December 11th
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/1316907/1500456
"In a report released on Wednesday the ombudsman is critical of the way the potential health risks from the spraying were communicated.
But...
http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=10277230&fsrc=RSS
"According to figures compiled by the American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS), almost 30m people claimed "no...
December 8th
A friend sent me this link:
Toddler fools the art world into buying his tomato ketchup paintings
And this is the online gallery the article mentions.
It's funny, and sad. The world...
December 2nd
My little sister, Caren, is performing in her first play this week:
http://premier.ticketek.co.nz/shows/show.aspx?sh=LOSER07
Jasmine and I will be there for the Saturday performance....
November 20th
Reproduced from PC's Blog :
If it moves, they've taxed it. If it keeps moving, they've regulated it. When it stops moving, they've subsidised it. If they don't like it they've banned it,...
November 8th
See here: Sixties and Seventies
I don't remember these - I was too young, but I've seen photos of my mum wearing things like these! :) Why have people stopped...
October 8th
Reproduced from PC's blog :
Bore's baloney battered in British court
Most of you have probably already heard that a British High court found last week, to put...
September 26th
This is something straight out of Atlas Shrugged. *shakes head* For localise, read pillage, steal and nationalise:
Zimbabwe's ruling party has pushed a bill through parliament giving local...
September 7th
Saw this on PC's blog . The Daily Show hosting a debate about whose god is greater - Muslims or Christians:
...
September 6th
Well, not all tyranny, but it is at the root of some of the most totalitarian legislation and the New Zealand government's most pervasive interference in our lives recently, says SOLO (Sense of...
September 5th
There is a poll on the TVNZ website:
Should NZ look towards nuclear power for future energy needs?
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_index_skin/news_index_group
As I write this, it's:
...
April 23rd
This one is for all my South African friends. :)
April 18th
My girlfriend caught it, while we were out on a friend's boat. This little shark was about 60cm long, and had an amazingly strong whip of a tail. Don't fret my dear tree-hugging friends -...
March 28th
Income inequality - you know that "widening gap" between the rich and the so-called poor. You've probably come across it often. Income inequality is usually touted as one of the scourges of our...
David Joffe points out this ludicrous story from South Africa:
"Toilets come in all shapes and sizes, but not many people know that the law states that every roll of one-ply tissue must have...
March 15th
Mitch Lees is organising a protest march against the government over Sue Bradford's anti-smacking bill. Read more here:
http://www.solopassion.com/blog/546
You can email him at...
March 14th
Give Yourselves a Smack NZ, You Voted For It
Thursday, 15 March 2007, 9:28 am
Press Release: Libertarianz Party
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Social Welfare
Give Yourselves a...
February 24th
It looks like the government bullies will have to tuck their tails between their legs over this one:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/3972181a10.html
Queen's Chain plan to be axed
The...
February 22nd
Apple CEO and co-founder, Steve Jobs, has fired a shot across the bows of teacher unions. In a speech at the Texas Public Education Reform Foundation, he took the unions to task for crippling...
A dear friend whom I have known since university, was mugged about a week ago. Read his disturbing, yet all too common story, as well as some insights he has on the culture of crime in South...
Wow, almost two months with no posts from me. Quite a holiday I took there. :) Thank you for your patience.
"Upon meeting the wave of English immigrants in the 1970s, Australians dubbed...
December 22nd
I just read a great article by ARI's Alex Epstein, about why New Year's resolutions are important:
http://www.solopassion.com/node/2071
December 20th
In the future, would your robots demand individual rights, and freedom from slavery? It is a real possibility, according to a research paper commissioned by The UK Office of Science and...
Santa's coming. Have you filled in your official Santa's Visit Application form? That's right. Health and safety regulations have made the traditional impromptu visit by Santa unacceptable....
December 13th
As a result of this:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/print.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10415146
I sent this:
To: mayor@aucklandcity.govt.nz , cr.hucker@aucklandcity.govt.nz ,...
December 10th
So, apparently the scientists at the UN have reassessed the impact humans have on global warming:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/10/nclimate10.xml
It is...
November 29th
I'll be going to PC's Christmas bash this Friday:
http://pc.blogspot.com/2006/11/bullshit-and-jellybeans-and-you.html
All readers of PC's blog are invited.
I'm driving from Kerikeri,...
November 27th
Not sure what to get that environmentalist in your life? Try this:
I'm an environmentalist, but...
