Brick thrower tar­gets Clark elec­torate office – 01 Jan 2008 – NZ Her­ald: New Zealand National news

At least they can’t be charged with sedi­tion which iron­i­cally was scrapped from the law books because it was thought that the sedi­tion laws rep­re­sented a threat to the free­dom of speech and could be abused. The Gov­ern­ment then went and passed the Elec­toral Finance Act which actu­ally are a threat to free­dom of speech.

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Car­toon: A foul spirit – 01 Jan 2008 – Opin­ion, Edi­to­r­ial and reader com­ments from New Zealand and around the World – nzherald

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Baby loses fight for life – 01 Jan 2008 – NZ Her­ald: New Zealand National news

The killing con­tin­ues, another child has been bashed to death unpro­tected by a stu­pid law that has done noth­ing to stop the killing, despite Sue Brad­ford assert­ing in Par­lia­ment “Now our kid­dies are safe”.

Utter crap.

We need to add Tahini Mahomed’s name to Bradford’s Wall of Shame.

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It is now 1 Jan­u­ary 2008 and polit­i­cal advo­cacy for or against a polit­i­cal party and/or can­di­date [Sec­tion 5(1)]is now reg­u­lated by the Elec­toral Finance Act, and treated as an elec­tion adver­tise­ment unless you qual­ify for an exemp­tion. The unthink­able has hap­pened and Free­dom of Speech is now rationed. Just so every­one knows;

I assert that this web­site is a blog and pub­lished by me on a non-commercial basis, and any views expressed on it by me are my per­sonal polit­i­cal views and under para­graph (g) of Sec­tion 5(2) of the Elec­toral Finance Act, is not an elec­tion adver­tise­ment.

I fur­ther assert that this web­site is a news media Inter­net site and that all posts on here are writ­ten by me, as the edi­tor, solely for the pur­pose of inform­ing, enlight­en­ing or enter­tain­ing read­ers, and hence also is not an elec­tion adver­tise­ment under para­graph (d) of Sec­tion 5(2) of the Elec­toral Finance Act.

Thus in the inter­ests of inform­ing and enlight­en­ing read­ers, Don’t Vote for Labour  or NZ First or The Green Party, or even the pompous ass from Ohariu Peter Dunne. Vote their cor­rupt, venal, lying asses out of the par­lia­ment. Make them hurt for tram­pling our democ­racy in such a cal­lous fash­ion. Con­sign them to ignominy, never to return.

For those who want a voice you can help the Free Speech Coali­tion by donat­ing what­ever you can to the cause, we will make you voice heard, we will shout down this cor­rupt nanny state. 

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Vet­tori, McCul­lum star in stun­ning win – New Zealand, world, sport, busi­ness & enter­tain­ment news on Stuff.co.nz

I watched the bor­ing and use­less dis­play of bat­ting from the Bangladeshi “play­ers” then stood there astounded as McCul­lum just bashed the shit out of them prov­ing that the pitch was indeed a belter.

6 feck­ing overs to get the runs…..if I was at the game I would be really annoyed at such a poor display.

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Shad­bolt blitzes Gov­ern­ment in last-gasp ad cam­paign – 31 Dec 2007 – NZ Her­ald: New Zealand National news

Tim Shadbolt’s protest over the treat­ment of SIT hit the papers today one day before the dra­con­ian Elec­toral Finance Act takes effect.

I won­der if we can get a spon­sor for an Inver­cargill bill­board? I have a few designs in mind.

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New Year award for Labour’s big donor – 31 Dec 2007 – NZ Her­ald: New Zealand National news

Now we know what it was that Gor­don Brown and Helen Clark were talk­ing about when Dear Leader foisted her­self upon the luck­less UK Prime Min­is­ter. Gor­don clearly told her chap­ter and verse how to go about imple­ment­ing a Cash for Hon­ours scheme exactly like UK Labour did.

Not only has Clark shame­lessly copied “The Third Way” and pledge cards off UK Labour but now she has brought their venal and cyn­i­cal Cash for Hon­ours sys­tem to New Zealand. Even worse she has set the bar so low at only $500,000. talk about sell­ing your­self short.

This is so totally venal they have given an award to a guy who hasn’t even lived in the coun­try for 41 years and even specif­i­cally changed laws so this “rich prick”, to coin a phrase of Michael Cullen, can keep on giv­ing to Labour.

