Like a Rolling Stone, Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited, 1965. Lyrics: Dylan

“JUDAS!” (applause)
“I don’t believe you…you’re a liar… (aside:) play fucking loud!”

Happy Birthday Stacey

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The boy-racers have turned out to be chickens in the face of the law designed to crush their cars for repeat offenders. now the son of a mother who just yesterday became a victim of drunk driving says crush drunk drivers cars.

The oldest son of a mother-of-five killed by a woman fleeing a police check point says it’s time to crush drink-drivers’ cars.

Bradley Phillips said last night he was frustrated by the Government’s eagerness to crush boy racers’ vehicles, while letting drink-drivers keep theirs.

His mother, Penelope Rae Phillips, 52, died in Blenheim on Friday night after a 20-year-old woman smashed into her car.

The woman had been stopped at a police checkpoint 400m away. Police said she blew a positive result then sped away.

Officers scrambled to pursue, but the woman struck the white Nissan Penelope Phillips was driving. She died at the scene.

An innocent driver killed by a drunk skank and the skank survives. I feel for the son.

I read this story yesterday after I saw the headline on the Herald site that really rates as spam journalism. The headline read “Woman dies as driver flees police” giving the impression that the woman was involved in a police pursuit when nothing of the sort happened.

Just today we also hear that;

One of New Zealand’s worst repeat drink-drivers has been caught again, racking up his 40th driving conviction – 14 of them for drink-driving.

Richard Steven Rowe, 46, of the Bay of Plenty, is in custody awaiting sentencing in April for his latest drink-driving conviction. He faces up to two years’ jail and disqualification from driving for more than a year.

How many chances does one get? Looks like more than 14 or so. Crush their cars. This is the result of another vagary of our justice system, never being allowed to know what prior convictions a fool has already. Crush their cars.

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Heather McCracken, or more properly Len Brown, because she simply ran his lines like a good little repeater, says that Len Brown has been cleared by the Auditor-General over his shenangins with awarding a contract to the losing bidder.

Len Brown wasn’t cleared by the Auditor-General, far from it. The A-G didn’t even look at the case and wrote to say that she wouldn’t be looking into it at all as it was outside her purview.

Len Brown is using the Philip Field defense. It is pure spin and lies and proves once again that repeaters never look beyond the precious words of politicians.

Len then cries that he is being attacked by politically motivated smear merchants because he is standing for the super city mayoralty. Of course he is, bloggers and the like will attack you when we see cronyism, corruption and favouritism. If he wants to be the mayor of Auckland then he needs to clean up his shonky behaviour.

And like his team won’t be attacking John Banks every time they get a chance…..oh puuuuulease, you are better than this spin Len and Conor.

Now cue Mediatart to divert, obfuscate and lie.

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There has been much obfuscation by Labour,the Greens, and their associated paid lap-bloggers about mining. Their articles with pictures of Milford sound and the such are pretty much lies, from the picture to the text. The picture accompanying this post are far more accurate.

The reality is that the amount of land we are talking about is tiny, really tiny. Labour and the Greens want New Zealand to be poor. New Zealand’s onshore minerals are estimated to be worth about $180 billion, excluding coal, oil and gas, 12 times Fonterra’s total assets. Labour and the Greens want to leave it there, thus they must want us to be poor. Then again have you ever seen a rich socialist country? Socialists need people to remain poor, that way they are dependent like a new born baby on the tit of the government.

Matthew Hooton wrote an unusually perspicacious article in the NBR on Friday. He gets right to the nub of the nonsense the poor-mongers dollop out.

New Zealand’s land mass of 27 million hectares is greater than that of the UK.  A third of it – nine million hectares – is owned by DoC.  According to the leaks, just 7000ha is even to be considered for mining, much less than one-thousandth of the conservation estate and an infinitesimal amount in terms of New Zealand’s total land mass.  It’s roughly the same area as is currently planted in olives.

Completely excluded for consideration, it seems, are the wilderness areas most loved and visited by New Zealanders and tourists, including Westland, Aoraki/Mt Cook, Tongariro, Abel Tasman and the enormous Fiordland National Park.  The main focus appears to be Paparoa, where mining is already underway in some of the 74 mining ventures approved by the Labour government under Helen Clark.

Well now, isn’t that interesting? The actuality of the poor-mongers arguments is so far from their pictures, which are usually of Westland, Aoraki/Mt Cook, Tongariro, Abel Tasman and the enormous Fiordland National Park that they are actually lying to New Zealand. The total amount of land under consideration is a paltry amount.

