Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com There are times I feel we should all be wearing compulsory life-jackets to avoid mass drowning given the amount of government-inspired wetness in the community. Furthermore, it’s getting worse. The latest saturation outburst is the Sign Language Awareness week replacing Maori Wonderfulness week. A
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Described as Germany’s most celebrated virologist, Professor Hendrik Streeck this week issued a warning to nations going back into lockdowns. “Hold your nerve and don’t succumb to the pervasive mood of mass hysteria,” he said. “It’s time to stop all this alarmism.
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A Levin councillor Victoria Kaye-Simmons has complained of racism because of the backlash she’s encountered from locals over her push to re-name Levin, Taitoko. This she asserts was the town’s historic name. That’s absolute nonsense. The Dominion Post explained that a Maori
Sir Bob Jones I put up with last night’s fireside chat as much as was tolerable, then swapped the television for my book. At my age time is of the essence and I don’t have it to waste. The problem of course is there’s basically no substantial
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Older rugby fans will recall Grahame Thorne as a sparkling 1960s All Black five eight. My best Thorny memory was after he gained the National selection for the solid Labour seat of Onehunga in 1990 and in the subsequent National landslide, caused a huge upset
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com New Zealand’s most fearless (and thus honest) cartoonist Garrick Tremain, continues to pump out common sense commentaries. Here’s his latest re the government’s nonsensical sign language announcement. Today’s Dominion-Post, doubtless with heavy hearts, has abandoned writing half the paper in a
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A week back a Victorian Treasury economist, Sanjeev Sabhlok, resigned in protest at the absurdly dictatorial situation imposed by the now widely loathed State Premier to combat the coronavirus. He made some interesting observations in an Australian Financial Review explanatory article. Largely his criticism was
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The American Presidential election promises a fitting chaotic finale to a monumentally disastrous year for the world. A voter surplus for Trump is plainly not going to occur. Last time he lost by 3 million votes but won the White House through the undemocratic vagarities
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Total Road Deaths to Date: 218 Total Coronavirus Deaths to Date: 25 NOTE: Thanks to the lockdown the road toll is down on past recent years. Consistency and common sense (and doubtless Ashley Bloomfield) says we should forthwith ban all motor vehicles. The government should
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The above is a New Zealand Herald website heading. It’s extraordinary given it pertains to their own columnist and is totally inaccurate. In fact the complaint quite rightly was not upheld as the subsequent article made clear. This is yet another typical newspaper sub-editor
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com What a hypocritical furore following the government’s announcement lifting the top tax rate from 36% to 39%. That means once over the threshold figure high-income earners must now work all Monday and Tuesday before they’ve left any money for themselves. Numerous journalists and
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Over my eight decades lifetime, I’ve witnessed many major changes. By far the biggest has been the sexual equality revolution, something which say a 20 year old today might be puzzled to read about as they now take it for granted. It wasn’t
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Our newspapers report without arousing any reaction, and I quote, “a surge in the number of people returning to New Zealand from India who have tested positive for coronavirus.” In the early extreme panic stages a few months ago, a young MP, Hamish Walker, was
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A Herald newspaper correspondence, Vince West of Milford, attacked Mike Hosking for his “cynical and negative attitude to government initiatives.” I gather Hosking has the nation’s largest radio audience which if so, suggests his views strike a chord with an awful lot of people
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Talk of the devil, or more specifically of his cyberspace rival, the bearded ballgown wearer who practices the Godding lark but no-one knows his name, and of whom of late, I’ve made a few observations about on this blog. One thing I’ve frequently
