June 2007

David Cunliffe — Hypocrite

by Whaleoil June 30, 2007

David Cun­liffe is a hyp­ocrite. Here is an excerpt from his speech to Par­lia­ment on the Crimes (Sub­sti­tuted Sec­tion 59) Amend­ment Bill from Hansard. His hypocrisy is breathtaking.

[quote]This is the only time I have spo­ken in this debate, and I con­clude by doing some­thing very rare. I do not like ever to bring politi­cians’ per­sonal lives into debate, and I cer­tainly have never done it to any­body else, but I want to say some­thing per­sonal, on my own behalf, as my col­league Shane Jones has done. I am a rel­a­tively new dad. I have a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old. I have used cor­po­ral pun­ish­ment in the past. I grew up in a fam­ily where, within mod­er­a­tion, that was the norm. I want to acknowl­edge my wife, who has staunchly held the view that that is not an appro­pri­ate form of par­ent­ing. I have learnt not to use cor­po­ral pun­ish­ment. I have learnt that if I have to smack one of my two dar­ling sons, that says a lot more about me and my lack of par­ent­ing skills than it says about them. Any kid can drive us up the wall. Any­one who has kids knows that, right? We get tired, and they get tired, and they have the odd bit of choco­late after tea and they can work them­selves up into a bit of a lather. But smack­ing does not help. That is what I have learnt out of all of this debate.

Through­out this debate, as a coun­try we have come on a jour­ney, and I have come on a bit of a jour­ney as a dad, too. If any­body says that I am vot­ing the way I am on this bill because my whips told me to, then I say that, as much as I respect my whips, I am vot­ing with my con­science. I am also vot­ing with my life expe­ri­ence here. (Inter­rup­tion) Yes—I am also vot­ing with my wife’s instruc­tions. I would not want to go home if I changed my vote. Some mem­bers know my wife, and they know that would be a very bad idea. I am sur­rounded by strong women; it is fan­tas­tic. I know that this is the right thing to do. I know that my chil­dren will learn bet­ter if I sit down and explain to them what is right and wrong—not if I belt them to try to get the point across. My kids have the same spunk and spine as my wife has. I do not bow down to that kind of pres­sure. But they also have brains, and they know how to lis­ten to an argu­ment, even at 5—actually, even at 2. I am proud of my lit­tle fam­ily, and I am proud of the way that they are grow­ing up.[/quote]

I won­der why he didn’t sit down and dis­cuss the rights and wrongs of the sit­u­a­tion? I won­der why he belted his kid to get the point across? i won­der what his wife thinks?

I hope he now suf­fers a Police inves­ti­ga­tion and a black mark on his file at CYFS. Of course he won’t because he is a Labour Min­is­ter and we should do as he says not as he does.

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Mayoral Meddling in Whangarei

by Whaleoil June 30, 2007

It sounds like there is a very wor­ried Mayor up in Whangarei if there are any legs to this report from Radio New Zealand.

[quote]A Whangarei ratepayer group is accus­ing the Mayor Pamela Peters of try­ing to silence free speech, by per­suad­ing Wait­akere Mayor Bob Har­vey not to speak at a pub­lic meet­ing in Whangarei.

The Integrity Action group is one of sev­eral accus­ing the Whangarei Dis­trict Coun­cil of over-spending and act­ing out­side its man­date. It had booked Mr Har­vey to address a pub­lic meet­ing about democ­racy in local gov­ern­ment next week.

But Mike Mansell says Mr Harvey’s office rang on Thurs­day to can­cel, say­ing Mrs Peters wanted him to pull out.

Mrs Peters says she called Mr Har­vey to make him aware of the con­tent of fliers being cir­cu­lated by Integrity Action and he made his own deci­sion not to come.[/quote]

Hmmm…methinks there is a lit­tle bit too much med­dling going on here and Ms Peters is run­ning more than a lit­tle scared about details of the rorts and scams that her coun­cil is run­ning get­ting out to the wider audience.

