April 2010

Well you read it here first on Friday night.

Then today you can read it again.

Jonathan Marshall did some work and finds out a bit more as does the Sunday News.

Where was HoS? They were too lazy to even bother repeating.

At least we know now that Matthew Ridge sits down to piss.

John Ansell draws attention to Nick Smith’s hypocrisy over emissions trading and dubs it Nickpocrisy. I think that make a nice nickname for Nick Smith and so it is added to the Politicianary.

Nickpocrisy

I am tired of people saying that ANZAC Day glorifies war and that it is bad.

ANZAC Day glorifies SACRIFICE to set people free.

Right now I wish I was in Sydney to enjoy a celebration rather than the commemoration we will have here.

I made this video 3 years ago. I don’t think I can make a better one.

Thanks, you know who you are.

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.
Robert E. Lee

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant

There will be no other posts until 1pm today.

The tipline is running hot. This bell has rung a couple of times.

Is it true that Terry the Piss also owes ACC $2 million for the Phoenix players ACC premiums?

Seems a lot of money.

So far the equation seems to be wcc + acc = 4

I bet TVNZ is really pissed off they didn’t do due diligence. All they had to do was around Wellington.

A muslim hate site has issued death threats against South Park.

“South Park,” the Comedy Central series, is an animated show that tries its best to push buttons and the boundaries of free speech by mocking every high-profile target in sight, from Hollywood celebrities to religious figures. But its creators may have gotten more than they bargained for with two recent episodes that satirized the Prophet Muhammad — one that elicited an ominous message from an Islamic group based in New York, and one that was censored by the cable network that shows it.

In the 200th episode of South Park the characters agonizing over how to bring Muhammad to their fictional Colorado town. At first the character said to be Muhammad is confined to a U-Haul trailer, and is heard speaking but is not shown. Later in the episode the character is let out of the trailer, dressed in a bear costume.

The next day the “South Park” episode was criticized by the group Revolution Muslim in a post at its Web site, revolutionmuslim.com. The post, written by a member named Abu Talhah Al-Amrikee, said the episode “outright insulted” the prophet, adding: “We have to warn Matt and Trey that what they are doing is stupid, and they will probably wind up like Theo van Gogh for airing this show. This is not a threat, but a warning of the reality of what will likely happen to them

The cowards at the network censored South Park so as not to offend Muslims. Fuckers, they were quite happy to offend Catholics. Either you offend everyone or noone. There is no median.

Jon Stewart leaps into the argument.

There is of course another solution.

Draw Mohammed Day

On the Nation today Phil Goff effectively conceded the next election.

He won’t categorically agree to reverse any GST increase despite spending thousands campaigning around the country on our ticket and he wants to reverse any tax cuts implemented by National. Worse that he will work with Winston Raymond Peters, 65, unemployed of St Mary’s Bay.

DUNCAN: Would you also cut the GST increase which is coming in the May Budget, you’ve campaigned on it for the last few months, more than 15%, can you give us a direct answer to that?

PHIL: Yeah well I’ve given the direct answer and it said that the honest answer is we can’t tell at this stage whether we can do that, we’ve gotta sum up what the situation is at the time, we’re going to under promise and over deliver, not the other way around.

DUNCAN: Okay, well that’s a no as far as I’m concerned.

PHIL: No no, it’s that we’re keeping our options open, but we’re not making promises that we don’t think that we can carry out or don’t know yet.

DUNCAN: Ten years ago when Labour came to office you campaigned on that top rate of tax 39 cents, it’s now 38, it’s not secret that John Key and the National government are going to drop that to 33 in the next budget.  Would you go into the next election campaigning for a return to that top rate?

PHIL: What we’d go in to the next election about is using that two billion dollars, most of which will go to the very top income earners, to help middle income and low income earners in New Zealand, it shouldn’t just go to the few the top 7%, middle income earners are finding it pretty tough, they miss out both ways, low income earners are struggling to make ends meet, they’re the people that are the priorities.

DUNCAN: Can I get a specific answer to that question?

PHIL: Yeah, it will be about making sure that the tax cuts when we get in are turned around to be fair to middle and lower income earners, and not just to reward the privileged few.

National will be ecstatic about this. Labour can’t be believed with their Axe the Tax campaign and they will put taxes up. Those are the simple sound bites that no matter how Phil Goff and Labour spins it will be what their policy is all about. Increasing taxes.

DUNCAN: Philosophically Labour has always agreed with that top rate of tax targeting those people just like Michael Cullen did when he came to office in 1999, you still haven’t given me and the viewers a direct answer about whether Labour would have a top rate of tax.

PHIL: Oh look 38 cents in the dollar is not a high top tax rate by international standards.  In Australia it’s 45, in the United Kingdom it’s 50, in Scandinavia it’s 60.  We’re comfortable with 38, if there’s gonna be tax cuts they should go to the middle and lower income earners, not simply the privileged elite.  That’s a very clear answer.

