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Written By: Marty G - Date published: 9:38 am, March 12th, 2010 - 13 comments
Who would have thought that a Facebook group advocating to keep Radio NZ funded and commercial-free would overtake Prime Minister John Key’s fan group for number of members?
Well, yesterday at 9.30, just over three weeks since it was founded, the Save Radio New Zealand group reached 18,973 members, passing Key’s 18,972.
That gives a taste of …
Written By: r0b - Date published: 3:57 pm, March 6th, 2010 - 11 comments
Come on Granny Herald. You’re almost there…
Written By: lprent - Date published: 5:41 pm, March 4th, 2010 - 27 comments
Now this is pretty damn funny and just adds to todays absurdities over the waste of money on rugby world cup TV in 2011. Veteran Springbok Tour protester John Minto has found himself at the centre of a new Eden Park storm, with a controversial plan to name a nearby $3 million road after him.
Will the supercity transition authority now want to stop community boards from naming streets?
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 10:20 am, March 4th, 2010 - 60 comments
Beloved Leader of People’s Constitutional Monarchy of New Zealand, Honourable John Key, attended glorious opening of school building on Tuesday.
Several youths were overcome by the glory of Honourable Leader’s appearance as were several members of the press corps.
Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 12:59 pm, February 24th, 2010 - 51 comments
The faulty logic behind Roger Douglas’ bill to cut the wages of young workers could just as easily be applied to any number of groups hit hard by the recession – Maori, students, men, dropouts, singles, people in Northland. What if we were to change a couple of key words in his bill?
Written By: lprent - Date published: 12:09 pm, February 23rd, 2010 - 17 comments
This morning the DomPost ran an article by Tracy Watkins about several ministers misusing their ministerial credit cards for personal entertainment. They obtained the information by doing OIAs (Official Information Act requests). Now I’ve come to expect that NACT ministers will do (in John Keys words) “stupid” things in office. But what I found significant was that John Key appears to have discovered the use of a new word “disappointment”. This is a major advance for the NACT political vocabulary.
Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 3:52 pm, February 19th, 2010 - 10 comments
In Fear the Boom and Bust, John Maynard Keynes and F. A. Hayek, two of the great economists of the 20th century go out for a night on the town and sing about why there’s a “boom and bust” cycle in modern economies and good reason to fear it.
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 10:27 am, February 17th, 2010 - 5 comments
Tongue in cheek, George notes: When asked in Parliament why he hadn’t paid closer attention to his share portfolio, Key replied: “small technical issue, I’ve been busy running the country”. That statement must come close to misleading Parliament.
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 6:45 pm, February 8th, 2010 - 44 comments
Well, wages are stagnating, unemployment is just shy of its all-time high, crime is up, and there is no chance of the Government fulfilling its flagship promise – closing the gap with Australia by 2025.
Tomorrow, a make or break speech will lay out Key’s programme of action for the year ahead, and expectations are high …
Written By: all_your_base - Date published: 12:36 pm, February 5th, 2010 - 7 comments
Following the recent Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission to allow unlimited corporate funding of federal campaigns, Murray Hill Inc. today announced it was filing to run for U.S. Congress. Read the whole press release.
Here’s their first campaign ad:
Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 11:26 am, February 4th, 2010 - 11 comments
Saw this in the new culture/humour page in the Dom:
Glad to see the “do-nothing PM” as Rodney Hide called John Key doing plenty of late. Take the past fortnight for example; there’s been the barbecue and beer with Prince William, photo ops with punters at the Wellington races, and a ribbon-cutting ceremony and practice swing …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 10:00 am, January 31st, 2010 - 24 comments
John Key is now stands as being first in NZ for being ‘clueless’ on searches in Google. He is number seven in the world as being clueless. The google-bomb is still running! It will be interesting to push him to number one in the world.
Written By: The Standard - Date published: 1:10 pm, January 28th, 2010 - 20 comments
Written By: The Standard - Date published: 11:30 am, January 23rd, 2010 - 5 comments
Hattip: NickS linking to PhD comics
Written By: lprent - Date published: 1:42 pm, January 21st, 2010 - 19 comments
No Right Turn has a post about the weirdness of the police forces in Britain at present. Elements of our own police force have been acting just as weirdly about ‘terrorism’ over the past years bringing a new era of police stupidity and police doing actions that are subsequently found to be illegal1.
