Limited appeal

Project Act and Libertarian have been failures

The Libz are looking to reinvent themselves, falling over themselves to fill the ACT void.

legalisation of all drugs
kind of scary to a lot of people
Libertarianz party is ready to tone down its image

Whilst some of their ideas have merit,most are far too out there for the average voting punter looking for what's in it for me.  

1600 votes at the last election

Worldwide libertarian parties have similar pie in the sky theoretical ideals of an unfettered free market but always fail miserably at the ballot box.  I'd say "doesn't that tell you something about your policies? ".  

These guys never learn.

There is a need, no a mandatory requirement, for a principled party vehicle to encompass some right leaning ideas.  National was the only one on offer, but has proven to be so unprincipled with its continued trading with the natives, family destructive legislation and selling the country to the highest bidder for votes whilst in truth being a not so light pink shade of Labour.

Unintended consequences: Benefits to be slashed?

1400 New Zealanders this week attempted to live below the extreme-poverty line and make do with only $2.25 worth of food and drink for each of five days

The tossers over at Labour who joined up to this cause probably have shot themselves in foot after proving this week that bennies only need $15 or so a week for food to survive. And that's probably being generous.

Now if only they could outlaw breeding, vehicle ownership, purchasing of booze, fags, drugs, plasma flat screens and smartphones as being necessary human rights for said bludgers, I'd wager that the cost of welfare could be slashed forthwith.

Sir Bob flushes king down the river

the comical Ngaruawahia ex-truck driver who can't speak Maori and struggles with English but calls himself King of Maoridom despite his realm ending at his letterbox has declared Maori own the rain. That's excellent news. I assume His Majesty will accept liability for inflicting millions of dollars of flood damage annually through Maori rain supply mismanagement. He can ponder that when sitting on the only throne he'll ever occupy, namely in his lavatory.

Couldn't have described these stone-age charlatans and hucksters better.

Time for a Tui: "It will be spectacular!"

Half pie watching, this gem from the beltway reporter nearly wetting herself with yet another breathless live cross topping Te News;

It will be spectacular!

Simultaneous fireworks in Auckland and Wellington...

To be sure, to be sure. The only thing spectacular will be the cost of such extravagances to poor put upon ratepayers and taxpayers. All for a bloody piece of metal. Get over it.

If the overpaid pricks in the Olympic Committee who couldn't organise the proverbial to get said athelete to the starting line were paying, now that would be spectacular.

Where can I send my invoice?

Maori had always owned the water

Something I heartily disagree with, but bear with me if you will.

If I generate power on my property, sending any excess back into the national grid, I might get a credit on my next power bill.

In a similar manner, since the all the rain that has fallen in the past month or so has run straight off my totally waterlogged and saturated ten acres, eventually into the proven sewer that is the Manawatu River. Might I suggest, complete with added value from the 'nutrients' my dozen or so cattle have deposited on said lifestyle block.

A side note, the local regional council allows me to do this under their super expensive 'One Plan' (coming soon to all other councils I might add) detailing all facets that makeup the new religion of eco-madness like climate change effects and sustainability. They charge the crap out of me and other farmers via rate taxes for such discharges into the upper reaches of their sewer of ill repute.

Now in a guesstimate, a metre or so of water over ten acres, complete with all added extras, even with hail and snow of the past few days, must have yards of value in this free market world. After all, the natives in residence seen extremely keen to tap this this mother-lode of potential revenue streams.

I must be due some credit for my water I've supplied to flush their sewer, so which one of these plonkers gets the invoice?

Two can play the game. Be careful what you wish for!

New Labour ploy to buy votes

Labour would roll out free food to 650 of the lowest decile primary and intermediate schools in the country

Bit of a different ploy from the previous up front bulk purchases of KFC on election day in certain areas.

Essentially the same as KFC buzzard but in different clothes, only available in areas where the dole bludgers will thank Labour pollies with their vote.

And the unwashed masses will be ever so thankful for the pollies freeing more for booze, fags and dope.

If the taxpayer is to force feed your kids with $20 million of my money, I'd expect a massive reduction in your taxpayer funded wedge.

[Updated] Unable to create new posts for your reading pleasure

Blogger has removed the ability to create new posts for you to peruse. The New Post button on the toolbar that used to inhabit the top of the blog disappeared without warning at least two weeks ago and no amount of foot stamping has resulted in a satisfactory answer to this issue.

Some nutters swimming in the ratepayer's trough from the deep south might say my being unable to post is good, but unfortunately for them, I've arrived on a page via roundabout means where I might be able to create a post. This is that test.

[Update]
Cheers to all for helpful hints. LM - have altered the raw html for the template and used an asterisk like your NZ Conservative.

It is an ongoing intermittent issue, differing browsers are affected at different times. Found some discussion here.

