No problem with Cafe owner

As long as it’s not an every day occurrence, it was the Cafe owner’s prerogative to choose his political protest and turf out the two Israeli women. As for all of the crap that one of the women, Natalie Bennie, was saying “am I safe in this country?” what a load of bollocks!!! [...]

Too little, too late

Those on the left who may have read the odd article by Chris Trotter may have noticed a shift in his writings over the years, and markedly since his move north. He became a voice for not the left but very much middle of the road, that beacon of “yes I am still bloody [...]

My first poll (Hypocrite)

Ian Wishart will save us all from ourselves this weekend with
“will be breaking a massive story, implicating two current cabinet ministers and a former Labour cabinet minister, in an unprecedented political scandal”.
What will this be, take part in my first online poll and prove me a hypocrite as I have posted time and time again [...]

after the brick bat comes some credit

Regular readers will know I loath the polls that are on the stuff.co.nz web site. The are more often than not dumb, with even dumber answers to choose from.
But after the rubbish about the death penalty and the inability of stuff to moderate the comments on the article about the return of Top Town [...]

You lying bastard

I’ve gotta give a big hat tip to The Standard for this TVOne news coverage of the lying bastard’s squirming.
Look I don’t even like the guy, but I was hiding behind my hands at the stupidity. It was worse than watching a train crash, or whatever the saying is, it was just downright painful.

Election!

Helen Clark, the Prime Minister of New Zealand has just announced that the election will be on the 8 November 2008.
Take a look at the twat below. He is the very reason you should be voting for anything on the left in New Zealand.

Fuck off Bob Jones

Anyone who thinks that he can malign whole sections of society just because he doesn’t want the precious english language to evolve, can sod off.
The Criminal Procedure Bill had changed the name of Foreman of the Jury to Foreperson of the Jury, thus eliminating the 167 year old term that was essentially sexist.
What the hell [...]

$10Million to create legal defence for child abuse

Today I am sickened and embarrassed to be a New Zealander.
The religious wacko right in NZ, has successfully petitioned the government to hold referendum to what amounts to creating a legal defence for child abuse. I will not pull any punches (excuse the pun), if you tick the box to say yes to hitting [...]

The Hunt continues…..

So National said “they would recognise the tall young man who was dressed less conservatively than most Young National members”
from Stuff.co.nz
There isn’t any security footage of the Cocktail Party, but I’ve managed to get exclusive party pics. Which one isn’t dressed so conservatively?

At least one of them looks like he’s having fun – no [...]

National is taking the piss 2

So when is lying to the public not lying to the public.
Well apparently when it’s coming out of that festering hole of depict.
You’re giving tax cuts which the country can’t afford, well not that and massive infrastructure investment at the same time. To pay of them both you need to borrow, but according the [...]

Tax cuts are inflationary

If ever you needed the proof that the lies of National going to hurt this country just look at the response of the markets to the more than modest tax cuts.
The bond and interest rates markets all rose suddenly, on what were really very modest tax cuts. These weren’t reactions to the increased govt [...]

Buy back of rail sparks commercial interest.

In one small but relatively expensive swoop Labour has done for the rail system what a private company was unable to do in the time it owned the rail system, spark positive economic and investment interest in the branch of transport infrastructure.
Over the last week there have been a raft of companies willing to invest [...]

John Key has powers greater than God.

According to National’s glorious leader, Labour has failed to keep touch with the voters and has done nothing to control interest rates and the rising price of Petrol.
Two issues. If National wins (on no released policy) Key will borrow (foreign) money to give tax cuts. This has two problems, it further places NZ [...]

Mrs Bush, it’s not Burma

In the wake of the terrible cyclone that has devastated vast regions of the coast of Myanmar leaving as many as 15,000 dead to date with countless more missing and/or their lives turned upside down, the world has been rallying. This is a good thing, as we know from experience (unfortunately) it’s the first [...]

Kiwiblog, our place for extremists

I have enjoyed a decent argument over at Kiwiblog, NZ’s apparent place to be for a good old political debate (well that’s the intention anyway). What usually happens is that there is an overwhelming majority of right wing (there’s a surprise – it’s their place) views, which although pretty unpalatable to me, are none [...]

PC users just don’t get it!

In my other life as a designer and tec geek, I will actually depart from the stupid world of Politics
In an open letter to Steve Jobs about the impending iPhone2.0 (yummy 3G version), Dan Tynan of PC World magazine had some concerns about what needs to be added to the astoundingly successful iPhone. Remember [...]

Hasn’t anyone noticed the irony?

Is it just me, but the loudest complainers of the MPs going to Eastern Europe on the Speakers tour, 4 of whom are retiring at the next election, are the folks over at Kiwiblog?
Which in itself isn’t very groundbreaking, as anything the taxpayer has to fork out for is a waste of money.
However, surely this [...]

PC and proud (and not fucking off to Australia)

Poor old Dover Samuels is a confused old man. He’s the Kiwi equivalent of Mr Costanza, George’s dad out of Seinfeld. His parliamentary career is over, and before he retires to the Kiwi equivalent of Florida – the Sunshine Coast in Australia, he’s having one last groan.
But about what I’m not exactly sure, [...]

The National Party Hates People #1-08

I would love to have been in the meeting where the bitter and twisted buggers that pervade the corridors of the National Party came up with this little gem.
“Parents of young offenders will also be made to undergo courses to address household problems that lead their children into lives of crime, with community work or [...]

Kiwiblog

Some may have noticed I’ve deleted posts from folk looking for a fight spilling over from Kiwiblog.
I’ve decided that I’m not going to have any part of the stuff that goes on over there and unless those people are here to discuss the stuff I am posting on my site, it will continue to be [...]