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How media should view polls
Hattip: NickS linking to PhD comics
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Warning: Beware what you say on the net. Humourless bastards are after you.
No Right Turn has a post about the weirdness of the police forces in Britain at present. Elements of our own police force have been acting just as weirdly about 'terrorism' over the past years bringing a new era of police stupidity and police doing…
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Govt: All workers to get same holidays as PM
Workers to get same holidays as PM Monday, 11/01/2010, 11:30pm Press release: New Zealand Government The Government will raise the minimum annual leave entitlement for all workers from four weeks a year to seven, Prime Minister John Key said today. "This will bring the holiday…
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A Potty Peer making money off future misery.
Gareth over at Hot-Topic has written a delightful post "Popgun for hire: A$20,000 detailing one person who is making money off climate change. No it isn't the scientists. It is our favorite Potty Peer - Christopher, Viscount Monckton of Brenchley. Some of the CCDs have…
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How Act’s failed coup went down
Spotted on Facebook:
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Re-run: Worth fails to cock-up for a week – apologises to PM
Actually, this guest post never got published because, before we could publish it, Richard Worth would be involved in some new scandal and then he was sacked, which adds a layer of irony to the post: In a shocking week for the National government, Internal Affairs…
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Seasons greetings
lolz. Cheers to saltandvingarclips for linking to their hilarious vids in comments
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Oh yeah, SPEEDholes
Could making the surface of cars rough be a cheap and esay way to boost fuel efficiency, thereby saving oil and helping tackle climate change? The idea comes from the dimples on golf-balls, which hold a thin layer of air to the ball, lessening turbulence and…
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All that glitters
Brilliant piece from Stephen Colbert on the nutty American Right's new obsession with gold. Sure, it's billed as a survivalist thing - preparing for the collapse of society brought on by Obama's socialist agenda - but the truth is it's dumb rednecks getting ripped off by immoral capitalists, again.
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Scientific conspiracy on a global scale
In a recent post my good friend and fellow concern troll DPF covered the Associated Press review of the leaked "climategate" materials. The review concluded that the science of global warming was genuine. But DPF had some concerns: "My worry is that there is now…
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Capitalism in its wonderful natural form.
Following on from our report earlier this year about ideal places for libertarians to go, it appears that we are now seeing capitalism in its wonderful Ayn Rand style libertarian idealized form. Somali 'maritime companies" have setup a stock exchange to help incubate free enterprise…
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Caption contest
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A world gone crazy
It started with me agreeing wholeheartedly with Fran about youth unemployment. Now I can add Garth George and Bruce Sheppard to this strange confluence of opinions. For a start Garth George has provided one of the few decent media critiques of Brash's batshit crazy proposal:…
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Jon Stewart’s Glenn Beck parody
Caught this on The Nation. Brilliant. Jon Stewart has done it again, and this time he even brought out his acting chops. In what will probably become a historic Glenn Beck impression, Stewart uses Beck's recent appendicitis operation to concoct a conspiracy theory of his…
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Key’s busy day
Ha! But seriously, I doubt that Key changes his own oil.
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CCDs. Worms perhaps?
It has been fascinating over the last few days watching the CCDs (Climate Change Deniers) make an another attempt to scale the bastion of scientific thinking and language. In this case someone hacked a copy of decade of e-mails at the Climate Research Unit (CRU)…
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What I did on my holidays – by [insert name here]
Ohmigod, after Red Alert informed me that the National MPs had started a blog, I nearly died!!!!!!! And after I'd finished that and resurrected, I went and had a look at it. Yep, I was right. These buggers know nothing about what blogging is about.…
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Faux pro-smacking march fun
With all his usual wit, James of Editing the Herald proposes a spike of the so-called 'March for Democracy' in Auckland this week. The full post is well worth reading but here's the meat: Democracy's greatest heroes, from Thomas Jefferson to Tony Blair, appeared to me…
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Heads will roll!
The Government has today announced a full inquiry into all instances of politicians calling for 'heads to roll' following the controversy over Mr Harawira suggesting Mr Goff should be shot. Mr Key said "It's just not good enough that people have been going around literally…
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One of these things is not like the other IX
One of these things is not like the other, One of these things is not quite the same... Can you guess which one is not like the other, Can you tell me before I finish the game?
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Caption Competition
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Cycleway to nowhere
This just in: A picture of stage one of PM John Key's personal solution to NZ's recession - the cycleway to nowhere! OK, just kidding. It's one of the images from The Guardian's photo show on "Crap cycle lanes". View them and weep, fellow cyclists...…
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Caption Competition
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Nanny wins
Remember when the world was going to end because Nanny State was going to make us get compact fluorescent bulbs? It all seems so long ago. Those ignorant, reactionary days of 2008. Now, we're crazy for the wee blighters. According to the Building Research Association…
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Everyone else is doing it so why can’t we?
Turns out our media aren't the only ones who, rather than providing analysis and information, act as little more than amplifiers for the best spin.
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One of these things is not like the other VIII
One of these things is not like the other, One of these things is not quite the same... Can you guess which one is not like the other, Can you tell me before I finish the game?
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Wee gripes: As Kiwi as shrimps on the barbie
I love the ASB ads saying "We've been a Kiwi bank since 1847" No. You were a Kiwi bank. Since 1989 you've been owned by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Also, what's up with calling themselves ASB Bank? Auckland Savings Bank Bank?
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What really wins elections
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Who is John Key?
OK, so this might be only slightly more intellectual than the usual quality of political analysis in our msm, and obviously it could never match the informative value of asking which politician would help an old lady across the street, but a few days back…
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