PM of NZ

Call time

2012-02-01T06:10:00.002+13:00

denying that the Treaty exists

the Maori Party will have to consider its position with the Government

Mr Key, time to call their bluff. A few bludging natives walking to Wellytown to protest will really display to hard working Kiwis where priorities lie. The sooner we get that piece of paper consigned to the dustbin of history, New Zealand can ditch the Stone Age shackles.

IMHO the mealy mouthed racists won't walk. They're enjoying wallowing in the trough.

"The bodies are stacking up"

2012-01-29T13:02:00.004+13:00

The bodies are stacking up

This country has really got to take a serious look at what we're doing in the water

Someone gets pissed and drowns. Or goes to sea without appropriate safety gear / preparation. Been more than a few of those in recent months.

Now champion leftie trougher, ex-Mare Bob wants a talk-fest. And taxpayers to pay. Just like his ex-councils' OTT legislation on pool fences.

A fine one to talk when his council failed to take any liability over the questionable maintenance practices and council buck passing so evident in the recent tragic case of Aisling Symes.

is organising a workshop involving all 37 organisations involved in water safety
somehow make sense of the tragedies involved

What we really need is $28 million

As ever, follow the money. It's always the money and getting taxpayers / ratepayers to cough for more follies.

Hypocrite.

Tainted milk

2012-01-28T09:47:00.002+13:00

variously claimed that his company's bid was "tainted by fraud"

The OIO found no evidence of this

No doubt that would be the same regime of "of good character" checks used with Mr Dotcom and associates?

"38911 BASIC BYTES FREE. READY."

2012-01-26T16:07:00.003+13:00

My first computer, a modern marvel in its day. Bloody expensive at $1000 for just a keyboard! Programs came on an audio tape or you mastered BASIC like I did. Never got into games and still have zero interest in them. A hobby interest in computers and electronics from valves to transistors and integrated circuitry that continues to serve me well today.

Once you get over the hurdle of how to get something on the screen it's not that difficult to make apps and share them with your friends

Unfortunately, also really showing my age. Mind you, am just waiting for the know-it-all 7 year old to ask "... and what would you know about computers, Granddad? ".

Lying Len about to take a dump on JAFAs

2012-01-26T08:21:00.004+13:00

Auckland Council owns the port company and is also the governing body that must approve the port's plans

Lying Len has been rumbled looking for somewhere to put all that spoil when his train set is extended to include the fabled underground loop. Seems the plans have been well buried from public view.

relates to potential development over the next 40 years. I am sure it will be refined over time...

The perfect place? Extend the wharves you already own. It's all downhill from here on the 40 year plan.

Yes, it will be easy for Lying Len to take a dump on JAFAs.

Why the Manawatu Gorge is still shut...

2012-01-24T16:57:00.001+13:00

Maybe a silly idea to hope for a 4 laner, but in geological times past, the spoil from such slips went straight into the gorge river and fanned out on the plains next winter.

Prior to the gorge the Manawatu did indeed discharge at the East coast, maybe via the Akitio valley. It was only uplifting of the coastal hills that blocked the eastern exit, Woodville became a bloody big lake till the creek punched an outlet through the gorge to the West.

The only river in the world that rises on East facing slopes and discharges to the West.

The actual volume to be shifted is sod all. Imagine a slip 100m wide, 10m thick and 100m high. 100,000 cuM. The roads people said about 80,000.

If that lot was graded into 5m thick pile in the river bed 50 wide, it would only occupy 400m of river bed. The gorge is 8kM long and has a decent fall, so the debris would match current silt deposits in the river bed. The next winter floods would flush that totally clean as the creek rises 15-20m.

Go figure why it is taking months to clear such a small amount of debris. The bloody bureaucrats have their hands on some cheap fill and are trucking it out half a load at a time. And charging me as a long suffering ratepayer.

HT PDM, comment by me

The unproductive return to the taxpayer teat

2012-01-24T16:20:00.002+13:00

All that wasted effort cycling to and from some farm for an extended holiday / talkfest on the taxpayer dime. Not one ounce of productive output.

Meanwhile the real workers continue mining export dollars.

I wonder how much that cost the taxpayer? More here.

Kiwi females just might be able to do anything

2012-01-22T14:00:00.004+13:00

the youngest sailor to complete a solo circumnavigation of the world

Amazing.

her father has been branded “irresponsible”

Remember the aggro she got a year ago from Dutch authorities?

McCarten, an unadulterated JAFA?

2012-01-22T06:19:00.002+13:00

the country seems to run quite well without politicians

... we may not need them after all

our Prime Minister and the rest of his ministers return to their offices tomorrow

I'd heartily agree with sentiments of the first part, but tomorrow? Umm, I think not. Maybe Tuesday, for tomorrow is a public holiday in the beltway and environs.

McCarten shows off his restricted world view for all to see.

"A test of wills and Australia has lost"

2012-01-21T18:17:00.003+13:00

It is time for Australia to adopt turning the boats as its core policy

A COALITION government will order the navy to turn around asylum-seeker boats and return them to Indonesia in an assertion of Australian border protection, Tony Abbott revealed.

About bloody time for an Oz pollie to grow some. Long overdue, if I were in Oz, a pollie that would get my vote.

It's immoral because it will put at risk the lives of navy personnel and asylum seekers

Meanwhile the hand-wringers want open borders. Nothing immoral in returning illegals and I'm sure the Navy will look after their own. IMHO, any complainers should be deck cargo on the boats returning the illegals to where they came from.

And the Tui goes to...

2012-01-21T09:05:00.002+13:00

Meridian Energy says it remains committed to its proposed Mokihinui dam on the West Coast following its decision to pull the pin on a controversial $2 billion wind farm in Otago

Now that you've cracked under nimby pressure over a few windmills in the back of beyond, history will mark that down as Gordon River type win, giving activists a leg up to go the whole hog against all corporate development.

Economically and viability-wise, it remains a very attractive project

Where's the Tui? Do you really expect the anti-business activist nutters that plague our country will give you a free pass on building a dam across a creek a few poxy kayakers might make use of?

Come on Meridian, the game is over with your capitulation. Anyone in their right mind would think you've been scuppering the Tui.

Best headline ever

2012-01-20T13:43:00.003+13:00

Mass redundancies expected at port

Make it so, Mr Gibson. Teachers are next in line.

Self composting...

2012-01-19T07:14:00.004+13:00

People from throughout the country, intent on raising awareness about and strategies to oppose major lignite development plans

the composting long drops were going in

I'd wager there'd be many productive farmers and business people that would be into that self composting.

Like self composting a whole dung heap of tree hugging greenie anti-mining nutter activists as they discuss ways to stop mining progress.

A little bucket of Instant Sunshine _TM could kickoff the composting process...

Dying in a ditch

2012-01-16T18:15:00.003+13:00

Our management team and Board have a duty to apply a commercial approach and to act in the best interests of Aucklanders, now and over the longer term

No. 6 strike notice served.