(Thanks Duncan )
November 23rd
From PC's blog:
"Al Gore's film may have inadvertently done us all a favour: by making itself a home for all the main global warming nostrums and a lightning rod for global warming enthusiasm...
November 21st
No, I'm not talking about a Beatles song.
Submarine with cocaine seized off Costa Rica
Makeshift vessel carrying 3 tons of drugs en route from Colombia to U.S.
...
November 20th
Lindsay Perigo had a great show on Radio Pacific this morning. He is currently filling the weekday breakfast slot from 6am to 9am.
He spoke to Mayor of Auckland, Dick Hubbard, about the...
November 15th
PC posted a good piece about how richer countries are increasing their forest cover:
"That's right: as countries get wealthier and as technologies improve, there is less pressure on forests....
From Slashdot :
Report Blasts "Peak Oil" Theory
"Today, the Cambridge Energy Research Associates released a report dismissing the Peak Oil theory , suggesting that world oil...
November 13th
Lindsay Perigo is doing John Bank's breakfast show on Radio Pacific, 6am - 9am, Nov 13 - Dec 8
You can listen to it online:
http://www.radiopacific.co.nz/
(Update: That's 6-9, not...
November 6th
A good speech by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple:
http://tillthend0.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!B92B8B0496E1EBFC!258.entry
November 5th
I have closed comments on old posts, as I was getting spammed quite badly. I will install different blogging software at some stage, with some better spam protection.
November 1st
Jasmine, my girlfriend, is having an art exhibition. The opening night is on Tuesday, 7th November. It will be running until the 24th of November.
Here is the poster:
Anybody keen...
October 29th
Liberty Scott weighs in on Labour's latest plan to force you to pay for their future election campaigns:
Having happily used your money, extracted from you by force, to fund a key part of...
October 27th
Scrubone, a blogger on Halfdone, seems to be taking Bernard Darnton to task for defending the right to free speech of neo-nazis:
...
October 25th
Now that his court case has been nixed by retrospective legislation, Bernard Darnton, leader of Libertarianz, has started a new project dedicated to the defense of free speech:
...
"Is your thinking up to scratch? Take our philosophical health check to find out."
http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/check.htm
My Score:
Tension Quotient = 0%
The average...
According to the NZ Herald:
Health officials target workplace vending machines
Thursday October 26, 2006
By Errol Kiong
Workplace food-vending machines are the next target in the...
October 18th
Lindsay Perigo will be on Radio Live, standing in for Willie Jackson and John Tamihere.
Friday: 12pm - 3pm
Monday: 2pm - 6pm
If you can't get the station on radio, try the internet...
I have just read and signed the online petition "No Royal Assent to Electoral Act Violations" at
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/nzgg/
The Petition asks the Governor-General to refuse giving...
October 17th
http://www.darntonvsclark.org/2006/10/18/banana-republic-day/
From Bernard Darnton's site:
"Libertarianz will be marking New Zealand's transition from a land of constitutionally...
October 12th
This striking quote from The Press today:
"Kokshoorn yesterday likened the SNA policy to a Robert Mugabe-style land grab that created huge uncertainty for farmers."
Absolutely. It is...
:) What a lark. It looks like Helen Clark's infamous pledge card is for sale:
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=73761184
All proceeds will be going to a good...
September 26th
From Deutsche Welle : German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schauble called the decision "crazy" and producer Hans Neuenfels protested, but Mozart's "Idomeneo" will not be performed at the...
September 24th
A shady group of rebels have put together a video with a catchy tune which makes the message clear:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg3cRnrioSA
I see a red card and they got to pay it...
Lindsay Perigo was on TV on Saturday, on Willie Jackson's Eye to Eye show. The topic of the debate was: Can Maori be Racist? It was a brilliant show, and Linz stood his own against Tariana Turia...
September 21st
While I'm linking to bFM, listen to this absolutely brilliant interview with Michael Laws. He was interviewed by somebody called Kim, and she asked him to defend his "fat brown slug" comment...
From http://www.95bfm.com/default,26408,simon_pound_and_shane_cave.sm
The government has mooted the possibility of passing retrospective legislation to legitimise up to $800,000 of extra...
September 18th
Sorry, just a quick a service message. I accidentally deleted a few comments while overzealously killing some spam a few days ago. In particular, a woman (I think) had written a message starting...
