John Banks has been busy.

He has con­ducted some pri­vate polling across Auck­land and has found some inter­est­ing con­clu­sions.

The poll puts John Banks ahead of Dick Hub­bard by 2.3% among likely vot­ers. The poll is of 600 likely vot­ers across Auck­land City, weighted for demo­graphic and geo­graphic accu­racy across the wards. 

It also shows;

More than 39 per­cent think the per­for­mance of the cur­rent coun­cil has been aver­age, with 24 per­cent say­ing it’s been poor.

More than 34 per­cent said Mr Hubbard’s over­all per­for­mance was aver­age with 23 per­cent say­ing it was poor and 17 per­cent very poor.

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Labour is intent on steal­ing peo­ples prop­erty rights.

The lat­est assault is on so-called ticket scalp­ing. labour intends to make the sell­ing of tick­ets for major events.

The leg­is­la­tion will make it unlaw­ful to deal with sports tick­ets in two ways: it will be ille­gal to sell a ticket for more that its face value. In other words, you can on-sell a ticket, pro­vided you do not make any profit on it; and it will be unlaw­ful to give away tick­ets to a major event as part of a pro­mo­tion pack­age in a man­ner which sug­gests that they are an autho­rised spon­sor of the event (i.e. ambush mar­ket­ing by association).

So if I buy a ticket to a rugby test which sub­se­quently sells out and then can’t make it so decide to put it up for auc­tion on Trademe to see what the mar­ket thinks of the price that will be illegal…..thanks a lot you anti-capitalist social­ist losers.

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Welcome to the Youtube elections Senator Kerry.

Check also Michelle Malkin   for comment. 

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My spies tell me that there is soon to be a new sign erected on the road to Auck­land Air­port. My spies also sent in the work­ing copy of the sign.

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Look­ing for­ward to Global Warm­ing? I cer­tainly am and here is my new wardrobe and with the prospect of sum­mer being all year round I may need a few of them.

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I love Gmail. I haven’t used Out­look for over two years.

The other cool thing about Gmail is there are peo­ple out there who write bril­liant scripts that utilise the tool even bet­ter. Here are three I have just come across that are well worth installing.

Of course they are only any good if you use Fire­fox. If you still use Inter­net Explorer then you don’t deserve any help.

1. Pre­view your Gmail con­ver­sa­tions with bub­bles like on Google maps. Bril­liant lit­tle tool makes flick­ing through un-opened emails a breeze.
2. From the same peo­ple comes a rather bril­liant lit­tle tool that adds a feeds selec­tion in Gmail that allows you to view your rss feeds from Reader.
3. Instead of hav­ing your tray filled up with apps like Gmail Noti­fier, add the noti­fier to your browser.

There we have it won­der­ful lit­tle scripts to enhance your online enjoyment.

Tell me again why IE is better…..NOT! 

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Ok every­one, it is Hal­loween so time for some mask mak­ing instruc­tions. This mask is guar­an­teed to haunt houses.

Down­load this image and save it some­where con­ve­nient. I saved it to match A4 dimensions.

Then;

Print the mask

The Photo Print­ing Wiz­ard in Win­dows XP will print a photo that is large enough for a mask. Make sure to use thick-or heavy stock-photo paper so your mask is durable.

1. Open the folder in which you saved your cropped image.
2. Click Print pic­tures under Pic­ture Tasks.
3. In the Photo Print­ing Wiz­ard, click Next.
4. Click to select the photo you want to print by mak­ing sure that the box in the cor­ner of the photo has a check mark in it. Be sure that other pho­tos in your folder do not have a check mark in their cor­ner boxes.
5. Click Next.
6. Select a printer and then click Next.
7. In Avail­able lay­outs, under Full Page Prints, click to select Full page photo print.
8. Click Next to print your mask image.

Let the photo dry thor­oughly before assem­bling the mask.

Assem­ble the mask

Assem­bling the mask starts with cut­ting out the mask. With sharp scis­sors, care­fully cut around the perime­ter of the face.

You can assem­ble your mask in two dif­fer­ent ways:

• If you are going to wear the mask, cut holes for the eyes and mouth. Punch a hole on each side of the mask and rein­force the holes with mask­ing tape and small pieces of card­board for added dura­bil­ity. Now tie a piece of rib­bon to each hole. Use the rib­bon to tie the mask around your head.
• If you want to carry the mask, just cut holes for the eyes and then glue the mask to a paint stir stick or strip of balsa wood so that you can hold it in front of your face. This is a good option for greet­ing trick-or-treaters because you don’t have to wear it around the house all evening.

You’re done! In just a few min­utes, you made a per­son­al­ized mask that will at least get a few shrieks of laugh­ter on Halloween.

