KSK: Why Are the Bad Guys Smarter Than the Good Guys?

Why are the bad guys demonstrably smarter than those tasked with protecting our money and providing security?

It was the week before Christmas and I had not yet eaten a single mince pie. Santa was still preparing to wedge himself down the chimneys of the homes of happy children. And then I had an attack on my laptop. No, I didn’t do anything: didn’t click anything or hit anything or download anything suspicious or unknown – but a nastiness appeared before my eyes.

KSK: The Good Ship Lollypop

AKA the Failed Labour Govt

2017-2023 - Do Not Rest in Peace

I can’t help but think as I see the terrifying images of the MV Dali, the container ship taking out the Key Bridge in Baltimore, that it can be seen as an analogy for the Labour Government and its destruction of this country. The country is broken. Just as is the Key Bridge.

KSK: Time to Implement a Mature Cross-Party Approach

It is time to bring some maturity to the infrastructure issue

The state of the nation is very fragile, as PM Luxon has rightly stated.

Tough choices and tough love are what’s needed for a “fragile” New Zealand as it faces a “rough” economic forecast and massive infrastructure deficit, says Prime Minister Christopher Luxon.

NZ Herald

JC: “I Lift My Gun, I Let the Shots Do the Talking”

“I lift my gun, I let the shots do the talking”

Peeni Henare, New Zealand Labour Party

Once again our so-called national day was hijacked. We were treated to aggression and fighting words and violence. Threats of guns and cannons. A malevolent, three-headed taniwha. Lions. Spiders.

Peeni Henare said, “I lift my gun, I let the shots do the talking.”

KSK: The Choices We Make Are Our Responsibility

Personal responsibility: remember that quaint idea? It is positively Dickensian these days, when individual problems are made the responsibility of the country at large by way of various blunt instruments. The bottom line is that large numbers of our citizens accept no responsibility for their choices in their lives – it is always someone else’s fault and that someone had damned well better step up and fix it – with more money. And lots more money. And with no accountability required.

KSK: Choice Has a Long Memory

The ongoing furore around smoking and the new Government’s stance is reaching farcical levels.

Smoking remains a choice. Smoking is not about to become compulsory. For anyone.

The voice of reason was Casey Costello, the Associate Health Minister, rejecting the criticism.

KSK: And Still, We Wait

Small children can count faster than the Electoral Commission

The Electoral Commission is responsible for yet another no-government government, and it is a further insult to the voting public that we continue to have the losing PM as the actual, if so-called caretaking, PM. As Capitalist said well on the BFD, “What Mr Christopher Luxon should do is head to Government House and be sworn in as the ‘caretaker’ Prime Minister.”

KSK: Take the People With You

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change
Albert Einstein

Change is what the country wanted, and change it did, leaving a shell-shocked Labour Party wondering just what had happened. A bolt from the blue – literally. But they knew it was coming, they just couldn’t bring themselves to acknowledge that they had gone too far, too fast, in directions that were not discussed before being set in motion. A bit like booking a flight to Paris and finding yourself landing in Timaru (sorry, Timaruvians.)

KSK: Will They or Won’t They?

The sweet-talking tax on sugar

The issue was raised in the Leaders’ Debate amongst issues of the economy, of increasing crime, of education: what about a sugar tax or banning fizzy drinks?

KSK: On Being Shot in the Head

Nothing to see here: just another isolated incident

Opening the online news sites each morning is a routine reveal of yet another crime: another murder, another gun-related incident, another case of domestic violence, another ram raid, another ‘youth’ crime, another case of child abuse, of gang warfare, etc. As it was this week when two people were hospitalised: victims of gunshot wounds in the CBD in Auckland at 11.30pm last Thursday.

KSK: In What? For Who?

Does the Labour Party 2023 Campaign Slogan Work?

Well – umm…Quick answer: actually no. It doesn’t work. if you haven’t caught up with it yet – wait till you see it and ask, “What does it mean?”

“In it for you”

It’s not even original. Mark Easterbrook was the copywriter of the original, award-winning slogan “in it for you” for Genesis Energy ten years ago.

KSK: Politicians Often Commit to Promises That Are Really Wishes

The Green Party Manifesto with its unrealistic ‘policies’ includes the word “aspiration” and also covers recent policy announcements around reducing income inequality, along with the introduction of rent controls – which Labour has already ruled out – and clearing the social housing waitlist with a commitment to build 35,000 public homes.

But now Chris Hipkins has rained on their parade by ruling out a wealth tax or a capital gains tax after the election and it is not only the Greens who find this a less-than-desirable outcome.

“National leader Christopher Luxon is calling it ‘cynical politics’, while Greens co-leader James Shaw said only the Green Party is standing for progressive change.”

KSK: Bad Behaviour Rewarded with Hugs and Cuddles

Not to mention special privileges, KFC, Maccas and Mayoral mayhem

The rewards for behaving badly are increasing as we watch from the sidelines.

“The five young people who faced off with authorities from the rooftop of a youth justice facility in Auckland have come down and eaten KFC and McDonald’s, authorities have confirmed.”