April 2006

Ahhh the irony of it all

by Whaleoil April 30, 2006
The dead tree ver­sion of al-Herald has  on page B1 the mas­sive head­line “Sleaze sees Blair’s rat­ings plunge” mean­while over at Stuff we have “Scan­dals not the trick, says Brash”
 
Oh the irony, back in the UK extra­mar­i­tal affairs bring down min­is­ters and lower rat­ings in wid­dle old NZ, min­is­ters bashed kids, bash pro­tes­tors, piss in hotel cor­ri­dors, drive drunk, file false dec­la­ra­tions, rort immi­gra­tion and a Prime Min­is­ter who com­mits forgery and cruises the coun­try­side like an African dic­ta­tor barely reg­is­ters and dents their pop­u­lar­ity not a bit. Oh and don’t for­get they thieved from us to fund their elec­tion campaign.
 
New Zealand needs to get a grip we have a venal and cor­rupt gov­ern­ment that has also seen to it that most of the civil ser­vice and the police are as venal and cor­rupt as them. 
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Look what your taxes are paying for now

by Whaleoil April 30, 2006

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Hubbard has a rates revolt on his hands

by Whaleoil April 30, 2006
Despite Hub­bards promises of reign­ing in rates hikes, remem­ber poor old Mother Hub­bard, The Auck­land City Coun­cil is set to hike rates yet again.
 
This time how­ever, there are many who have had enough , and non more so than on Wai­heke Island where rates are set to rocket up by 55%.
 
One res­i­dent calls this “eco­nomic cleansing”. 
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New Doongate blogsite

by Whaleoil April 30, 2006
In response to Fran O’Sullivans bizarre arti­cle in al-Herald on the week­end Antarc­tic Lemur has cre­ated a new blogsite with all of the Doonegate evi­dence gath­ered so far.
 
One won­ders why blog­gers have to do the MSM’s job these days.
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More Nat Northern Region results

by Whaleoil April 29, 2006

List Rank­ing Committee 

Suc­cess­ful list rank­ing can­di­dates were;

  • Nick Albrecht
  • Diane Gribben
  • Kit Parkin­son
  • Toni Mil­lar
  • Roger Bur­rill
  • Cam Calder

Aaron Bhat­na­gar missed out by two votes, never mind, try again next year.

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Alistair Bell wins

by Whaleoil April 29, 2006
Alis­tair Bell is the new National Party North­ern Region Chairman.
 
He won con­vinc­ingly in the vote 119 votes to Roger Burrill’s 89.
 
It looks like the inter­ven­tion of John Collinge sealed Bur­rills fate.
 
Alis­tair will make a fine Regional Chair, con­grat­u­la­tions and good luck wth your new post.
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Fran O’Sullivan fights a battle she is going to lose

by Whaleoil April 29, 2006
Fran O’sullivan has decided to finally show her colours and offer a wimpy excuse as to why she wimped out pub­lish­ing the Doonegate documents.
Bizarrely she accuses fel­low blog­gers Sir Humphrey’s and also Inves­ti­gate of not pro­vid­ing the orig­i­nals. AL at Sir Humphrey’s refutes this as does Investigate.
 
In fact both AL and Wishart go on to slay the silly cow and show up her obvi­ous short­com­ings as a so called journalist.
O’Sullivan has unwit­tingly fallen foul of the new phe­nom­e­non in the media, blogging.
 
She can only answer in a paper at least only once a day, blog­gers on the other hand can pro­vide evi­dence, retorts, responses as many times as a day allows. Blog­ger also have con­trib­u­tors who pro­vide their exper­tise as well. Wit­ness Rather­gate and destroy­ing of Dan Rathers career by bloggers.
 
O’Sullivan may well be on her way down the same path.
 
News­flash Fran!!!…you can’t win this bat­tle, nor will you win the war. Blog­ging is here to stay despite you pathetic plain­tive cries.
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Voting underway for Nat Northern Regional Chair

by Whaleoil April 29, 2006

Fur­ther to my pre­vi­ous post vot­ing is now under­way at the National Party North­ern Regional Con­fer­ence for the vacant Regional Chair position.

Con­tenders Alisa­tair Bell and Roger Bur­rill have just fin­ished their speeches. Alas­tair Bells speech was much more pro­fes­sional and received far larger applause.

Will blog the results shortly.

