The end of the tax year looms. No chewing gum tax breaks, inflation way above the Bollard limit, energy prices set to skyrocket as Labour scheme to ban gas-fired base-load power stations. Interest rates way up. Petrol up. Milk up. Rates up. It's one big stuff up, quite frankly. And the question is "can Mugabe win? Because if he does (by hook or by crook) then we in NZ have to be very worried.
I said it once years ago, and in an election year I'm bound to say it again. In fact, I read ahead of this sentence and found it just on the sentence after next. How about that? "Far better to speak up, than remain silent and be voted in". Yep, that's the sentence I was expecting, and let's hope our MPs make full use of their $12,000 allowance to tell us what they really think. We may as well get the lies now, up front. Because if Mugabe wins, we know it wont make any difference anyway.
Remember that guy Murphy? An optimist. So tonight on our regular chat, what might be Murphy's laws of elections? Just a thought....
I said it once years ago, and in an election year I'm bound to say it again. In fact, I read ahead of this sentence and found it just on the sentence after next. How about that? "Far better to speak up, than remain silent and be voted in". Yep, that's the sentence I was expecting, and let's hope our MPs make full use of their $12,000 allowance to tell us what they really think. We may as well get the lies now, up front. Because if Mugabe wins, we know it wont make any difference anyway.
Remember that guy Murphy? An optimist. So tonight on our regular chat, what might be Murphy's laws of elections? Just a thought....
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Evening All.
I'm around. I can drink red wine again! :)
ReplyDeleteGood Evening Zen and Lucyna.
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I have been in Auckland this afternnon, cathcing up with friends.
They seem a pessimistic lot.
these are bthe chattering classes, the mediacrcy who work in public relations.
One works for a lrage corporate and is glad she does as she has job security, but mpoans about her growing mortgage payments.
And she earns six figures, just.
Another has his own PR agency and moans there is not enough business around.
many corporates are served from Sydney now.
I too moan I'm not earning enough.
The cost of lioving increases are really noticeable.
Now, Mugabe better make sure she fiddles things or she will be out. Over at david's Place is a post on dead people votinf in Africa.
Isn't that where Liarbour gets its support from?
or is the dead bit, just the grey matter between the ears.
I've got to head off soon to The Chapel in Ponsonby Road.
ReplyDeleteYes, i do go to the Chapel occassionally :)
Anyway, have a great weekend and enjoy the Fitna movie.
Well worth seeing.
It can be found at No Minister
No, I saw a sign saying that labour were gonna 'save the planet.' I guess locally, with the Fonterra hiking milk prices - international market driven, of course - it will mean a return of the half pint 'du lait' alongside the 'organic apple' in our low decile schools ... it's gotta be good for ya ... just like the four standard drinks of vin rouge for the better built chappies.
ReplyDelete& commentators can say what they like ... but jerry collins, that rugby chappy with stress incontinence, is but a thug.
ReplyDeleteI must say that overall tho,' rugby management have instilled a little more decorum in to the game ... considerably less spitting and nose clearing in the game at the moment ... thank goodness.
Howdy FFM and mojo. Seems quiet on the blogging front. Speaking of voters, I've been buried in work, and dead tired so my blogging has been light. There's many things I'd like to expand upon, but so little time to engage properly in a full on argument - ah well, I guess I do it wee post by wee post, short comment by short comment.
ReplyDeleteHow. Discussion at work turned to politcs. Aparently the state of housing and food prices is all a beat up. No problem at all. Even got this comment, "what do you mean its time for a change, I like it the way it is". Crikey, I was gonna talk about the merits of Roger Douglases ideas, but decided to lower my profile. By the way Zen, the Ninja site is great. The hate mail is classic - I would say where do these guys come from but... I was one.
ReplyDeleteRugby. We still play that around here do we? I'm picking table tennis will make a comeback after we sign a FTA with China.
ReplyDeleteMany countries will be using ping pong balls as land fill to ensure the country floats above the rising meltwater as Al Gorism sets in.
Scrambled.
ReplyDeleteOne ninja, one ninja expert or one hate mail contributor?
Actually, I should have said "one expert on ninja" for the middle option.
