Take Your Hands Off My Stash
on Nov 16, 2009 in DHBs Economics Fees MSM National And with the the words of Pink Floyd’s Money echoing in our ears, we comment on the the Herald’s somewhat exaggerated headline GP clinics stash reserves of $115m. While the total is correct, the word stashed has the same pejorative meanin...

Core Belief
on Nov 14, 2009 in Maori Party National Politics Racism Hone Harawira Maori Nation Building Pita Sharples Tariana Turia Paul Holmes talks about the disturbing double standard in the way Hone Harawira’s outburst has been treated. He does not add a lot to what has already been said in the blogosphere but he does make one intriguing remark. Could it be, in fact, th...

Suffer Little Children
on Nov 14, 2009 in Child Abuse Domestic Violence Drug Addiction Families National Political Correctness Politics Society DPB Paula Bennett Fancy an emetic? The Herald is running a series of articles on child abuse today. Here is a nauseating recitation from a single article: An average of eight children are killed each year, and many more end up battered in hospital at the hands of f...

The Blight of Racism
on Nov 13, 2009 in Racism Stupidity Gandhi Hone Harawira Joris De Bres Nelson Mandela Race Relations Commissioner The editorial in the Weekend Herald this morning makes the common and fundamental error that there are degrees of racism. Racial discrimination does real harm when it is practised by members of a race with power, usually a democratic majority. When d...

100% Pure Drivel
on Nov 13, 2009 in Environment Global Warming Media Statistics Stupidity Britain Greenhouse gasses The Guardian The Guardian has an article from their resident marxist environmentalist, Fred Pearce, that has the cheek to slag off New Zealand as not being very green because of the UN report on our emissions record. Depressingly the NZPA repeats his drivel, inst...

Missed Point
on Nov 12, 2009 in Child Abuse Families Law Enforcement Political Correctness Anti-smacking Bill Section 59 Smacking Has anybody noticed that the review of changes to section 59 of the Crimes Act has missed the point entirely? The review tries to make out that the police are not using the law to persecute parents who lightly smack their children. This is probably t...

Maori Moment
on Nov 12, 2009 in Maori Party National Politics Hone Harawira Independent Maori stupid It is seldom that I agree with Hone Harawira, but I have to agree with his comment about the suggestion that he becomes an independent MP as the “Silliest idea I’ve heard“. For starters, Hone cast loose as an independent is just goi...

Obamacare Wins (Maybe)
on Nov 8, 2009 in Competition Politics SciBlogs Stupidity World Healthcare Obama Obamacare Public Health system Socialised medicine US Healthcare Waiting Lists The House of Representatives has just approved Obama’s healthcare bill 220 -215. The bill will now go to the Senate where the Democrats may have the numbers to pass the bill – assuming all Democrats and the two independents vote for it. O...

Spot the REAL Hypocrites
on Nov 7, 2009 in ACT Ethics Maori Party Media Stupidity Hone Harawira Human Rights Commission Hypocrisy Joris De Bres Racism Rodney Hide I know I am showing my age a bit here, but I can remember the days when newspapers used to report actual news. This is in direct contrast to this morning’s Herald (it certainly is “the weak-end” Herald). We have the mercurial Hone H...

Spot the REAL Hypocrites (updated)
on Nov 7, 2009 in ACT Ethics Maori Party Media Stupidity Hone Harawira Human Rights Commission Hypocrisy Joris De Bres Racism Rodney Hide I know I am showing my age a bit here, but I can remember the days when newspapers used to report actual news. This is in direct contrast to this morning’s Herald (it certainly is “the weak-end” Herald). We have the mercurial Hone H...