Queen Bee at the Hive said….

James cites the apple problem with Australia as an example of FTAs not being able to solve all problems. The problem Colin is that CER does not contain provisions on Sanitary or Phytosanitary issues, so apples were not covered. this is why we have had to rely on the WTO…
when discussing the FTA with China.  [...]

Snowed under

I wanna write about HBDHB and Biosecurity cock-ups and Apples to Australia and so on.  And I wanna write about fun stuff but work keeps getting in the way.

Headline: Mum could face cruelty charges

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4435000a10.html
 Yah think?  I hope that’s not the only thing she gets charged with.  Notwithstanding that the little girl  was naked, imagine what the 10 year old boy had to go through, imagine the angst and responsibility that he would have felt having to knock on an unknown persons door so he could ask for a [...]

M2

I accidently discovered a great magazine .  I am utterly sick of ‘those’ women’s mags that either depict anorexic or cellulite ridden celebs on their front covers (I have never actully bought one but doctor’s surgerys are soooo boring) and I am sick to death (no pun intended) of magazines that seem intent on [...]

I knew it…

Bernard Hickey has once again cut through the crap and shown us where the real problem is…government spending.
As I have blogged previously, i don’t subscribe to the ‘ it’s only a paper loss, don’t worry about it” school of thought.  If i had lost that much money (paper or not) i would be worried.  But [...]

Paper Losses?

I’m sorry, i’m trying to understand but my ‘everyday business’ mind just can’t rationalise the ‘Ithey’re paper losses; don’t worry about it’ school of thought. Here’s why…
in business you have assets, liabilities, revenue and expenditure
All that money that just got lost was an asset; unrealised but an asset none-the-less.  In my line of work it [...]

You lost my money!

Govt announces shock budget deficit
 This the exact reason why Cullen should have given us back our money along time ago; he’s irresponsble and doesn’t know WTF he is doing.
If I had my money I would have paid off debt – pure and simple.  It would not be in the currently whimsical (at best) overseas markets.  [...]

Say what you really mean Bernard :-)

Bernard Hickey’s a bit grumpy and quite frankly so he should be, no matter what you think about overseas investors owning bits of NZ ,the worrying bit of the midnight law change is its speed and, well, clandestine nature.  This is a major piece of law, it affects ALOT, and while I would prefer NZ [...]

Did she really say that?

Clark, as expected, is backing Cunliffe’s decision to sack our DHB board but in an interview with NZ Herald she is quoted as saying
“But my view is that I don’t really care what the rights and wrongs of what was going on within the board are …”
I beg your pardon but you’ve have got Cunliffe running [...]

HBDHB Saga

Well this little shenanigans smells worse than a bottle of corked cab sav.  Messers Tremain and Foss have been doing a stirling job but I have a message for Tony Ryall.  Here’s your chance…ATTACK man ATTACK.  It’s going to take more than a few press releases, find a TV camera for god’s sake!