August 2009

Website FAIL!

Parliamentary Services needs a good kick in the pants. Apparently NZ First are still in parliament and still part of the government.

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Len Brown turns his back on Manukau

At midnight the other night Len Brown’s council funded campaigner Conor Roberts sent out multiple emails inviting people to an event .

Len Brown has an important announcement regarding the future of Auckland at 2pm this Sunday.

The thing is he is going to make this announcement on the slopes of One Tree Hill, in Auckland City.

He has turned his back on his support base in Manukau in order to try to score cheap political points in Auckland City. Not only that he didn’t even bother to invite his own councillors in the email.

One thing for sure that is now abundantly clear is that there is set to be a war on the left. Where does this imminent announcement of Len Brown’s candidature leave Mike Lee and Bob Harvey?

Is Labour falling in behind Len Brown? That would be a turn of events for Len who assiduously campaigned last time to avoid the Labour hack tag by running blue and green coloured signs. Len Brown needs to come clean about who he will be standing for. With a Labour lickspittle working in his office people have the right to ask.

No race based seats in Auckland

Nice to see that there are to be no raced based seats imposed on the people of Auckland. Cabinet wisely decided to let the people of Auckland decide for themselves whether there would be the need for race-based seats.

The protesters should now lift their game and stop using 70′s and 80′s methods of protesting and start planning for a referendum and winning at the ballot box.

They won’t of course, they will organise a march, wave some flags, shake some sticks and dance and prance their way up Queen Street and the result will remain the same at the end of it all.

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Welcome to Gotcha!

Welcome to Gotcha! the new home of Whale Oil Beef Hooked and Cactus Kate.

We have been planning this for some time and everything, well almost, is now in place.

There are a few new features including some aspects of social networking built in.

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The "Carter Defence" used again

With all the furore about gay rights etc over the years I would have thought pooftahs had learned to harden up. But Chris Carter used the “It’s because I’m gay” defence in order to support his attack on critics against his excessive troughing.

Not is seems whenever a homo gets in a spot of bother he attacks his critics with what has now become known as the “Carter Defence”.

A Waikato principal convicted on fraud charges has complained to the Human Rights Commission, claiming the school’s board harassed him for being gay.

Huntly West Primary principal Barry Bloomfield, 56, pleaded guilty in Hamilton District Court in May to fraud and theft.

He admitted obtaining $17,000 for a relief teacher who did not exist and selling the school’s pool fence on Trade Me for $4600.

He was to be sentenced last month but disputed some of the facts. These would be the subject of an October 22 hearing. Bloomfield, who was sacked, has complained to the Human Rights Commission, saying he was victimised for being gay.

Board chairman Bob Tukiri said Bloomfield claimed he was called a “poofter” and had to lock himself in his office because he was scared. Mr Turiki denied the claims, saying he had not known Bloomfield was gay while they worked together and he was now trying to make the school look bad.

Oh diddums.

Which message to believe?

If you live on the North Shore, which message on beach safety do you believe?

The message on the front page at the very top of the North Shore council website that says there is a toxin to be found on North Shore beaches, referencing the public health and safety organisation recommendations that dogs should not be brought to the beach?

Or do you follow the public utterances of the Mad Mayor of the North Shore that its alright to take your dog to the beach?

Send answers on the back of an AA pamphlet to:

Andrew Williams
Northern Service Centre of the future Auckland Council
Private Bag 93500
Takapuna 0622
Auckland

Rudd's Hair

As New Zealand looks at embarking down the path of our very own ETS let’s look at the Australian model.

From Andrew Bolt comes this succint look at the fixing of a non-problem. If Australia’s contribution to Carbon pollution is a hair from the head of Kevin Rudd then New Zealand’s is about the same as a gnats whisker.

Michael Smith‘s editorial on 4BC yesterday seemed to go down very well:

Here’s a way to understand Mr Rudd’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.

Imagine 1 kilometre of atmosphere that we want to rid of human carbon pollution.  We’ll have a walk along it.

The first 770 metres are Nitrogen.

The next 210 metres are Oxygen.

That’s 980 metres of the 1 kilometre.  20 metres to go.

The next 10 metres are water vapour.  10 metres left.

9 metres are argon.  Just 1 more metre.

A few gases make up the first bit of that last metre.

The last 38 centimetres of the kilometre – that’s carbon dioxide.

A bit over one foot.

97% of that is produced by Mother Nature.  It’s natural. 

Out of our journey of one kilometre, there are just 12 millimetres left.  About half an inch.  Just over a centimetre.

That’s the amount of carbon dioxide that global human activity puts into the atmosphere.

And of those 12 millimetres Australia puts in .18 of a millimetre.

Less than the thickness of a hair.  Out of a kilometre.


As a hair is to a kilometre – so is Australia’s contribution to what Mr Rudd calls Carbon Pollution. 

Imagine Brisbane’s new Gateway Bridge, ready to be officially opened by Mr Rudd.  It’s been polished, painted and scrubbed by an army of workers till its 1 kilometre length is surgically clean.  Except that Mr Rudd says we have a huge problem, the bridge is polluted – there’s a human hair on the roadway.  We’d laugh ourselves silly.

There are plenty of real pollution problems to worry about.  It’s hard to imagine that Australia’s contribution to carbon dioxide in the world’s atmosphere is one of the more pressing ones.  And I can’t believe that a new tax on everything is the only way to blow that pesky hair away.

Perhaps we all need to just take a few deep breaths.

Monday Randominity

MacDoctor dispells the leftist myths around the smacking referendum.

Cactus Kate imvestigates house-buying from the perspective of someone who thinks buying a house is like looking for a perfect husband.

Bummer thinks democracy is ok, but only when it suits him, when it doesn’t we are all dumb.

Tapu Misa is thick as pig shit and thinks John Key should ignore the referendum.

Brian Rudman continues the leftist love affair with trains that no-one will catch.

 

At last some out of the box thinking

What a great idea. New Zealand is hosting a conference on slavery.

This is fantastic idea that should really get the economy humming. The Roman’s after all built an empire off of the backs of slave labour. Sometimes the old ideas aren’t dead.

Oh wait…..I just read the article….bummer.

Actually most Kiwis would think they are free, when the reality of being chained to their job should dis-abuse them of that notion. We still have slavery in the western world, we just call our slaves by a different name, employees.

Most New Zealanders are a pay cheque away from insolvency, that makes them a slave to their job and to their boss.

Crude description I know, but I challenge anyone to prove me wrong.

Andrew Williams should resign

Andrew WilliamsThe Mad Mayor, the Clown of Campbells Bay, Andrew Williams must resign.

Just a day after his mad stunt defying health authorities by walking his dog on North Shore beaches we hear about a child who now fallen ill after a sip of sea water.

This proves that Andrew Willims is unfit for office. He openly defies healh authorities despite his own council being notified about the ill child.

The man is a walking, talking health menace. He must resign.