This week your Unelected Associate Transport Minister Julie-Anne Genter spent most of the time during her various soft MSM interviews dribbling utter tosh from her foreign-born lips. I generally have to turn the sound down or quickly flick the channel over every time I see her as her grating American
New Zealand police were quick to tell us that the recent stolen firearms debacle in Palmerston North was a one-off. Well, it looks like the NZ Police have been failing to look after handed-in firearms for a while now. The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found multiple failings in respect
So JAG et al would like to punish people for driving evil polluting V8s by putting a new tax on muscle cars and a freebate on EVs. However, your average enthusiast’s muscle car gets driven less than 5000 km per year and your average hippie’s electric/hybrid car
In Backchat on Saturday, Huia, one of our long time commenters, made some comments about her lovely day spent wandering about the sunny climes of the Coromandel. Part of that was the following observations and thoughts about motorcyclists. Stopped off in Coromandel on the way back and it was humming,
Oh, how I hate Facebook! But I love it too. On one hand, I can see some of the bestest, funniest memes ever made and copy and paste them into our awesome and popular Non PC Jokes post ready for Monday evening and you will all laugh, sometimes out loud,
Now I do know that short term issues are no indicator of either past or future weather or climate, but I was wondering. Please Sir, may I have some Global Warming? I have owned my current property for about 8 years and this is the first time we have had
Bad news Wellingtonians. The Greens favourite method of moving goods has just ankle-tapped their favourite method of moving people. So you’re going to have to take the car today. Your commuter trains have been cancelled until further notice due to a freight train derailing between the Hutt Valley and
Way back in August last year, I wrote a post on the effects being seen on the rental markets down my way, due to the openly landlord-hostile policies of our Minority Labour government and their enablers. We here at the BFD have long been suggesting that rental property owners will
Last week, Property Council CEO Leonie Freeman was talking on The AM Show about the upcoming ‘reset’ of Kiwibuild. In part of her segment, she opined: quote. “It’s important to understand there’s a lot going on… Kiwibuild is just one part of it. I liken it to a
The Tale of the Wicked Giant, by Sir Bob Jones, part eight. (If you’ve missed the previous instalments, just click on ExPFC in blue at the bottom of the page to catch up). ‘How is it possible,’ he wondered, ‘that such a terrible infliction should fall upon New Zealand?
The Tale of the Wicked Giant, by Sir Bob Jones, part seven. (If you’ve missed the previous instalments, just click on ExPFC in blue at the bottom of the page to catch up). So New Zealand struggled on while Government as with all wicked tyrants throughout history, built up
The Tale of the Wicked Giant, by Sir Bob Jones, part six. (If you’ve missed the previous instalments, just click on ExPFC in blue at the bottom of the page to catch up). Spurred on by the do-gooders the now power-crazed Government seized much of the people’s property.
The Tale of the Wicked Giant, by Sir Bob Jones, part five. (If you’ve missed the previous installments, just click on ExPFC in blue at the bottom of the page to catch up). ‘Henceforth,’ declared Government, ‘to avoid confusion and in the interest of you all, everything is illegal
The Tale of the Wicked Giant, by Sir Bob Jones, part four. (If you’ve missed the previous installments, just click on ExPFC in blue at the bottom of the page to catch up). Government again found he was short of money and again he borrowed from the people and
The Tale of the Wicked Giant, Part 3. (If you’ve missed the previous instalments, just click on ExPFC in blue at the bottom of the page to catch up). The people were not pleased and many did not give the full amount and some gave nothing at all so
You can all read Sir Bob’s latest musings and thoughts on his No Punches Pulled blog. Following on from yesterday’s initial excerpt from Sir Bob’s book, New Zealand the way I want it, (1978), please enjoy part two. The Tale of the Wicked Giant. Part 2. […] The
