Thursday, June 30, 2011

Killing our kids is the issue. Not boycotting books.

I have blogged about this before at MySpace and I will continue to blog on this issue. In New Zealand we kill our kids. It seems to me we are very good at it and dare I say it Maori New Zealand are the best of all New Zealanders at  killing. Above is Macsyna King. I don't hate her, I have never met her and I am not prepared to speculate on her potential guilt or innocence in the death of her twin sons that the NZ police have not charged her is something we should all keep in mind while we as a nation hate her.

Trust me New Zealand hate this woman, she has responded to this by telling her version of events to a New Zealand  "  investigative journalist "   rightwing christian nutter Ian Wishart a man who regularly fucks me off but, and it is a big but, is a guy who I think tells it the way he sees it. He is publishing next month a book about Macsyna and her version of what happened and New Zealand has gone bloody crazy from todays NZ Herald


" Some leading stores plan to boycott a book by the Kahui twins' mother, Macsyna King, after a public outcry - a move the writer has slammed as the "death of free speech".
The Paper Plus group and The Warehouse yesterday said they would not stock Breaking Silence: The Kahui Case because of an overwhelming outcry from the public.
Last night, 30,000 people had joined the Boycott the Macsyna King Book Facebook page."

The real problem, that we are killing our kids is lost as we indulge in hate.

It isn't the death of free speech but it is the death of free choice. As much as I disagree with Wishart's world view his book should be sold, I for one will read it.

I look at Macsyna King, I look at her awful lifestyle decisions and I say to her how do we bring you back ? How do we turn your life around ? I hope Wishart has asked these questions because the left answer is welfare and the right is no welfare.

The answer  my friends is  in the middle.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Down Under stupidity. Fuck we are good at it.

I am astonished at the on going idiocy that New Zealand has collectively engaged in over the last couple of weeks regarding a visit from a mate from the extreme south .  Let me recap, Happy Feet turned up having made a trip from the Antarctic and we all sat on our hands and did nothing. In fact it was worse than that residents had to protect him / her from drunk youths and dogs. The Department of Conservation ( DOC ) then decided to actually do something and assigned him a security guard and exclusion zone and went into consultation on what to do next. Make no mistake the vast majority of kiwis were saying take the penguin into captivity. That would have required a decision something government departments  try to avoid at all costs.

After hanging around on the beach for five days Happy Feet  started eating snow sand and fish sticks,  that forced DOC to act, or more likely the Minister of Conservation who clicked that a dead penguin probably wasn't a great look  a few months out from an election. Happy Feet was relocated to Wellington Zoo, had a stomach pump / flush and to be fair to the team involved in was well looked after.




Then we have today's announcements. From the formidable Stuff our largest News paper group  


The emperor penguin who was found thousands of kilometres from home at a Kapiti Coast beach is set to be released into the Southern Ocean to fend for itself, when it regathers its strength.
The Antarctic bird, dubbed Happy Feet, has been in surgery at Wellington Zoo after it became seriously ill from eating sand and sticks on Peka Peka beach.
The penguin advisory committee this morning decided the preferred option would be to release Happy Feet into the Southern Ocean, rather than transporting it to Antarctica.
This is the northern edge of the known range of juvenile emperor penguins.
WTF I don't get this at all. It sounds good but then we get this.



" Though the emperor penguin is native to the continent, taking him back there would breach the treaty's protocols on environmental protection because of the risk of disease, Antarctica New Zealand science manager Ed Butler says.
Micro-organisms picked up on the penguin's 4000-kilometre swim to New Zealand or while on our shores could cause Happy Feet to become sick months down the track.
"Even if we screened Happy Feet, we still couldn't be sure that he wouldn't be carrying something that would turn up in blisters and sores in six months' time and kill all his mates," Butler said.
Agriculture and Forestry Ministry research shows a suspected virus that struck a colony of Adele penguins in Antarctica in 1972 killed 65 per cent of baby penguins in the colony of thousands.
"There are 150,000 breeding pairs in some colonies, and 65 per cent of that is a big number," Butler said. "That's a lot of dead penguins for one penguin."

Now if you are going to put Happy feet back within the range of other juvinile emperor peguins then I am guessing he could infect  them so won't only potentially kill  "...all his mate's ..." but presumably all emperor penguin colonies. I note with some amusement that Happy Feet has by swimming to New Zealand caused huge international legal problems.