Too late Ms Peters, I have become aware of many of the case of shenani­gins that is going on in your neck of the woods and I will be expos­ing them in the lead up to the Local Body elec­tions in October.

UPDATE: Frank New­man has addi­tional infor­ma­tion about the carry on of Ms Peters. 

 

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Hubbard leaves to support Team New Zealand, surprise, surprise they start losing

by Whaleoil June 30, 2007

Har­ried Hucker in charge of city — Auck­land City Mayor Dick Hub­bard left on a pri­vate, nine-day visit to cheer Emi­rates Team NZ in Valen­cia yes­ter­day, leav­ing his deputy, Bruce Hucker, in charge of the country’s largest city. Mr Hub­bard joined City Vision-Labour… [Auck­land News]

Yes indeed it is increas­ing look­ing like Team New Zealand has been “Dicked”.

Dick Hub­bard is the ulti­mate reverse Midas. Every­thing he touches turns to shit. Come back home Dick, your city and nation needs you (we don’t actu­ally, but you are more use to C&R back in con­trol charge the big chair).

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Editorial: The best way to avoid ridicule is to be a little less ridiculous

by Whaleoil June 30, 2007

Edi­to­r­ial: The best way to avoid ridicule is to be a lit­tle less ridicu­lous — It’s hard to think of some­thing more satire-worthy than the pro­posal by Parliament’s stand­ing orders com­mit­tee to ban the use of tele­vi­sion footage shot in the House for the pur­poses of “satire, ridicule and den­i­gra­tion”. Deputy… [NZ Pol­i­tics]

The Her­ald on Sun­day Edi­to­r­ial lam­basts politi­cian and Michael Cullen in par­tic­u­lar over their overly sen­si­tive rules to try to make them­selves look good when we all know what a bunch of use­less twats they are.

[quote]Deputy Prime Min­is­ter Michael Cullen has accused the news media of try­ing to por­tray the restric­tions as “some sort of fas­cist state where the heroic media of New Zealand are being denied the right to lam­poon politi­cians”. Com­ing from the House’s reign­ing mas­ter of the scathingly sav­age put­down, this seems par­tic­u­larly rich and, like much of his rhetoric, it trans­par­ently avoids the issue at hand by seek­ing to exag­ger­ate the con­cerns expressed so as to min­imise them.[/quote]

I believe that the media does have the right to lam­poon politi­cians and they should use that right exten­sively and pften. If the bug­gers don’t want to be lam­pooned then don’t act like a bunch of prats. The solu­tion is sim­ple really, so sim­ple, you would think that they would man­age to grasp the concept. 

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MP in smack row">MP in smack row

by Whaleoil June 30, 2007

MP in smack row — A Gov­ern­ment min­is­ter was last night accused of smack­ing one of his chil­dren at a shop­ping mall. The Fam­ily First NZ lobby group, which cam­paigned against anti-smacking laws, accused cab­i­net min­is­ter David Cun­liffe of smack­ing… [NZ Pol­i­tics]

Good on David Cun­liffe for ignor­ing a bla­tently stu­pid law, bad on him for be a hyp­ocrite in vot­ing to pass the law in the first place.

I won­der though if the Police will inves­ti­gate this, nah, silly me he is a mem­ber of the Labour party and thus is above the laws he him­self passes. 

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Aren’t tech reporters who know sfa annoying?

by Whaleoil June 29, 2007

I hate read­ing tech reports in the media where it clear almost from the forst word writ­ten that they know almost noth­ing about the sub­ject they are com­ment­ing on.

A case in point is this morn­ings arti­cle in the The Press about Skype.

Where does one begin with the many false­hoods out­lined in this article.

  1. Skype is not a web­site per se, it is an application.
  2. You can hide your­self from the great unwashed.
  3. Don’t you know what your kids are doing on the inter­net? Fools

I have used Skype for years, I have never had unwanted  calls, or peo­ple want­ing to make friends. That is mainly because almost all the infor­ma­tion loaded in my pro­file is false, I only accept con­nec­tions from invited per­sons that I know and I under­stand the tech­nol­ogy and all of the settings.

