Lazy, Dangerous, Sunday Afternoon

There is a playground (more like an assault course really)we took our 20 month old girl to over last weekend that is in the mold of the playgrounds of old.

There is the slightest bit of danger present if you put a foot wrong or are too silly.

For the PC :

There is a BIG climbing structure made from rope, yes rope!

There is a water feature there that kids can participate in, yes water!

One set of swings is a massive pair that swings out over a sharply receding bank that if you get enough height your body wants to lift off and keep going at the top. Let go and you will be airboure 5 metres into the air!

Even the steps running down to the ground have to be carefully negotiated or you will tumble down a bank.

I remember a merry go round type thing in my old playground that you could spin around yourself to maximum revs (as fast as YOU could go) and if you got off too soon or someone got on with the wrong footing blood and guts would be the outcome.

This new playground is one of those! Even I am scared of the swing and was laughing like a kid using it.

Oh yeah, my girl didn't drown, hang herself or get launched into space because I was there to supervise - mental note how come my parents let us do all of this relatively unsupervised?

Kids learn alot from this sort of play. They learn about risk, adventure, discipline, boundaries and the possibilities they might bring latter on in life.

I think at least 50% of my fun was about how this thing was built in the first place considering the bubble wrapping most of us have been subject to, especially our kids.

Humans need danger to survive, especially children, so they can understand what that word means and that life is chock full of risks.

No I am not going to tell you where it is because seriously if one of you PC lot here about this, you would want to close it down.

Mental note 2: There are also trees you can climb at the bottom of the playground, BIG trees !

What a great 30 mins on a lazy Sunday that was :)

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Obama supporters black with rage over joke

I see it is not just in New Zealand that we do not have a sense of humour and have our freedom of speech and opinion curtailed by the PC morons amongst us - lucky we have the internet huh?

A Canadian broadcaster has been reprimanded for a comedy sketch saying Barack Obama would be easy to assassinate because the first black American president would stand out against the White House.

The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council issued a public reprimand of Radio-Canada, after the government's regulatory agency asked the private industry council to look into the matter before it begins its own investigation.

Canada's broadcast regulator, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, received 210 complaints about Radio-Canada's controversial "Bye Bye 2008" New Year's Eve sketch. Go here for more

It is hard to see what is so offensive about stating that a man with dark skin stands out against a white background because he does and it is funny in the context of a joke. Do we all have short memories of what the last guy in the White House had to put up with from the very same types of people that would have complained about this joke reference?

So it is OK to pillory a white man but not a black one?

And of course it isnt racist at all to appoint a Latino Woman to the Supreme Court or various other ethnic groups to political positions just because you want your team to look like a rainbow, rather than appointing the best person for the job regardless of skin colour.

Come on, time to grow up and move on. After all there is a black man in the Whitehouse now.

Keep your wallets safe!

c Political Animal 2009

Excellent fillets, tasty breasts

I was interested about the big fuss made about the advert for the Huntsman Steakhouse in Dunedin that was banned after a complaint to the Advertising Standards Assoc over its use of a pretty lady holding two of the companies assets over two of hers to advertise their meat. The use of the buxom lass is supposed to be sexist and degrading to Women-ahh give me more you say!

I found a picture of it at a blog full of morons called appropriately enough the "Hand Mirror" where it criticises the splendid advert. According to these shitheads it is sexist according to a knuckle-dragger called Anna but they post it on the net where it will be there forever!

The lady in question in the advert, and clearly she is a lady, did the said spread of her own volition and from her own teeny tiny mind (go girl!) . She works there and will benefit from the extra income that the ad would surely have provided for the Huntsman Steakhouse in Dunedin.

The retards at the Hand Mirror are supposed Wimins libbers that are there to spread equal rights for (ugly) wimin but attempts by dingbats like these to stop personal freedoms of lovely ladies such as the restaurant manger expressing her own freedom and attempting to make a bloody living in the first place are clearly the murmurings of very disturbed and un-photogenic wimin with too much time on their hands and not enough gazing in a correctly appropriately glazed mirror.

