What’s happened to the real issues?

I pulled gladwrap off a hot dish in the microwave and burnt my finger with the steam. Over an hour later, and after sitting it in a glass of water it still stings like heck! In fact I am wondering if typing is making it worse. But though I’ll survive, what if I had injured…

And the Award Goes to

The award for “Almost Justifying The Unjustifiable” goes to… “Just Left” “These are not personal comments. Don Brash in person is mild mannered and inoffensive. Whatever he does in his personal life is his business. “ Glad we cleared that up.

Left Wing Blogs

I have a confession to make. I never used to read any lefty blogs. Didn’t see the point. I do now. They’re a great reality check. It goes like this: “Hm, DPF is saying Labour won’t pay back the money, that’s corrupt – would the Labour party really do that. I mean, I don’t like…

NZ Politics Today

Whale Oil is right, the gloves are off. Labour has the cheek to say on National TV “stop the tittle-tattle, and call the dogs off”. They have already and Clark dismissed it. Unfortunately for her, it wasn’t a public pulling back, it was private. This, in my opinion, gives it much more credibility Don Brash…

One step back from the cliff

Our democracy is one step back from the cliff today, with the Greens respecting our civil instutions and decreeing that they too will pay back any money deemed unlawfully spent. Perhaps some people might think the above headline is tosh. I suggest those people ponder how our society expects to function without respect for civil…

Partisan Retoric

David Limbaugh outlines very well what Bush would have said on 9/11 of he had been trying to give a partisan speech. Worth reading, just to get your self back in balance with reality. Speaking of reality, it appears there’s a bit of a shortage around at the moment. Exhibit A: What’s his name from…

Something more pleasant to listen to than Aunty Helen and Brother Don

Man instead of the current slinging matches, what about more funding for police to help them get the killer(s) of the Kahui twins, and get other murderers and rapists and other bad people? Hey we are all sinners and guilty of slagging off I’m sure but Parliament needs to grow up! Soon the Maori party…

Labour thinks we are all stupid

David Farrar has (the latest reason) why. So let me get this straight: Helen Clark, in spite of being a consummate politician of many, many years experience. She has run the tightest ship imaginable. She has appeared increasingly irate at National’s tactics. But she didn’t authorise The Duck’s antics in exposing an alleged affair from…

But of course the press is consistently unbiased

Or not.

“We hate the USA” Club

Little Green Footballs has a roundup of The Non-Aligned Movement of developing nations’ hoedown in Cuba. Most of these guys are despicable in their own way. (I say most as India isn’t a bad guy, they just signed a nuclear deal with the US.) Plus, we all know evil always portrays itself as good. Surely,…