July 2006

More pod photos

by Whaleoil July 31, 2006

Appar­ently Angel­ica Wha­le­oil was mak­ing “any­thing” cook­ies. It is school hol­i­days in Korea where my Brother Wha­le­oil lives with his pod, and this is one of the children’s activ­i­ties at the Hyatt Jeju.

In case you want to know Brother Wha­le­oil is the Gen­eral Man­ager. the pic­ture below is Angel­ica Wha­le­oil with her course tutor, one of the chefs of the hotel.

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Master Whaleoil is mad

by Whaleoil July 31, 2006

Not mad in a crazy sort of way, but mad in an angry sort of way.

Mas­ter Wha­le­oil returned from school yes­ter­day very upset at the change to our nations coinage.

He is mad because with the demise of the 5c coin he reck­ons things are going to cost more. He reck­ons he will now have to try harder at garage sales to appear poor so he can get good deals and he has enlisted his sis­ter Miss Wha­le­oil to the cause.

What cause?

Well Mas­ter Wha­le­oil has found his polit­cal voice and he says he wants to organ­ise an “angry mob” to protest these uncalled for changes. When he says “an angry mob” he even waves his fist.

The boy has promise.

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They jack up the rates then they demand we pay them faster.

by Whaleoil July 31, 2006

Auck­land City knows no bounds. Deputy Mayor Hub­bard despite his promises has not only jacked up rates to unprece­dented lev­els but now he requires the coun­cil to col­lect the rates even faster than usual.

Bas­tards!

As one tax­payer had to say;

[quote]“The coun­cil has trans­ferred its cash­flow prob­lems to me,” he said.

“It just seems to me some kind of skul­dug­gery or scur­rilous finan­cial prac­tice to sud­denly change the date at which they start charg­ing the rates.“[/quote]

Indeed!

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Isn’t your life a mess when you can’t even kill yourself properly

by Whaleoil July 31, 2006

I have always said that peo­ple who com­mit sui­cide are cowards.

There are how­ever some peo­ple who are big­ger cow­ards and they are the ones who can’t even get up the gump­tion to do it them­selves and have to enlist some poor unwit­ting schmuck into their efforts to kill them­selves. They are the true cowards.

One such cow­ard is Ricky James Beck­ham who was so upset about his mis­sus telling him to take a hike he wan­dered into a gun­shop with a machete so they could kill him.

Cow­ard.

Fur­ther he is such a loser he couldn’t even man­age to kill him­self suc­cess­fully. Mind you he is really lucky to be alive as he was shot wit a .45ACP. Now they make really big holes in tar­gets and peo­ple. I mean really big holes. Half an inch across. Oh and they are pretty suc­cess­ful at putting peo­ple down with one shot.

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Hasn’t the government done well on home ownership?

by Whaleoil July 31, 2006

Well, No, actually.

Since 1999 home own­er­ship rates have fallen dra­mat­i­cally, so fast in fact that plum­met might be a bet­ter description.

How fast?

In 1999 home own­er­ship rates were 74%, now the fig­ure is 44% with a 14% drop in the last year alone.

I find this astound­ing that despite a boom­ing econ­omy and increas­ing employ­ment that home own­er­ship rates have fallen.

Of course one might be con­sid­ered cyn­i­cal and pointout that ram­pant over tax­a­tion at national and local lev­els may per­haps be contributing.

So what is the gov­ern­ment solu­tion?

More bloody wel­fare of course.

Any­way with such a drop it means there are more ten­ants, and for me with 4 houses that means bet­ter choice of ten­ants. On a purely self­ish note, long may home own­er­ship plummet.

In a nation­wide per­spec­tive iot sim­ply shows that Kiwis are becom­ing poorer while the gov­ern­ment raids our purses and wal­lets in ever increas­ing amounts.

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Gerry reckons Jim is having a lend

by Whaleoil July 30, 2006

Gerry Brown­lee reck­ons Jim Ander­ton is hav­ing a lend of us to the tune of $72,585.

And I reckon he is right. 

Image 1 is an ad from the Pro­gres­sive web­site.

 

Image 2 is the gov­ern­ments lat­est anti P ad.

So what do you reckon?.….looks like he is hav­ing a lend of the tax­pay­ers, but then what do you expect when he is in bed with bla­tant thieves of tax­pay­ers money like the Labour Party.

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Editorial socks it to Auckland City

by Whaleoil July 30, 2006

The Her­ald edi­to­r­ial socks it to the Auck­land City Coun­cil but in par­tic­u­lar the left con­trolled coun­cil­lors of City Vision and Labour led by Mayor Bruce Hucker.

[quote]Yet just as the John Banks-led coun­cil seemed bent on alien­at­ing large slabs of the pop­u­lace dur­ing its three years in power, so the cur­rent City Vision-Labour coun­cil appears to have a death wish. It has con­firmed as much with the out­ra­geous deci­sion that will lead to a 9.6 per cent rise in Auck­lan­ders’ water bills.[/quote]

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And your point is?

by Whaleoil July 30, 2006

Javed Khan reck­ons Don Brash is racist because he has called for a ban on migrants who don’t hold “bedrock” New Zealand values.

