Hello everyone
Just a quick note to say Merry Christmas and I hope your day is filled with joy and presents and crap. And for those of you in drier climes, I hope it’s raining (as it is here, albeit lightly). And to all my lovely Jewish friends, hope you use this day as a good excuse to get absolutely plastered and wreck havoc on society cause noone’s really looking and you can!
A wee christmas one for you. Read this article about how Google Earth Killed Santa!
Categories: Fun stuff
Originally uploaded by kakariki.
As sad as I was that the National Party decided to get rid of their most bumbling incompetent leader in their entire history, I was pleased to see the old coot go away and leave us alone. Watching the coverage on TV they showed something about the wee competition between Don and Helen as to who was the most ‘mainstream’. Possibly one of the most ridiculous public discussions I’d heard in a while.
So I made this bib for my wee one.
Hope you like.
Categories: Craftivism · Fun stuff · NZ Politics
Wippee I just added a new crafty blog by Cross Eyed Kat who is the groover behind www.crosseyedkat.com Check it out. Especially like the Talk Like A Pirate Day tribute!
Categories: Blogosphere · Craftivism
Just had to share this one with you all (especially you Australians). We stopped just before Rotorua to check out these waterfalls that neither of us had ever seen before and they were pretty rad.
And the bush was stunning!
I’m starting to edit photos up so expect some more to perve at sometime in the next week.
So nice to be home!
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Hard to take Australian politics seriously at the best of times but this is ridiculous.
No hugs thank you, we’re senators
Monday Dec 4 12:55 AEDT
Ridicule, belittlement and backstabbing may be an everyday part of exchanges in parliament, but senators have been banned from hugging visiting MPs.
Greens leader Bob Brown has received a stern letter from the Senate’s president Paul Calvert, after he hugged New Zealand Greens MP Metiria Turei on the floor of the chamber during question time on Tuesday.
Ms Turei had been among a delegation of visiting New Zealand MPs who had been granted special permission to sit on the floor of the Senate.
Spotting his old friend, Senator Brown approached Ms Turei and gave her a hug.Senator Brown on Thursday received a letter from Senator Calvert, warning him that his actions were “disorderly”.
“On November 28, 2006, you approached guests who were seated on the floor of the Senate chamber as a special courtesy as a visiting parliamentary delegation,” Senator Calvert’s letter said.
“I reminded you at the time that it is disorderly to approach distinguished visitors in the chamber.
“If you persist in defying the authority of the chair, I will have to review the policy of allowing guests from other parliaments the courtesy of sitting on the floor of the Senate.
“I will also be likely to report you to the Senate for gross disorder under standing order 203.”
Senator Brown said Senator Calvert had “gone orbital” about the hug.
“He should concentrate more on real misbehaviour in the chamber as Christmas approaches and tempers fray,” he said.“A few hugs will not go astray – I think they should be encouraged.”
Senator Brown said there was no rule preventing members of the House of Representatives greeting chamber guests.A spokesman for Senator Calvert said it was disorderly to approach guests seated on the floor of the Senate because it disrupted question time.
“This has been ruled by the president on two previous occasions, and those rulings have been published and are well known to all senators,” he said.
“It is nothing to do with preventing anyone being ‘welcomed’. Senators are free … to talk to such guests in the lobbies adjacent to the chamber.
“But going up and talking to people disrupts the process of asking and answering questions, which is the purpose of question time.”
And I think if I remember rightly, this is the second time Metiria has gotten in trouble in the Senate. Last time either Bob or Kerry (or both), waved at her.
Scandalous!
Categories: Australian Politics · NZ Politics
Yip, back in Aotearoa for a few months for a spot of breeding. Will be away from the ol’ blog for a while while I cruise around the motu.
Normal service will probably resume in a couple of weeks.
Yay
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