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Advisers: Crime laws will hurt NZ’s image – Foreign Affairs officials are warning the Government that its hardline sentencing and non-parole policy risk damaging New Zealand’s international reputation. They say National’s “no parole for the worst murderers” policy and the… [NZ Herald Politics]

The pointy heads at Foreign Affairs clearly have never visited South Auckland, ever.

If they had then they would know that the population of New Zealand is heartily sick of namby-pamby wankers like them always sticking up for fricken criminals.

We don’t care about what other countries think, we want violent criminals who repeat offend locked up , pretty much for the length of their natural life. Any human rights of the criminal that might be breached is tough shit. They should have thought about that when they breached the human rights of their victims.

from The Firearm Blog

The Onion on the urgent recall of hollow point bullets.

Manufacturer Recalls Hollow Point Bullets That Fail To Explode Inside Targets

Some whack job thinks that that the advertising for Trumpets is porn and contains an image of a penis of jelly which is offensive to him and accrodingly he has complained to the Advertising SAtandards Authority.

For the purposes of clarity this is a penis and this is an icecream. (Don’t click the link if you are offended by the image of a penis) What next a vagina shaped pudding?

The unions…..of course. In fact the only money spent on the Right was by David, Bernard and me under our Free Speech Coalition hat.  in fact we were outspent by the unions by almost $8 for every one of ours.

The Electoral Commission has published the details of spending by registered third parties in 2009. From largest to smallest they are:

1. CTU $104,110
2. PSA $71,304
3. Free Speech Coalition $29,491
4. Dairy Workers Union $16,740
5. NZ Meat Workers Union $8,571
6. EPMU $5,690
7. Maritime Union $3,282
8. Vote for the Environment $1,296
9. NUPE $1,285
10. Health Cuts Hurt $293

The Dairy Workers Union must be the dumbest idiots on the block not only did they list the donations they made – $10,000 to CTU, $12,000 to Labour and $3,000 to the Greens the funny thing they did was give to the Greens the very party that wants to gut Dairy and would put all the Dairy Workers Union members out of a job.

Labour cites ACC minister – The Labour Party has lodged a privileges complaint against the ACC Minister. Senior whip Darren Hughes said Nick Smith misled the House – which is against Parliament’s rules – in Parliament last Thursday. Dr Smith told the House… [NZ Herald Politics]

If this is the best that Darren Hughes can do then he most certainly isn’t even fit to be an MP let alone a List MP and he certainly won’t be any leader of anything except the Ginga Kids Club in Otaki.

Labour are bereft of any ideas, they blithely think they have just lost a little bit of confidence from ‘the people’. They demonstrate oalmost on a daily basis why we slung their sorry asses from power.

The Cock from Campbells Bay, Andrew Williams, has certainly upset a fair few people including that nice guy from Newmarket, Cameron Brewer.

Newmarket Business Association head Cameron Brewer said Mr Williams’ comments were “unnecessarily provocative, patronising, and potentially damaging”.

They had set back Auckland’s relationship with the rest of the country and were potentially negative for business.

He said rural towns were feeling the pinch now more than ever, and that such arrogance coming from Auckland was a bad look for everyone. “With that in mind Mr Williams needs to apologise for any offence he may have caused.”

What a nice guy, pity he isn’t also the mayor for North Shore. As ‘Mayor’ of Newamarket he has certainly put them on the map for all the right reasons.

Brian Rudman : Rest of NZ owes Auckland big time for roads – Good riddance to the iniquitous double-fuel tax the Labour Government imposed on Aucklanders to help fund roading and public transport improvements. Now all we need is for ill-informed commentators and politicians, such as Television… [NZ Herald Politics]

Brian Rudman, normally a clothe cap wearing, card carrying socialist whinger has chuck in his card and burned his cap today. He has taken a massive step towards creating some credibility for himself and a huge leap towards the light of the right.

Good riddance to the iniquitous double-fuel tax the Labour Government imposed on Aucklanders to help fund roading and public transport improvements.

Now all we need is for ill-informed commentators and politicians, such as Television One News, North Shore Mayor Andrew Williams and Labour transport spokesman Darren Hughes, to stop suggesting that abolishing the regional tax will be at the expense of the poor salt-of-the-earth crofters of provincial New Zealand.

For decades, Auckland fuel taxes have been flowing disproportionately out of the region into trophy roads through the empty expanses of Wairarapa and Canterbury and other National Party-voting rural strongholds.

The regional fuel tax was just another attempt by a provincial Minister of Finance, a Labour one this time, to maintain the imbalance.

