October 2005

I didn’t think we had a brain drain?

by Whaleoil October 31, 2005

[Imported from Whale Oil Beef Hooked on Blogger]

I remem­ber vit­ri­olic attacks in years past on any­one who would sug­gest our best and bright­est had gone awol.

Now our tax­payer dol­lars are fund­ing a cam­paign to entice those who aren’t a prob­lem back to solve the prob­lem we don’t have.

Nice one.

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Jordan denigrates handicapped with comments

by Whaleoil October 31, 2005

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Jor­dan Carter today has placed troll like abuse on this site say­ing for no rea­son that I can fathom;

“You’re a fuck­ing retard, aren’t you?”

Now, I am no sooky buba, but I do take umbrage at such gra­tu­itous name call­ing, and find it amus­ing to say the least that one of the biggest apol­o­gists for Liar-bour and social­ism in gen­eral as well as the PC non­sense that id per­vad­ing our soci­ety that he should use the word retard.

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Best student protest award

by Whaleoil October 31, 2005

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Vic­to­ria Uni­ver­sity stu­dents give Chris­tine Turner the “eye” when told of fee rises of hun­dreds of dol­lars for next year.

Stu­dents are furi­ous that Vic­to­ria Uni­ver­sity voted yes­ter­day to seek an exemp­tion from the Ter­tiary Edu­ca­tion Com­mis­sion to lift fees by up to 10 per cent for most human­i­ties and edu­ca­tion courses.

Best they seek out Jor­dan and his apol­o­gists to ask why after vot­ing enmasse for Liar-bour they cop this lot.

I say good job, serves you right you sooky aca­d­e­mic socialists.

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Cops are seriously rooted

by Whaleoil October 31, 2005

[Imported from Whale Oil Beef Hooked on Blogger]

After years of neglect with a patsy Min­is­ter and a toady Com­mis­sioner are finally com­ing home to roost for the Government.

We seem to get daily sto­ries of their incom­pe­tence, work over­load and blan­tant rev­enue gathering.

Today we get the story of the vic­tim doing their work for them and the cops not both­er­ing to com­plete it.

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Does anyone buy these anyway?

by Whaleoil October 31, 2005

[Imported from Whale Oil Beef Hooked on Blogger]

Car buy­ers are being warned not to buy cars built by MG-Rover after they went tits up.

My ques­tion is, Who buys these crap cars anyway?

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PM rejects claims of interference">PM rejects claims of interference

by Whaleoil October 31, 2005

[Imported from Whale Oil Beef Hooked on Blogger]

Well of course she would, I mean she didn’t notice how fast she was trav­el­ling and is a promi­nent renowned artist, so of course she would know there was no interference.

More to come on this I think. I won­der what LRWB will tell me?

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Howick Councillor shows Council the way

by Whaleoil October 31, 2005

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Fur­ther to my post the other day regard­ing the strange deci­sion by the Manukau City Coun­cil to intro­duce apartheid-like stand­ing committee’s for Maori only, Stuff has finally woken up and pub­lished two arti­cles regard­ing their decision.

The first arti­cle sug­gests that Coun­cil­lor Jami-lee Ross’s com­ments that

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Drivers dobbed-in by other road users

by Whaleoil October 30, 2005

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I seem to be hav­ing a real bitch about police this morn­ing, and here is another exam­ple of police get­ting their pri­or­i­ties wrong.

Instead of using scarce police resources to catch real crim­i­nals, Police are appar­ently now find­ing even fur­ther ways to ping the inno­cent motorist for lit­tle more than pass­ing another car. I would hate to think what a vin­dic­tive per­son could do to some­body they don’t like.

An Auck­land news­pa­per reported today that Ben­jamin Turner could not believe it when he received an infringe­ment notice in the mail for over­tak­ing a car on the inside as it waited in the mid­dle of the road. The ticket for $150 arrived in the mail about three weeks ago.

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Not even taped evidence is enough

by Whaleoil October 30, 2005

[Imported from Whale Oil Beef Hooked on Blogger]

New Police Min­is­ter Annette King has pro­nouced that the num­ber of police under George Hawkins reign was sufficient.

Isn’t it a pity that the port­fo­lio she has inher­ited won’t even inves­ti­gate a crime when there is video taped fortage!


