March 2006

A few days ago, the National Party in Epsom was contacted by ACT's new board member for Auckland.

Barry Soper opines at NewsTalkZB .

[quote]In this country we are small beer. The biggest danger to Head Girl Helen would seem to be her security detail which whizzes around behind her limmo. She has been tail ended by them on no fewer than four occasions!

But security was the order of the day when the British leader arrived in Auckuoloafa last night. We were assembled well in advance for a photo op, the handshake that even arch enemies are expected to give for the cameras.

The phoney one has the most extraordinary set of pearly whites which he constantly flashes. There is no need to air brush that lot. The Head Girl could only look on in wishful awe![/quote]

Classic stuff.

The government is doing exceedingly well .

Along with forging painting, speeding blissfully unaware throught he countryside, rorting election expenses, bashing protestors, lying to Parliament, falsifying documents, running imigration scams they can now add tanking a booming economy.

The latest Westpac Consumer survey is out and shows consumer confidence at a five and half year low.

And Westpac reckons worse is to come.

Funny how everyone else except the History Teacher can see the writing on the wall.

Yes, you read the headline correctly, in figures today New Zealand is indeed in the top-half of the OECD in figures recently released. Indeed not just the top-half but in fact second place with only Ireland in front of us.

 

Now for the bad news.

 

The figures are for for the number of tertiary-educated people who have moved overseas. New Zealand has 24.4 per cent of its New Zealand-born tertiary-educated population living in other OECD countries.

 

Is this the top-half of the OECD that Labour envisaged?

 

But wait theres more "top-half" figures Labour can justifiably be proud of;

• New Zealand has the third highest proportion of adults in prison, with 132 adults per 100,000 population being imprisoned, behind the Czech Republic with 150 and the United States with 469.
• Kiwis are the most likely to be victims of car theft and burglary, with 2.7% of the population reporting being the victim of car theft in 2000, and 4.3% being the victims of burglary.
• New Zealand was also found to be one of 10 countries with 50% or more adults being defined as overweight or obese.
• New Zealand has the seventh highest number of overweight or obese people, with 56.2% of Kiwi adults in that category.

What an outstanding achievement by Labour.

Philip "el Jefe" Field has intimated that he wants his job back if cleared by the long overdue inquiry.

 

Given this governments record of declaring prima facie evidence of crimes as being cleared this is entirely likely.

 

The Herald bizarrely also says the report that we have all been waiting on for six months is "due for release soon".

 

If Field and Parker are restored to the ministry then without a doubt we will not be living in a "corruption free" country.

Even the most myopic of fortune tellers could forsee this happening.

 

The scientist who commented that Pete "Slugger" Hodgson has "stuffed up" has been given the big arse , literally within hours of his statement being published. 

I have watched the debate over dog micro-shipping with some dis-interest.

I really don't give a toss whether it is law or not, my dog is micro-chipped for easy identification if the stupid thing gets lost.

To claim that micro-chipping is a public saftey issue is clearly ridiculous.

The next thing Labour will claim is that we need a National Identity Card to stop Home Invasions. Sounds stupid doesn't it? But the logic is exactly the same.

There is no way that micro-chipping dogs will prevent dog attacks on little ids or animals. No way at all. To say otherwise is denying reality.

From Question time :

[quote]Gerry Brownlee: I raise a point of order, Madam Chairperson. I think that perhaps it is appropriate for the House to grant leave in this case, since we are on dogs, to get a question from the poodle.[/quote]

Clark in the Herald this morning is continuing to spin about David Parker.

[quote]"If this set of allegations doesn't stack up then it would not be natural justice to deny Mr Parker a place."[/quote]

Except Mz Clark, Parker admitted them…so they do stack up.

Hat tip: TBR

[quote]VV1 (Vestal Virgin 1) has told Newstalk ZB that disgraced MP David Parker will be back in Cabinet, possibly even as Attorney-General, if the Companies Office decides not to prosecute…

Staggering stuff…what signal does that send to the CO and to companies nationwide?

What does that also say about the hundreds of people prosecuted each year for breaches of the Companies Act?

In this case, David Parker admitted it…[/quote]

She also questioned whether he in fact did anything wrong.

Of course she continues to put the slipper into Ian Wishart and Investigate magazine, this time she uses the words "I don't want to give the man any more publicity for his wretched magazine"