"Silence is consent" He shouted.

So lately I have been getting angry at our little government again. The last recorded time I was this grr was the end of september 2007. When our nanny state was trying to pass its Electoral Finance Bill. Everyone was really up in arms about it. Still makes me grr about all the crap that went around with it.

Now its the smacking bill. 9 mill wasted so Key could just be like "Lolz, to long, did not listen."

I think I'm gonna have to agree with Richard Prosser of "Investigate" on this one.

"...We should split the cost 113 ways, and send every MP who voted for the Bradford Bill invoice for $79,646.01, because we didn't want it, and we said very clearly at the time."

When %88 of the people who voted said Nai to this bill, it creates a very clear message. it means its a very very clear "NAI" ha ha.

I think it wasn't a very good look Johnny gave us at the begining of this referendum. Stating that he wouldn't do anything about it no matter what the results were. This is a great way to deter less motivated voters from not bothering to post their little slip back. And then afterwards they can dismiss this entire ordeal by going "Oh only 50 or so percent of voters voted on this referendum thingy." although as mathematician Matthew rust says "it means 44% say yes to smacking 6% say no and 50% don't really care enough" Its true. Hes a mathematician.

So, keep this in mind as you read the news, We put the members of parliament where they are. We employed them to their position. And one thing an employee shouldn't do is backsas his boss, waste the bosses money, and be inert at a time when the Boss is shouting at him to get a wriggle on. WRIGGLE ON!

Feel free to shoot John an email. Or add him as a friend on Facebook then immediatly defriend him in unapproval (Oooh, shunned.) j.key@ministers.govt.nz

Silence is consent. So if you think this whole thing is ok you can stay quiet. =P

In other news I'm on my holidays now. Woot. My arm guitar is finished and handed in! Woots all around.

I am also taking part in what Keir jumped to call a new "social Experiment." I know she did it to make me more interested in doing it.. And yes it worked. I am. I have joined a models thingy on Bebo. Populated by girls. And most of these girls (With the exception of a few) only have the photographic capabilities of a person who spends all day taking pictures of topography. I'm the only guy. Adventures abound. I'll keep you posted.

Sad truths

I found this article particularly amusing. I found this via baywords.com but while I see where their coming from with privacy of people it seems as though someone finally found a way to stab People in the face over the internet. "your gonna be mean to me? I stab!" Sometimes you just have to face the repercussions of your actions. The net isnt always such a forgiving place.

Amusingly This comment that

"She pointed out that the blog had attracted little notice and would have languished in obscurity if Miss Cohen had not sued."

I think this can safely be said about 90% of all blogs. the Blogger could probably have told all his/her friends its opinion of some random model by word of mouth and still more people would have heard their opinion. Anyway. Its getting late. And this is a post about a post on a blog. How lame. Ill have some cool pics up tomorrow to make up for it. I promise.

Encounters of the worst kind

I have been planning this post for the past few days, I was going to fill it with some zany encounters with people with a punchy one liner or something. But all these stories got topped by something that happened less than ten minutes ago (Its 11:38 currently.)

I stayed late at school, finishing up an assignment for tomorrow. I vowed to stay there till its completed. After I post this Im gonna have to go and write the rationale, so technically I still haven't completed it. Sigh.

Anyway, I catch a late bus home and it drops me in Henderson. I'm walking along and I see a road cone, which (with my designers eye) would look awesome on top of Matt and Keirs car. I vaguely note a car parked by itself in a car park, with its lights on. So I pick up the cone and wander off with it. I'm walking down Matts street when the car that was before parked was now pulling beside me. I was expecting a red faced concerned community spirited do gooder. Turns out its someone about 20 or so. So I instinatly relax. No one our age cares about the community. "Know where to get any weed?" He says, reinforcing my observation. My thought at the time was, wow, I guess I do look sorta dodgey dressed all in black.

"Ah no man, Sorry. I don't do that sorta thing. Have fun though. I thought you were someone who was gonna tell me to put this motha flippin cone back." we lolled and he drove off. I thought that was that until the car pulled back up beside me.

"Hey do you wanna earn a 100 bucks? Its real easy." he asks again. "Ah yea, I guess." I say, Who DOESN'T want to earn 100 easy dollars? "What do I have to do?"

"All you have to do is lie there."

"Huh? Lie where?" I was invisioning standing on the road with my eyes closed as he took an easy kill at 80k an hour.

"Just lie there and close your eyes."

"What? Fuck that!" No way was he gonna catch me like that, I wasn't taking no beat down.

"Up to you mate."

"Yea what the fuck. Screw that."

As I walked away I realized what he was actually getting at. My face instantly crumpling into "WTF WTF WTF" mode. Suffice to say I kept my scalpel in my pocket for the rest of the walk home (But not before putting a road cone on Matts car.)