New blog Soap Box has posted a disturbing pamphlet from the New Zealand Prostitute’s Collective, written in Chinese. I’m not a fan of prostitution and would never pay for sex; however I supported the decriminalisation of prostitution because – like cigarettes and alcohol – prohibition could never work (technically we didn’t have prohibition before the Prostitution Law Reform Act was passed – despite what its detractors said, prostitution was legal for the purchaser but not the provider under the old law). The aim of the law to reduce harm to prostitutes was certainly an honourable one.

However, it seems from the NZPC’s pamphlets that they’re actually now promoting prostitution. What is disturbing about the NZPC’s pamphlet is that it is clearly being used to justify to a number of Chinese students in New Zealand working as a prostitute. The pamphlet doesn’t appear to state that international students in New Zealand aren’t able to work as prostitutes, surely the most basic of facts (and yes, I realise that a number of Chinese in New Zealand won’t be students – but those most likely to become prostitutes are students, not recent immigrants).

Sure, NZPC points out that plenty of prostitutes are working illegally. But not to inform Chinese students of its illegality – and the possible consequences – is critical.

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Tiger Mallard has definitely got to get this iPhone App, it is even named after him.

Do you frequently make bad-decision texts — the kind of texts that likely show up on Texts From Last Night? Well, then, you should probably download TigerText, a new iPhone app that will let you delete those digital mistakes from another person’s phone.

TigerText [iTunes link], which was released yesterday, could be a boon for cheating politicians and foolishly sexting teens alike, according to founder Jeffrey Evans, who claims that he named the app before the Tiger Woods scandal. “People text like they talk,” Evans told Time. “And some of the things they say, taken out of context, can come back to haunt them.”

In order to avoid said haunting, you may download this app and, upon texting your mistress/NSA buddy/boss (accidentally) the recipient will receive a prompt to install TigerText. After doing so, your mistress/NSA buddy/boss can read the text, but he/she/it won’t be able to store it. The text will then disappear from your phone and all servers. You can also set the text so that it will delete 60 seconds after being read — you know, like in Mission Impossible.

I wonder if Tiger can get a bulk discount for “Cancer” and “Mangrove”. If they had a Blackberry version the whole of parliament would be downloading it.

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The Name Suppression debate has now reached Canada. What does the columnist think, Bring in Name Suppression or maintain their free and open court system?

It’s a rare week that goes by when someone doesn’t call our newsroom to rail against a system of justice that allows the publication of the names of people charged with crimes.

“You’ve got no right to have his name in the paper!” says the infuriated caller, and it can be tough to convince them that, in fact, we do have the right.

It’s nothing personal as far as the media is concerned, but it must feel intensely personal for the person whose face and name make it into print or onto the television screen.

And that’s understandable.

Most people would want to protect their identity if they could, if they’ve been charged with a crime.

It’s tough enough to explain things to your family and friends, let alone have the whole province know you’ve been charged with an offence, even if you are confident it’s all been one big misunderstanding and your name will be cleared.

“I think that in all honesty, regardless of the crime, names should not be released if it could hurt the rest of an innocent family,” Kay from St. John’s, N.L., wrote in response to my column on “Naming names” last week.

“There is something inherently wrong when a person charged with an offence such as sexual assault or any serious charge, is paraded, in handcuffs, and his/her picture is plastered on the front page of a newspaper,” wrote Gar from Mount Pearl.

“Is that person not presumed innocent until proven otherwise?”

Ok so we know that there is no such thing as name suppression in Canada.

Those are good points, and there are many others to be made in a debate that has been simmering not just in our neck of the woods, but in many jurisdictions.

But while some people here would like the names of the accused to be suppressed, in New Zealand they’ve been there and done that, and many people will tell you it just doesn’t work.

Yeah, like me.

But problems have arisen because the courts have a huge amount of scope when it comes to suppressing names, and the Law Commission doesn’t feel the policy is applied consistently.

“The current position in New Zealand is that the courts have a broad discretion to prohibit publication of names or identifying particulars of people accused or convicted of crimes …,” law commissioner Val Sims told The Telegram.

“The commission’s view is that this discretion is too broad, and can lead to uncertainty and inconsistency. We recommended that the scope of the discretion should be reduced, and specific grounds on which name suppression may be granted should be set out in legislation.”

The New Zealand Ministry of Justice is currently working with the Law Commission to draft a new bill simplifying criminal procedure.

