June 2007

On the NZ Herald website I was assaulted with this offensive image. It seems Labour never learns from its mistakes. They nicked $15 million to promote Working for Families the first time round and now they have nicked even more to promote Kiwisaver themselves. Look at the fricken ad, it is Bright red, Labour is mentioned three times and Kiwisaver only twice and it sends you to their website where you are bombarded with more taxpayer funded party political broadcasts.

Apparently  Kiwisaver, Cheaper doctors visits and 20NotFree are all part of Labours Sustainable New Zealand campaign…..see the little NZ sourrounded by the money go-round labels, beside the hug-fest logo.

Their thievery is shameless ans spectacular. They also must be broke as hell to resort to this sort of blatant stealing.

Questions need to be asked about this. 

At least we now know what Labour means by Sustainable New Zealand……New Zealand sustaining the Labour Party!!!! 

Parliament has passed its anti-democratic, anti satire, anti ridicule and anti-denigration rules.

To celebrate I have prepared a photo, please can I be the first prosecuted, please, please Mr Cullen, asshole (denigration). Now for the satire and ridicule.

Last night i met up with a few of those i will drink with, ie not socialists at the Cav on College Hill.

DPF was up from Wellington, MikeE, Gooner, Adolf, DarrenG, and a couple of other whose ids escape me right now enjoyed the convivial atmosphere at the Cav.

We managed, I think, to solve, in no particular order;

• The woes of ACT
• A new home for the itinerant's from Sir Humps
• The end of socialism in NZ
• How to put a tie on Sir Robert Muldoon
• How to conduct a local body campaign with remote advisors.

I had to leave to attend the Indicative Selection for C&R Hobson, but that is another story in itself that i may be able to blog once I have permission.

Drinks and Adolf's provided fires and sauce were most enjoyable, perhaps we need to make this a regular occurance, i mau make an exception to my socialist rule for PM, as he has been vouched for by Adolf and Gooner. 

I love YouTube.

Party pills banned – Party pills are to be banned, Associate Health Minister Jim Anderton has announced. BZP and related party pills, also known as herbal highs, will be classified as a Class C1 drug. This will stop the legal manufacture and sale… [NZ Politics]

Looks like the fun police have struck again…..once again a silly law to protect fools from themselves. This will of course fail.

Given the reasons for doing this supposedly are to save lives, one wonders when they are going to ban cigarettes and motor vehicles.

Jim Anderton clearly is cloud cuckoo land if he thinks that making BZP illegal will not create a black market or lead to increased use of other drugs such as methamphetamine.

Idiot/Savant has turned all blousy after banning comments on his blog.

He joins the ever growing list of leftiist lickspittles who cannot tolerate the merest hint of dissent so close down comments in a fit of pique.

Like the classic spoilt brat in the sandpit who can't share the toys.

Good riddance, He will find like other sooks, Jordan and Tony that his readership actually liked the comments and they will now depart to the right where commenting is still freely available. 

Ok, I want one, and I want one now!!!

The iPhone gets released tomorrow and from this video , it is sooooooo amazing, I want one.

Readers, please , please donate one for testing or otherwise.

Hello, Apple, there are bloggers here in NZ that are ready willing and able to be tester for you….ok now I am begging. 

Some one put there must be able to get one for me. 

National MP Phil Heatley nailed Housing Minister Chris Carter yesterday (appalling image, I know) with some serious questions about Housing NZ practices. Listening live, Chris Carter was seriously caught on the back foot and was back peddling as fast as he could.

[quote]8. PHIL HEATLEY (National—Whangarei) to the Minister of Housing: Does he have confidence in Housing New Zealand Corporation; if so, why?

Hon CHRIS CARTER (Minister of Housing): Yes; but there is always room for improvement.

Phil Heatley: How is it that a person can be allocated a State house in Māngere, and, at the same time, own a holiday home in Russell?

Hon CHRIS CARTER: I would welcome further information about that case.

Phil Heatley: I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. I ask you to judge whether that is a fair answer, given that the Minister gave me that information yesterday with a cover letter.

Madam SPEAKER: As the member knows, that is not a point of order.

Phil Heatley: How is it that a person not only can get away with owning a holiday home in Russell while having a State house but also can get away with not living in the State house, instead renting it out for a tidy profit to an unwitting family?

Hon CHRIS CARTER: I am astonished to learn that that member claims he received a letter from me about this subject yesterday. I would like to sit down with him after question time, be shown this letter, and find out a bit more information about this case. It is really astonishing.

Phil Heatley: I seek leave to table the letter

Leave granted.

Phil Heatley: I seek leave to table the Official Information Act request explaining these details.

Leave granted.

Phil Heatley: What action has the Minister taken to investigate Housing New Zealand Corporation over this scam, given that one of the neighbours has formally testified to the corporation that the tenant “gloated he knew someone in Housing; that is how he got the place.”?

Hon CHRIS CARTER: Such alleged behaviour by a tenant would be totally inappropriate. I will be investigating it very carefully after question time.

Phil Heatley: Was the State house tenant ever prosecuted, and was an official investigation ever made into allegations that to pull off this scam the tenant had insider help from a Housing New Zealand Corporation mate?

Hon CHRIS CARTER: All sorts of allegations can be made by all sorts of people. I can assure this House that I will be looking into this case very carefully, very quickly.[/quote]

As you can see Carter knew absolutely nothing about this, so we are now being asked to beilieve his spin that something was being done all along….I think not Minister.

The couple living in the house, who paid the man $210 a week in rent, only found out they were tied up in the rort when they applied for a state house – to be told they were already living in one.

The man, who also owned a holiday home in the Bay of Islands, was paying $133 a week for the state house – and pocketing the $70 difference.

Not only that the documents show that the man tried to sell the house at one stage despite, not even owning it.

This is clearly another case of a Minister not knowing what is going on in his own portfolio.

TV rule puts limits on election ads – Two legal academics have attacked the new parliamentary rules on the use of television, suggesting they constrain freedom of expression and run contrary to the Bill of Rights. Most of the criticism so far has centred around MPs'… [NZ Politics]

A little aspect of the new rules is that they also ban political parties from using images of each other for attack advertising in election campaigns.

[quote]Barrister and media law lecturer Steven Price said it was difficult to see how the proposed restrictions "can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society" – a reference from the Bill of Rights Act.

"I'm also astonished to see that it doesn't permit the use of material for election campaigning."[/quote]

So, for example, if the Prime Minister could be shown to have lied in the House, and there is sure to be plenty of that footage available, the Opposition couldn't use footage of that in its election campaign.

Yep, this is supression of freedom of expression for sure. Bloggers must unite and show the pollies what a bunch of cocks they are.

Editorial: Sensitivity makes MPs look foolish – Common sense, like charity, begins at home. The common sense we hope parliamentarians possess when they assess important policy options needs to be seen in the way they order their own House. We struggle to see much sign of it in… [NZ Politics]

The NZ Herald slams the silly and ridiculous ruling over what can can cannot be published from parliament. Not PC has his usual well thought out response to such tosh from the "corruption" of MP's. the quote from Lindsay Perigo is priceless.