Maybe now he can go back to winning golf tournaments.
Tiger Woods may have found love again amid reports the golf superstar is dating American ski champion Lindsey Vonn.
Woods, 37, has been seeing Vonn for the past two months, according to US gossip website hollywoodlife.com.
While Vonn, who has won Olympic gold, initially denied a relationship, there was apparently no outright denial of a romance with Woods when contacted this week.
This is an equal opportunity blog when it comes to putting the boot into troughers. It’s your money they are spending.
So as a bit of relief from exposing the crowd around the Ministry of Health’s lucky dip for the legions of Breast Feeding advocates, here’s an example of giving your tax dollars to rich folks.
John Key has just announced that he’s giving $650,000 to a bunch of people who want to have some fun whacking a small white ball around Michael Hill’s flash paddocks in Queenstown.
Good on you Michael for making millions and loving golf, but if you want some highly paid professionals who win millions having a weekend a of fun at your place, how about picking up the tab?
So in the scheme of things, $650,000 isn’t much, but the Ministry of Economic Development has blown $58 million (PDF 129k)through the Major Events Fund. Average spend per event $483,000; median $200,000. Golfers and TaeKwonDo enthusiasts among others are no doubt grateful.
As someone who gets to see most of the course either side of the fairway for my green fees I can appreciate a great shot when I see one. My usual appraoch to the green is from another fairway.
Watch as Martin Kaymer skips his ball across the water at Augusta Masters 2012:
Kiwi golfer Lydia Ko, who has been breaking all sorts of records.
New Zealand’s Lydia Ko rewrote golf’s record books as despair turned to delight on the 18th green at Oatlands today.
A year after she three-putted to gift Caroline Hedwall a one stroke victory in the NSW Open, the ultra-talented 14-year-old found redemption as she won her first ALPG tour title – and in doing so became the youngest woman ever to win a professional tournament.
The North Harbour teenager, by way of South Korea, held playing partner Lindsay Wright at bay over the third and final round to supplant Amy Yang at the top of the leader board of junior golfing prodigies with a commanding four shot victory.
Yang, a South Korean whose talent was nurtured on Australia’s Gold Coast, was 16 years and 192 days old when she won the 2006 ANZ Ladies Masters as an amateur.
Ko now holds that accolade as the youngest winner of a tournament sanctioned by the world’s five recognised women’s golf tours.
The blogmobile is off to Otaki electorate today/tonight.
We have interviews booked with Gerry Brownlee, Nathan Guy and Darren Hughes.
Submit your questions in the comments either here or on the new Blogmobile Site or the Facebook Group.
The latest Corruption for Dummies just landed in my inbox.
Whoever is mailing this has some serious motivation. This installment tells the sad story of Joe and Mary and the life they live under the corruption of the Peters/Clark Government.
The story has it all; scampi, bribes, murder, whoring, gangs, drugs, Emissions Trading Scheme (scam) and the author even nicks my lines about Winston Raymond Peters, 63, List MP of no fixed abode.
Have a read and pass it on.
He even says he has had a 30 year love-hate relationship……
The evidence is in then, Rudman is a cockroach.
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Editorial: Democracy under attack – When is the Government going to get this message: democracy is not a device to keep the Labour Party in power.
Practically every other participant in New Zealand politics – not only parties but other interested organisations and… [NZ Politics]
The NZ Herald blasts the government with its full page exposure of the draconian nature of the Electoral Finance Bill. It is very rare for the Herald to print a front page editorial.
They attack them not only on the Electoral Finance Bill but also on the Appropriations Bill currently also before Parliament.
[quote]Labour seems determined to use the time it has left to skew electoral laws in its favour.
Not only does it mean to make election debate the preserve of political parties, it has introduced this month a second electoral outrage – a bill to extend the law legalising the use of public money for political purposes that were ruled improper by the Auditor General after the last election.
The Clark Government's refusal to bow to public opinion on this subject beggars belief. It was staggering enough last year that Helen Clark and her lieutenants could not understand why nobody else regarded their electoral pledge card as innocent information.
Now, having grudgingly repaid the public purse, they are hell-bent on giving themselves the right to raid it again.
If these bills become law, politics will be largely confined to registered parties, and they will have to be able to use parliamentary funds for election campaigns.
Both measures are designed to favour the party that has devised them.[/quote]
To paraphrase the Herald, The interests of any healthy democracy lie in unrestricted debate,
not laws that favour incumbents with public finance and suppression of
free speech.
If these bills pass, they will be Labour's epitaph. Too right, Part of hopes they pass the law, the other part of me wants to make sure they don't
Anyway as of right now, this morning hundreds and thousands of Kiwi's know more about the Electoral Finance Bill than Labour ever wanted them to.
From Luke 2, 1-20
[quote]About that time Caesar Augustus ordered a census to be taken throughout the Empire. This was the first census when Quirinius was the governor of Syria. Everyone had to travel to his hometown to be accounted for. So Joseph went from the Galilean town of Nazareth up to Bethlehem in Judah, David’s hometown, for the census. As a decendant of David he had to go there. He went with Mary, his fiancee, who was pregnant.
While they were there, the time came for her to give birth. She gave birth to a son, her firstborn. She wrapped Him in a blanket and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the hostel.
There were shepherds camping in the neighborhood. They had set night watches over their sheep. Suddenly, God’s angel stood among them and God’s glory blazed around them. They were terrified. The angel said, "Don’t be afraid. I’m here to announce a great and joyful event that is meant for everybody worldwide: A Savior has just been born in David’s town, a Savior who is Messiah and Master. This is what you’re to look for: a baby wrapped in a blanket and lying in a manger."
At once the angel was joined by a huge angelic choir singing God’s praises: "Glory to God in the heavenly heights; Peace to all men and women on earth who please Him."
As the angel choir withdrew into heaven, the shepherds talked it over. "Let’s get over to Bethlehem as fast as we can and see for ourselves what God has revealed to us." They left, running, and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in the manger. Seeing was believing. They told everyone they met what the angels had said about this child. All who heard the shepherds were impressed.
Mary kept all these things to herself, holding them dear, deep within herself. The shepherds returned and let loose, glorifying and praising God for everything they had heard and seen. It turned out exactly the way they’d been told!"[/quote]
You can receive Christ right now by faith through prayer. Praying is simply talking to God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart. Here’s a suggested prayer:
Lord Jesus, I want to know You personally. Thank You for dying on the cross for my sins. I open the door of my life to You and ask You to come in as my Saviour and Lord. Take control of my life. Thank You for forgiving my sins and giving me eternal life. Bring peace to my world this Christmas. Make me the kind of person You want me to be.
If this prayer expresses the desire of your heart, pray it right now and Christ will come into your life as He promised. If you invited Jesus Christ into your life, thank God often that He is in your life, that He will never leave you and that you have eternal life.
