Young Tory of the Year
A mate just sent me this, classic:
Media
The Standard
Peak traffic
Some comments on Sunday about this site performing well induced me to have a look at the traffic over the last week. I […]
LolKeys
Hat tip: Sam Vilain
National Spinners
David Farrar wrote… “Funniest moment was talking to a few of John’s staff, and one of them asked whether their imminent transfer to […]
Another politician caught in taping sting
Guest Post: QoT – Mmm, delicious linear time
I loved this post for QoT so much that I asked to reproduce it in full here. It resonated with me after reading […]
The Standard Week: 24-31 October
Two more examples of senior Nats hiding their conflicts of interest, in violation of Parliament’s rules, were revealed on The Standard this week. […]
Franks caught vandalising own billboards
In a strange twist in the Franks billboard monitoring saga, infra red camera footage has revealed that Franks himself was responsibile for defacing […]
The Standard line: Nanny State
So, you’re talking with someone about politics and they say something really dumb and wrong and you know it’s wrong but you don’t […]
The Standard line: Tax cuts
[update: download this (tax-and-kiwisaver-calculator) simple excel table that will calculate tax cut and Kiwisaver losses under Labour and National, and the difference, for you and […]
Ripping the stuffing out
The CTU has released a second great youtube vid. Well worth a watch and emailing around.
John Key’s business experience
Explained in detail
Video: National muppets
Warning – this song will stick in your head!
The Standard Week: 17-24 October
National’s MPs might be considering spending the next two weeks in bed, dreaming of victory. Because it seems every day they go out, […]
The Standard line: Kiwisaver
So, you’re talking with someone about politics and they say something really dumb and wrong and you know it’s wrong but you don’t […]
The Standard line: Photoshop
So, you’re talking with someone about politics and they say something really dumb and wrong and you know it’s wrong but you don’t […]
Green laffs
Russel Norman at Drinking Liberally – Auckland last night on Lockwood Smith: Lockwood may think all Asians have small hands but what we […]
Nats: instilling the work ethic early
Lockwood Smith has unveiled more National workforce innovations. In addition to favouring Asian seasonal migrants over Polynesians because their hands are smaller, Smith […]
Transport policy clarified
The National Party has today been forced to clarify its policy for more public-private partnerships in transport after an embarrassing leaked photograph found […]
The Standard line: crime
So, you’re talking with someone about politics and they say something really dumb and wrong and you know it’s wrong but you don’t […]
Aspirational politics laffs
Party like you matter
There’s so much to comment on about the policies and parties that matter that we hardly ever get to time to mention ACT. […]
Video: 12 Flip Flops from Mr Key
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 Standard Week: 10-17 October
The polls are closing, National dropped 7% and 4% in the Roy Morgan and TV3 polls, respectively, as the full impact of Key’s […]
Maintenance
There will be some scheduled maintenance at the hosting company tonight between 10pm and 6am. During that period the site may be offline […]
Inequity laffs
The Standard line: Showerheads
So, you’re talking with someone about politics and they say something really dumb and wrong and you know it’s wrong but you don’t […]
The Standard line: ACC
So, you’re talking with someone about politics and they say something really dumb and wrong and you know it’s wrong but you don’t […]
Down with literacy
A crusade on illiteracy, surely. Um, I’m not sure we want to entrust these guys with improving language skills. [Update: true to form, […]
Daily Show on Fox
Jon Stewart looks at some recent clips from Fox News on the American presidential race. Just incredible.
Authorised for the Right…..
From the campaign launch, I got this photo, and decided that I’d put it up for the skulkers complaining about the EFA. For […]
Upgrades – Grumpy post area
I’ve brought the site up to date. All the various hacks that I put in this years have now been removed as the […]
Video: The Joker
Spotted by an eagle eyed reader. Fancy leaving the running of our economy up to the Joker? Seems like the economic risks/challenges ahead […]
The Standard Week: 3-10 October
National finally released their tax cut policy this week. If you earn less than $14,000 a year, it’s the same as Labour’s cuts. […]
Spray and hope
This is so funny. Click on image for full zoom.
We’re popular – but with the wrong people
After a lot of work both by a few e-mails from people here and by the good services of some people on nz.comp […]