This is an interview which Noelle McCarthy from bFM had with Bernard about a week ago:
http://www.95bfm.com/default,25260,noelle_mccarthy_and_bernard_darnton.sm
Today, I would like to honour two exceptional individuals.
Oriana Fallaci, who fought against fascism in her youth, and most recently, fought the tide of intolerant Islam sweeping Europe, and...
September 12th
http://www.julianpistorius.com/audio/PerigoAndDarntonOnRadioPacific.mp3
Summary:
* National has nothing to do with this.
* This action was taken to ensure that future governments can't...
September 10th
Bernard Darnton talks to Paul Holmes on Newstalk ZB about his court case :
http://www.julianpistorius.com/audio/darnton-zb-911.mp3
He was also on Radio Pacific, talking to John...
August 30th
John Bishop takes on Labour about the money they stole from you to buy your votes:
Over the line - constitutionally
One of the lines that the Labour Party has been running about...
In the Dominion Post, Dr. Michael Bassett, respected historian and erstwhile Labour minister, raps Helen Clark over the knuckles for her handling of the pledge card corruption:
The $446,000...
August 29th
This Friday, it's the 1st of September, the first day of spring, the first Friday of the month, and therefore also the monthly Northland Libertarianz meeting. It will be at our usual haunt, the...
August 28th
Mike Moore had a go at Labour in the Herald the other day:
http://www.darntonvsclark.org/2006/08/21/labour-pm-gets-it-right/
As Bernard wrote:
Highlights:
* New Zealand is "beginning...
August 20th
Last night, on Radio Live , Lindsay Perigo interviewed Bernard Darnton about his court case against Helen Clark and Labour:
http://www.julianpistorius.com/audio/PerigoAndDarnton.mp3
...
August 18th
Libertarianz say they have a strong case
18/08/2006 17:36:00
Libertarianz Party Leader Bernard Darnton talks to Newstalk ZBs Larry Williams about why he is taking the Labour Party to court...
August 11th
The NZ Herald has picked up the story of Libertarianz leader, Bernard Darnton, suing Helen Clark and the Labour Party for misappropriation of funds. See here for more information:
...
August 7th
Here's a silly little joke for you on this lovely Tuesday. :)
----
One of the chief tree hugging activists was climbing a big Rimu tree to have a look out over a patch of West Coast...
August 5th
After my post about Economic power vs. political power , David brought up this question:
So practically speaking, how does one *prevent* 'crony capitalism'? Maybe I'm a pessimist but it...
August 3rd
Peter Linton , Libertarianz Firearms Deregulation Spokesman, was interviewed by NRA News this morning about the state of NZ firearms regulations, and specifically about Greg Carvell. NRA is...
August 1st
This weekend, I helped a neighbour chop up the remains of a big tree into firewood. It had to come down, as it had become a hazard. No, this isn't a post about irrational environmentalism; I'll...
July 30th
Predicting the end of oil, and the subsequent demise of our entire civilisation, seems to be the current fashion amongst neo-malthusians and other prophets of doom.
As you might have...
July 12th
You can now buy the current issue of The Free Radical as a PDF file that you can download:
http://www.solopassion.com/store
Download it and view it on your computer, or print it...
July 11th
P.J. O'Rourke has written a great little introduction to two works of Adam Smith - The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations:
...
July 10th
From The Dominion Post:
All this meddling has investors on edge
10 July 2006
By TERRY HALL
Signs that the Government is becoming increasingly interventionist in business, coupled...
July 7th
Alan Duff , author of 'Once Were Warriors', rips into the touchy-feely and wrong-headed culture of welfarism in a brilliant interview with bFM's Simon Pound.
He also eviscerates John...
July 3rd
There is a great article from the Telegraph today which rebuts anti-Americanism: To hate America is to hate mankind. Here is my favourite bit:
To dislike a country as diverse as America is...
July 2nd
Reducing bureaucratic meddling and taxes encourages entrepreneurs? 'Shock, horror!' I gasped. That's just one of the conclusions from a good little article I came across on Stuff, republished from...
June 29th
In other news, my article on public access and property rights was published in The Northern Advocate yesterday. You can read it here:
...
Bernard Darnton, leader of Libertarianz, is taking on Helen Clark, prime minister of New Zealand! Bernard is taking Helen to court for misappropriation of funds, over the pledge cards which she...
