Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Imaginative barristers continue to entertain with their arguments on behalf of clients facing off-beat, usually sexual offences. The latest such quirky defence episode related to an Israeli-born GP practising in Kapiti, who felt compelled to examine women’s breasts when they (the women that is,
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Last week, reading Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, first published 202 years ago, I encountered the following passage about the heroine Catherine’s sister Sally. “Sally, or rather Sarah (for what young lady of common gentility will reach the age of sixteen without altering her
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A United Nations employee, a Leilani Farha, described as a Special Investigator, recently wrote a report about our housing problems, which as an aside, is a current western world phenomenon. She wrote that the housing crisis was in fact, “a human rights crisis”. Not content
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The media are currently imbued in the housing crisis, and consistent as ever, are talking nonsense. We’ve had much publicised finger-pointing at one another by the Reserve Bank Governor and the Finance Minister as to culpability, but all of this misses the point. Rising
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com NEW Labour MP Arena Williams, in her maiden speech, announced another hitherto unknown human right to add to the lengthy list seemingly added to daily by lightweight non-thinkers. Arena told the House, “Her Dad taught her that dignity is the most fundamental of human rights”
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Parliament’s Speaker Trevor Mallard is to receive probably the most unusual Christmas present of anyone in the land. Procured by his wife Jane Clifton, it’s a craftsman’s specially made barbwire scourge for him to receive daily floggings with over the Christmas break.
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com On the opening day of Parliament, the Prime Minister wore a Maori cloak. Why? Is she a Maori and can we expect some facial tattoos and if not, why not?
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Bespectacled, besuited Maori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi made his debut in Parliament on Wednesday. He has a full face tattoo, waved a Maori club and wore a stetson. The clear message; an attention-seeking buffoon in the eyes of 99% of the population. Parliament is described
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Under the heading ‘ENTERTAINMENT’, on Saturday the Herald headed an item, “Contestant Dead after TV tragedy.” Very entertaining, doubtless having readers rolling in the aisles. Not to be left out, the STUFF website ran the same item under the heading MOST POPULAR. So there you
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I love newspapers and rue their demise in the face of the Internet’s news immediacy, nevertheless, they don’t help their survival by pandering to every nutter offence-taking complainant who calls them. Consider this disgrace by the New Zealand Herald yesterday. It was written
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In the days immediately following the Presidential election, like many folk I was glued to television following the counting updates. This exercise revealed the world’s most boring man, conceivably in all of history, namely CNN’s Chief National Correspondent, John King. King, a circa
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com There’s a quite extraordinary genius in our country, hitherto unknown but who has astonishing powers, currently going to waste. His name is Duncan Copley of Milford, Auckland. Only a few days after the election, in a letter published in the New Zealand Herald, Duncan
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com On yesterday’s Herald website, under the heading ENTERTAINMENT, is “Gang member who says he beat up R Kelly sentenced over deaths”. Who precisely the Herald thought would be entertained by this isn’t stated. Possibility other gang members but I have a suspicion few
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In a laughably inane article in the Dominion-Post, Paula Tesoriero, who apparently fills a role of Disability Commissioner, wrote, “I want to unpick why people may want to distance themselves from the words “disability” or “disabled”. You see in doing so it suggests there is
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Herald Political Reporter Jason Wells wrote this yesterday. “Greens co-leader James Shaw and Marama Davidson emerged from the second round of formal negotiations with Labour this evening. Those talks were progressing well according to Davidson. But neither her, nor Shaw would outline what was…” That’
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com New Green MP Elizabeth Kerekere told the media, “It was fantastic that New Zealand has the queerest Parliament in the world”. Why this is fantastic she did not say, instead adding there’s still a long way to go. “Parliament is still lacking representation, as