Joking about terrorism …
Written By: Marty G - Date published: 6:03 am, January 12th, 2010 - 86 comments
Workers to get same holidays as PM
Monday, 11/01/2010, 11:30pm
Press release: New Zealand Government
The Government will raise the minimum annual leave entitlement for all workers from four weeks a year to seven, Prime Minister John Key said today. “This will bring the holiday entitlements of all Kiwis into line with the vacations I take”, said Mr …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 12:10 pm, January 9th, 2010 - 70 comments
Gareth over at Hot-Topic has written a delightful post “Popgun for hire: A$20,000 detailing one person who is making money off climate change. No it isn’t the scientists. It is our favorite Potty Peer – Christopher, Viscount Monckton of Brenchley.
Some of the CCDs have been saying that there is a “climate change industry” and that …
Written By: The Standard - Date published: 9:49 am, January 7th, 2010 - 33 comments
Spotted on Facebook:
Written By: Guest post - Date published: 10:01 am, December 26th, 2009 - 2 comments
Actually, this guest post never got published because, before we could publish it, Richard Worth would be involved in some new scandal and then he was sacked, which adds a layer of irony to the post:
In a shocking week for the National government, Internal Affairs minister, Richard Worth, failed to cock anything up. He failed to …
Written By: The Standard - Date published: 9:27 am, December 26th, 2009 - 7 comments
lolz. Cheers to saltandvingarclips for linking to their hilarious vids in comments
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 7:29 am, December 22nd, 2009 - 7 comments
Could making the surface of cars rough be a cheap and esay way to boost fuel efficiency, thereby saving oil and helping tackle climate change?
The idea comes from the dimples on golf-balls, which hold a thin layer of air to the ball, lessening turbulence and drag. And, amazingly, it appears to work:
[the full segment on the car is …
Written By: The Standard - Date published: 12:00 pm, December 18th, 2009 - 15 comments
Brilliant piece from Stephen Colbert on the nutty American Right’s new obsession with gold. Sure, it’s billed as a survivalist thing - preparing for the collapse of society brought on by Obama’s socialist agenda - but the truth is it’s dumb rednecks getting ripped off by immoral capitalists, again.
Written By: r0b - Date published: 1:54 pm, December 15th, 2009 - 40 comments
In a recent post my good friend and fellow concern troll DPF covered the Associated Press review of the leaked “climategate” materials. The review concluded that the science of global warming was genuine. But DPF had some concerns: “My worry is that there is now a mindset where only data that fits the …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 7:55 pm, December 7th, 2009 - 29 comments
Following on from our report earlier this year about ideal places for libertarians to go, it appears that we are now seeing capitalism in its wonderful Ayn Rand style libertarian idealized form. Somali ‘maritime companies” have setup a stock exchange to help incubate free enterprise in its natural form. From Reuters we have this report.
HARADHEERE, …
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 4:00 pm, December 7th, 2009 - 26 comments
Written By: IrishBill - Date published: 12:30 pm, December 3rd, 2009 - 29 comments
It started with me agreeing wholeheartedly with Fran about youth unemployment. Now I can add Garth George and Bruce Sheppard to this strange confluence of opinions.
For a start Garth George has provided one of the few decent media critiques of Brash’s batshit crazy proposal:
The description of the report by Finance Minister Bill English as “too …
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 4:33 pm, December 2nd, 2009 - 2 comments
Caught this on The Nation. Brilliant.
Jon Stewart has done it again, and this time he even brought out his acting chops. In what will probably become a historic Glenn Beck impression, Stewart uses Beck’s recent appendicitis operation to concoct a conspiracy theory of his own. Using a chalkboard, glasses, and a game of Operation as …
Written By: Eddie - Date published: 8:09 am, November 25th, 2009 - 14 comments
Ha! But seriously, I doubt that Key changes his own oil.
Written By: lprent - Date published: 2:15 pm, November 24th, 2009 - 73 comments
It has been fascinating over the last few days watching the CCDs (Climate Change Deniers) make an another attempt to scale the bastion of scientific thinking and language. In this case someone hacked a copy of decade of e-mails at the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at a insecure University of East Anglia webmail server. There …
Written By: lprent - Date published: 11:04 pm, November 20th, 2009 - 38 comments
Ohmigod, after Red Alert informed me that the National MPs had started a blog, I nearly died!!!!!!!
And after I’d finished that and resurrected, I went and had a look at it.
Yep, I was right. These buggers know nothing about what blogging is about.
Some moronic PR flack somewhere (is that a parliamentary crest I see …
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