Written By: - Date published: 9:04 am, October 27th, 2016 - 65 comments
Police subjected a group of elderly people attending a meeting on assisted dying to random breath tests so that they could collect the identities of each person who attended.
Written By: - Date published: 8:59 am, October 27th, 2016 - 54 comments
Today’s post for all random comments and links on the US election.
Written By: - Date published: 5:55 am, October 26th, 2016 - 81 comments
Today’s post for all random comments and links on the US election.
Written By: - Date published: 10:36 am, October 25th, 2016 - 49 comments
Latest fear mongering sounds like a rerun of the jihadi brides lie, which as an editorial summary put it – “raises serious questions about the accuracy of claims made by John Key, SIS boss Rebecca Kitteridge and Security Intelligence Minister Chris Finlayson.”
Written By: - Date published: 5:51 am, October 25th, 2016 - 45 comments
Today’s post for all random comments and links on the US election.
Written By: - Date published: 5:48 am, October 24th, 2016 - 31 comments
Today’s post for all random comments and links on the US election.
Written By: - Date published: 5:55 am, October 23rd, 2016 - 50 comments
The weekend post for all random comments and links on the US election.
Written By: - Date published: 8:03 am, October 21st, 2016 - 140 comments
The Court of Appeal has ruled that Darren Watson’s Planet Key song should not have been banned during the 2014 election campaign.
Written By: - Date published: 5:55 am, October 21st, 2016 - 114 comments
Today’s post for all random comments and links on the US election.
Written By: - Date published: 5:55 am, October 20th, 2016 - 108 comments
Today’s post for all random comments and links on the US election.
Written By: - Date published: 5:55 am, October 19th, 2016 - 158 comments
Today’s post for all random comments and links on the US election.
Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, October 18th, 2016 - 167 comments
Today’s post for all random comments and links on the US election.
Written By: - Date published: 7:35 am, October 13th, 2016 - 210 comments
Judith Collins yesterday said that child poverty is the fault of parents and not the fault of her Government.
Written By: - Date published: 3:00 pm, October 11th, 2016 - 104 comments
A wee reflection on our psychological fuck-edness.
Written By: - Date published: 8:25 am, October 10th, 2016 - 235 comments
Round 2 of the Presidential debates. Trump is on the ropes, can Clinton land the knockout blow? Certainly, there’s a lot of Republican Party grandees hoping Hillary puts them out of their misery. Seconds out at 2PM, NZ time.
UPDATE: Obama nailed Trump’s real issue a few minutes ago; it’s insecurity. Video in post.
UPDATE 2: LIVE STREAM now in post.
Written By: - Date published: 8:06 am, October 3rd, 2016 - 166 comments
Donald Trump’s reluctance to release his tax returns has now been explained. He has possibly not paid tax for decades.
Written By: - Date published: 9:08 am, September 30th, 2016 - 139 comments
Don Brash and a group of other predominately privileged white males are complaining that Maori may also be receiving some privilege.
Written By: - Date published: 8:42 am, September 27th, 2016 - 91 comments
The Ombudsman is to investigate John Key’s failure to disclose communications with David Farrar and Cameron Slater
Written By: - Date published: 9:15 am, September 25th, 2016 - 248 comments
Rodney Hide continues to provide extreme analysis free right wing ramblings courtesy of the Herald. Is it time for them to reintroduce a left wing columnist?
Written By: - Date published: 9:09 am, September 20th, 2016 - 88 comments
Donald Trump has now finally accepted publicly that Barak Obama was born in America. But claims that Hillary was the cause of the birther theory.
Written By: - Date published: 4:02 pm, September 19th, 2016 - 74 comments
National’s latest plan to do something about the housing crisis is to buy a Motel and kick families who stay there out on the street.
Written By: - Date published: 8:45 am, September 13th, 2016 - 65 comments
* at least according to David Seymour.
Written By: - Date published: 8:46 am, September 12th, 2016 - 139 comments
Figures provided by the Government to Labour suggest that providing accommodation for families with chronic housing needs is taking much longer than it did six months ago. But Paula Bennett has replied by suggesting that the figures do not reflect reality.
Written By: - Date published: 8:52 am, September 11th, 2016 - 36 comments
Reporter Eugene Bingham who broke the story on how Papakura police were doctoring crime statistics by recoding burglaries as other offences two years ago has written about how his attempts to get to the truth of the matter has effectively been thwarted by the police.
Written By: - Date published: 3:30 pm, September 8th, 2016 - 103 comments
The whitewash of the rugby players who assaulted a woman at a post season piss up has been released. A mightily relieved rugby boss Steve Tew can now go into the rest of the season knowing that the All Black squad will not be affected by the loss of any players to suspension. The only person to have lost their job over the incident is the victim. How cool is that?
Written By: - Date published: 7:01 am, September 1st, 2016 - 59 comments
Nick Smith’s latest excuse for inaction on water quality is birds. Yes birds. You couldn’t make this shit up.
For a dose of blessed sanity, watch the (10 min) webcast by Dr Mike Joy explaining what the real problem is.
Written By: - Date published: 4:49 pm, August 30th, 2016 - 16 comments
No Right Turn has reminded me that the deadline for submissions on the Spy bill is 7th October 2016. Submissions. can be made here. The spy bill. The bill makes it illegal for civil servants, or anyone else, to blow the whistle on the Government. It makes it legal for spies to break laws at […]
Written By: - Date published: 8:35 am, August 30th, 2016 - 32 comments
John Key has used some very dodgy figures to claim that the housing crisis was worse under Labour than it is now.
Written By: - Date published: 7:03 am, August 25th, 2016 - 75 comments
Most of the media has reported the Government’s “3%” spin on the extent of residential property purchases in NZ going to foreign buyers pretty uncritically. There have been honourable exceptions, and yesterday property editor Anne Gibson in The Herald joined them.
Written By: - Date published: 2:26 pm, August 23rd, 2016 - 218 comments
It’s not April 1st, so I’m forced to conclude that this is a genuine announcement: Students to learn online from home instead of at school under major education reform.
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, August 23rd, 2016 - 36 comments
Someone in Hamilton thinks that someone who wears a turban must be an ISIS supporting terrorist.
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