tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108689752023-07-26T20:28:54.649+12:00So many scandals so little time...Antarctic Lemurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11466911915416220140noreply@blogger.comBlogger247125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10868975.post-1115792625183607342005-05-11T18:23:00.000+12:002005-05-11T18:23:45.186+12:00

Doonegate is being covered at Sir Humphrey's.

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11466911915416220140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10868975.post-1112699304514067502005-04-05T23:00:00.000+12:002005-04-05T23:10:25.736+12:00

I realise people are arriving here surprised content isn't being updated as regularly as it used to be. Recently the service quality from Blogger/Blogspot has declined to the point where the post function no longer works correctly about 75% of the time. As the Sir Humphrey's blog doesn't seem to experience this problem often, I'm guessing the extra complexity of the Labour Scandals template

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My Tamihere coverage is inexplicably at Sir Humphrey's.

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Michael Cullen has resigned:Dr Michael Cullen is out as Minister of Finance after allegations of financial mismanagement were raised on TV One's Fair Go programme last night.According to Fair Go's report, Cullen directed Treasury officials to hide higher than expected surpluses by misrepresenting Government financial accounts. Treasury budget analyst Bernard Ebbers said Cullen encouraged staff to

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11466911915416220140noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10868975.post-1112252720378202682005-03-31T18:56:00.000+12:002005-03-31T19:29:58.563+12:00

Tax cuts stimulate growth in the productive sectors of the economy (ie non-Government), thus growing the total economic pie from which taxes are taken.But what does Cullen think:But Dr Cullen says Mr Key clearly missed the point made in the December economic and fiscal update.He says at that time, he indicated debt reduction was flattening and that there was little room for large new initiatives.

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I won't be removing Haloscan tonight after all. Blogger is having major technical difficulties, and I don't want to risk corrupting my template or something similarly stupid by trying to make big changes tonight. It will have to wait until Thursday evening.I can't make new posts on Sir Humphrey's because of the same Blogger problem:ErrorWe apologize for the inconvenience, but we are unable to

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Labour Scandals has received over 500 unique visitors since I stopped blogging a few days ago (>1100 page views)... maybe I should holiday more often! I will be adding new posts as soon as I've removed the annoying Haloscan system.I thought Haloscans 'trackback' ability justified the loss of proper Blogger integration, but I think I can keep using trackback through just the Haloscan website, but

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Service will return shortly. Sorry, faithful readers!

Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10868975.post-1111936856587596252005-03-28T03:19:00.000+12:002005-03-28T03:21:55.773+12:00

I first read this this on Silent Running, but I don't know if Murray thought of it himself or someone told him...Q: What is the RNZAF callsign for Helen Clark's 757?A: Broomstick One.

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The 7th offender stars on her own billboard:I know this is old, but I have to cover it for the sake of completeness. The larger original photo of the billboard is at Farrar. The guy on the left is.... Jim Sutton? Not a good likeness.

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I didn't consider Labour MP Jonathan Hunts fondness for luxuries and transport at the taxpayers expense to be much of a scandal, but I have to admit the man likes suckling on the nipple of the nation:Former speaker Jonathan Hunt has agreed to use his new role as High Commissioner to London to promote Vavasour wines - and has been thanked with an $8000 barrel of pinot noir.National has accused

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How will Hawkins try and spin this? Neither his decision to direct Police resources towards speed limit enforcement, nor the ACC's programme of breath testing seem to be having a noteable impact.The number of lives lost on the roads so far this Easter Break is already the highest road toll for the holiday since the year 2000.Easter toll worst since 2000.

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Clark has really messed with Labour's historical promise to support Maori issues in Parliament, which has previously given Labour control of the Maori seats for over half a century. The forehore and seabed issue also cuts to the heart of private property rights being usurped by a Government with only a vague populistic and socialist mandate as its guidance.The foreshore and seabed debate may be

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11466911915416220140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10868975.post-1111920182795234972005-03-27T22:42:00.000+12:002005-03-27T22:46:31.580+12:00

Flickr had a hardware failure recently which might prevent photos from loading. See the Flickr blog.

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Look what some idiot called Dagny said to me after I pointed out the tone of some of the Locke Foundations comments might get them in trouble (I didnt say anything about Peron or comment on their alleged facts):You look like his messenger boy Antarctic spreading those threats around, not a good look darlin', people might think the Libertarian message includes justifications for men getting it off

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11466911915416220140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10868975.post-1111900416123404202005-03-27T17:10:00.000+12:002005-03-27T17:13:36.123+12:00

If they can get away with fiddling surplus figures, hospital waiting lists, and unemployment rates then I guess their own membership numbers is a somewhat lesser crime. But what if the membership numbers will be used to calculate how much taxpayer money Labour receives for political broadcasting this year?Sagey has the details: Helengrad lying about its membership.

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GoNZo Freakpower remembers his dad's legal successes pre- no fault accident compensation (ACC):Skip forward to today, and you wonder how much has changed. For starters, everyone pays. Every business and employee pays ACC levies. Every car user pays with petrol and licence ACC levies. These levies go up and down not based solely on claims, but largely due to fluctuations in ACC's investments.Read

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From the Sunday Star-Times of 14th Dec 2003 - "The importance of being earnest"Who did John Campbell vote for at the last election?"I was bewildered last election, I didn't have a clue who to vote for. I obviously wasn't going to vote Labour after being called a little creep by the leader of the Labour party. I voted for the Alliance. They're good people."Campbell's favoured political writers:"I

Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10868975.post-1111801499840078332005-03-26T13:44:00.000+12:002005-03-26T18:25:14.910+12:00

I've never covered the Dalziel case properly. Peter Metcalph has an update.

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Updates will be rare over the next couple of days.Instead, check out a new blog called Sir Humphreys.

Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10868975.post-1111723404781276182005-03-25T16:01:00.000+12:002005-03-26T18:38:10.976+12:00

LS now uses Haloscan for comments and trackback. Hopefully everything will run smoothly. Older comments provided by Blogspot can be reached by clicking on the permanent link ('Posted at XXXX').I still have to add the Haloscan comments to the permanent link page. Will do this as soon as possible.Testing trackback (links back to this post - hopefully by autodiscovery).

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Richard Prebble comments on manipulation by the Electoral Commission, and the likely influence of kiwi bloggers this coming election:This week the Electoral Commission will be determining how time and money for broadcasting will be allocated. Only the Labour and National parties are represented on the Commission. The Commission has always allocated Labour and National equal time and money. The

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Gay NZ's next article is out: The Peron Allegations Part Two.The Locke Foundation's report on Peron [pdf]: Peron_Report.pdf [missing at 6pm Sun 27th March]. They also have three scanned images linking Peron to 'Unbound'.A Locke Foundation staff member's blog post: Peron the Unprincipled Liar and Paedophilia Promoter.UPDATE: *** some text deleted *** - AL. Will wait to see how this plays

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Commenter Jay in this Farrar thread has provided a very interesting link to a discussion on email defamation. I encourage everyone to read it and pass the link along (via email of course!).Email - an increasing risk of defamation.

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I used to live in Clark's electorate, a year after Christine 'ineffective' Fletcher was voted out. At the time it had the best community facilities the Auckland City Council could provide, but I couldn't think of a good reason why. For example other Auckland suburbs in great need of tender road and path care were ignored, while Mt Albert/Morningside had a brand new community centre, kids

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