" RETURNING PENGUIN 'ILLEGAL'
The Antarctic Treaty, signed by 46 nations and enshrined in New Zealand law, stipulates that no living bird is allowed to be taken into Antarctica.
Though the emperor penguin is native to the continent, taking him back there would breach the treaty's protocols on environmental protection because of the risk of disease, Antarctica New Zealand science manager Ed Butler says. "

As a New Zealand blogger noted today what country would take us ( NZ ) to the International Court over this ?

Look Happy Feet is a bird, emperor penguins are held in captivity in the USA that is the sensible solution for Happy Feet. I would love to have Happy Feet in a controlled environment in New Zealand but it is not a great option he / she needs to be around friends, far better to send him to the USA and a controlled environment.



Sunday, June 26, 2011

Will She... ,

I have no idea what she looks like, I have no idea about anything personal about Cactus. I will back her. She has  ideas. That is something we have lost  Labour.

Friday, June 24, 2011

We Fucked Up

Hey welcome  we are  100% pure, actually it wouldn't piss me off so much if we managed to be 100%  sensible


"The emperor penguin taken from Peka Peka beach is to undergo surgery tomorrow, with zoo staff giving it a 50 per cent chance of recovery.
'Happy Feet' was earlier taken to Wellington Zoo in a chilled box from the Kapiti Coast after the penguin's behaviour changed markedly in the last few days.
Veterinary staff at the zoo said the bird was dehydrated and was suffering from heat exhaustion"

For fucks sake  he fucking swam here from  the Antarctic,  it is quite a trip and we  clean Green New Zealand  just ignored him for  5 days. Today our  government  moved and we looked after our friend from the the deep  south  and  we are  thinking that  the fools who dealed with this from  the Govt.  Dept. might want to think again. He is dead, I will tell you about it. Yeah he was a mate 

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Look trust me, we believe in equality

You are bad bitch's


"..EMA chief executive Alasdair Thompson today admitted there was a gender pay gap -- 12 per cent according to figures -- but said women took the most sick days. "


Look I have no major problem with this he has scientific evidence to back this statement. Strangely though he failed to produce it.


Why ?


" Because once a month they have sick problems. Not all women, but some do, they have children they have to take time off to go home and take leave," he told NewstalkZB.
Therefore their productivity was lower."
":I don't like saying these things because it sounds like I'm sexist, but it's a fact of life."
I agree Alisdair you have identified a real problem and I can tell you that as an employee I don't think about sex 5000 times a year except that I do.
It is time for you to go Alisdair, but you represent the New Zealand right and will be protected but every idiot on the political right.

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

I am guessing he is a broke wanker.

krafi2008: I missed so much was thinking about you all day
baby
i want some pussy
will you show me
i love big boobs big fan
how big is yours
we should have sex you and me
exoticbeutyx: oh yes hunny wil do
krafi2008: i would bang you so hard nice and soft
exoticbeutyx: cant wait to slide ur hard dick on my wet n hairy pussy
krafi2008: we should fuck
exoticbeutyx: wana eat ur cock till it shrinks
oh yes hunny
krafi2008: can you do that to me
exoticbeutyx: u mkng me so horny bb
krafi2008: i m so hard right now it's brown and big
exoticbeutyx: can we go pvt n fuck ryt now bb
krafi2008: are you sure
exoticbeutyx: mmmm ready for my
cuntkrafi2008: baby it wouldn't let me go on pvt
it says payment wont process
we should fuck now cause i do see you
exoticbeutyx: oh no huny
krafi2008: yes baby
exoticbeutyx: i want u bb plizput credit hunny
krafi2008: lets fuck now cause i see you

exoticbeutyx: can wait to indulge my self in ur brown n hard cock

( Now that is an interesting statement )

krafi2008: you try making me horny i'll do what you do
exoticbeutyx: but bb i cant fuck when im dressed i cn only fuck naked i wana b naked so u can see my pussy clearly
krafi2008: get un dressed i can see everything of you
i m looking at you
exoticbeutyx: i cant b undressed on frr chat ill b fined bb n loose my site
n ill never get to fuck with u again
krafi2008: i got my hard cock out from my shorts right now i m so hrd
oh babe......

I am not taking a moral position but as all readers of this blog ( on friendburst ) know I have a friend who is a cam girl. Sort of explains power arrangements .  

Hat Tip....  Ah not for this one.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

It's official, thanks Australia....

What a bloody plonker. This is  a Palin moment only Palin didn't actually say it. Hell no it was the leader of the Australian opposition, Tony Abbott.Australian Opposition leader.