If any­thing the arti­cle high­lights the dan­gers of high tech­nol­ogy eas­ily acces­si­ble to the masses. 

 

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Where’s the money, Winston?

by Whaleoil June 29, 2007

Win­ston First and United Future still owe us the money they nicked . United Future at least has made part pay­ment but Win­ston First still has not repaid one cent of the money they nicked.

This is out­right thiev­ery on the part of Win­ston Peters. He has a bloody gall to stand up in par­lia­ment and berate NZ busi­ness lead­ers when he him­self is party to a fraud against the NZ tax­payer. Not only that he was caught red-handed up to his armpits in the  till and unbe­liev­ably still main­tains he did noth­ing wrong despite the Auditor-General say­ing otherwise.

It is ironic that it is the lick­spit­tle poo­dle par­ties that remain as default­ers. If only our Police force wasn’t hor­ri­bly, polit­i­cally cor­rupt we could have seen these bas­tards prosecuted. 

Mean­while Labour con­tin­ues the raid on the pub­lic purse with con­tin­u­ing ads on the NZ Her­ald web­site that are redi­rect­ing peo­ple to their own web­site. This is noth­ing but bla­tant pub­lic fund­ing of party polit­i­cal broadcasts. 

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Auckland given stick over water

by Whaleoil June 28, 2007

Auck­land given stick over water — Auck­land City lead­ers came under fire yes­ter­day at a par­lia­men­tary hear­ing in Welling­ton for “hood­wink­ing” the pub­lic over water bills. National MP Nick Smith zeroed in on the coun­cil using its water com­pany, Metrowa­ter, as a cash… [Auck­land News]

Bernard Ors­man finally starts to inject some truth into his report­ing about water. Hub­bard and his left­ist coun­cil have been sys­tem­at­i­cally hood­wink­ing Auck­land City ratepayer by effec­tively sub­si­dis­ing rates through “char­i­ta­ble pay­ments” from Metrowa­ter. mean­while they are hel­ter skel­ter increas­ing bor­row­ings of the coun­cil by over a $1 bil­lion and qui­etly try­ing keep that secret.

Yes Bernard, I am onto your bla­tant lying to read­ers and your insis­tance of report­ing what you want instead of the facts. Your behav­iour and atti­tude will be revealed in due course.

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Early childhood education scheme in trouble before it starts

by Whaleoil June 28, 2007

Early child­hood edu­ca­tion scheme in trou­ble before it starts — The Auck­land Kinder­garten Asso­ci­a­tion is threat­en­ing to drop the Government’s 20 hours free early child­hood edu­ca­tion scheme before it has even started. Gen­eral man­ager Tanya Har­vey said the mem­ber cen­tres needed a 50c an hour… [NZ Pol­i­tics]

Yep…Told ya so Steve, your pol­icy on the hoof is fucked. Despite your protes­ta­tions and pre­var­i­ca­tion over let­ting us all know how many of the “up to 92,000 chil­dren who are eli­gi­ble” have signed up.

Your pol­icy is NOT 20 hours free, it is 20 hours sub­sidised, but that doesn’t sound quite so good does it.

Liars! 

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Cullen decides easy gum, easy go

by Whaleoil June 28, 2007

Cullen decides easy gum, easy go — Finance Min­is­ter Michael Cullen sought Cabinet’s approval just a month before the May Bud­get to can­cel its pre­vi­ous “chew­ing gum” promise to adjust income tax thresh­olds — the only tax cut he has promised in eight Bud­gets. But… [NZ Pol­i­tics]

Not only that but the papers show Labour’s utter con­tempt for tax­pay­ers with Cullen say­ing ““Within the pro­tec­tion period (ie. from 2011-12 onwards) we will adjust the tax thresh­olds for infla­tion, but some por­tion of fis­cal drag might need to be retained to finance our deci­sions.”. See they acknowl­edge that they will steal from tax­pay­ers more because of fis­cal drag and that is tough titty because they want to spend more.