A bob each way on future voters fails

Parliament has voted to keep the drinking and purchase age of alcohol at 18-years-old.

In a rare showing of MPs acting like responsible adults the wowsers that infest our Parliament were firmly put in their place this afternoon after trying to have a bob each way on raising the drinking age.

Supporting an age of 18, he said they were entrusted with choosing Governments in the ballot box and defending New Zealand or other countries in the Army.

Tau says what needed saying. After all, whilst we can send our 18 year olds overseas to get slaughtered in our military because the RoE for other countries are hideously restrictive, the same young adults should be allowed a beer.

Spineless Nats spurn conservative values

Firstly congratulations to all those MP's who remained strong, staunchly voting to retain the current definition of marriage.

As for the rest, whilst I never expected the openly bent Nat minority to vote any other way, those that showed their deviousness by spurning their conservative roots to vote liberal progressive will rue this day. The electorate will have their say in 18 months.

What was proven last night is that the Nats are finished as conservatives in New Zealand politics. One might as well vote left and hasten the end of our society. A repeat screening of the fall of the Roman Empire is being played out right here in this country.

Bring on the Conservatives. Hopefully they might hold to their stated values.

Ticket clipped with your steak, Sir?

I have often blogged on the utter uselessness of adding another layer of bureaucracy to supposedly track our cattle between the farm gate and when it gets it head lopped complete with identifying tags at the works.

The NAIT bureaucracy was sold as 'self funding', ie NAIT would charge levies per beast at tag purchase and at slaughter to recover their costs. All very well till this week.

75c per beast - "a RFID administration fee"

The New Zealand Farmer's Weekly reports in this week's editorial (not online ?) that the thieves at Elders, PGG Wrightson and NZ Farmers Livestock to name but a few are also now clipping the ticket on your steak as the animals pass through their yards.

NAIT is apparently powerless to do anything about these rogues trying to "recover the cost". A very tidy clip if you ask me, considering the thousands of beasts that pass through their hands each week.

Now the money trail is exposed to sunlight, I'd expect the near useless Min Ag to take investigate and stop this ticket clipping. Unfortunately, from his past track record on stopping the NAIT rort, probably not. Probably got shares in said companies.

Domestic terrorists about to go on holiday

workers across KiwiRail will join strike action which could impact on rail and ferry services

Deluded unionists consider raising the ghosts of strikes past that used occur as regularly as school holidays. So regularly in fact, that one could guarantee that Cook Strait ferries would not be sailing when you wished to travel.

The public of New Zealand will not support such action by domestic terrorists in these dire economic times.

One new ministry coming right up...

the Government will be watching closely to make sure lessons are learned from the blunder

Let's get this in perspective. New Zealand punts up about 25 or so professionals amateurs for some overly expensive quadrennial games.

And our bloated sporty type bureaucracy in tow was proven to be seriously overworked, forgetting to get their charges onto the starting lists. No doubt too busy looking good at all the schmoozing pre-events, but at least they managed to get their own airline seats booked.

Heads should have rolled by now before any new ministry is mooted. In the corporate world those responsible would have long fallen on their sword, along with the bottom feeders further up the chain. We don't need any new ministry Murray.

"What will the public make of it?"

Voters today get their first look at how the MMP electoral system may change when the Electoral Commission issues its proposals

Only one choice is required for the proposed changes to our electoral system.

what will the politicians do?

... hope they will set aside protecting their own patch

Unfortunately ditching MMP is not one of the choices our political masters have deemed suitable for Joe Public whilst wallowing in the beltway trough.

Dole bludger being precious

Why don't you work in McDonald's or as a labourer?

Indeed. Why not?

The choice was either stay on the dole or do a masters, so I came back... “But there was nothing out there” in his fields of human resources, adminstration, or policy analysis

IMHO, being a professional student is the same as being on the dole. Both are unemployed, living off someone else's hard earnt taxes.

I haven't spent five years studying to do work I could have done straight out of high school

Precious prick. He and his dole bludging ilk need to have access to the benefit river curtailed. Immediately.

ps He could volunteer to be a Fairfax subbie and show them how to correctly spell 'administration' with all his utterly worthless degrees in social engineering!

Swivel eyed loons lurking at our fence

became involved after receiving "a number of reports by third parties"

Reports by third parties? No doubt greenie nutters spinning their environmental woe and doom with half-arsed stories should these fantastic projects proceed.

Also, one wonders when did New Zealand give our sovereign rights to UNESCO?

Shades of the similarly motivated flouters of property rights doing Gaia's work for the environment that reside within our borders.

Like god-botherers about to foot your door, tell these lunatics to bugger off. Who knows, whilst the tunnels are being drilled we might find something worth mining and selling. Like uranium.