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The Cairo Curmudgeon
It snowed last night…
8:00 am: I made a snowman.
8:10 – A feminist passed by and asked me why I didn’t make a snow woman.
8:15 – So, I made a snow woman.
8:17 – My feminist neighbor complained about the snow woman’s voluptuous chest saying it objectified snow women everywhere.
8:20 – The gay couple living nearby threw a hissy fit and moaned it could have been two snow men instead.
8:22 – The transgender man..women…person asked why I didn’t just make one snow person with detachable parts.
8:25 – The vegans at the end of the lane complained about the carrot nose, as veggies are food and not to decorate snow figures with.
8:28 – I was being called a racist because the snow couple is white.
8:31 – The middle eastern gent across the road demanded the snow woman be covered up .
8:40 – The Police arrived saying someone had been offended.
8:42 – The feminist neighbor complained again that the broomstick of the snow woman needed to be removed because it depicted women in a domestic role.
8:43 – The council equality officer arrived and threatened me with eviction.
8:45 – TV news crew from CBC showed up. I was asked if I know the difference between snowmen and snow-women? I replied “Snowballs” and am now called a sexist.
9:00 – I was on the News as a suspected terrorist, racist, homophobe sensibility offender, bent on stirring up trouble during difficult weather.
9:10 – I was asked if I have any accomplices. My children were taken by social services.
9:29 – Far left protesters offended by everything marched down the street demanding for me to be arrested.
By noon it all melted
Moral:
There is no moral to this story. It is what we have become, all because of snowflakes.
Yep, Pack of Lying bastards
Promises to Pike families must be kept
Six years on from the Pike River disaster, the memory of that day still burns strong, and the families still wait for the Government to make good on its promises. They are still waiting for justice.
Mining communities are special. The work creates a tight bond – your life depends on the person next to you. That spirit of solidarity flows through the whole community. When I was head of the EPMU, the miners were always some of our staunchest members. They stand beside each other no matter what. When tragedy struck, it hit everyone hard.
The grief of the families, friends, and workmates, and the way the whole community rallied around them is still vivid. In that Kiwi way, we all did what we could, no matter how little it may have been. We all understood we needed to help those left behind, get the bodies out, and find out what went wrong so that it would never happen again.
John Key stood in front of those families and said “we’re committed to getting the boys out, and nothing’s going to change that. So, when people try and tell you we’re not… they’re playing with your emotions.” That was during an election campaign, though. The families are still waiting.
Now, Mr Key denies ever making that promise. Now, the government wants to seal the mine forever. Just this week, Mr Key sent Nick Smith to threaten the Pike families with arrest if they try to stop Solid Energy entombing their loved ones.
The Government claims it’s not safe to enter the drift and try to get any bodies in there out. That’s not true. Experts, both local and international, say the mine is now stable. We can get those men out, and secure evidence regarding the cause of the explosion. It can be done.
The National Government just wants to wash its hands of the whole thing, and move on. They don’t seem to care no-one has ever faced court for those 29 deaths, or that the families have never got the bodies back to bury.
That’s not the way Kiwis do things. We do right by people. We ensure that, when there is wrongdoing, there is justice. We keep our promises.
I’m standing with the Pike families in opposing the mine being sealed. It’s time a proper effort is made to bring their men home. They’ve waited long enough.
Another Labour Promise Broken
Pike River families blindsided by ‘acceptance’ of plan to end mine re-entry
The Pike River Recovery Agency team has to tunnel through a Rocsil plug to get to the top of the drift.
Almost half of the families of those killed in the Pike River mine disaster are disputing a statement that they have “accepted” a Government decision to wind down re-entry efforts.
The Pike River Family Reference Group (FRG), which represents the families of 27 of the 29 killed and two survivors of the mine disaster met Pike River Recovery Agency leaders and minister responsible Andrew Little on Monday. Afterwards, the group released a statement that said they “accept, with heartbreak” the Government’s decision not to expand the drift recovery project.
Little said last week the Government would not consider doing a risk assessment and cost analysis of going past a roof fall blocking the mine workings.
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Minister Responsible for Pike River Re-entry Andrew Little said the Government was not willing to consider doing a risk assessment and cost analysis of recovering evidence from the mine’s main ventilation fan.
Many family members who belong to the group say they were not consulted and did not approve the statement.
Pike River mother Carol Rose said 14 families supported calls by Pike River fathers Bernie Monk and Dean Dunbar for the Government to recover beyond the roof fall, which mining and ventilation experts had told them it was possible to do safely. She said she had received emails from more family members on Tuesday aghast at the FRG statement.
“I have written to Andrew Little and asked him to meet with all 29 families to give his presentation and then we will send out the information to everybody in written form and ask for a vote,” Rose said.
“That’s how we’ve always done it. We stood united against John Key’s Government, but now this Government has split the families by appointing the Family Reference Group. Divide and conquer.”
GETTY IMAGES
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (L) and Andrew Little, the Minister Responsible for Pike River Re-entry (R) console family members at the entrance to the Pike River coal mine in 2019.
Cloe Nieper, widow of Kane Nieper who was killed in the mine, said she was at the meeting but was not asked if she accepted the Government’s position. She said there was no vote, and she was “blindsided” by the statement released by the Family Reference Group after the meeting.
Gordon Dixon, brother of Allan Dixon, said the families had been given no warning that such an important issue would be decided at the meeting. He supported calls for the Government to keep going.
Dixon could not attend the meeting, which he thought was just a briefing from the agency and Little. He said a family member who did attend via Zoom did not have a chance to discuss it with the wider family.
“We have been sold out by the Government and by the [families group]. I want to request the minutes for the meeting. As a family we talk about these things, but we didn’t have the chance.”
