May 2008

REMINDER: 8.30pm Prime Tonight">REMINDER: 8.30pm Prime Tonight

by Whaleoil May 31, 2008

A reminder to every­one but Harp-on and Cement Ass that at 8.30pm on Prime tonight is the screen­ing of the Great Global Warm­ing Swindle.

Feel free to use this post for com­ments, no doubt Cement Ass and Harp-on will be along to “re-educate” you all.

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Sorry seems to be the hardest word –The Video

by Whaleoil May 31, 2008

For my Vet­eran readers.

 

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Ralston off target and McCarten Tory bashing

by Whaleoil May 31, 2008

Bill Ral­ston: For­get logic, it’s elec­tion year — The thought of spend­ing 48 hours trapped in a remote coun­try lodge with 94 bureau­crats “team build­ing” and dis­cussing prop­erty main­te­nance ranks along­side being severely beaten with a half-dead hedge­hog when it comes to my list of… [NZ Pol­i­tics]

Bill Ral­ston misses the point entirely. Bill, per­cep­tion IS real­ity. End of lesson.

His best line was unfor­tu­nately his last.

[quote]Like Hillary Clin­ton in her doomed race with Barack Obama, all Helen Clark can do now is hang in there and des­per­ately hope her oppo­nent shoots him­self in the foot.[/quote]

Matt McCarten: Pol­i­tics mas­quer­ades as research as you’d expect in elec­tion year — Since
Labour’s been in power, we haven’t heard a lot from the Busi­ness
Round­table.
When Roger Dou­glas and Ruth Richard­son et al were run­ning the coun­try
into the ground, the Round­table was New Zealand’s fore­most right-wing
think… [NZ Pol­i­tics]

I can’t be both­ered cri­tiquing Matt McCarten he is becom­ing more and more envi­ous and churl­ish the closer to evis­cer­a­tion labour and the left comes. He would do bet­ter to set up a new party to hoover up dis­con­tent with the par­lous state the left has become under the Clarkists.

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Sunday Cartoon by Blanch

by Whaleoil May 31, 2008

Sue Bradford by Blanch

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Len Brown collapses

by Whaleoil May 31, 2008

I was sad to see that Len Brown col­lapsed from a mas­sive heart attack last night.

My thoughts and prayers are with him and his family.

Len was well on the way to becom­ing a very pop­u­lar mayor. Every­one who has met or worked with Len only speaks highly of him. Since becom­ing Mayor he has worked tire­lessly to put his own mark on the may­oralty and gained an impres­sive rep­u­ta­tion. Let’s all hope he recov­ers swiftly.

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Look out Breasel, Here we come!

by Whaleoil May 31, 2008

The Wha­le­oil clan are out and about.

[quote]A siz­able pod of orcas can be seen cruis­ing Auckland’s Manukau Harbour.

Coast­guard says reports of the group’s num­ber vary between 15 to 20. The killer whales are not an uncom­mon sight in the area at this time of year.[/quote]

 

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Breasel at it again

by Whaleoil May 30, 2008

Bren­den Shee­han knows no shame. Instead of apol­o­gis­ing to New Zealand for using the death of his “rel­a­tive” he is now seek­ing com­pen­sa­tion to the remain­ing fam­ily of Fololobese Muliaga.

He says they need money for their edu­ca­tion. Well so bloody what!

When will this corpse cud­dling Sven­gali of the polit­i­cal land­scape apol­o­gise for politi­cis­ing the death of his “rel­a­tive” espe­cially now after over­whelm­ing evi­dence pre­sented at the coronor’s inquest showed that the only per­son to blame for Fololobese’s death was her and her inabil­ity to stop shov­ing food into her mouth.

For god’s sake she weighed 200kgs!!!, she had “no resusi­tate” orders on her (inother words med­ical staff knew she was screwed) and still Breasel calls for money.

Well fuck him and his immense “family”.

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Sorry seems to be the hardest word

by Whaleoil May 30, 2008

Kiwi Heroes from VietnamFran O’Sullivan echoes what I and oth­ers have said about Helen’s forced apol­ogy to the Viet­nam Vet­er­ans. Like John Howard she will for­ever be reme­bered for not say­ing sorry and she sure has got a great deal to be sorry for.

[quote]But as the Yeats quo­ta­tion goes, the apol­ogy “lacked all con­vic­tion” — the Prime Min­is­ter did not use the word “sorry”.

I had hoped that Clark — a stu­dent leader of the Viet­nam protest move­ment her­self — could have injected a per­sonal note with some hon­est reflec­tion on the role our protest­ing gen­er­a­tion played in the shame­ful treat­ment which we also awarded to the return­ing sol­diers who we taunted with alle­ga­tions that they were “baby mur­der­ers” or worse.[/quote]

As they marched through Welling­ton today the words of Fran O’Sullivan would have been remem­bered and Clark’s and Goff’s actioned remem­bered also.

For Clark though sorry seems to be the hard­est word.

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Look what we are having for breakfast

by Whaleoil May 30, 2008

Miss WhaleoilLast week­end I built a chook house. On Fri­day I bat­tled the hol­i­day traf­fic to go to the Drury Pet Cen­tre for our 4 Brown Shaver point of lay hens.

Today Miss Wha­le­oil was delighted to find two lovely eggs in the chook house.

 The Labour Gov­ern­ment through Michael Cullen’s inept hand­i­ing of the econ­omy has forced us into rais­ing chick­ens not only for eggs but for the pot if they stop.

Heart­less bloody social­ists. Oh well at least the kids are hav­ing fun look­ing after the chooks.

There is a plenty of infor­ma­tion on the web for keep­ing chooks at home, so long as you don’t have a rooster it is fine.

