January 2009

Barnsley Bill is right pissed off.

He phoned me about 5 minutes after his mugging and I swear the Yorkshire accent of his youth was trying to mangle its way through his Saarf London accent.

I have to have some sympathy with him, this sounds suspiciously like a quote fulfilment entrapment. If it is the stop sign I think it is in Kerikeri then it is almost suicidal to not stop being on a bend with poor visibility.

The other point I should mention is that this happended the day after Barnsley published his name on the blog……now if we still had a Labour government that would be just a little too suspicious.

I guess he will have to recoup the fines and associated costs from any new boarders who happen to turn up in the next couple of weeks.

On holidaying MPs

Clark lashed out at Key and the Government for holidaying while her economy legacy gets worse.

Scrubone at The Half Done Blog has a fine rebuttal of the silly post at The Standard about evil conservatives and fine upstanding progressives.

His best lines are right at the end;

That’s the thing about being conservative – we do, while they talk; we work while they tax; we build while they regulate; we face reality while they talk about ideals.

I’ve seen first hand the results of this “caring” and no amount of “liberals are moving forward” talk changes the facts.

But it fools enough people to keep going for the meantime.

“The Sprout”, one of the new posters at the Standard has decided to engage in a little Schadenfreude at the Herald’s expense, with a whirlwind post that goes from anti-EFA bitterness, operations criticism and finally, editorial hatred.

What “The Weed” conveniently overlooks is the following:

Firstly – Reilly only owns 39% of APN. So it’s only a large minority stake – not the whole shebang.

No-one is buying any large asset these days because it’s so bloody hard to borrow money for large asset purchases!

If it’s hard for mums and dads to borrow money for a new family home (think higher levels of equity that the banks now want), then it’s the sentiment holds true for large corporates as well. The very definition of a credit cruch is that banks and lenders are far more reticent to loan out money.

For The Standard to somehow beat this up as some kind of rejection of the Herald’s news credibility is frankly pathetic and ignorant.

After all, do we criticise the homeowners who can’t sell their homes at present as having shoddy homes, unworthy of being lived in?

Or do car dealers who are struggling at present responsible for only selling vehicular lemons – or are they struggling to get finance for their purchasers?

Of course, if the Herald was pro EFA and had been more sympathetic to a lying, corrupt and venal Labour, then I’m sure the Herald would deserve top dollar over at the Standard.

Here’s  thought – let’s see the Standard sell advertising and not rely on Labour Party and EPMU largesse for funding and support. I bet they won’t find it’s as easy as it looks.

hatip LGF

Watch this video of a Religion of Peace Cleric Egyptian cleric Amin Al-Ansari wish for a new holocaust. The video is quite sickening for the vitriolic anti-semitism expressed by this cleric but worse he gleefully describes graphic file footage of the holocaust and wishes for there to another one.

The only positive thing out of this is that this cleric has inadvertabtly dropped his brotherhood in the poop because by showing the footage and wishing for another he is implicitly acknowledging that the first one actually occurred.

His message for Holocaust Remembrance Day; “This is what we hope will happen but, Allah willing, at the hands of the Muslims.”

Once again The Gore Effect has struck.

From Powerline

Al Gore is scheduled to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations committee on global warming tomorrow. John Kerry says that Gore “has been sounding the alarm on climate change for over three decades, and he understands the urgent need for American engagement and leadership on this issue.” No mention of the fact that Gore relies on discredited, if not outright fraudulent, science. Meanwhile, like clockwork, a winter storm descends on Washington, DC.

from Andrew Bolt

Al Gore is scheduled before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday morning to once again testify on the ‘urgent need’ to combat global warming.

But Mother Nature seems ready to freeze the proceedings. A ‘Winter Storm Watch’ has been posted for the nation’s capitol and there is a potential for significant snow… sleet… or ice accumulations.

“I can’t imagine the Democrats would want to showcase Mr. Gore and his new findings on global warming as a winter storm rages outside,” a Republican lawmaker emailed the DRUDGE REPORT. “And if the ice really piles up, it will not be safe to travel.”

Meanwhile the BBC has caught with what may well be the worlds first Fauxdio.

