Flying PIGS spotted in the South Pacific

the downgrading of New Zealand's credit rating is "ugly"

As Smile and Wave puts off the evil day of reckoning till he has his hand firmly on the tiller post-election, a couple of ratings agencies don't like seeing PIGS airborne in the South Pacific and suggest we are the next porker for the chopping block.

How's that 'booming' Chinese economy and all that borrowing on the taxpayer tab looking now John Boy?

This thing wants to be an MP?

Mr Bott said innocent pupils were routinely singled out for random drug searches, which were "deemed OK by virtue of their age and the fact that they're compelled to attend the school".

"Most citizens would not be prepared to accept random searching at will by police. It's offensive to the Bill of Rights Act to have random searching without proper cause."

It is high time his precious source of employment, the BORA, was amended to reflect the rights of real New Zealanders. Not the rights of a few willing to go against the grain dealing drugs and pushing a civil liberties barrow when caught. In my view, routine or not so random searches do not impinge on anyone's perceived rights.

Mr Plod, you have a job to do as tasked by the law on drugs. Do it, stop playing politics.

The fact that kids are a captive audience does not make one bit of difference. They need hardening up for real world workplace drug testing for employment. This woolly thinking is exactly why the drugged up yoof of today figure high in unemployment stats. Too scared of failing the requisite workplace drug tests. I suppose this thing would also argue that a workplace has a captive audience, thus is not random testing and would affect some drugged up co-workers' right to peddle drugs in the workplace.

This thing wants to be the Liarbour MP in my electorate? IMHO, lawyers dabbling in such trade rate exactly where I rate MPs. Something I wouldn't waste my time scraping off my gumboots.

The VSM farce has ended

At 2042 the VSM bill passed its 3rd reading. At last tertiary students in New Zealand are free of the yoke of compulsory unionism. And free of funding Liarbour through student unions.

Well done Heather Roy.

Quote of Day

Roy was rolled by Hide

Hide was rolled by Brash

Brash is probably rolling something as we speak...

from Shearer - Liarbour - VSM 3rd reading

One word answer

Coronation Street, which airs on Tuesday and Thursday for an hour, will now be shown at 5.30pm for half an hour every day

SWMBO, an avid and longtime fan of such nauseating fare, being of kipper descent, replied to an emailed link on this very article from work. With one word.

A word unfit for your consumption Dear Readers.

Key: NZ Economy, we're on track...

Yep, he has a firm grip on it.

Compulsion? Liarbour can't resist

a "bigger, better" KiwiSaver

I'd like to see the situation where you had a universal savings programme in New Zealand as soon as that could be achieve

Liarbour offers yet more compulsion after the CGT trouncing.

When will it learn that more taxes and endless compulsion is not the answer?

It must be afternoon, the dopeheads are up

As the final ACT scene is played out, head boy, an economics whiz(zer), floats the idea 'Hey voters, we could save $0000.1 billion in a $60,000,000,000.00 budget". Yep, that PR worked, got the unwashed noticing ACT in its death throes, as the party Prez squashes that pipe dream.

Like clockwork, the dopeheads arise from their addled slumber and peruse the Stuff news of the day. And the "Do you support the decriminalisation of Mary Jane?" daily vox pop quiz that noticeably went from 60% plus against mid morning to 60% for after lunch.

It must be afternoon.

Council seeks rooster's owners after RWC match ...

There's only one rooster awaiting giveaway in the hen house that is Jafaland Council.

The number one 'in da house' cock that has thankfully gone awfully quiet since McCully showed him the chopping block a couple of weeks ago.

The connotations that spring forth from headlines...

You have to be bloody joking!

I hope one of the things we do after this tournament is to give ourselves the confidence to have another shot

Tew, rugby union chief executive, said all bets were now off

All right for those who are a having the time of their lives dining on all the VIP freebies on taxpayer and ratepayer tabs. All in the name of the national game, whilst being reminded at every turn 'it is good for you'.

I did not watch the opening, have not watched one game to date, am heartily sick of rugby this, rugby that, the endless displays of supposed native culture, embarrassing for everyone, but will be forced to pay for a wanton waste of money on this extravaganza for the next decade or more.

While the rest of the global economy tanks, New Zealand ratepayers throw hundreds of millions into stadia so a private company can hold their overpriced, over-hyped festivals of on-paddock thuggery free of charge.

And they want us to do it all over again? Get bloody real!

Green hypocrisy exposed

Been over looking at some comments on Stuff as the latest astroturfers, the Greens, are thoroughly exposed this week. By their own lying to media.

I think the woman in Waikato who lied to the newspaper has exposed the Green party for what they are: no better or worse than any other political party. And it is a lie, if you are asked if you have political connections and you say you don't, but your partner is a Green candidate, then that is a blatant lie.

The 'holier than thou' Greens have been exposed for what they really are.

burgeoning influence of media managers within the Greens

Just another political party vying for votes with lies, smoke and mirrors, saying one thing, doing another.

Liarbour sides with criminals

Labour says it will not support the Government's proposed legal patch-up to enable police to undertake covert video surveillance

Took the fence sitting Fill-in-Phil a week, but he has put his stake in the ground.

He favours the criminals. Liarbour was always soft on law and order.

He would do well to remember it was poorly written Liarbour legislation that caused this problem.

"Abhorrent..."

The Government will overrule a decision by New Zealand's highest court on the Urewera terror raids

The new law will be applied retrospectively which means no trials are likely to be aborted and offenders would have no ground to appeal their convictions

Abhorrent? The thought that toerags in train for conviction could get off on such a technicality is abhorrent. Even more abhorrent is the thought that others could appeal or slip through the net.

You know that when the rabid hooooman rights campaigners like I/S at NRT, Locke, and some QC living off legal aid gravy train scream blue murder the gummint has the laws spot on. We need more affirmative action like this. At last maybe a gummint showing spine.

Retrospective you say? Excellent! Hope those terrorists have sobered up after last week's post getting off pissup.

Can't wait for the upcoming bleats to the UN. "No, Sir, We were just camping... but our human rights are being trod on." Take them down!

Community notice: Get your hard hats on

the 35-foot-long satellite is in an orbit that crosses over six continents and three oceans.

NASA said it was not yet possible to pinpoint just where in that zone the debris would land, but the agency predicts pieces could scatter over a 500-mile-wide region.

Time to wear your hard hat as 6 tons of space junk (ex climate change satellite) comes to land somewhere near you about 23rd September. Travelling at about 5 miles/sec.

For those of you out there that read data from such devices and twist the stats into anthropogenic climate Armageddon, no need to take any action, your tinfoil hat will provide the necessary protection...

Judge allows terrorists to walk

Police did not hide the fact of filming to the judge who granted the search warrants but the judge's implication in activity beyond the lawful authority of the police was another troubling feature of the case

So meanwhile the Police using normal processes are made out to be criminals in this case of 'murder and mayhem'. And would be terrorists get off scot free.

Fault lies squarely with the useless Judiciary looking to cover one of their own incompetents.