Parliamentary Rapist? Try Hugger

Wow. “I was driving to Parliament the day af ter the bullying and harassment report on the place was delivered and heard on the radio that a ‘rapist’ could be stalking the corridors and it disturbed me greatly,” he said. However early that afternoon he realised he was the so-called “rapist” when he was summoned…

Bernie Sanders

  With all due respect to people who are Sanders fans, or even those who say “at least he’s honest (if mistaken)“, as far as I am concerned he can burn in hell. Here’s a video of him after he visited the hell-hole that was the Soviet Union. https://twitter.com/Doranimated/status/1099103396928335872 But he’ll always get votes. If…

Heh – and some things never change

Another Kiwiblog post from 2007. The Greens should be ashamed for their role to date.  Labour could not have introduced this bill without their support.  They could have insisted on a multi-party approach to the legislation.  More importantly they could have  insisted on a public policy process instead of a secret one.  But they sold…

Times have Changed

I found this old kiwiblog post, writing the latest “Offensive Content” page. I predicted on 25 July that the Government would not approve the Auckland Airport sale. When the actual Trade Minister comes out against it, you know it is doomed.  He would not speak against it without the PM’s approval.  The PM is sending a message to…

Quote of the Day – Trump

Via Instapundit [Trump is] a symptom of how rottenly dysfunctional our sorry political class is. Take away Trump and they’re just as awful and destructive. He just brings their awfulness to the fore, where it’s no longer ignorable. Now they’re willing to play with fire, risking the future of the polity over little more than…

Kavanaugh

Glenn Reynolds reminds us of something we’d all forgotten: I would have rather he picked one of the more libertarian members of his list: Willett, or maybe Kethledge. And because some sort of trumped-up #MeToo thing was almost certain, a lot of people thought he should have picked Amy Coney Barrett. Kavanaugh was a fine,…

Offensive Content Updated

Hi Everyone. In spite of appearances, I have been doing some work here. I’ve put up the second quarter of the Kiwiblog index for 2007. It’s an unfinished task… and I do like to finish things. There was a lot of Section 59 stuff, not all of which was included. A lot of the major…

New Zealand’s Watergate

In 1972, the Deomcratic party’s HQ was the subject of a bungled attempt at a break in. This lead to a scandal that is so well known, that it became known as “Watergate” after the hotel, and almost every scandal in the English speaking world having the “-gate” suffix attached. Why would you break into…

Cambodia, and destroying the world

I found this on Instapundit today. It’s so sad, I almost wept reading it. When Khmer Rouge forces seized Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975, the couple was living with eight of their children in a rural town called Kampong Chhnang. Three days later, the guerrillas arrived and residents — including Younly — cheered, relieved…

Problem Gambling Foundation

It’s a shame that the Problem Gambling Foundation has lost it’s funding. But it’s quite another to try and weave a conspiracy into a situation where there is none. Ele Ludemann has a good post pointing out how Labour has tried to do just that. This is the sort of stunt which puts voters off. But…