Time to fire the MUNZ mongrels.

From the WTF??? files: Sensitivities of cases such as this...

2012-01-15T20:22:00.002+13:00

We fully acknowledge the sensitivities of cases such as this and it is important that people to not leap to conclusions and start pointing fingers prematurely

WTF???

To the hand wringers getting all wrought with sensitivity, I'd say it is nothing less than bloody natives murdering their own.

Removal of that warrior gene is something that no amount of taxpayer wedge will fix.

Contradictions abound

2012-01-14T06:54:00.002+13:00

when employers band together for the highest price possible it is outlawed as a form of reprehensible greed, while when employees band together seeking the highest price possible it is considered heroic and just

A union’s problem is painfully obvious: organized strikers must shut down the enterprise, close the market to everyone else—uncooperative workers, union members, disenchanted former strikers, and employers—in order to force wages and working conditions above free-market rates. If too many individuals defy the strikers…then unionists often resort to force. Unionists ultimately cannot impose noncompetitive wage rates…unless they can prevent employers from hiring consenting adults on terms that are mutually satisfactory. Unions must actively interfere with freedom of trade in labor markets in order to deliver on their promises.

More union mythbusting and government endorsement of the contradictions here.

Priorities: "It's not a good look for tourists"

2012-01-13T16:02:00.004+13:00

It's not a good look for tourists

Unbelievable. A pregnant woman gets severely dealt to on the streets of Rotorua. And all the local city worthies are worried about it is how it looks to tourists.

she was punched, kicked and stomped on near a bus stop in Pukuatua St, in full view of up to 20 people

As for the 20 scum who stood by in the bustop and did nothing apart from posting pix on the web, we can all see where their priorities lie.

ps Am back. Well, never actually went anywhere. Just didn't want to take out another mortgage for more VodaFilth data cap. And New Year's resolutions, whilst fun at the time, are not for keeping.

pps Cheers for all the great comments. Bar one.

And the #1 New Year resolution is...

2012-01-01T06:11:00.001+13:00

No more wasting time blogging.

Bye.

The guilt of white colonials

2011-12-28T08:59:00.002+13:00

all Maori are somehow guilty of, or prone to child abuse

Can't argue with that. Daily we see the stats reinforcing the theory. With vile results. Don't see the colonials acting in similar manner on a regular basis. Maybe they are better at hiding it?

The apologist that poses as the RRC would have us believe otherwise. As usual, it's racism to note murdering and abusing children is extremely prevalent within Maori communities, being perpetrated by Maori.

Pacific Islanders had once attracted unduly great attention from immigration officials and police because of their being ethnically stereotyped as "overstayers"

Nothing wrong with that either. If the Police and Immigration had done their job properly at the time, with heaps more dawn raids, we would not have the problems of today in South Auckland. But no, Liarbour was out buying Votes for KFC on a grand scale.

The sun has been rather strong of late, must have fried his brain cell. Somehow it is all the fault of those uncaring white colonials as Maori yet again top out the stats. Or is it bottom out in all the negative stats?

Apologies: A family disaster

2011-12-25T08:25:00.001+13:00

I must apologise for the slack blogging.

A family disaster has occurred and my mind is off the game.

They came to visit...

Queenstown Council bureaucrats continue shafting ratepayer

2011-12-23T06:29:00.003+13:00

independent commissioners working on behalf of the Queenstown Lakes District Council approved resource consent

Two private parties appealed against the decision to the Environment Court

the council later decided it also did not agree with its commissioners' decision and applied to the Environment Court to also present evidence opposing the commissioner's decision

From the bureaucrats playbook at your local council. Council appointed commissioners approve the consent, council doesn't like result, so joins in supporting appeal against consent and tries to charge ratepayer extra for privilege. As if the ratepayer hasn't already paid through the nose via the never ending litigation of the consent processes.

Thankfully the EC beak sticks it to the bureaucrats.

The Queenstown Lakes District Council has been denied permission to give evidence against a planning decision made by its own commissioners

and from the ratepayer

regarded the council's conduct as a complete abuse of process and paid more legal fees than expected

sets the ground for all future applicants for resource consent to be able to properly rely on a decision made by this council in its favour

It pays to be vigilant. The bureaucrats at your local council remain ever willing to shaft the ratepayer via any means.

Christmas message for JAFA ratepayers

2011-12-22T16:12:00.003+13:00

Next year is going to be big. We move beyond planning to doing.

We’ll secure the designations for the biggest transformational project for Auckland, the City Rail Link, and explore funding options for completing it.

The holiday message from Lying Len, fresh off the wire.

"I come bearing gifts. Gifts that you will buy for me"

Ploughing ahead with his rail link to nowhere. Spending more ratepayer dime like there is no tomorrow.

Thankfully there is a tomorrow and he will not get a second chance.

Environment Southland rushing to set up star chamber

2011-12-22T09:39:00.002+13:00

these issues will not be debated in public

the Resource Management Act gives the responsibility to your elected representatives to make values-based policy decisions

Petty bureaucrats thriving on unvalidated greenwash continue marching toward their utopian dream of stopping all farming in Southland. An unseemly rush to quickly get plans in place so environment wrecking farmers can be stopped. All over some fetid swamp that has a blocked seaward outlet.

Councillors need to be able to ask questions and speak freely without their comments being misconstrued as showing bias or predetermination

After ES has listened to the patently biased elected reps and drafted a final draft, the productive farming public might be invited to forward their tuppence worth to the ES Star Chamber. I say patently biased, because greenwash is what the reps were elected on.

here will be ample opportunities for people to have their say during consultation

One of these days we will awake to find these greenie nutters have regulated farming out of existence via the RMA. Zero food will be produced in New Zealand it being all imported.

Minister tells it like it should be

2011-12-22T07:00:00.004+13:00

That child was so deeply failed by those parents that were supposed to protect her

The Westie Tart tells another tart her child abuse was all her responsibility. Meanwhile the defending lawyer continues blaming all and sundry but the real scum.

How it should be, a Minister standing up to the abusers, with a healthy dose of personal responsibility. A Minister putting the abusers on notice. Instead of wringing their hands like previous Liarbour post holders who have long cowered in the corner whilst kowtowing to PC claptrap claiming the abusers have rights.

Now for some action on those bludging beneficiaries...

National traitors step further left

2011-12-21T09:58:00.002+13:00

"a party of the left, and probably further left than labour"

My reply:

You've only just realised that? The real problem is National. Now occupying political space so far left that it is entertaining doing shady backroom deals with rampant communists to retain power at any cost.

via HomePaddock, shilling for National

Amusing Greek Theatre

2011-12-17T11:56:00.002+13:00

It is a slow day in a little Greek Village. The rain is beating down and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit. On this particular day a rich German tourist is driving through the village, stops at the local hotel and lays a €100 note on the desk, telling the hotel owner he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night.