" Tony Abbott yesterday declared New Zealand back in the three-nation ANZUS alliance - defunct since New Zealand's nuclear bans almost two decades ago.
Despite the fact that New Zealand officially remains a "friend" of the United States rather than an ally, that military exercises between the two nations require special permission, and that other restrictions apply, Mr Abbott congratulated Prime Minister John Key for rebuilding the cold war pact. "
What an idiot no doubt his next declaration will be he can see New Zealand when he looks out the window, ( Oh by the way Max it is low tide on Saturday night might wade across the Tasman for a Fosters if you are up for it ). Actually New Zealand Military exercises with the US requires presidential sign off. New Zealand / Australia exercises probably involve a directive to the New Zealand head of defence from the Australian head of defence. 

" Anzus was once again a fully functioning alliance, he said, and with combined operations in East Timor and elsewhere, "we are once more Anzac brothers-in-arms".
Mr Key later said he was happy with present arrangements with the US and had no plans to try to restore the alliance. "
Could someone, anyone, please explain to Abbott that ANZUS and ANZAC are totally different. ANZUS is about a dead defence treaty and ANZAC well it is why Australia can ask and expect any asset we have, it is why would could ask and get any asset Australia had when Chirstchurch  bit us.
" Mr Abbott said Mr Key was to be congratulated for watering down Labour's greenhouse emissions trading scheme, and said a Coalition Government would rescind Ms Gillard's scheme if it became law. "
What a fucking fool, to be honest the Australian Right look as fucked as the New Zealand Left at a leadership level. He goes on to talk about sister parties  Consevative / Labour or Labor if you are in Australia. That is not how Trans Tasman politics work.
Tony  mate the US doesn't want us,  they might accept us if you demanded it mate  but you need to win an election, then you have to deal with the slight problem we don't want the US.
"Mr Key later said he was happy with present arrangements with the US and had no plans to try to restore the alliance. "
Tony Abbott is a fucking muppet.

Monday, June 20, 2011

Australia "...as a proud member of the trans-Tasman family, "

I like Australians. The Bruce's and Brucette's across the ditch are family, we are mates who take the piss out of each other in the way only family could get away with. Today  Prime Minister  ( NZ ) John Key  addressed the Australian Parliament


" I bring with me the good wishes of 4.4 million Kiwis.

They value the deep bonds we share and they would want Australia to hear this message: New Zealand is committed to your country above all others, and for all time. "
Actually not a bad start and he went better,
" In recent times you have shown New Zealand a degree of loyalty and support that only family can.
For that we are truly grateful.
When an explosion ripped through the Pike River Mine in November last year you sent your specialist experts, your machinery and your hope.
You did all you could to help us bring those 29 men home. 

When they died you grieved with us, not only for the two Australians, but for all of them. 

When the devastating Christchurch earthquake struck us in February, 
you came to our aid immediately, unreservedly and with open hearts. "
So my family why do just feel cold

" The right thing for the wrong reason


Refugee politics is a perennial topic in Australia, with government's and oppositions competing, regardless of political stripe, to see who can be the most racist towards desperate people in need. The government's current plan, in the wake of the failed "Pacific solution", is to forcibly transfer refugees to Malaysia. This is deliberate denial of rights under the Refugee Convention (which requires that Australia provide sanctuary to anyone with a well-founded fear of persecution, regardless of how they happen to arrive); worse, Malaysia isn't a party to the Convention, and has a record of abusing and mistreating refugees [PDF]. Which, I suspect, is exactly why Australia is trying to send them there: as a "deterrent".
So its good to see the Australian Parliament voting to condemn the deal. While its not legally binding, its a shot across the government's bow, and suggests that the Australian Labor Party's coalition partners might not vote for money for the program. Unfortunately, this isn't due to any real respect for refugee rights on the part of Australian MPs. The Greens have taken their usual principled and humanitarian stand, but the coalition is opposing the deal because its not nasty and vicious enough. So, they're doing the right thing, but for terrible, terrible reasons "

Well you can judge.

Hat Tip No Right Turn

Friday, June 17, 2011

The Bonfire of Civilisation - The Greek FUBAR

FUBAR is a  nautical term meaning " fouled up beyond all repair " although fouled has been replaced with a with a slightly stronger F word in its modern incarnation. I have been following events in Greece from afar but really without any real understanding of what was actually behind them but today I was given a heads up with Radio New Zealand's Afternoons Programme The panel is probably the best hour of weekday radio in New Zealand.

Vanity Fair last year ran an excellent article that astonished me and given the dislocation occurring in Greece now might well explain the situation.


