Lifetime Victims

Poor old Louise Nicholas is at it again. She just can't stop beating herself up. She's now offering to confront Shipton if it's going to help him learn the err of his ways. Just let it go Louise, life's better on the other side of victimhood.

The other victims response to Shipton's latest hearing was that his words didn't mean anything until she has heard it straight from Shipton himself. Louise, you now have a following...

Why keep torturing yourself?

Britney Spears on parenting

Supernanny offers Britney Spears parenting advice.... Britney needs more than parenting advice honey, she needs a good kick up the a&$%.

Supernanny you'd be better off giving the whole Spears family parenting advice. Britney's parents need to know how to parent their famous children and Britney's sister is having a baby too and look at her role models.

Successfully Unsuccessful Parole Board

How is it that the public, the police and the corrections department could see that a serial sex offender was going to offend again but the Parole Board couldn't.
One would have thought at the time the Parole Board obviously had more information than anyone else to be able to confidently reject calls for the offender to be recalled siting that his intergration into society again was successful.

What a load of crap. What were they thinking. I bet they were being politically correct and legally honouring the perpetrators rights.

Well, we all know what that got us .... another victim!

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Paraparaumu-Raumati Community Board deputy chairman Dale Evans wore a KKK outfit to protest against Hoodie Day. He then went on to tell media he didn't mean to cause offence or racial disharmony.
Of course you did Dale otherwise you would have chosen a different outfit. You were making a point, a protest and it worked. I have no problem with people's freedom to express their opinion how they see fit. But let's own what we do and stand behind our actions and don't back down at the first sign of Political Correctness.
For those who were offended by it, get over it... there is more to life. There is only one meaning to be derived from what Dale did and that was his protest against hoodie day.

Employees

I thought the tides are turning and I think I might be right but it may take longer than I first thought. This week showed a company had to pay it's ex-employee $17,000 in compensation and lost wages. Compensation was for humiliation, loss of dignity and injury to feelings.

I'll sit on the fence of this one becuase we have bad employers and bad employees alike and you just can't tell who is really right in these cases.

But in this case I just have to highlight that if you have a back injury how can you drive to Queenstown for the ice hockey season, and why was his coach concerned the issue might effect his ability to gain a place in the national team?

His coach is talking about the issue effecting his ability, not his injury... what happened to his injury... surely that would effect his ability to play a full on contact sport like ice hockey!!!!!

Kelvin Cruikshank - Soul Food

I went along to one of the evenings with Kelvin and it was fantastic. Not only spooky medium stuff but humorous also. Like most people there we wanted someone or even anyone on the other side to talk to us but it was not to be, as was the case with most people there.

The fascinating thing was when Kelvin would say something that would indicate he was communicating to the right people, the living people would generally sit there going, no, no, don't recall that ... and then after some time the penny would drop. Slightly frustrating but funny at the same time.

The evening wasn't quite what I thought it would be but I left feeling a renewed faith in myself.

I'd recommend going to a show, as long as the $60 for the ticket isn't needed for cheese or fuel.

Business Owners behaving badly

Not only do business owners behave badly but the law and the companies office let them away with it.
They are like naughty little children with their business processes inlcuding anything from avoidance, non payment, blaming others, not taking responsibility and not understanding cashflow.

If you are thinking about starting your own business remember that there are a few out there that make it frustrating for all.

These are the wanna-be's that want it but just can't do it, so they trick everyone else into thinking they are professional business people but underneath they are just another wanna-be.

Jurors - serving their country

In a recent newsfeed a father comments that Jurors aren't equipped to do a good job and that in the case concerning Lipine Sila where he killed this man's daughter, they only came to the guilty murder verdict by chance.

Someone get that man onto a jury somewhere. Surely he hasn't been a part of this important service. Luckily I have served on jury service, although I probably would have commented even if I hadn't.

We have a justice system that works well in most cases (obviously not all - dig dig at the recent kahui case, although that had nothing to do with jurors). We can't just change the rules when it suits us.

In this case it actually worked, so who knows why he is bad mouthing the jurors. Those jurors worked long and hard at bringing the right verdict back to court. It's not easy taking time out of your home, work and personal life to challenge yourself to listen to the evidence, be pursuaded by the defence into thinking something completely different and then deliberate with a group of others to come to the same conclusion.

Lets be thankful to these jurors.

Maori in the middle

Ha ha, did you read the article Maori in the middle... not gang members, not rugby heroes but middle-class Maori.... what does that tell you about us?
I thought it said that there are some of those out there that are narrow minded, un-cultured and un-educated.
I've always been middle class and so has a large portion of my family and friends.
The article goes on to say that we may have to change our stereo typical views.... lol .... not I... but you maybe!

Media Frenzy: Chris Kahui | Macsyna King | Lipine Sila |

It seems that being a victim or a family member of a victim or a perpetrator or a near convicted perpetrator is the craze now. Once something happens that remotely involves us we are immediately compelled to succumb to the media attention and add fuel to it.

This week we saw Chris Kahui receive advice from a convicted rapist; Denise (Macsyna's half sister) shedding some light on why Macsyna is the way she is; Hannah's mum boldly stating she wants to talk to her child's killer Lipine Sila.

Can't you see that enough is enough; Chris doesn't need advice from a convict, shame on him, the convict just wanted his name in the press again and we gobbled it up. I'm sorry but I don't want to sensationalise a rapist; Denise, thanks for that insight but many of us grew up in less than desirable standards and hello we turned out okay. I cannot for the life of me pass on any empathy to Macsyna, even though she was not charged she is still responsible for those two deaths as she was the mother; As for Hannah's mum all I can say is, do you really think telling him what he did is going to make you feel better, if anything it will make you feel worse, why continue to torture yourself and the justice system is so protective of perpertrators that any attempt to kill him or stab him in the eyes will be met with his personal body guards fending you off. Not fair but true.

Kahui Twins Injustice

Another Injustice in New Zealand

The Kahui family today said they can finally put an end to this 2 year ordeal. I think NOT!!!!

Nothing will change the fact that the Kahui twin babies were killed by someone, but not just someone, but a close family member.

What a Sham! How dare people get in the way of the course of justice, how dare these families not assist in making the person responsible pay by way of justice.

As a nation we once again let our children down.