Meanwhile, names are still being suppressed, and critics say the policy has led to a two-tiered system of justice.

I am astonished it takes so long to implement such a simple thing. The problem I suspect is that like all thing political, and this is political, is that there has to be a compromise. So the Law Commission is trying to make name suppression less available and at the same time increase the penalties for those who breach suppression. What will result is a dogs breakfast.

Stop Demand, an Auckland-based organization devoted to stopping sexual violence against women and children, was outraged this month when name suppression was granted to a prominent businessman after he downloaded more than 300,000 pornographic images over a two-year period, many of them of young girls. He was arrested and convicted after an FBI investigation.

The man was given four months’ house arrest and there is a permanent publication ban on his identity.

The founder of Stop Demand, Denise Ritchie, said granting sex offenders anonymity allows them to operate in secrecy.

“Given the sheer volume of images and the lengthy two-year period of offending, this man clearly has a sexual interest in young girls,” she told The Telegram via e-mail.

“The public, particularly caregivers and children in his community, are entitled to know who he is.”

I was outraged too, and now I have been charged with naming him. The public does have a right to know about creeps like this. The Judge does not know best.

Ritchie said public perception is that the well-connected can apply for and receive name suppression, while regular folks have to suffer the slings and arrows of publicity when they face criminal charges.

“In New Zealand, permanent name suppression has recently been granted to an ex-MP, an entertainer/comedian, a top level sports player, and a ‘prominent man’ in a provincial town, to cite some examples …,” Ritchie wrote.

“Lesser-known New Zealanders committing similar offences do NOT receive name suppression. The public disquiet rests largely on the issue that the law is not being applied equally to all New Zealanders and a sense that some courts are willing to protect the names of the ‘well heeled.’

“A system of justice should be – and seen to be – open, and one that is applied equally to all. Name suppression should be granted only in exceptional circumstances, such as (when) in doing so it would identify a sex abuse victim.”

As they say perception is reality, something that FIGJAM should start taking notice of.

Granting anonymity to some and not to others has led to virtual vigilantism in New Zealand, where at least one prominent blogger makes a habit of “outing” those who have been granted name suppression.

He is facing charges as a result, but remains committed to his cause.

“I think that the public have had enough and I am just tapping into what the public want,” Cameron Slater told New Zealand’s 3 News.

Just last month, his prominent Whale Oil blog identified a national figure charged with indecently assaulting a 13-year-old girl.

Other critics of name suppression point out that by not naming suspects, a whole segment of society is unfairly tarred with the same brush.

The evil blogger. Fancy him running a vigilante action.

In November, the New Zealand Herald reported that a drunken entertainer who exposed himself and forced a teenage girl’s face into his genitals pleaded guilty but was discharged without a conviction and was granted name suppression because “(t)he judge said publicity would have a detrimental effect on his career and his record and ticket sales.”

Is this the kind of system we want?

Flawed but fair

Canada’s open justice system is not perfect. Some charges are publicized while others are not, depending on their severity or the perceived level of public interest.

People convicted in smaller centres in this province are less likely to have their cases publicized than those in urban areas because media organizations tend to base most of their reporters in larger communities.

Some crimes get high-profile coverage, while others wind up as brief news snippets in the paper or in radio or TV newscasts, depending on what other news has broken that day.

Occasionally, the media might inadvertently report that someone was charged, but not that they were later acquitted.

But the alternative is a closed or partially closed system – some would argue an elitist one – where justice for you and me may feel a whole lot harsher than for those with power or influence.

William Goodridge, a judge with the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador Trial Division in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, says our system should be safeguarded and supported.

“The open court is a key component of our free and democratic society,” he wrote to The Telegram last week.

“Members of the public rely on the media as their eyes and ears, to comment or criticize. That role by the media is so, so important in our society. It is one of the key safeguards ensuring a ‘just society.’”

Those “eyes and ears” may not be infallible, but they do strive to be impartial, and that is far better than a system where judges can make decisions based not just on someone’s criminal record, but on their record sales.

When Labour foisted the Electoral Finance Act upon us they said it was to bring us in line with Canada, Australia and the UK. Almost the same argument can be made here. The UK and Canada either use name suppression sparingly or not at all.

New Zealand essentially now has a closed Justice system or at the very least a two tiered system. That must go. Having an open court is a key component for us to enjoy a free and democratic society.

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There is much to recommend fake titties but saving your life probably isn’t one of them.

A Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeon says a woman’s size-D breast implants might have saved her life when a gunman opened fire at her office.

Lydia Carranza was working at the Simi Valley dental office July 1 when her co-worker, the gunman’s wife, was shot and killed.

Carranza was just a few feet away. She survived a gunshot to the chest, but the the bullet left a scar and deflated the implant.

“She’s just one lucky woman,” Dr. Ashkan Ghavami told the LA Times. “I saw the CT scan. The bullet fragments were millimeters from her heart and her vital organs. Had she not had the implant, she might not be alive today.”

Lucky she had that boob job.

An LAPD firearms instructor told the Times it’s possible the implant interrupted the velocity of the bullet.

“I don’t want to say a boob job is the equivalent of a bulletproof vest,” Scott Reitz told the Times. “So don’t go getting breast enhancements as a means to deflect a possible incoming bullet.”

Lisa Lewis is obviously safe from gunshot attack.

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I have received 4 more charges, by email of all things.

They are for the Dirty Teacher, the Dirty Doctor and the ex-MP.

I’m not sure the summons is legal though because it was delivered by email. The Summary Proceedings Act doesn’t specify that email is a valid method of service.

I’d like to thank the Solitor-General, the Detectives and the Judges involved in laying these charges two four days before my next court date, I will now get far more coverage and be able once again to highlight the stupidity of the system and the Law. I’d also like to thank FIGJAM for waiting to amend the law because he didn’t want a “certain blogger to take the credit” when that should really go to the Minister of Justice.

That is now 9 charges just one more to go before I hit double figures.

Email from Marcia Murray

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…fucked when someone makes a Downfall video of your problems.

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Len “Jump-Start” Brown, or more to the point his Labour lickspittle advisor Conor Roberts don’t seem to have noticed the change in the wind of public tolerance over expenses.

After a week of expense scandals and a Minister resigning, Len “Jump-Start” Brown has decided to keep the issue alive by jumping in the media and trying to justify a nice little jaunt up to Japan for him and the missus.

Manukau Mayor Len Brown is defending taking his wife on his sister-city trip to Utsunomiya City, saying it would have been an insult to his Japanese counterparts if he hadn’t.

Mr Brown, a candidate for the Super City mayoralty, is faced with controversy for spending more than $16,000 of ratepayer money to take his wife, Shan Inglis, and three staff to Utsunomiya.

Mr Brown said the Japanese mayor would have suffered a loss of “face” had Ms Inglis not travelled because both the Mayor and Mayoress of Utsunomiya hosted them.

What a load of shit, clearly “Jump-Start” knows very little of Japanese or almost any other Asian culture where women are virtually second class citizens, the kind that should be seen rarely and heard never.

“Jump-Start should stop making excuses and refund the $16,000 that he used to fly and accommodate his missus in Japan.

And while we are on about the cash, he must have used Business Class at least for that because any flight website you care to mention has flights from Auckland to Manukau at less than $3000. I don’t begrudge “Jump-Start” that though, after all he is frail man, but coughing to take the missus is over the top.

He should have followed the lead of the Prime Minister and paid for her-in-doors himself.

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American politics! Hey! Howdya like them apples? I’ve been asked by someone who scares the crap out of me to write something about the coming midterms.

I’m actually qualified to do this, having actually worked in Washington and Pennsylvania analyzing some of the very polls I’m going to present here. I’ll be putting on a non-partisan hat and just calling it the way I see it. This is a post intended for readers in UK, Australia and New Zealand, and is based on a more in-depth report I made earlier to one of my American clients.

Some caveats first. The mid-terms will not be held until Tuesday November 2nd, which at time of writing is some 250 days away. That is quite some time, but I do not believe that the game will change that much in the interim.

Also, my focus will be on the senatorial election, rather than the house election and the gubernatorial elections.

I’m doing this because the house seats have not been widely polled yet (in public anyway) and because they are much harder to call, since they are subject to faster swings. In gubernatorial races there is a much larger stress put on personality over party affiliation, and I expect a number of retirements and late entries in the next few months. The Senate races will dominate media coverage.

In any account I expect the house to follow the trend of the senate race, and for the gubernatorial landscape to look pretty similar to what it currently is after November 2.

So in brief, here’s my predictions:

• A 12 to 15% nation-wide swing to the Republicans, meaning that poll numbers will pretty much be where they are now. The Republicans may pick-up ground, but the Dems should claw this back in the campaign proper.