DUNCAN: Just to make it even clearer would you restore it back to 38?

PHIL : Oh 38 I’m very comfortable with, I see no reason to cut the top tax rate below that, in preference to helping middle and lower income earners.

So what  we can now tell is that Phil Goff won’t let taxes go below 38 cents and also thinks that 38 cents is very low. He lies by omission by concentrating on just tax rates without addressing thresholds and whilst Australia a top rate of 45 cents it has much, much higher thresholds.

PHIL:  There are things that I disagree with that they do, some of their policy I think are bad, some of their other policy ideas are akin to ours, if we have to we’ll work with the Greens, we’ll work with the Maori Party, we’d work with New Zealand First if it came back, but it would be around a programme that we think is for New Zealanders and what New Zealanders need.

Good. So now the voters know that a vote for Labour is a vote for Winston Peters. The best laugh is last though.

DUNCAN: I just want one thing, this week you had that survey, you talked about funky, futuristic, cool.

PHIL: I didn’t talk about those things.

DUNCAN:Well your party is, how would you describe yourself in one word?

PHIL: In one word, I’m interested in a better New Zealand, that’s why I’m in politics.

Phil Goff can’t even count. Can a man who doesn’t know what one word means be trusted to run the countries finances. He uses 11 words when asked for one!

At least we know that voting for a Phil Goff led Labour party will mean something now. It will mean higher taxes, GST remaining at 15%, Winston Peters back in a ministerial limousine.

The Clown of Campbells Bay, Andrew Williams has again gone media bashing, this time against the North Shore Times.

DESPITE sending an email at Easter saying “two blokes got crucified this week”, mayor Andrew Williams says it’s wrong to assume the other bloke is Jesus.

An angry Mr Williams contacted the North Shore Times to criticise its coverage of a leaked email sent after intense media scrutiny about his behaviour.

The email read: “Yes two blokes got crucified this week … and both will most certainly rise from the dead to come back and haunt people.”

The North Shore Times reported that in the leaked email Mr Williams compared himself to Jesus being crucified.

Mr Williams told the paper he could have been talking about anyone.

He said the paper was “inflaming a situation which is quite inappropriate”.

When asked who the other bloke was he referred to at Easter Mr Williams said: “I don’t have to say who I’m comparing myself with.”

FFS the man is an idiot, there is only one person who was crucified and rose from the dead. Who else could he have been talking about?

The man is a an A-Class fuckwit, he can’t even get his story straight on this one despite us all having his email where he said it. He still doesn’t get that Custer was a pin-cushion after Little Big Horn.

Terry the Piss is in the poo.

The Apprentice star Terry Serepisos is being chased by creditors and is struggling to pay about $2 million in unpaid rates and ground rents to Wellington City Council.

A Dominion Post investigation has learnt that the council has met regularly with Mr Serepisos – but he has yet to settle the substantial debt.

It is understood Mr Serepisos has told the council he is struggling to pay – and if the council takes action to recover the money it could jeopardise the Wellington Phoenix football franchise he owns. Mr Serepisos said yesterday that he had pumped a total of $5 million into the football club, which this week received a five-year extension to continue in the A-League.

The Dominion Post has learnt the council has offered repeated extensions at meetings, which have included chief executive Garry Poole, amid growing concerns at the mounting debt.

I wonder if Terry the Piss disclosed his financial problems to TVNZ? I wonder if TVNZ did any due diligence? I wonder why Terry the Piss just doesn’t bring some of his cash back from Hong Kong or is there some sort of problem with that?

Has anyone wondered that his surname is a derivative of Serapis, the God of the Underworld?

The tipline has been running hot.

Apparently Matthew Ridge/Complete Cock was down at Agents & Merchants Thursday night. For those who don’t know A&M it is a Viaduct Britomart restaurant/bar that serves lovely tapas, classy wine and superb food, or so thThe Whale’s spy tells him.

Quite why Mr. Ridge/Cock was down there, because he has zero class at all, is beyond me. Word has it that Ridge/Cock had to speed to the bogs and when he came out got all agro and pissed off the manager and the nice polite Mr. Bouncer. When asked to remove his inflated ego from the joint he starting shouting “Do you know who I am?” Yes Mr. Ridge/Cock we do know who you are.

Mr. Bouncer removed Mr. Ridge/Cock from the restaurant/bar and escorted the toser outside. At this point Mr. Ridge/Cock decided to get uppity and really aggressive, he kept on shouting “Do you know who I am?” and doing the whole, lean forward, shoulders back yelling and fist shaking thingy at Mr. Bouncer. We know who he is and now what he is, a complete cock.

Mr. Bouncer apparently got a little sick of all this and Mr. Ridge/Cock was assisted to the ground in 1 second flat with a well timed tap to the face.

Word has it Mr. Ridge/Cock isn’t welcome back and scuttled off with applause for Mr. Bouncer ringing in his ears. His ears would have been ringing for other reasons.

Edward (Eb) Poul­ter Leary