Archive for October 31st, 2005

The Letter, on the wall, is wrong

Monday, October 31st, 2005

ACT claims in The Letter today:
Rod Donald thinks that the office of the former ACT deputy leader is not nearly big enough and has ordered a wall knocked down to create him an office larger than Jeanette’s.
For the record, Rod has no such plan, nor has it ever been suggested. The office is bigger […]

Catch the cattle train

Monday, October 31st, 2005

*A declaration of interest - in my pond I am the top of the food chain, any flies come near me, I swallow them.*
A while back I was travelling with a hard-core vegan. A hedgehog was on the road ahead and I swerved to avoid it. My passenger thanked me for my consideration, […]

CTU on Green economics

Monday, October 31st, 2005

Following Sue B and Rod’s warm reception at their recent conference a couple of weeks back, the CTU has now taken a gander at Green economics.
In the CTU Economic Bulletin today, Peter Conway writes:
The Greens get a hard time from business about their policies - and Peters and Dunne made it a […]

It’s the putting Right that counts

Monday, October 31st, 2005

Inquistor General Wayne Mapp must surely be giving some thought to the insideous effect of New Zealand’s PC road rules on Kiwis’ ability to ‘get ahead’.
Why do we drive on the LEFT hand side of the road?
Sounds like social (road) engineering to me.

Don’t eat and drive

Monday, October 31st, 2005

Further to my post last night.
In Saturday’s Press lead on food corporates targeting schools, McDonalds’ PR man Liam Jeory said:
Police had approached McDonald’s for help with a seatbelt campaign because “hundreds of children” were dying on New Zealand roads each year.
Well, he’s right there. According to the Child and Youth Mortality […]

Blair: Kyoto is not enough

Monday, October 31st, 2005

News for Don, Peter and all the rest who want to get New Zealand off the Kyoto bandwagon.
In London’s The Observer today, British PM Tony Blair writes:
We also have to recognise that while the Kyoto Protocol takes us in the right direction, it is not enough. We need to cut greenhouse gas emissions radically […]