People like this should make you want to vomit. They are trying to stop this woman and her company from making a living and expressing their own choice. It is juvenile in the extreme to rail against such things and I was hoping that this country would have grown up by now.

Clearly we have a long way to go before the bra less, hairy arm pitted, lesbian, dolphin loving, mung bean eating, Prius driving, global warming munching, vegan loving, whale watching, single, ugly (on the inside and out) brain dead wimin grow up!

Political Animal supports the Huntsman Steakhouse especially because of their fine. So should you.

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Steakhouse with unlimited salad bar

Sounds yummy !

c Political Animal 2009

Labour set to enter our bedrooms

The shower head saga has come to a head again.

This time in the face of an election Labour deny that they will restrict your shower time and water pressure, even though Government officials are discussing that very thing right now and seem intent on passing it in February.

I wouldn’t ordinarily re-visit what might seem at first a trivial matter but it aint trivial at all. It is about New Zealander's freedoms. The freedoms that have been lost over the last 9 years of a Labour Government and it will not stop at the bathroom, it will be the bedroom next-there has already been discussion from the feminazi lawyers in government positions about relaxing rape laws so as to almost make written consent for everyday sex a wise thing should a male want to stay a free spirit and a woman withdraw consent after the act- and it will not stop there.

The shower head controversy is a symbol for what Labour have done to us and our freedoms and they will pass the new law if they get back in, you would have to be a filthy, smelly little greeny prick of a moron if you thought otherwise.

Let me misquote a famous Charton Heston quote.

You are going to have to prise my cold dead hands from my 20 litre a minute shower head if you want it.

Don’t let Labour screw you again, because they will.

c Political Animal 2008

What happened to risk?

What happened to risk?

A question no doubt in some of my readers minds.

In relation to financial markets, investing and business it seems to be an archaic concept only seen as a entry in the Oxford dictionary.

The market turmoil that started with the Sub Prime fallout and associated credit crunch, several months ago, has highlighted what has been going on for many years, those that take risks in business and investing no longer seem to suffer consequences when the risk that they took doesn't quite give the expected payoff.

After global State bailouts of banks with "liquidity" problems and talk of sub prime borrowers being bailed out or their bad decisions to buy houses they could ill afford, the latest avoidance of risk involves the insurance companies that insured sub prime bonds against collapse.

For goodness sake you want to remove risk from insurance?

Let me borrow and modify a classic Tom Cruise flick, insurance is risky business!! Please don't sue me Tom.

The talk of a bailout last week led to US markets doing a Lazarus and finishing up by around 2.5%.

It ain't a positive investors, its a pure unadulterated negative.

The investing world isn't the only place risk and consequences has been removed from life, Governments worldwide have been trying to do this for years.

In New Zealand Helen Clark, and her merry bunch of Labour Party socialist risk aversionists have recently passed a law to allow citizens to easily declare bankruptcy and come out of it without paying back debtors. This is linked to student loans that don't attract interest and therefore students have no incentive to pay them back.

All risk taken and no consequences for that risk.

Over the last 9 years Aunty Helen has bubbled wrapped an entire nation so much so that the risk that she talked about when she gave a eulogy at Sir Edmund Hillary's Funeral has almost been completely removed.

When we remove consequences for risk though, we increase the risk that mistakes will continue to occur.

Those in the financial industry being bailed out, institutionally and individually are simply going to continue to do what they have done if there are no brakes on their behaviour.

The looming danger is ironically low interest rates, what led us into the whole sub prime fallout and reckless borrowing and lending in the first place.

Record low rates after 9-11 led to a frenzy of cheap credit and with similar low rates coming down the pipeline one doesn't have to be a Warren Buffett to figure out that this is not such a good thing at all.



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C Share Investor & Political Animal 2008