Ok people Adam is becalmed in Auckland all week.
Email or phone if you wish to catch up.
Slow blogging.
Peter Brookes - The Times - 28 November
In truth, New Zealand hasn’t a hope of Hades on catching up with Australian wages, or, for that matter, Australian living standards by 2025 unless our political leaders man up and make significant change.
Fran O’Sullivan in The NZ Herald on the real issues confronting NZ.
And to close Bryan Ferry with the classic Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Then Marc Bolan in a 1974 version of the Children of the Revolution
Then we have one of the archetypes of glamrock – David Bowie with the great Life on Mars
Down the Hall on Saturday Night brings you the lounge lizard supreme – the great Bryan Ferry
Adam does.
This morning for example he wondered why she persists in pronouncing ‘film’ as ‘filum’ and mis pronouncing Bonneville.
What do you find irritating about Ms Hill?
Her self righteous smugness?
Adams - The Telegraph - 28 November
All those of us who have some scepticism over the climate change issue and the concept that the science is proven.
The release of the hacked CRU emails demonstrates that some at least of the climate change jihadists seem to want to manipulate the ‘evidence’ and indulge in dirty tricks against ‘deniers’.
No prizes for guessing that the losers are Pita Sharples and Tariana Turia for proving to be weak as ditchwater over Hone Harawira.
Adam was right it seems last week in his award of Winner of the Week to the nasty and vile racist of the Far North.
The Maori Party leadership have crumbled and capitulated to the Harawira mob, people who focus on victimhood and brood, much like the Serbs of the wrongs of the past rather than seeking to progress to the future.
An amusing trailer for a film on Party Political Broadcasts in the UK.
Senior National back bencher Lindsay Tisch for having the gall to use the MPs expense rules in a creative manner, especially as he is a Deputy Speaker.
Rod Emmerson - NZ Herald - 28 November
It’s no use pretending that this isn’t a major blow. The emails extracted by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia could scarcely be more damaging. I am now convinced that they are genuine, and I’m dismayed and deeply shaken by them.
Yes, the messages were obtained illegally. Yes, all of us say things in emails that would be excruciating if made public. Yes, some of the comments have been taken out of context. But there are some messages that require no spin to make them look bad. There appears to be evidence here of attempts to prevent scientific data from being released, and even to destroy material that was subject to a freedom of information request.
George Monbiot, climate change proponent on the hacked emails released recently
When Adam instituted this award last week, he thought it would be awarded rarely, but this week there is a major contender for this award.
Yes, dear readers, Sad and Desperate of Mt Roskill (aka Phil Goff) has won the award this week with an outstanding, nay breathtaking display of hypocrisy with his speech to Grey Power in Palmerston North. His opportunistic playing of the race card, his assertion that the Foreshore and Seabed law was not a cause of dissension were examples of a man seeking to get attention, any attention.
Given Goff’s past it was a new and sad low.
Dave Brown - The Independent - 27 November
“There is a small but significant group of lawyers, and some defendants, who are abusing the system to the detriment of clients, the legal aid system, the courts and the taxpayer,”
Dame Margaret Bazley – author of a report into legal aid as quoted in the NZ Herald.
A number of regular readers have asked why my posting is lighter than usual. It is not because I have given up blogging, but a combination of a bout of bronchitis coupled with a significant increase in work means that my availability for blogging is lessened.
However, rest assured I am storing up some issues for the future and trying to maintain the majority of regular features.
Interesting to some is that it would appear that a very considerable number of my readers obtain their daily dose of Adam via RSS and email. Thanks for subscribing it is much appreciated.
Peter Brookes - The Times - 26 November
Maori Party co-leaders Tariana Turia and Pita Sharples claim to represent all Maoridom.
But the preferential rort they have screwed for powerful iwi, as the Maori Party’s price for supporting National’s emissions trading legislation, calls into question just who calls the shots and who the party really represents.
Fran O’Sullivan in The NZ Herald on 21 November 2009
Peter Brookes - The Times - 24 November
Walking down Queen Street this morning Adam wondered just what the Auckland City Council had spent over NZ$40 million on.
The pavers seemed badly laid and many were such as to present a possible danger to the elderly or unsteady of foot.
The native trees looked poorly.
If this is an example of potentail ability of the so called ‘Super City’ to execute then God Save the Auckland ratepayers.
Oh and it all took an inordinate amount of time to complete.
Peter Brookes - The Times - 20 November
