Answer: Close-Up #11

What was this?  A butterfly proboscis.

 

United Future Fails to Reregister

The joke party that is United Future, or Untied Future as I like to call them, a bit like the broken circuit that is their logo, has failed to re-register with the Electoral Commission.

We can now stop the farce of Peter Dunne collecting an extra $100,000 a year on the taxpayer as a “leader of a party” that has morphed, amalgamated and rejigged itself so many times, its farcical. “Political Prostitution” is a phrase that comes to mind.

This is the party that has never garnered any electoral credibility other than as one-off ‘worm reverberation’ in 2002 and a shop facade to Peter Dunne as a main-party prop-up.  He has often not even been challenged in Ohariu; it has been a political career of proxies and surrogates.

“UnitedFuture has failed in its bid to fast-track its re-registration as a political party.”

The Electoral Commission has decided to allow UF to proceed with re-filing electronically, but that could take up to two months. This is now a second delay, and Speaker David Carter is confronted with an important decision; is UF currently viable, and therefore, should the “party” allocation be made.  I think it should not, until the party has re-registered, properly.

Carter has previously decided to delay a final determination to allow a grace period for UF, which I agreed with, then the Dunne leaking affair exploded.  The grace period is over.  Let UF suffer he consequences of its administrative and organisational failure.  The system has to have integrity.

“The Electoral Commission said in a decision today it would be writing to Carter.” So, this will be able the legalities from their perspective as an advisory to Mr Speaker whether UF is actually a “party” in a parliamentary sense (it is de-registered).

It seems fairly straight forward to me.  The funding gets cut while the filing is done, Dunne can stay where he is (he’s moved anyway, from a ministerial office) and retain all the livery and letterhead etc., but just have the resources cut that other Mps do not have, or private people like Colin Craig, who actually has about three times the support of UF in current polls, until the party has proven it complies with the regulations.

Dunne deal.

Cartoon of the Day

“Death to Israel” Facebook (Get It Removed)

Here’s how to get this nasty Fb page removed.  Follow visuals below, 3 easy clicks.

1. At site you want removed below right of the masthead pic, click Message/Report Page. (
https://www.facebook.com/Down.Wiith.Israel?fref=ts
) 

2. Click I think it shouldn’t be on Facebook.

3. Click Hate Speech/targets a race or ethnicity.

Simple.  You can repeat this process for other nasties, like:

Death to America & Israel:  
http://www.facebook.com/groups/417282748330867/?fref=ts

Death to America:   
http://www.facebook.com/groups/158405727556819/?fref=ts

Factoid at 3(pm)

Garden Snails have thousands of teeth, which are mounted on their tongue (radula). They are classed as Gastropods meaning, ”walking stomach’ or maybe that is French for “if you swallow them whole, they walk around inside your stomach.”

Anti-Semitism at Facebook

Yip, here we go again.  After desecrating Jewish graves in Wellington and Hungary, the anti-Semities are at it again, this time at Facebook.  Brietbart reports that Facebook has taken down an Fb called  ”BAN ISLAM”. They found it an informative educational page, but Facebook saw fit today to close that page.

EXCEPT they still have up the DEATH to AMERICA  and DEATH to ISRAEL pages which you can still join here if you’re a jihadist Nazi anti-Semite. SHAME on FACEBOOK!

https://www.facebook.com/Down.Wiith.Israel?fref=ts

Oooo, we can’t use the word “ban” in regard in Islam, case it hurts their feelings, but it’s ok to kill and threaten DEATH to Israelis and Americans.  Riii-gghht.

Face of the Day (White Walker)

One of the mysterious White Walkers from beyond the Wall, Game of Thrones Season 2 (tonight, Prime).

Let’s nick name him “Snow” with a look that’d chill ya to the bone. Inspired, I’m sure, by Tolkien’s Barrow Wights and Black Riders.

Stalking Game of Thrones (#2. White Walkers)

Continuing my series on Game of Thrones, Season 2 starts tonight on Prime NZ.  Kind of appropriate that heavy snow warnings are in effect for Christchurch for next two days.

See:  Stalking Game of Thrones (#1. Intro)

Anyhoo, I mentioned that House of Stark’s saying is “Winter Is Coming” and that the threat of “winters” hang over the plot of GoThrones’  Westeros.  Here is a first look, then, at one of the strange White Walkers (note Tolkien’s Black Riders) hinted at in Season 1 but never seen. They apparently live beneath the ice for thousands of years but have arisen again and KILL everything.  That is why the Great Wall is up in the North to keep them out.  An awful pun but they do look really COOL.

This is a video mash of GoT and the NZ Met service. Enjoy. 
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8814802/Games-of-Thrones-and-Corbett-Winter-is-coming

Obama’s IRS Dragnet Scandal (Impact on Democracy)

Michael’s cartoon for Father’s Day.

My friend Michael P. Ramirez in California (Investors. com) writes,

“There is no question the IRS scandal was a violation of constitutional rights, an obscene politicization of a government agency and a prime example of government abuse. But what is equally disturbing is that no one seems to be talking about how the IRS was utilized to alter the competitive landscape of the election.”

The initimidation focussed on Republican donors and supporters of Romney, and therefore had an impact on participation in America’s last election.  Watch the 2 Congressional Hearing videos I posted on what happened to these people here and here (under sworn testimony).

1. Congressional Hearings on IRS Abuse of Americans

2. Congressional Hearings on IRS Abuse of Americans

“Think about it, liberal groups which support the administration and their causes were fast-tracked so they could engage quickly and effectively during the last election. Tea Party and Conservative groups were delayed or not approved, were bombarded with inappropriate questions and paperwork, warned not to proselytize or advocate positions, were forced to reveal donors and they too were audited or harassed or had sensitive private information leaked. 

“These conservative groups were subjected to a process that ultimately denied them the ability to actively promote their causes and engage until AFTER the election or not at all. 

“This is the kind of corruption you find in third world countries and third world elections or in the Obama Administration… in other words, regular Chicago politics. 

Follow Michael here:  
http://www.investors.com/editorial-cartoons/michael-ramirez/659917-barack-obama-in-oval-office

Memorial Mark Sainsbury Close-Up #11

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