A quick scan through the rest of the hon­ours shows there are plenty of peo­ple whose sole claim to fame is that they have helped Labour in some way.

Mar­garet Sheilds
Mar­i­lyn War­ing
Mar­garet Austin
Garry Moore

The only sur­pris­ing thing is we didn’t see Helen’s own lit­tle lick­spit­tle the NIMBY from Queen­stown, Sam Neill, get­ting an award.

Labour it seems is the gift that keeps on giv­ing as they lurch from one cri­sis to the next

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I have been sit­ting herein Rotove­gas think­ing about a cou­ple of things.

One is Freeview.

The ads for the suck­ful ser­vice are dri­ving me crazy and they have reminded me of a con­ver­sa­tion i had recently in Welling­ton with a good mate of mine.

She was telling me about her friend who runs an instal­la­tion busi­ness and was encour­aged to take up instal­la­tion of Free­view. He was told how pop­u­lar it was going to be and how it would run him off his feet. I’m not sure exactly who told him all that bol­locks but he was told it nev­er­the­less, com­plete with gov­ern­ment sta­tis­tics on uptake for the region he works in.

Any­way, he looked at the stats, thought about his cus­tomers and the cus­tomer base and area he is in and then bought 300 set top boxes all ready for him to be del­uged with requests to install this won­der­ous new gov­ern­ment intia­tive in the homes of his customers……..ooops prob­lem is he hasn’t sold or installed even one. He can’t even give them away. No one wants them.

nada, noth­ing, zip, zilch

It begs the ques­tion then, How many sub­scribers are there of this still-born child of Steve Maharey’s?

How about the num­ber of sub­scriers against pro­jec­tions of uptake?

Is Jonathon Cole­man awake?

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Tim Shad­bolt is sail­ing very, very close to the wind. This is his advert that will hit the papers tomor­row. it may wellll already be ille­gal even though it will be pub­lished one day before the “reg­u­lated” period. You see it advo­cates against Labour and for National and thus gets cap­tured by sec­tion 65 one of the lit­tle known clauses that actu­ally reg­u­lates free speech for all time, not just the cam­paign period. Graeme Edg­ler is of the opin­ion that Tim could well be in trou­ble, pre­cisely for sec­tion 65. This is why I fought against the leg­is­la­tion, and why I will con­tinue to fight against it.

I don’t like tim Shad­bolt, I don’t like his poltics but i do like that he has seen this law for what it is. I will also defend the right of Tim Shad­bolt to say what­ever he damn well likes. Unfor­tu­nately for the left they are now morally bank­rupt after sup­port­ing the bill. Clark and Cullen and Win­ston and Peter and Jeanette have destroyed the ideals of free­dom that left­ists usu­ally march in the streets for. 

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This pic­ture frame pack­ag­ing was spot­ted at Coin Save in Ngongotaha.

Hmmmm inter­est­ing con­cept, How exactly do you shave a heart?

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Bill Ral­ston: No rest for Nats over sum­mer – John Key will be smil­ing qui­etly to him­self over the BBQ at his beach house in Omaha this sum­mer. As he turns the chops, he can be con­tent that, while 2007 had a few hic­cups, 2008 promises to be an even bet­ter year for National …… [NZ Pol­i­tics]

So Labour has a neu­tron bomb huh? Dick­heads, they should’ve worked out by now that that won’t help them and the pub­lic don’t like mudslinging.

John Key is right, heads down bums up work­ing hard at being the gov­ern­ment in wait­ing and con­tin­u­ally using the mantra “It’s Time for a change“

Oh and for the Labour gits who think they can get away with a neu­tron bomb, watch out for those of us in the blo­gos­phere who do not have to show elec­toral restraint. A guerilla viral war is some­thing YOU can’t win. 

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Matt McCarten: Votes mat­ter, but it’s coali­tion part­ners who will count in 2008 – Despite the spin from party spokesper­sons, it is a great tru­ism that you can nor­mally pre­dict an elec­tion a year out. Con­sis­tent polls over the past year have shown that National holds a healthy lead over Labour. You can be pretty… [NZ Pol­i­tics]

Matt McCarten reck­ons that National can’t gov­ern because they won’t have a coali­tion part­ner. he is right and wrong at the same time.