The owner gives him some keys and, as soon as the visitor has walked upstairs, the hotelier grabs the €100 note and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher. The butcher takes the €100 note and runs down the street to repay his debt to the pig farmer. The pig farmer takes the €100 note and heads off to pay his bill at the supplier of feed and fuel. The guy at the Farmers' Co-op takes the €100 note and runs to pay his drinks bill at the taverna. The publican slips the money along to the local prostitute drinking at the bar, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer him "services" on credit. The hooker then rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill to the hotel owner with the €100 note. The hotel proprietor then places the €100 note back on the counter so the rich traveller will not suspect anything. At that moment the traveller comes down the stairs, picks up the €100 note, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, pockets the money, and leaves town.

No one produced anything. No one earned anything. However, the whole village is now out of debt and looking to the future with a lot more optimism. And that, Ladies and Gentlemen, is how the bailout package works.

via Old Holborn

Delusional

2011-12-15T07:14:00.002+13:00

needs time to "work out what's in my gut"

needed a bit of "headspace" to decide what to do

If somebody offers me $2 million a year to take on some business enterprise in trade, I would probably consider it seriously

Deemed not good enough for the top job, the delusional loser is now content to prostitute to the highest bidder with a price tag on his perceived self-worth matching his over inflated ego.

Jaded SilentT supporter lets rip

2011-12-14T07:38:00.003+13:00

The continuing factional face of the nasty party that is Liarbour.

One gets her come-uppance, another to go

2011-12-13T13:05:00.003+13:00

her defeat was a slap in the face for Maori voters

One lippy contender down. The other one prone to mouthing off awaits the outcome of a judicial recount.

"I'm not planning to go anywhere," said Mr Cunliffe

If he is not performing within two years he'll be gone

The Mercenary awaits the knives not only from his deputy, but from openly stated factions within and from outside by those currently running the game.

Baldrick spotted in the LEC laundry

2011-12-12T06:53:00.007+13:00

It could be a cunning plan. What interest would there be in a one-horse race? Get two or more going and the resultant interest and publicity must help the long game. A cunning plan Baldrick.

Yep, since the Mercenary patently lacks public speaking and drive on specialist subjects such as economic matters, the already decided race is being talked up as two nag race to flush out the pretenders followers. Diametrically opposite factions which will have to be immediately lanced like a boil for the long term good of the party.

In these straightened economic times whoever wins will have to front foot daily for the next three years on matters economic up against currently the best in the business in the bearpit, the smiling assassin.

The dirty laundry, if read correctly, hides many secrets. My pick is SilentT as much as it disgusts me.

Separatists purchased for mere baubles

2011-12-11T15:59:00.004+13:00

The National-Maori Party agreement includes:

* Work to develop Whanau Ora, including a commissioning agency in the next 12 months

* A Ministerial Committee on Poverty chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Bill English, and deputy chaired by Mrs Turia

* A doubling of the rheumatic fever programme from $12m to $24m

* Progress iwi as housing providers through the Social Housing Unit

* Continuing the constitutional review

* Refocusing Te Puni Kokiri on Maori employment, training, housing and education outcomes

* Work on plain packaging for cigarettes

A sop for three more votes on confidence and supply. Hone will not be pleased.

Apart from the 'continuing constitutional review', whatever that is when it is at home. Another round of endless Maorification coming right up pandering to racist separatists. No mention on binning the race based Maori seats.

Priorities ...

2011-12-11T11:53:00.002+13:00

A brutal assault, shooting and subsequent suicide in Tokoroa last weekend highlighted domestic violence

a rare event

Murder outside the local police station, assault, never-ending domestic abuse and all the locals are worried about? The bloody town's image.

The town is horrified by the reputation it has developed

the town is just a place to fill up the car and move on

All that is wrong with New Zealand is revealed.

The culture of entitlement

2011-12-11T11:38:00.002+13:00

"Lotto, Keno, Bullseye, Big Wednesday, it's all a big fat lie and you're ripping the public off," one complainant wrote. "No way I can be that unlucky."

Losers complain about the outcomes of games of chance.

Such is the culture of entitlement we have inbred in the underclasses.

Separatists ready to sell their soul?

2011-12-11T08:50:00.004+13:00

National is today set to seal a new deal with the Maori Party

Their dance with the devil is about to end today. The question is will they end inside or outside the tent. Inside no doubt, having hocked off their soul to the highest bidder, as Sharples has previously indicated 'get as many baubles as possible whilst on offer'. As his ex-mate Hone suggests 'drive a hard bargain'.

"I would be absolutely stunned if they don't do a deal with us,'' Key said

One wonders what cherished bits of New Zealand are on offer this time around. Last time it was Foreshore and Seabed. As previous actions would suggest, I'd suspect that Smile and Wave will renege on long held party principles and cave into more race based separatism.

How's getting rid of those race based Maori seats going Mr Key?

Kiwi on the run in Oz

2011-12-10T18:13:00.005+13:00

the most serious breach of public administration in the living memory of this state

Another Kiwi conman sticks it to Queenslanders, joining esteemed company.

Easy targets those dingos, must be the sun.

Greenies attempted to rort Waitakere voting?

2011-12-10T16:28:00.003+13:00

The Greens campaign manager in Waitakere foresaw the risk of Carmel losing because of an increased Green vote and attempted a formal dialogue on the issue with Labour they never responded. Fantastic that she won in spite of everything but hope wiser counsel prevails in both parties before the next election.

Greenies openly attempted to rort the system and would be willing to do it again? Then had the cheek to suggest NACTional arrangements in Epsom were beyond the pale.

None so pure as tree huggers utilising the baser aspects of MMP, eh?

Final Result In

2011-12-10T14:02:00.003+13:00

Nats 59 -1
Greens 14 +1

Liarbour - no change, glad of that.

42.23% wanted change from MMP. Cheers for the lack of fight on getting rid of MMP from the useless do nothing apathetic Nats.

New Zealand is doomed to be politically controlled by the likes of rabid tree huggers, separatists and other racist dogs wagging the tail.

God Defend New Zealand!

What happens after Tuesday?

2011-12-10T11:18:00.003+13:00

Labour wins when it represents the future, not the past, leadership not drift, and the many not the few.

Having split supporters and some quite strongly nailing their colours to various masts, one wonders how the other half would work with the eventual victor.

In the real world, the losers would be fired. Immediately. Routed without fear or favour. But in the Liarbour world, ranks will close and all will work for the good of the Party. At least one would hope so.

But I suspect not. The victor will forever have to watch for those with knives ever ready to do harm. And that cannot be good for any organisation.

Summing up 2011

2011-12-10T11:09:00.002+13:00

"Is it a man overboard symbol?"

Clark and Dawe ask/answer questions on the Euro and other 2011 disasters.

Dangers of green electrickery

2011-12-09T12:21:00.003+13:00

The ever present danger of greenwash in overdrive and powering your National Grid. (click for big pic)

Bit draughty in Old Blighty at present.

