http://www.gog.org.nz Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:01:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en People who are condemned to live in privately owned leaky homes will not be happy with the Government’s rapid response to the newly revealed problem of convicts living in a leaky prison. While law-abiding honest victims languish in rotting houses that are almost impossible to sell, or too costly to repair, ... http://www.gog.org.nz/2008/09/08/a-jail-that-leaks-like-a-6m-sieve-who%e2%80%99s-being-screwed/ Join the Navy, for “a life less ordinary”, as that painfully awful TV commercial trumpeted. The slogan had many people pondering its meaning. But if the new naval onslaught now headlined in our newspapers is anything to go by, life in the Navy is much less extraordinary than anyone imagined. ... http://www.gog.org.nz/2008/09/06/new-zealand-navy-sinks-shipping-container/ Following the $100 fine on a Tawa resident (subsequently waived) for clearing sundry scrap items out of a car and into a council rubbish bin, it would appear that the next slogan to adorn our "Yeah, right" roadside hoardings will be "Be a Tidy Kiwi". The public should be told the ... http://www.gog.org.nz/2008/09/05/fight-the-litter-spies-be-a-tidy-anonymous-kiwi/ Real Kiwi blokes don’t do proper haircuts. The rate of inflation at the hairdresser since 2003 has dramatically outstripped the rest of the cost of living - and men have responded in a simple, commonsense way. Instead of getting a trim every four weeks, they put it off for another ... http://www.gog.org.nz/2008/09/03/and-how-much-would-you-like-off-today-sir/ The Greens have scored a perfect own goal with the title of their follow-up to Al Gore’s one-sided blockbuster movie. They’ve called it “The Age of Stupid”. They could just as easily have chosen “The Age of Gullible” or “The Age of Politically Opportunist” as subtitles. Sadly, as happened with ... http://www.gog.org.nz/2008/09/02/oh-gore-blimey-its-the-end-of-the-world-again/ The “man in the street” could be banished in Britain, which invented the term as meaning “the average person”. A report by 21st Century androids employed by Chichester District Council in the UK claims that this popular description is based on an assumption that the world is male, and makes ... http://www.gog.org.nz/2008/09/01/pc-boarding-party-ahoy-lads-time-to-woman-the-lifeboats/ Detailed reports are only now trickling in about the 5.9 Richter Scale quake that hit in the late hours of last Monday beneath the village of Maraenui in Napier. Initial news of the disaster was swiftly transmitted by the hamlet’s 35,000 unchipped and unregistered Staffordshire-Terrier cross-mutts, and many baffled human ... http://www.gog.org.nz/2008/08/31/rumble-in-the-jungle-leaves-the-locals-unmoved/ Any hope that Winston Peters can keep Helen Clark afloat is virtually gone, now that we know the Monaco millionaire benefactor to the Winston First Party warned his friend the Prime Minister that he had donated $100,000 to Peters’ legal fund – and that she failed to reveal this until ... http://www.gog.org.nz/2008/08/28/ban-the-sfo-and-pass-the-ets-now-that-would-be-seriously-fraudulent/ A grave allegation has been made against one of New Zealand’s judges, and naturally – even though it’s hearsay – we’re duty bound to repeat it in the hope that some paid journalist somewhere will do a bit of investigation for a change. The claim, made during a panel discussion on ... http://www.gog.org.nz/2008/08/27/the-scales-of-justice-are-seriously-out-of-balance/ In one of the most shameless (and shameful) displays of blatant partiality yet seen in Parliament, Speaker Margaret Wilson plumbed new depths when she ejected ACT leader Rodney Hide from the House. Her claimed reason for doing so is nothing short of baffling. Ms Wilson told Mr Hide, who had tried ... http://www.gog.org.nz/2008/08/27/call-this-democracy-were-on-a-hiding-to-nothing/