Reverse racism?

Imagine the furore in various media circles up and down New Zealand, if all country’s major political leaders – and their various hangers-on – went off cap in hand – to the headquarters of the local Scientologists to try and curry favour with its leadership and members!
There would be thunderous editorials in all the country’s newspapers criticising the politicos for engaging with such cultists and lamenting the influence of religion on politics.
Meanwhile, the talking heads on all the television current affairs shows would be in near apoplexy at the very idea of our leading politicians currying favour with such a strange religious institution.
So how come the annual pilgrimage to Ratana Pa - by Uncle Tom Cobley and all of the key New Zealand political movers and shakers - does not raise a collective eyebrow?
Let’s get real; Ratana is nothing more than a very minor and strange religious cult. From my observation, the only difference between TW Ratana and L. Ron Hubbard is that the latter has a lot more followers around the world than the long, deceased and self-professed Maori prophet.
According to Ratana followers, the basis of their religion comes out of the late Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana seeing a vision, which he regarded as divinely inspired. Apparently the said vision asked Ratana to preach the gospel to the Maori people, destroy the power of the tohunga (Maori spiritualism) and to cure the spirits and bodies of his people. Ratana established a name for himself as the "Maori Miracle Man". Initially, the movement was seen as a Christian revival, but it soon moved away from mainstream churches.
Meanwhile, Scientology is based on the teachings of the late L. Ron Hubbard – another self-professed religious leader. Hubbard taught that people are immortal beings who have forgotten their true nature. Scientology backs a method of spiritual rehabilitation in which practitioners aim to consciously re-experience painful or traumatic events in their past in order to free themselves of their limiting effects. In many countries, Scientology is not recognised as a mainstream religion.
So what is the difference? How come the Scientologist are not receiving annual delegations of New Zealand political parties?
Would the media be so accommodating if John Key and Phil Goff trudged off to the impress the leadership of the Catholic, Anglican or Presbyterian Churches at Easter?
I doubt it!
Is there not some political rule about the separation of church and state in New Zealand?
Is this not just reverse racism?
Do media in New Zealand turn a (colour) blind eye to the rather unseemly and weird rush by the nation’s leading politicians to Ratana every year because this religion is the sole domain of Maori?
Can someone fill me in? I am confused.

And they wonder why people hate lawyers!

What’s the difference between a lawyer and a catfish?
Answer:
One is a scum-sucking bottom feeder, and the other is a catfish.
It is clear that the legal representative of the Auckland mother (and I use that term very loosely) facing 36 charges of abusing her 9-year-old daughter is doing very little to dispel the above notion.
According to media reports; Joanne Wickliffe - lawyer for the unemployed woman – has argued that media coverage referring to the "torture case" was prejudicial to her client’s right to a fair trial. Ms Wickliffe also claims that media coverage of the daughter's progress in her new foster home risked creating too much public sympathy for the girl – as opposed to the mother of the year.
To show you just how reprehensible Ms Wickliffe’s client is and how hard up this catfish is for custom; here is a quick recap of the stomach-churning media report of what this wonderful mother and father have been accused of doing to this little girl:
“Police and social workers are appalled at the alleged abuse of a nine-year-old girl whose body was covered in bruises when she was found hiding in a wardrobe in a west Auckland house.
Social workers said in court documents the nine-year-old had been abused so badly that almost every part of her body was covered in injuries, including part of her scalp torn off her head as she was dragged down the hall.
At hospital the girl was found to be starving, dehydrated and anaemic from internal bleeding. She had a broken bone in her foot and extensive bruising all over her body.
Her father, 32, faced charges of assaulting her between January 2009 and November this year, using a broomstick and a vacuum pipe as weapons, and assaulting her during over eight days in November.
Her mother, 30, faced charges of injuring with intent, assault with various weapons, wilful neglect by failing to seek medical help, withholding food, and causing grievous bodily harm. She was also charged with assaulting another child, aged seven, with a table leg and an unknown weapon.
It was believed the girl was as removed from her parents by Child Youth and Family (CYF) soon after she was born and returned to them two years ago, the newspaper reported.
Court documents allege the girl had been violently beaten since the beginning of 2009, sometimes with a stick.
In April this year, her mother allegedly repeatedly punched her in the face and hands. She did not get medical treatment for the girl but was believed to have gone to the doctor herself after breaking bones in both her hands during the beating.
In November her father allegedly beat her with a vacuum cleaner and a broomstick.
It was alleged the child's mother attacked her almost daily and in November used a broomstick, punched her in the face and body, bent her toenail backwards and caused grievous bodily harm with a hammer, the newspaper reported.
She was also allegedly hit with a broomstick and a table leg, repeatedly punched in the face and body, and kicked in the groin with steel-capped boots.
Her toenail was allegedly torn off and salt and boiling water poured on to the bleeding wound.
She was allegedly put in a hot bath and had her head held under water, was starved of food and forced to stand in the corner, sometimes naked, without moving.
The girl may need counselling for the rest of her life.”
Wickliffe claimed the media reports created prejudice against her client.
Sorry, but who cares? This maggot of a mother and the scumbag she bred with did not seem to care about prejudicing the future of their nine year old daughter when they repeatedly committed these atrocities against her.
Thankfully Judge Emma Aitken declined to make a ruling on Wickliffe's submissions and told her to put an application in writing and give notice to the media if she wished to pursue the complaint.
Meanwhile, Wickliffe asked for more time before the mother entered a plea, as lawyer Lorraine Smith would be appearing as co-counsel and needed to examine the evidence in more depth. Smith previously represented the 2006 father of the year (not) Chris Kahui in the trial where he was acquitted of murdering his baby twins.
With Lawyers like Smith and Wickliffe around and still prepared to defend scum like Kahui and the parents of this nine year old girl; it is no wonder catfish are so reluctant to be associated in any way with the legal profession!