Top Class Management Skills

2011-12-08T16:29:00.002+13:00

A meatworks company that has locked out workers who refused to take a hefty wage cut ...

... holding a Christmas party for its top managers at an expensive Palmerston North restaurant

I love their style. Has really made my day that story.

Capitalists sticking the knife in.

You saw it here first

2011-12-07T12:09:00.005+13:00

Charter schools could be introduced to the city's [ChCh] lower socio-economic suburbs within a year

Auckland Grammar School today announced that John Morris has given notice of his resignation as Headmaster to be effective in late 2012 ... is looking forward to new and different opportunities

One announcement that gets unionised teachers all-a-flutter, closely followed by an unexpected resignation with a long lead time.

Mr Charter Schools?

Bullying in the schoolyard

2011-12-06T18:09:00.003+13:00

outraged at the proposal
nothing but a "social experiment"
PPTA would not take any action against the proposal at the moment

Oh well that diversion worked.

But you've gotta laugh. Along with striking unionised strirrers at the ports costing business, Smile and Wave has really upset the teachers union in the past 24 hours.

Great stuff. Next week those horrid Nat schoolyard bullies will be round to eat your babies.

Holiday Highway bridge to open before Christmas

2011-12-06T10:28:00.005+13:00

Coromandel Peninsula's new gateway road bridge at Kopu is expected to open to traffic next week

the project has been completed six months early under encouragement from the Government

I guess there will not be one complaint from the usual greenie 'all roads are evil' suspects about 'Holiday Highways', as they transit over the long awaited bridge from the big smoke, racing to their hobbit holes in treehugger heaven for the summer hols.

Bastard greenie hypocrites.

"First they came for..."

2011-12-05T13:40:00.003+13:00

it’s necessary to control the amount of nitrogen-based fertiliser going on the land and also stocking intensities.

Green Party would do this with a National Environmental Standard for Intensive Agriculture

Reminds me of "First they came for ..." by Niemoller.

The price of electing watermelons is tentative steps in destocking the planet. Next step humans as the NESIA Stasi implement their green plan.

Treehuggers state their conditions for a MOU.

Rancid whiff of bureaucracy in ag aviation

2011-12-03T17:02:00.003+13:00

Many regional councils around the country are interested in adopting this programme into their planning ... means the industry [read regional councils] can self-administer...

Agricultural aviation has to remain a permitted activity under the RMA

- from the latest SuperAir blurb in the mailbox with the Ballance sales pitch

Isn't that what the CAA does? With 'elf-n-safety delegated to the DOL? God help a farmer if they do not adhere to industry guidelines, identifying hazards, rigourously following fert plans or worse still have an accident!

Imagine if a topdressing plane had an accident and applied all that Nitrogen filled fertilser in one spot. An environmental castasprohe! Just imagine the bureaucrats that could be unleashed on the modern farmer. But hey, don't mention that all of NZ was regularly washed with DDT not 50 years ago.

One wonders what expertise a regional council can bring to agricultural aviation best practice and safety other than the rancid stench of bureaucracy.

Just the level that varies...

2011-12-02T17:11:00.002+13:00

Nice to know now we've sent New Zealand's most corrupt politician packing on a UN sinecure perceptions of our international standing have improved. Such that we stand isolated at the top of a list.

What is more cause for concern is the true level of corruption, not an airy fairy perception. It may be that NZ has stood still whilst the rest have deteriorated.

Corruption is operationally defined as the abuse of entrusted power for private gain

Sounds like politics business as usual. He was 'only guilty of helping, yer Honour'...

Omphaloskeptics Anon: Triennial AGM

2011-12-02T13:51:00.003+13:00

Green party are calling for a post-election inquiry to zero in on the low voter turnout

should look at ways to reverse the declining turnout

An exercise in utter futility designed to waste more of the taxpayer dime. One only has to look at what is on offer to see causality.

Hopefully whilst contemplating their navels, some useless pieces of lint might be removed.

Can't argue with that

2011-12-01T12:25:00.003+13:00

Top Gear frontman Jeremy Clarkson has sparked outrage ... call for Britain's striking public sector workers to be shot

gilt-edged pensions that have to be guaranteed while the rest of us have to work for a living

JC at his best.

Vodafilth Internet Speed: Crap when school's out

2011-11-30T14:40:00.006+13:00

Vodafone customers' internet speeds drop by as much as quarter as consumers flock to the internet in the evenings

Higher levels of congestion were evident to varying degrees from about the end of the school day at 3pm through to 10pm, with Vodafone's performance bottoming out at 9pm

Case proven. Hell, I been proving that daily for yonks. And it wouldn't have cost a penny.

As soon as the latch-key kiddies get home from school at 5 past three and start watching pr0n, Vf speeds tank till late evening. It's the same when the weather is crap in JafaLand.

Pity they can't quantitatively also measure Vf customer help desk service, or rather the lack of it.

Unfortunately there is no viable alternative for broadband round these parts.

Messages of support [updated] or not

2011-11-30T10:43:00.003+13:00

from here

[update]

'I have thought that if Judith Collins was the last woman on Earth the species would probably become extinct" - Cunliffe a couple of weeks ago

'inappropriate for a man who wants to be Minister of Finance and possibly Prime Minister one day' - Judith Collins

Words uttered that later bite.

Fiddling the figures

2011-11-30T08:58:00.004+13:00

A freely chosen non-vote is still a vote

Use all eligible voters or ...

The people have spoken: All the political parties on offer are dogshit

... use only the ones that voted to inflate your self worth.

One party openly fiddling the figures to confuse the punters.

More expensive greenwash coming right up!

2011-11-29T16:16:00.002+13:00

scope for additional complementary policies, reinforcing the ETS, to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions

Didn't take long. The rabid greenies have been awfully quiet during the past couple of months whilst Red Russel was trying to get more tree huggers in our faces at the trough.

time to recalibrate environmental policy

Whatever that piece of bollocks means cannot be good for my wallet. Three days in and the nutters are back.

Drill it, Mine it, Sell it while you have a mandate!

Back to basics

2011-11-29T10:10:00.002+13:00

Whilst Emmerson directly shows Liarbour the way ahead, the loony far right fresh from having lost 4 MPs and a leader over the weekend and gained a National fifth columnist continue to debate the basics.

It's a case of the classical liberal theorists wanting to stay pure for their 1400 core voters. 1400 out of three bloody million. Get real.

Meanwhile the Nat implant into terminal ACT has really stuck the cat amongst the pigeons so to speak. On top of that indecency, the said MP is now touting a merger with like minded but possibly secular brethren over at the Conservatives.

As if the theoretical vs practical goings on at Libz HQ is not entertainment enough, the factions within ACT are now getting down and dirty trying to work out should they all pull together to fix ACT, abandon it all together for another right leaning entity, or even God forbid, taint the brand abandoning some principles and suck up to potential god-botherers.

Fun and games indeed as various elements get into soul searching and try to get back to basics.