[quote]the speech made it clear that Dr Brash wanted immi­grants to fit his view of a main­stream New Zealan­der, and there­fore excluded peo­ple such as Muslims.[/quote]

And your point is Mr Khan?

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Tau gets stuck into Winston

by Whaleoil July 30, 2006

In todays Her­ald, Tau Henare gets stuck into his for­mer leader Win­ston Peters.

[quote]“I think it is his last hur­rah, and he’s already screwed it up”

“He has an uncanny abil­ity to believe he is in the spot­light and not the issue.

“I think he’s false. He’s a have, and he always has been. I hon­estly think he’s one of the most shal­low peo­ple I’ve ever come across.“[/quote]

 

 

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RIQ’s on the Rugby">RIQ’s on the Rugby

by Whaleoil July 30, 2006

Wasn’t Rodzilla disappointing?

Where was Rodzilla? 

Where was that amaz­ing back­line of stars that the media wanks on about regard­ing the Aus­tralian team?

Did the Aus­tralians ever look like beat­ing the All Blacks?

Isn’t just won­der­ful and brings tears of joy to the eyes watch­ing a real scrum in action?

How about that ref, huh?

Will Jerry by cited for pulling on George’s dreads? 

Do you reckon Jerry thought it was his jersey?

Doesn’t George Greagn just yap way too much?

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Disgraced organiser telling porkies

by Whaleoil July 30, 2006

For­mer Big Gay Out organ­iser Gar­reth Spillane has claimed in a Sun­day paper that he quit the National Party after less than four months partly because he was accused of being a “Labour spy”.

What the big dick fails to men­tion is his less than hon­est CV with bla­tant untruths writ­ten in it. Oh and he was a poo­dle of Michelle Boag the archi­tect of National’s demise in 2002. 

Stop whin­ing like a girly pants and get on with your life. 

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Unfortunate Headline

by Whaleoil July 29, 2006

Who would have thought that Green­peace are against prowl­ing homosexuals?…Well won­der no more with this head­line.

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The rules of home/shop invasion

by Whaleoil July 29, 2006

These are the rules to go by if threat­ened in your home or work­place by machete weild­ing morons.

Rule 1 — Use over­whelm­ing force. If the offender uses a base­ball bat you use a gun, if the offender uses a knife you use a gun, if the offender uses a machete you still use a gun, and if the offender has a gun then use a big­ger, bet­ter gun and shoot straight and first.

Rule 2 — Shoot the idiot and then shoot the ceil­ing, in that order.

Rule 3 — Make sure the offender is dead. My cousin who was once a police man said to me that this rule is very impor­tant oth­er­wise the police get to hear the offend­ers side of the story. It is very impor­tant that only one story gets told. If you don’t then you get this sort of crap.

[quote]“We’re wait­ing for advice from the med­ical experts as to when we can do that,” he said. “Over the next few days we should be able to speak to him and get his side of the story.“[/quote]

Rule 4 — Always say you fired a warn­ing shot (see Rule 2) then use these words. “I was in fear of my life, officer” 

Rule 5 — Never change your story. 

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RatesWatch hits the front page

by Whaleoil July 28, 2006

Aaron Bhatnagar’s RatesWatch web­site has hit the front page of the Her­ald today.

The Her­ald help­fully lists some of the waste that Mayor Hub­bard has presided over.

1000 to the Afghan Youth Soci­ety, despite a rec­om­men­da­tion from offi­cers the appli­ca­tion was under­de­vel­oped and should be declined.

  •   A $1500 grant to the Con­golese com­mu­nity to make inter­na­tional tele­phone calls home to can­di­dates stand­ing in elections
  • A $20,000 party to mark the 20th anniver­sary of homo­sex­ual law reform
  • $5 mil­lion for penalty pay­ments and cost blowouts from the Queen St tree fiasco.
  • $600,000 invested in a sus­tain­able hous­ing com­pany with no hope of a finan­cial return.
  • $4000 to the Com­bined Ben­e­fi­cia­ries Union to update peo­ple on changes to benefits.
  • $2500 to the Foun­da­tion of Spir­i­tu­al­ist Medi­ums to seek course accreditation.
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Would you buy a used car from this man?

by Whaleoil July 28, 2006

Well I cer­tainly wouldn’t but if I had any immi­gra­tions woes then he would be my best bet probably.

And in the Her­ald today it is revealed that in 2002 Par­lia­men­tary Ser­vice vis­ited Mr Field’s office and required a sign to be put up stat­ing the office’s ser­vices were free. 

One won­ders how many other MP’s have had that require­ment placed on them.

Labour will find thye sit­u­a­tion unten­able as time moves on. More and more of El Jefe’s dodgy deal­ings will now come to light.

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