The answer, of course, is that they think they can get away with it forever.
One set of rules for “them”, another set of rules for the servants who pay their taxes so dutifully.
The more important question is whether the servants will allow them to continue operating like this. Because that will determine whether this country flourishes or goes to shit like so many other African countries.
The National Energy Regulator, NERSA, is holding public hearings on why Eskom should not more than double the cost of electricity in the next five years*. If anybody’s input is taken seriously, that would be a first for these kind of things**… or maybe I’m just cynical.
RTWT.
H/T to Claire.
* Because somewhere after 1994 they decided that maintenance was not as important as shiny new BMWs, so that got pushed out a bit until the system started breaking, and now they have to work overtime to catch up to where we were.
** There is a requirement for public consultation in all processes like this. There is however no requirement for actually taking said consultation seriously.
No, not mine, I don’t pay tax in dollars…
So over on http://billnelson.senate.gov/ there’s a poll, “Would you favor reinstating the federal assault weapons ban that expired in 2004?”.
Two things wrong here, (A) I can vote, and we have our own set of gun laws so my opinion is worthless, and (B)…
25 + 25 = 1903?
(H/T to Kevin, except when he voted there were 23 yes and 27 no, 1745 total votes.)
No, not me. The dudes who make Takalani Sesame (our version of Sesame Street, in all eleven national languages).
(hint: read the eye chart).
In other news, the world will probably not end in 2029, but I’d put money on large amounts of hysteria being generated (again).
… was a stirfry.
Pretty damn good, too.
It was good knowing all of y’all, and you have yourself a great End of the World.
Some Capetalk listener mentioned simfy. So I’m investigating their free trail.
On one of their playlists, I discovered a song I learned on my daddy’s knee car back seat.
(You hafta click here ‘cos fscked if I know how the cool kids embed Youtube in WordPress)
The gal rocked.
Took the Garand, the Auto-5, the Browning Semi-auto 22, the Norinco JW-21, the Freedom Arms 454, and four Spanish pistols to the range, along with two pups of the female persuasion.
The Freedom Arms has a new front sight blade, it was terribly high with the old blade, now it looks like I can come up a few clicks at 50m, so that’s all good. That’s why I went, to check the difference the new front sight made. The rest was just fun.
Practicing for the shotty, which kicks a bit more than a 22.
Norinco 22 levergun — copy of the Winchester 9422 — fun little gun, as is the Browning.
Three diminutive 1911 rip-offs. Star in 9mmK, Llamas in 32 ACP and 22LR. The 22 is straight blow-back, the other two are toggle-link.
Star Model B. Almost a full-size 1911 rip-off.
Fun was had.
And that was just the fanwalk…
Yes, Gaga’s in town.
The set is amazing. The whole front of the castle opens up, there are passages and stairs everywhere, one set of stairs decends on a motorised track… and they had this up in Johannesburg on Friday, tore it down, transported it to Cape Town, and set it up ready for Monday evening. OK, they’ve been touring the world so they should have it figured out by now but… wow.
Pink Floyd, anyone?
Here’s the castle opened up.
Some fans were very excited to be on stage.
Yea, she’s crazy. But good crazy.
And kudos to the City for managing the stadium and the fanwalk and the traffic perfectly.
My Dedicated Hunter certificate came today. To get this, I actually had to study — there’s a test on animals and habitats and ethics and all kinds of stuff, there’s also a shooting test (Impala target at 100m sitting, 200m prone, 50m standing, three shots at each distance).
I am now a Dedicated Hunter, Dedicated Collector and Dedicated Sport Shooter in terms of the Firearms Control Act.
Now I can apply for the 300 Winchester Magnum Howa 1500 I bought a few months ago.
The SADPA postal shoot consists of four stages, shot by local IDPA shooters, to get an idea of where you rank. You can shoot multiple times, but only the first score you submit counts — which leads to some people shooting and then tearing up their score sheet because of completely missing the 15m target. But Richard Dews is a rather large fellow so we don’t argue with him.
Anyway, I shot it on Saturday at FBGC and I sucked. But maybe less so than last week. This time I shot both the revolver (SSR) and my 1911 (CDP).
Modified Bill Drill (Stage 1). Three targets at 5, 10 and 15m. Six shots at each target. Boring :-) Except I completely stuffed up the 15m SSR stage and got 22! points down. SSR raw time 19.35, CDP raw time 21.84 with 8 points down.
Standards #708 (Stage 2). This was a fun one. Six targets from 4m to 25m, with no-shoots in front of the front two targets. I really thought I was going to plug the no-shoots but I managed not to. And I even hit the 25m target a few times. SSR 36.91, 10 points down, CDP 35.83, 12 points down. Both revolver and pistol required two reloads — I’m only marginally slower with the speed loaders, but that’s just because I’m way too slow with magazine changes.
Seated (Stage 3). Four targets, all 5m away. One no-shoot. Tactical sequence, which means one shot to each target and then empty the magazine at them. 12 shots, that’s one reload for the revolver as well as for the pistol (7 round magazine, so I started with 8 shots in the gun). SSR 18.03 and one point down, CDP 18.89 and 4 points down. Gotta work on those magazine changes.
Quick Standards (Stage 4). This one was… weird. Seven shots at 3m… and yes, you can miss at 3m, but only if your brain comes undone, like mine (of course) did. Note to self, seat the bloody magazine properly. I can’t think of any real-world scenario where I would draw with my strong hand and then transition to weak hand only — but then, IDPA is a game. SSR 6.49 no points down, CDP 6.89 and two points down.
I figure that when the nationwide results get published I should probably look for my name on the last page or two…