Parked in the carpark of Duder Regional Park, near Cleve­don, secu­rity cam­eras caught thieves smash­ing the front win­dow of his vehi­cle and mak­ing off
with three back­packs from the boot and sun­glasses from the glovebox.

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Newmarket Crime Up 20%

by Whaleoil October 30, 2005

[Imported from Whale Oil Beef Hooked on Blogger]

New­martket Busi­ness Asso­ci­a­tion gen­eral man­ager Cameron Brewer has pointed out that crime sta­tis­tics for the New­mar­ket area show that crime in the past 5 years has increased by over 20% — and that’s just reported crime.

I think we all hoped that Annette King might recog­nise there is a prob­lem with the NZ Police and that is a sig­nif­i­cant lack of them. Unfor­tu­nately she seems to be pro­duc­ing the same self ful­fill­ing fig­ures that George Hawkins lead the force down the drain with:

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Fraser gone, cites too much Political interference

by Whaleoil October 30, 2005

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TVNZ Chief Exec­u­tive Ian Fraser has resigned say­ing he has “lost con­fi­dence” in his polit­i­cally appointed board.

I dare say this will be played out in the media and in a court­room.

“The sit­u­a­tion fac­ing me at the end of last week was one that would have prompted any chief exec­u­tive in my shoes to walk away,” he said.

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What a complete waste of time

by Whaleoil October 29, 2005

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Six months since the Civil Union Act came into effect, only 205 same-sex and het­ero­sex­ual cou­ples have had their rela­tion­ships legally recog­nised in this way.

What.…205.…Where are all the part­ner­ships that were clam­our­ing for recog­ni­tion before the law was passed.

Tim Bar­nett said this just before the law was passed;

And what ben­e­fits will come from civil unions? Rela­tion­ships left out in the cold for too long will be strength­ened, by being given a label and some sta­tus in wider soci­ety. Both part­ners will gain from being able to prove their rela­tion­ship, in a way that de facto part­ners never can, when need­ing to access rights, for exam­ple hos­pi­tal visitation.

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PC debate: Brash 1 — Clark 0">PC debate: Brash 1 — Clark 0

by Whaleoil October 29, 2005

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Helen Clark has axed Georgina Beyer’s Human Rights (Gen­der Iden­tity) Amend­ment Bill from the leg­isla­tive agenda this year.

Clark has told Beyer that her bill to pro­tect trans­gen­der peo­ple from dis­crim­i­na­tion is “his­tory”, and Beyer blames a “cli­mate of intol­er­ance” for its demise.

“I feel quite dis­ap­pointed that I have had to capit­u­late. The polit­i­cal land­scape has changed… They want to appease the more con­ser­v­a­tive ele­ments that have come to the fore in recent years. It is quite alarm­ing when you see this grow­ing tide.”

Oh boo-fucking-hoo. Now there is no rea­son at all for Georgie to stay in Par­lia­ment. Odds are s/he will slink off into the never-never.

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Obstruction for What?

by Whaleoil October 29, 2005

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The Opin­ion Jour­nal has an inter­est­ing take on the indict­ments of “Scooter” Libby. Essen­tially Libby is charged with lying about a crime that wasn’t com­mit­ted!!!!

The indict­ment itself con­tains no evi­dence of a con­spir­acy, and Mr. Libby has not been accused of try­ing to cover up some high crime or mis­de­meanor by the Bush Admin­is­tra­tion. The indict­ment amounts to an alle­ga­tion that one offi­cial lied about what he knew about an under­ly­ing “crime” that wasn’t committed.

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Arab World’s Silence is Deafening

by Whaleoil October 29, 2005

[Imported from Whale Oil Beef Hooked on Blogger]

A St Peters­burg Times Edi­to­r­ial coments on the deaf­en­ing silence com­ing from the Arab world in reac­tion to the nut­case in Iran spout­ing on about wip­ing Israel from the face of the Earth.

Iran’s call for destruc­tion of the Jew­ish state should remind the world and Europe in par­tic­u­lar of the forces of hate amassed against the tiny democ­racy. Israel recently uni­lat­er­ally with­drew from Gaza, chal­leng­ing its own extrem­ists in the process. Yet the silence through­out the Arab world to Ahmadinejad’s despi­ca­ble words sug­gests that no mat­ter what con­ces­sions Israel makes, its ene­mies in the Mid­dle East will set­tle for noth­ing less than its annihilation.

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