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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 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.

It is insult­ing to intel­lec­tu­ally dis­abled peo­ple to say the least, mind you the insult doesn’t have quite the impact call­ing some-one “a fuck­ing intel­lec­tu­ally dis­abled person”.

I sup­pose next we will get a post on his blog say­ing he was just run­ning a lit­tle test, I insult them and they insult me back…see I told you the right was a pack of rabid, child eat­ing bastards….oops sorry chil­dren born out of civil union.

Jor­dan’ I’ll take you seri­ously when you and party stop lying to the coun­try, stop steal­ing tax­payer funds to assist your cam­paign­ing and gen­er­ally just get out of every-one lives.

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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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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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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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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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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

“With the recent deci­sion to cre­ate a Maori stand­ing com­mit­tee the coun­cil has decided to intro­duce 21st cen­tury apartheid into the city. What they have done … is they’ve cho­sen to send a mes­sage to every non-Maori in the city that they are now sec­ond class citizens.”

is some­how a slur divid­ing the coucil. Well Mr Ross (him­self part-Maori) can hardly be slur­ring any­one or any­thing when he sim­ply states facts. The coucil did cre­ate a Stand­ing Com­mit­tee for Maori only, the com­mit­tee does con­fer addtional rights for Maori in Manukau that other cit­i­zens do not enjoy and fur­ther this is in direct con­tra­ven­tion of Arti­cle three of the Treaty of Waitangi.

Deputy mayor Anne Candy says what Mr Ross is say­ing is “dread­ful”.

Reeaaaaal­lly, “Dread­ful” How can want­ing equal­ity for all and level play­ing field for all cit­i­zens be “dreadful”?

Coun­cil­lor Dick Quax also agrees with Mr Ross.

“Twenty-five years ago when I was an inter­na­tional ath­lete I refused to go to South Africa and to run against South African ath­letes because of that country’s poli­cies of racial sep­a­ratism. It now appears that the sep­a­ratists have taken over the Manukau City Council.”

The sec­ond arti­cle tells of how the coun­cil voted to intro­duce the con­tro­ver­sial Stand­ing Com­mit­tee. Deputy Mayor Anne Candy is again attrib­uted with a lead­ing role that demon­strates her bizarre grip on real­ity.

Ms Candy moved that a Treaty of Wai­t­angi stand­ing com­mit­tee be adopted because it had been called for, com­bined with a Maori ward, in seven hui held through­out the city in June and July.

Of course seven hui called for this, thats like ask­ing the foxes if they would like the chicken coop doors left open at night…..of course they will say Yes, in fact they will say ” Hell, Yea”.

Manukau City Coun­cil is prov­ing to be even as much far­ci­cal as it coun­ter­part fur­ther north lead by a gut­less muesli maker.

Addi­tional links:
Ratepay­ers need to ask what committee’s going to do? – How­ick and Paku­ranga Times.
Coun­cil stymies Maori ward push – How­ick and Paku­ranga Times.

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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.

“Some­body appar­ently com­plained about me and I received this ticket in the mail.”

He said he paid the fine because the notice said if he did not he would incur court costs, but he could not see how a civil­ian could get some­one issued with a ticket when there was no police offi­cer in sight.

This is what hap­pens when a Govt demands fur­ther rev­enue gath­er­ing from police when they are already stretched for staff.

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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.

But the Mt Albert econ­o­mist says when he reported the mat­ter to Papakura police they treated it like an insur­ance claim.

“They had a film of the crime being done but they didn’t bother even when it was reported to them, the atti­tude was ‘It’s just an insur­ance job’,” Mr Rankin said.

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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:

Mrs King told the Week­end Her­ald that the front­line police num­bers had increased by 1400 since 1999. As part of the con­fi­dence and sup­ply agree­ment with New Zealand First, a fur­ther 1000 police would be pro­vided by 2010

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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.

“I should make it clear that this is not about the TVNZ board los­ing con­fi­dence in its chief executive.

“It’s about the fact that I have lost con­fi­dence in my board.”

UPDATE: Board Press Release late on Sun­day night.

Fol­low­ing the state­ment released ear­lier today by Ian Fraser, the TVNZ Board of Direc­tors wishes to make it clear that:

1. The Board, col­lec­tively or indi­vid­u­ally, has at no time inter­fered or oth­er­wise involved itself in the edi­to­r­ial inde­pen­dence of the TVNZ news and cur­rent affairs oper­a­tion and notes that this inde­pen­dence is enshrined in the TVNZ Act.
2. The Board is required under its terms of ref­er­ence, to decide on remu­ner­a­tion for all TVNZ staff and con­trac­tors, at $300,000 per annum or above.

The Board, under its “no sur­prises” pol­icy will pro­vide an expla­na­tion of the com­ments in Mr Fraser’s media release to the Min­is­ter of Broad­cast­ing, Steve Maharey.

Craig Boyce, Chairman

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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.

And that is, in my mind, what it is all about. It is a rare trea­sure in pol­i­tics to find a solu­tion to one lot of prob­lems which doesn’t cause other prob­lems to develop. That is what the Civil Union Bill does, and it deserves to pass into law over the next few days.

A solu­tion to one lot of problems…what a crock this is one of those PC laws that Liar-boour apol­o­gists say aren’t PC at all.

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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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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.

The cul­mi­na­tion of the arti­cle inves­ti­gates whether this is in fact a case of try­ing to crim­i­nal­ize pol­i­tics.

In a state­ment yes­ter­day, Mr. Libby’s coun­sel zeroed in on this point when he said, “We are quite dis­tressed the Spe­cial Coun­sel has now sought to pur­sue alleged incon­sis­ten­cies in Mr. Libby’s rec­ol­lec­tion and those of oth­ers’ and to charge such incon­sis­ten­cies as false state­ments.” He added that they “will defend vig­or­ously against these charges.”

On the answers to these ques­tions hang a pos­si­ble 30-year jail term and $1.25 mil­lion in fines for a Bush Admin­is­tra­tion offi­cial who was merely attempt­ing to expose the truth about Mr. Wil­son, a critic of the Admin­is­tra­tion who was lying to the press about the nature of his involve­ment in the Niger mis­sion and about the nature of the intel­li­gence that it pro­duced. In other words, Mr. Libby was defend­ing Admin­is­tra­tion pol­icy against polit­i­cal attack, not com­mit­ting a crime.

Mr. Fitzger­ald has been dogged in pur­su­ing his inves­ti­ga­tion, and he gave every appear­ance of being a rea­son­able and tough pros­e­cu­tor in lay­ing out the charges yes­ter­day. But he has thrust him­self into what was, at bot­tom, a pol­icy dis­pute between an elected Admin­is­tra­tion and crit­ics of the President’s approach to the war on ter­ror, who included parts of the per­ma­nent bureau­cracy of the State Depart­ment and CIA. Unless Mr. Fitzger­ald can prove beyond a rea­son­able doubt that Mr. Libby was lying, and doing so for some nefar­i­ous pur­pose, this indict­ment looks like a case of crim­i­nal­iz­ing politics.

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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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