No tax cuts; that’s good

I will looking with interest at the comments surrounding Bill English’s announcement that tax cuts are deferred.  Handing out money in the form of tax cuts, in the current economic climate, would be as wrong as not giving tax cuts when the economy was good.  Both actions, giving tax cuts in a recession and not [...]

How to peeve people off….

Just received this email from a trusted source.
Hi folks, we’ve just found out about NZ Post’s “PO Box Direct List” – which they’ve told us they are selling for direct marketing purposes. When we asked them, they said it was a case of PO Boxholders opting out, rather than them asking [...]

Watching with interest

I am watching with interest the by-election in Mt Albert…curiouser and curiouser. Lee vs Shearer; interesting….the result may just reflect the mood of the country. 
The results for the 2008 election were that Labour got 42% of the Party Vote and Helen C got 58.6% of the candidate vote, National however got 35% of the Party [...]

Well that’s a bloody shame

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business//2379814/4000-land-agents-lose-jobs
4000; how many were there to begin with?  Did they increase at the same rate as Labours bureaucracy? How many used car salesmen are now redundant? So many questions.

Should it be TAHINI Virus?

Or TiAH1N1 virus to be more correct, since the WHO has instructed us to call it The influenza A H1N1 virus.  Would stop all this stupidity.  Still that would probably put sesame seeds at serious risk