ReplyDeleteSame guy you think? It is pretty funny. The mail could be written by him however I have met people capable of writing them. Touching the Ninja is as touching the apple of their eye.
ReplyDeleteGiven we've just had Easter, then an Easter Egg in the comments is apt.
ReplyDeleteFor those that enjoyed Ninja, then Whack Your Boss is extremely funny, partly because it is extremely violent.
I've mastered all 16 attack forms. Natural talent awasting.
Evening all, anyone still around? Zen, you there me old mate?
ReplyDeleteYes, quite depressing, everything going up but the pay packets!
Just heard NZF paid up.
ReplyDeletesounds like they distributed the money among as many charities as they could find.
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Hi Gooner. Of course I'm still here. I'm on the night shift.
ReplyDeleteThankfully, things are not more than mildly tough right now for me, but it's the uncertainty factor at this point that is the worry.
You only have to look at how NZF handle complex financial problems (like owe money to the tax payer, so give it to some-one else) to really encourage confidence in MMP.
ReplyDeleteBeen meaning to post on MMP.
ReplyDeleteI've never cared for the "MMP is a disaster" crowd - it is what it is.
But lately, I've been starting to change my mind.
Scrub, is that 4 real? If so, I think that's his death knell. Maybe why his staff jumped up and left this week - they have had enough of the dick.
ReplyDeleteHey Zen, there is no uncertainty. It is certain that things will get worse. The cost of money is going to push interest rates up regardless; now is not the time to leverage. Sell what you can and batten down the hatches.
Lucyna might be interested to know I went to Easter church mass. Needed a purification!
This is bad, tonight I'll be drinking Kilkarny not Guiness, because I can no longer justify 6 cans a week at $16.00.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, just watched Fitna. Maybe Nz doesn't have that many problems... yet.
Yep, tho' the pics posted by fairfacts (wouldn't he be the one) on the chinese 'dealing' presumably to the Tibetan women was a bit awful .. & they reckon that soon there will be a shortfall of some 40 million females in china ... 'that aint no way to treat a lady.'
ReplyDeleteBut I guess the new 'free trade' agreement will help redress some of these issues for them.
Does that mean 40 million Chinese males come here, or are we shipping 40 million females there?
ReplyDeleteNot to take away anything from Tibet, but for the last 4 years (or 28 years as one might prefer) the world has sat by as Mugabe has ruined Zimbabwe. The average life expectancy for a male has apparently dropped from 70 to 35. That's terrible.
Not to mention 4 million plus dead just across the border in the DRC, with Mugabe implicated in supporting shady organisations setting up resource stripping companies (and France and the EU have been in there helping to run elections, at a huge financial cost - err make that at a huge financial profit of over 1 billion dollars. Nice work when you can get it.
It just galls me that we as a planet of people cannot sort out how to feed people and stop this senseless violence.
It was on Rhema, I'm assuming it was true :)
ReplyDeleteLooks like no one has picked it up - it's too late on Friday for political reporters to be at work I guess.
Or they haven't received the documents that advise their opinion on the matter:-)
ReplyDelete"Just waiting to ascertain the facts before ignoring them"
Ok - I'm in a cynical mood tonight. Might go watch a DVD to chill out...
ReplyDeletePanic Room is on Tv2 Zen. It's not too bad.
ReplyDeleteR U into 24? Trying to find series 6 on DVD in the video shops but no luck yet. Have u seen it?
I enjoyed 24, but have only seen 3 of the 6 series. I'll have to get the sets I missed out from the DVD rental place eventually and catch up.
ReplyDeleteI watch almost zero TV (at least based on the last 6 months), and just get the odd DVD out - although I did 6 for $5 the other day and have watched 4 of them so far, 2 to go but due back tomorrow. I've generally watched them after 11 or 12pm when I get to relax (although getting up early gets real hard. Was up at 4:30am today for work preparation (and went to bed around 12:30pm, so I might fade later...
Wake up Jeff! aka Zen.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I watch ER and Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares along with Top Chef. Apart from that nothing else. I do other things @ night and frankly the TV is crap.
Except 24 that is, but I missed series 6 as it was on too late and I missed the first 4 episodes so didn't want to pick it up 1/2 way thru. It is desperately needed in the video shop.
Nope, didn't repeat story. Hm, interesting.
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