Absolutely right on the button Mr Rudman. He climbs into The Ginga Whinga Darren “Razor, what razor” Hughes and the Cock from Campbells Bay, Andrew Williams as well.

The Cock of Campbells Bay, Andrew Williams has upset the whole country this time instead of just his ratepayers. He will ensure, all by himself, that the North Shore will want amalgamation just to be rid of the fool.

Every time a new hot day comes along all the global warming shills like Bomber and the Greens all claim that this is the end, the world is warming…blah, blah, blah.

Quite frankly I am over all the bullshit. Global Warming, Climate Change or whatever you want to call it is bullshit.

Global warming’s no longer happening

So why are eco types moaning about record highs while ignoring record lows?

By Lorne Gunter, The Edmonton Journal March 16, 2009

So far this month, at least 14 major weather stations in Alberta have recorded their lowest-ever March temperatures. I’m not talking about daily records; I mean they’ve recorded the lowest temperatures they’ve ever seen in the entire month of March since temperatures began being recorded in Alberta in the 1880s.

This past Tuesday, Edmonton International Airport reported an overnight low of -41.5 C, smashing the previous March low of -29.4 C set in 1975. Records just don’t fall by that much, but the airport’s did. Records are usually broken fractions of degrees. The International’s was exceeded by 12 degrees.

To give you an example of how huge is the difference between the old record and the new, if Edmonton were to exceed its highest-ever summer temperature by the same amount, the high here some July day would have to reach 50 C. That’s a Saudi Arabia-like temperature.

So let’s hear now how the underlying trend is warmer…..come on…prove your point. You can’t and we know you are lying and we are over it.

When is someone in government going to get it through their thick skulls that rail in Auckland will NEVER work, EVER.

To give you an example of screwed the public transport system is in Auckland I give you the Maxx website.

This site is meant to help you plan a journey. So let’s do that shall we.

Let’s say I live in Howick (I do) and let’s say I work in Henderson at one of the industrial areas between Bruce McLaren Road and Henderson Valley Road like Corban Avenue ( I don’t). Now let’s plug that into the handy little calculator and tell it that I need to be at work at 0830. The wonderful little site tell me that I have to leave home at 5.56am and have a 2hrs and 12min Walk/Bus/Walk/Bus/Walk trip ahead of me. The walking is almost a kilometre but the good news is that I get to work at 8.08am. There is a helpful suggestion of an alternative trip that leaves at the same time and involves a Walk/Bus/Walk/Train/Walk/Bus/Walk trip and takes only 1hr 53 mins. Whoopy!! I still have to sit in public transport and travel for 2 hours just to get to work and then do the same all over again in reverse to get home. the cost of each trip is also $12.90 or almost $26.00 per day!!!!

To drive the same trip at that time would max out at 40 minutes and cost nowhere near that amount in fuel even driving a Hummer. And that is in a place where there are fricken train tracks!!!

Trains only work if you happen to live in a suburb that has a line and work in a suburb with the same line. This changing trains, buses, walking crap is why people don’t do public transport in Auckland. Sharing a bus/train/bus with 60 other sweating individuals after all that walking doesn’t really appeal to me, I’ll take my car for the 40 minute ride thanks and be able to stop off and have a fricken 3 course breakfast aong the way and still beat the public transport freak going the hard way.

Now Liberty Scott has also looked at this insult to our intelligence and gives the business case for trains a damn good fisking. His conclusion;

ARTA/ARC have dressed up the rail business case to suit the answer they wanted, on grounds that the government’s own funding agency would question. It will continue to cost taxpayers $5 per trip when electrified, it will generate very modest benefits, and most of those who benefit will be those who get their trip subsidised. It will make diddly squat difference to those using the road network, at best it might increase property values for those living nearby a station and work nearby one on the same line, or businesses who may have a catchment from those able to use the train.

At best, it needs independently appraised – not by anyone in Auckland local government – to determine if the appraisal itself is robust, the levels of confidence and optimism bias around costs and benefits, and whether a thorough appraisal of alternatives has been included.

Sadly, National has been taken for a ride, and you’re being asked to pay.

Liberty Scott also outlines 13 reasons why Rail in Auckland is a stupid idea and Bernard Hickey, the sage of Ponsonby also has serious misgivings.

Please Mr Joyce stop listening to the policy wonks and have a quick look over some of this commentary before spending billions on a train system that will never be used. Would some green wanker also like to tell me why trains would work, and how I would get to work in Albany from Howick on public transport in under 2 hours?