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PM">Australia’s Most Wanted says he’ll chop up PM

by Whaleoil April 28, 2006
Yep thats right.…Saleh Jamal, has pledged loy­alty to Osama bin Laden and threat­ened to “chop up” John Howard as Lebanese author­i­ties pre­pare to deport him to Australia.
[quote]I feel sorry for the Aus­tralian peo­ple, I love Osama bin Laden, I love (al-Qa’ida’s leader in Iraq) Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, I love al-Qa’ida. I will never go against their word. If the Aus­tralian peo­ple want me, Saleh Jamal, then they’re going to cop the con­se­quences. I don’t want to go back to Aus­tralia. I don’t want to see Aus­tralia. If I was given the oppor­tu­nity I’d chop him up too, with­out any doubt, or remorse, because he’s a very evil man.[/quote]
If I was the Aus­tralian author­i­ties I would bring him back by boat and have him “escape cus­tody” some­where out by the Great Bar­rier Reef.
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How come Shadbolt gets charged?

by Whaleoil April 28, 2006
Now don’t get me wrong, I hate Shad­bolts guts (that is another story for when the prick dies or some one else who would be upset if I told it), but surely this qual­i­fies for a “Not in the pub­lic inter­est” case dismissal.
 
I bet if he had been a Labour min­is­ter they would have said the injuries sus­tained in the crash were pun­ish­ment enough.
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More on Curtis-villes rail line

by Whaleoil April 28, 2006
Fur­ther to my ear­lier story of Curtis-cilles new Rail spur to nowhere in particular.
 
Not only is the coun­cil plan­ning on wast­ing  $70 mil­lion to build a 1.8 kilo­me­tre rail spur from Wiri to Manukau but that it is almost $30 mil­lion more than orig­i­nally planned for in 2000.

Manukau mayor Sir Barry Cur­tis claims that the link is an inte­gral part of the rail sys­tem. What planet is Sir Barry on? cer­tainly not Earth. 

Cr Quax accuses the mayor, of “empire build­ing” and lack­ing judge­ment on the issue and one would cer­tianly have to agree with him on that. 

[quote]“For a man who pro­motes pub­lic trans­port it’s absurd that he uses his chauf­feur dri­ven lim­ou­sine to drive 200 metres from the Civic Cen­tre across the street to the site of the new Manukau Police Sta­tion and back.”[/quote]

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Google does it again

by Whaleoil April 27, 2006

Google rocks and they have done it again, pro­vided some­thing truly use­ful for nothing.

I have not used any other email pro­gram for over two years now and the only thing I missed about Gmail over Out­look was the calendar.

Miss it no more, Google has in Beta their Cal­en­dar which inte­grates with Gmail.

It rocks.

Fea­tures

Cal­en­dar Shar­ing: Set up a cal­en­dar for your com­pany indoor cricket team, and share it with the whole ros­ter. Or share with friends and fam­ily so you can view each other’s sched­ules side by side.

Invi­ta­tions: Cre­ate event invi­ta­tions, send them to friends, and keep track of people’s responses and com­ments, all in one place. Your friends can receive your invi­ta­tion and post responses even if they don’t use Google Cal­en­dar themselves.

Quick Add: Click any­where on your cal­en­dar where an event belongs (or use the Quick Add link), and start typ­ing. Google Cal­en­dar under­stands whole phrases like “Brunch with mom at Java Cafe 11am on Sat­ur­day,” and will pop new events right into your agenda.

Gmail Inte­gra­tion: Add your friend’s Super Bowl party to your cal­en­dar with­out ever leav­ing your Gmail inbox. Gmail now rec­og­nizes events men­tioned in emails.

Search: Find the date of the Bax­ter fam­ily BBQ (you knew it was some­time this sum­mer). Or, search pub­lic cal­en­dars to dis­cover new events you’re inter­ested in and add them to your own calendar.

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Next Stop Curtis-ville Central, nothing to see but it is the next stop

by Whaleoil April 27, 2006
Well, just got off the phone with one of my mates from the Manukau City Coun­cil and it seems Curtis-ville has also been think­ing about what they could spend $38,000 of pub­lic money on.
 
They’re going to build a railway.
 
…but not just any railway…
 
A gold-plated bloody railway!!
 
At $70m for a 1.8km track, Curtis-ville’s rail line from the main trunk to the city cen­tre is going to cost the pub­lic of Manukau $38,000 per metre.
 
As usual, an excel­lent use of pub­lic money by Lord Bar­ring­ton and his band of merry Councillors!
 
It is not as if there is any­thing in the City Cen­tre worth going there for.

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Explanation for terror attacks

by Whaleoil April 27, 2006

TBR has found the expla­na­tion for

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Please send my fatwa to:

The Min­is­ter of For­eign Affairs

c/- Par­lia­ment Buildings

Welling­ton

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Da Vinci Code Judgement contains a code

by Whaleoil April 27, 2006
The judge in the case of Baigent & Leigh v Ran­dom House (the Davinci Code case) has him­self left a code in the judgement.
 
Using an odd series of ital­i­ci­sa­tions and marked let­ters through­out the judge­ment the judge has left a code that he calls a “bit of fun”.
 
Check the doc­u­ment for yourself.
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