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Global Cool­ing Global Warm­ing Cli­mate Change (insert trendy descrip­tion here) is a crock. How do I know it is a crock, well because in the 1970’s the key phrase was Global Cool­ing and guess what the major causi­tive fac­tor was.

Yep emis­sions …Human activ­ity – mostly as a by-product of fos­sil fuel com­bus­tion; partly by land-use changes – increases the num­ber of tiny par­ti­cles (aerosols) in the atmos­phere. These have a direct effect: they effec­tively increase the plan­e­tary albedo, thus cool­ing the planet by reduc­ing the sun­shine reach­ing the sur­face; and an indi­rect effect: they can affect the prop­er­ties of clouds by act­ing as cloud con­den­sa­tion nuclei. In the early 1970s some spec­u­lated that this cool­ing effect might dom­i­nate over the warm­ing effect of the CO2 release.

Hmmm…tell me how does fos­sil fuel com­bus­tion con­tribute to both warm­ing and cooling.

Any­way I think an increase of 5 degrees is fan­tas­tic. No more frosts, Auck­land really will be a sub-tropical paradise.

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The head of the SIS has told how New Zealand has been used as a base by peo­ple want­ing to learn about or make weapons of mass destruction.

Per­haps because we are seen as a soft touch on ter­ror­ism. So much for liv­ing in a benign strate­gic environment.

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Well Wha­le­oil has finally done it.

See­ing as I used to weigh 120kgs and then man­aged to go down to 85kgs and then back up to a mere 109kgs I thought it was time with sum­mer ans all that com­ing up to go for the 85kgs again.  

Oh and my doc­tor called me a fat bas­tard, and the mis­sus and of course Miss Whaleoil.

So off to the gym I go. Next to the office…one of those gyms where the owner seri­ously looks like a roid dealer.

Any­way “Buck” is there and he says “Why don’t we try the 4 week programme?”

Silly Wha­le­oil agrees…hey los­ing 24kgs in 4 weeks can’t be that hard can it? 

Along come day one…today. Yippee. I go to the gym and “BucK”  says we will take it easy today and getme started……fucking liar, fuck­ing absolute bastard.

He worked me so hard i almost…and I mean almost chucked all over his gym. the silly prick even asked me if I felt ok as I dry retched in between try­ing to stand and catch­ing the extremely thin air in the gym…..the legs for some stu­pid rea­son had decided that enough was enough and kneel­ing was as good as it was going to get. 

Did I mean “Buck” is a wanker. Oh and his diet sucks…I could tear the arse outta a rag doll right now.  

Any­way I will keep y’all posted on progress.

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The most cor­rupt gov­ern­ment in liv­ing mem­ory is now poised to steal even more funds from the pub­lic purse.

Oh of course they will dress it up as “democ­racy fund­ing” but it is still using yours and my money to sup­port par­ties we either don’t care about or care for.

Labour of course is tech­ni­cally insol­vent and unable to pay its bills as they fall due. Thus we see the push for “democ­racy fund­ing”. This is noth­ing less than out­ra­geous theft.

Not only do they want to have us pay for their blath­er­ings and elec­tion­eer­ing they also want to stop oth­ers hav­ing a voice. This is noth­ing less than an attack on free­dom of asso­ci­a­tion and free­dom of speech.

We should oppose these pro­pos­als with every bone in our bod­ies and every breath. 

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Miss Wha­le­oil is not happy.

We just had lunch at Sub­way and she wanted a kids pack.

On the out­side of the brown paper bag­gie that it is deliv­ered in it states that you get;

• A Yummy Sand­wich (this is debate­able surely?)
• A tasty treat (looks like flavoured rubber)
• A cool drink (that is cool as in cold not cool as in “kewl”)
• A Fun Toy

Now she was happy with the first three and most unhappy with the last. As she said to me and Mrs Wha­le­oil “since when has a stink keyring been a fun toy”.

I hap­pen to agree with her. This is false adver­tis­ing for sure. 

Even when she went up to the staff and pointed out that a “stink keyring” isn’t a fun toy she got nowhere because appar­ently that is the only “fun toys” that they have.

Hmmm maybe a let­ter to Sub­way may get some action.

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It looks like two things are happening.

One is Clark is cut­ting Field loose. She has made it clear on Agenda this week and also in the Her­ald .

The sec­ond thing is we may be in for an elec­tion. Clark has had a makeover and showed it first time out on Agenda. new hair­cut, new clothes new look….and she will look even bet­ter once the air brush artists are fin­ished with the signs.

The one thought in the back of my mind is that the “big whip round” is not being used to pay the money back but rather they are going to use it to fight an elec­tion. And why wouldn’t you….if you are going to lose why would you pay the money back.

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