Saturday, November 14, 2009
Auckland International Film Festival 2009
As I left for France on the opening day of this festival I haven't been able to blog about the films. Now I'm back I'm trying to catch up. My timing seems to be impeccable for the release dates of those I wanted to see. When I've got the complete set I'll blog on what I WOULD have watched.
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Leaking Homes
This is not the first time I have blogged on this issue. Here’s the backstory:- over a decade ago the NZ government changed the building code. 10 years ago it was discovered that this change was causing buildings to rot. At tat time a change of regulation and about NZ$500 million would have fixed...
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Major Nidal Malik Hazan
I wasn’t going to comment on the massacre at Fort Hood. I certainly won’t comment on the conspiracy theories doing the rounds. It seems to me, however, and albeit that I am at a great distance from the event, that there seems to be a disconnect in the American psyche. This was made painfully clear...
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Hone Harawira
Hone, an MP for the Maori Party, got himself in a “spot” of bother last week. He had been sent, as an official NZ delegate, to a meeting in Brussels. Halfway through he decided this was boring and took himself on a sight-seeing expedition to Paris. He then wrote about what he had done and circulated...
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Saturday, November 7, 2009
Polls
The New Zealand Herald polled its readers on the MMP referendum (to be held at the next election). The vast majority voted against MMP as the NZ electoral system. Commentators are now interpreting this to mean the vast majority of Nzers oppose MMP. Bull!!!!!!! The poll was flawed because (a)...
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Spooky
The Enmore Spritualist Church in Sydney, Australia is in an uproar. The incoming committee found an A$45 000 discrepancy in the old committee’s books which could be traced back to the former President, Rev. Patricia Cleary. Cleary claims “ a spirit must have taken the money”. Tensions are running...
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Bishop
Self-appointed bishop Tamaki of Destiny Church has got 700 members of his congregation to swear undying, uncritical support to him (for a fee, of course). This is the man who couldn’t see how having hundreds of his supporters march down a street wearing black shirts in support of his political...
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Sunday, November 1, 2009
The Bradford System
Green MP, Sue Bradford, has put her foot in her mouth again! Sponsor of the “Anti-Smacking” Act (at least until the Labour Government stole that off her when it looked as if the Bill would never be passed as a conscience vote in parliament), she is gob-smacked that someone would put up $500 000 to...
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Saturday, October 24, 2009
Provocation & MMP
Parliament, in NZ, is planning to repeal the defence of Provocation in murder trials. If this were being done for the correct philosophical reasons then this philolosophy should be spread throughout the Crimes Act and I would applaud. Unfortunately this is only a knee jerk reaction to a number of...
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Auckland Boys Grammar In The News ….. AGAIN!
You would think after the stouch with Kelston Boys High the pupils of this school would keep a low profile. But no, on a trip to the Auckland War Memorial Museum they used the “Scars On The Heart exhibition (a title you would think might give them pause for thought) to kiss the Swastika, kneel...
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