Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana, Nevermind, 1991. Lyrics:Cobain
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Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana, Nevermind, 1991. Lyrics:Cobain Popularity: 1% [?]
I can tell you it was an eye opener. The three submitters before gave submissions that were frankly ridiculous. There was a couple of submitters who’s great idea to stop Maori smoking was straight out the Eugenics/Nazi handbook. If only the other submitters and some of the committee were smart enough to notice. He rambled on first about how much he was missing all his dead whanau killed by the evil tobacco companies who targeted them, then forced the cigarette into their mouths, then forced them to flick the bic to light it. Then he gave his great idea, a software database the records all of the whanu, hapu, and iwi members and their parents and their parent’s parents. Then record all those who smoke and then they would be able to trace the bloodlines to identify new mokopuna who’s bloodline suggested that they would smoke. Pure unadulterated bullshit. The most unbelievable aspect of his submission was that he was able to muddle along for about 30 minutes un-interrupted. The next person to submit thought it brilliant to reinvent myths fairy-tales “Maori History” and re-tell the tales of Maui, Tane Mahuta etc but with a no smoking message. Like Maui couldn’t have fished up the North Island if he was a smoker because he wouldn’t have been fit enough. But that wasn’t all, they then wanted to put all that to music, hip-hop or whatever and design a kapa haka dance. Yeah that’ll work. Again from this submitter there was much wailing again about the evil white man’s smoke stick. Again they rambled past their 15 minutes uninterrupted. Next up was veteran trougher Teresa Taylor. Who with her daughter presumably, the other half of T& T Consulting told us all about her mothers 15 siblings who were murdered by the tobacco companies. Much blame, finger pointing and grievance claiming. And all with the “support” of Shane Bradbrook, Te Reo Marama master trougher who kept patting her back as she recall the tragedy of 15 uncles and aunties dying and how she missed them all so terribly. As I wiped a tear from my eye i got my box of documents ready. Then the guy immediately before, well half-man really, he had a body like a half sucked throatie, told us that his parents and grandparents smoking, now dead, had caused him to have itchy eyes, blood noses, skin irritations etc. I wondered if he had ever heard of hayfever and migraines. Now it was my turn, I was called. “Cam, bro, your turn, get up here” from Tau Henare. The room went cold, the air crackled. Death-stares came out. Shane Bradbrook and Teresa Taylor shifted from the back of the seating to right up behind my chair. I started my submission and not 2 minutes into it Metiria Turei interrupts me mid sentence and tries to call time. I shit you not. then she negotiated with Tau Henare and they gave me 8 minutes more. Fuck me dead. I couldn’t believe it. It seems if you are Maori you can waffle on with idiotic ideas and If you are a white Mofo telling the truth about the 40 troughers sitting behind you the think it is ok to be rude,and interrupt. Well fuck them I thought and carried on. Next time I was interrupted it was by some Labour moll doing the same thing. I think BK was asleep beside her. Same nonsense, give 2 more minutes, I was up to 12 minutes. Then cut off. It seems like they don’t like hearing the truth. The whole way through my submission Shane Bradbrook was cursing me under his breathe, audible to me only. When I challenged the troughers and the committee to tell me exactly how many smokers there are, they scoffed at my claim there were no statistics fresher than 2005. There isn’t, it was a safe bet. Loud complaining started when I said that everyone who has submitted before me in the course of this committee or will submit after are nothing but troughers asking for more money to stop smoking. The simple facts are that money won’t work, the only people being helped by all the money are the troughers and their immediate families. In 2004 when this Industry began under Labour there were 700,000 smokers, on one of the troughers websites in their 2009 strategic plan, a plan I might add contained only one number, quoted that there were 700,000 smokers. Well they are the experts, that is what they get all the funding for so it must be right. So, for the grand total of $168,712,369 we have not many any progress. We have essentially thrown money away and the troughers have gleefully picked it up. I’m told that today was the first time media had attended, and they unattended as soon as I finished and went outside, only to be accosted by a woman. Who was more than a little ticked off with me. The louder she talked the softer I talked. Eventually she gave up. The media packed up as soon as I did and left as soon as I did, seems they weren’t interested in anyone else’s submissions. This whole process is a farce, every single submitter except me had a vested interest, they are either knee deep in the trough, in charge of the trough or in more than one instance doing both. The whole Tobacco industry is nothing but a huge fraud perpetrated in New Zealand. They have no KPI’s, they