NZ goes to World Cup of Football (real football)

WOO HOO

Curse you Optimus Prime!!!!

Oh yeah they are our friends

Transformers blamed for black out

Turmoil in Aerosmith

See the earlier post for update

From the "Needs Slapping" file

An NZ politician whom I loathe more than Winston Peters would be hard to find. The old reptile has quiet lately after being dumped by his hometown in the last election. Now he's looking to get himself involved in the Hone Harawira saga. He does this by pointing out the bleeding obvious and overlooking his long history of getting stuck into Asians whenever his polling gets low. Seeing as his polling is lower than a rats rectum at the moment I would imagine that this is more of a "just because I can, moment". Arsehole.

Mr Peters, a former MP and senior minister, has labelled Mr Harawira a racist who does not belong in Parliament.

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Some of Peter's past spewling

We have now reached the point where you can wander down Queen Street in Auckland and wonder if you are still in New Zealand or some other country.
o 2005 speech on immigration policy, entitled "Securing Our Borders and Protecting Our Identity."'

We are being colonised without New Zealanders having some say in the numbers of people coming in and where they are coming from. This is a deliberate policy of ethnic engineering and re-population.
o 2005 speech on immigration policy, entitled "Securing Our Borders and Protecting Our Identity."

WIkiquote
Arsehole.

Conflicted Me

Maitland feels that our culture devalues silence. Our individualism and consumerist need to fulfil ourselves has crowded silence out. So resistance of friends to her plans has itself to be resisted with deeper understanding and the careful explanations in this book

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Well exactly, if we would all just shut up occasionally.
I'm conflicted because I don't see what it has to do with Gawd, I like a nice chat and I would insist on a vow of silence in only specific cases.

Tryin' to get video like the young folks

Britons 'ugliest people in world' according to beautiful people

How can this be?
From the nation that gave us David Beckham,
Boris Johnson



and Amy Winehouse???

German applicants were slated for offering up unflattering photographs, which may have hindered their acceptance rates at 15 percent for men and 13 percent for women, the lowest rate in their category.

So with the Germans it's unflattering photo's, with the Pommies it's because they are ugly?
Methinks BeautifulPeople.com may have some warped standards at work.

Thanks for blogroll mentions

Thanks to all who have put me on their blogrolls. It is kind of youse all

The Great Cheese Caper with update!!

The two males were spotted by a member of public who contacted police and maintained observations on the vehicle as it was driven away through rural back roads while the occupants threw the boxes out the window.

Scoop has the story
No mention is made as to whether or not the criminals were dressed as mice.

Anyone locating a block is requested to contact police. It will be easily identifiable by the level of road grit found in the contents when eaten.

What if the label is "Stony Creek Cheese" or some such???

OMG there's an Update

Police believe that large blocks of cheese recovered after reports of people acting suspiciously near Halcombe have been stolen from a container on a train en route to Auckland.

A train believed to be linked to the recovery of numerous boxes of cheese in the Halcombe and Marton areas earlier today has now arrived at Auckland and it has been confirmed that five containers of the train have been broken into.

All five containers have been isolated and police are now working with Kiwi Rail to establish what was in the containers and exactly what, if any thing, has been stolen from them. One is confirmed as carrying cheese

My second book of poems will be called "Confirmed as Carrying Cheese"

Selling the Iron Fist

Ok, look, we in New Zild have been a little non-helpful what with the nucalar issue and all BUT REALLY!! We just want to get rid of the damn planes

Tactical air services is pretty much a one man band, Hoss Pearson.

New Zild is, of course, happy to be dealing with a man called Hoss due to the long popularity of the show Bonanza. We are sure that we are not being jerked around and

It has been a long wait for the 17 trainers and 17 Skyhawks for Arizona-based Tactical Air Services boss Larry "Hoss" Pearson. The former navy pilot has been in the picture for eight years.

What could go wrong!?!?!?!?