Not only that we see the hypocrisy of Labour who thought it was a good idea to approve 74 mining concessions on their watch but now that National is the government it is precious scared taonga that can’t be touched. The Greens too are are complicit in this deception because they kept Labour in power even though they never got to enjoy the fruit of keeping them there.

So dramatically more productive is mining compared with other land uses that even his modest 7000ha proposal would earn New Zealand around $1.225 billion a year.  That compares with, say, $25 million from a similar amount of dairy land or the $3.5 million in total sales from olives.

It is true that olive groves are prettier than even the modern surgical mining Mr Brownlee appears to have in mind, but neither has the environmental impact of a dairy farm let alone the gross aesthetic pollution caused by the green movement’s beloved wind farms – the recent addition to New Zealand’s landscape most likely to undermine our enjoyment and love of it, and the experience of our tourists.

That is a massive difference in in extraction value compared to our biggest earner, dairying. Olive’s seem better suited to the Mediterranean than wasting our time growing them here.

Mining too provides a better end game than any other industry. When the mine is finished, particularly an Open cast mine, there are many options available to us in cleaning up what appears to be a barren wasteland. Replanting is an option, filling up the big holes with water and maintaining a new lake for both water storage and and recreational facilities, kids would relish the chance of learning to sail their Optimist dinghies in such beautiful surrounding. We could even require the miners to put it back the way it was.

There is another option too. Assisting us to secure our power supplies in a meaningful way. In the UK the Tories have come good and pledged to allow a new nuclear power station to be opened every 18 months to address the threat of a power shortage.

It is really sensible if you believe in Peak oil, really sensible if you believe in Global Warming, and that really gets the Green knickers in a right twist right up their arse. The Resource Management Act makes the damming of rivers for nigh on impossible even when Water is one of our most abundant resources. So we must consider other options.

Now think about nuclear power in conjunction with mining. You just can’t lose. We have dug a really big hole in the ground, we need to fill it with something, what better way to utilise what Labour and the Greens will tell you is dead ground now, never to bloom again, than to fill it with nuclear power plants. At the same time we move from not only the benefits of the mining but also to a secure power supply. The mining can even pay for it. The flow of cheap electricity would make New Zealand attractive again for bringing lucrative value add industry to our shores.

As Matthew Hooton says about the mining;

New Zealand’s balance of payments would be brought into permanent surplus and the long-standing problem of the imbalance between our external and domestic performance instantly resolved. Consequently, throughout the economy, the cost of capital would fall, spurring investment, new ventures and jobs.

the same can be said about a secure power supply. It really is a win/win solution

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Wow a scientific study that proves what we all know anyway, That being Green is being Mean.

Every now and again there comes along a scientific study that proves beyond reasonable doubt what you instinctively know to be true: wine is good for you, exercise is dangerous, and self-righteous environmentalists are lying, cheating, thieving degenerates.

I’m exaggerating only a little. Do Green Products Make Us Better People?, a paper in the latest edition of the journal Psychological Science, argues that those who wear what the authors call the “halo of green consumerism” are less likely to be kind to others, and more likely to cheat and steal. Faced with various moral choices – whether to stick to the rules in games, for example, or to pay themselves an appropriate wage – the green participants behaved much worse in the experiments than their conventional counterparts. The short answer to the paper’s question, then, is: No. Greens are mean.

Gee, that sounds familiar. Of all political persuasions Greens sicken me the most with their fricken zealtory.

As with the worst type of religious zealot, there is nothing more annoying than the zeal of the converted, especially when it is tainted with the hypocrisy of self-righteousness. As we report today, people are more likely to buy environmentally friendly produce in shops than on the internet. Being seen to be green is more important than anything else. I wonder whether that will change if it now becomes a case of being seen to be mean.

Green bullies more like. Climate Change adherents more than any other almost.

We’ve always suspected they were bullies. In the Seventies British film Nuts in May, Mike Leigh hilariously skewered the sort of couple whose supposed love of the environment – and why do so many of these people live in towns? – is really just a device to stop everyone else having fun.

And now, at last, we have confirmation that they’re tight as well. They might be willing to pay over the odds for a lovingly tended carrot, but in every other area of normal human activity, their greenness is merely a mask for miserliness. The wind turbine, the tandem bike with a dangerous little buggy on the back for the twins, the self-denying holidays in Wales… Get a boiler! Get a car! Get out of here!

