New Zealand Conservative

Chris Trotter and Winston went on a camping trip. After a good dinner and finishing off a bottle of fine whiskey, they retire for the night, and go to sleep. Some hours later, Winston wakes up and nudges his faithful friend. ‘Trotsky, look up at the sky and tell me what you see.” "I see millions and millions of stars, Winston,” replies Trotter. “And what do you deduce from that?” Trotter ponders for a minute. “Well, astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets. Astrologically, I observe that Saturn is in Pisces. Horologically, I deduce that the time is approximately a quarter past four." “Meteorologically, I suspect that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. Theologically, I can see that God is all powerful and that we are a small and insignificant part of the universe. Metaphorically, I can see millions and millions of voters, twinkling in the electoral canvas of New Zealand politics, guiding your path in the darkne...

I don't know if M2 Magazine is code for Male version 2, a highway in England, or if its M squared with a broken superscript. What I do know is that it's a magazine aimed at the sophisticated New Zealand Male. Who else would spend as much as an expensive bottle of red wine ($9.90) on a magazine? But enough about my investment portfolio, there must be a reason beyond the gadgets in the companion magazine M-Tech that comes gratis with the Father's Day Special Edition. Well, there is, but I'm not going to tell you. Well that's weird. I said I wasn't going to tell you, but you still clicked the "read more" to see what comes next. Let's not analyze this. I'm still not going to tell you, but I am going to plagiarize their "Cynic's Guide To Life": •Follow your dream! Unless it's the one where you're at work in your underwear during a fire drill. •Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may ...

Remember Peak Oil? It's the looming crisis that needs to be solved right after climate change and world population. Don't worry - greedy capitalists are on to it. Whilst Al Gore is probably working on a new DVD with a rock concert to raise awareness of the DVD being available for governments to purchase for the classroom, and the Greens are planning a campaign to turn off CFL bulbs for at least an hour, the gears of capitalism are looking for a way to make a dollar in tomorrow's world. Some of those capitalists are asking if Algae is the new green fuel. It delivers 10 to 100 times more energy per acre than crop based bio-fuels, can be generated in tanks, presumably with many layers to increase effective surface area and there have been steady improvements in results from researchers in the business. Companies like Sapphire are excited that they could potentially replace all fuel from algae sources. From Venture Beat: Only a year old, Sapphire Energy is a San Diego sta...

BRUSSELS, September 5, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The European Union has issued a document recommending that some means be found to regulate and identify bloggers... ... "They don't seem to like blogs or even understand the concept of blogging, do they?" Dale wrote about EU bureaucrats. "We all know that 'voluntary' soon becomes 'compulsory'. My label is the title of my blog. That is quite sufficient, and I don't need some faceless Eurocrat to tell me otherwise." Daniel Hannan, a blogger and writer for the Daily Telegraph, warned that the EU has been trying to get regulatory control over bloggers for some time. "Eurocrats instinctively dislike spontaneous activity. To them, 'unregulated' is almost synonymous with 'illegal'. The bureaucratic mindset demands uniformity, licensing, order." "Eurocrats are especially upset," he continued, "because many bloggers, being of an anarchic disposition, are anti-Bru...

The first time I ever heard of "girl kissing competitions" was a couple of years ago while sitting in a friend's kitchen drinking tea and chatting about our lives. The radio just happened to be on and to this point was being ignored, however an attention getting ad that cut through the senses blurted out a girl kissing competition. Shocked, I looked at my friend and she said that her just barely teenaged step-daughter insisted on having that particular radio station on at all corners of the house so that where ever she was, she could hear it. But what about the ad, I continued, that's just incredible that "girl kissing" is being touted in public as something acceptable to broadcast. She agreed, that it was incredible, yet it seemed to really appeal to girls her step-daughter's age. Now in case everyone's been wondering where I've been, I don't listen to popular music radio stations, and when I did while I lived in Australia, I have never h...