Good news. And bad.

2011-11-28T18:21:00.002+13:00

Occupy Auckland has been issued a trespass notice from Auckland Council

The good. A month or more overdue to remove the freedom campers. Now the bad.

provocative action
is in direct contradiction with the understood position of Mayor Len Brown
council has previously estimated the occupation is likely to cost ratepayers $300,000 - $400,000
$15,000 to replace damaged trees
$60,000 to inspect the protective membrane between Aotea Square and its underground car park

Once again ratepayers will be forced to pay for activists supported by leftard local government not willing to enforce bylaws.

Send the bloody bill to the 99%.

ACToids like rats leaving sinking ship

2011-11-27T21:14:00.003+13:00

Not content with buggering the only right of centre party in New Zealand, ACToids are abandoning ship looking for new places to ruin with their failed liberal ideology.

Question

2011-11-27T18:11:00.001+13:00

Does the 90 day try-out clause apply to our newest employees heading to Wellytown beltway?

If not, why not?

FPP and 2014

2011-11-27T12:35:00.004+13:00

At least Winston First will be in our faces for the next 3 years to continually remind us that FPP is the only choice for the 2014 referendum!

You heard it here first.

Do the decent thing Phil

2011-11-26T22:56:00.002+13:00

Brash, ever the gentleman, shows how's it done. Falling on your sword.

Your turn Fill-n-Phil. Do the decent thing.

Forecast:: Another 3 years of mediocrity

2011-11-26T22:11:00.003+13:00

That cold call by Smile and Wave to Winston is getting closer by the minute. The electorate does not give Nats a mandate.

Libz, as usual, I don't know why they bother.

Didn't Team Light Blue do well for a first time outing. Bring on 2014!

Liarbour? The question now is when the coup will occur. Monday? I see Waitakere looks to be Team Blue yet again and ChCh Central is on a knife edge.

ACT still hanging in by the skin of their teeth. Picked that wrong.

Bring on the entertainment with Winnie nipping at everyone's ankles this term.

QOTD

2011-11-26T19:05:00.004+13:00

So you've voted in Election 2011. In more than a few cases, held your head high, pinched your nostrils and chowed down a dead rat or two.

The question of the day is

"Can you live with your conscience for the next three years?".

I know I can.

Life under the Norwest Arch at 40S

2011-11-25T20:41:00.003+13:00

Looking SSW toward Woodville.

Looking NNE toward Norsewood. Been really drafty up there all day looking at that cloud. Notice the second wave about over SH2 toward the east. Obviously bit drafty north of here.

Bit drafty here at present - reckon we'd be hitting 120KmH gusts at times. Been like that all day, but a great typical sunset tonight.

Such is life under The Arch with the active weather.

Unconvinced? Wavering in your convictions?

2011-11-25T18:10:00.002+13:00

Trueblue has a couple of links to assure you are not alone in your doubts.

Making the cut. Or not.

2011-11-25T10:15:00.003+13:00

Should voters waste 8-9% of votes on ACT and Winston First looking for someone reliable to enact real right leaning policy, but neither make the cut, just think of the mandate the Nats could have had if only they had stuck to their principles.

If only. Time will tell. Meanwhile Ele over at HP makes a final? party political broadcast.

Four ticks...

2011-11-25T06:56:00.002+13:00

In about 14 hours New Zealand goes under starter's orders for Election 2011. Here's my last comments before 'Gentlemen, Start your engines'.

The right are looking for the ultimate mandate - Team Blue alone. But will settle for NACTional with the racist separatists, along with other hangers-on like the coiffured one, same arrangements as this current term. The vision is more unsustainable borrowing, pandering to natives, endorsing socialist policy and initiatives, do nothing to rock the boat, retaining control at any cost.

The left are looking for a Red-Green mandate to tax and spend. To make their nirvana, other ragtag hangers-on like the Mana racists and Winston First will be required. Should that nightmare vision unfold, New Zealand will await the next election as the coalition of the damned attempt government. Sometime about Feb 2012.

Polling suggests the electorate are hesitant to give Team Blue an outright win, whilst definitely telling the left that unions, along with their campaign negativity, tax and spend ideologies belong in centuries past. One thing we will know for sure on Sunday is whether the Horizon poll was worth watching.

And for those all important 4 ticks...

Team Blue, naturally favoured, has done it's dough with me for failing to lead when it had the mandate. ACT - last rights to be administered at 1900 tomorrow.

Team Red, never. Go native? Never. Greens - absolutely not. Winnie? Possibly, but you can never trust a show pony who has oft-proven bad form in the arena.

So two ticks up for grabs - Light Blue team is looking good.

The other 2 ticks? Only one choice - as previously noted - Change and FPP.

May the best man win.

Phone call from the desperate

2011-11-24T18:08:00.002+13:00

Just had a 'personal' phone call from Adolf's desperate mate looking for my vote. Over my dead body.

You had your chance these past three years and chose to do nothing but go native.

I suppose the prime time spam marketing call must be more of my hard earnt taxes being wasted on that 'brighter future'.

Responsible voting in 2011

2011-11-23T15:03:00.001+13:00

The ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER - Tales with a twist

OLD VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.

MORAL OF THE OLD STORY: Be responsible for yourself!

MODERN VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.

TV1, 2 & 3 News, and Campbell Live show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. The country is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Sue Bradford appears on Campbell Live with the grasshopper and everybody cries .

The Green Party stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where news stations film the group singing, We shall overcome.

Green Party Leader Metiriea Turei condemns the ant and blames John Key, Rob Muldoon, Roger Douglas, Capitalism and Global Warming for the grasshopper's plight. John Minto exclaims in an interview with TV News that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fairshare.

Finally to gain votes to win an election, the Government drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to consider how his hard work and preparation has affected the Grasshoppers Mana and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated under the RMA and given to the grasshopper.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government confiscated house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.

The ant has disappeared to Oz, never to be seen again.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drugs related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of Homeboy spiders who terrorize the once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2011

another fresh off the wire from sources unknown

Economics for Dummies: Europe and USA 101

2011-11-23T09:42:00.003+13:00

Dummies guide to what went wrong in Europe and USA

Helga is the proprietor of a bar.

She realizes that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to patronize her bar.

To solve this problem, she comes up with a new marketing plan that allows her customers to drink now, but pay later.

Helga keeps track of the drinks consumed on a ledger (thereby granting the customers' loans).

Word gets around about Helga's "drink now, pay later" marketing strategy and, as a result, increasing numbers of customers flood into Helga's bar.

Soon she has the largest sales volume for any bar in town.

By providing her customers freedom from immediate payment demands, Helga gets no resistance when, at regular intervals, she substantially increases her prices for wine and beer, the most consumed beverages.

Consequently, Helga's gross sales volume increases massively. A young and dynamic vice-president at the local bank recognizes that these customer debts constitute valuable future assets and increases Helga's borrowing limit.

