Mitt Romney, the king of ‘flip floppers’, has done it again and this time it’s around gas prices. Yesterday he spoke out about why prices were so high. “When he campaigned he said he wanted to raise the price of gasoline,” Mr. Romney said of Mr. Obama at a pancake breakfast here Sunday. “He said…
Gary Parsloe, the President of the Maritime Union, confirms the Ports of Auckland has the right to contract out jobs however there is no way forward in the dispute between the Ports of Auckland and the Unions. Now I have extrapolated slightly, but not illogically, from a conversation I had with him this morning. We…
Oh my goodness! Are we still talking about why the ‘Chinese’ shouldn’t buy Crafer farms? This conversation has been going on for what feels like an eternity…and just like Christmas…it’s back before you know it. The Overseas Investment Office authorised over 1,000,000 hectares of NZ land to be sold to foreign nationals or consortium’s from Germany, Australia,…
The ‘War’ for South Carolina is happening as I write this post. The winner of the South Carolina Primary will be the GOP nomination to go up against President Obama in November’s election, how can I say this so confidently? Every single nominee for the GOP to run for President in the past, 100% of…
The latest news in this whole Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) is that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid delayed the debate until Tuesday (Wednesday NZ time). Firstly so we have an understanding, these bills work together, they are ‘sister bills’, SOPA in Congress and PIPA in the Senate. The purpose…
For a long time I have had a bit of an untested theory. I’ve come to a place where I don’t think the negative statistics in New Zealand are about race, age, gender or religion. I think they’re about poverty and the by products of poverty. Let me back up a little and give you…
Ghandi is credited with saying it first in a modern context, or at least an unknown variant of it, but the bible is probably one of the first places you can look to a way of being judged by how we treat the dregs of society. Jesus said was speaking to two groups of people. One he…
I have to say again that the news seems slow at the moment. I don’t mean that disrespectfully to Destiny, but this doesn’t seem to be a story news worthy of leading our largest source of daily news. Is it a story? Yes! Is it interesting? Yes again! Is it something to be concerned about…
Last night TVNZ was scraping for news so as one of its lead stories brought importance to an issue…that isn’t an issue. Destiny Church is buying some land and building a community there. Sorry…is that it? Like minded people since time immemorial have been living together, how is this…at its core…any different? Ask the Catholics, Anglicans, Presbyterian in fact…
So here is the question for y’all. From Stuff.co.nz Accidental Millionaire in Court The man known as the “accidental millionaire” has appeared briefly in Rotorua District Court this morning but will remain behind bars for now. Leo Gao, 31, faces 16 charges of theft and 11 of money laundering after Westpac accidentally loaded a $10…