The next elec­tion will show Labour espe­cially, and National gen­er­ally that Kiwi’s are fed up with the foibles of MMP, they are sick to the back teeth of tails wag­ging dogs and they will show it in cat­a­strophic fash­ion. Cat­a­strophic for the minor par­ties with the excep­tion of the Maori Party and per­haps ACT if Rod­ney can pull through.

Win­ston First is par­tic­u­larly exposed after Win­ston lost Tau­ranga and with no prospect of ever win­ning it back and the likely-hood that his sorry assed excuse of a party will fail to reach 5%. Not only that but Win­ston First is the only party that daily records its demise in the Death notices as their mem­bers pop their clogs. To make mat­ters worse, Win­ston has alien­ated a large seg­ment of his core con­stituency by sup­port­ing the Elec­toral Finance Bill.

The Greens have never had the legit­i­macy of ever win­ning an elec­torate seat and thus will be con­signed to the dustbin.

We live in inter­est­ing times, John Key could make it more inter­est­ing by promis­ing a bind­ing ref­er­en­dum on the future of MMP. The peo­ple mis­tak­enly believe that they were promised such a thing, and also mis­tak­enly believe that suc­ces­sive gov­ern­mens have not pur­sued such a path because they just aren’t inter­ested i, like the prover­bial turkey, in vot­ing for an early Christ­mas. John Key should play to that mis­taken belief and deliver to des­per­ate Kiwi’s cap­tured by sin­gle issue par­ties and sin­gle issue MP’s.

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Dead man crushed by ele­phant in NSW – New Zealand’s source for World News on Stuff.co.nz

Stu­pid headline…..either he was dead before he was crushed, in which case who gives a shit or he was dead as a result of being in the wrong place in an ele­phant cage.

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Fran O’Sullivan : Good­bye Helen and global warm­ing – Here’s my top 10 story list for 2008. Read­ers should be warned – not all may even­tu­ate!
1. Helen Clark is rolled
Clark was feted as Politi­cian of the Year for 2007. But how real is it to put on a pedestal a Prime Min­is­ter who… [NZ Pol­i­tics]

Right Wing Blog­ger Fran O’Sullivan puts the boot into Helen and her lick­spit­tle poo­dle parties.

1. Helen Clark is rolled
2. NZ explodes in civil dis­obe­di­ence (over Elec­toral Finance Act)
3. Cli­mate change sci­ence con­sen­sus breaks
4. Key and Eng­lish cut a secret suc­ces­sion deal
5. May bud­get unleashes elec­tion bribe season
6. Supreme Court tells Solicitor-General to take a run­ning jump
7. Pres­i­dent Hillary Clin­ton insti­tutes min­i­mum age of 70 for white house interns
8. All the minor par­ties except Maori Party get thrown out
9. Mark Preb­ble resigns
10. Alan Bol­lard drops inter­est rates

Gee, i hope most of these come true. My pre­dic­tions are;

1. Nope, unless the polls get so bad that even the most venal Labour MP gets nervous.
2. Yep
3. Yep,
4. Nope, never again Mr 21%
5. Of course
6. Pos­si­ble but not likely
7. I hope the bitch gets the bird from the voters
8. Yeah, that would be Christ­mas all over again
9. Resigns before being fired, but kicks off a golden hand­shake scandal.
10. Not likely with all the bribes that will be flow­ing in elec­tion year.

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Trevor Loudon tagged me so here goes (in no par­tic­u­lar order)

1. National to grow some cajones and fight like with like, they smear you, you smear them 10 times over.
2. 3 poli­cies to be announced so Labour can’t copy them, Repeal Anti-Smacking law, Bind­ing Ref­er­en­dum on the future of MMP and repeal of EFA.
3. The Greens, Win­ston First and United Future cop an elec­toral spank­ing and are out on their col­lec­tive arses because of their sup­port for the EFA.
4. We finally hear what hap­pened in Cal­i­for­nia 2 years ago.
5. A net­work picks up The Backbencher
6. “Cli­mate Change” is shown to be the com­plete and utter bol­locks we all know it is.
7. Richard Worth gets spanked again in Epsom and finally gives up because he realises he is tits at every­thing he does.
8. I score a trip to Fiji to meet Bain­i­marama and blog about the facts up there.

There that should do it. Now I tag Rod­ney Hide, Cac­tus Kate, Adolf, Gooner, Cr Bhat­na­gar and Blair Mullholland.

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