Posted in Fisk the Left, tagged Employment, Fairness, No Right Turn, Unions on March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
From NRT.
This law is fundamentally about two things: fairness and dignity. And it is sad to see that our employers, as represented by their membership organisations, do not believe in those values.
Which is funny, because the post assumes that the workers complaints are 100% justified. There is nothing from employers to either agree or disagree [...]
Posted in Fisk the Left, Stocks on March 15, 2008 | No Comments »
I’d love to be on the left. You can write posts with no reference to the real world. I bet that makes blogging a lot more fun.
With shareholders in Auckland International Airport happy to have the Canadian Pension Plan in control, the deal is now in the hands of the government.
“Control”? Since when is 25% [...]
Posted in Democrats, Fisk the Left on March 13, 2008 | No Comments »
NRT just doesn’t care about the Democrat’s Culture of Corruption.
What is it with Republicans and sex? Back in the 90’s, they attempted to impeach Bill Clinton because he had sex (or did not have sex; it depends on what the definition of “is” is) with an intern.
Actually, they did impeach Bill Clinton. He was impeached [...]
Posted in Fisk the Left, Section 59 on February 23, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Let’s have a look at her latest press release and see if we can work out why so many people are ignoring the Children’s commissioner.
Many people have been misled by the way the petition calling for a referendum to overturn the law on child discipline was sold to them, Children’s Commissioner Dr Cindy Kiro said [...]
Posted in Fisk the Left, Tax on February 21, 2008 | No Comments »
No Right Turn missed his vocation, he should be a stand-up comedian, not a blogger.
Last election, National tried to buy their way to power by offering tax cuts for the rich.
National promised to stop taking vastly more in tax than the government needed.
Labour tried and succeeded in buying their way back into power by Working [...]
Posted in Fisk the Left on February 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
WhaleOil points out a column by Liz Gordon. It was so good, that I thought I’d fisk it a bit.
You probably haven’t heard of them, but they are working for you. They are called People Power New Zealand. Incensed and enraged that there are now limits on what can be spent on political advertising in [...]
Posted in Fisk the Left, Tax on February 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Ah, Tax. Bugbear of the left. Idiot/Savant opens up yet again with his own brand of hype mixed with desperation and a little chardonnay.
But this isn’t just true of Labour supporters, but of New Zealand as a whole. To point out an inconvenient truth, the vast majority of New Zealanders are completely [...]
Posted in Fisk the Left, Tax on February 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Let’s fisk Tony for a change…
Now this is refreshing, a media commentator who realises that Government (and this election) is not just all about tax. I, for one, am pretty sick of the narrative (which Labour is part of) around tax cuts - as if somehow it is the panacea to all our wows.
I guess [...]
Posted in Fisk the Left, The Real Issues on February 13, 2008 | No Comments »
NRT can really be nasty somtimes.
Something I was meaning to post yesterday, but got distracted from: Listener editor Joanne Black on The Panel [audio, @23:30] the government’s affordable housing and shared equity scheme:
I’m thinking if you own a home there and at the moment its valued at, say, $350,000, then and the government moves [...]
Posted in Fisk the Left, tagged Arse-backwards on February 11, 2008 | No Comments »
Oh dear.
A study published in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science has found that moderately happy people are wealthier than extremely happy individuals.
While people who are happy are certainly more healthy and successful than those who are angry and depressed, said Dr Ed Diener of the University of Illinois, people who are moderately happy [...]
Posted in Fisk the Left, Section 59, humour on February 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Cindy Kiro published a column today, I’ve taken the liberty of fixing some of the mistakes she made.
(”Blue car” is a reference to The Simpsons, where Homer tells Mr Burns he’s not easily distracted, then immediately gets distracted by a blue car.)
Update: Added Kiro’s comments in italics, and tweaked my own - they’d moved around [...]
Posted in Fisk the Left, Section 59 on January 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The SST has gotten a few people up in arms. Here’s my Fisk for what it’s worth.
The Right has found a heavy club to beat the government with:
Because quite simply, between stolen election money, caps exceeded, zero tax breaks after years of record surpluses, and the Electoral Finance Act, we’re really short of material!
a referendum [...]
Posted in Fisk the Left, Iraq on January 25, 2008 | No Comments »
The Bush-bashing continues over at NRT.
We all know now that the Bush Administration lied its way to war in 2003, repeating endlessly the twin allegations that “Saddam was in bed with Osama” and “Saddam had WMD”, neither of which had any basis in reality. Now, five years on, the Centre for Public Integrity has documented [...]
Posted in Fisk the Left on January 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The fun never stops. NRT responds to DPF pulling him apart on election fraud.
He does this by putting on a red nose and a funny hat and shooting water pistols at his opponents.
I can’t think of a system more open to abuse than one with no eligibility check for enrolment, no proof of ID [...]
Posted in Fisk the Left on January 17, 2008 | No Comments »
You can’t make this stuff up.
For those who have forgotten, RedWatchNZ was a neo-Nazi hate site which aimed to “build a catalogue of information and pictures of the Left”, including names, addresses, phone numbers, photographs, and pictures of their houses. They closed down early in 2007, something no-one was very sad about. Now, it seems [...]
Posted in Fisk the Left, Iraq on January 11, 2008 | No Comments »
NRT never seems to stop churning out the nonsense…
So, a new study by the Iraqi Ministry of Health for the WHO says that the Iraq war has killed an estimated 151,000 Iraqis - only a quarter of the figure from the 2006 Lancet study. So, rather than killing ~2.5% of the prewar population of Iraq, [...]
Posted in Democrats, Fisk the Left on January 10, 2008 | No Comments »
No Right Turn again - yes again.
Why did Hillary Clinton win in New Hampshire? The short answer is women and misogyny. Women turned out in force to back her, and one of their motivations was the increasingly misogynistic tone of the media pundits, combined with caveman antics by arseholes.
Those “caveman antics” were [...]
Posted in Blithering idiots of our time., Fisk the Left on January 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
John Minto today replied to Mike Moore’s column of the other day on poverty. Now, this is a guy who complained that using the word “entrepreneur” made the new school curriculum biased towards business, so don’t get too excited.
John does not disappoint.
The US has the highest levels of poverty in the Western world (more than [...]
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