Not quite right enough.
Surprised I had a liberal component. Did the test twice over a couple of days - just moved a couple of notches further right.
Sunday, June 07, 2009
Polictical Spectrum
Not quite right enough.
Surprised I had a liberal component. Did the test twice over a couple of days - just moved a couple of notches further right.
3rd Party Insurance on hold
Adam over at Inquiring Mind suggests Transport Minister Joyce has made a bad decision re putting 3rd party insurance on hold.
I say otherwise. I will make my own decisions as to what property I will insure.
My old dunger is not one of those I wish to waste premiums on, although I am compulsorily covered through ACC via punitive taxes for loss of life or limb. If I hit someone? So what? Sue me!
I say otherwise. I will make my own decisions as to what property I will insure.
My old dunger is not one of those I wish to waste premiums on, although I am compulsorily covered through ACC via punitive taxes for loss of life or limb. If I hit someone? So what? Sue me!
Suppression of In Confidence
While we have lately witnessed Phil In Goff rapidly narrowing the odds over identifying his 'strikingly beautiful' in-confidence client, we now have Granny Herald trying very hard to maintain a suppression order.
Seems a MP's son has been in dock of late. Nice photo of a police car courtesy of the BOP Times.
Subtle, eh?
Seems a MP's son has been in dock of late. Nice photo of a police car courtesy of the BOP Times.
Subtle, eh?
Saturday, June 06, 2009
Guilty? Or not? Updated:
The Bain result is in. Not guilty by virtue of a retrial.
Technically maybe, for reasonable doubt definitely exists.
For me, there is something deeply disturbing about this case. I feel a verdict of not proven guilty is long overdue as a third choice in the NZ justice system.
On a different note.
The Worth result is not in. Not guilty by virtue of no formal charge. Maybe yet to come.
Technically maybe, for persons are deemed innocent until proven guilty.
For me, there is also something deeply disturbing about the actions taken so far. We have the Leader of the Opposition holding out for perceived maximum political advantage, a position which is fast being reversed. Secondly, unproven allegations have been publicly laid and the irreparable damage to an MP's career done.
I feel handling of such allegations needs clarification. Most businesses would immediately suspend an employee till such matters are sorted. Why not MP's?
Guilty or not? Your thoughts?
Update:
TSmithField over at the Stranded sums up Goff's actions. Or lack of it.
Technically maybe, for reasonable doubt definitely exists.
For me, there is something deeply disturbing about this case. I feel a verdict of not proven guilty is long overdue as a third choice in the NZ justice system.
On a different note.
The Worth result is not in. Not guilty by virtue of no formal charge. Maybe yet to come.
Technically maybe, for persons are deemed innocent until proven guilty.
For me, there is also something deeply disturbing about the actions taken so far. We have the Leader of the Opposition holding out for perceived maximum political advantage, a position which is fast being reversed. Secondly, unproven allegations have been publicly laid and the irreparable damage to an MP's career done.
I feel handling of such allegations needs clarification. Most businesses would immediately suspend an employee till such matters are sorted. Why not MP's?
Guilty or not? Your thoughts?
Update:
TSmithField over at the Stranded sums up Goff's actions. Or lack of it.
Thursday, June 04, 2009
Xenophobic and racist
They take our welfare and they don't want to accept our way of life," she said after the council vote. "Hezbollah is a terrorist organisation. I'm sorry, I just don't want them in Australia.
Pauline Hanson MkII steps up to the plate on behalf of Oz battlers and farmers. Just like the UK's BNP, One Nation gets support in these hard times.
They will sensationalise. You have to cop it sweet.
The media feeding frenzy will be a delight to watch.
Siege? What siege?
The Oz cops give a salutary lesson in how to end an armed siege before daybreak.
Armed siege. Cop shot in shoulder. Incapacitate the guilty bastard. End of problem inside 4 hours.
A damaged leg would be the least of his issues once the criminal leaves hospital.
He had a damaged leg.
Armed siege. Cop shot in shoulder. Incapacitate the guilty bastard. End of problem inside 4 hours.
A damaged leg would be the least of his issues once the criminal leaves hospital.
The real cause of global warming
scientists found 10 new colonies of penguins
salty penguin guano "over time will corrode your boots,"
Yes, penguin poo is the culprit.
Like wild horses and baby seals, I suggest we cull a few to save our planet.
Desperate for a hit
Recent actions by Phil In Goff, Temporary Leader of the Opposition thugs in NZ's government has confirmed where politicians lie.
Ever desperate for that hit, it a pity our politicians don't put in as much effort on things that really matter.
BTW, Well done Whale Oil. Nice to see you on the box sticking it to both sides.