TonyN at Harmless Sky wrote, (emphasis not original) “Last night I was reading through the full text of Barack Obama’s speech just before the BBC’s daily current affairs magazine, Newsnight, came on television. So his words were fresh in my mind when Susan Watts, Newsnight’s science editor, presented a piece on the implications of the speech for science in general and global warming in particular. I was surprised when it started with this sound bite from the inaugural speech : ‘ ‘We will restore science to its rightful place, [and] roll back the spectre of a warming planet. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories.’ I didn’t remember him saying that at all.”

Slight problem for the BBC there. Obama never said any such thing;

Here are the fragments (bolded) of Obama’s speech within the original sentences and immediate context. The sentences listed below did not run together but were scattered within two large paragraphs of text (see full paragraphs at Harmless Sky ). The phrases are placed in context and numbered to note the sequence in the editing done by the BBC:

* (1) We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its cost].

* (3) We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age.

* We will begin to responsibly leave Iraq to its people, and forge a hard-earned peace in Afghanistan. With old friends and former foes, we will work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat, and (2) roll back the specter of a warming planet. We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense….

It appears that Pally stringers have infiltrated the BBC en-masse and set up training schools on how to make shit up when the facts don’t fit the story.

Just so you understand what they did I’ll outline it real simple like.

1. They took a quote about health care and chopped it
2. Then they took a quote about sustainable fuels and chopped it
3. Then they took a quote about defense, peace and other stuff and chop that
4. Then they assemble all the chopped pieces together to make a statement that is demostrrably and palpably false

The BBC are liars and they lied using Obama’s words. Tacky, taudry and terrible.

Hamas terrorists exploded an IED on the border of Israel and Gaza last night killing an IDF soldier and wounding several more. It seems that Hamas doesn’t know or care what a truce is.

Goff calls for intervention over mortgage break fees – Labour leader Phil Goff is calling on the Government to clamp down on banks charging exorbitant fees to people wanting to break their mortgages due to hardship. Interest rates have been tumbling over the past few months and are… [NZ Herald Politics]

So let me get this straight. Phil Goff want to legislate to allow people to break contractual obligations.

I wonder if he will allow banks to similarly break contractual arrangements to shunt people smart enough to be on fixed low interest rate terms off onto higher interest rates when rates shoot up.

Of course he won’t.

It is simply unconscionable to be suggesting that people shouldn’t honour their contractual arrangement and to suggest the use of new laws to help the suckers out.

Interest Rates rise and Interest Rates fall. Locking in on the wrong side of the cycle is a suckers trap and some fall for it, tough shit.

If this is the best Goff can come up with after his Christmas break then the BBQ’s are going to be fired up pretty fast amongst the Labour caucus members.

Fiji polls up to 10 years away, says coup leader – Prime Minister John Key expressed disappointment today at suggestions from Fiji that a democratic election could be five or even 10 years away. Mr Key was speaking to reporters in Papua New Guinea this morning ahead of a special… [NZ Herald Politics]

There is a slight problem with the headline at the herald. The Commodore never said any such thing.

He stated that there would not be any election held until the work required to complete the Peoples Charter and the new constitution is completed and he “wants a return to a system of one vote per person, overturning the racially-based system implemented under reforms that followed the military coups in the 1980s.” He also said that “it did not matter if it took five or 10 years.”

That is quite a different story from the one the headline proposes. This is simply vexatious headline grabbing from the Herald.

It is actually quite refreshing to hear someone wanting a proper constitution and one vote, one person. If people want a immediate return to “democracy” in Fiji under the current constitution then they are supporting the disenfrachisement of over half of the population.

Pallywood has moved into overdrive ever since the Israeli’s moved out. They are getting creative even if the videos are somewhat stupid.

Hamas is now claiming that the Gaza Zoo, which they booby-trapped, was……uhmmmm….booby-trapped and animals were tortured and shot by the mad dog Israelis.

There is a slight problem with this contention and that is that the Israelis documented by video the booby-trapping of the Zoo some time ago during Operation Cast Lead.

Duh! Talk about an own goal by the Pally propagandists.

Anyway Little Green Footballs has provided us with another fantastic video proving the lies of teh Pallywood special and this video is from their own children televisions show. I think it gives us a good idea as to who killed and tortured the animals. (Caution for cat-lovers here)