Two can play the game

Warner's and MEAA/Actor's Equity content?

Boycott it!

Re-engaging terrorists

I'll let you know in due course

Of course he will let us know. When he has sufficiently engaged another bunch of separatists and would-be terrorists, in another sordid back-room deal not open to public scrutiny, to get National re-elected.

Yes, that is when he will tell us the bad news.

Unions hobbling Hobbits

Actors' Equity is seeking a collective agreement and has asked its members to boycott the two Hobbit films.

One of these days I hope that actors and actresses (yes, in my view they still exist) will stand up for themselves. And not be beholden to archaic manipulative bastard unions.

Liarbour: Just think of VSM as a new tax!

Live on Parliament TV.


Shearer just finished a 5 minute incoherent rant in the bear pit. Suggests students should not think of compulsory association fees as an expense, but as a necessary tax.

Liarbour's answer to everything. Tax the shit out it!

"Answer this question once and for all"

Mythbusters is off to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue next week.

In the episode, we're brought to the White House and the President asks us to answer this question once and for all

Fortunately it is not to admire/sample Michelle's garden produce grown in contaminated soils.

Maybe Adam and Jamie could ask the impostor that question to which we all want an answer. That of the Kenyan's birthright.

"He will learn from experience"

You are just a liar, you are bullshitting.' I went on and he stopped [me] again: 'You're just lying, you are misleading us.

A union organiser with minimal experience caught blatantly lying to a select committee. Wondered which socialist trough the recent school-leaver had gone to. Obviously destined never to be employed in a proper job.

said the list MP used "bullyboy tactics" by interrupting his submission and accusing him of lying about his evidence in "a bit of a tirade

Now wants an apology from honourable member Tau Henare for climbing down his neck.

Mr Henare said he would not apologise. "Why would I apologise for a little turkey who got found out lying? He was reading out a submission and I was following it and in two parts ... it was a completely different story.

"He'll get over it and if he doesn't, well, then, too bad ... He'll learn from his experience."

As if that will happen.

Labour MP Carol Beaumont, who sits on the committee, said she was concerned about how Mr Sleep was treated.

The boy's employer weighing in, spinning the union line. And Tau's fitting response?

Quite frankly, who cares what Carol Beaumont says

The dangers of overseas outsourcing

Its central pressure was measured by reconnaissance aircraft to have plunged as low as 893 mb

For all those New Zealand companies with call centres outsourced to the depths of a Manila slum, I wonder how customer support will be over the next week.

An endangered species?

teachers had unrealistic expectations and their behaviour was not justified

Teachers. Results to date prove their worth. Overpaid babysitters. And unionised.

I hate it when students are used for political purposes

What else can I say?

Titanic deckchairs

The headline screams

Labour to shake up benefit system

Good, but why do I get an uneasy feeling. Something like this - all those tens of thousands of work-shy beneficiaries Liarbour hid in sickness benefits last decade are about to suddenly regain full health under their next watch. And rejoin the dole bludgers queue.

Anything to make NACTional to look bad.

Upcoming fun - tickets on sale now

An Oz company is about to dig holes in some of our bush. All rape and pillage of some windswept stunted scrub no doubt. I can hear the screams from the unwashed already.

This week, the Overseas Investment Office gave Australia-based Bathurst Resources the green light to make significant headway on its plans to develop an opencast coalmine next to Solid Energy's Stockton site on the West Coast

Time to pull up the armchair.

You have to protect some of those areas before they disappear

This should be top entertainment as feral tree huggers and other rabid marxists chain themselves various items like train tracks, trying to stop 5000 tonne coal trains.

Be very, very, very afraid

* Media are regulated by standards of ethical reporting, such as being balanced and fair.

* Bloggers, tweeters and other internet users are not regulated beyond the law, and the Government is concerned about the adverse effect this could have on the justice system

The gummint concerned with free speech? Politicians wrestling with ethics and morals? Pull the other one.

More like a case of 'do unto others...' has come home to roost.

Indeed, be very, very, very afraid.

The long arm of the law

A today in history post at HP brings the anniversary below. An anniversary reminding the government that the matter of these terrorists still has not been resolved three years on. And looks likely to never happen. When are the required law changes going to happen Mr Power-Lust?

'Anti-terror' raids in Urewera

Citing the Terrorism Suppression Act, police arrested 18 people in nationwide raids linked to alleged weapons-training camps in the Urewera mountain ranges, near the township of Ruatoki in eastern Bay of Plenty.

In addition to raids in Ruatoki and nearby Whakatane, search warrants were also executed in Auckland, Wellington, Palmerston North and Hamilton. The raids followed 12 months of police surveillance of activist groups ranging from environmentalists to Maori separatists. Around 300 police, including members of the Armed Offenders and anti-terror squads, were involved in the raids. They seized a small number of guns and 230 rounds of ammunition.

Among those arrested was veteran Tuhoe activist Tame Iti. Police claimed Iti was involved in running military-styled training camps in the Urewera Ranges and was planning a guerrilla war to establish an independent state on traditional Tuhoe land. The Solicitor-General subsequently decided that there was insufficient evidence to lay charges under the Terrorism Suppression Act, although 16 people faced weapons charges.

Those arrested were released on bail within a month of their arrest. Depositions hearings to determine whether they should stand trial did not begin until September 2008. On 17 October Judge Perkins ruled that all but one of those arrested in the raids be committed to trial on various firearms, weapons and explosives charges. The accused were remanded on bail to appear back in court in February 2009, indicating a lengthy legal process to determine the outcome of these raids.

The Urewera's had experienced similar police action before. In April 1916 a large force of heavily armed constables was sent to arrest the Tuhoe leader Rua Kenana. Shooting broke out and two Maori, including Rua's son, were killed. Rua's trial in the Supreme Court was one of the longest in New Zealand's legal history. He was found not guilty of sedition, but guilty of resisting arrest and sentenced to one year's hard labour, followed by 18 months’ imprisonment. The presiding officer, Judge Chapman, commented that Maori needed to learn that the law "reached every corner" of the land. Eight members of the jury later publicly protested the harshness of this sentence.

Can we expect any action on these terrorists? I suspect not, as the separatists are NACTional's best friends at present.

Unfortunately, there remain some that need to be forcefully reminded that the law does indeed reach into the furthest corners of this land.

A woman's place...

I'll teach you how to do the ironing because you can't do it properly

No, I don't see no problem with that!

Election bribe one gone: - "No free lunch"

There is no free lunch when it comes to any of this stuff

Lying Len gets put in his place by Smile and Wave over his pie-in-the-sky dreams of a trainspotters utopia in Orklund. Rightly so, the gummint is giving notice. No Banks, no money. There's more than one way of skinning the cat!

Music to my ears. The first and biggest election bribe gone. Let's see if he can get that sort money out of ratepayers!

Unions demanding ransom - Quote of the Day

Actually it is two quotes.

Christ, I hope no -one finds a racial angle in any of this. If they do, we are stuffed.

Do Hobbits come Indian style?

Meanwhile, an 87 member union is holding NZ to ransom.