I know that in my lifetime, I am never going to hear a judge of any New Zealand Court say what this Argentinian judge says. Quoting from today's Press:

I'm hearing some wonderful things from overseas friends - it's not opened here yet - about this movie.

The compassionless swine of a Scottish Justice Minister who let the Lockerbie bomber go on 'compassionate grounds' to return to a hero welcome in his shithole of a country. Sick.

I've just listened to Murray Deaker's opening spiel (Sunday, midday, ZB) about this mornings game, and can't disagree with any of it.

Has been offline for three days now. I hope this is not permanent. Does anyone have any news on the site?

Letter to the editor.

Following on from Olivia's signers of the Declaration of Independence thread, matters July 4th, and then on from that to the Founding Fathers - and despite it being not pc to mention state broadcaster

Before starting, Bernard Hickey runs a very interesting economics blog, here: http://www.interest.co.nz/rate...

From the new Socialist's introduction to his hideous speech today:

I've followed the son for some while (and interesting to see he no longer gets much air time because his message is seen as too depressing), but

I don't understand how there can have been such a dearth of knowledge in our supposed capitalist icons (yeah right).

It appears you 'basically' have been vindicated.

The EFA is being  repealed.

I eat my words.

... from the inimitable George Reisman - Show Trials with Capitalist Defendants in Shackles.

I'm just back from ten days away, and still trying to catch up on a bit of business reading. This one caught my eye:

I love my beer, but I love my freedom from tyranny more.

And this is the scene of the crime: http://www.newstalk.co.nz/news...

Quote:

http://www.newstalk.co.nz/news...

Quote: 

14/12/2008 11:08:07

Did anyone else here realise - I didn't - that a 'conviction' in the Environment Court gives you a criminal record?

The Government has been given a shock, with revelations of a billion dollar shortfall in the ACC account.

Michael Robinson states (2/12) 'private enterprise has led the world to ... disaster'.

This is simply a cross post from another blog I post to (which is password protected).

Leighton Smith played this on his show this morning. It's hilarious, and sick, all at the same time.

What a mess. Lehman Brothers down, AIG going ... this is surely, on a global basis, worse that '87. Does anyone else have stats?

My last two posts to his blog:

 1.

The surprising attack.

The counter attack.

I can't find a solution to this from Googling.

Any of you on automatic update will have installed this by now - last week for my computer.