Bigot gets a bashing
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow covers the outragous comments by rightwing Christian fundamentalist Pat Robertson on the Haitian earthquake. Great to see this bigot confronted. […]
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Wishart. Research kiddie.
This is just too funny. One of Ian Wisharts sources in AirCon which he quoted from ‘verbatim’ turns out to have been a […]
Slater’s attention-seeking attack on sex abuse victim
So, Slater wants to be a martyr. Fits well with his personal myth of the hard done by battler fighting this PC world. […]
A Potty Peer making money off future misery.
Gareth over at Hot-Topic has written a delightful post “Popgun for hire: A$20,000 detailing one person who is making money off climate change. […]
Anything substantive to say?
My assumption whenever I read Cameron John Slater’s trash over at Whale Oil is to assume it’s just that trash. That’s why I […]
Phil O’Reilly – dumb enough to fail
Phil O’Reilly of Business NZ has an opinion piece in the NZ Herald today decrying businesses that trade on the ‘clean and green’ […]
Get rid of the fool.
I haven’t bothered looking too far for reaction to Paul Henry jerking off in public to attract attention to his personaility defect – […]
CCDs. Worms perhaps?
It has been fascinating over the last few days watching the CCDs (Climate Change Deniers) make an another attempt to scale the bastion […]
A plague on both your houses
So, as far as National and Maori leaders are concerned, it’s a done deal: “Maori Party to support ETS – bill to become […]
What I did on my holidays – by [insert name here]
Ohmigod, after Red Alert informed me that the National MPs had started a blog, I nearly died!!!!!!! And after I’d finished that and […]
Total shambles
The government’s handling of the ETS is a total shambles at every level. Even their fans at The Herald are pointing out the […]
I don’t give a shit about Hone. But the lynch mob is interesting.
Whatever argument there is between the hierarchy of the Maori Party and Hone really doesn’t concern me. While I’m sure Kelvin Davis is […]
Stupid stupid stupid
Our government is stupid. Sorry, it’s the only conclusion I can draw. Our government is made up of confused, muddled thinkers incapable of […]
Laws needs an education
I told myself I’d never do a post on pathetic publicity groupie Michael Laws, so here I am failing to live up to […]
Wee gripes: spineless business
New World has dropped the 5 cent levy on plastic bags in its South Island stores. Plastic bag use was down 65%. Many shoppers […]
Nanny wins
Remember when the world was going to end because Nanny State was going to make us get compact fluorescent bulbs? It all seems […]
PMs and dictators
While I might not put it quite as vividly as Zetetic, I certainly agree that Carter was very foolish to post anything comparing […]
Chris Carter you dick
I’m not sure if my fellow writers would put it like this. But I’m sure they agree with my sentiment when I say- […]
Clueless on ACE
Night classes Adult and Community Education (ACE). An incredibly cost effective and valuable part of the NZ education sector for decades. The ACE […]
Infratil and NZ Bus – pay up.
Day 7 of the bus strike by Infratil The idiotic employers at NZ Bus owned by Infratil have dragged their lockout into a […]
Infratil are pissing into the wind
Day 6 of Infratil’s strike Brian Rudman had a column yesterday that clearly articulated how Aucklanders view the bus strike by Infratil management […]
Shame on you, TVNZ
I’ve just seen in the Herald that TVNZ has been using one of their TV ‘psychics’ in the Aisling Symes case. It’s bad […]
Flexible Farrar
If DPF doesn’t practice Yoga already I think he should take it up. He’d be a natural. He’s so damn flexible! I’ve had […]
Stupid hypocritical ACE cuts
Night classes – Adult and Community Education (ACE). An incredibly cost effective and valuable part of the NZ education sector for decades. The […]
It isn’t a game
People who treat politics as a game annoy me. People who see it all in terms of power and cliques and scoring points […]
Shock, Horror – Infratil managers strike for more pay!
Yesterday Infratil got their NZ Bus hand-puppets to announce that they will be going on strike. On Wednesday, if the bus-drivers refuse to […]
Angry sadsack still at it
Michael Laws: get on with your job and stop prancing around on the media stage. Laws has put out a second (yes, a […]
Stopping the thugs
The Sunday Star Times reports that Sue Bradford’s security has been stepped up following a series of death threats being made against her […]
Stupi-duty and Wisharts works of political fiction
Open Parachute has a post Evidence, not lawyers about that well-known writer of political fiction, Ian Wishart, issuing a press release saying that he […]
Change to policy – Privacy Consent
This has been added to the policy because as Lew points out there appear to be morons in government, blogs, and in journalism […]
Nick Smith lying with numbers.
Nick Smith is the front-man for this government on climate change, and it appears that he knows absolutely nothing about the numbers. The […]
Bully Bennett
Stunned. I’m simply stunned. After speaking out against Paula Bennett’s cuts to the Incentives Training Allowance two solo mothers have had their entire […]
Who will mourn the MSM’s passing?
Can you believe that TV One had an hour long special on Michael Jackson’s funeral and then ten minutes in the news? Excuse […]
Bluehost have been a pain, but it is all over now.
Ok. The new server is up and running after a few painful days with the system being suspended, and then after moving it […]
The mask slips
The child beating lobby launched its “Vote No” campaign site today. They’ve worked hard in this campaign to present themselves as regular Kiwis […]
Class war
One of the particularly unpleasant parts of the last budget was the cutting of funding for night school classes in conjunction with the […]