June 27th
A lesson in finance: Teachers sell their work online
For all those teachers who take work home at night, creating lessons they hope kids will like, the reward is a good day in class. Now...
June 26th
A good article in The Times about the amazing abilities of scientists to detect genetic disorders in embryos:
Scientists playing God? We should rejoice
Minette Marrin
"What a piece of...
June 25th
http://www.flickr.com/photos/71515268@N00/174473165/
(Hat-tip Knockin' On The Golden Door )
June 23rd
"What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or...
June 22nd
From Reason magazine:
Burn the Rich
An old Russian joke tells the story of a peasant with one cow who hates his neighbor because he has two. A sorcerer offers to grant the envious...
June 20th
Quoted from Foreign Dispatches :
...it's true enough that not everything requiring virtuosity is "great" art, but it's also true that art without skill is an oxymoron, and I dismiss out of hand...
"This Cold War-era cartoon uses humor to tout the dangers of Communism and the benefits of capitalism." 1948. Cartoon in Public Domain and available to download at Internet Archive.
...
In the wake of "unbundling" (theft) of Telecom's assets, and news about government busybodies harassing a number of businesses in PC's post yesterday , comes a fresh attack on Telecom by the...
June 18th
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=13651
And look at that sediment run-off. Pretty, isn't it? Though I'm glad I live in Northland. :)
June 14th
This article from the Gisborne Herald points out some very real problems which farmers are having with DoC and the RMA. And this happens all over the country, not just Gisborne:
'DoC seem to...
June 8th
Yesterday, Tim Selwyn was found guilty of sedition. Sedition is to "bring into hatred or contempt, or to excite disaffection against" the Queen or the government and to incite "violence, disorder,...
June 5th
Here is the original press release:
http://www.fedfarm.org.nz/media_release/020606.html
Here is the Stuff article:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3688294a3600,00.html
This...
June 1st
It seems Heather Mills McCartney has her knickers in a twist over milk . She is convinced that it causes cancer, diabetes and ugliness (Ok, that last one I made up). Lady Heather wants...
See here for a good little interview with Penn Jillette from Penn and Teller.
Here are my favourite bits:
Penn Jillette's non-advice to college grads
Q: If you had a...
May 28th
Leonard Pitts Jr. in the Miami Herald makes some good points:
It's liberty, not language, that unites a nation
For its next trick, maybe the Senate will pass a law regulating the...
When I am not fighting for my own (and your) individual rights, I am a professional geek. I am currently employed by Vianet International , and the project I am working on, is called...
Is there is a growing backlash by rural New Zealanders against bureaucrats of both local and central government? I think there might be... See these recent headlines:
Walking panel blasted
...
May 23rd
See what this article from the British Daily Mail does to your blood pressure:
Stores urged to drop super-skinny mannequins
Shop window mannequins should have the figures of...
May 22nd
Humour is a powerful weapon. There's nothing like sticking your tongue out at people who take themselves and their stupid ideas too seriously.
PC posted a link to a short video...
This one is for Peter Linton. :) It's very funny.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1094232574024579484
See, guns are useful.
(Hat-tip to Libertarian Youth )
May 21st
Here are some of my favourite snippets from a brilliant article by P.J. O'Rourke. In this article he is addressing the so-called trade deficit that the USA has with China:
Economic progress...
May 20th
Christopher Hitchens strikes out at the supposedly 'enlightened' Holland, for their treatment of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, political activist, and outspoken critic of Muslim extremists:
Three...
And so do I - as I have written before.
Kirk MacGibbon wrote an article putting things into perspective for all the irrational americanophobes out there.
Excerpt:
I love America....
May 17th
With Nick Smith's recent proposal for a 'Bluegreen' environmental policy , I think somebody should point this article out to him, so he can grow a spine:
In the Daily Telegraph there was a...
Marginal Revolution has a post about an open letter on immigration, urging America's leaders to sanity:
http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2006/05/open_letter_on_.html
I...
May 9th
Janet Albrechtsen from The Australian makes some very good points in her article "Our pathetic addiction to big government" today:
WHAT is it with this country's budget obsession? Newspapers...
May 7th
"One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's...
April 27th
Yes, bureaucrats waste your money, and yes, they have way too much power, but this is not what this post is about.
This from Stuff:
Transpower's plan to build a $754 million...
April 26th
Greed is bad, right?
