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And most other places in the country, for that matter.
South Cantabrians just love their cars
Latest vehicle registration figures from the New Zealand Transport Authority show there are more than enough vehicles registered in South Canterbury for every man, woman and child to be on the road at the same time.
Andrew Williams got hammered, urinated in the street and drove drunk which is nothing in comparison to this mayor:
Mayor Rob Ford of Toronto has long been dogged by controversy over his often boorish behavior and less than diligent attention to work. On Friday, Mr. Ford faced his greatest political test following two reports that he is seen in a video apparently using crack cocaine.The Toronto Star and the Web site Gawker reported on Thursday night that they were shown the video on a smartphone by two men who were trying to sell it. The Star, which said that two of its reporters had watched the recording, reported that it was made by a man who said he had sold crack to Mr. Ford.
Mr. Ford called the accusations of crack use “ridiculous.” Read more »
Take a look at this example of piss poor parking. The blue car on the right was parked by my other half who is learning to drive. She would have been straighter if us wasn’t for this git!
I had to move to another space as I didn’t trust the scrapes down the right side of the black Honda
Yeah, but did you issue a ticket?
Gareth Hughes needs to take lesson in social media from Judith Collins.
As a well-travelled Green MP who is resides in Wellington, you would think that he would be alert to his carbon footprint and the evils of climate change by swimming then walking to Christchurch.
24 hours after protesting against NZ’s fourth largest export worth $2bn each year, oil, you think he would be careful about travel and the stench of hypocrisy. Read more »
Cina has one of the strictest censorship regimes in the world but little by little information about their dodgy ratbags still seeps out:
Visitors from mainland China climb the narrow stairs to a cramped room here filled with forbidden delights: shelves of scandal-packed exposés about their Communist Party masters.
The People’s Recreation Community bookstore and several others on Hong Kong’s teeming shopping streets specialize in selling books and magazines banned by the Chinese government, mostly for their luridly damning accounts of party leaders, past and present. And at a time when many Chinese citizens smolder with distrust of their leaders, business is thriving. Read more »
Teacher Unions are the same the world over. They all believe that their education sectors are “national treasures” despite results and empirical evidence to the contrary.
Every now and then a politician comes along to challenge them and they become public enemy number one for daring to challenge the status quo.
Michael Gove was ridiculed by the president of the National Association of Head Teachers, who compared him to a hyperactive personal trainer.
“At times it feels as though we are at the whim of some kind of fanatical personal trainer, constantly urging us all to go faster, faster, higher and higher on a constant treadmill,” Bernadette Hunter told delegates attending the organisation’s annual conference in Birmingham. Read more »
Cactus Kate writes about the pay equity battle and new evidence that women are letting their own side down.
She is at her cutting best:
Finally a decent piece on how professional women shirk their responsibilities in the workforce.
Find it hard to get a medical appointment? Especially in a tax payer funded area of medicine. Yes, well this has been building for years. A bit like female legal partners who only work three days a week. Who wants to employ someone who will not answer your emergency call on a Wednesday? I want to know what they do for those two days off. Play golf? Do their husband’s laundry? Read more »
The lunatic left all promote a ‘Robin Hood’ tax, aka a Tobin Tax or Financial Transactions Tax. Matt McCarten, himself a stranger to paying tax, even promoted it in the Herald on Sunday.
The problem with such a tax is that it doesn’t work, and it has been tried before with disastrous consequences..
James Tobin, a Nobel-prize-winning economist and disciple of Keynes, first proposed the idea of a global transactions tax—on foreign exchange—in 1972. This newspaper has regularly criticised it on two counts: it would be unworkable unless all governments signed up to it (and perhaps even if they did); and a levy would harm the liquidity of financial markets, making asset prices more volatile. Now there is a third, equally valid objection: that a Tobin tax is a poor solution to the problems in banking—too much leverage, too little care taken in assessing risks and banks that are deemed too big to fail. Read more »
