Labour have, unbe­liev­ably, paid back all of the money they stole for the 2005 elec­tion plus interest.

Big Kudos to Mike Williams and Helen Clark for show­ing some hon­esty and integrity over the issue.

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Is the Thor­pedo a cheater?

A French news­pa­per (They’re French, so can’t be trusted) have revealed that Ian Thorpe is the sub­ject of a dop­ing investigation.

Swimming’s world gov­ern­ing body FINA has con­firmed that it had lodged an appeal with the Court of Arbi­tra­tion for Sport (CAS) over a dop­ing test con­ducted by the Aus­tralian Sports Anti-Doping Author­ity (ASADA).

FINA, which did not iden­tify the swim­mer involved, released a state­ment say­ing there had been an “adverse ana­lyt­i­cal result” that it had referred to CAS “with the aim of clar­i­fy­ing the issues sur­round­ing the case.”

Lets wait and see shall we?

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The Her­ald has rated the Cab­i­net. Mostly falls in per­for­mance, some woe­ful, a cou­ple of rises. Phil Goff and Annette King are the out­stand­ing per­form­ers (lead­er­ship chal­lenge any­one?), the rest…..well shall we say dog tucker. (my com­ments in brack­ets) Also note David Farrar’s rat­ings , he is way more­fairer than me.

Key ones to Note are;

HELEN CLARK 7 (7 a year ago) Prime Minister

As focused as ever, if not more so, in con­trast with many of her min­is­ters. But has made a cou­ple of sig­nif­i­cant bad calls over polit­i­cal man­age­ment of elec­tion spend­ing and child-smacking issues. (You’d think with all the wax­ing lyri­cal that goes on from Jor­dan and Tony she would be a ‘10’, but alas no, she is no Bo Derek)

MICHAEL CULLEN 6 (7) Finance / Tertiary

Still the flawed genius with­out whom Clark could not oper­ate effec­tively but look­ing a bit tired on it lately.

JIM ANDERTON 6 (6) Agri­cul­ture / Forestry

Prob­lems in fish­eries and forestry. Time this old warhorse slowed down and looked to that graz­ing pad­dock beyond the Beehive.

STEVE MAHAREY 6 (7)

Edu­ca­tion His supreme self-confidence should have taken a bat­ter­ing over the 20-hour “free” child­care fiasco and the imple­men­ta­tion of NCEA. But it hasn’t because he has, well, supreme self-confidence.

ANNETTE KING 9 (7) Trans­port / Police

Increases her value to the Gov­ern­ment with each pass­ing cri­sis. Gets results. Capa­ble man­ager behind the scenes and in front.

TREVOR MALLARD 4 (6) Eco­nomic Devel­op­ment / Sport

Where is the sales job on eco­nomic trans­for­ma­tion? Wins points for auda­cious Auck­land water­front sta­dium, but loses more for insult­ing the most impor­tant elec­torate in the coun­try for fail­ing to agree with him. Val­ued inside the party but has lost some of his cred­i­bil­ity. (Mal­lard needs a big cup of shut the fuck up.)

PETE HODGSON 4 (4) Health

Peo­ple being bumped off wait­ing lists, Her­ceptin, the Med­lab fiasco, strikes that threaten treat­ment – none may be exactly his fault but all have hap­pened on his watch. So he gets a lit­tle less than the rat­ing he him­self gives the health sys­tem. (And he can’t dance to save himself.)

MARK BURTON 2 (2) Jus­tice / Treaty Negotiations

Clark must be point­ing him in the direc­tion of the exit sign next elec­tion. Not a sin­gle appar­ent suc­cess. Entire Jus­tice port­fo­lio under review. No momen­tum in Treaty Nego­ti­a­tions. No pay-off for the rates rebate pledge. (Mark who?)

DAMIEN O’CONNOR 2 (8) Corrections

Dear, oh dear. Such high hopes for this pop­u­lar min­is­ter. Has suf­fered badly from his department’s inep­ti­tude but also high­lighted some of his own man­age­ment defi­cien­cies. (Dead man walk­ing.)