If pursuing profit is greed, economist Walter Williams told me, then greed is good, because it drives us to do many good things. "Those areas where people are motivated...
April 25th
I had an interesting chat with a friend on AIM this morning... Here is the log:
--start--
Friend: morning
Julian: Morning! :)
Friend: ever heard of Direct Democracy?
Julian:...
April 13th
PC's blog has a note about signing up as a Libertarianz member:
http://pc.blogspot.com/2006/04/nzs-libertarians-want-you.html
April 6th
A great Libertarianism Cue Card by PC, which put into words what I couldn't:
http://pc.blogspot.com/2006/04/cue-card-libertarianism-morality.html
I loved this bit:
Acting ethically...
April 5th
After my recent run-in with the bias of a certain young radio reporter , the phenomenon of media bias has been intriguing me. Here's an interesting study about media bias that puts it in a...
Here's an interesting study recently published by Swiss researchers:
The Bigger the Better? Evidence of the Effect of Government Size on Life Satisfaction around the World
Abstract:...
March 29th
I came across some really interesting maps that help visualise different statistics about the world.
Here is an example of net immigration:
The USA receives 37.1% of all migration....
March 28th
I like Americans - generally speaking.
We had an intelligent, witty, American scientist over for dinner the other night. It was going really well, when he said those dreaded words: "George...
March 27th
While reading a post by PC about ad hominem attacks , I came across these two gems linked from the post and the comments:
Stephen's Guide to the Logical Fallacies:
...
March 21st
I wonder if Dover Samuels reads blogs? In particular, I wonder if he read PC's blogpost about the Whangamata Marina case:
Dover breaks ranks
http://www.theindependent.co.nz/story1.html...
March 19th
There's a great piece in The Times about Dr Wafa Sultan, the outspoken critic of Islam, as well as other prominent Muslim/ex-Muslim female critics of Islam. Here are a few choice quotes from Dr...
March 18th
"Physicist and Nobel prizewinner Stephen Weinberg describes religion as an insult to human dignity. 'Without it,' he says, 'you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil...
March 9th
I have always had the greatest respect for journalists. It is a very difficult job, and usually thankless. For many years, my mother worked for a small, regional newspaper in the little rural town...
http://news.talkback.co.nz/PermaLink,guid,3cd083d2-e021-403a-aca2-7f0fd4735348.aspx
Overstayers at a Te Anau lodge.
Statistics New Zealand insists nobody from the Immigration Service...
March 8th
Some media coverage about the Libz and the census. There was a TV1 camera crew in Wellington, but I haven't seen the footage yet. :) I was also interviewed a few times on radio yesterday, and there...
March 7th
Well, the deed is done. Libertarianz members all over the country have taken a principled and moral stand against the census, and sent their forms up in flames.
It's simple. Is it OK for the...
March 6th
Tonight, while we toast our census forms up here in Northland, the Wellington Libz will go one step further. As PC reports:
Libertarianz leader, Bernard Darnton, announced the event today,...
March 5th
"But the census is confidential, and the government would never abuse that information", you say? Well sir, I have a bridge you might be interested in buying...
As David Kopel wrote in 1990...
Apparently Germany can get by quite happily without one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census#Germany
Germany
The first large-scale census in the German Empire took place in...
Tomorrow evening, in Kerikeri, a few Northland freedom-lovers and myself will be having a quiet, private barbecue. We'll also be burning our census forms. By doing this, we'll be joining...
February 28th
This from the BBC:
"Authorities in Australia's most populous state, New South Wales, are to consider banning smoking in cars."
Boy, they sure do like to meddle. Any day now, people...
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
-- William Pitt
(1759-1806) British Prime Minister (1783-1801,...
http://www.azstarnet.com/altds/pastframe/business/117302
Excerpt:
By controlling all stages of production, Hettinga, 64, says he can produce milk so efficiently that he and his...
February 26th
"There is crass irresponsibility in some of the larger monstrosities people drive around suburbia and in London. We have to move against this kind of thing."
"Given the very demanding CO2...
February 16th
Last night, as the Far North representative for Libertarianz, I attended a public meeting in Mangonui. For those who don't know, Dr Neil Benson, Cooper's Beach GP, is setting up a brothel in his...
February 13th
If you enjoyed PC's rant against the slimy language used by bureaucrats:
http://pc.blogspot.com/2006/02/when-passive-verbs-attack.html
...then you might enjoy Less Than Words Can Say, a...