Goff said he had privately raised concerns with Key last month about allegations regarding Worth's "inappropriate political ... and sexual behaviour"No amount of digging for dirt is too much. Trained by her indoors, he is only continuing where Williams left off wasting taxpayer time and no doubt vast amounts of money on getting traction on the government. I suspect that this bit of salacious gossip leads all the way back to Liarbour and Phil In is only the messenger boy.
Ever desperate for that hit, it a pity our politicians don't put in as much effort on things that really matter.
BTW, Well done Whale Oil. Nice to see you on the box sticking it to both sides.
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Worth resigns
'He advised me of some private matters...'
Doesn't sound like personal reasons of health although has been given two weeks of leave.
More like reasons of 'personal interest' and two weeks out the limelight while the spin doctorate goes to work.
'Toughen Up!'
$20 is all Genesis thinks it's slighted customers are worth.
But is considering more compo. Read 'if you don't make much more noise, that's all you will get.' Ta, very much.
16 out 182 with medical problems? Pull the other one. Unintended consequences of stupid law protecting idiots from personal responsibility more like it.
But is considering more compo. Read 'if you don't make much more noise, that's all you will get.' Ta, very much.
16 out 182 with medical problems? Pull the other one. Unintended consequences of stupid law protecting idiots from personal responsibility more like it.
Monday, June 01, 2009
'Practically Unsinkable'
Dean was one of 706 people — mostly women and children — who survived. Her father was among the 1,517 who died.
The last survivor of the 1912 RMS Titanic passes over at 97.
Bridge Security?
There wasn't any. I read this with a laugh. Might have been a couple of cameras on top on the road, certainly nothing underneath. Never saw the story in the local rag - Mum and Dad probably stopped us reading such things in those days.
As one grew who lived on Northcote Point near the Gold Hole* for a few years and can remember the day in 1959 as a just 5 year old when the bridge opened. As young teens we used to play around the northern end of the bridge all the time.
And when the Nippon Clippons were being fitted, we used to go up the vertical caged ladder from the Point onto the under roadway walkway. It was often left unlocked. No problems to us kids on a weekend, 175' up above the water under the main arch not a safety belt in sight. Hell, we used to build huts 70' up pines trees in the bush just to give mum heart failure from her kitchen view. Only problem was that you couldn't get off the bridge at Westhaven, some security sod had a locked gate at that end with barbed wire.
And another one for the young would be hoons of today. In Little Shoal Bay (left of the bridge, heading north) where the motel sits now was the gasworks and adjacent a tip. Yes, under those nice playing fields is a stinking great tip leaching into your fine Jafa harbour. Only in those days it was a tip which flooded with every high tide. A small one, Ngataringa Bay in Devonport was big, along with the granddaddy Auckland City Meola Road tip where the Motat planes now sit.
I assembled many a bicycle out of Little Shoal Bay tip. And my first motorbike (offroader, local bush tracks only). We used to get 3 or 4 kapok matresses and a wire-wove base tied together and launch them as rafts into the harbour. Days later, the bottom mattress would eventually get sodden, so we got a dry new one from the tip on top every so often. Herne Bay, Watchman's Island, Pt Chev reef - no probs.
Now corrugated iron and apple boxes (remember them?) were in bountiful supply at the tip. Apple boxes were good for carts with a few pram wheels. But the corrugated iron was even better. Fold it in half longways, slap in the ends of an apple box, a few nails, plug up the holes with clay, make a paddle and you had 15' canoe. Fantastic, went right round Rangitoto one day with my brother. The great expedition. Used to regularly row up and down the harbour wharves, into and out of Westhaven and around the bridge piles. Right up to Paremoremo (before the prison was built) mudflats sometimes. Not a life jacket in sight. Yes we could swim very well in those days.
I could just see the look on kids face today if they saw such carrying on making their own entertainment. Didn't cost a cent. And no doubt getting arrested for ignoring every aspect of maritime safety. Fun was plentiful and cheap in the Sixties. Fond memories.
* The Gold Hole was a big hole where the steep road went down to the boat yard at the side of the Point just down from the local boozer, the Northcote Trough in Queen/Princes St. Must have been a dig out for a temporary bridge pillar during the original bridge construction, but was long rumoured to have had gold found there.
As one grew who lived on Northcote Point near the Gold Hole* for a few years and can remember the day in 1959 as a just 5 year old when the bridge opened. As young teens we used to play around the northern end of the bridge all the time.
And when the Nippon Clippons were being fitted, we used to go up the vertical caged ladder from the Point onto the under roadway walkway. It was often left unlocked. No problems to us kids on a weekend, 175' up above the water under the main arch not a safety belt in sight. Hell, we used to build huts 70' up pines trees in the bush just to give mum heart failure from her kitchen view. Only problem was that you couldn't get off the bridge at Westhaven, some security sod had a locked gate at that end with barbed wire.
