Gross hypricisy at the standard.

I suspect battle lines will be drawn between lprent and Eddie (worse & worse) at the standard.

Eddie starts to fume about Key's so called 'acceptance of Worth's version of events. Eddie must be a bit slow to remember another version of a similar theme.

I think lprent justifies John Keys so called tardy disclosure in this comment;

lprent August 28, 2008 at 12:52 pm

burt: You are just being silly. Looked at the statement and nothing changes.

She asked Peters if it was true, and he said no. You take the word of ministers.

Tell me, do you expect PM’s to have a touch of the divine and to be able to see inside peoples heads?

Reading what lpren's comment was in response to gives it context. Non disclosure over a period of months and months compared to a few weeks.

Take the ministers word and do nothing was acceptable for Labour eh, but not National. lprent will be spitting tacks at Eddie for being such a hypocrite.

Unravelling Eddie.

That's it, National are starting to act far too much like Labour so Eddie needed a few changes to keep him posting. lprent has replaced the experimental hypocrisy detection classes with functionless classes conforming to the 'RateHypocricsyOfAttackAgainstPreviousDefenses' interface.

Please read through this where you can, Eddie occasionally speaks some wisdom. Eddie & Robinsod obviously share some of the same generation of 'Rabid' classes.

Eddie makes a full apology.

Having expended a considerable number of CPU cycles compiling posts that denigrate Melissa Lee over what Eddie was hoping would be a scandal of Winston proportions, New Zealand On Air have cleared Melissa Lee of any wrong doing.

Eddie having got his bits in a twist flinging around the "C" word that we all rightfully associate with Labour has now made a full apology. (well not yet - but I'm sure it will happen because Eddie insists he is fair and balanced)

Trevor Mallard has also made a more sincere apology than any Labour MP has ever made in this comment he posted on KiwiBlog.

"I might yet get to the point of saying sorry but not there yet."

That sure beats "Move on".

Full story here: NZ On Air - Report on allegations surrounding the production of Asia Downunder 2008

Labour and all their friends

Eddie the code bot is at it again in his latest piece of hackery. (see: Cyclewatch )

lprent didn't equip Eddie to deal with the situation where Labour are becoming more and more isolated in the political wilderness. Typical Labour thinking had lprent believing that Labour would always be calling the shots, always be the natural party of govt. But it's simply not the case anymore. The Green's have shown they would rather focus on political outcomes (which is about time) and Labour are still flapping around getting angry at anyone who isn't still in love with them.

Poor Eddie, his parties got no mates and all he can do is denigrate everyone.

Is Hide on his way to the Priveleges Committee?

Rodney Hide may breached privilege by seriously misleading the House.

This is one for you legal types out there but from a layperson’s perspective it looks like it. Here’s what happened

On Wednesday, Phil Twyford (or Twif-ford as Hide insists on calling him) asked Hide whether “he has costed the super-city proposal outlined in [the government's report]?”. Hide replied simply “Yes”.

On Thursday, Twyford asked Hide “How much will the government’s super-city proposal cost to implement and to run annually?” Hide’s answer: “Implementation costs will be minuscule compared with the present costs of running the various Auckland councils”

Twyford followed up: “What is the cost of the Government’s super-city proposal to implement and run annually?” Hide tried to avoid answering and eventually gave the minuscule answer again. Speaker Lockwood Smith told him that wasn’t good enough and asked him to give the cost if he had it (Trevor Mallard pointed out Hide had already said he did have it). Hide ummed and ahhed some more, Gerry Brownlee tried to cover for him but Smith insisted on an answer. This was it - Hide: ”The government actually does not have the cost of implementation”

But wait a minute, just a day earlier he had said the government did have the cost and the ‘miniscule’ comments imply he knows the cost, wasn’t that seriously misleading the House?

Oh dear. It's not looking good for Rodney. Serious this upsets me. I've always thought of Rodney as one of the few people in Parliament who actually took ethics and process seriously. I'm disappointed to say the least.

However, imagine if Rodney is censured by the privileges committee - the authors of the standard will be telling us that like Winston it's nothing serious really. He'll get admonished, perhaps be told he's a naughty boy by his major party leader who can do no wrong and we will all move on.

So what do you reckon Eddie? - we apply the same standard of "what do we do now" to Rodney if hes censured as was applied to Winston?

I think he should resign his ministerial warrant if he is censured - thats what I said for Winston as well. Look I hope its not the case, but if it is I'm going to enjoy posting all sorts of links to compare what the authors of the standard say about Rodney compared to what they said about Winston.

Take care guys - the burt is watching.

Zeal320 strike underway

Zeal320 workers are on strike for four days from today. Ads in every major newspaper explain what they are fighting for - the same pay for doing the same work as other flight attendants on Air NZ flights. Sounds fair to me. ZealGirl has more details.

Eddie over at the standard has tried again to make this all about the company management and tries desperately to distract everybody from the fact the Labour party were the govt and therefore the major shareholder when this was all establish. In the comments in that thread Eddie even tries to blame National for this... Wow I use to respect lprent's coding ability, perhaps he should stick to more mundae stuff like sys admin.

lprent certainly has a bit of work to do with Eddie, some code changes need to be made so Eddie stops trying to compare CEO salaries with Flight Attendants salaries. Still what would a code bot know about the real world, the software is only as good as the author makes it.

Another Labour legacy

Once again poor Eddie from the stranded gets very confused when he starts calling Air NZ a disgrace.

Eddie starts off well.

What exactly is our national carrier, which is more than 80% publicly owned, doing boasting about how it can break its own workers?

He then discusses the problems associated with industrial action for staff, once again Eddie stays on theme here.

Strike action is the final option for most workers, especially low paid workers like these. It only comes after they are given no other choice by their employer and it hurts all parties involved.

Eddie then starts to get down to business;

The deal with the Zeal crew is that they are employed by a holding company, Zeal 320, that Air New Zealand owns and that company has an agreement to staff Air New Zealand flights. They are the only employees of Zeal 320. Every one of their managers is employed by Air NZ.

Then he forgot to question 'how did it happen' - he looses the plot and goes straight for the guys who ran the company on behalf of the owners at the time it was all set up that way ( Labour ), the guys who set the profit targets ( Labour ).

The root of the problem is that Eddie is compromised in that he is programmed to never criticise Labour. It's actually a bit more than a config setting to correct, lprent has been playing with the Eddie bot for a while and he freely admits Eddie's got a few glitches to iron out.

So until lprent fixes the numerous bugs, please remember that Eddie will throw some wild stories to deflect any hint of blame from landing on the Labour party. Enjoy them for what they are, collections of context appropriate auto-argument fragments.