Major roading announcement within days - King
Five surgeons are discussing who makes the best patients to operate on.
The first surgeon says, "I like to see accountants on my operatingfor those that don't know - cf = compare
table because when you open them up, everything inside is numbered."
The second responds, "Yeah, but you should try electricians!
Everything inside them is colour coded."
The third surgeon says, "No, I really think librarians are the best;
everything inside them is in alphabetical order."
The fourth surgeon chimes in: "You know, I like construction workers.
Those guys always understand when you have a few parts left over at
the end, and when the job takes longer than you said it would."
But the fifth surgeon shut them all up when he observed: "You're all
wrong. Politicians are the easiest to operate on.
There's no guts, no heart, no balls, no brains and no spine, and the
head and the ass are interchangeable.
Vicky Pollard - a fat, chain-smoking, single mother...Not so apparently.
Viewers saw Vicky, with her "stereotypical body", as having the features of all working-class single mums, "feckless, stupid and promiscuous".
Little Britain does far more to promote racism, sexism, homophobia, ageism and classism than it does to satirise them - though it does do that from time to time.
This is tired and is nothing compared to what is about to be released regarding National. If I were John Key, I’d be a lot more worried about what is about to drop than papers showing Winston pushed to see if Owen was acceptable for Monaco, my guess is that no one will be talking about Winston and Owen next week
Poor Owen Glenn has been stitched up here.
The scenario goes like this:
OG wants the Monaco job, gives $500k to Labour.
Labour gets back into power in 2005 and they say - well matey we’ve just had to give Winston the MOFA role, so it’s going to cost you another $100k to get the consul position.
H1 tells MW to organise it, seeing as how he is the money machine.
MW puts OG in touch with WP and BH.
OG pays over $100k to Winston and thinks the consulship is in the bag.
Winnie lobbies the officials who say there’s no reason to appoint him (under instructions from H1).
The MOFA advise that their advice is not to appoint a consul.
WP rings OG and says - sorry matey, it’s not a goer.
OG realises he’s been stitched up and starts releasing documents to the media.
H1 calls him aside at the opening of the OG building and OG tells her she ain’t seen nothing yet.
Documents start being leaked to the msm who fumble the ball because H1 tells them there’s no story, nothing to see here.
MSM realise (six months later) that H1 has been conning them, begin to spill.
The whole affair becomes big news - about a year after it should, but right before the election.
Nov 9th - OG rings H1 to tell her that she shouldn’t have fucked with the big boys.
2009 - National reveals an anonymous donation of $1m from a newly formed trust.
The Prime Minister was so concerned about Winston Peters' lobbying for Owen Glenn to become honorary consul to Monaco
she said she could see no problem with Labour supporting the entrenchment of the Maori seats
The Prime Minster has decided to put off calling a general election for the time being in order to deal with the global financial crisis and the country's economic woes, a news agency has reported.Relax, its only democracy going out the door in the the land of the rising sun. We would never entertain such a move here, right?
So the choices on 8 November are rather stark.
On the one hand we can have a more economically literate government than the present one, a ministry containing both experienced people and new faces, which can get to grips with the country’s slow growth, rising inflation and galloping indebtedness.
On the other hand we can have a five-party monster made up mostly of extremists with so many weird agendas that you can kiss goodbye to New Zealand’s reputation as a reliable place for investment.
Should this emergency present itself after 8 November it’s a fair guess that there will be an immediate flight of capital off shore, and that the New Zealand dollar would drop even faster than it has done of late.
Political correctness will become the order of the day as a collection of mini-Stalinists set about imposing their oppressive agendas, inside your bedrooms, bathrooms and garages.
Walking and cycling will become a new religion. Helen Clark was right when she kept the Greens at bay in 2002 and 2005. This time she’d have no option but to become their doormat.
Letter from a small business owner
Dear Fellow Business Owners,
As a business owner who employs 30 people, I have resigned myself to the fact that Liarbour may again lead our next government with Helen's Hydra and that my taxes and fees will go up in a BIG way.
To compensate for these increases, I figure that customers will have to see an increase in my fees to them of about 8 to 10%. So I will have to lay off six of my employees. This really bothers me as I believe we are family here and didn't know how to choose who will have to go. So, this is what I did.
I strolled through the parking lot and found eight union bumper stickers on my employees' cars. I have decided these folks will be the first to be laid off.
I can't think of another fair way to approach this problem. If you have a better idea, let me know.
I am sending this letter to all business owners that I know.
Sincerely,
[Name and company redacted]
The National Library contracted a United States company to capture a "snapshot" of the Internet in New Zealand.