Racism in New Zild

Of course we don't have any!!11one.
Lately an MP, Hone Harawira, has been the news due to a side trip to Paris that he took while on Gubbermint business and then with an email he sent to a respected Maori leader about the whole thing. Summary here. A new phrase has entered the public arena now, "White mofo". Ha ha
Now, I think there are racist assumptions behind Harawira's email and I think he should be stood down from government responsibilities but I have found it hard to get too exercised about the whole deal and I have just worked out why. The sort of language and assumptions in the naughty email are the sort of bullshit I have heard from white New zilders for all of my life. An auntie told me 'all Maori steal', an uncle told me it's 'all right to have one Maori in the workplace, but two... is trouble', workmates have complained about how this is a 'brown persons country' etc etc. So an MP coming out and saying this sort of crap is unusual to a point and then business as usual. And while I disagree with the terms Harawira uses about NZ history, much of it has been lies. Michael King the most noted Kiwi Historian documented it all in his "History of New Zealand". We made shit up, sometimes to justify land stealing and sometimes to paint to Maori as a noble race ,sadly dying out due to inherent moral weakness that no one could do anything about.But it was lies, as Harawira states.
But collective amnesia and self righteousness will rule the day here as it usually does. It is lucky the scenery is beautiful or life would get a little downpressing here.

Ungrateful bastards not happy with capitalism

Some people are not happy with capitalism. Luckily they are mostly foreigners because we here in New Zild do not allow such sedition.After 23 years of unbridled market forces we luxuriate in the free market glow of cheaper phones, cheaper Tee Vees and cheaper Vacuum cleaners. Whilst railway bridges fall down because of marine worm infestations and one rat with a death wish can take out the phone lines for half of the country.
Ungrateful Bastards!!

The invisible strangling hand of the market.

It seems that the Ayn Rand scholars may have some rethinking to do. Story here New Zild has a supermarket market that is a duopoly and thus prices are not in competition with each other thus we pay more for groceries than everybody else outside of the International Space Station.

An associate professor from the university's School of Business, Frank Zumbo, says Australia and New Zealand both have supermarket duopolies that act as "cosy clubs" and that's the reason for the high prices.
Professor Zumbo told Checkpoint it's a fundamental economic principle that more independent competition leads to lower food prices.

Firstly Prof. Zumbo is the best sounding name of an academic this year, no question. Then he points out what has happened, the market was a glorious free-for-all and prices were cut to gain market share. For a while. Then two players took over and now...supermarkets sell watercrackers singly.
But this is not what we are told; Companies will prosper and expand whilst the market is there for us to benefit from, they won't merge, become huge and pretend that they are still a free market. That would defy the teachings of Chicagoans and Randians.
And that would be just awful!

Steven Tyler quits Aerosmith

A black day in entertainment history. The 61 year old will now retire to a life of lawn bowls and jig saw puzzles in a nice retirement home somewhere.

Update
Oh No He's Not!!!

Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler made a surprise appearance at a New York concert on Tuesday night to reassure fans and deny reports that he was quitting his band.The 61-year-old took the stage at a concert by his bandmate Joe Perry and performed a twist on Aerosmith's classic "Walk This Way."
"I just want New York to know I'm not leaving Aerosmith and Joe Perry, you are a man of many colors, but I... am a rainbow!" he shouted to the thrilled audience.

Ok, a rainbow.
Time for a nap Mr.Tyler, next to Mr. Prelutsky for tonight.

American Health Care

It'll fly, no worries.
American health care debates are a lesson to all the rest of the world in reasoned discourse.

Sucess doesn't go to Westham's head.

In a stunning move of altruism unparalleled in modern professional sport, plucky Westham United have allowed Everton a win.Dry unemotional match report here. The team knew that having two wins in a row would be potentially ruinous for morale so gifted Everton a win. That is true sportsmanship. Hopefully the team will now realise that it would be OK to have a few wins between now and the end of the season.

Perk buster busted, creeparsery revealed

Really! If you read this in a book you wouldn't believe it!!
This guy, Rodney Hide, is the leader of the harder- than- hard Right wing party the ACT party. Supposedly it is the Concerned Citizens Tax party or some such malarkey but former Prime minister David Lange had it summed nicely as "Accountants and Tax Cheats". Acronym spelling is not a strong point down here.
Hide made his name by calling himself The Perkbuster so it is super hypocritical to now say that he "just forgot".
This is very typical of the creeparse government we have now. At least the former government didn't pretend to be fiscally prudent.