An inter­est­ing case of judi­cial med­dling has been raised by Mur­ray McCully in his weekly newsletter.

It appears a judge has denied access to files in the Whanga­mata case to National as they do not have “gen­uine and proper inter­est” in the proceedings. 

Ok fine you might say, but sev­eral days prior the same Judge also gave the media access the same files that national had asked for access to.

This is noth­ing short of med­dling in gov­er­nance of the country.

How on earth can reporters have a “gen­uine and proper inter­est” whilst oppo­si­tion politi­cians from the high­est court in the land do not?

It smacks of polit­i­cal meddling. 

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Hat tip Andrei at Sir Humphreys

From the OMG how the fuck did that get there? files.

A Pak­istani man was aston­ished to awake in his cell at the local prison with a pain in his bot­tom .

Why he thought that was unusual in a prison to have pain in your bot­tom I am unsure,  how­ever the light bulb that was removed from his anus defi­nately was a sur­prise apparently.

Maybe he could sell the light bulb on Trademe.

Mean­while in a court in the US a for­mer US judge has been con­victed of expos­ing him­self by using a sex­ual device while he presided over court cases.

As Zentiger com­mented it brings new mean­ing to the term “bang­ing the gavel”

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Labour Min­is­ter Chris Carter just keeps low­er­ing those stan­dards already set so low by his fear­less Leader.

This time the Audi­tor Gen­eral has found that his depart­ment had failed to meet its legal oblig­a­tions when it came to con­ser­va­tion man­age­ment strate­gies and national park man­age­ment plans.

Hmmm….“failed to meet its legal oblig­a­tions” is bull­shit speak for “broke the law”. 

And the Min­is­ter says that it was his fault and it was worth it and he was “proud” to have done so.

What is it with this gov­ern­ment that so encour­ages it to break the laws of the land…..I know they have a Police force that thinks that noth­ing is in the pub­lic inter­est to prosecute. 

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Accord­ing to reports power usage is out­strip­ping fore­casts by a con­sid­er­able degree.

Worse is yet to come accord­ing to NIWA as well.

Bet David Parker is wish­ing he hadn’t made a promise to resign if the lights went out. 

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This video is so wrong yet soooo much more funny.

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Pansy Wong has dis­cov­ered a new phrase­ol­ogy in Gov­ern­ment Depart­ments. it is absolutely superb and could eas­ily have been uttered by the immor­tal Sir Humphrey.

The phrase is “Strate­gic Cov­er­sa­tions and here are some examples.

Utter twad­dle and trite, Kafkaesque crap uttered by func­tionar­ies of the state on gov­ern­ment spon­sored power trips.

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Hat tip DPF  

A law­suit has been filed today against Helen Clark and the other 48 Labour MPs (as at August 2005) in rela­tions to their use of tax­payer fund­ing for their 2005 elec­tion pledge cards.

Good fuck­ing job. 

The law­suit claims the expen­di­ture on the pro­duc­tion and dis­tri­b­u­tion of the pledge card and related brochure was a breach of Arti­cle 4 of the Bill of Rights 1688, sec­tion 22© of the Con­sti­tu­tion Act 1986 s.22© and mul­ti­ple sec­tions of the Pub­lic Finance Act 1989.

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Not now.

New pris­ons cost $650,000 per cell and have under­floor heat­ing to keep their lit­tle toot­sies warm.

How about a lit­tle hard labour to warm them up?

Since when did pris­ons have to be more expen­sive than an aver­age house in Remuera?

What is wrong with con­vert­ing old leaky ship­ping con­tain­ers into cells?

I reckon that I could build a new prison for less than a $1 mil­lion. It wouldn’t be flash , most of the cells would have some sort of leak or draft. There would be large piles of large rocks that required break­ing, very high fences and nasty viv­i­ous hun­gry dogs patrolling the wire. Not com­fort­able I know, but the point is this, you defi­nately wouldn’t want to come back for more.

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Why a spoon?

Because it will hurt more.

Bas­tard . 

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Is it any won­der that Maori fea­ture so heav­ily in all the wrong statistics.

No won­der at all given their role mod­els at the top end of their society.

Dover Samuels takes the cake in Maori hypocrisy. He laments that high rates of abuse of Maori chil­dren would stop only when com­mu­ni­ties agreed to blow the whis­tle on vio­lent parents.

Hmmm…hate to point out to Dover dear, that abuse of chil­dren isn’t just vio­lence. It also includes hav­ing sex with some­one who is 16y.o. in your “care”. 

Maori will never improve while their lead­ers are vio­lent , when they see their lead­ers theive, lie and steal their way to posi­tions of power and when in those posi­tions con­tinue the thiev­ing and extend it in some sort of nepo­tis­tic empire build­ing exercise.

They will never while there is a cul­ture of hav­ing your hand out for money to solve every issue.

Maori will never progress while their lead­ers are indo­lent.

Maori will never progress while there is a cul­ture of silence, depen­dence, and vio­lence full stop.

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The par­al­lels are get­ting more and more interesting.

Labour’s game book of 1999 saw them focus on excesses in the Pub­lic Sec­tor, Inep­ti­tude by Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ters, healthy doses of Depart­men­tal incom­pe­tence, Health story up the wazoo every day and innu­endo and slight­ing of seem­ingly innocu­ous meet­ings and dinners.

National for sure has nicked Labour’s game book.

The lat­est vic­tim of Deja Vu – all over again,  is Michael Cullen.

In the gun for his so-called secret meet­ing with Air New Zealand . Again we see a he said she said over what was dis­cussed and what wasn’t.

Labour can’t get all indig­nant either as this is a sim­ple case of reap­ing what you sow. 

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Unfor­tu­nately for New Zealand most of us think that Once Were War­riors was a movie. In actual fact for a large pro­por­tion of our pop­u­la­tion it was a documentary.

That sort of lifestyle was not over-dramatised, it was shown how it is and that is why it is so shock­ing to us city dwelling, lib­eral, clos­eted woofters.

The time has come for blunt, con­fronting lan­guage and action.

Parekura Horo­mia reck­ons that the focus on child abuse could be used as “the next rod on Maori”.

I reckon I agree with Merepeka Raukawa-Tait.

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Turns out a week.

If money was the answer then Maori should all be liv­ing in lov­ing car­ing rela­tion­ships with chil­dren that are the epit­ome and pin­na­cle of all of our children.

Unfor­tu­nately the con­verse is true. 

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War­ren Buf­fet the “Ora­cle of Omaha” has decided to give away $37 bil­lion dol­lars to char­ity ‚ mak­ing it the largest-ever indi­vid­ual char­i­ta­ble gift in the United States.

This is most of his per­sonal for­tune, and more than even the most srdent social­ist could ever give away.

Who says the rich don’t con­tribute? Oh thats right Michael Cullen does. 

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Stan­dards New Zealand and local coun­cils are now requir­ing pool own­ers to erect signs on doors and gates telling every­one to shut them.

Appar­ently it is in the inter­ests of pre­vent­ing drowning.

Does any­one know how many kids have drowned in pools in 25 years?

Only 136.  That’s 5 a year.

More kids die in cars and at the hands of their care givers than die in pools, lets get our pri­or­i­ties right huh! 

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