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"Sometimes I've believed six impossible things before breakfast"

Strange old world the beltway.

Any convergence  between reality and the world of political discourse is just a co-incidence.

It wasn't so long ago that they were trying to convince us that people trading in a mythical product, carbon credits, would save the polar bears by stopping tha arctic from melting.

The way this works is that anybody who makes anything you might want to buy has to purchase carbon credits, the cost of which is added to the thing you need to buy to go about your daily business.

What happens to the money raised in this manner is a bit mysterious, it goes down the rabbit hole and somehow, so they tell us this keeps the Arctic in its pristine frozen state.

Anyway the impossible thing they are trying to get us to believe today is that two men or two women can marry each other.

And that such a union is equivalent to the time honoured male female pairing.

Also the stork brings babies - well I made that up, how babies are made doesn't enter into the discussion beyond the brief mention if two husbands joined together in wedded bliss want a child it is their right to have one without getting into the fiddly details of where it comes from.

And peasants who think otherwise are bigots

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English blogger under scrutiny by Government Watchdog

Freedom of thought and freedom of speech is under sustained attack by the forces of "progress".

To be sure I think it is not the forces of "progress" at play here, rather the forces of Darkness.

Whatever the source the blogger under the spotlight is Archbishop Cramner and the thing that bought him to the attention of the authorities is an advertisement he ran on his blog, a still from which appears on the left.

He writes

Apparently there have been a number of complaints about one of the advertisements His Grace carried on behalf of the Coalition for Marriage. He has been sent all manner of official papers, formal documentation and threatening notices which demand answers to sundry questions by a certain deadline. He is instructed by the ‘Investigations Executive’ of this inquisition to keep all this confidential.

Since His Grace does not dwell in Iran, North Korea, Soviet Russia, Communist China or Nazi Germany, but occupies a place in the cyber-ether suspended somewhere between purgatory and paradise, he is minded to ignore that request. Who do these people think they are?

For your edification the advertisement, which some of the complainers claim is "homophobic" is reproduced below.

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When Parliamentary posturing achieves nothing - nothing at all

Weren't were told when we had the "world leading 'Prostitution Reform Act'" foisted upon us that things like this would be a thing of the past.

That prostitutes, now morphed into "sex workers" would become more middle class, perhaps.

Normal everyday people with a slightly exotic way of earning their daily bread.

And they would be safer besides - no more murders of prostitutes - well like that has worked, three dead 'working girls" spring immediately to mind.

Did the "Prostitute Reform Act" acheive anything at all - apart from allowing its architects to claim that New Zealand now has "world leading legislation" in this area.

I don't think so.

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Love the headline

Fairfax: Foetuses abused in the womb - study

You might be tempted to think that this story is about the ultimate in foetal abuse - abortion.

But it isn't - it is about drinking during pregnancy.

Now there is a condition Foetal Alcohol Syndrome which may be a result of heavy drinking in pregnancy.

But this story is about an epidemic to come "foetal alcohol spectrum disorder" whose rates are set to "soar!"

Now here is the rub my friends, a child born of an alcoholic mother does not get a good start in life, through many of the lifestyle options of that mother - it is not necessarily the alcohol per se that is at fault - indeed I would suggest that alcohol abuse is in itself a symptom of far deeper problems the mother has. But "foetal alcohol spectrum disorder" assigns any difficulty, mental or physical, experienced by a child of a mother who drinks to exposure to alcohol in the womb - with little or no evidence to support that contention.

And so the handwringers zero in on their obsession - alcohol and put all the childs problems down to    C₂H₅OH, exposure in the womb to a single molecule of which will damage the growing baby by their reading of it.

And try and convince that the woman who has a glass of wine with her meal is in some way harming her unborn child.

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I think I know how this is going to end

NZ Herald: Lotto king lives life in fast lane

A trainwreck -  each step of the catastrophe documented by the New Zealand Herald.

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