Written By: - Date published: 12:10 pm, March 23rd, 2009 - 16 comments
The Toad’s ‘interview’ with ACT’s David Garrett is so good we had to steal it. Like all good parody, it’s easy to believe it could be real. An interview with ACT Party Law and Order spokesperson David Garrotte Toad: David, for many people, you first came to public attention when you appeared drunk on Eye […]
Written By: - Date published: 8:04 pm, March 22nd, 2009 - 17 comments
Barnsley Bill* has discovered (updated to here**) that Alexa reckons 11% of our visits come from India. Apparently BB thinks this means we are paying someone in India to fake our stats. This has ignited another round of hysteria among the rightwing nutters (commonly known as wingnuts) about The Standard. There has been a recurring […]
Written By: - Date published: 6:39 pm, March 14th, 2009 - 18 comments
Fresh on the heels of allegations ACC has blown-out and is likely to decimate New Zealand’s credit rating, Accident Compensation Minister Nick Smith has revealed he has evidence of the public insurance scheme’s involvement in the assassination of loved American President John F. Kennedy. The revelations were announced by Smith in select committee late this […]
Written By: - Date published: 3:32 pm, March 12th, 2009 - 17 comments
Last week, Jon Stewart poked fun at the media who cheer-led the housing and stockmarket bubbles and are now blaming the people who took on subprime mortgages for the financial crisis. They bit back with hilarious results. Jon is interviewing Cramer today, it will screen Friday night here on C4.
Written By: - Date published: 5:35 am, March 6th, 2009 - 68 comments
Helps if it’s pointing the right way, too. Great work Adders.
Written By: - Date published: 5:59 pm, March 4th, 2009 - 53 comments
Reply is a feature that accidentally got turned on last week when I had a adware/malware outbreak through a security hole (those buggers are smart and fast). I did complete reinstall with updated software. Somewhere during the upgrade, the reply feature was turned on. Now I’ve been occupied by moving house for the first time […]
Written By: - Date published: 2:00 pm, March 2nd, 2009 - 18 comments
This has to be the funniest political cartoon I’ve seen in some time, and it’s true too. The innovation we need has to be government-led. A Green New Deal. Not only to boost the economy by constructing new infrastructure but constructing useful infrastructure. Forget cycleways no-one will use, we need to build a greener infrastructure based on renewable energy, […]
Written By: - Date published: 4:14 pm, February 26th, 2009 - 12 comments
A regular reader of The Standard, Adders, has sent us in this cartoon, inspired by Key’s answers in the patsy interview with the Herald on the weekend, which reminded us of those classic Bush-isms
Written By: - Date published: 1:13 pm, February 26th, 2009 - 16 comments
Lyndon Hood does it again: The National Government has cancelled another conference, with Prime Minister John Key describing it as “a waste of public money at a critical time”. During a line-by-line review of spending by the department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Mr Key discovered the so-called “Summit on Employment”, which was to be held […]
Written By: - Date published: 11:34 am, February 26th, 2009 - 9 comments
Bailing out a company like Air New Zealand is one thing. It has a multiplier effect on the local economy in tourism marketing, air freight, and just having a airline that is interested in having routes in and out of NZ. Giving money to your mates because they are your mates… Well this is the […]
Written By: - Date published: 4:15 pm, February 23rd, 2009 - 6 comments
Should have seen it coming Judith Collins has been vying politically with Rodney Hide to become the NACT’s Minister of Embarrassment (and Comedy). This is creatively portrayed in today’s Mike Moreu cartoon, as he ties her last weirdo play for the kneejerk vote to her current one. For a background on this current Judith Collins […]
Written By: - Date published: 8:22 am, February 15th, 2009 - 11 comments
Great video for the real victims of this recession, the ‘smartest men in the room’ who cocked everything up, the money-men. Bleed the World/ Let them know it’s credit crunch time
Written By: - Date published: 1:16 pm, February 12th, 2009 - 25 comments
The hilarity continues. According to a person who was there, Douglas didn’t use his speech because it had been accidently leaked, and subsequently delivered on Youtube by a sockpuppet. The Herald, however, quoted from the speech as if he had given it. Turns out they didn’t bother sending a reporter. If a tree doesn’t fall […]
