Cyberchondriacs Anon.

Uncontrollable moods? Low and depressed? High and manic?
Always in a black mood?
Unusually anxious or stressed?
Repeatedly checking things? Taking a long time to make decisions?
Drinking too much?
Popping a few too many pills or trying harder stuff?


Just reading that lot is enough to catch something terminal. But some self-diagnosis is on hand.

Lie down and feel free to answer just a few questions.... Bring out your inner cyberchondriac.

Your prescription is 'pop a couple of aspirin and naff off'. Its all in your head!

PS: Note the health warning!

Bent? Then Repent!

we want them to repent and be changed

So says the archwhatever from the Rochester Anglican Boys Club.

people who depart from traditional Biblical teaching "don't share the same faith."

Quite right, but as expected, not getting much support.

"When you steal or take something that isn't rightfully yours"

Notice has been given with the above statement of perceived entitlement.

Mr Laws discusses the options.

And a resurgent Winnie is about to enter the fray. On, I would suggest, a very strong policy. Just the catalyst he has been awaiting. As ever, a shrewd player. We have not seen the last of WRP.

Still such a play will serve the Nats well. They can shovel all the aggro and cries of racism the F&S debate will bring onto Winston. Winnie is well rested and as a seasoned player, no doubt ready to take on all comers on that score. The losers will be both National and Labour.

Bollocks to the headline statement.

It was never proven to be rightfully theirs in the first place. Only in their wildest dreams.

As is said, this is going to be bigger than Ben Hur. Gentlemen, Start your engines!

No rise in hamburger fees

Sheep and beef farmers have indicated their opposition to any significant increase in the levies they pay to Meat & Wool New Zealand.

Farmers are unequivocally telling Meat and Wool NZ to stick their long desired rise in levies and questioning their value.

MWNZ supposedly supports the meat industry. Things like marketing and industry good. It has huge financial reserves, but continues to push for a levy increase. Dairy farmers are being very vocal about the levies they have to stump up. What for? Their cull cows do not require special marketing, going straight to the works for hamburgers.

I wonder if the suits will listen?

Was it good for you?

I wonder how long before the taxpayer is yet again dragged to the table to renegotiate another 'just and durable' settlement?

Sealord, now Treelord. Te News suggested that it was unlikely there would be a bigger buyout. I suspect Coastlord will outstrip everything. Yet to come, watch this space.

So another $285 million of your hard earned taxes and over half a billion dollars of assets blown to salve your conscience.

Was it good for you?

Here we go

Not content with ceding the NZ coastline, The Nats are about to handover the Super City to unelected representation.

This is the first time a special Maori subcommittee has ever been established in this way

All in the name of democracy. Unelected representation based on race that is. Mirroring the questionable seats based on colour that exist in a parallel world in central government.

Where will this madness stop?

The stench of rotten fish

"She feels the political fallout around Richard Worth has been sufficient and going through the courts would have been an additional ordeal that would have gained little."

Surely that should read 'He feels the political fallout...'?

There was ever only one person in the driving seat on this piece of political sleaze. Messrs Worth and Key were mere pawns.

Mine's bigger than yours

I wish!

30,000 hits

Some people have been lurking.

Cheers guys.

Riding the local bike

A bamboo bike from Zambikes. Neat.

The fix is in

National sells the electorate out in another confirmed John Key election pledge flip-flop.

He welcomed its finding that public access to the beach was a birthright for all New Zealanders.

"That was ... a bottom line for National."

The fix is already in.

Scab lifted

The festering sore has been exposed to daylight. As predicted, the contents are not pretty as Iwi/Kiwi bubbles to the surface with the detritus.

Unfortunately, in the pursuit of politics Key now has unbottled the genie. The review has been conducted as promised. End of story.

I say leave it there with our coasts, beaches, water column and seabed in the public domain under Crown control. Set in concrete, in law, zero compensation to any entity.

Mayor trying to hijack smacking referendum

Mr Williams said the anti-smacking referendum was a golden opportunity to seek public endorsement of the Super City. "It can't be too difficult or expensive to print off another ballot paper to drop into the same envelopes being sent out to Auckland voters."

Get over yourself. The smacking referendum is not for local government dictators to hijack. The precedent on such matters has already been set by your ex-Dear Leader.

And I would wager $19000 to spend on a useless survey to counter the Super City was not in Rodney District Council's LTCCP. Stop wasting ratepayers taxes.

The sooner these troughers are excised from mine and your rates the better.

Handy tips for flying Airbus

Don't.

Picking at the scab

Tomorrow the scab will be lifted yet again on the festering separate rule sore.

it's about peeling off a septic bandaid and treating the festering sore underneath

The Nats blindsided the electorate with their jumping in with the Maori Party post-election.

it would outline "the most workable and efficient methods" of recognising Maori customary rights and public interest in the coastline

With weasel words like that, as expected, the outcome has already been long decided. The Nats just need to sell it. There will be a big hooha, but mark my words, the coastline is about to be formally given away. Just like NZ lakes.

The true cost of Liarbour Lite getting into bed with the separatist party is about to be revealed.