DAVID BENSON-POPE 4 (3) Social Devel­op­ment Wrong man for the job but then this port­fo­lio is not as impor­tant to Labour as it was in its first two terms. Bring back Maharey. At least he was pas­sion­ate about it. (The only thing Panty Slut-Boy is pas­sion­ate about is cop­ping a good flogging.)

NANAIA MAHUTA 5 (6) Cus­toms / Youth Affairs

One law for all dogs should not be what this min­is­ter is best remem­bered for. She has tal­ent, where is it? Use it, or lose it. (I vote lose it.)

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Labour still has not paid a cent back of the money they stole.

I have added a lit­tle counter at the top of the left col­umn to assist them in cal­cu­lat­ing how much time they have left.

Pay It Back you thiev­ing scum. 

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The lies of Duplic­i­tous Duo, Sue Brad­ford and Helen Clark, con­tinue to be exposed.

There may lie and the one being trum­peted loudly by the lick­spit­tles is that the law doesn’t ban smack­ing when it demon­stra­bly does, the sec­ond main lie is that the police will exer­cise dis­cre­tion, of course the sec­ond lie is much more insid­i­ous because what would hap­pen if the Police were informed of an incident.

Well we can won­der no more because a mother in Field­ing both­ered to actu­ally ask what no MSM so-called jour­nal­ist hasn’t, “If I lightly smacked my three-year-old for cor­rec­tion and my neigh­bour saw it and called police – would you have to come out and investigate?”

Her answer from Field­ing Police, was YES. So what!, you say. Well Mrs Elliot, clearly more dili­gent that any news reporter asked some fur­ther questions.

So, then, who is afraid now….a sea of hands…..So there you have it, the lie that Police would do noth­ing is proven by ask­ing, who else, the Police, con­firmed by National Head­quar­ters and with the sting of CYFS in the tail as well.

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Chris Trot­ter per­haps the only leftie com­men­ta­tor I have admired wrote a pieve on the Dom­Post. It isn’t avail­able online and you really have to won­der whether that is inten­tional given the explo­sive nature of his piece. Of course I do not toally agree with his sen­ti­ments, espe­cially the last cou­ple of para­graphs. For the rest of it he is right on the money, the longer the left pushes this the more they will be stripped of power.

NZ Con­ser­v­a­tive have thought­fully re-typed it and I have copied it here for you to read.

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Check this out for com­plete and utter waste.

FFS sake…. “A great invest­ment under­pin­ning our trans­for­ma­tion into a knowl­edge economy”!!!!!!

Cullen has gone mad.

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Pol­icy mak­ing on the hoof is never a good look, and it just got worse for Steve Maharey and Helen Clark with news that the Early Child­hood Council’s chief exec­u­tive Sue Thorne has said a sur­vey of 1000 early child­hood cen­tres, which was com­pleted last week, had revealed “a very low uptake” of the policy.

She announced this at their annual con­fer­ence, and also said the prog­no­sis is likely to be worse.

Oh dear, some one (the min­is­ter) has been telling porkies and despite his pub­lic assur­ances that all you have to do is rock on up to a child­hood edu­ca­tion cen­tre and demand the 20Free the exact oppo­site appears to be the case. If you do rock on up you are likely to be shown the do

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I have been asked to help out a mate.

His name is Rohit Singh and he has just come back from Fiji after lift­ing the Fiji Box­ing Association’s Heavy­weight Title on the 23rd of March from Mosese Kavika, knock­ing him out in the 3rd Round. Mosese Kavika is cur­rently ranked 10th in the WBF Asia Pacific rank­ings . Rohit will fight any­one from Shane Cameron down in that list.

Rohit trains at Buck’s Genet­ics Gym in Manukau and is there every­day. We often are chat­ting about train­ing and that is where I found out abit about him.

He has won every­thing there is to win in Fiji both Ama­teur and Pro­fes­sional. This is his record.

