One of the days in history that freedom took a good turn.

Tribeless has just rung me on the bat phone, and asked I summarise his favourite posts of the month up on NBR or Hickey's Interest.co.nz .

It just gets worse. ETS, GST increases, ACC increases, and today they slip in another increase in alcohol excise taxes.

Rosie made the mistake of asking me for a list.

I’ve been thinking of Allan Hubbard’s ‘defence’ beforehand, as my opinion is he is a man of integrity, and there is no fraud in Aorangi or the seven trusts, however, I also believe he is not going to

I'm just pasting my closing comments from one of my Allan Hubbard posts in order to start a new topic.

This is one of the blackest days since the National Socialists came in.

[For the record, Allan Hubbard is no relation.

What on earth does the leader of the Green Party think he can add to the debate on freedom from Government coercion and compulsion, when every Green policy requires Government coercion of the actions,

The below story in the Timaru Herald this morning requires little in the way of preamble.

That Tribeless bloke has been posting again on the NBR:

" ... Dr Bollard said New Zealand has relatively high foreign investment in New Zealand but not much investment overseas ..."

In response to Labour MP Shane Jones extravagance on his credit card with my money, including the purchase of porn in motels, Annette King says her boy is embarrassed, and now wants to be whipped.

You'd do well to not think on it as a conspiracy theory.

Think you have any privacy at all from it? Nah. You'd have to be delusional to think that.

I bought one today (Google it), and set up my Whitcoulls account.

From my client e-letter this morning:

I know there are many accolades for yesterday's budget, but it only gets 2 out of 10 from me. (Though you knew that, didn't you).

Quoting from http://www.netprophet.co.nz/ne...

The father of modern multiculturalism, Montesquieu, in his The Spirit of Laws (1748) while expressing a delight in cultural diversity, always held that though all cultures might be equally valu

Finance Minister Bill English and Regulatory Reform Minister Rodney Hide have announced the creation of a Productivity Commission early next year to help boost New Zealand’s economic perfo

Three men have been found not guilty of breaking into and damaging the Waihopai spy base near Blenheim.

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Education, of course:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03...

He certainly is skilled in the rhetoric, some of this reads well, but:

The fact that these guitar playing birds are easier on the ear, and actually have more melody than the average hirsute death metal guitar player, is significant.

First ODI between NZ and Australia today. If you're stuck behind a computer working, then you can still follow the game with automatic desktop updates.

Dealing with spamsters.

Especially spamsters selling essay writing sites. (They seem to have attached themselves to SOLO.)

Possibly the purists will get a bit snuffly and tosspotish over this, but I like it And what a great way to drum up business at the food court, plus these improvisations do bring out a sense of lif

As his Thai-born mother sat with arms folded across her chest, Woods said part of his rehab would include a return to his Buddhist faith.

This is a follow up of my FOX thread this morning, about the man who flew his plane into an IRS building in Texas.

... you can watch the IRS building in Austin, Texas burning to the ground. Some bloke flew his plane into the building.

Built at the Vitters Shipyard (Holland I think), more pictures and technical specs here:

http://www.vitters.com/recent_...

Out of interest, where do SOLOists stand on the issue of intellectual property, file copying and file sharing.

The below is a copy of the post of have put up on the RadioLive forum.