And another one for the young would be hoons of today. In Little Shoal Bay (left of the bridge, heading north) where the motel sits now was the gasworks and adjacent a tip. Yes, under those nice playing fields is a stinking great tip leaching into your fine Jafa harbour. Only in those days it was a tip which flooded with every high tide. A small one, Ngataringa Bay in Devonport was big, along with the granddaddy Auckland City Meola Road tip where the Motat planes now sit.
I assembled many a bicycle out of Little Shoal Bay tip. And my first motorbike (offroader, local bush tracks only). We used to get 3 or 4 kapok matresses and a wire-wove base tied together and launch them as rafts into the harbour. Days later, the bottom mattress would eventually get sodden, so we got a dry new one from the tip on top every so often. Herne Bay, Watchman's Island, Pt Chev reef - no probs.
Now corrugated iron and apple boxes (remember them?) were in bountiful supply at the tip. Apple boxes were good for carts with a few pram wheels. But the corrugated iron was even better. Fold it in half longways, slap in the ends of an apple box, a few nails, plug up the holes with clay, make a paddle and you had 15' canoe. Fantastic, went right round Rangitoto one day with my brother. The great expedition. Used to regularly row up and down the harbour wharves, into and out of Westhaven and around the bridge piles. Right up to Paremoremo (before the prison was built) mudflats sometimes. Not a life jacket in sight. Yes we could swim very well in those days.
I could just see the look on kids face today if they saw such carrying on making their own entertainment. Didn't cost a cent. And no doubt getting arrested for ignoring every aspect of maritime safety. Fun was plentiful and cheap in the Sixties. Fond memories.
* The Gold Hole was a big hole where the steep road went down to the boat yard at the side of the Point just down from the local boozer, the Northcote Trough in Queen/Princes St. Must have been a dig out for a temporary bridge pillar during the original bridge construction, but was long rumoured to have had gold found there.
Thoroughly Deserved
One Ian Brackenbury Channell.
AKA The Wizard of New Zealand.
I remember him in action one lunchtime in the early 70s at ATI (Auckland Technical Institute before it went downhill and became a varsity).
None more so deserving of a 'For Services to the Community' award.
Backscratchers Anon
News earlier this year: NZ Honours re-established on the old UK system.
Full List.
Members of the Order of Backscratcher
Jennifer Barbara Gibbs CNZM, Auckland
For services to the arts
(number one backscratch by those in the know if there was ever one)
Simon Peter Wallace Murdoch, Wellington
For public services, lately as Secretary of Foreign Affairs
(just doing his job for a gong)
Paula Rae Rebstock, North Shore
For public services, lately as chair of the Commerce Commission
(hasn't she gone very quiet of late. Since she got the nod?)
Murray James Boyd Deaker, North Shore
For services to broadcasting
(a bloody radio show sports commentator for God's sake)
Robin Moncrieff Oliver, Wellington
For services to the Department of Inland Revenue
(a backscratch for a tax inspector)
Irene van Dyk, Upper Hutt
For services to netball
(is this what all sporting imports can expect?)
Derek Quentin Battersby JP, Waitakere
For services to local body affairs
(one of Brown-eye Bob's mates - at the trough for decades)
Che Fu, Auckland
For services to music
(a hip-hop artist. Really?)
A larger than normal list with some obviously deserving their awards. Except for the above listed backscratchers. I see the military continue to excel in their normal arts of Backscratchers Anon.
I half expected to see HEC or MC in the list for services to NZ taxpayers and the world, so at least I was spared that ignominy.
Full List.
Members of the Order of Backscratcher
Jennifer Barbara Gibbs CNZM, Auckland
For services to the arts
(number one backscratch by those in the know if there was ever one)
Simon Peter Wallace Murdoch, Wellington
For public services, lately as Secretary of Foreign Affairs
(just doing his job for a gong)
Paula Rae Rebstock, North Shore
For public services, lately as chair of the Commerce Commission
(hasn't she gone very quiet of late. Since she got the nod?)
Murray James Boyd Deaker, North Shore
For services to broadcasting
(a bloody radio show sports commentator for God's sake)
Robin Moncrieff Oliver, Wellington
For services to the Department of Inland Revenue
(a backscratch for a tax inspector)
Irene van Dyk, Upper Hutt
For services to netball
(is this what all sporting imports can expect?)
Derek Quentin Battersby JP, Waitakere
For services to local body affairs
(one of Brown-eye Bob's mates - at the trough for decades)
Che Fu, Auckland
For services to music
(a hip-hop artist. Really?)
A larger than normal list with some obviously deserving their awards. Except for the above listed backscratchers. I see the military continue to excel in their normal arts of Backscratchers Anon.
I half expected to see HEC or MC in the list for services to NZ taxpayers and the world, so at least I was spared that ignominy.
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