Written By: - Date published: 12:05 pm, December 15th, 2008 - 15 comments
[The shoe-thrower is a journo from a Baghdad newspaper taking his opportunity to make his feelings known during Bush’s surprise farewell visit to Iraq. In Arab culture, the sole of the shoe, being dirty, is insulting.]
Written By: - Date published: 5:23 pm, December 11th, 2008 - 79 comments
David Farrar, champion of democracy. We salute you for speaking truth to power, no matter who’s in charge. [Original here]
Written By: - Date published: 10:59 am, December 8th, 2008 - 4 comments
If someone sent me this to put up as a guest post on The Standard, I would probably reject it as too childish. But seeing as the Dompost printed it and it is pretty funny, here is Bob Jones’ The Secret Diary of Prime Minister John Key aged 47 1/3:
Written By: - Date published: 9:55 am, December 3rd, 2008 - 3 comments
More gold from Lyndon Hood: Blogger Still Maintains Clark Just Like Mugabe The power-sharing arrangement Helen Clark has permitted after the opposition National party’s election victory may dissolve into violence at any time, reports an anonymous blogger who continues to insist New Zealand has become exactly like Zimbabwe. There is increasing concern for the blogger, […]
Written By: - Date published: 9:59 am, November 28th, 2008 - 34 comments
Seems there’s so little news today, apart from the Mumbai attacks and the plane crash, that the Herald hasn’t even bothered to update their website. So, I thought we might have a wee quiz instead. Who said this, in what context, and are they implying what they seem to be implying? “If this bill becomes […]
Written By: - Date published: 10:22 am, November 26th, 2008 - 22 comments
Following Tony “cos I say so” Ryall’s media success with his plan to cut down waiting lists using the King Canute model of governance, the word around the traps is that several of National’s front bench are planning similar moves. Over the next few days expect the following: Simon Power will announce plans to tell […]
Written By: - Date published: 2:19 pm, November 20th, 2008 - 7 comments
Some jokers have given new lyrics to the Dr. Dre and Eminem classic. Hilarious. My favourite part is Hide’s cameo. Hattip: Dolla$Trada
Written By: - Date published: 3:05 pm, November 17th, 2008 - 2 comments
No, not the one the Herald’s organising. Over at Scoop Lyndon Hood’s unveiled his own victory parade for John Key and I gotta say, it’s his best effort yet. Go over and have a look.
Written By: - Date published: 5:48 pm, November 14th, 2008 - 11 comments
While there have been reports here of distraught voters calling the police and helplines for assistance in dealing with the trauma of a National/Act government, spare a thought for the millions of Obama supporters around the world who, now victorious, find themselves with no purpose in life… (Via: Swiss Miss)
Written By: - Date published: 5:10 pm, November 13th, 2008 - 50 comments
A mate just sent me this, classic:
Written By: - Date published: 4:46 pm, November 10th, 2008 - 77 comments
Hat tip: Sam Vilain
Written By: - Date published: 3:30 pm, November 9th, 2008 - 91 comments
David Farrar wrote… “Funniest moment was talking to a few of John’s staff, and one of them asked whether their imminent transfer to the 9th floor meant they would get to take over The Standard. It was hilarious as they started fighting over who would be all-your-base and who would be Irish Bill etc” Wow! […]
Written By: - Date published: 4:00 pm, November 5th, 2008 - 6 comments
Written By: - Date published: 10:12 pm, November 4th, 2008 - 28 comments
I loved this post for QoT so much that I asked to reproduce it in full here. It resonated with me after reading the comment stream today. So, from Ideologically Impure, an observation on the patently ridiculous… Lynn This comment over at The Standard cites one of my favourite (or, really, least-favourite) bits of political […]
Written By: - Date published: 12:34 pm, October 31st, 2008 - 23 comments
In a strange twist in the Franks billboard monitoring saga, infra red camera footage has revealed that Franks himself was responsibile for defacing his own hoardings. Franks had previously claimed that he was the victim of an organised campaign to deface his hoardings and had installed infra red cameras to monitor his billboards. Photographic evidence […]
Written By: - Date published: 11:40 am, October 30th, 2008 - 1 comment
The CTU has released a second great youtube vid. Well worth a watch and emailing around.
Written By: - Date published: 4:20 pm, October 29th, 2008 - 9 comments
Explained in detail
Written By: - Date published: 9:51 am, October 26th, 2008 - 11 comments
Warning – this song will stick in your head!
Written By: - Date published: 8:46 am, October 23rd, 2008 - 7 comments
Russel Norman at Drinking Liberally – Auckland last night on Lockwood Smith: Lockwood may think all Asians have small hands but what we really learned today is that Lockwood’s feet are so small he can fit them in his mouth Classic.
Written By: - Date published: 1:51 pm, October 22nd, 2008 - 34 comments
Lockwood Smith has unveiled more National workforce innovations. In addition to favouring Asian seasonal migrants over Polynesians because their hands are smaller, Smith has announced that National’s plans to have new schools built and owned by private companies will include “co-location of educational and industrial facilities” to “further leverage our most precious asset: our children, […]
Written By: - Date published: 5:41 pm, October 21st, 2008 - 23 comments
The National Party has today been forced to clarify its policy for more public-private partnerships in transport after an embarrassing leaked photograph found its way onto several online internet ‘blogs’. In response to the photo (below), John Key has scheduled a press conference where he is expected to formally announce a policy to lease public […]
Written By: - Date published: 8:17 pm, October 18th, 2008 - 55 comments
There’s so much to comment on about the policies and parties that matter that we hardly ever get to time to mention ACT. But I couldn’t resist this brochure from the zero tolerance liberals: (it says ‘not your typical party’ in the yellow box) Thoughts: – did ACT think they were the first to see […]
Written By: - Date published: 4:25 pm, October 17th, 2008 - 33 comments
National policy on Maori seats (2007): “The Caucus today confirmed that the Maori seats will be abolished, which we anticipate will take place around the time of settlement of historic Treaty claims,” says National Party Leader John Key. National policy on Maori seats (Sept 2008); “National wants to scrap the Maori seats in Parliament once all […]
Written By: - Date published: 9:31 am, October 14th, 2008 - 45 comments
A crusade on illiteracy, surely. Um, I’m not sure we want to entrust these guys with improving language skills. [Update: true to form, the people in the sector don’t know what the hell National is talking about. Teachers say National seems to be taking about some vague reporting system, not more resources to actually improve […]
Written By: - Date published: 10:00 pm, October 13th, 2008 - 4 comments
Jon Stewart looks at some recent clips from Fox News on the American presidential race. Just incredible.
Written By: - Date published: 4:00 pm, October 12th, 2008 - 7 comments
From the campaign launch, I got this photo, and decided that I’d put it up for the skulkers complaining about the EFA. For some reason they were conspicuous by their absence (didn’t want to tangle with 1600+ activists?). For the EFA fetishists, please note that Mike is authorising himself. I didn’t sneak around to get […]
Written By: - Date published: 8:52 am, October 11th, 2008 - 22 comments
Spotted by an eagle eyed reader. Fancy leaving the running of our economy up to the Joker? Seems like the economic risks/challenges ahead have proved a creative inspiration….
Written By: - Date published: 9:19 pm, October 6th, 2008 - 27 comments
This is so funny. Click on image for full zoom.
Written By: - Date published: 12:10 am, October 1st, 2008 - 9 comments
On occasion I’ve had my ire raised by Danyl Mclauchlan over at The Dim-Post, usually after he repeats crap from the sewers about this site. Every so often (quite frequently) he manages to do something that is almost perfect satire. Poneke has captured such a comment and put it up as a post “The kind […]
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