It did not notify website owners of the harvest because "it could not see a good way to do so without effectively becoming spammers"
the library's decision to ignore the robots.txt protocol increased the amount of international traffic websites would have to pay for
has staunchly defended the trust and labelled questions about its transparency "nasty, twisted and bitter"
Ms Couch is not listed as a beneficiary or a patron, and the only mention of her is in the title of the trust. The three trustees have full control over where the money goes.
There's no conflict of interest at all, when somebody who's taken the matter all the way to the highest court in the land and has won...
Ask Sergeant Don Wilkinson for an opinion about taking on an assailant armed with 'Only an airgun'
In an ironic twist the Electoral Commission has found New Zealand First's party secretary did not break the law over incorrect returns last year
There was nothing worse for Fiji than her. "I might be able to help by pleading to the Indo-Fijians in New Zealand not to vote for her and Phil Goff."
He doesn't pay tax, doesn't have a mortgage. He has high principles and supports paying for things [the country] can't afford.
This election is not about trust, because the public does not trust politicians, except, perhaps, those of the Maori Party.
It is not about the economy, because that is in a state of flux pretty much beyond our control and at this stage is best left to Reserve Bank and Treasury experts.
It is not about tax cuts because we've had one already and if there aren't any more for a year or two, that will be seen as fiscal prudence.
It's not about Working for Families or KiwiSaver because those who can't participate in them don't give a damn and those who do care little where the money comes from as long as it comes.
It isn't about whether John Key is fit to be Prime Minister, because as long as he is not Helen Clark he can't lose.
It isn't about energy or the environment, as the Labour lapdog Greens would have us believe, because few people are interested in what might happen next year or next decade. They're too busy coping with what's happening today.
It isn't about privatisation because few people care who owns the banks or the railways as long as their money is safe and/or the service is up to their expectations.
This election is all about freedom - the freedom of the individual to live his or her life with as little interference as possible from the state, its politicians and minions.
It's all about being loosed from the tyranny of dogmatic "do-it-my-way-or-else" socialism, which contends that the state knows best how to spend our money, how we use our property and how we run our families.
It's all about freedom from fear - from the anxiety generated by the doom and gloom merchants, the Greens in particular, who demand that we circumscribe our lives in certain ways because if we don't the world will melt and come to an end.
It's all about freedom from guilt. We want to be able to fill up our cars, turn on our heaters, light our homes, run our taps (and showers), eat our food, smoke a cigarette, have a few drinks, sell land or buy or develop property without being made to feel guilty.
And it's all about freedom from presidential-style politics. We want - nay, need - to be rid of a dictatorial leader so that consensus politics again has a chance to flourish.
So Labour has to go. NZ First, led by a petty and untrustworthy despot, has to go. And the Greens must be reduced to no more than a presence in Parliament.
The avalanche of people leaving New Zealand to go to Australia over the past year will be seen as a trickle if we don't put our house in order
No one I spoke to could name any New Zealand politicians but I think the ruling elite in this nominally communist nation would prefer Rodney Hide because his ideological platform is more closely aligned with the free-wheeling, robber-baron capitalism that reigns in China today.
as I understand it the pledges so far are will be borrowed for and the infrastructure is already budgeted. That’s beside the point however, as it won’t be Labour that will be asked those questions.
They say people have more sex during recessions and we'd definitely say that was true of what we are seeing
Deprivation, such as that experienced during a downturn are, compensated for in non-work activities, such as 'investing' in alcohol, luxury goods or sex life
The political calculation will be feral. At issue is whether Clark and Cullen _ two extremely skilful political strategists _ are manufacturing a mini-crisis which will cement them as leaders in the voters' eyes if they come to the party (again) before the election by issuing an inter-bank guarantee to keep "Kiwis in business".
Wait until the South Auckland vote comes in
He recalls knocking on the door of an old lady who offered him some flowers from her back garden. "She unlocked the back door to let herself out, locked the door behind her while she cut the flowers, then repeated the process to let herself back in. It's shameful.
These communities have benefited from nine years of economic buoyancy. People remain optimistic.
Unemployment has plunged; the youth gangs that used to hang around the malls and shopping strips by day were nowhere to be seen in my visits.
By night, as frightened dairy and liquor store owners will attest, it can be a different story.
They're up against history. Older Samoan voters, in particular, sound as one: "Labour has always looked after Pacific people."