• 4 states where a democratic incumbent is quitting “leaving to spend time with the family” will go red, that is: Indiana, Delaware, Illinois and North Dakota.

• The Republicans to hold all their current seats.

• A pick-up of 5 additional seats for the Republicans: Nevada, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Arkansas and Wisconsin.

• California, Oregon, New York and Washington to be held by the Democrats, but to be a huge drain on their resources, which will allow the republicans to move their troops around much more effectively.

Let’s look at my calls, state by state:

North Dakota

This is currently a non-race and appears to be a ridiculously easy pick-up for the Republicans.

The Democrats do not have any clear nor apparent challenger, while the Republican is a 3 term governor.

Rasmussen last week put Republican John Hoeven 36% above the most likely Democrat, while Democrats own polling has him 21% ahead.

The last Rasmussen poll of the state found: “Sixty-one percent of North Dakota voters have a very favourable opinion of Hoeven, while just four percent (4%) view him very unfavorably.”

In the last presidential election, McCain won by 8.6%. Why is this a blue state to begin with?
Likelihood of a Republican: 95%

Delaware

Polls in this state have put former governor Mike Castle up by 29% as recently as early this month.

In incumbent is not standing and the previous likely candidacy of Joe Biden’s son Beau fell through. The now probable Democrat candidate Chris Coons has very poor recognition and does not appear to be either well funded or to have anything like the political machine that the Republicans already have in place.

Probability of Republican pick-up: 85%. Get ready for Delaware to cross the Washington.

Arkansas

This appears to be going red. Blanche Lincoln has lost ground since likely Republican candidate John Boozman (what a terrible name) emerged. Boozman has a high recognition in the state, being a current US congressman.
Lincoln has been trailing in every poll since November (and even then with the partisan Daily Kos), and appears to be losing ground hand over fist. Before Boozman emerged Lincoln was at least 16% behind every single potential Republican candidate.

Lincoln appears to have been caught in the anti-Democrat cross-hairs. Don’t let the fact that this is Bill Clinton’s home state—Arkansas voted for Bush II twice and McCain beat Obama by almost 20% of the total vote here in 08.

Probability of Republican pick-up: 80%

Pennsylvania

This is the one that the Republican really to win. I am actually considering returning to my adopted home state to help take that SOB Specter out. For years Republicans had to put up with Specter’s RINO* antics, before he finally switched sides in a cynical carpet-bagging move.

The GOP want him gone, and they want him gone bad. The Keystone State want him gone as well—He has consistently polled poorly, even amongst Democrats since switching sides.

How can he possibly stand up in an election year which appears to be becoming a referendum on Washington chicanery? He can’t.

Polling shows him not only behind, but falling further behind since the start of the year. In November/December there were polls which had Specter within striking distance, but he is now anywhere from 6 to 12% behind.

What’s more, independents do not find him appealing, and his support amongst democrats is weak: one poll showed close amongst registered voters, but a long way behind when only “likely voters” were counted—this is very bad news because it says that potential voters will just stay home rather than casting their vote for him. Voter turn-out and registration is much much lower in the United States than in other English speaking countries, Americans have to be coaxed to vote first and that will kill Specter off.

I cannot see a way out for Specter this time, in the eyes of many he is the epitome of everything that is wrong with Washington. Those type of games don’t go down too well in these parts.

Probability of Republican pick-up: 75%

Nevada

Harry’s time has come. He will pay the price for being the face of Washington politics and Obamacare.

There’s been a lot made of Obama telling companies not to go to Las Vegas, and the President’s “ban” from the city, but that’s all a sideshow and isn’t the reason why Reid will lose.

This race is a simple case of a prominent Senator taking a back-lash for belonging to the current unpopular party.

All polls show Reid consistently behind all potential supporters, even before a firm Republican challenger has been selected, and that’s a bad sign for Reid.

Probability of a Republican pick-up: 72%

Colorado

Michael Bennet is also out for the same reasons that Reid is out—the democrats are going to be on the losing side, and Bennet is just in the line of fire. Polls show him consistently double-digits behind, with again a stronger deficit in likely voters.

Probability of republican pick up: 72%

Indiana

This seat is now vacant, and because of that will be a Republican pick-up. Polling shows any Republican candidate winning by anywhere from 12 to 18%, and it’s hard to see a way that the Dems can get ahead. Things are confounded by the fact that potential Republican candidates have a high-recognition factor.