Jeanette would fit right in. It’s all bollocks of course. The best way to combat them would be to use green tactics, legislation, banning, shame.

We have been kind to these unkind people for far too long. Now that their halo has fallen and they can no longer boast their green credentials as a shorthand for moral superiority, it is time to fight fire with fire. How about a little compensatory ethics of our own? Double the tax on organic food as a deterrent; it is clearly a starter drug to a lifetime of amorality. Stop and search anyone in a Prius. Conduct dawn raids on north London allotments. Otherwise, one can only imagine the sort of dystopia that would ensue if these mean little green men were allowed to run amok.

I reckong we should make the Police stop all Prius owners on the suspicion of being Green Bulies and mandate an agency to follow every Prius around in a Hummer making the silly cars un-carbon neutral.

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Chris Trotter isn’t happy with the selection of Repul­sion Camel.

UNBELIEVABLE! The Labour Party has just offered the NZ electorate further proof (if any more was needed) of its accelerating political infirmity.It has just selected Carmel Sepuloni as it Waitakere candidate.

In making this decision it has not only chosen wrongly, but it has also dealt what may prove to be a fatal blow to the career of one of its more talented MPs, Phil Twyford. “Waitakere Man/Woman” is the key to Labour’s recovery.

The truly sad aspect of today’s selection is what it tells us about the paucity of talent in Labour’s ranks.
For God’s sake! Two of the four candidates standing were sitting MPs! And dear old Hamish McCracken is a bloody political studies lecturer – just the sort of bloke Waitakere Man and his missus are desperate to sit down and have a drink with at the pub.

The clear goal facing Labour in Waitakere was to choose a candidate who can beat Paula Bennett. That candidate needed to be: female, have a solid working-class background (to which, at some point, she had added a tertiary qualification) be either Pakeha or Maori (or, ideally, a mixture of both) and, most importantly, be capable of “talking shit” with the same cheeky facility as the incumbent. Think Outrageous Fortune meets Erin Brocovitch.

A healthy Labour Party would have women like that lining up for the Waitakere seat. That it has ended up selecting a candidate who would, quite frankly, have been much more usefully matched against National’s Sam Lotu-liga in Maungakiekie (where I also happen to think Labour has made a wrong choice) speaks volumes.

And none of those volumes contain very much in the way of good news.

Trotter can see it, and he is right, Labour’s talent pool is as deep as a carpark puddle. basically Trotter is saying Labour is rooted, just in a far more eloquent manner.

The interesting thing about Repul­sion Camel is no-one really knows who she is. In a meeting with some of the senior Pasefika community leaders in Auckland they were saying “we don’t know her. It isn’t a surprise that she isn’t known in the Pasefika community, which is largely Auckland based, because she was born and raised in Taranaki and from went into the union movment. She is about as Pasefika as I am because I was born in Fiji.

Someone (repeaters) should ask where she is from, what her Pasefika credentials really are, or is she just playing on the funny name and the brown skin. If she is she picked the wrong electorate to play the race card.

Back to the Pasefika community, basically if you raise a name with these folk that person will be someone’s cousin/aunty/uncle  pretty much every time. Repul­sion Camel isnt, and the community leaders just don’t get why Labour are promoting her because she has no standing in the Pasefika community.

“Luimachuwum­bama” Win­nie Laban & Su’a William “So-so” Sio do have standing, they are known, they have credentials and while the Pasefika community leaders  don’t really rate “So-so” he has a chiefly title and has some respect. there is a reason Repul­sion Camel doesn’t have a title, the face doesn’t fit, she is a carpet-bagger from Taranaki for Waitakere and a carpet-bagger trading on her brown skin in the Pasefika community.

If the Greens selected Robyn Malcolm then they may come second pushing Repul­sion Camel to third place.

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I think I blogged about the delay in releasing the former Labour ministers expenses from 9 years in Government….oh yes I did.

They will be shitting themselves praying that there is simply too much to look through to grasp the attention of the repeaters much. That would be a sound tactic were it not for bloggers.

And remember the bar is set very, very low now that Phil Heatley resigned over $70.00. The more I think about the more I think that Phil took one fore the team, knowing that Labour’s troughing was going to come out shortly. Yes I like that idea, I like it very much.

The ones I am interested in are;

• Judith Tizard
• Koru Club
• Tigerpig
• What’s his name
• Winston Raymond Peters, , 64, unemployed of no fixed abode
• Five Chins
• Silent P

I’m especially interested in WRP, 64, UONFA’s expenses in Las Vegas.