He sees no reason for any undue concern, since he has the debts of the
unemployed alcoholics as collateral!!!

At the bank's corporate headquarters, expert traders figure a way to make huge commissions, and transform these customer loans into DRINKBONDS.

These "securities" then are bundled and traded on international securities markets.

Naive investors don't really understand that the securities being sold to them as "AA" "Secured Bonds" really are debts of unemployed alcoholics.

Nevertheless, the bond prices continuously climb and the securities soon become the hottest-selling items for some of the nation's leading brokerage houses.

One day, even though the bond prices still are climbing, a risk manager at the original local bank decides that the time has come to demand payment on the debts incurred by the drinkers at Helga's bar. He so informs Helga.

Helga then demands payment from her alcoholic patrons, but being unemployed alcoholics they cannot pay back their drinking debts.

Since Helga cannot fulfil her loan obligations she is forced into bankruptcy. The bar closes and Helga's 11 employees lose their jobs.

Overnight, DRINKBOND prices drop by 90%. The collapsed bond asset value destroys the bank's liquidity and prevents it from issuing new loans, thus freezing credit and economic activity in the community.

The suppliers of Helga's bar had granted her generous payment extensions
and had invested their firms' pension funds in the BOND securities.
They find they are now faced with having to write off her bad debt and
with losing over 90% of the presumed value of the bonds.

Her wine supplier also claims bankruptcy, closing the doors on a family business that had endured for three generations, her beer supplier is taken over by a competitor, who immediately closes the local plant and lays off 150 workers. Fortunately though, the bank, the brokerage houses and their respective executives are saved and bailed out by a multi-billion dollar no-strings attached cash infusion from the government.

The funds required for this bailout are obtained by new taxes levied on employed, middle-class, non-drinkers who’ve never been in Helga’s bar.

Now do you understand?

fresh off the wire via sources unknown

Unionised just do not learn

2011-11-21T09:27:00.002+13:00

QANTAS passengers could face further delays and cancellations after one of the unions locked in a wage dispute threatened more strikes and legal action if the airline did not improve its pay offer

The 21-day brakes come off midnight tonight. History is about to repeat.

How long before the flying roo is grounded again?

Take the fight to them Mr Joyce and show the unionised who's boss.

Socialism breeds poverty

2011-11-21T06:37:00.003+13:00

Spain is going to have to face the facts that Socialism breeds POVERTY. It is going to be extremely difficult for Spain, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Ireland and others to come to terms with their profligacy.

The only Economic System which provides WEALTH for a Nation is Free (relatively) Market CAPITALISM. Hard work, innovation, and PROFIT for PRODUCERS will build an economy that can support itself.

However, Europeans are not demographically reproducing themselves; Europeans have given up on the future; Europeans have no faith in God or superior entity or Ethic Guiding Human endeavor. They are lost and their future is bleak.

The United States still has an opportunity to DESTROY the Socialist-Marxists in our midst politically and in our corrupt liberal colleges, Universities and K-12 Education system. America may be the “outlier” of Western Civilization still. We have hope. We simply have to CHANGE the disaster of Socialism-Marxism in our body politic.

Insert New Zealand where required. Voters would do well to remember the headline as they vote this upcoming Saturday.

Unfortunately the offerings are poor. Those on the left like Liarbour and greenies want to continue taxing us into poverty to fulfil their socialist-marxist nirvana, whilst National does nothing to move away from their poisoned space.

ht CR post

Cobblers!

2011-11-20T13:26:00.002+13:00

With ACT being given the last rites, the numbers for a do not look good for a continued victory by the dark blue team, so Smile and Wave is taking aim at those who have decided to vote for Winston First.

After being in the political wilderness for three years past, should Winnie get to play kingmaker, as I think he will, he would not do anything that would cut short his time at the trough.

This eleventh hour warning of dire consequence is a load of vote catching bollocks. Meanwhile Winnie gets heaps more free publicity.

"would like a rehabilitative sentence"

2011-11-19T05:59:00.003+13:00

He would like a rehabilitative sentence
I think that would help my problems I have got at the moment – common sense really
It's no use sending me to jail
You've tried that six times and it hasn't worked
Try a different approach, I think

A prime example of a candidate for three strikes tells the beak how he would like to be sentenced. Really? Lock the bastard up.

"One of our darkest problems"

2011-11-18T18:32:00.001+13:00

Damned right about that. Never a truer word.

from video on TE News at 1830.

Under 200 hours to go

2011-11-18T17:00:00.005+13:00

About 198 hours to go till Fill-n-Phil gets his DCM.

About 196 hours to go till ACT is mercifully delivered the last rites.

About 194 hours to go till the coiffured one is kicked off the fence.

About 192 hours to go till the member for Wigram is prised off the taxpayer teat.

And finally about 190 hours to go till Smile and Wave has to cold call Red Russel and Winston.

A fun 200 hours to come. Along with the referendum for First Past the Post!

That's more like it

2011-11-18T06:25:00.002+13:00

on 4.9 per cent

With figures like that, the kingmaker arises.

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters is rising from the political grave and is within a whisker of returning to Parliament and possibly holding the balance of power

Yet again there is still some life in the old prick.

Meanwhile, ACT is dead, rigor mortis is setting in.

Just saying...

2011-11-15T06:01:00.002+13:00

Fortunately or unfortunately for you, was busy yesterday gainfully employed. Gathering more taxes so your vote can be brought by the sellers of political snake oil so prevalent at present.

The more I see of the Conservative Party material that is appearing in my mail box with the local rag and other publications, the more I'm impressed.

For a startup of barely a month or so ago, the god-botherers seem to be organised with the material professionally presented to say the least. The material lays out the options, reasons why and the consequences of not taking their path. Their leader acquits himself well on the box with reasonable argument. And whilst I might not agree with all their ideas, they tick more than a few boxes for me.

On the other hand we have terminal ACT that is highly factionalised with every candidate singing from a different song sheet, supporting, if you could call it that, each other through clenched teeth. And many of the bloggers that support them all want them to go different directions, being unable to agree. The only consistent message I've seen from ACT is the yellow background. Sorry, but that doesn't do it for me, time to pull the plug and let ACT go.

Libz? Definitely not - some ideas are plausible, but most are for stark raving loonies that inhabit the political fringes trying to get traction. A wasted vote that shows in their consistent fails at the ballot box. Ideals and theory might be good guys, but a healthy dose of practicality is required.

The native vote like the MP or Mana you say? Bugger off! Nothing but a bunch of grasping separatist racist bludgers permanently looking for handouts. And utilising the white man's colonising guilt trip scenario to maximise returns.

The left - tree huggers or Liarbour? Now that is line I could not cross. Not even with my nose held high and pinched tightly shut. I'd sooner not vote.

Winston First? Always an option. They too tick a few boxes, but like racehorses, you cannot trust them to stay the course. Or even run the right way once started.