" ...and for the mysterious Vatopaidi monastery, which brought down the last government, laying bare the country’s economic insanity. But beyond a $1.2 trillion debt (roughly a quarter-million dollars for each working adult), there is a more frightening deficit. After systematically looting their own treasury, in a breathtaking binge of tax evasion, bribery, and creative accounting spurred on by Goldman Sachs, Greeks are sure of one thing: they can’t trust their fellow Greeks. "

 $250,000 per working person that is an astonishing figure we are freaking out down under at a debt of about $4000 per New Zealander which I am guessing would be about $12,000 per working New Zealander. This is public debt not private debt, ie your liability for what your Government has borrowed. So how did this happen ? 

In the past decade the wage bill of the Greek public sector has doubled, in real terms—and that number doesn’t ta" In just thke into account the bribes collected by public officials. The average government job pays almost three times the average private-sector job. The national railroad has annual revenues of 100 million euros against an annual wage bill of 400 million, plus 300 million euros in other expenses. The average state railroad employee earns 65,000 euros a year.... Twenty years ago a successful businessman turned minister of finance named Stefanos Manos pointed out that it would be cheaper to put all Greece’s rail passengers into taxicabs: it’s still true. “We have a railroad company which is bankrupt beyond comprehension,” Manos put it to me. “And yet there isn’t a single private company in Greece with that kind of average pay.”

I have always worked in the private sector and I have often wondered what the my worth might be in the public sector in Greece it probably would be a hell of a lot more than New Zealand.

" The retirement age for Greek jobs classified as “arduous” is as early as 55 for men and 50 for women. As this is also the moment when the state begins to shovel out generous pensions, more than 600 Greek professions somehow managed to get themselves classified as arduous: hairdressers, radio announcers, waiters, musicians, and on and on and on. The Greek public health-care system spends far more on supplies than the European average—and it is not uncommon, several Greeks tell me, to see nurses and doctors leaving the job with their arms filled with paper towels and diapers and whatever else they can plunder from the supply closets. "

Actually it is a crime here theft as a servant and it would be prosecuted but unbelievably this story gets better    sorry worse.

Each day they discovered some incredible omission. A pension debt of a billion dollars every year somehow remained off the government’s books, where everyone pretended it did not exist, even though the government paid it;...The next morning there would be this little hand rising in the back of the room: ‘Actually, Minister, there’s this other 100-to-200-million-euro gap.’ This went on for a week. Among other things turned up were a great number of off-the-books phony job-creation programs. “The Ministry of Agriculture had created an off-the-books unit employing 270 people to digitize the photographs of Greek public lands,” the finance minister tells me. “The trouble was that none of the 270 people had any experience with digital photography. The actual professions of these people were, like, hairdressers.”

Getting the picture people.  Trust me you are not it get worse, from the Greek Finance Minister

As he finishes his story the finance minister stresses that this isn’t a simple matter of the government lying about its expenditures. “This wasn’t all due to misreporting,” he says. “In 2009, tax collection disintegrated, because it was an election year.”
“What?”
He smiles.
“The first thing a government does in an election year is to pull the tax collectors off the streets.”
“You’re kidding.”
Now he’s laughing at me. I’m clearly naive.

WTF. I have issues with the taxman being the first creditor when it comes to people being made redundant but this i8s a bad joke. It get's worse.

"The scale of Greek tax cheating was at least as incredible as its scope: an estimated two-thirds of Greek doctors reported incomes under 12,000 euros a year—which meant, because incomes below that amount weren’t taxable, that even plastic surgeons making millions a year paid no tax at all. The problem wasn’t the law—there was a law on the books that made it a jailable offense to cheat the government out of more than 150,000 euros—but its enforcement. “If the law was enforced,” the tax collector said, “every doctor in Greece would be in jail.” 
Excuse me all you fucking idiots in the Tea Party this is your vision for America. Vote Palin guys and you can have it. 

Tami  my friend, Isn't it ironic. 

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Never trust a lesbian blogger

Hey Val did you notice this .