measure nothing, is it any wonder we are chucking $55 million a year at this and going nowhere. They were basically asking for more of everything. Well I say fuck them. Show us some results. They can’t and they know it. I learned one thing for sure, this is just another grievance drive for Maori who are intent on blaming everyone but themselves, but who is say we don’t deserve it, we have bred this dependence and feeling of grievance. It’s our own fault and for sure no one on that Select Committee is going to upset the troughers. My respect for Metiria Turei evaporated to nothing today by her petty politics in a Select Committee process against a submitter who wasn’t on her team and wasn’t brown. They sure didn’t like it up them. Popularity: unranked [?] Poor old Labour [snigger], looks to be a long, very long time in opposition. The latest Roy Morgan NZ Poll shows support for John Key’s National-led Government is up 1% to 57.5% comprising National Party 53.5% (up 1.5%), Maori Party 2.5% (unchanged) and ACT NZ 1.5% (unchanged). Support for Opposition Parties is 42.5% (down 1%); Labour Party 31.5% (down 1.5%), Greens 8% (unchanged), NZ First 2% (unchanged) [WO: WTF are these people stupid], The Progressive Party 0.5% (up 0.5%) and Others 0.5% (unchanged). If a National Election were held today the National Party would win easily. The Roy Morgan Government Confidence Rating is 140.5 (up 1.5 points) with 65% (up 1%) of New Zealanders saying New Zealand is ‘heading in the right direction’ compared to 24.5% (down 0.5%) that say New Zealand is ‘heading in the wrong direction.’ Popularity: unranked [?] Yesterday’s NZ Herald carried a big woe is me tragedy schlock piece about a mother who drowned her baby by leaving it in the bath being baby sat by its twin sister. Now you might think I am being overly harsh but this morning, ironically a much smaller frontpage area, we find out what we really should have found out yesterday.
Right, now that is embarrassing for the Herald. Just one day after Janet Wilson predicted this exact behaviour from Granny. The mad dash to dramatist a baby’s death missed the vital piece that made this case so not frontpage material. Yesterday she was the feature, now the Herald is reduced to trolling Bebo for information and then like good little repeaters they repeat it.
I fear Janet was right. Popularity: unranked [?] Just last week Clare Curran was berating Matthew Hooton about a single sentence in a press release where he said that he had had positive meeting with Labour MP’s over the Mobile Termination Rates. She stated that Labour didn’t have a position and those MPs only had personal views. So it is some relief that the Labour Party and Clare Curran have settled their differences with independent commentator Matthew Hooton and now released their position on MTR, supporting regulation. Their press release says;
Now it is up to Cardinal Richelieu to adopt the minority position and send the message to Telecom and Vodafone that their bung, dodgy networks should be protected anymore. I am normally not in favour of regulation but in this instance regulation is actual deregulation you have went you don’t have deregulation. Well done to Clare, it is a testament to her negotiating abilities to get the Labour caucus to agree. It can’t be long before she is promoted to Deputy Leader when Annette King slides off into retirement. Popularity: unranked [?]
Made by North American Arms, this is the most popular mini-revolver sold. Technically it is a revolver but hey what’s in a name? Think of these as derringer style and revolver capacity. Way more hurt, basically. For Oswald there is even a Black Powder version. Not sure what would more effective the projectile coming out the barrel or the flash, bang and cloud of smoke to disappear into? NAA .22 Magnum Mini-Revolver
- Sent in by an avid reader via Facebook Popularity: unranked [?] Starbucks are sticking to their guns, literally.
I’m not a big fan of Starbucks coffee, but i don’t drink coffee anyway so I’ll try to use them for my hot chocolates in future to support their stance that they have no business interfering with law-abiding customers peacefully enjoying their coffee. Tell you what though, I’d rather imbibe my coffee in Starbucks where there is almost no chance in getting shot in a hold up. Only someone wanting to suicide by customers would rob a Starbucks now. If you want to take the risk of going to another outlet that bans guns then fill your boots. Why is it here in New Zealand that we want to liberalise everything except guns? Very strange behaviour. Why do the liberal elite physically shudder when firearms are mentioned? Surely if you are a liberal you should enbrace the liberalisation of everything? You can’t rely on the Police anymore, just ask Navtej Singh……oh wait! Popularity: 9% [?] The image says it all. Labours no intention of reversing any increase in GST and Mangrove has signaled increases in Income tax as well. They need to come clean.
Popularity: unranked [?] David “Vodafan” Farrar has published a piece of propaganda dissertation from Paul Brislen at Vodafone about Mobile Termination Rates under the guise of being objective. Paul is a good guy, but he is doing his bosses bidding, so please don’t shoot the messenger. To save you reading it I will summarise it for you.
