Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, July 30th, 2008 - 16 comments
(hattip: Kiwipundit)
Written By: - Date published: 10:26 pm, July 19th, 2008 - 23 comments
The phrase “subprime” seems to have become part of our universal vocabulary – reflecting global uncertainty, events beyond our control, and financial complexities. A subject of great importance and seriousness – until I saw this clip from Bird and Fortune…perfect Sunday viewing.
Written By: - Date published: 9:58 am, July 16th, 2008 - 9 comments
[more ‘Tom The Dancing Bug’ comics here]
Written By: - Date published: 9:40 am, June 28th, 2008 - 24 comments
On the odd occasion I have time to read outside of the confines of The Standard and its ever increasing brawl of entertaining comments. I noticed we don’t have a external reading list, and it is within the range of my writing skills, so here are my oddities for the slow weekends…. From quote of […]
Written By: - Date published: 11:03 am, June 25th, 2008 - 69 comments
In Parliament yesterday: Anderton: “Has the Minister received any reports on how many National Party members it takes to change a light bulb?” Cullen: “None. Because they like to keep us in the dark.”
Written By: - Date published: 9:41 am, June 19th, 2008 - 17 comments
For everyone who says apostrophes don’t matter, try telling that to the Bioethics Council.
Written By: - Date published: 6:49 am, June 12th, 2008 - 8 comments
Ah, Iraq invasion satire. thank god that war is over, eh John? [GWOT – Global War On Terror, official acronym. You can’t make this stuff up]
Written By: - Date published: 4:00 pm, June 11th, 2008 - 29 comments
Remember National’s broadband ‘plan’ that reads like it was drawn up on the back of a napkin? Notice how the only gains they can point to from this plan to borrow $1.5 billion are better video conferencing (when was the last time the average worker used video conferencing?) and being able to download pirated movies […]
Written By: - Date published: 9:27 am, May 30th, 2008 - 57 comments
Following a series of National Party questions to the house the Herald has discovered the Labour government has spent nearly $27K on sausage rolls since taking power in 1999. Sources inside the public service reveal that in many cases morning teas would be provided with nearly two sausage rolls per person in attendance and some […]
Written By: - Date published: 5:09 pm, May 26th, 2008 - 8 comments
Nevermind has this: “Our favourite National Party Hack unbiased political commentator weighs in on rat hygiene when the Bloody Marys it seems he had for breakfast appear to catch up with him ” Classic stuff, but enlightening too.
Written By: - Date published: 2:05 pm, May 23rd, 2008 - 70 comments
Here’s a good ten minutes from the middle of Winston’s post budget address yesterday. The highlight is around four minutes in, on National’s burgeoning bureaucracy: Did you know that John Key himself in his Wellington parliamentary office employs has 36 people?… they cost the taxpayer, every year… over seven million dollars… Teams of PR people and spin doctors […]
Written By: - Date published: 10:52 pm, May 21st, 2008 - 12 comments
Get “scientific” with this poll and determine “which Disney villain are you”?
Written By: - Date published: 5:57 pm, May 14th, 2008 - 14 comments
Who would have thought? Murray McCully as The Penguin. Hat tip: onegoodmove
Written By: - Date published: 12:01 pm, May 7th, 2008 - 3 comments
The Daily Show’s John Oliver goes behind the scenes at the Pollies, the US awards ceremony for political ad consultants. Hilarious. Watch the nominees tell Oliver how to destroy hope, make voters fear black people and hang your fragile ego on a yard sign. I’m sure our mate John Ansell would feel right at home. […]
Written By: - Date published: 11:04 am, May 2nd, 2008 - 9 comments
So you’ve seen Obama’s Yes We Can music video; here’s the McCain response:
Written By: - Date published: 3:41 pm, April 30th, 2008 - 71 comments
Just received this parody of Hillary Clinton’s 3am ad, but with a New Zealand twist. Very funny.
Written By: - Date published: 2:24 pm, April 29th, 2008 - 13 comments
Greenwoman just flicked us this:
Written By: - Date published: 7:33 pm, April 23rd, 2008 - 12 comments
So, one internet comic writer challenged another internet comic writer to draw 200 bad comics and this was the result. Awesome on so many levels. I especially like number 10. I wonder if that will be New Zealand come November.
Written By: - Date published: 3:19 pm, April 23rd, 2008 - 4 comments
The Climate Science Coalition is the last of a dying breed; a rabid, climate change denying lobby group. Of late, they have been performing a desperate, last-ditch attempt to slow the introduction of a carbon trading scheme. And, now, it looks like they’ve received some heavy-weight support in the form of the venerable Flat Earth Society:
Written By: - Date published: 2:16 pm, April 21st, 2008 - 11 comments
(Via BoingBoing.net)
Written By: - Date published: 12:30 pm, April 14th, 2008 - 19 comments
A reader’s just sent us the lyrics to the song sung at Labour Party social and again at the conference as reported in The Herald today. We understand they were penned by Grant Robertson, Labour candidate for Wellington Central. To the tune of “The Gambler“: John Key – The Gambler On a warm summer’s evening […]
Written By: - Date published: 10:23 am, April 10th, 2008 - Comments Off on Too stupid for words
I’m not usually big on the Bush-bashing, but this is classic: Say what you like about Reagan, at least the dude could read from an autocue. Hat tip: onegoodmove
Written By: - Date published: 6:39 pm, April 6th, 2008 - 15 comments
From the Sunday Star Times: A new poll suggests that National Leader John Key may be up against a bigger obstacle than he thought in knocking Prime Minister Helen Clark off she is the person New Zealanders most admire after Sir Edmund Hillary. The much-loved mountaineer topped the Roy Morgan Poll with 17.4 per cent support, followed by […]
Written By: - Date published: 10:27 am, April 4th, 2008 - 20 comments
Our sources tell us National is set to follow-up to last year’s DVD ‘John Key: Vacuous for New Zealand’ with its sequel ‘John Key: I won’t bite, promise’. ‘Vacuous’ was withdrawn after The Standard and Kiwiblogblog revealed that Key had illegally used Coldplay’s ‘Clocks‘ as the theme tune. National and Coldplay’s record label are reported […]
Written By: - Date published: 10:25 am, April 4th, 2008 - 7 comments
A reader just sent us this – REM meets John Key. (Hat-tip: PJ)
Written By: - Date published: 4:59 pm, April 3rd, 2008 - 28 comments
Written By: - Date published: 3:33 pm, April 3rd, 2008 - 9 comments
That’s what Key said when asked about his plan to increase GP fees. A reader reckons Key’s planning to apply the same market logic to crime: Great cartoon. No wonder National’s Law and order Spokesperson, Simon Power, is distancing himself from Key’s policy.
Written By: - Date published: 3:15 pm, March 28th, 2008 - 6 comments
From Stuff: Details of a massive home loan scam targeting buyers in South Auckland have emerged involving former Westpac mortgate manager Amar Singh. (Hat-tip: Simon)
Written By: - Date published: 12:00 am, March 22nd, 2008 - 6 comments
Steve posted a stick-figure explanation of the sub-prime mortgage crisis earlier in the week. Here are ABC commedians Clarke and Dawe giving their take:
Written By: - Date published: 1:18 pm, March 20th, 2008 - 18 comments
Hat tip: Chris S in the comments.
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