This is just total yuck stuff. The Guardian reports


" A second supposedly leading lesbian blogger was exposed as a man masquerading as a gay woman, a day after the Gay Girl in Damascus blog was revealed to be the fictional creation of a married male student from Edinburgh.
Paula Brooks, who claimed to be the executive editor of a US-based lesbian site LezGetReal.com, told the Washington Post that "she", too, was a man – in this case, a 58-year-old retired construction worker from Ohio called Bill Graber. "
Why would you do it ? It is in my opinion a despicable deception, back at My Space I was also friends with Catwoman who along with Val is another great lesbian blogger. I seriously thought about sending friend requests to both of them but concluded that as a left wing, heterosexual and white Kiwi male I had more in common with them than than most of the right wing heterosexual, homophobic fascists that populated MySpace.
" Amina often "flirted" with Brooks, the paper said – with neither man apparently realising that the other was also a man pretending to be a lesbian."
Now why doesn't that surprise me
Melanie Nathan, an LGBT and human rights advocate who was a partner in LezGetReal.com and had also been taken in by Graber, told the Guardian of her feelings of betrayal.
"I left the site because I believed that Amina 'the Gay Girl from Damascus' was not authentic," said Nathan. "
There are fools on Friendburst who think that World.B.Free and I are the same person presumably on the grounds that our political and religious views are similar ( note to fools, look at our writing unlike me Tami is literate ). My point is I could not credibly pretend to be a Black man in Britain any more than Tami could pretend to be a White man in New Zealand.

"The whole gay community of bloggers is freaking out right now because everyone in some shape or form has encountered Paula Brooks. It has had a severe impact on the trust among the web of bloggers who are interconnected and work with each other.
"In my opinion, what Graber has done, to be a straight man calling himself a lesbian, is tantamount to impersonating an entire community."
Linda LaVictoire, a contributor at LezGetReal.com who writes as Linda Carbonelli, told the Washington Post: "I was completely taken in. I have been completely taken in for three years." 
I doubt Val and Catwoman are freaking out. They probably like me are just disgusted at what would seem little more than an attempt at weird sexual self gratification by some very disturbed people.

Hat-tip Dim-Post

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Todays international major non news story viewed from New Zealand

At 11.05 I came across the first version of this  30 bodies in a mass grave in Texas on the Stuff Website although it was reported like this, ( I have copied and used the original reports not the current ones that appear on websites of the news organisation quoted ).


" 11.05 Stuff LATEST:
Texas authorities have found up to 30 bodies, possibly all children, buried at a house in a rural county east of Houston, local media reported.
The Liberty County Sheriff's Office said 25 to 30 bodies were found, according to KPRC television.
Preliminary reports indicated the bodies are those of children, the TV station reported.
The sheriff did not immediately return telephone calls or e-mails by Reuters.
Investigators said someone told them about the location, but they did not elaborate, the station said.
Local paper Cleveland Advocate said the tipster told authorities dozens of dismembered bodies were buried at the scene."

I reacted by checking the New Zealand Herald website at this point 11.07 it was being covered like this,
11.07 NZ Herald

Federal agents and sheriff's deputies plan to search a rural house in Southeast Texas after receiving a tip that multiple dismembered bodies are buried there.
Spokesman Rex Evans of the Sheriff's Department said the office had received an anonymous report that there were bodies in the home.
Deputies went to the house and determined that a search warrant was required.
The Houston Chronicle is reporting the tip-off came from a psychic.
Shortly before 6pm local time (11am NZST), Liberty County sheriff's spokesman Rex Evans told the Chronicle that officers had not exhumed any bodies.
"At this time we have not recovered any bodies," he said.
"We only received information of a possible crime scene here at this location. Upon our arrival we determined that there was a need for a search warrant. Once that warrant arrives at the scene we will further our investigation."
At this point I was starting to think WTF  a psychic came up with this tip and followed the link above to Houston Chronicle.


"Source: Psychic tips to mass grave

HOUSTON CHRONICLE

June 7, 2011, 6:16PM

Liberty County sheriff's officials Tuesday afternoon said they found blood at a rural residence that a tipster said was the burial site of 25 to 30 dismembered bodies.
A state law enforcement source later Tuesday afternoon told the Houston Chronicle that deputies had been directed to the site by a psychic.
"All we know is the sheriff department received a call about a mass grave, or something like that, with several bodies," the source said. "They went and checked it, and there was nothing there. The caller went back and said, 'No, you went to the wrong house.'
"They go back out and go to the house and see something dark that could have been blood, and do a persumpting test that it was human blood."
A neighbor said authorities were congregating at the home of Joe Bankson.
Bankson, reached in Dallas where he was travelling with his wife, said he did not know why police might be at his home.
Bankson and his wife are long-haul truckers who said they were en route to Georgia. They left Sunday, he said.
They have lived at the residence for three years, he said.
"I haven't killed anybody," he said. "And I have a lot of friends, but I haven't helped anybody bury any bodies."
Shortly before 6 p.m., Liberty County sheriff's spokesman Rex Evans said officers had not exhumed any bodies.
"At this time we have not recovered any bodies," he said. "We only received information of a possible crime scene here at this location. Upon our arrival we determined that there was a need for a search warrant. Once that warrant arrives at the scene we will further our investigation."
The Cleveland Advocate reported the house is near the intersection of County Roads 2048 and 2049.
The Cleveland newspaper said authorities were told that as many as 30 bodies, possibly belonging to children, were buried at the intersection of the roads between Hull and Hardin.
A cadaver dog has been brought to the scene to aid in the search.
The newspaper quoted authorities as saying residents of the nearby residence — the object of the search warrant — were “uncooperative.”
The Beaumont FBI office has been asked to assist in the investigation.