Probability of Republican pick-up: 70%

Illinois

This one is a funny one, and could very well be the one to watch. Before Massachusetts went red I would have ignored this one.

This used to be Obama’s own seat, and if the Dems lose this then Obama is in big trouble. Illinois is actually a pretty good sample of America, and if the Dems lose they will lose on the issues. My pick is that this race will be won or lost on Democrats and Independents in Chicago just simply not voting.

Probability of Republican pick-up: 65%

Wisconsin

I’m calling this Republican for the same reasons I’m calling Nevada: the tide is out on the Dems and Wisconsin is going to be overrun.

A lot of this will depend on who the Republicans put up. If they put up former governor Tommy Thompson then it’s going red for sure.

Probability of Republican pick-up: 60%, 75% if Tommy Thompson runs.

Oregon and Washington

The Republicans are holding out hope for the Pacific North West, citing a recent Rasmussen poll of 500 likely voters showing the Republican candidate 2% up. I tend to treat these two states as two sides of the same coin.

I’m not convinced. I think that the North West has gone to the left over the past decade and will be a Dem hold. I don’t think wins in the North West won’t come without a price—the Dems will need to exhaust precious resources defending ground that was previously safe.

This is the reason the Republicans are talking these races up: this year the Republicans will have a significant resource and firepower advantage, and it behooves them to force their enemy to fight lots of small, disparate battles.

I’m talking about local Dems having to stay in their native states, and take donations that would have otherwise gone to more marginal states.

Probability of either going Republican: 35%

New York/California

These races will be tight, but I think that they will ultimately stay blue. Again, this will come at a huge cost for the Dems.

In California Barbara Boxer will be pushed, and it’s likely the race will get dirty, but she will ultimately win, even if that HP woman does have deep pockets.

Probability of Republican pick-up:35%

In New York the picture is less clear—recent polls have shown former governor George Pataki 2% ahead, but this is misleading: the sample space is small and only polled registered voters, and not likely voters.

Pataki is a hard bastard and will push hard, but I don’t think he will win out in the end.

Probability of a Republican pick-up: 40%

So why the swing?

The answer is not what is being put forward in the MSM. The common-knowledge answer is that the Republicans are ahead of the Democrats in the polls because of the economy, Obamacare and deficit spending.

There is some truth to that, but there is another, deeper reason. Polling of anonymous voters show a Republican lead, but polls of registered voters show a stronger lead, and polling of “likely voters” show a further lead still. This to me says that Democratic voters will just stay home.

This further confounded by general polling:

Obama’s approval has now been under 50% for some time.

Polling on the direction of the country show that most voters (by a 2 to 1 margin) believe the country is heading in the wrong direction.

Some 50% of anonymous voters are against the health care proposals, but 56% of “likely voters” are against it.

But for me, the big statistic is this one:

There is a net 60% disapproval (75% to 15%) of congressional performance, but Republicans only hold a small generic lead over Democrats.

This says strongely that Democrats won’t be switching sides, they just don’t feel motivated at all to vote for their tribal party.

I think that as many as 1 in 4 Democrats and over 50% of independents who voted for Obama will not turn out for the Dems this year. That’s a disaster for the Dems.

If the Dems resort to some parliamentary procedure to pass the healthcare bill, then they will lose by AT LEAST 9 seats.

*Republican in name only

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Image so disturbing. Go here.

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hat tip Lukas Rants

We found out the other day that Tiger Mallard can’t spell Invercargill. Yesterday he couldn’t even count.

Mr SPEAKER: By my reckoning and from the advice I have received, the Labour Party has now used its 28 supplementary questions, and that is not counting the one where I gave the Hon Ruth Dyson the opportunity to repeat one of them—I did not count that one.

Hon Trevor Mallard: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. I know that this is relatively unusual and I am doing something that I have never done before. I am almost certain that I used five supplementary questions. My colleague the whip counted my asking five supplementary questions, which is what I was allocated. Your—

Hon Bill English: Can’t count.

Hon Trevor Mallard: That is the man who should have—

Mr SPEAKER: The member will resume his seat immediately, and that is the end of that point of order.

Not a good look especially when you are wrong.

For someone who is the oppositions chief education spokesperson his lack of numeracy skills are surprising to say the least. What is good for goose is good for the Tiger.

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Labour and the Greens are busy running around bleating about New Zealand unlocking some of the wealth in our conservation estate. Frankly New Zealand can’t afford NOT to access those minerals.