The Nats? Brand Do Nothing is another burnt bridge. As I've said many a time, a mandate was given with ACT, but Smile and Wave chose to go native and utterly wasted three years. They, like Liarbour need a real shakeup to move away from fence sitting in the centre. It's bad enough having one left party, we certainly do not need two.

The parties would do well to emulate the new kids on the block. I mean to say - look at the other options on offer.

Brand Blue ('Build a blighted future')
Brand Red ('Owe our future')
Brand Yellow ('Too yellow to make a difference')
Brand Green ('We will tax the rich out of NZ')
Brand Black - two here - take your pick ('Giving immigrants a fair going over') or ('A movement of bludgers')

A veritable wash of colour, all with some half-arsed slogan, no one with a message that grabs my attention. Sure I see them uttering platitudes, kissing babies, promising more of my taxes to pay for their bribes and arguing 'he said that but did this'. All with zero policy detail in my mail box. Maybe a single coloured card in the brand colour, the same half-arsed slogan and a photoshopped picture. Doesn't do it for me. Nor does a website full of lies and obscure broken links that I have to print off to read later. As a voter I want something I can read over a coffee at smoko or of an evening.

Just saying.

The Fourth Estate...

2011-11-12T17:21:00.002+13:00

According to some, well one, populated by...

reef fish, meerkats, sheep and grippers, and accused of being biased and ignorant

Couldn't have described repeaters better.

Do not forget to vote. Purely for entertainment value.

Poll shocks Smile and Wave

2011-11-11T07:05:00.004+13:00

the election "is definitely not over"
National has plunged nearly five points to below 50 per cent

Too late, Mr Do Nothing Key. You had your chance, but chose to look good for three years.

seeking the support of New Zealanders to form a strong, stable government at this crucial time

Now New Zealanders are looking for some real government, not more of the same lies. Liarbour remains in the dogbox for failing to change, now their partner in crime Liarbour-Lite is getting some of the same message from the electorate.

An unholy coalition of racist separatists and economy wrecking tree huggers does not do it for me.

Interfering greenies get an early Christmas present

2011-11-10T20:37:00.002+13:00

farms ... will be classified as a discretionary activity that requires resource consent conditions be complied with before it is carried out

Unbelievable! These interfering green pricks really want to kill the New Zealand economy stone dead taking away farmer's property rights.

The price we pay for the piper

2011-11-10T08:55:00.002+13:00

Maori Party wants to make te reo "compulsorily available" in schools
Turia wants a post election agreement with a governing party to include a review of the Maori Development ministry, Te Puni Kokiri
were now more comfortable with the blue party

And so it goes on as the 'in for a penny, might as well go for the throat' natives stake new claims on the taxpayer.

All because the Nats are willing to ditch all principles they held dear for decades to remain in power. Such is the price we have to pay.

Telling it like it really is

2011-11-09T19:40:00.002+13:00

Face it – ever since about 1992 NZ has been a land of loser bludgers and a land of loser bludgers it remains

Anyone who is worth anything leaves as soon as they fucking well can.

Nobody is willing to come out & say the truth: The AB’s didn’t deserve to win the World Cup – based on skill, tactics, grit, determination, sheer guts, physical violence, France were the better team on the day and NZ won only by a fluke, at home.

That’s because NZ can only ever win anything at home.
Stacked up against anyone anywhere else – NZ loses.

Whether it is Aussie or China or Vietnam or England or Ireland or even fucking Greece & Spain – NZ’s performance is worse

Yep. Let’s look say at NZ’ net international investment position per capita

Ireland = 98%
Spain = -94%
NZ = -90%
Greece = – 83%

Oh shit. You mean NZ’s economy is totally, totally fucked

In Ireland, Spain, & Greece all benefits & all civil servants (incl doctors nurses teachers) wages were cut by half. Anyone going to do that here? no?? WHY THE FUCK NOT?

What the fuck is Smile & Wave doing about this? Nothing. NZ remains the land of losers and Key is a loser – Key is a state house kid in other words, a bludger kid of a bludger mom – and bludgers shouldn’t have the vote, let alone be PM. If Key was a success, he’d be running Merrill Lynch – a company with far more annual income than the whole of NZ. But no, the “smiling loser” was forced out and stumbled back to NZ.

The economic system is far far more serious than ’91, far more serious than ’84, and the 2025 taskforce report looks completely fucking pathetic in the light of the economic collapse.

The budgets are based on Treasury’s mid-course prediction, whereas the results of the last week show even their downside prediction is far far to optimistic

What needs to be done – we all know what needs to be done:
– stop every single benefit
– stop all state funding for education (from preschool to uni)
– stop all state funding for healthcare (from GPs to Hospitals)
– GST to 20%
– Corporate tax to 0%, FBT to 0%
– flat 20% tax, capped for incomes over say $250K – pay zero tax after that.

and if as part of that, Key funds Whanau Ora to keep the Maoris quiet, who gives a shit?

For every dollar a Maori family gets, some bludging WFFing state-school statehousekid family with olds on the super gets five$

I'd suspect that is more like the true state of the economy, rather than the bullshit politicians feed us as election bribes.

from Sinner over at TrueBlueNZ

Just do it, I'm sick of reading about it

2011-11-09T16:22:00.002+13:00

Freedom campers continue to make a mockery of bylaws.

Mr Plod is sitting on the fence, playing devil's advocate, hoping the problem will go away.

These brazen criminals will only get bolder. Next it probably will be greenies camping on the live firing range at Waiouru screaming something about the environment or the like.

The matter needs to be sorted in court. Arrest the plonkers now. Just do it, I'm sick of all the poncing around the subject by the hooooman rights tossers.

Breaking any law? Stick the crims in jail and then sort the technicalities in court.

One other thing, if the BORA is found to be the highest document in the land, I look forward to saving on my rates as all those legal types that infest councils are sacked and the bylaws repealed. These freedom camping bastards are making a mockery of the legal system, proving bylaws aren't worth the paper they're written on.

Another three years of do-nothing mediocrity coming right up

2011-11-09T10:38:00.002+13:00

Having put up with the past three years being wasted on photo-ops, do you really desire another three years of centre left mediocrity?

I despair. There being zero alternatives on the right, might as well give up and waste my vote on Fill-n-Phil or some bloody tree hugger.

Wigram MP questions fallibilty of Electoral Commission

2011-11-09T07:15:00.002+13:00

had done nothing wrong
Nonsense, rubbish, waste of time, waste of police resources, waste of space
I'm authorised to send my constituents any message I damn well like
This is my electorate
interfering with the regular work of an MP
simply ridiculous to tie up senior members of the police force with this kind of garbage

Aaah, the delusional that 'regard personal opinions as unquestionably correct'. 'The individual may disregard the rules of society and require special consideration or privileges'. **

Once again an infallible disciple of Liarbour proves that they really think they are above the law.

Another, no doubt, 'only guilty of helping'.

