May 2006

What to do in a Terrorist Attack

by Whaleoil May 31, 2006
The US gov­ern­ment has a new web­site, http://www.ready.gov. dis­play­ing
pub­lic ser­vice sym­bols for ter­ror­ism readi­ness, in the tra­di­tion of the old “duck and cover” cam­paigns after WWII.
 
The fun thing is that these pic­tures are so ambigu­ous they could mean any­thing! Here are a few guesses about what they mean:
If you have set your self on fire, do NOT run.
 
If you spot ter­ror­ism, blow your anti-terrorism whis­tle. If you are bald, yell really loud.
 
If you are sprayed with an unknown sub­stance, stand and think about it instead of see­ing a doctor.
 
If a door is closed, karate chop it open.
If your build­ing col­lapses, cower under a desk and kiss your ass goodbye.
After expo­sure to radi­a­tion it is impor­tant to con­sider that you may have mutated to gigan­tic dimen­sions: watch your head.

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“El Jefe” on the run?">“El Jefe” on the run?

by Whaleoil May 31, 2006

Is Philip “El Jefe” Field on the run.

The Inde­pe­nent Finan­cial Review reck­ons so.

Appar­ently the rumours are that “El Jefe” is look­ing for a new home in United Future!!!

Aaron Bhat­na­gar takes the com­ment of the week award over at Sir Humphrey’s .

[quote]UF would be lunatics to take him on board. It would surely be totally coun­ter­pro­duc­tive for “hon­est Chris­tians” to take on board a man accused of corruption.

Mind you, if the Samoan com­mu­nity lionise him in the same way that the Maori com­mu­nity of Hawkes Bay have with Donna Awa­tere Man­dela, he might well think he can get away with it.[/quote]

 

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This is Crazy Cool

by Whaleoil May 31, 2006

Hat Tip: Nick Lewis

Swarm is a graph­i­cal map of hun­dreds of web­sites, all con­nect­ing to each other. It updates itself every sec­ond with where peo­ple are going and com­ing from. As sites become more pop­u­lar, they move towards the cen­ter of the swarm and grow larger. Con­versely, sites that lose traf­fic move away from the cen­ter and grow smaller.

Web­site traf­fic is sym­bol­ized with thin lines. Each time you see a line appear, it means some­one has moved from one site to the other. You can gauge how many peo­ple are swarm­ing around based on the num­ber of lines.

 

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Is Manukau becoming anti-business??

by Whaleoil May 31, 2006

This from the Her­ald this morning.

[quote]… the pro­pos­als have pro­voked an unprece­dented show of unity by rivals West­field New Zealand, AMP Cap­i­tal Shop­ping Cen­tres and Pro­gres­sive Enterprises.

The com­pa­nies say the pro­posed changes will dis­cour­age invest­ment in good build­ings and squeeze shop­keep­ers who can­not pass on higher rents.[/quote]

Clearly Manukau’s rat­ing pol­icy along with other coun­cils are start­ing to impact on business.

Coun­cils should really be encour­ag­ing busi­nesses to estab­lish not dis­cour­age them.

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Smoke Free Parks!!!!

by Whaleoil May 31, 2006

When local “busy body ” politi­cians get bored and reg­u­la­tion goes way too far.

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Let me guess, It was a chainsaw?

by Whaleoil May 31, 2006

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Kerry on attack over Swift Boat Veterans

by Whaleoil May 30, 2006

 

John Kerry is on attack over the elec­tion time accu­sa­tions of the Swift Boat Veterans.

For the life of me I can’t see why Kerry would want to re-litigate this. He con­tin­ues to get slayed every time he opens his mouth. Read the post it is hilar­i­ous if not sad that Kerry is des­per­ately try­ing to spin this.

All Kerry has suc­ceeded in doing is rais­ing more emabar­ras­ing ques­tions over his service.

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CAA another Government debacle">CAA another Government debacle

by Whaleoil May 30, 2006

Just 19 days ago Harry Duyn­hoven was accus­ing Mau­rice Williamson of being “alarmist” over a report to the Trans­port select com­mit­tee that was damn­ing of CAA.

At the time Williamson described it as “shiver up your spine stuff”.

My, my haven’t times changed?

