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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... Sign in to see full entry.

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... Sign in to see full entry.

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)... Sign in to see full entry.

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... Sign in to see full entry.

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... Sign in to see full entry.

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... Sign in to see full entry.

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... Sign in to see full entry.

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... Sign in to see full entry.

I recently learnt of an American group called Conservapedia. Their plan is to rewrite the bible to rid it of its “liberal bias”. Only in America you might think but, no, it’s a world-wide phenomena and has been going on since the Book of Genesis was written. The thinking is that the Bible is the... Sign in to see full entry.

Last year, as you recall, I blogged a number of times about the uckland District Health Board. It awarded the contract for laboratory testing of Hospital samples to the company Labtests. Previously this work was contracted to Diagnostic Medlabs. Labtests was awarded the contract on the basis it... Sign in to see full entry.