Remember the bar, just $70.00, and What’s his name has said if caught they have to pay it back. I don’t think that is good enough. No wonder Labour has been silent on troughing. The only sound coming from them now is the sound of chairs being sucked up nervous sphincters that are way past just twitching.

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Good Vibrations, The Beach Boys, Smiley Smile, 1966. Lyrics: Bryan Wilson, Love

Only 1 more to go after this epic ditty.

I love the layered bass on this song.

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Poor old Phil “Gary” Twyford, the carpet-bagger, took another one in the chook today in Waitakere where Repulsion Camel, another carpet-bagger has won selection to be the next corpse for Labour.

If I was “Gary” Twyford, I’d start thinking that I had a better chance of getting selected by joining the National party. The score so far for “Gary” this term is Mt Albert, screwed by Goff so “Blackwater” could get in, Auckland Central – told to eff-off even though he had made his office there just down the road from Nikki Kaye so My Little Pony could try and unseat Kaye, and now Waitakere – given one in the chook yet again by the party. So 3-0.

Imagine the ignominy, he is a list MP, so the lowest of the low and he can’t take a trick in any seat he cares to stand for. Perhaps he could be the place holder in Epsom for Labour, third place that is. Poor Bastard.

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Best way to deal with troughers. Bring shame and humiliation down upon their heads until they resign.

Hemi Matenga has resigned as a Porirua city councillor, a decision some of his colleagues are applauding, but another has slammed their “hypocrisy”.

Kapi-Mana News understands Mr Matenga, who has not been present at any scheduled meetings this year, sent a letter to the council’s chief executive Roger Blakeley last Wednesday, informing him of his decision to stand down.

That day, prior to an annual plan meeting, councillor Euon Murrell raised a question around Mr Matenga’s continued non-attendance. Dr Blakeley said if Mr Matenga missed four consecutive meetings, or no-one moved his apology, he could be removed from his position  with three meetings coming up before April 1, he may have been out of a job in short order.

Councillor Denys Latham said he felt “embarrassed” and “inefficient” when people regularly asked him where “councillor X” was.

Good Riddance, now pursue him for his salary for non-performance.

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Yet another rogue poll, they have been rolling in for over three years, but I suppose we will hear Labour and its paid lap-bloggers intone in steely voices that this is just another rogue poll and the electorate will be surprised by John Key’s hidden agenda and Crosby/Textor, Tory baby eating persona will finally reveal itself.

The latest Roy Morgan NZ Poll shows support for John Key’s National-led Government is virtually unchanged, down 0.5% to 57% comprising National Party 51.5% (down 2%), Maori Party 2% (down 0.5%), ACT NZ 2.5% (up 1%) and United Future 1% (up 1%). Support for Opposition Parties is 43% (up 0.5%); Labour Party 33.5% (up 2%), Greens 6.5% (down 1.5%), New Zealand First 2% (unchanged), the Progressive Party 0.5% (unchanged) 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 137 (down 3.5 points) with 64% (down 1%) of New Zealanders saying New Zealand is ‘heading in the right direction’ compared to 27% (up 2.5%) that say New Zealand is ‘heading in the wrong

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I really want Cut & Run Goff to explain to me why we shouldn’t have combat troops in Afghanistan. I really mean it. Tell me why we should leave Afghanistan to the Taleban. If you have the guts Phil, do it in the comments, I really want to know. While we are at it perhaps Metiria Turei and Russel Norman and even better Keith Locke could explain why we shouldn’t have even more troops in Afghanistan.

And I want Bomber and Idiot/Savant and the paid lap-bloggers at The Standard to tell me why we should cut & run and leave people to the Taleban. They won’t of course, because they have no understanding from their soft warm couches, their university offices and the office of Labour, the EPMU and especially parliament. They just heard somewhere that we need to “Give Peace a Chance”, they learned at university of Labour Party and Green brainwashing.

They follow the footsteps of Cut & Run Goff, the man who held hands with Yasser Arafat, the man who celebrated the end of the Vietnam War by flying a NVA flag off the cenotaph, with their Israel hating, their muelling and whinging about “Give Peace a Chance”

Well Fuck them hard with a great big Fucker thingy. Read this and tell me again why we should cut & run.

“When they cut off my nose and ears, I passed out,” 19-year-old Bibi Aisha of Afghanistan says with chilling candor.

Her beauty is still stunning and her confidence inspiring. It takes a moment for the barbaric act committed against her to register in your mind and sight.