DPF caught out the Greens lying like an IPCC report saying that it was appalling that evil National and their Mining buddies are going to destroy the “most precious and significant land in New Zealand’s public conservation estate to be laid bare for mining.“

Oh and don’t forget that “National have no mandate to allow mining in National Parks”. David “Rowling” Parker forgets that Chris “Koru Club” Carter authorised Pike River Mine smack in the middle of a National Park. That was ok by him then, he was in cabinet that approved it so he must have been.

I’m over their lies, aided and abetted by the anonymous Labour staffers cowards at The Standard I might add. So let’s look at the real numbers in a graphic that even the dumbest pinko and greenie felchmong can understand, with pictures. Why the national Research unit hasn’t already done this is beyond me, but here we go.

Mining in Conservation Land compared with New Zealand and the Greens fantasy.

As you can see we are talking about fuck all, something like 7 kilometres square. To put that in pictures for the simpletons it would be like mining some of the worst areas of Manukau, which is probably far better to do than keeping it the way it is.

Manukau vs. Mining area

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Well Telecom might. There is now an auction on Trademe for such a thing.

111 Back Up System on Trademe

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Of course not, except for one shopping mall in the UK, which thankfully we now know because of an officious security guard and an equally officious constable that the mall is a hot bed of activity for paedophiles.

According to his blog, Kevin visited the Bridges Shopping Centre in Sunderland with his son to spend the £10 his father gave the boy on a family visit. While there, he seated his son on a coin-operated train ride and snapped a photo of him with his cameraphone. At this point, a Bridges security guard came by and ordered him to stop taking pictures. He said that it was mall policy, and implied that Kevin was taking pictures because he was a paedophile. Kevin told him that this was ridiculous and took his son to find his wife and get out of the mall. He also took a picture of the security guard “so that if I later wanted to make a complaint to the centre I would be able to identify him.”

Outside of the mall, Kevin was stopped by a police constable who had received a complaint from mall security that a suspicious potential paedophile had been taking pictures on its premises. The PC threatened to arrest Kevin “for creating a public disturbance” and ordered him to delete the photo of his son. The PC also averred that the Bridges Shopping Centre is a hotbed of paedophile assaults.

Between the cop and the guard that mall is probably suffering a massive deline in patronage. How long before this kind of crap arrives here?

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Sky TV commercial for cricket: “according to the laws of physics, it should be technically impossible to hit a six”

what??    What laws of physics might that be Sky TV?    The ones you just pulled that out of your ass?

Where’s National’s manifesto from the last election gone? Can you find it?*

Do you think they EVER intended on delivering tax-cuts, or were they waiting for the first feeble excuse to cancel them?  (plus ca change…)

Aren’t you just hoping that Kazakhstan wins a gold medal, just so you can sing along with the national anthem: “Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, greatest country in the world, all other countries run by little girls…”

What the hell is wrong with the Canadian hockey team?

If Phil Heatley was a Labour minister, wouldn’t we be told right now that he was a “competent and hardworking minister”?

There’s something more to this isn’t there? Something just doesn’t add up. Would you really want someone so soft as a minister anyway?

Can someone please tell the Herald that Helen Clark was voted out?

Isn’t curling curiously hypnotically entertaining?

Can you understand the new tackle laws? Isn’t there something wrong with a sport that has to change the rules—every single season?

When is that never-was David Tua going to just go away?

How many fucking times does Tiger have to apologise?

And why does he have to apologise to one of the women he had sex with?

(FFS, Tiger has to APOLOGISE for having sex with a consenting adult, who as an internet porn star is probably making more than she ever….)

C’mon don’t tell me you’ve not googled: Joslyn James!!!!

Here’s her filmography.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2745774/

Are there any male figure skaters that AREN’T gay? It’s like watching the Labour caucus on ice.

Why won’t I be attending the ACT conference (apart from not being a member)?

What’s wrong with being a monkey?

If the police really wanted to be respected, why don’t they quit being glorified meter-maids and go catch some criminals, instead of driving up and down Petone Esplanade?

Explain to me one more time why I should pay for you to listen to Opera and watch ballet…

Why doesn’t Jonathan Coleman grow a pair and fire the pricks instead of hand-wringing like a weak little girl?

*anyone who has an electronic copy/scan of National’s manifesto from the last election please email me at revolver@paradise.net.nz  — I sure would LOOOOVE to read it….

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