day of great shame."
“Earth to Shane”… “Earth to New Zealand”
Every New Zealand adult-male, with normal testosterone levels, is sexually stimulated looking at pornography - so wop-de-fuck this male happens to inhabit Parliament.
It is not necessary for any male/female to apologise for exhibiting entirely normal behaviour.
Instead of taking a defensive position Jones would be better to have simply turned-on the throng of journalists latched to his jugular and thrown it back in their hypocritical faces with a statement along the lines “I like looking at porn – don’t you?”
Jones should have gone on the offensive and not pandered to the glib, duplicitous calls for his resignation.
Rather than being embarrassed he should have said “Sorry I don’t see a problem with an adult like myself watching a pornographic movie.”
In doing so he would have the support of the majority of Kiwi’s, who like me, enjoy watching porn and aren't afraid to say so.
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