February 12th
Here's a thoughtful and balanced post by Irfan Khawaja on the whole mess that is Cartoons vs. Mohammad:
http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/21239.html
He points out something that I hadn't...
The latest Telegraph has an opinion piece by Nonie Darwish, a woman raised in the in the Middle East as a child of a celebrated Muslim terrorist. She writes eloquently about the real problem that...
February 11th
This morning I was reading a thread on PC's blog about bloggers and mainstream media, when this comment by sagenz caught my attention:
...
Here is an excerpt from The Mountain Comes to Muhammad, a piece by Tim Cavanaugh from Reason:
If freedom of expression isn't dangerous, it isn't worth defending. One of the pernicious...
February 6th
Here's Tim's pamphlet that we handed out at the protest at Waitangi today. You can download a printable version here .
Treaty Racism vs. Justice
by Tim Wikiriwhi
(Cartoon...
February 5th
Here are a few photos from the latest Libz expedition to Waitangi.
Tim explaining what we're all about:
Hooch (Helen Hughes) , Tim, and two angry French girls:
Notice the...
Well, I've just come back from Waitangi. Spirits ran high, but it was noticeably more peaceful than last year. Yes, there were the usual displays of tribalism, marching, chanting and heavy police...
February 2nd
As you are most likely aware, Monday is Waitangi Day. Once again, a Libertarianz contingent will attend. Every year we're there, flying the flag for individualism and equality, and against racism...
February 1st
Sorry, this just annoyed the hell out of me, and I thought I'd vent at you. That's half the reason for my journal anyway... :)
In case you don't know, Larry Ellison is rich - very rich. Here...
January 26th
See if you can connect the dots:
1. Property developer punished for cutting down his own tree - going to quit, as property development is too stressful:
...
January 23rd
It turns out Kakariki from bloggreen is a Bleeding Heart Liberal:
http://bloggreen.blogspot.com/2006/01/surprise-surprise.html
It's not really relevant to her result, I guess, but...
January 10th
I'm back after my trip to South Africa. I might write about it. I might not. :)
Anyway, I noticed this great article on mises.org about the obsession that Americans have with showers, and...
December 16th
Scheduled entries will be even more irregular over the next 3 weeks or so, as I am going to South Africa. I am not sure how often I'll be able to update this journal. As compensation, I should have...
December 14th
Issue 9! Once again, without my input. Yes, the dearest iBook is still buggered, but should be fixed by the end of the week.
Take it away Rick...
...
December 13th
Those staunch rebels from Orauta have finally been bullied out of their school by the bureaucrats. The sad news here:
...
December 12th
Another installment for your aural pleasure (?). As my precious Apple iBook has kicked the bucket, it is a bit late. :-/
http://www.julianpistorius.com/nzb3/nzb3-08.mp3
Notes from Rick:...
December 2nd
It's a bit late, due to my being otherwise occupied with setting up the new home for Sense of Life Objectivists: http://www.solopassion.com/
Anyway, you know the drill. Here's this week's...
November 29th
This article by PC makes such brilliant, common sense, that I am required to point you to it. :)
http://pc.blogspot.com/2005/11/things-i-dont-care-about-winston.html
November 26th
"This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be...
November 24th
Anna Nuzum , who works for the National Party, and who quit blogging earlier this week , wrote a good post that nicely captures how I feel when I hear people slagging off Americans:
"I just...
November 23rd
I have largely been ignoring the peak oil debate, the most recent fad amongst the modern doomsday prophets and environmental demagogues. One of the reasons why I am not too concerned, is that I...
November 21st
I saw this on Stuff this morning, and couldn't help but notice the irony:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3486713a10,00.html
Excerpt:
Brain drain 'to get worse'
22 November...
Here you go, another installment of NZB3. And in case you were wondering, yes, Rick is not what we call... normal, but he certainly is entertaining. :)
...
November 15th
I finally saw Serenity on Saturday! All I can say is - Wow!
Serenity is the film sequel to the Firefly TV series. I have been impatiently waiting for Serenity to come out ever since I...
November 13th
"The Resource Management Act has put the right to farm under severe pressure. Road user charges and fines have created a billion-dollar industry. These and rising oil prices are now affecting...
I saw this last week, but forgot to blog about it:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3471842a3600,00.html
'Flawed' RMA on Fed strategy list
Federated Farmers president Charlie...