Brown ShaverThe names of the chooks are a mat­ter of some con­tention. I thought Princess, Car­pet, Brick and Drain were excel­lent names, Miss Wha­le­oil disagrees.

One thing is set­tled though, as Miss Wha­le­oil emphat­i­cally states, “When they stop lay­ing then we slaugh­ter them for the pot”. her vocab­u­lary is some­what enhanced for a nine year old. She has also des­ig­nated me and Mas­ter Wha­le­oil as the axe-men.

Given that hens pro­duce about 274 eggs per annum and we have four I think we won’t be run­ning short of eggs any­time soon.

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Don’t piss off cartoonists — Reason #57

by Whaleoil May 30, 2008

The NZ Her­ald con­tin­ues to show why Helen Clark was, shall we say…unwise…to piss off their car­toon­ists and in par­tic­u­lar den­i­grate Gor­don Minhinnick.

National Hoodie Day

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Greens should have gone with Maori — Tanczos

by Whaleoil May 30, 2008

Greens should have gone with Maori — Tanc­zos — Out­go­ing Green MP Nan­dor Tanc­zos said last night he believes the Green Party made a mis­take putting its sup­port behind Labour in the 2005 elec­tion and would have been bet­ter off talk­ing to the Maori Party as it was now.
Mr Tanc­zos… [NZ Pol­i­tics]

The Greens are turn­ing feral. After years of being Madge All­sop to Labour’s Dame Edna they are get­ting puss-faced.

Nan­dor Tanz­cos, per­haps the only Green I respect polit­i­cally despite his silly hair, is finally get­ting up the gump­tion to talk some sense. He has sug­gested that the Greens made a mis­take in sided­ing with Labour.

They did, but not for the rea­sons that Nador sug­gests. The prob­lem with the Greens is that they aren’t really green. They were cap­tured some­time ago by un-reconstituted marx­ists and maoists. The Green mes­sage is only really in their name. Now if the Greens were truly Green and adopted poli­cies that weren’t based in a large part of hard social­ism then they might get taken seriously.

Being truly Green doesn’t mean you have to act and look stu­pid either. Take Seeby Wood­house for exam­ple, he is a cap­i­tal­ist, a tech­nol­o­gist and he is Green, in fact he is prob­a­bly more Green than most of the Greens cau­cus put together.

If the Greens focussed on Green issues and sat on teh cross benches instead of being toad­ies and lick­spit­tles to Labour then they could grab 10% and together with the Maori Party be oart of every gov­ern­ment for the forseeable.

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Wally of the Year takes second and third place as well

by Whaleoil May 30, 2008

Wally of the YearGor­don Copeland who was awarded the Wally of the Year Award by the Dom­Post has just scooped sec­ond and third prize in the same contest.

The fool com­pli­aned to the Press Coun­cil that the Dom­Post labelled him a wally, and they rejected his com­plaint mak­ing him truly the Wally of the Year.

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Let’s play guess whose feet

by Whaleoil May 30, 2008

Are the feet from

A) Mick Jagger

B) Cameron Brewer

C) Mark Walden

D) Rick Neville

E) Gilda K

F) Shayne Currie

G) ℗Ricardo

Answers in the com­ments as the poll thingy isn’t working.

Porkchop and an unknown

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Firefox 3

by Whaleoil May 30, 2008

If you aren’t using Fire­fox 3 you are dead stupid.

It rocks, is blis­ter­ing fast has loads more fea­tures.

For those of the enlight­ened that use a Mac it makes it look native now and work a whole lot less clunky.

I think I may well be in love. Fire­fox 2 was so-so, defi­nately bet­ter than the other one but not quie as good as Safari. Ver­sion 3 I believe sur­passes Safari now by quite a long way.

Once again Open Source shows the way.

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Labour’s own Hollowmen story

by Whaleoil May 30, 2008

Today we find that Labour has it’s own “Hol­low­men” story. Colin Espiner has revealed in the The Press offi­cial doc­u­ments that show Labour and its cab­i­net in 1989 devel­oped strate­gies to try and stave of the rout that became the 1990 election.

Why is this pertinent?

Well because two cab­i­net min­is­ters at the time and indeed the Deputy Prime Min­is­ter were Helen Clark and  Michael Cullen.

Is it any won­der that they employ the very same tac­tics now in their vain attempt to try to stave off defeat.

[quote]Labour feared Win­ston Peters and Ruth Richard­son would lead the National Party and tried to destroy the man now help­ing prop to up the Gov­ern­ment, secret papers reveal.

A doc­u­ment headed Interim Report to Cab­i­net on anti-National Strat­egy shows the lengths to which the fourth Labour gov­ern­ment went to cling to power before its rout at the 1990 election.

Accord­ing to the con­fi­den­tial doc­u­ment, one of the main aims of its strat­egy was to “ren­der a Peters-Richardson com­bi­na­tion impos­si­ble” and to “destroy Peters”.

The paper went through the oppo­si­tion front bench, tar­get­ing MPs and assign­ing “tar­gets” to Cab­i­net ministers.[/quote]

Labour needed this lit­tle offi­cial doc­u­ment like it needs can­cer. It will do noth­ing to quell the ris­ing ten­sions com­ing between Labour and NZ First and indeed now the Greens. If you are in any doubt do some sub­sti­tu­tion with lit­tle bit of the document.

[quote]Among the tar­gets was Mr Bol­ger, who was to be described as “lame duck”, “weak, bor­ing, timid, gut­less” and “not up to being PM”.

The strate­gies included ignor­ing Mr McK­in­non (“Don Who?”), dis­cred­it­ing Miss Richard­son (“incon­sis­tent, expe­di­ent”) and dis­miss­ing Mr Peters as “arro­gant, flashy, super­fi­cial, lack­ing in substance”.[/quote]

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