Not only that, it is clear that Labour has again lied to the elec­torate. They jus­ti­fied the can­celling of the tax cuts by say­ing that Kiwisaver was the replace­ment, but it is clear from the cab­i­net papers that the tax cuts were dropped because Labour wanted to spend more and that was the eas­i­est way to reef the money out of the electorate. 

They are noth­ing but thiev­ing scum. 

 

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WTF is this!!!!">WTF is this!!!!

by Whaleoil June 28, 2007

On the NZ Her­ald web­site I was assaulted with this offen­sive image. It seems Labour never learns from its mis­takes. They nicked $15 mil­lion to pro­mote Work­ing for Fam­i­lies the first time round and now they have nicked even more to pro­mote Kiwisaver them­selves. Look at the fricken ad, it is Bright red, Labour is men­tioned three times and Kiwisaver only twice and it sends you to their web­site where you are bom­barded with more tax­payer funded party polit­i­cal broadcasts.

Appar­ently  Kiwisaver, Cheaper doc­tors vis­its and 20NotFree are all part of Labours Sus­tain­able New Zealand campaign.….see the lit­tle NZ sour­rounded by the money go-round labels, beside the hug-fest logo.

Their thiev­ery is shame­less ans spec­tac­u­lar. They also must be broke as hell to resort to this sort of bla­tant stealing.

Ques­tions need to be asked about this. 

At least we now know what Labour means by Sus­tain­able New Zealand.…..New Zealand sus­tain­ing the Labour Party!!!! 

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Anti-Satire rules passed

by Whaleoil June 28, 2007

Par­lia­ment has passed its anti-democratic, anti satire, anti ridicule and anti-denigration rules.

To cel­e­brate I have pre­pared a photo, please can I be the first pros­e­cuted, please, please Mr Cullen, ass­hole (den­i­gra­tion). Now for the satire and ridicule.

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Blogger Drinks last night

by Whaleoil June 28, 2007

Last night i met up with a few of those i will drink with, ie not social­ists at the Cav on Col­lege Hill.

DPF was up from Welling­ton, MikeE, Gooner, Adolf, Dar­renG, and a cou­ple of other whose ids escape me right now enjoyed the con­vivial atmos­phere at the Cav.

We man­aged, I think, to solve, in no par­tic­u­lar order;

  • The woes of ACT
  • A new home for the itinerant’s from Sir Humps
  • The end of social­ism in NZ
  • How to put a tie on Sir Robert Muldoon
  • How to con­duct a local body cam­paign with remote advisors.

I had to leave to attend the Indica­tive Selec­tion for C&R Hob­son, but that is another story in itself that i may be able to blog once I have permission.

Drinks and Adolf’s pro­vided fires and sauce were most enjoy­able, per­haps we need to make this a reg­u­lar occur­ance, i mau make an excep­tion to my social­ist rule for PM, as he has been vouched for by Adolf and Gooner. 

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What really happened after the Deathstar blew up

by Whaleoil June 28, 2007

I love YouTube.

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Party pills banned

by Whaleoil June 27, 2007

Party pills banned — Party pills are to be banned, Asso­ciate Health Min­is­ter Jim Ander­ton has announced. BZP and related party pills, also known as herbal highs, will be clas­si­fied as a Class C1 drug. This will stop the legal man­u­fac­ture and sale… [NZ Pol­i­tics]

Looks like the fun police have struck again.….once again a silly law to pro­tect fools from them­selves. This will of course fail.

Given the rea­sons for doing this sup­pos­edly are to save lives, one won­ders when they are going to ban cig­a­rettes and motor vehicles.

Jim Ander­ton clearly is cloud cuckoo land if he thinks that mak­ing BZP ille­gal will not cre­ate a black mar­ket or lead to increased use of other drugs such as methamphetamine.

 

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