If you read the NZ Herald you would think that Pierre van Heerden, the head of Sanitarium, is some sort of master spy….or perhaps the secret head of the GCSB.

In not one, but two articles about spying and the GCSB they feature an image taken at the launch of the Food in Schools programme.

The first is from Brian Rudman, who obviously didn’t enjoy his trip to the theatre on the weekend since he has written about this and not a review.

Does the NZ Herald thinks Pierre van Heerden is a spy?

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Not kidding, that is the claim anyway in The Sun from a Labour politician….that he has fathered an alien baby…is it called Russel?

He wants us to believe he isn’t mad…but what are you to believe?

I mean he is a Labour politician and a socialist…so clearly mad…the alien stuff could well be true but the madness was proven before all that malarky came out.

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It’s 10:30, we have kicked the crap out of the green taliban all morning, time for a short interlude…let’s kick some teachers.

Or more precisely, let’s read what the Editorial of the Rotorua Daily Post has to say about the education system.

Despite my chosen profession, I’ve never been a perfect speller and there are still words the electronic spell checker reminds me I am yet to master.

In saying that, spelling things correctly is important to me, not only as a journalist, but in my personal life as well.

A Canterbury University study has found New Zealand teachers are not putting their understanding of how to teach spelling into practice in the classroom.

Some put it down to a full curriculum or large class sizes, others say they were not given the adequate skills to teach spelling at their university or teacher’s college.   Read more »

Kim Dotcom, watched on by his PR minder David Fisher, sheds a tear after NZ trustworthy stakes released

I wonder if David Fisher, Shayne Currie and the other mongs at the Herald are regretting turning their newspaper into a Kim Dotcom PR rag?

They should because despite their best PR efforts Kim Dotcom ranks very lowly indeed with Kiwis in trustworthy stakes…coming in at 98 out of a 100.  Read more »

This is surely the gayest ute ever…even gayer than Fossy’s gay ute.

I can imagine Farrar test driving this next.

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The NRA are perhaps the world’s best lobby group. I am a member, because they do what a lobby group is supposed to do, they represent and stick up for their members, and most importantly they deliver results.

I joined for another reason, to learn how they do what they do…and the emails they send out are a fantastic learning opportunity.

One thing that politicians in the US fear is the NRA…and they should. Now the NRA has another politician in their sights after successfully gathering enough signatures for a recall election in Colorado.

Colorado Senate President John Morse, the legislator who has become the face of the state’s tough new gun control laws, may be campaigning to save his political career now that the secretary of state has certified that his opponents turned in enough valid signatures to trigger a recall election.  Read more »

If there’s one thing militant conservationists tree/snail huggers are becoming increasingly notorious for, it is rank hypocrisy. When Nikola Toki isn’t busy jumping up and down about Bathurst Resources plan to mine the Denniston Plateau, opposing the creation of jobs and its flow on effects for the economy, she’s busy burning solid fuel and polluting the atmosphere with smoke.

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The Greens are trying to weasel out of their batshit crazy printing money policy by pretending it wasn’t really a policy.

O RLY?

SHANE: So just so we’ve got it clear – you want the Reserve Bank to go out and print some new money to buy some earthquake bonds off the government. The government then would use that money to help with the Christchurch rebuild – help build the sewers and the streets and that type of thing – and also to go towards saving for our next disaster.

DR NORMAN: That’s right.

SHANE: In a nutshell.

DR NORMAN: In a nutshell, and those earthquake— Because the government wouldn’t be borrowing for those earthquake bonds from overseas, that reduces the pressure on the New Zealand dollar.  Read more »

That so called back-down didn’t last long… Russel Norman on ZB last night defending printing money as a policy…

If you think the Green party has abandoned their policy you are sadly mistaken. As soon as Russel Norman is Co-Prime Minister and Finance Minister the printers will start churning out the dollars.   Read more »

After his politically expedient (and temporary) backdown on printing money, calling John Key names, and attacking power bosses who criticised his nationalisation plans –  I thought it was about time to bring back Russel Norman’s other big media triumph.

Gimme my flag back…