Kiwis weather severe events and extremes in 2007

Dr Salinger said the year saw a swing from an El Nino to La Nina climate pattern and overall more anticyclones, or "highs", occurred.

... and these severe events and extremes are not once attributed to that 'contrived beast' anthropogrenic global warming.

Does this mean that Dr Salinger is beginning to distance himself from this created phenomenon???
Perhaps, finally, he too is acknowledging that the United Nations and crusading celebrities are simply wrong??? (http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/1272).

Loss of Contact with Reality?

This man's (Beran's) first conviction for sexual offending was in 1988, when he was 45. He raped and molested a number of young people since then.

Counsel for Beran, Louise Elder, told the court he did not want periodic detention because of the stigma attached to it . His objections to his sentence was heard and overruled

Unrepentant, recidivist rapist given preventive detention ... Justice Gendall said Beran's advancing years had not "diminished his proclivity for violent and coercive sexual behaviour".

Now either this is a misinterpretation in reporting or a lawyer with no conception of the gravity of the offending and potential consequences for this ... the difference is, well, potentially a lifetime ... and if this is reported correctly it is a little disconcerting.

Power to the People.

This is but another example of the cavalier and simplistic attitude our judiciary have to both criminals and the victims of their activities ... are they trying to maintain crime as a growth industry? Other examples are of course our parole boards (kwangos for the retired) and prisons themselves, where there appears an overriding ethic of the very behaviour of those they are entrusted to oversee.
Or perhaps this is simply an option to reduce overcrowding in prisons executed by those with little understanding of whom they are dealing with and the wider implications of their actions.
It would seem the latter.



& CYF, well what extra can you say?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10448403