All of a sud­den the Gov­ern­ment, faced with yet another gov­ern­ment depart­ment mis­man­age­ment deba­cle, has demanded “urgent” answers from the CAA.

What hap­pened to the “alarmist” tag. Qui­etly dropped as they rush around and try to repair the damage.

And who can Labour blame for this sorry state of affairs. no one but them­selves. There have been two pre­vi­ous reports in 1997 and in 2000 that slammed CAA, add that to the 2006 report and what has changed?

Noth­ing, the iden­ti­fied prob­lems still occur, almost all under labours watch. Com­plete inac­tion despite two damn­ing reports on their watch. 

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‘Nuf said!!!">‘Nuf said!!!

by Whaleoil May 30, 2006

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Exclusive Sideline Photos from Super 14 Final

by Whaleoil May 30, 2006

Weepu opens the scoring for the Hurricanes from long range.

Weepu opens the scor­ing for the Hur­ri­canes from long range.

  Weepu opens the scoring for the Hurricanes from long range.

Carter’s sec­ond suc­cess­ful penalty from three attempts gives the Cru­saders the half time lead.

Weepu opens the scoring for the Hurricanes from long range.

Casey Laulala crosses for the only try of the game.

Weepu opens the scoring for the Hurricanes from long range.

Richie McCaw doesn’t infringe at the break­down, honest.

Weepu opens the scoring for the Hurricanes from long range.

Skip­per McCaw tri­umphantly holds the tro­phy up as team­mates look on.

Weepu opens the scoring for the Hurricanes from long range.

The crowd goes wild in the stands.

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And while we are at it.…

by Whaleoil May 30, 2006

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Because you started it, Jordan

by Whaleoil May 30, 2006

Jor­dan Carter is one of the most puerile and churl­ish Labour apol­o­gists out there. He often drib­bles on with anti-American, anti-Brash rhetoric and resorts to Cullen-esque whiney, snippy state­ments of what is and isn’t.

Again despite plenty of other impor­tant news out there to com­ment on he takes a swipe at Don Brash.

Well Jor­dan, since you started it here goes. 

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James Blunt banned from Radio Station

by Whaleoil May 29, 2006

A UK radio sta­tion has banned the play­ing of James Blunt because their lis­ten­ers are sick of hear­ing his music.

Oh I wish to God NZ radio sta­tions would concur. 

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63% say Yeah Right Dr Cullen

by Whaleoil May 29, 2006

A TVNZ Colmar-Brunton poll last night found 63 per cent of respon­dents did not believe Dr Cullen ‘s warn­ings about the fis­cal con­se­quences of tax cuts.

Effec­tively say­ing Yeah Right!!! to the His­tory Teacher.

Of course both Cullen and Helen Clark say the poll is skewed to the right and flawed yet again shoot­ing the mes­sen­ger rather than lis­ten to the message.

Labour has now effec­tively lost the tax debate. 

The other debate that has Labour in a tizzy is the pri­or­i­ties of spend­ing where clearly Labour has again mis-calculated. Their vaunted Work­ing For Fam­i­lies has appar­ently fallen flat as has pre-funding super and road­ing spend­ing. The top two pri­or­i­ties for Kiwis are Health and Tax Cuts.

This is clear vic­tory to national for set­ting the agenda and makes it the sec­ond Cullen bud­get in a row to fall flat on its face. 

 

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National wrong foots Labour

by Whaleoil May 29, 2006
Labour is now in the unen­vi­able posi­tion of hav­ing to dance to Nation­als tune or look­ing like the goose­berry at the dance.
 
By propos­ing a Pri­vate Mem­bers Bill to fix a mis­take and want­ing to pay back the error National has clearly wrong-footed Labour. Both senior labour deci­sion mak­ers have dithered when faced with ques­tions. Michael Cullen scoffed at the issue and then denied he had seen the bill on Larry Williams New­sTalk show last night and Clark claimed to paul Holmes this morn­ing that she hadn’t seen it either.
 
They are clearly stalling for time, try­ing des­per­ately to see a way out of this.
 
To deny the bill will look petty and self serv­ing, to allow it will put pres­sure on them to repay some­thing they have claimed all along was legit­i­mate and for which they clearly do not have the funds for.
 
National has clearly out foxed Labour on this issue. 
 
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