Do you want gay porn with that?

Well, well, well it seems McDonald's is not only an evil, multi-national that kills innocent people for nasty profit - but it now hates gay people as well!
Gay activists say the golden arches hamburger chain can also add to its list of evil-doings - homophobia - after it blocked access to gay websites from McDonalds new free Wi-Fi service at its New Zealand restaurants.
According to some in Pink Mafia, people trying to access website GayNZ.com while enjoying their burger and fries at McDonalds, discovered they could not get the site. This obviously ruined their whole dining experience.
It led these latest victims of self-declared prejudice to mince off to the media demanding the fast-food giant - which offers free Wi-Fi access in 132 of its restaurants nationwide - to grant them immediate access to surf gay sites at their restaurants or be labelled haters!
However, McDonald's said it was a family restaurant chain, and as part of offering the Wi-Fi service, its policy was that content must be of a family friendly nature, or suitable for a child to view.
Fair enough, one would have thought! After all, surely McDonalds is allowed to say what kind of websites can be accessed in its restaurants to go along with its ‘family-friendly’ reputation?
No so! Apparently there are hordes of outraged gays and lesbians queuing up outside McDonalds wanting to devour thier Happy Meals and read such family friendly and wholesome articles - which currently appear on this website - like: “New call for ban on bareback porn production”. Or a story laden with F-words about two gay men threatened with being beaten up on Ponsonby Road.
All good family friendly stuff – not! Can you imagine a kid asking: “Mum, what is bareback porn?” This kind of stuff could end up giving Ronald McDonald a heart attack!
There are also numerous suggestive adverts and photographs on the site, which even the Pink Mafia, would be hard pressed to describe as family friendly. The McDonald's policy also blocks access to Family Planning, Rainbow Youth, Agender and other websites.
I am guessing these sites are also banned because the blocking program McDonalds uses comes across similar un-family themes as those on GayNZ.com and refuses access to them.
What’s the bet, those ‘outraged’ in the gay community about this block are the same killjoys and permanent victims who kicked up a stink about the Air New Zealand safety video in which they claimed the gay, male steward being turned down a kiss from All Black Richard Kahui would lead to more suicides of young gay men!
It is time these gay activists lightened up and worried more about the issues of real concern to the gay community, rather than if they can still surf their favourite sites while at McDonalds.

Go backing to waiting on tables you slapper!

I was hoping that 2011 would be the year in which we’d get to see a whole lot less of the over-exposed, C-grade actress and Z-grade celebrity Robyn Malcolm.
No such luck!
The New Year was not even a couple of days old when the self-professed, liberal-lefty conscious of the nation popped up on the TV news, lecturing the country again, this time on why the Government should fork out multi-millions of dollars to buy her favourite Coromandel Beach.
I wish she would go bore some other poor saps.
Last year, Malcolm – who played Cheryl West in the long running TV show Outrageous Fortune (mind you, it was hardly acting her playing a mutton-dressed as lamb, Westie slapper) – was seen for the last time on screen in this role as the series finally came to an end.
In a year which should have centred on the end of the series, the actress (ie: out-of work waitress) instead appeared as herself in a couple of controversial issues outside her acting talent.
First – living up to her claims of being big on the environment (which included her voicing the Green Party's election advertisements in 2008) she was in the midst of left-wing protests against the Government’s plans to increase the level of mining in NZ. There is no doubt Malcolm and her ill-informed friends’ high profile antics spooked the Government and this led to its back down on any further mining plans.
Then came Malcolm’s piece de résistance, with the unseemingly row over actors' contracts for The Hobbit movie. It was another high-profile role for Malcolm that saw her taking on Sir Peter Jackson and Hollywood as the self-appointed local rep for Australian controlled actors union
Malcolm took a lot of flak for her role in this fight, which almost saw the Hobbit lost to NZ. When the dispute was finally settled, after Malcolm and her union mates were put in the sin bin and John Key took over, she claimed she was "thrilled and relieved" that The Hobbit was staying in New Zealand.
Yada, yada yada – as they say!
What I find the hardest to believe is that Malcolm was voted NZ’s best TV actress for the sixth time in a row and sexiest woman for the third time in a row in the TV Guide people's choice awards in 2010.
Which only goes to show two things:
1- This country has a serious lack of female acting talent; and
2- TV Guide is read by too many 50-something, single men from Hamilton, who still live with their mothers! (As only hopeless bogans could ever think Malcolm is sexy).
Meanwhile, Malcolm said she did not mind being unpopular while fighting for a good cause. "I really believe in this stuff. I believe in workers' rights."
Snore! The fact is she now is hunting in Australia for work and I am sure her trans-Tasman union mates will help her out. Let’s hope Malcolm stays in the lucky country and bores the hapless Aussies with her self-righteous beliefs rather than force them down the throats of Kiwis – we have suffered enough.
But if Malcolm does continue to reside in God’s Own, I only hope she lives up to her obvious talents and scores a jobs waiting on tables at Starbucks – rather than continually and sanctimoniously telling the rest of us how we should lead our lives!