Well, Rick Giles, that certifiable kiwi-in-exile, has done it again. Here is the latest installment of NZB3:
http://www.julianpistorius.com/nzb3/nzb3-05.mp3
Contents and Links:
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November 12th
"Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want...
November 1st
"The individual has always had to struggle
to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
To be your own man is hard business.
If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened....
October 30th
I read this article on Stuff the other day:
Deaf girl dies after residency challenge
23 October 2005
The parents of a deaf South African girl allegedly murdered by her father in...
October 28th
"Conformity and obedience,
Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,
Makes slaves of men and of the human frame,
A mechanized automaton."
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley
(1792-1822) British...
No, I am not about to write about Zimbabwe, though you would be forgiven for starting to get worried, after seeing these stories I've read on Stuff over the last few days:
Govt has new plan...
October 27th
"We are reluctant to admit that we owe our liberties
to men of a type that today we hate and fear -- unruly men,
disturbers of the peace, men who resent and denounce what Whitman
called 'the...
October 26th
I got an email from Christopher, a libertarian blogger from the United Kingdom. He sounds like a nice fellow, and if you would like a libertarian perspective on UK politics and things, have a look:...
October 19th
I received an email from a South African friend with this article:
Zimbabwe's inflation is a maths education
"Imagine buying a full tank of black market fuel at Z$100 000 a litre...
I went to see The World's Fastest Indian a couple of days ago with Jasmine and some friends.
According to IMDB: "The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920...
October 16th
If you're into that classical liberal school of thought, here's the Swedish poster-boy for it:
http://www.johannorberg.net/
He's a keen defender of globalisation and capitalism, and wrote...
October 10th
"The more laws, the less justice."
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
(106-43 B.C.) Roman Statesman, Philosopher and Orator
http://liberty-tree.ca/qb/Marcus.Tullius.Cicero.Quote.9803
"When...
October 9th
According to the Times: "Robbie Williams angered anti-drugs groups yesterday after declaring his support for Kate Moss and claiming that there was nothing wrong with the model's use of cocaine.
...
October 8th
This one is especially for my socialist friends. :) On browsing through the Reason website, I came across a four year old interview with recovering marxist, Christopher Hitchens . It makes for...
September 28th
I stumbled across an article by Gareth Morgan. He claims that New Zealanders want a larger government, and sadly, he is right. Read his arguments here:
...
http://quizfarm.com/test.php?q_id=24094
Apparently I am a New Yorker... :)
You scored as NEW YORK.
NEW YORK 83%
WASHINGTON 67%
NEVADA 50%
UTAH 50%
WYOMING...
September 18th
UPDATE: The $500 milestone has been passed, and the haircut has occurred - only the beard is left! I went to Rust Ave Barbers, 10 Rust Ave, in Whangarei. I can highly recommend them. The price was...
The provisional results are in.
Without special votes, Libertarianz received 926 party votes, or 0.05%. Like the other small parties, we have been swamped by the amazing recovery of the...
September 16th
NZB3 #4 is out. I have not had a hand in this one, and haven't even heard it yet (!), as I have been running around Northland doing a convincing immitation of a politician... Well, maybe not that...
PC has some final thoughts before tomorrow's formalities:
http://pc.blogspot.com/2005/09/last-thoughts-before-tomorrow.html
All of the other parties think that there is some areas of...
September 14th
Along with all the other Northland and Whangarei candidates, I was asked some questions by the Northern Advocate. Here are my answers, which they published unchanged:
Name:
Julian Pistorius...
Apparently I'm not just covered by newspapers when I have my hair cut. ;)
You might remember my promotion of freedom for farmers here:
http://www.julianpistorius.com/journal/?postid=50
...
I've just spent a couple of hours at Orauta. This morning we were alerted that they were going to be evicted from the school grounds at 3pm.
See more background here:
...
September 13th
If you are in Northland, and would like to have a chat about Libz policies, or just want to find out more about us, please let me know: 021 377 454
Jasmine and I are out and about, and would...
Monday, 7pm.
We had heard about the meeting from Gray Phillips, one of the other candidates. Once again, we weren't invited, but attended anyway.
Due to some confusion with the...
Here is a very good document that I found while doing some research on over-fishing:
http://www.washingtonpolicy.org/Environment/PBReasonEnvironmentOceanPolicy.htm
And here is the PDF...