Wearing her patterned scarf and with roughly painted nails she shares her story.

“It felt like there was cold water in my nose, I opened my eyes and I couldn’t even see because of all the blood,” she remembers.

It was an act of Taliban justice for the crime of shaming her husband’s family.

This story began when Aisha was just 8 years old.

Her father had promised her hand in marriage, along with that of her baby sister’s, to another family in a practice called “baad.”

“Baad” in Pashtunwali, the law of the Pashtuns, is a way to settle a dispute between rival families.

At 16, she was handed over to her husband’s father and 10 brothers, who she claims were all members of the Taliban in Oruzgan province. Aisha didn’t even meet her husband because he was off fighting in Pakistan.

“I spent two years with them and became a prisoner,” she says.

Bet they don’t even answer. Go on answer why we should cut & run and leave Afghanistan to the Taleban, even better why don’t you write to Bibi Aisha and explain that it is real sad that he had her nose and ears cut off and that she was enslaved but we don’t think we can win and the war is unjust, so just cope. Haven’t got it in you have you? Gutless Fuckers.

Tortured and abused, she couldn’t take it any longer and decided to run away. Two female neighbors promising to help took her to Kandahar province.

But this was just another act of deception.

When they arrived to Kandahar her female companions tried to sell Aisha to another man.

All three women were stopped by the police and imprisoned. Aisha was locked up because she was a runaway. And although running away is not a crime, in places throughout Afghanistan it is treated as one if you are a woman.

A three-year sentence was reduced to five months when President Hamid Karzai pardoned Aisha. But eventually her father-in-law found her and took her back home.

That was the first time she met her husband. He came home from Pakistan to take her to Taliban court for dishonoring his family and bringing them shame.

The court ruled that her nose and ears must be cut off. An act carried out by her husband in the mountains of Oruzgan where they left her to die.

But she survived.

How about now, got anything to say. This little girl has got more courage in her than the entire gutless peacenik, hippy, dak smoking losers who wail, “we can’t win, let’s cut and run”.

The Bibi Aisha’s of the world is why we fight. It is why I honour soldiers.

(Watch more of the interview with Aisha)

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Oh F**k! That is what Nick Smith and John Key should be saying right about now.

Why?

Because all their plans to reef extra tax out of us all with the ETS are pretty well screwed. The law as it stands now is rooted. It is rooted because, simply put, the market for such nonsense has died.

The vaunted playgrounds of Al Gore, the Chicago Carbon exchange and the  Euro Carbon Market are almost non-existant, dead, kaput, rooted, f**ked.

These are the only real markets that New Zealand companies can try and sell their now worthless carbon credits. The Russian and East European markets are essentially unreliable and not genuinely recognised.

So the issue is that the only other jurisdiction to have an ETS is the EU.

The EU ETS is of course much more limited than NZ’s insane scheme – it includes between a third and a half of the EU economy, not 100% like mad David Parker and Nick Smith decided for New Zealand.

But now even that limited EU ETS is collapsing. It isn’t surprising that the CCX is collapsing too when you consider who their advisory board is.

“Dead” is a word that might describe trading on this exchange.

Maybe it has something to do with the members of the advisory board? On it we find Ed Begley Jr., Joe Kennedy II, and Dr. Rajenda Pachauri. With a team like that, how could it fail? The real problem with carbon credits is that there’s nothing tangible to trade. It’s all spun from thin air, literally.

So NZ will be the only country in the world to have an ETS that actually imposes real costs on the economy.

Already, all activity in the forestry industry has completely ceased as a result of forestry having been in the ETS since 1 January 2008.

Even though Labour and then National said the ETS would encourage the industry – in its manifesto National said 600,000 hectares would be planted in its first term – not a single hectare of new forests has been planted, to Whaleoil’s knowledge, since then, and not a single hectare is planned to be planted this winter, next winter or any winter after.)

On 1 July 2010, all petrol and electricity prices will rise – and those costs will flow through to every other part of the economy.  Unlike the GST rise, no compensation is planned.  That will lead to a crash in economic activity throughout the economy, just as has happened in forestry.

Meanwhile, Australia and the US have abandoned plans for their ETSs.

And China, India, Brazil have no intention of ever even considering one.

The EU scheme is collapsing.

No other country is considering an ETS.

This means that NZ will remain the only country in the world where ETS costs will be paid by families, consumers and businesses.

And this was done why?????

