Google Politics

There have been some interesting recent Google searches to reach the Political Animal Blog.

Here are a few:

www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=labour losing

A nice thought

www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Phil Goff age of consent&btnG=Google Search&aq=f&oq=

Phil wanted to have sex between "consenting" 12 year olds made legal

www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=%22My view is that tax cuts are largely offered as a political bribe, not because of beneficial economic or social effects%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Michael Cullen, the taxman, must have been on his office computer that night

www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=DAUS,DAUS:2006-08,DAUS:en&q=new zealand ETS bill impacts on transportation&start=10&sa=N

The Emissions Tax Scam will have a disastrous effect on New Zealand's economic well being

www.google.co.za/search?hl=en&q=Political meaning of alice in wonderland&btnG=Search&meta=

Winston Peters exploits have gone the world over

www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1B3GGGL_enGB177GB222&q=nz labour party policies 2008&btnG=Search

I don't recall any Labour 2008 election policy that has thus far been released 

www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=THE PRICK WHO BANNED BULLRUSH&meta=

I agree with the "prick part", but Labours PPTA might have something to do with it

www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&q=competitors for kiwirail&btnG=Google Search&meta=

In the wake of another $120 million taxpayer dollars down the tube for Labour's billion dollar trainset

www.google.co.nz/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENNZ293&q=nz nuclear option&meta=

A solution to our politically engineered energy crises

www.google.com/ie?q=Winstone Peters Photo&hl=en&start=10&sa=N

Winnie looking for the latest photo of himself

www.google.co.nz/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GFRC_enNZ205NZ205&q=pumphouse helen clark young lover

Does the googler know something we don't?

www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=finance bill voting 2008&btnG=Search

Kiwi voters want to know who voted against free speech last year

www.google.com/search?q=new zealand labour party blog&rls=com.microsoft:en-nz:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7PCTA

Not here, this is Political Animal a semi-respectable organ of the internet press, the official Labour Party blog is The Standard

www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=smacking referendum numbers&btnG=Search

One of the most popular Google searches to reach this site

www.google.co.nz/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&hl=en&q=funny helen clarke sound&meta=&btnG=Google Search

Its about trust?

www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&q=honesty in nz politics&meta=&btnG=Google Search&aq=t

That would be nice

www.google.com/search?q=south auckland unemployment&hl=en&sa=2

Its quite disproportionally higher than most other parts of the country

I think these little Googles show that New Zealand voters, at least those that are motivated to search and find out more about politics, want to be aware of what is going on politically and are not as stupid as politicians from the left think they are.

They want to find out the substance of the politician before they use their valuable vote and that really is important when these people are going to be reaching into your pockets for the next 3 years.

Your vote is important. 

Enrol to vote here

c Political Animal 2008

Senate will vote to pass $700 billion bailout on Oct 1

I just cant get enough of the political situation in regards to the US$700 billion bailout by the taxpayer of the US financial sector.

The vote for the bailout failed on Monday in the lower house with a disastrous consequence for world markets and then President Bush made multiple statements [1 2] to the American people to calm the nervous and mogadon the sheep participating in the stockmarket.

Wednesday evening there will be a vote in the Senate-bizarrely after a break for a Jewish holiday- for a "modified" version of the bailout Bill. 

I am sure this version will pass after much lobbying from Republican and Democratic whips in the interim.

It is dubious as to whether the bailout will have any affect at all on the financial sector they are trying to "fix" because as we know politicians don't usually possess the insight to solve problems that they have created in the first place.

Watch here for video and audio of the deal latter on Wednesday.

c Political Animal 2008 

An alternative report on crime

Labours much talked about 1% overall drop in crime released today leads me to discuss another type of report on crime, that of unreported crime and the rise of this phenomenon.

In the last nine years of Labour's 3 terms I have been the victim of crime a number of times:

1. Car broken into - 3 times

2. Assaulted

3. prowlers around the house

4. minor theft - 3 times

5. cyber crime 

6. telephone abuse

7. Fraud

I must point out, I have no beef with the police as a whole, it is their political masters that are to blame for the high unreported crime rates

None of these crimes I have reported to police because I have learnt on previous occasions that police in general are not interested in these sorts of crimes and the victim is wasting their time because police have been directed politically to collect tax on behalf of government through vehicle infringement fines instead.

Police time is also taken up with politically correct mumbo jumbo such as police "cultural beliefs" and "diversity".

My friends and acquaintances can tell similar stories.

This is why the official reported crime stats are highly inaccurate and don't tell the full picture at all. Official crime stats are not too clever either. Violent crime is up by 11% for the year and 47% for Labour's 9 years.

The causes of the high crime rates are clear and related directly to the record numbers on welfare, the associated breakdown in families, the lax attitude to personal responsibility placed on doing wrong, that is taught through schools and government social agencies, and the inadequate sentences for the whole range of crime.

Annette King deserves a big mother of a slap across her well upholstered chops for her poor record and so does her party.

c Politcal Animal 2008

Helen is right

That Helen Clark instigated the disposal of the minor parties in the proposed TV3 political debate is no surprise to most. She has a long history of clamping down on free speech with the passing of the Electoral Finance Act and constant threats to media to stifle press freedoms.

Mark Jennings from TV3 said the Labour leader did not want to share the stage with the smaller parties, and talked National leader John Key into joining the boycott.

"Clark told me two months ago that it has always been her view there are too many people in the debates."

"She [Helen Clark] said to me: 'Oh, it does get messy, doesn't it'."

NZ Herald

I have to agree with the Prime Minister though. The minor parties will be a major distraction. The debates are not long enough to get any substance from the two leaders. Either two will be Prime Minister and we need to know from them what their vision for the country is.

For minor parties to be morally outraged at Clark's proposal is laughable at best.

Minor parties are there to support the major party that they go with after the election and have plenty of opportunity to get media attention from their policies.

c Political Animal 2008