Archive for August, 2011
The Red Zone
Saw this on Stuff. Police have arrested 78 people, many drunk, for night-time breaches of Christchurch’s central city cordon since February’s earthquake. Figures release by police today showed the number of arrests was highest in May, when 18 people were arrested for being inside the red zone without permission. I was talking to someone recently who’d [...]
In Shocking News a Green Party Policy is ridiculous
The ODT has a story on the Greens’ new water policy. They give this example: Mr Lepper is manager of the Earnscleugh Irrigation Scheme, one of about a dozen irrigation schemes in Central Otago. The Earnscleugh scheme supplies 110 landowners and covers 1100ha. Irrigators are charged about $51 per hectare a year. “With the addition [...]
Taze that white man, we need to get our stats straight, redux
There are some stories that just get repeated again and again. Like this one this morning. Fears police would use Tasers disportionately on Maori and Pacific Islanders have been realised, say the Mana Party and the Greens as police numbers show almost 60 per cent of people tasered in the past year were of those [...]
Facepalm
No Right Turn entitles this post “Refuted”. One of the right’s favourite talking points is that higher taxes are pointless because they will simply result in more evasion. In New Zealand, this argument focused on Labour’s introduction of a 39% top rate, and the difference between that and the trust and company tax rates. The [...]
Emma Watson’s film will shock… just like every other movie out of hollywood these days
“Emma Watson’s film will shock” blares the stuff headline. So I have a look at the story. Sure enough. The film is based on the novel by Stephen Chbosky. It includes steamy scenes and some of the characters take drugs, which Ezra knows will shock many. Get that? It will shock “many”. I think “several” [...]