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The Vespa carried the M20, a U.S.-made light anti-armour cannon, it was very light when compared to a standard 75mm cannon but was still able to penetrate 100 mm of armour by so-called HEAT warheads. The recoil is counteracted by venting propellant gases out the rear of the weapon, thru a venturi, which eliminated the need for a mechanical recoil system or heavy mounts, enabling the weapon to be fired from the Vespa frame. Additional photos: Image 1, Image 2, Image 3, Image 4 Popularity: unranked [?] A Day in the Life, The Beatles, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967. Lyrics: Lennon and McCartney Love it or hate it—The most influential Beatles song. Popularity: 12% [?] garfield.herrington (3:26:42 PM): hi alyking1 (3:26:48 PM): Hello alyking1 (3:42:34 PM): i am 29 from Grey Lynn AKL ….as i said just here in KL to clear my head which is clear now and also got a Job so here temporarily if i find some love and stability and loving arms to return to i would love to be home as home is where th heart is Popularity: unranked [?] PRESS RELEASE from WHALEOILFor Immediate Release Date: 9 March 2010 WHALEOIL to Appear Before Select Committee to Expose Ministry Incompetence & TroughingWell known New Zealand blogger Whaleoil (Cameron Slater) is appearing before the Maori Affairs Select Committee to expose the excessive troughing of tax-payer funding by anti-tobacco groups. “I expect the Committee to be shocked and outraged when I present my findings to the Committee tomorrow as they hold their inquiry into the tobacco industry” said Mr Slater. “I will be bringing along a wine box of documents obtained under the Official Information Act to demonstrate a complete disregard for the accountability of taxpayer money by the Ministry of Health, alongside the incompetence of anti-tobacco groups who have received millions of dollars with little to show for it.” “Groups like Te Reo Marama and its director Shane Kawenata Bradbrook received hundreds of thousands of taxpayer funding from the Ministry to help Maori stop smoking, yet spent most of the time on overseas junkets to exotic destinations like Hawaii (3 times), Bangkok Thailand, Durban South Africa, Helsinki in Finland and Mumbai India. “And all the Ministry got from Mr Bradbrook was a couple of reports and a performance which resulted in a “damning” internal Ministry audit report. It simply is not good enough for New Zealand to continue pouring $55 million into stop smoking programmes for little or no return. The only people it is helping are the NGO troughers rorting the system, who are now asking the select committee to recommend they get more money. Of all the submitters I am the only one with zero conflicts of interests, there is nothing for me to gain or lose by my submission. The rest are either involved in receiving government money, or deciding who gets the government money or in a few cases doing both. ………. Whaleoil (Cameron Slater) whaleoil@gotcha.co.nz Popularity: unranked [?] From JoNova
![]() Skeptical Scientist – Image from JoNova ![]() Unsceptical Scientist – Image from JoNova I wonder which one best represents those who declare the debate is over, the science is settled and the overwhelming evidence is compelling? When the polar opposite is true. IPCC AR4 Commenter: “I do not understand why this trend is insignificant – it is more than three times the quoted error estimates” – Why oh Why is the ice increasing when all our models say it is melting away! The Logarithmic Effect of Carbon Dioxide – This is a real eye-opener fro Carbon-mongers Emails from “attack ad” science group posted – Oh the old ad hominem attack instead of showing their theory works Methane, The Panic Du Jour – Why dickheads panic about methane, because the carbon hoax is rumbled. Global Warming not to blame for toad extinction – Bugger, scrub that one off the massive list of things Global Warming destroys. Yowzer! “sea ice extended to the equator 716.5 million years ago” – Would that be called a cycle? Got the picture, it doesn’t take long to find out that the science isn’t settled, the evidence is starting to become overwhelming against AGW and the debate most certainly is not over. Now if we could get Nick “Quota” Smith to clean the wax out of his ears and remove the blinkers we might actually get somewhere. Popularity: unranked [?] Fuck off Winston. Paul Reynolds has contributed more to this country in two years than you have in 64. He’ll probably pay more in income tax (including his bonus) than your party stole from taxpayers in 2005. By the way, when are we getting that money back? $150k of taxpayer’s money inappropriately spent is what makes New Zealand look like a third world country, not a CEO of a major corporation getting a bonus where their business isn’t performing (if anything that makes us like the rest of the world). Also, why the fuck attack Scottish immigrants? Aren’t you half Scottish yourself? Or is it just that his accent makes him an easy target? Typical. Attacking an immigrant because he’s highly paid. Popularity: unranked [?] |
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