I can’t believe the fuss. This product from Apple is disappointing with a capital ‘D’.
It is easier to list what it doesn’t have:
All that equals NO SALE!
This video which predates the iPad by several years is….well….apt.
Oh Dear, Shane “Five Chins” Jones is pissing off the Maori Party and Now Tiger is throwing insults at the Greens. I think we can be assured that Labour will “go it alone” as a strategy for the next election. Just waiting fro Creepy Cosgrove to slander Jim Anderton and the insult chain will be complete.
Now I don’t support Metiria’s politics at all but credit where credit is due she knows Social Media better than most MPs and certainly a lot better that Tiger Mallard whose little tanty has now made it a story. I just bet that “Cut and paste is readying a post just as soon as he finished his Boss Burger combo he had for afternoon tea.
Here is the exchange that lead to Tiger Mallard de-friending Metiria Turei on Facebook:
Trevor Mallard: 25c/hour. $10 week for 40 hours then minus tax, extra acc, ets charges. Not fair John Key. It should be $15.
Metiria Turei: Trevor, with genuine respect, my question is why didn’t you do it when you had the chance? It has been the right thing to do for years.
Trevor Mallard: We moved it from $7 to $12. Trajectory would have had it at $14. Not much real help from you guys esp since Russel started cuddling tories.
Metiria Turei: Getting personal wont help here – this is a political debate about the use of power when you have it to weild.
I agree that the minimum wage did rise under Labour. Even if the trajectory, in the best of circumstances, would have had it at $14 in 2010, it was still a slow process over nearly 10 years.
The issue now is to make sure that we have a political commitment from parties that the minimum wage will go to at least $15 ph or to, as the petition says, “66% of the average total hourly earning as defined in the Quarterly Employment Survey”. We need a commitment to kepp closing that gap in the short and long term and a commitment fairly sharing the cost of eliminating poverty.Trevor Mallard: Metiria the txts and phones are running hot at your choice to attack Labour rather than Nats on multiple sites on this issue – general disbelief – from both Greens and Labour people. This is politics not personal.
Metiria Turei: We have to live with our legacies and its hard sometimes.
Its not unreasonable to ask what the barriers to doing the right thing was in the past and whether those barriers will still be in place in the future. What we need now is positive future focused commitments.Trevor Mallard: Metiria Cant tell if you are trying to be cute or smart or what. I am very proud of the progress Labour made on the minimum wage. Took it from $7 to $12. Way way ahead of inflation and change in average wages.
Worked closely with Sue Bradford on the youth issue. And she knew how to work on an issue wither there was broad agreement and it didn’t involve repeating the very lines the National party used to attack Labour as you have done tonight.
I love a good cat fight. Points win to Metiria for keeping her cool. Is anyone else loving Trevor playing with blogs? I sure am…comedic gold almost every day.
Wait, wait, it is possible that Phil Goff is onto something with his idea to cap Government sector salaries.
I propose that we cap them at the minimum wage.
The joke of his bleating today though was moaning “bludgers” who evade the top rate of tax as well as those at the other end “who dishonestly rip off the community for which they are not entitled; who think the rest of us own them a living, while they make no effort to help themselves.”
Uhmmm, if tax rates were at rate where it just wasn’t worth it to dodge taxes then the problem would disappear. The system has become iniquitous when just 10% pay 73% of the taxes. Not only that it was Phil Goff’s participation in the previous government that enabled legislation that paid middle and upper income earners welfare and incentivised them to arrange their affairs in the most beneficial manner to them.
And that last bit, was that benny bashing? I’ll check the Standard, they call that at the slightest hint….oh wait..nothing there.
Phil Goff is an empty vessel and making a lot of noise.
The new Green MP is loaded with real world experience, he should contribute a great deal to the parliament.
At 26 years of age, Gareth is the youngest Green Party electorate candidate. Gareth used to be a boy racer, worked in a fish and chip store, a supermarket, he’s been a radio DJ, a telemarketer, a pamphlet deliverer, a hospital orderly, a barman, and a fundraiser. Since then, Gareth has been arrested dressed as Ronald McDonald, learnt to climb buildings and unfurled a protest banner in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
L.O.S.E.R.
Fitzsimons steps down as MP – effective immediately
The last real environmentalist has resigned from the Greens leaving the Communist takeover of the Green part complete.
No longer are they Watermelons, they are Tomatoes, Rotten and Red to the Core Tomatoes.
By Jeanette, I’m sure you meant well.