It is now an issue about totally distorting MMP and potentially perverting the will of the voters
Rongomai Bailey said he was relieved the firearms charges against him had been dropped. He said he would now head back to his farm to grow some vegetables and "chill out"
New Zealanders will not tolerate setting up a separate Maori state
New Zealanders have the right to know exactly what has been agreed to between the parties before the election
"New Zealanders will judge the result of the debate."
Last night asked about his inexperience Mr Key said he just did his best.
"But I gave it my best shot and they (the public) will have a good sense of where a National government would take New Zealand."
Rightly so - i just hope it is a landslide.
The inquiry process was a serious piece of work which hadn't been done for 20 years and it is a shame to see its findings languish.
The Minister would have no hope of saying what proportion of total local government rates nationally is paid by agriculture.
You never know who's swimming naked until the tide goes out'.
Labour managed to disguise their loose economic management in the good times,
but now that the tide is out they are awfully exposed.
- Warren Buffett
Then vote National.
- Sick of struggling to keep up with the cost of living?
- Sick of worrying about soaring interest rates?
- Sick of higher taxes?
We’ve bought you a beer
And we’ve had the camels shampooed
We’ve saved you a spot on the beach
And we’ve got the sharks out of the pool
We’ve got the roos off the green
And Bill’s on his way down to open the front gate
Your taxi’s waiting
And dinner’s about to be served
We turned on the lights
And we’ve been rehearsing for over 40,000 years
So where the bloody hell are you?
Qantas is ready and waiting.
ps
Obviously the A380 does not come with the Oxford Concise Dictionary - Note to reporter: - look up wind 'sheer' sometime
Britain should start to send astronauts into space, the new Science Minister said today, giving the strongest sign yet that the Government will soon drop its long-standing opposition to manned spaceflight.In an attempt to engender more interest in the sciences a nutter minister has suggested that the UK put a man in space.
... a large pink humanoid, covered with yellow spots, sporting a permanent toothy grin and jiggling eyes...
Add to the nose cone Darling and several heads of banking starting with the Chairman and CEO of Royal Bank of Scotland.Closely followed by those named above, as one wit suggests.
Labour is exploiting a loophole by sending out taxpayer-funded material adorned with its MPs' smiling faces that doesn't have to be declared as election spending
"It's not a loophole. MPs don't stop serving their constituents during the election period. All MPs provide their constituents with information, such as what they are entitled to, from the day they are elected through to the day of the next election. This has always been the case."
it does not contain words or graphics that could be reasonably regarded as encouraging or persuading voters to vote, or not to vote, for a candidate"
A month before it announced the 10 per cent price rise, Contact posted a $237 million annual profit and said it was going to nearly double directors' fees to $200,000 each.
Helen Clark said it was a serious matter.
Finance Minister Michael Cullen has previously warned the pre-election update will paint a bleak picture and show a significantly worse position than was forecast in his May budget.
"If we'd been blowing the bank as National advocates, chucking tons of money away in tax cuts year after year, we'd be in an extremely difficult position now."
"That brings the economy very much centre stage, because the issue is who has got the experience and judgment to lead this."
"Mr Peters, my standards are not that low".
"They are paying all our tax on the beneficiaries. They should be working too," she says. She's switching to National.An annoyed worker in South Auckland, that critical Liarbour demographic.
"They are bringing in that many immigrants, yet they've got plenty of people on the dole. They are being handed the dole, they are not doing anything to earn it. Get them out at 4am and go and milk cows - there's plenty of work out there."
The intense heat of the 2003-05 period, during which 20,000 Maori marched on Parliament to protest at the nationalisation of the foreshore, has cooled
But I want a left government, not a right government. I think the Maori Party will keep Labour honest
Ross Perot's plain-speaking candor fits the times: "The deficit is like the guy that finds a rattlesnake in his pants. He knows he's got to shoot it, but he doesn't want to hit anything important."
No one's shooting, yet, but they sure know how to throw more of our money around! Money's the talk of the town in Washington, D.C., and all that money seems to be saying is "Good-bye!"
...Free-market capitalism didn't create this crisis. The Democrats' "progressive" social policies helped stifle free-market checks and limit appropriate regulatory oversight. The same politicians who today decry the lack of intervention to stop past abuses were the ones who blocked the legislative efforts that might have stopped them.
While McCain is leading, Obama's watching. Obam's a great talker, but he's remained inactive when he should have been part of the solution.
• Substantially cashed up. More than 70 per cent of investable funds in cash.
• Balanced investment strategy. Already invested between 50 per cent and- 70 per cent of investable resources into equities or property.
• Fully invested without debt.
• Fully invested with debt equal to 50 per cent or less, to gross invested assets.
• Heavily borrowed.
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