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An email from Matt McCarten

by Whaleoil September 7, 2010

I received this email from Matt McCarten, I rang him and checked if I could post it because it seemed he wanted me to. Matt McCarten you are a good bug­ger, I don’t like you pol­i­tics but I admire your grit and your beliefs. My beliefs tell me to share some prayers for you to help […]

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The uninsured

by Whaleoil September 7, 2010

From the Earth­quake zone via the tipline. When you own a house with a mort­gage or a car and have a loan there is a require­ment to main­tain them in an insured state. For cars that means mak­ing sure they are reg­is­tered and war­ranted. The own­ers of these two cars are in for a shock […]

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My policy on Affordable Housing

by Whaleoil September 7, 2010

Given yesterday’s meet­ing was about social pol­icy and plenty of peo­ple had ideas about how to spend ratepay­ers money on things such as “afford­able hous­ing” it is timely then to issue my pol­icy. All social hous­ing (usu­ally described by weasel words as “Afford­able Housing”) should be built in the imme­di­ate vicin­ity of social hous­ing advo­cate Grant […]

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Candidate Meeting Today — The Whale fronted and Williams wilted

by Whaleoil September 6, 2010

Today was the first can­di­dates meet­ing I attended, hosted by the nice peo­ple of the North Shore Com­mu­nity & Social Ser­vices Inc. Here were their four ques­tions that you had 3 min­utes to answer. What do you see is the role of the new Coun­cil in Social Pol­icy? Can you give us two spe­cific exam­ples of […]

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Interesting Names — Looters

by Whaleoil September 6, 2010

A hang­ing judge is what is needed in Christchurch, looks like they might have found one in Judge Michael Cros­bie. Any­one caught loot­ing in the wake of Christchurch’s dev­as­tat­ing earth­quake on Sat­ur­day would be harshly treated by the courts, a judge warned today. “The court will be tak­ing a close look at peo­ple who offended […]

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God has spoken Jim

by Whaleoil September 5, 2010

If there was ever a rea­son needed why a triple dip­per shouldn’t be the Mayor of Christchurch it is the earth­quake. Imag­ine if this had hap­pened when Jim Ander­ton was wear­ing his MP for Wigram hat on a tues­day in Welling­ton. With the air­port closed and all access shut down his cit­i­zens would have been […]

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Those Clever Labour fellows helping Len Brown

by Whaleoil September 5, 2010

Clever: Leav­ing your cam­paign van parked near an Auck­land nightspot as free adver­tis­ing. Not clever: Leav­ing printed polit­i­cal emails on the dash­board of that van. Now we known with­out a shadow of a doubt the paid Labour staffers are help­ing Len Brown’s cam­paign and that they think that the left wing cam­paign on the North Shore […]

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Just what is Andi trying to say?

by Whaleoil September 5, 2010

These com­mu­ni­ca­tions peo­ple with fancy titles some­times really should lay off the spon­sors prod­ucts. [Shakes head] Still try­ing to work out what that says. She should stick to rat­ting out TVNZ staffers to the Minger and Pork Chop. Dis­claimer: I haven’t appeared ever on Q+A because Tim Watkin is too scared to call me (he has […]

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I wonder if the Herald will be charged under s139

by Whaleoil September 5, 2010

Ker­madec Crunchy-wasp is in the news again. An Olympic ath­lete will stand trial for a sec­ond time on charges of rap­ing his ex wife. The sports­man, who has name sup­pres­sion, will face two counts of rape and one of male assaults female at a trial at the High Court in Auck­land next July. The man was acquit­ted of nine […]

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Get Well Matt

by Whaleoil September 5, 2010

Matt McCarten has can­cer. It can be bor­ing when some­one talks about them­selves. Today I’ll take the risk. I know I get into scraps and some­times over­step the mark in clip­ping my oppo­nents – and there’s always a few of them wait­ing impa­tiently for my demise. They may not have to wait too much longer. I […]

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A heartwarming tale from Christchurch

by Blondie September 5, 2010

I was really touched to read in this morning’s Her­ald about an indian  Christchurch dairy owner who showed true com­mu­nity spirit and con­cern for his fel­low cit­i­zens in the wake of the earth­quake. Mr Suresh Patel has appar­ently run his Hoon Hay dairy for 21 years – and yes­ter­day morn­ing was giv­ing away essen­tials like […]

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Christchurch

by Whaleoil September 4, 2010

So I’ve been watch­ing the news cov­er­age about the Vil­lage of the Damned and now I see that extra police are needed to main­tain order as oppor­tunist crim­i­nals think about loot­ing. The city cen­tre was shut to the pub­lic today and will remain closed overnight with police staffing cor­dons through­out the area. No licensed premises […]

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Utter irrelevance

by Whaleoil September 4, 2010

A pic­ture paints a thou­sand words. I’ve gotta ask…is the mega­phone to get the mes­sage those at the back of the hordes of fans? Related Posts:Trust me, Trust my Heart – Len BrownDirty Len Brown solic­it­ing using coun­cil emailsThere’s two clowns now in Auck­land­Se­crecy con­tin­ues for ClownLen Brown breaks the law on day one

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I’d say that Brown’s campaign is over

by Whaleoil September 3, 2010

This week has prob­a­bly been a real tough week for John Banks after TVNZ and Mark Cry­sell spent three weeks of muck rak­ing work at the behest of Len Brown’s Labour flunkies. Bernard Orsman’s arti­cle isn’t much bet­ter and does him­self a dis-service shop­ping tawdry tales Labour has been try­ing to get in the media […]

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Minimum Main Road Speeds

by Whaleoil September 3, 2010

There is noth­ing more annoy­ing than when you travel on the motor­way and dis­cover some halfwit is going at 70, or on state high­way one and there is moron trav­el­ling at 80, with a huge tail back being caused by one driver’s self­ish deci­sion to drive below the speed limit. Slow dri­vers on open roads cause […]

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