“Tiger” Mallard has a post about taxation. He points us at the weasel explanation at the top of the site and then launches it a rather confusing tirade about tax, that ironically now sits above “Mangrove” Nash’s piece of stupidity on the page.
Firstly he admits that Labour made foreign ownership in our tax system worse. Quite what he means is, I suspect, beyond even him to explain. I fail to see how foreign investment in New Zealand is a bad thing and New Zealand countries buying, oh I don’t know….overseas airports, or breweries, or paper plants is somehow wonderful and good. With Globalisation you can’t shut your borders to foreign investment and then expect open access for our own countries. Labour or at least Tiger Mallard think that was where they made things worse.
Then he proposes a solution:
What is the answer? Eliminate the margin between company and top personal rates. You can do this one of three ways:
First, reduce top tax rates down to meet company rates. Second, increase company tax to the top personal rate. Or third (my preference) be fiscally neutral about it and get them to meet at about 36c and while you are at it put the trust rate at that level too.
That means Kiwis can foot it on equal terms buying our assets – it also means we have a tax effect neutral system for choosing the form a business takes – and that is a good thing.
No Tiger, dear, it isn’t a good thing. You have just decided to reverse Labour policy and at the same proposed raping new Zealanders pockets, their companies pockets and family trusts that much more. He has no evidence that his solution would be fiscally neutral he just runs off at the mouth. Finally he reckons having all the top tax rates, company tax and Trust tax at wonderful nirvana of 36%. The man is loopy.
I guess we can one thing at least. Tiger doesn’t own a company and never has, he doesn’t have any assets in a trust, and doesn’t have any money because the missus cleaned him out. All that paints him is an aging, angry, twat masquerading as an intellectual power house when it comes to finance and the reality is he is a drop-kick, broken-arsed loser.
Has he even bothered discussing this with Goff or “Mangrove” Nash?
I love calling out Repeaters and especially when their editorial message is confused at best to just so egregiously wrong it warrants a smacking.
NZ Herald Editorial, 22 January 2010 - Three strikes law deserve the death sentence
“Imprisonment is not the most effective way of reducing recidivism, and building prisons is not the best use of taxpayer dollars.”
Ok we get it, putting people isn’t working says “FIGJAM” Power the NZ Herald Editor.
NZ Herald Editorial, 28 January 2010 – Why corporate cheats need the threat of jail
“The possibility of imprisonment would introduce a significant deterrent.”
Mmmmm-o-kay, Colour me confused. In the space of just six days the Herald has jail doesn’t stop recidivism when everyone knows that crim locked up doesn’t commit anymore crimes while he is on the inside and then today they say that jail will stop recidivist Corporate Cheats.
Maybe FIGJAM Power the NZ Herald Editor“FIGJAM Power” got his messages confused, or perhaps the stress of being the most competent minister and New Zealand’s next Top Prime Minister is getting to him.
You know the problem with liberal panty-waists and people without principles is that they never actually stand for anything. Then they try and weasel their way around the masses of contradictions their everyday utterance vomit forth.
In this case it is pointless giving new detention powers when everyone in business knows that it the sheer indolence of the Commerce Commission and their unwillingness to use any lead in a pencil that is the problem with our regulatory environment not the penalties.
Simon “FIGJAM” Power cites cartels as willfully ignoring the law. Well they will when they don’t even fget investigated by the wombles at ComCom.
David Farrar has a rather tame post about ACT VP candidate Kevin Campbell making derogatory comments about John Key’s Jewish heritage.
Kevin Campbell is also running around saying that Roger “Yeltsin” Douglas is endorsing his candidature.
Frankly anyone endorsed by the Boris Yeltsin of New Zealand politics deserves a right good smacking. What a tosser putting an endorsement by Yeltsin on his brochure.
Clearly this twat needs to rejoin Labour from whence he came
And my sources tell me that this is just another play at failing at a leadership coup by Yeltsin against Hide. Campbell and another tosser by the name of Tashkoff are always moaning worse than a whore who has been short changed.
Well getting the support of Yeltsin, who couldn’t count to three at the latest attempted coup is like having Pol Pot endorse your nomination for the Nobel peace prize.
They are traitors and should be carded.
In National if some tosser went around claiming the support of an MP they wouldn’t get within a bulls roar of a nomination. Party members do not like being instructed how to vote by the parliamentary wing and it almost always ends in ignominious failure for the poseur.
Here is a video of Roger Douglas hard at work on his next book – Finishing my Business
PS I am not an ACT party member
PPS Note to DPF when putting a hit on actually hit the target. Don’t gum them like Nana with her teeth out.
