June 2005

And the thieving continues un-abated…

by Whaleoil June 30, 2005

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Trea­sury announced today that the Gov­ern­ment oper­at­ing sur­plus for the 11 months to May was $7.46 bil­lion — $675 mil­lion ahead of the fore­cast in the May 19 budget.

Mainly attrib­uted to higher than expected tax rev­enue (now theres a sur­prise), most of that being the $368 mil­lion of the banks.

It would have been even higher if it wasn’t for recog­ni­tion of $307 mil­lion of Kyoto lia­bil­ity. One won­ders what the sur­plus would be like with­out this stuff up.

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Would the real Mrs Peter Davis please step forward

by Whaleoil June 30, 2005

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Gee, must be close to the elec­tion, the air brush is being used to the max again.

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“Auckland Mayor Dick Hubbard is a worry”">“Auckland Mayor Dick Hubbard is a worry”

by Whaleoil June 30, 2005

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Well, knock me down with a feather. Brian Rud­man in his col­umn this morn­ing is scathing of Mayor DICK Hub­bard. now even the lefty press are giv­ing him a flogging.

Oh well Dick, you can’t make any­one happy…oops I meant everyone.

Aaron B. cov­ers more on the Auck­land City gov­er­nance issues.

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Big Tax Debate.…Big Tax yawn

by Whaleoil June 30, 2005

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I watched the big Tax debate on ONE tonight.….In des­per­ate need of some action I also kept a weather-eye on Ulti­mate Force on UKTV.

Cap­tain Smarmy was.….well.….smarmy. Rod Don­ald blath­ered on about lightbulbs.…for pete’s sake. Some pommy git really sin­cerely believes that the gum­mint can be trusted to spend his money.…yeah right!!!

Roger Kerr was sen­si­ble as usual and Andrew Lit­tle even though he is a Union­ist at least talks sensibly.

DPF and John Key didn’t have much to say, but what they did say told.

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Political Correctness gone Mad

by Whaleoil June 29, 2005

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An Auck­land Pro­ba­tion Officer who refused to move to the back with other women at a Maori farewell cer­e­mony now has received a warn­ing from her bosses at the Cor­rec­tions Department.

This is polit­i­cal cor­rect­ness out of con­trol, yet another exam­ple how racism and sex­ism is worm­ing is insid­i­ous way into New Zealan­ders lives under the watch­ful eye of Mrs Peter Davis and her government.

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Hubbard a lame duck Mayor

by Whaleoil June 29, 2005

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This arti­cle by Bernard Ors­man says it all.

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Cullen too Chicken to front

by Whaleoil June 29, 2005

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Cullen has backed out of the Tax debate tonight on One and instead Mrs Davis has sent in the Smarmy Army head Cap­tain Maharey.

This, per­haps, sig­nals a change of tack for the Gov­ern­ment, instead of a viti­olic attack of per­son­al­i­ties from Cullen we will now get a smarm and grease offen­sive (and offen­sive it will be).

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Hubbard deemed ho-hum

by Whaleoil June 29, 2005

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A recent poll of Auck­lan­ders shows that with only 23.8% of respon­dents say­ing he has done an excel­lent or good job and a mas­sive 40.2% say­ing he has done a fair job Mayor Dick Hub­bard has not made the impact that many Auck­land­vot­ers expected.

Fur­ther 26.1% of respon­dents say he has done a poor or bad job.

What hap­pened to the action-based leadership?

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Hmmmm.…Why the rush?, expense?, bother?

by Whaleoil June 29, 2005

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Not one to sup­port any­thing very much that utters from Win­ston mouth I have to agree on this one.

Seems that only 60 cou­ples had applied for Civil Unions since April, with 15 of them being straight. That’s right 60 (SIXTY).…the num­ber of “main­stream” mar­riages since April?
…any­one?
…any­one?
…no give up?

3400 (Three thou­sand four hundred)

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The Cullendar still doesn’t hold water

by Whaleoil June 28, 2005

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Accoun­tants con­tinue to be astounded at this Gov­ern­ment account (lack of) prin­ci­ples. Cullen has some explain­ing to do on this one.…can’t wait till the PREFU comes out.

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It was only a little lie.…..this big

by Whaleoil June 28, 2005

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Mrs Davis resplen­dent in a Mandarin-necked jacket (how appro­pri­ate) explains to stu­dents that when you are the Prime Money-waster it is ok to tell fibs as long as they are only this big.

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And the flip flops continue…

by Whaleoil June 28, 2005

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The Gov­ern­ment has backed down over plans to increase pub­lic access to water­ways, say­ing there is “too much con­flict” to intro­duce the leg­is­la­tion now.

Just six weeks ago, they would have rammed this through, say­ing “We know best, farm­ers are just greedy rich prats”.…just two weeks ago Sut­ton was doing just this to the farm­ers protest out­side Parliament.….and now on the receiv­ing end of a hid­ing in the polls, Labour starts to listen.

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Cool toy for the boys on the farm

by Whaleoil June 28, 2005

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Here is the ulti­mate boys toy.

Called the Rode­na­tor it is a device that injects a cal­i­brated mix­ture of propane, liq­uid petro­leum gas and oxy­gen, mixed together, down through the rabbit’s bur­row and it’s ignited to pro­duce a mas­sive under­ground con­cus­sion bomb.

The videos on their site are some­thing to behold.

It was designed in the US to solve a prob­lems with moles, prarie dogs and rab­bits

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Mrs Davis must be really worried now

by Whaleoil June 27, 2005

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The lat­est Herald-Digipoll has arrived and well, well, well Labour are head­ing down. Looks like New Zealan­ders have finally woken up to the deceit­ful, spin­ning, social­ist destruc­tion of this country.

Also well cov­ered by David Far­rar, Aaron Bhat­na­gar and Sir Humphrey’s.

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Michael Cullen — How to find $500 million of lost money

by Whaleoil June 27, 2005

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Every­one has won­dered how Michael Cullen found $500 mil­lion of unac­counted for money just 3 weeks after the bud­get and less than 6 weeks before the gen­eral election.

Well now we know, an insider has pro­vided a photo of the moment taken with­out the Min­is­ters knowledge.

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