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Entries Tagged as 'Bad Policy'

State of the Nation: Some Voting Considerations

November 4th, 2008 3 Comments

With each of us feeling pulled, guilt tripped, bribed, confused over not only who to vote for and how to decide Glenn does it again; read his analysis of the state of our country and where exactly we have gone wrong in our thinking. Extract from New Zealand: Land of greed, envy and political stupidity […]

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Statism and Wealth Re-Distribution

October 31st, 2008 10 Comments

A post by Glenn caught my eye the other day and I have not been able to stop thinking about it as despite knowing that Glenn knows what he is talking about in this field, I just am struggling to believe his numbers. It really is proof-positive of the socialist extent of Labour’s policies in […]

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More Reasons to not Vote Green: Population Control gets a Global Warming Twist

October 18th, 2008 4 Comments

The blogosphere is abuzz with the Greens new Family Policy which “proposes setting a level of population New Zealand could sustain and leaving room within that for climate change refugees from Pacific Islands. They also want parents educated about the impacts of population growth when they are planning their family size and how far apart […]

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Electoral Finance Act Threatens Privacy and Family Home

October 7th, 2008 10 Comments

Imagine coming home to this on your lawn: it’s 1000 knives! No this isn’t something from the “only in America” files it is Bob McCoskrie’s front lawn covered in knives, complete with threatening note related to Bob’s political activities! How did they get his address? Compliments of the Electoral Finance Act; law abiding critics of […]

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Labour Erodes More Human Rights: The Criminal Procedure Bill

June 20th, 2008 4 Comments

I was absolutely horrified to wake up this morning to hear that Parliament had passed the Criminal Procedure Bill last night. While there were some good things in the Bill (as there usually are) such as the district courts being able to hear P cases, I am most appalled at the attack on double jeopardy; […]

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Stupid Animal Welfare Moron and the Council *grr*

February 12th, 2008 3 Comments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gz1DIIxmEE”>Trogdor

I am supposed to be online surfing trade me for summer horse covers but I am mad so I came here instead. I am mad because I don’t want to spend money on a horse cover our horse does not need and, well probably mostly, I resent being made to do so by some idiot […]

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When Trust is Destroyed

November 23rd, 2007 4 Comments

In the last 24 hours I have been following the debate over the father convicted for assaulting his son. Predictably I have heard differing views from many people whose sense I respect. On the one hand I have heard that he was only prosecuted for delivering three smacks. On the other I have heard that […]

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