** from Wikipedia

A god complex is an unshakable belief characterized by consistently inflated feelings of personal ability, privilege, or infallibility.

A person with a god complex may refuse to admit the possibility of error or failure

Focussed on reality: Lucky 13

2011-11-08T16:47:00.003+13:00

the Labour leader is in denial and should "focus on reality"

Yes, it is only 13 working days till Liarbour can rid itself of Caretaker Phil.

PNCC off the hook

2011-11-08T15:04:00.002+13:00

a softening of our stand

The Regional Council Horizons has lifted the abatement notice it served on the PNCC for polluting the river. Court action ceases.

It is business as usual as Palmerston North residents continue unabated to pollute the Manawatu Sewer whilst still pillorying upstream farmers and residents via rates for their minor inputs.

Nothing but a shady backroom deal.

Liarbour flouting electoral rules again?

2011-11-08T12:24:00.001+13:00

from Keeping Stock
“It looks like the authorization statement is on the bit that folds over when it is on school runs (peak times in the morning and afternoon). In that case there will be no authorization statement visible – and I’m sure that will be in breach of the rules. ”

Electoral rules being flouted yet again by Liarbour?

Meanwhile, in the real world...

2011-11-08T07:56:00.002+13:00

Stable, married, two-parent heterosexuals get on with their designated task of being nett tax paying drones. You know the sort. Head down, bum up, get on with their assigned job of raising families. The wives get pregnant, take a week or two off work and then it is back to the mortgage grindstone. A fact of life, been going on for generations. With nary a request for any handouts.

Whilst in the rose tinted world, desperate politicians offer the unemployed bludgers more of my taxes, offering them extended time off to breed in return for their vote.

Ferry fleet is now 'ailing' just prior to Christmas

2011-11-07T17:41:00.005+13:00

only one Interislander ferry, the Arahura, was operational this morning

Funny that. In times past, with an outbreak of union induced stoppages, one might have resignedly suggested that a public holiday period was imminent.

Greek Theatre continues

2011-11-07T11:27:00.003+13:00

Prime Minister George Papandreou crucially agreed to step down

The smell of all that money proved too great.

I suppose markets will now breathe a sigh of relief till the next PIGS goes to the wall.

Pacts made with Beelzebub

2011-11-07T07:45:00.005+13:00

An unshakeable and abiding love of fossil fuels

The only party that hasn't recently suggested the devil incarnate currently has the reins, is the newly formed but yet to be tested at the ballot box, party of conservative god botherers.

we need to get this government out of office

enough parties looking after "middle New Zealand all the way up to the filthy rich"

You'll find John Key making deals behind closed doors in Phil Goff's office

The rest, particularly those on the left have nailed colours to their respective masts, suggesting Smile and Wave is a problem. Even Winnie confirmed over the weekend he would not entertain pacts with either form of the devil. And the tree huggers suggested the same with a nutter celeb making a fool of herself.

Yes my lurkers, Election 2011 is fully underway, beginning week two today. Most have fired their opening best, offering you the world on your dime. And Liarbour has shown in devilish detail that a heap more of dime is required. Their powder is now wet, nothing more on offer in this sideshow.

In two Saturdays, you get to mark their bribes. Lock up your babies, steer clear of the malls, no swinging voter is safe.

"Voters now have a clear choice"

I await the return of Lazarus.

Otherwise the term will be boring as Smile and Wave eats babies, sells the silver, bans unions, turns Southland into an open-cast mine and floods the high seas with crude.

Vote Winnie. Purely for the entertainment value.

From a comment I made over at Keeping Stock. As is so normal post-election I wonder who will fold on their principled stands when Lucifer comes cold calling on the 27th?

Wasting your vote on greenery

2011-11-05T06:59:00.003+13:00

have made no secret of their wish to be taken more seriously
Sue Bradford's executive assistant during the "anti-smacking" legislation debate
successor to Sue Kedgely on food safety, genetic modification and animal welfare issues
trade unionist
a political careerist with little "real world" experience
concerns about dairy intensification in Canterbury
on a mission to change the system from within ... regarded with suspicion
party staffer

Incredible. People actually vote for these wasters?

Still, some might see them as an improvement over voting for a 'gaggle of gays' with Greek calculators.

Warmists adjusting data at source?

2011-11-04T14:23:00.002+13:00

NASA has confirmed ... that one of its earth observation satellites “experienced two suspicious events,”

the responsible party [for the hack] achieved all steps required to command the satellite

Guess it will be those pesky warmist mates of Nick Smith looking to apply positive corrections to the raw data at source.

How's that for a Friday arvo conspiracy theory?

More reasons not to vote for greenies

2011-11-04T12:40:00.003+13:00

have pledged to more than double DOC's budget

allocating 1 per cent of the budget to the Department of Conservation

Forest and Bird would also want to examine the detail of any legislation

As if F&B, greenie and DOC loons already don't do enough damage with their anti-everything negativity in consent processes.

I feel a festering plague of biblical proportion will descend on productive New Zealanders, particularly those in primary industries, should Greenwash Unlimited ferals get anywhere near the reins.

Explaining the MMP Referendum

2011-11-04T08:10:00.002+13:00

You will be asked whether you want to keep MMP or change to another electoral system

Easy - Tick the box for change.

The second question asks which of four alternative systems you would prefer

Again easy. Tick the FPP box.

What could be more simpler? Two ticks are all that is required.

Quote of Election 2011

2011-11-03T09:02:00.001+13:00

The dog ate my spreadsheet

Show me the money.

Lists of Losers made public

2011-11-02T15:24:00.002+13:00

The list of party ~~losers~~ hopefuls in the upcoming NZ Bribery Stakes is here.

Hopeful is definitely being nice, as most haven't got a sh*t show.

The details follow.

ACT 55x goneburger losers
ALLIANCE 14X losers with zero hope
ALCP 28x loser dopeheads
CONSERVATIVE 30x unknown loser god botherers
DEMOCRATS 24x losers away with the faeries
GREENS 61x losers period.
LABOUR 65x loser hopefuls ever ready to tax NZ into 'wealth'
LIBZ 27x repeatedly proven losers
MANA 20x racist white mofo loving losers
MAORI 17x separatist losers looking out for 'our people'
NATIONAL 65x do nothing losers, but likely winners on the day
NZ FIRST 33x xenophobic losers about to fade into history
UF 17x - Head loser might get in, rest are losers

What a list of piss poor offerings for my vote.

Someone with gumption slightly to the left of Genghis Khan would be favoured.

Hughes: "It feels like I have a baby's bum on my face"

2011-11-02T13:53:00.002+13:00

Mr Hughes said he felt "naked"

No, not the one you thought it was, but a relative.

Taxing times for Liarbour

2011-11-02T13:30:00.003+13:00

Caretaker Phil proposes another tax. For property owners, that is rich pricks.

Hey Liarbour, the desperation shows.

Greens promoting breaking down families

2011-11-02T06:38:00.002+13:00

Read the sickening detail here.