The only rational remaining now for the ETS is simply taxation increases. The wolf in sheeps clothing, but the only thing that is going to get slaughtered is our economy. Labour knew it, National knows it, and the dullard sheeple think we are saving the planet by doing it, that is until it kicks in on 1 Julu 2010, just a scant 3 and 1/2 months away. Labour knew the ETS would bring in $21 billion in extra taxes to the govt – this is what the ETS is really all about.  Obviously it can’t be about saving the planet, because NZ produces just 0.2% of global emissions (even if you believe all that crap).  It’s ENTIRELY about tax collection.  That’s why Cullen (and now English) support it.  Fuck the productive sector, of course – as long as Bill gets his $21 billion in extra taxes.

And what about Nationals statements about the fiscal neutrality of our ETS, Labour’s plan of course was even more insane, even higher levels of taxation with zero compensation. Sure they cry crocodile tears now over GST, sure they accuse National of the ETS of not being fiscally neutral, and not because their ETS would have been, no because they just want John Key and Nick Smith to admit the truth even if they were never going to do the same.

Look at that graph. Go on really look at it John Key. Look with your traders eyes, do the math. The old adage that when you find that you are riding a dead horse the best way to move forward is to dismount.

With the CCX and the Euro Carbon Markets both trading at a round 10c per tonne! And our ETS legislation has set the lower price at $50 any fool except perhaps Nick Smith can see that the people who have carbon credits can’t sell them and everyone is now carrying the can – This is quite simply “How to fuck your economy by keeping your blinkers on – 101″.

If think that this market is rooted then think again, there is literally hundreds of years of evidence that markets that are based on hype and thin air all end the the same way, in tears.

• Tulip mania (top 1637)
• The South Sea Company (1720)
• Mississippi Company (1720)
• Railway Mania (1840s)
• Florida speculative building bubble (1926)
• Roaring Twenties stock-market bubble (circa 1922-1929)
• Poseidon bubble (1970)
• Japanese asset price bubble (1980s)

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Is Darren Greenwood aka FairFacts Media a few cupcakes short of a picnic or did he start on the cask of wine a bit early today?

Maybe he has been conditioned to respond to random blokes with strange names on NZ Dating.

In other news: Local council installs CCTV in Orewa Beach mens public conveniences after a sudden increase in unsavoury incidents.

Darren Greenwood on the sauce or a dozen cupcakes short of a picnic?

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I saw a very interesting article in the NZ Truth today.

Bill and Ben split up; I wonder why?

Good on Ben pursuing a solo career.

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80-year-old avoids jail for beating son
New Zealand Herald
The New Plymouth man, who has permanent name suppression to protect his school-aged son, was sentenced to nine months’ supervision after admitting he was …

Man in court over historic murder
TVNZ
He also faced a charge of intentional damage after allegedly breaking a window in January this year. He has been granted interim name suppression to inform …

Process too slow – woman
The Press
The woman, who has permanent name suppression, yesterday told The Press she expected nothing less from a system that had taken more than eight years to …

and the best for last. A business getting name suppression! Come on this is getting ridiculous. A business that allows themselves to get tucked to the tune of $1.1 million should bloody well be named.

Officer’s wife charged
The Bay of Plenty Times
The total amount of the alleged fraud is about $1.1 million and involves a Tauranga business, which was yesterday granted name suppression. …

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It’s good enough for Whale Oil, so it’s good enough for me

• Commodore 64 is to make a comeback!
• Angela is awesome.
• The Times debates drug policy – what’s the world coming to?

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Thanks for all the comments by the way. email me on revolver@paradise.net.nz

(I can’t get no) Satisfaction, The Rolling Stones, Out of Our Heads *, 1965. Lyrics: Jagger/Richards

*on American version. British album does not feature this song, because of policy of not releasing hit singles on albums.

A lot of good versions of this song on YouTube, I chose this one because I love that cheesy camera trick of zooming in and out.

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MacDoctor must have had a bad dose of Currie

MacDoctor also thinks the media should refrain from calling Bloggers parasites

Illegal downloads are killing newborn babies

Happy Meal is ageless: no decay in a year on a shelf

North Korean finance official blamed for currency crisis executed by firing squad – That would focus the mind of banking officials here for sure.

R.I.P. He Pingping, the world’s shortest walking man

Rubik’s Cube for the blind

Home Taping is Killing Music

The paid lap-bloggers think that Crims should be able to vote, of course they do because they almost all would be Labour voters. Labour the party for the criminal class.

Heine is pissed with the Repeaters who can’t repeat properly.

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damn it won’t focus properly!!

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