Now as you can imagine I am starting to get skeptical so I follow the link above to the Cleveland Chronical

"Cleveland Chronical

Posted: Tuesday, June 7, 2011 5:09 pm | Updated: 6:22 pm, Tue Jun 7, 2011.
By VANESA BRASHIER vbrashier@hcnonline.com and Staff Reports | 0 comments
"Acting on a macabre tip in regard to a possible mass grave of 25-30 dismembered bodies, perhaps belonging to children, the Liberty County Sheriff's Office on Tuesday, June 7, closed down CR 2048 at CR 2049 in Hardin. The Houston Chronicle is reporting a a source told The Chronicle a psychic made the initial call leading authorities to the location.
The department received the tip that on Tuesday afternoon, which immediately led deputies to a home on CR 2048, said department Public Information Officer Capt. Rex Evans.
Authorities are seeking a search warrant in order to search the home, where some of the individuals involved have been "uncooperative" so far, Evans said.
Meanwhile, a cadaver dog has been deployed to search the property.
More information will be provided upon its availability."
The Cleveland Chronical actually added very little but gave  me a second source on  Capt. Rex Evans but at this stage the only real info I have is that a psychic has made an allegation and Joe Bankson and his wife who are long haul truckers have denied killing, dismembering and interring 30 people. Interesting that Capt. Evens noted that the individuals involved were being uncooperative, good on you Joe if some one ( a fucking psychic no less ) made such a fucking stupid allegation about me I would be very uncooperative.

At this stage I decided to have a look at the Otago Daily Timesf a paper I worked for for many years

"Psychic's tip sparks search for mass grave in Texas

A county judge says an anonymous tip saying multiple bodies are buried at a southeast Texas farmhouse came from a person claiming to be a psychic.
Liberty County Judge Craig McNair said the sheriff's office received a call on Tuesday from a person who said many bodies were at the house about 110km northeast of Houston. McNair says the caller claimed some of the bodies were dismembered and some children.
McNair says deputies who visited the property found nothing amiss during a quick search. The tipster called back later and said deputies had looked in the wrong place.
McNair says deputies who returned later found blood on a back door and detected a foul odour coming from the house. They were waiting for a search warrant to investiagte further.
According to some media reports, the Liberty County Sheriff's Office said 25 to 30 bodies had been found, and preliminary reports had indicated the bodies were those of children. "

I would have to say that this was a bit of a fail from the ODT and if I was running the News Room I would be losing my rag at this point.
As I started with stuff I will end with Stuff

"No bodies found in Texas home after psychic 


tip


Last updated 13:42 08/06/2011

LATEST: A sheriff's official says no bodies have been found at a Texas farmhouse where a person claiming to be a psychic told officials multiple bodies were buried.
Liberty County Sheriff's Captain Rex Evans says there is no indication of bodies being anywhere on the rural property about 120 kilometres northeast of Houston.
Officials say the sheriff's office had received two calls from a person who said dismembered bodies would be found.
Evans says authorities took the tip seriously in part because the caller had details about the interior of the house that only someone who had seen it could have known.
He says authorities now have a name and number for the caller and are working to track them down."

This is fucking awful Journalism. It took me less than 3 minutes to discount this as a bullshit story. It took 3 of the foremost news outlets in New Zealand to reach the same conclusion. Other outlets took a lot longer yahooxtra news was reporting  the bodies being found as late as 3.20 NZ.

What actually does this mean ? Well it means our day has come and main street media hate us but we the blogosphere are the future. I was informed about Bin Ladens demise more than 2 hours before it was made public ( I can prove that ) by a blog.

"All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you; digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed."

"..digger, listener, runner..."  We are the future it is time for us to consider I think how we as bloggers will claim that future.