Written By: - Date published: 1:30 pm, February 2nd, 2009 - 41 comments
Well it may not have been particularly self-evident just what National have been doing since the election, but clearly John has some kind of plan. The TradeMe auction of Key’s arm cast, acquired after an inauspicious Chinese New Year trip, has begun. Worried perhaps that the auction might also fall flat on its face, John has […]
Written By: - Date published: 5:15 pm, February 1st, 2009 - 15 comments
Labour got a fair amount of mileage during the election campaign out of harassing National about its lack of distinct policy. I guess that’s kind of forgivable of National in some ways, for reasons we won’t go in to again. But now National are in Government I still can’t help thinking their policy direction is […]
Written By: - Date published: 7:47 am, January 29th, 2009 - 3 comments
Danyl at The Dim-Post has been indulging in his favored pastime again – satire. In this case Cabinet expresses concern over missing PM is about John Key going missing all of the time. Danyl compares him to a pooch avoiding something… Finance Minister Bill English has accepted responsibility for his leader’s absence. ‘I usually let […]
Written By: - Date published: 3:10 pm, January 28th, 2009 - 7 comments
“It’s important that I get an Australian perspective on the unfolding international economic situation, particularly the impact of a slowdown in China and Asia,” Mr English said. It’s a little concerning that this is the man charged with avoiding redundancies.
Written By: - Date published: 2:28 pm, January 26th, 2009 - 54 comments
After losing their last four seats in the Senate after Australia’s 2007 election, the Australian Democrats are trying hard to stay relevant and in the public eye. They see their fortunes resting on the party’s founding mantra to “keep the bastards honest”. So they’ve translated that term coined in 1980 by then leader Don Chip […]
Written By: - Date published: 11:26 pm, January 21st, 2009 - 16 comments
Gerry Brownlee was puffing smoke this Wednesday morning about his daft (in terms of the Kyoto agreement) decision last month to remove the ban on thermal generation of power. It reminded me of something I’d seen recently, so I dug back through the mental archives. Eventually I re-discovered the mysterious coincidences between the decisions of […]
Written By: - Date published: 7:43 am, January 15th, 2009 - 13 comments
My favourite indicator for a deep recession is showing up. The applications and enrollments for colleges and graduate programs appears to be significantly up in the east, west, and south of the US and Canada. Probably something similar is happening here but we are unlikely to know until later this month. The reason that this […]
Written By: - Date published: 2:38 pm, January 14th, 2009 - 23 comments
John Key has announced his ‘jobs summit’ at the end of Feburary saying “I don’t want this to be a talk fest, I want it to be a do-fest.” “Do-fest”, eh? Sounds sexy. Place your bets on which media commentator will be the first to enthusiastically adopt or warmly commend this latest meaningless piece of […]
Written By: - Date published: 9:07 am, January 13th, 2009 - 4 comments
Is John Campbell leaving TV to pursue his childhood dream of being a pugilist? No, it’s diminutive Mexican boxer Julio Cesar Chavez. Uncanny resemblance though. (hattip: Hugo – googling himself apparently)
Written By: - Date published: 6:11 am, January 13th, 2009 - Comments Off on Serendipity, now with dinosaurs
Written By: - Date published: 6:57 am, January 5th, 2009 - 17 comments
I’ve been thinking about the concurrent crises we face – peak oil, climate change, and tightening food supply – how the limits to growth are starting to hit us and how, each reinforcing the other, they constitute the major challenges to our collective welfare in the years to come. I’ve been thinking about how we […]
Written By: - Date published: 8:50 am, December 25th, 2008 - 4 comments
And before anyone calls sour grapes I have to say even John deserves some xmas cheer but this was just too funny not to post today.
Written By: - Date published: 9:34 am, December 22nd, 2008 - 17 comments
Screw Obama, my vote’s with the shoe thrower. Hat tip: onegoodmove
Written By: - Date published: 12:18 pm, December 16th, 2008 - 2 comments
Just in: Coldplay to play at Vector Arena on March 18th. No word yet on whether John Key has managed to get tickets.
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