Protecting his woman.

lprent over at the standard has done a great piece on... something. Perhaps it is partisan attack stuff or perhaps it is a commentary on what is important in life when you just turned 50.

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.

Something to be proud of?

Hat-tip: No right Turn.

New Zealand has topped the Global Peace Index, making us statistically the most peaceful country in the world. That's quite an achievement, and Labour can take credit because it spent almost a decade slashing defense force budgets and under investing in military capability and hardware.

NRT style caption contest

lprent gets some time in the sun.

From The Sun: IT Workers are best at sex

I bet like computer nerds all over the planet lprent was mailing this to all his female friends.

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.

The problems of loosing root.

lprent still reeling about not having root access to the server his blog is hosted on takes out his frustration by letting beta version 'authors' loose on the world. His latest catastrophe is Zetitic.

It's probably safe to assume that the name Zetitic stems from Zetitic Philosophy which is defined by Tom Bishop (notably a flat earth proponent) ;

"The Zetitic Philosophy is an exercise in skepticism to come to the absolute truth of a matter. It's a form of Empiricism in which all possibilities are assessed, facts collected, where the conclusion arrived at is essentially a quotient; which, if the details are correctly worked, must of necessity be true, and beyond the reach or power of contradiction."

Well, lprent has a lot of work to do, all Zetitic has done is tried to confuse the behaviour of Labour with the behaviour of business. Just 3 word substitutions unravels the opening paragraph.

"Our glorious business Labour party leaders spent the last 10 years of record growth pocketing wasting huge profits and whinging for against tax cuts. They should have been investing in our economic future. We’re meant to buy this myth that these are the smartest men in the room. Most of them can’t understand something as simple as climate change or that booms don’t last forever. They’re anti-intellectual, greedy, and shallow."

Zetitic makes some sense when he starts talking about Air NZ, his point about CEO's getting big pay rises while workers get buttons is one I have discussed on the standard before. Apparently it's OK for the PM to get a 9% ($30,000) pay rise while the public service needs to fight for 3% - but it's different when it's a CEO in "business".

Zetitic finishes well, 1 more substitution was all it took to discuss Labour's final years of government.

"They treat our country like a Chinese bear’s gall bladder. They milk us all they can without actually making us collapse. Billions a year sucked out of our economy in return for inferior quality bank social services.

So what do we do about it? Buggered if I know… tax cuts?"