Blog snippets (with ranting!)

PM of NZ has blogged about the upcoming Roger Awards. Get ready for the freaky sideshow that happens annually when the hardcore unwashed left get together for a circle jerk about the evil corporations. Organised by CAFCA and GATT Watchdog in the past you would be sure of seeing "visionary" judges such as Jane Kelsey, Sue Bradford, John Minto (I think) and Dunedins (mailorder) ex Mayor Sukhi Turner on the voting panel. This year the judges include Paul Corliss from the RMT Union - so sad he's a lifetime member of this union and Waikato Universities very own Bryan Gould... and words do not explain what kind of a wet blanket he is.
Why do they do it? Because academics have little else to do apart from brainwashing first year students and this is a rallying point for the stupid left. More info here.

Whoever thought organising a bus service for the students of Otago is a moron. Dave Gee has blogged that this has cost $400,000 - and passenger numbers are on average TWO per journey. OUSA, of course pressured the Otago Regional Council to have this and in 2008 suggested that ALL students paid a compulsory levy of $35 p/a to allow students to use any bus, any time - for free. if you didn't use the bus - tough, you still had to pay the levy. The justification for this wacky idea was that "it’s generally expected that all students should support the provision of these services because they promote activities that are beneficial to the student community." This coming from an association that has less than 11% voter turnout for student elections, legendary apathy and is bitterly opposed to allowing students to choose not to join them.
Note on this link, page 6, where OUSA try and get away with a dodgy survey stating that 70% of students surveyed support a compulsory levy for a bus pass. This from the same OUSA who used to pass budgets counting people walking through meetings to count as a quorum. A charming use of student democracy in action!

And finally..Comrades Sue Bradford and Catherine Delahunty were rattled by the admission that the SIS were watching them since they were little teeny weeny 14 and 15 year olds. Give it up ladies. You supported and still sympathise with an ideology that doesn't blink at kids informing on their parents. An ideology that has murdered hundreds of millions of people, that spies on its population in order to control it. John Key, a prince of a man, has stopped the SIS continuing their investigations on these two - and other Green MPs. You're off, for now but I have no problems keeping an eye on people like them and it doesn't infringe on human rights if you yourself support the constant watching of citizens.

On a light note, check out this page. Awkward family photos.. very funny. Cheers.