Ama­teur: 27 bouts Super Heavy­weight, all won by Knock­out, no defeats. 4 medals, 2 trophies.

Pro­fes­sional: 14 Heavy­weight bouts, all won by knock­out, undefeated.

Rohit is now based in New Zealand and is look­ing for a pro­moter so he can have a crack at Shane Cameron for the New Zealand Title.

Some things you should know about Rohit, he gives half of his fight win­nings to char­ity. The Char­i­ties he cur­rently sup­ports are the Dis­abled Children’s Hos­tel, The Lau­toka School for Spe­cial Edu­ca­tion, the Bayly Wel­fare Foun­da­tion, which helps with poverty assis­tance and an old­folks home run by the Min­istry of health in Fiji. All of these char­i­ties are based in Lautoka.

Rohit has moved here with his wife, Ash­wini, and his son Krish­neel (11) and Neha (4) his daugh­ter. They are liv­ing in South Auck­land and Rohit is look­ing for a job so that he can con­tinue to train. He has his HT licences and is multi-skilled and of course handy with his hands.

If any­one can assist Rohit in achiev­ing his goals then con­tact me at the fol­low­ing email address wha­le­oil­beefhooked at gmail dot com.

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Labour through their lick­spit­tle mouth­pieces and the Greens con­tinue to lie like flat­fish about the effect of their Sec­tion 59 repeal Bill.

Jor­dan and Tony both spew the Politburo’s talk­ing points about the bill not ban­ning smack­ing when in fact it clearly does.

The fact remains that when Sue Brad­ford was ques­tioned whether it would be pos­si­ble to smack chil­dren after her amended bill becomes law, the one Tony Milne has on his web­site, she said no.

Gooner (Nick) shows exactly how her bill bans smack­ing, through weasel words and deceit is how.

Fuck­ing liars and frauds that’s what they are.

Oh and another point, if the exist­ing law already bans smack­ing then why are we even hav­ing this repeal when there is no need for it?

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The Gov­ern­ment thinks it improper to smack chil­dren, so I have tried other meth­ods to con­trol my kids when they have one of “those moments.”

One that I found effec­tive is for me to just take the child for a car ride and talk. They usu­ally calm down and they stop mis­be­hav­ing after our car ride together. I’ve included a photo below of one of my ses­sions with my son, in case you would like to use the technique.

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Embold­ened by an increas­ing nanny state the Min­istry of Health wants to limit mag­got packs and choco­late bars for school chil­dren to once a month.

Quite how they will mon­i­tor that and enforce it is incon­ceiv­able, nev­er­the­less they are rec­om­mend­ing it. 

I can imag­ine the legions of inspec­tors check­ing ration books to see that chil­dren are not claim­ing more than their allot­ted 1 mag­got pack per month and refer­ring default­ers and their fam­i­lies to CYFS for some “re-education”

Ohhh…gone are the days when you got a third for­mer to stand in the line for you and buy sev­eral mag­got packs and a coke for lunch….sigh.

School tuck shops must now be enjoy­ment free zones.

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Manukau City Coun­cil has approved a 40% increase in Direc­tors’ fees for two of its Coun­cil Con­trolled Organ­i­sa­tions (CCOs) Manukau Water and Tomorrow’s Manukau Properties.

The increased fees were approved by the Coun­cil Cor­po­rate Gov­er­nance Com­mit­tee behind closed doors ear­lier this month, but have only just become public.

People’s Choice have demanded answers.

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The wheels just keep falling off of the trolley.

The lat­est seri­ously wob­bly wheel is an ERO report that slams hun­dreds of schools that have no idea how well, or poorly, their stu­dents are achieving.

NCEA, now this, the gov­ern­ment appears to have lost con­trol of the Edu­ca­tion sec­tor and our schools becom­ing noth­ing more than glo­ri­fied babysit­ting factories. 

Of course the unions in their quest for medioc­ity have denied there is a problem.

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