New Zealand Conservative

It's Friday again. It's been a fairly busy week for me, so blogging is light. There's been much to blog about though and most of it deserves a bit more time. As I was reminded earlier this week, it's very easy to get into trouble if one throws up a spontaneous reaction to a newspaper article, and relies on the "facts" in the article as being, well, facts. You'd think I'd have learned by now. And that's not half of it. The other half though, will have to wait for the time required to make a better post. That's all part of blogging unfortunately - the opportunity to throw ideas out there and get reactions and see where the discussion goes. I have a fairly eclectic mix of posts where some are done in a just a few moments, and others take much longer. Some just get abandoned because they'd turn into books or just be too short to fully explain a position. Then again, a blog isn't ever a single post - it becomes a body of work and pe...

[NZ Conservative Scoop] I was shocked to see that Winston has stepped down after revelations he accepted undeclared donations of around $150,000. The surprise announcement marks the apex of a political storm raised after police launched an investigation in May over suspicions he had accepted vast sums of money from a businessman in order to finance elections campaigns and a lavish lifestyle in the 13 years before he became Minister for Racing and Minister for Foreign Affairs in 2005. What I hadn't realised that he was all part of some Jewish conspiracy. Or have a mixed this story up with something else?? Although he has consistently denied wrongdoing, Olmert finally succumbed to the growing pressure to resign amid allegations of financial misdeeds, including reports that he pocketed money from various backers. Political analysts have been predicting his resignation since testimony that he took more than $150,000 in cash-stuffed envelopes from a U.S. businessman, Morris Talansky, t...

Well, after yesterday's burst, I'm all blogged out. Not to mention recovering from the flu. Hope everyone else is well. And that you all have power and houses that haven't been swept into the sea or anything. I've just returned from taking the kids to their swimming lessons and it's almost wet enough out there to swim in the streets!

Here's a case of real child abuse, where it's also obvious banning smacking wouldn't have prevented this, nor changed the attitudes behind this callous and inhumane attitude. So now that these people are caught, time to send a message to others on what "duty of care" means, and the severe punishments that could be leveled when caregivers (they weren't parents) are found not just to fail in their basic obligations, but to inflict such abuse in the first place. The other tragedy is that no-one at the girl's school noticed and did anything over the three week decline towards death. And what did the social workers do on their visit the day before she finally died? Mr Coates said social workers who visited the three-bedroom Palmerston home - which housed 17 people - the day before the death found the child lying on the kitchen floor crying. When she was told to have a shower she struggled to walk and had to use the walls for support. I cannot understand how...

Location: The Department of Conservation (DoC), Fox Glacier Office A customer enters Customer: 'Ello, I wish to register a complaint. (The Officer does not respond.) C: 'Ello, Miss? Officer: What do you mean "miss"? C: I'm sorry, I have a cold. I thought you were Miss Clark. Anyway, I wish to register a complaint! O: We're closin' for lunch. Possum sandwiches. C: Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this parrot what I photographed not half an hour ago from this wilde New Zealand habitat. O: Oh yes, the, uh, the Kea, Nestor Notabilis ..What's,uh...What's wrong with it? C: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. 'E's dead, that's what's wrong with it! O: No, no, 'e's uh,...he's resting. C: Look, matey, I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now. O: No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable bird, the Nestor Notabilis idn'it, ay? ...