FRG chairwoman Anna Osborne said the statement was written at the meeting with input from family members.
She said the meeting was organised by the FRG so only the 27 families it represented were invited. Eleven families attended the meeting, she said.
She personally accepted that going any further into the mine would be too expensive, challenging and time-consuming.
Bernie Monk, from one of the four families not represented by the group, said Little had broken promises he made to the families.
Little wrote before the 2017 general election, when National was still in power, that “promises to Pike families must be kept”, the mine was stable and it was possible to get the men out.
In a Cabinet paper when the agency was set up after the 2017 election, Little said he would report back to Cabinet on whether any further feasibility work on re-entering the mine would be needed once the drift recovery was well-advanced.
However, he ruled out doing that assessment or report to Cabinet in March 2020 due to the cost when the agency was only 315 metres up the 2.3-kilometre drift.
Monk said he was “gutted”.
“They used us as an election promise to get into Government. Andrew Little stood on the steps of Parliament and supported us and now this is yet another broken promise to the families and the country.”
Little said he had not broken any promise and had told the families during the drift re-entry planning stage that while the Government was committed to recovering the drift, there was “no blank cheque for the project”.
“There never was a commitment to re-enter the mine workings. There was only ever a commitment to recover the drift.
“A commitment to reassess the feasibility of re-entering the mine was satisfied and concluded that it was not feasible to do so.”
Look at that mouth.
Labour just cant do it
Every Body Huts, Sometimes
LOL Your Racist Pricks
For those that support “Black Live Matter”
Pack Of racist Pricks. Your calling Brown People Black.
And only 1 group, African Americans as well.
WOW. You have No Idea
Well White Matters
More and more TV Programs are supporting BLM (even though the murdering and damage they are doing).
Supporting Gay shit to look good (while believing in the bible).
Christin’s and Muslim’s need to rise up and Wipe this shit out.
Being taught in school that it’s OK to be gay. FUCK OFF it’s Not, IT’s SICK
Rise up and wipe this out
1488
Racist at the highest. Feel sorry for the victim
Faine Kahia Will do it again
Discharge without conviction for sports star ‘important for Māoridom’ – lawyer
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Faine Kahia pictured at an earlier court hearing.
An aspiring Formula One racer has escaped a conviction for a sex crime after a judge ruled it would be “the end of your career in motorsport”.
Faine Kahia, 24, received a discharge without conviction at Rotorua District Court on Wednesday after being found guilty of male assaults female and one representative charge of unlawful sexual connection with a young person under 16.
Kahia was found guilty of the two charges in the wake of a trial in 2018, where he was also found not guilty of allegations he raped the same victim. The offences and alleged offences dated back to 2016.
Kahia’s lawyer Ron Mansfield noted at the time of the sexual offending he was 17 and his victim was 15-years-and-two-months of age.
He also repeatedly stressed the consequences of a conviction on Kahia’s motor sport aspirations.
“The reality comes from funding and brands, and they will not look past a conviction of unlawful sexual connection,” he said.
“Without a conviction he can go forward and achieve at the top level. It’s important for him. . . it’s important for Māoridom.”
Judge Tony Snell said it was “a bold statement to say it’s important for the whole of Māoridom,” but Mansfield argued it was important for young Māori men to see that with hard work and dedication, you “can make it on the international stage”.
Kahia’s victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also read a victim impact statement to the court, describing how she “fell victim to his manipulation”.
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Faine Kahia’s sporting aspirations were centre stage at his sentencing for unlawful sexual connection with a young person under 16.
“Within the first couple of weeks of our relationship Faine informed me he’d had sex before and was ready when I was.”
She said he then began asking for sex two times a week.
“It wasn’t long before it turned into frustration and anger, he told me he wasn’t going to wait forever.”
She said her personality changed from a bubbly, outgoing person to someone “always worrying about the next thing I’d do to set him off.
“I spent a lot of time apologising for things. If he lost a motor sport race it was my fault. . . it was always my fault.”
She also said she had spent a lot of time blaming herself for being “young, dumb and stupid”.
“Those thoughts were so detrimental to my mental health.”
She also described the stress of having to give evidence at trial.
“A frightening experience. I had to explain intimate and horrible details to a room full of strangers. . . being made out to be a liar, an attention seeker and mentally ill.
“Faine Kahia’s actions have caused a huge amount of pain and suffering over the last six years. . . anxiety, depressive thoughts and post-traumatic stress disorder. For so long I was afraid of Faine but I want to emphasise I have come out of this so much stronger. I am no longer afraid of him.”
She also referred to his sporting aspirations being raised at trial.
“You cannot get away with hurting women because you are an aspiring motor racer, the cover up of ‘she’s out to ruin my career’ won’t last much longer.”
Snell praised the victim’s courage in reading her victim impact statement, but said he believed she was also referring to charges Kahia had been found not guilty of, and that he had to be mindful of that in sentencing.
He said there was a minimal age gap between the pair at the time of the offending of 22 months, their relationship was consensual and that the assault charge, for him grabbing her arm and trying to drag her away, was more modest when compared to other offending under the charge category.
He also said that while “high profile sports people are still subject to the same law as every other person in the country”, he accepted Mansfield’s argument that “the type of organisations you want to work for and drive for won’t look behind this conviction”.
“The sponsors would not want to be connected with a driver who has sexual offending or a hint of that surrounding them.
“Both in New Zealand and internationally, convictions will end your career in motor sport,” Snell said.
“One of the most difficult decisions I’ve had to make in a long time. . . in the end what I am going to do is grant the discharge without conviction by the finest margins.”
Snell imposed a condition that Kahia undertake counselling “about boundaries”.
“It is imperative he gets some assistance.”