September 2007

David Farrar, Bernard Darnton and I have launched the Free Speech Coalition to attempt to Kill the Bill.

http://www.killthebill.org.nz and we also have a Facebook Group  

Please help us Kill the Bill – while we still can.

We have launched the Free Speech Coalition. We want it to be a focal point for all individuals and organizations opposed to the Electoral Finance Bill. From it you can find out about all the ways in which this law will prevent free speech – it will regulate e-mails, websites, protest marches, placards, posters, newspaper ads – basically everything that mentions a political issue.

We plan to run an ad campaign. Our ads will educate New Zealanders about this Government's unprecedented assault on our cherished freedom of speech.

We've got a creative team waiting to get cracking. But we need your support and/or your money.

You can donate instantly online. You can also donate via Internet Banking to our BNZ Account 02 0500 0908920-00 or by sending a cheque to the Free Speech Coalition, PO Box 12270, Thorndon, Wellington.

Also you can sign up as a supporter, join our mailing list, place our banner on your own sites, or help out in other ways. We need your help. We can't rely on the politicians to protect our rights to criticize them. Once this Bill becomes law, then it will be too late.

So please help us to Kill the Bill.

David, Bernard & Cameron on behalf of "The Free Speech Coalition”

UK govt in court over Gore environment film – New Zealand’s source for World News on Stuff.co.nz

Good stuff, finally some people are starting to push back against the silly contentions in Gore’s work of fiction “An Inconvenient Truth”.
[quote]Stewart Dimmock, also a school governor, is challenging the decision made in February by the then education and environment ministers – Alan Johnson and David Miliband respectively.

Dimmock’s lawyer Paul Downes told the High Court that the Oscar-winning film, “An Inconvenient Truth”, contained “serious scientific inaccuracies.

“Given the serious inaccuracies in the film and the misrepresentations it contains, the film is irredeemable,” he said.

He added that only half the film related to scientific material, 30 percent was political and the remaining 20 percent was “sentimental mush – mush there to soften up the viewer for persuasion.” [/quote]
He might even add that the scientific content is fiction as well, but hey it’s a start.

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This photo of the gargoyle is begging for a caption.

T-Shirt Hell who quite frankly have the best non-PC insulting T-shirts on the planet are sick of pinko, greenies.

[quote]People are talking about the environment a lot these days. Global warming, going green, organic products, and the rest of that crap. Frankly these subjects, and the people who want to make the world a better place need to be mocked, ridiculed, humiliated, and scorned. Do your best.[/quote]

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Start again on election bill says Law Society – The Law Society has added its voice to calls for the Electoral Finance Bill to be completely thrown out.
The society's president, John Marshall, gave its submission to the justice and electoral select committee yesterday, saying… [NZ Politics]

Wow!, the Human Rights Commission and now the Law Society have said Kill the Bill.

[quote]"Legislation such as this, which goes to the heart of out democratic
system of government, should be broadly accepted both within Parliament
and in the wider community. The controversy surrounding this bill shows
it does not have that broad acceptance."[/quote]

Too bloody right, but watch as Labour and its poodles ram this through. 

Kiwiblog » Blog Archive » National’s Health Discussion paper

…..federico.

[quote]Andrew Bannister Says:
September 27th, 2007 at 12:34 pm

Frederico, with all due respect to GPs, you over-estimate the skill of a GP. You talk about complex drug interactions, but most assessments are formulaic. GPs don’t sit down and work out all the possible drug interactions. Instead, they will say, “here take this, but before you do, do you take any other drugs?” If yes, they pick up the New Ethicals, do a quick check, and if no flags are raised, they go ahead with the prescription. That’s all they can possibly do.

You are confusing a GP with a specialist. And specialists don’t work alone.

frederico Says:
September 27th, 2007 at 12:41 pm

Andrew Bannister, with all due respect, I suspect I am more qualified to comment on this than you

MB ChB (Otago), FRACS

But thanks for highlighting Labours attitude to GPs. Ignorance and disrespect.[/quote]

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National accused of running secret health agenda – The National Party is being accused of running a secret agenda after confirming it will scrap controls on doctors' fees.
Health spokesman Tony Ryall and Party leader John Key launched a discussion document, which made no mention… [NZ Politics]

Labour is accusing National of running a secret agenda on Health.

Hmmm…..quite how they figure that out is beyond me. They released a discussion document and they also talked about GP fees at the same time. Not really that secret and I fail to grasp how the opposition can run any agenda when they aren't in power. 

Man shot dead by police ‘had hands by his side’ – witnesses – 27 Sep 2007 – NZ Herald: New Zealand National news

Witnesses say the man shot by Police had his hands by his side. Yep, quite possibly true, the fool probably thought when the cop said hands up or I shoot he was only joking.

I bet Keith Locke is wishing he had approved Tasers right about now.

You know if a cop with a gun told me to calm down it wouldn’t take me much more than a nano-second to think about it and comply.

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YouTube video and poster vandals attack Parker – The Press – Elections 07

Bob Parker is the victim of a organised campaign to paint him, literally in the case of his signs, Side Show Bob.

Now as a bit of a video freak myself I commend the “pegasusboys” for their use of Youtube in political attack, right on.

Unfortunately for Bob Parker he doesn’t get it when he says that “The video is well made and must have cost a bit of money to churn it out … It is a sad day.”

Actually Bob the video cost nothing to make except time. These days, especially if you have a Mac and some quality software you can make professional video for almost next to nothing. This video was not done by a professional but was reasonably well put together for a first one.

He is right though when he says “We are heading towards US-style politics where anything goes and you can say anything you like about people. This marks a new level in politics in this country and it is not a healthy level,”

Why isn’t it healthy Bob, if you said one thing and did another you rightly deserve everything you get. There is no place for hyppocrisy and with the new media operating if you do you will cop it. So either harden up for get lost.

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Prime Minister hints at flag change – 27 Sep 2007 – NZ Herald: New Zealand National news

Two red herrings in two days, first up the Dear Leader mentions the word Republic and the next day she talks about changing the flag. Both items are not on the agenda and haven’t been for quite some time yet she brings them up.

Of course everyone will now jump around debating these two issues for a week or so and thus miss something else Labour is cearly trying to distract us from.

Now don’t get me wrong I am a Republican, but I am yet to be convinced about a change to the flag, but this smacks of a distraction much like Mallard’s billion dollar distraction the “Waterfront ssthstadium”

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