Current Account Deficit

From:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/3186247/Balance-of-payments-in-the-black

“For the year to September, New Zealand's current account deficit was $5.7 billion (3.1 per cent of GDP).”
That’s what, $109million per week? So if enough state servants were sacked (and offices vacated and grants to Pseudo-charities axed), that the gummint saves $250milion a week, could the loss of their purchasing power save us $109million in imports each week?

Just a thought.

Ireland: chance today to save the citizens of Europe

Today* is the day that the Irish will vote yes or no to ratification of the European Constitution Lisbon Treaty.

(*Oct 2nd Eire time)

Mandelson: 'If I can come back, so can Labour'

Err, when ZanuLiarbour lose the election, how will you appoint yourselves to the House of Lords?

You didn't "come back", piggy, your mates rescued you with a peerage.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090928/tuk-mandelson-if-i-can-come-back-so-can-dba1618.html

Fiji & Tourism - Stuff (and Green Nonsense)

"A short family holiday to Fiji is as much as $1000 cheaper than a year ago and the plunging cost has sparked a bounce-back in New Zealand tourists since April's political strife. "

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/2887819/Fijis-sands-regain-their-sparkle

"Green MP Keith Locke said while his party was not advocating an economic boycott of Fiji, travellers to the region could help politically by expressing the New Zealand stance toward the regime."

What a fucking idiot, does he WANT tourists to be rounded up and thrown in jail? (Probably: he has an agenda.) The day folk start taking advice from Locke is the day they start voting "Green". Oh, wait: some idiots do...

And the Race Card is Played

"It's because he's black" says Jimmy the Peanut.

Yeah, and the equally vigorous protests against Bush were because..?

International Talk Like a Pirate Day

Clic the pic for the "offical" site.

Iraq shoe thrower 'was tortured'

Zaidi was unrepentant, saying he remained angry over the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
"The invasion divided brothers and neighbors and turned our houses into places for endless mourning and our streets and parks into cemeteries," he said.

Does he wonder now how the Kuwaitis felt after his glorious country invaded them?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/15/AR2009091500152.html?hpid=topnews

Ted Kennedy: a Tribute

Liberals Believe in Intelligent Design

It's true.

They say they believe in evolution. They have looked at ants and bees and see a wondrous society. A society where every member works together toward a common goal, each member diligently performed their allotted task. They protect and nurture the hive, colony, queen.

Liberals look at this and think human society can evolve into this. They forget that evolution is an accidental process, where chance plays the hand in determining the outcome. But still they try and impose the ant/bee blueprint on us, socialising medicine, education and transport, creating moral hazard through state guarantees and welfare, attempting to absolve the workers of responsibility. This is truly is intelligent design... but with a shortage of intelligence.

Fucking Hypocrite

A pig on the farm, enjoying the sun.

Even Doctors are Mental

"Our" children are being "run down" in their own driveways.

It is terrible. But now a surgeon suggests its a design fault, and made a dick of himself suggesting that the accident rate could be cut dramatically if "our" homes had semi-circular driveways...
(And, yes, he did seem to suggest that the gummint should mandate this kind of design improvement. Way to make housing even more expensive. I have to fence fucking my pool, but the local Kapiti council doesn't have to fence its open storm water drains, or the fucking sea and rivers.)

His own home possibly has such a semi-circular driveway, but I can't afford to set that much land aside. Perhaps I should go on a retraining course run by a local Poly and become a surgeon, then I, too, can buy a home with a semi-circular driveway.

I think I shall download the mp3 podcast of that report for posterity...