February 2009

The Cock from Camp­bells Bay, Mayor Andrew Williams, seems to have undue inter­est in alco­hol. His lastest dal­liance with the bot­tle is to try and poke puerile fun at Mayor Banks from Auckland.

It seems that he has insisted that the North Shore City Coun­cil stock a brand of wine called “Stop Banks”. Oh hardy har har. Andrew Williams would do bet­ter to cut out the late night email­ing and tex­ting and stop wor­ry­ing about John Banks and get his own city in order.

Since he is being puerile I thought I would find some wines to describe him. Seems there are even beers as well.

3 Fools Wine

Hard Cock Wines and Beers

Silly Fool Wines

UPDATE: Astute read­ers have advised me of the following;

Big Cock Bar­ley Wine Ale

There is a Chi­nese Fish Sauce sim­ply named Cock

Oleanz Estates have the Big Cock Vine­yard a Caber­net Sauvignon/Cabernet Franc

Edi­to­r­ial: Time may be right to ask what tax cuts will cost us — It is lit­tle won­der that Prime Min­is­ter John Key has refused to guar­an­tee that the tax cuts promised for next year and 2011 will go ahead. The tax-cut pro­gramme that National took to the coun­try in Novem­ber amounted to $4.4 bil­lion… [NZ Her­ald Pol­i­tics]

The left­ist echo cham­ber like to think the NZ Her­ald are National party mouth pieces whereas most of us on the right think they are pinko swine with a few good apples in the mix.

The edi­to­r­ial today, again, calls for National to break elec­tion promises. It is an out­rage and it is entirely based on the false premise that tax-cuts cost the gov­ern­ment. They do not and they are part of the stim­u­lus pack­age putting money into peo­ples hands so they can spend it how they like not how the gov­ern­ment likes.

For too long we have had politi­cians treat promises like dis­pos­able nap­kins to be thrown away when no longer needed. National must change that per­cep­tion and resist silly calls for them to break their promises.

It seems the the­ory of Funny First Name Syn­drome is being con­firmed almost daily. This morn­ing I received this email about FFNS.

Greet­ings,
just to sup­port your the­ory, my cousin broke out of Mt Eden recently ( I did not know he was in prison) and was recap­tured the next day by AOS. His name.…… Storm!
Some one who I have knowl­edge of is a 27 year old man who lives with his mother and spends all day in his room on the com­puter eat­ing copi­ous amounts of junk food.
His name.….. Avery, no con­vic­tions yet but watch this space.
Love your work
C

Search in Hunua for miss­ing man

A man with the men­tal age of a 10-year-old is miss­ing in the Franklin dis­trict, south of Auckland.

Booyah! Check out this sniper sys­tem– The Chey­Tac M200

Com­men­ta­tors Matthew Hooton and John Roughan agree on super and the “Blue Chip” plan of Labour. John Roughan says;

If your income is down in the reces­sion and you are tak­ing on debt to main­tain the family’s liv­ing stan­dard, would you bor­row a bit more to put into a super­an­nu­a­tion fund?

Nor would I. Nor would John Key, Bill Eng­lish, Phil Goff, Jim Ander­ton or Peter Dunne, I sus­pect. Some­times the sim­plest deci­sions test the met­tle of those who lead us.

Nope, no-one sen­si­ble would do it, so one won­ders why Phil Goff wants us to imple­ment Labour’s “Blue Chip” plan and bor­row more so we can save it.

Eng­lish said the ques­tion had yet to be seri­ously con­sid­ered. Anx­iously he added that a sus­pen­sion of con­tri­bu­tions would not affect pay­ments to superannuitants.

This is where Bill Eng­lish gives me the shits. He should have very quickly and very sim­ply scotched the idea of bor­row­ing to fund our future reit­e­ment plans and labeled it voodoo eco­nom­ics. But no, the Dip­stick from Diptn pre­var­i­cates, his default setting.

Goff, smelling fear, declared Labour opposed to sus­pen­sion and called on the Gov­ern­ment to make its posi­tion clear. Ander­ton called it “raid­ing the piggy bank”. Dunne, min­is­ter of tax col­lect­ing, declared it “a very bad idea”.

Goff is act­ing like a des­per­ate soon to be replaced fool, Ander­ton is per­haps the worlds best prat­ic­tioner of voodoo eco­nom­ics and if Peter Dunne thinks some­hing is a good idea then it prob­a­bly isn’t.

Matthew Hooton echoes these sen­ti­ments, but unfor­tu­nately the nean­derthals at NBR don’t see the merit of putting Hootons pearls of wis­dom online but chuck Farrar’s dri­vel up every week. Nev­er­the­less I will re-type some Hootons best parts;No won­der Bill Eng­lish appears con­fused over whether to sus­pend con­tri­bu­tions to the Super­an­nu­a­tion Fund: the eco­nom­ics is all one way and the pol­i­tics all the other.

No ratio­nal house­hold or investor, strug­gling to pay for their gro­ceries — and fore­cast to spend more than they earn every year into the future — would bor­row to invest in global share­mar­kets, notwith­stand­ing cur­rent inter­est rates.

Mr Eng­lish knows this as clearly as anyone.

The only thing Bill ENg­lish knows is to pre­var­i­cate and to lose elections.Mr Eng­lish is not mak­ing the pre­sen­ta­tion of the inevitable any eas­ier in con­fus­ing its rationale.

This week, he said one of the fac­tors dri­ving his think­ing is that the Fund has lost $5.5 bil­lion in 18 months.

“We have to look at whether we are happy at the size of the invest­ment losses we are incur­ring,” he said. “I mean, $5.5b of losses actu­ally wipes out two years of contributions.”

This is the wrong way to look at the issue and it is extra­or­di­nary a Finance Min­is­ter would make such a basic error.

Past per­for­mance of an invest­ment fund says noth­ing about its future per­for­mance, and if Mr Eng­lish is so sure multi-billion-dollar losses are likely then he has an oblig­a­tion not just to sus­pend con­tri­bu­tions but to order the Fund to get the remain­ing $12 bil­lion of our money out of global share­mar­kets right now.

Yeah, and it is right about now that Hooton should ask that Bill Eng­lish just STFU, but Matthew is much too polite for such crass­ness. I, how­ever, have no hes­i­ta­tion at all in doing exactly that.

Hooton makes a good point, if what Bill Eng­lish says is true then lets reef out the the other $12 bil­lion and do some­thing else with it useful.

It makes no sense at all to con­tinue to bor­row after Michael Cullen wan­tonly destroyed the legacy of Bill Birch and Ruth Richard­son and left New Zealand fac­ing a decade of deficits.

Mmmm — Michael Wood, a for­mer Labour can­di­date, City Vision can­di­date and union offi­cial is caught out using three month old infor­ma­tion, now superceded by recently released pub­lic infor­ma­tion, to lie to the pub­lic. Now that’s what I call dis­hon­est.… but pre­cisely the sort of des­per­ate blather we expect from the hucksters, weirdoes and failed cen­tral gov­ern­ment politi­cians we see in City Vision.

Poor Michael Wood — shut out in 2004, 2007 and no doubt thrashed soundly again in 2010.

“Woody” has an envi­able record in gen­eral elec­tions too, get­ting soundly thrashed by Mau­rice Williamson two elec­tions in a row. His blog­ging expe­ri­ence hasn’t been much chop either with at least three failed attempts at blogging.

It seems he wants to take down Just Left as well by join­ing Jordan’s lit­tle bunch of merry “men”.