The anti-smacking bill is looking doomed after a survey of Maori showed 80% opposed to the bill.
The Maori Party despite the silly utterings of Tariana Turia are nothing if not pragmatists and would be silly to go against their core support.
If the Maori Party decides to back the Key amendment, it would have the numbers to pass.
But Sue Bradford has said she would withdraw it in those circumstances.
Good, then that's that then.
I know it sounds harsh after having lost his two kids in a boating accident, but really the police don't have to look to far for laying the blame for the tragedy.
He has come out in the Herald today saying he wants to burn the boat …..good luck trying fool, the boat is aluminium, the melting point of which is 660.32 °C.
Sorry mate, I know you hate yourself and are probably irrational right now but this won't solve the problem of the tiny litle fact that you went out in the boat without a bung…..then exasperated the problem of taking on water by powering away and thus moving all that water on board into the stern.
The real killer in stiuations like this is panic and ignorance, burning the boat won't help that.
Just when you think the Maori party has kept on taking their sensible pills they then open their yaps and prove without a doubt that in fact they are still stuck on stupid.
Tariana Turia has blamed smacking on the effects of colonisation and christianity . Apparently Maori just hugged their kids and only learned to bash them to within an inch of their lives from colonising christians.
It is this sort of histroy revision that relly makes my blood boil. It ranks up there with Maori are natural conservationists, except we have to ignore what happened to the Moa amongst other fauna…..and that Maori are living in a modern world, except of course when the opportunity to extort some money comes along and all of a sudden the stone age comes roaring back into vogue with taniwha appearing in all sorts of opportune places…..Maori were peace loving…..oh yeah, then how come they lived in fortified pa and made edged weapons…..spare me this revisionist claptrap.
Take responsibility for your own pitiful fucking lives and get a decent grip on reality. It is no-ones fault but your own.
Warning: Labour, this government bites.
Labour continues to show its arrogance and the latest Minister to firmly plant both of her feet in her mouth is Judith Tizard.
She has accused the RSA of political machination surrouinding the laying of wreaths at the Cenotaph and caused a major rucus by insiting that the only wreath should have been hers.
Sheesh it is bad enough that her girlfriend couldn't be bother attending but then she kicks Judith outta bed to piss off the old soldiers.
These bitches know no shame.
Bernard Darnton raises a very good point when he looks at Labour's stolen funds pay back.
[quote]Of course, having legalised the misspending, there was no legal debt. The Parliamentary Service under Margaret Wilson’s guidance never asked for the money back. As such, the $824,524 given to the Parliamentary Service is a gift.
At the rates detailed in the Inland Revenue’s Gift Duty Guide (IR194, PDF), my calculations have the Labour party owing $193,850 in gift duty. Here’s hoping that Inland Revenue is as vicious towards the Labour party as it is towards more productive members of society.[/quote]
Yeah plus add that to the penalties fro breaking the Election Spending ceiling and Labour are still not out of the woods yet.
Two opinion pieces in the Herald highlight the complete ineptitude and the complete failing of the government on economic issues.
Brian Gaynor in "The Rise and Fall of Kiwi Productivity" has some very intersting things to say about Kiwi's priorities.
[quote]The Black Caps finished in the top four at the Cricket World Cup, the captain resigned and there were calls for other heads to roll. Meanwhile, the economy slipped closer to the bottom quarter of the OECD ladder yet there has hardly been a murmur on the issue.[/quote]
Yeah, exactly, heads should roll. Helen's and Cullen's for a start. What happened to the goal of being in the "Top Half" of the OECD. It seems now the goal is to be in the top half of the bottom half.
Fran O'Sullivan also kicks the government on it flea bitten arse. Fran wonders if Export Year 2007 actually mean Export of Jobs year. The main problem is The Reserve bank's blunt stick approach to inflation.
[quote]But Bollard's attempt to bring inflation to heel by raising interest rates has the unfortunate effect of dragging in more offshore speculators to invest in our currency, thus pushing its value up further and under-cutting exporters' profits. A vicious circle.[/quote]
Unfortunately when the government's basket of goods includes items such as house mortgages and petrol and not one iota of government spending inflation will always be inaccurately measured.
Labour has finally paid back the money it stole from taxpayers today. In doing so though they have massively breached the law by overspending their allowance. Graeme Edgler points this out in the comments at DPF's.
[quote]So – who's filing the complaint with the Electoral Commission?
One has to ask, can the government actually govern?
They have not technically lost any votes but they have had to withdraw plans, or water down or negotiate to even attempt to pass laws and now they face another parliamentary defeat, this time over the personal records bill.
The government now must rightly be called lame duck, they are struggling to pass even the most innocuous laws.
