Privatising ACC - Updated

Yesterday, I blogged on No Right Turns post on ACC Privatising.
What he said:
In the face of damaging leaks from the insurance industry, National has finally come clean and admitted it: if elected, they will privatise ACC again.
I pointed out yesterday the stupidity of claiming that a 10 year old policy was a secret, but as [...]

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National Radio Politics on 9 to Noon

Just a note to fellow bloggers, and myself to have a listen to the political segment on 9 to Noon yesterday.
Hooton finally stood up and called Laila Harre on her bollocks over Hager’s latest stunt. Update: The Hive also noticed this.
I also note that last week, they both admitted that they underestimated the electorate on [...]

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Saturday Night Humour

Ask your doctor about Tequila!
Especially love the “warnings” at the end - classic.

This isn’t humour, but it’s a nice feeling that this sort of firepower is being bought into play in Iraq.

I predict this’ll be on WOBH before the night is out!

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Power Crisis?

We have ads on TV telling us to save power, but apparently they’re just for fun if you believe Jordan Carter.
Gerry Brownlee - remember him? That dynamic, exciting, capable Member of Parliament for Ilam, and scaremongering National Party energy spokesman?
Today’s Minzone - hmmm. No power crisis there, folks.
I wonder if the media will point out [...]

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Those Dangerous Hairdressers

Well, at long last our goverment has done it. They’ve reigned in that most dangrous of all businesses, that well know deathtrap, the local hairdresser.
Yep, hairdressers.
Ms Goodhew told Parliament yesterday the rules would force hairdressers to draw up risk management plans that would have to be signed off by their local authorities.
Gosh, people might get [...]

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Now that’s a commitment… to something

Oh my goodness!
The government’s Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs has banned a book co-authored by former attorney general and presidential candidate Dr Hassan Saeed, Freedom Of Religion, Apostasy and Islam, on the grounds that it “violates Islamic principles”.
It is the first time the Council has banned a specific title since a short-lived bar on the [...]

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Now that is Sick - “McCain was living off the Vietnamese taxpayer.”

From our civilised friends on the left - Huffington Post to be exact.
Wait, except for those years as a POW. A sick but undeniable fact about John McCain: The only period in his life when he wasn’t living off the American taxpayer, he was living off the Vietnamese taxpayer.
Classy, oh so classy.
HT: Stop the ACLU, [...]

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Which party?

NewsBusters points out yet another case where Democrats have landed in trouble, but their party affiliation goes missing somwhere along the line.

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Oh to be in the USA!

I guess rates are a little lower over there. Saw this ad on a web site yesterday.

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Why are we short of electricity generation?

Well, it’s not for want of companies wanting to build projects, that’s for sure.
Projects Abandoned/Delayed/Restricted due to Resource Management Act :
· Project Aqua, hydro (520 MW) - abandoned 2000-2004
· Marsden B, coal (320 MW) - abandoned 2007
· Wairau Valley, Marlborough, hydro (75 MW) - abandoned 2007
· Whanganui/Tongariro, hydro – Environment Court effectively reduced the Tongariro [...]

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And in spite of that, Hillary still lost!

Heard this on the Bugle, and thought they were just making fun. Turns out they were actually telling the truth!
The Drum Major Institute just released its official report card focusing on how members of Congress performed for middle class Americans. Unsurprisingly, given the organization’s liberal outlooks, they failed 99 percent of House Republicans. Slightly more [...]

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Oil

I see oil has spiked up.
Getting a bit stupid. I expect a crash in the price any month now - The Hive noted a few days ago that what we have now is a Bubble.

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What’s at stake between Obama and McCain

Thomas Sowell explains in simle language what’s at stake this election.
Now that the two parties have finally selected their presidential candidates, it is time for a sober– if not grim– assessment of where we are.
Not since 1972 have we been presented with two such painfully inadequate candidates. When election day came that year, I could [...]

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The Greens are now the Unprincipled Party

DPF points out just how far the Greens have come since the death of Rod Donald. I would go so far as to say that they are now the polar opposite of the principled party that they were before he died.
So the consequences of what the Greens are trying to do are severe. They are [...]

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More on that durn hedgehog attack

From the Herald forums we have one person who really gets scratchy about hedgehogs.
Doris (Helensville) This question is irrelevant.
The real question is: Was the hedgehog in question killed by the impact?
I sure hope so. Hedgehogs are an introduced pest that must be terminated.
I have reached a personal tally of killing [...]

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Quote of the Day - The Power Crisis that Isn’t

This paragraph really stood out reading the news today.

“The situation is remarkably bad. Just to keep the lights on, New Zealanders are relying on a broken Cook Strait cable, an asbestos-riddled mothballed plant in New Plymouth, and a diesel-guzzling emergency generator at Whirinaki.”

I’d say “ouch” but this is way more serious [...]

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“Red Russel” to Join Parliament

I agree with The Hive on this one.
We are not as outraged as David Farrar or Adam Smith. We want Russel Norman’s views exposed to all as clearly as possible. When people realise where this guy is trying to take the Greens they might think twice about the wisdom of voting them back in. We [...]

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Obama Wins

Obama has declared himself the Democratic canditate.
If I think of this like the Democrats do, it feels good. You’ve got a guy who’s well-spoken and against Iraq. If you look at the sexist/racist quandry, it’s always better to be sexist than racist. And let’s fact it, if Hillary was the first woman, it’s a poor [...]

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