If you can’t pay for your traffic fines you will soon be able to drive at speeds like those that Helen travels at when she is late for rugby games with no fear for your wallet. Yep folks the government’s latest socialist policy is that those who cannot afford to pay their traffic fines should […]
Entries Tagged as 'Public Policy'
Fireworks Remain Un-Banned
December 24th, 2006 Comments Off on Fireworks Remain Un-Banned
The guy fawkes just past started out rather uneventful for us, we did out fireworks thing then came inside and watched some movie on TV – I forget what now. A bit before 11pm our 11 year old son began shrieking something unintelligible and ran downstairs – we finally worked out he was yelling “Fire!” […]
Tags: Fires · Fireworks · Personal Responsibility
Airport Security – What a Joke!
December 3rd, 2006 1 Comment
Tomorrow I will be flying out of town and I was just now pondering the whole check in procedure and I remembered the last time I flew about a month ago…. I was standing inline at the airport security thingy waiting to get on the plane. Everyone steps up, puts their handluggage through the scanner […]
Tags: Airport Security
Real Charity is Voluntary
December 2nd, 2006 3 Comments
A friend recently e-mailed me a link to this article. It points out that religious conservatives give more money to charities that assist the poor than liberals do. If the data is correct, it highlights an issue I came to realise several years ago. Consider two situations (a) and (b). In (a) my neighbour is […]
Tags: Charity
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
Nuclear Freedom
December 1st, 2006 1 Comment
John Key’s statements that National has no plan to lift the nuclear free policy of New Zealand are very disapointing. While David Farrar has a good point about it being “one less stick to be beaten with,” New Zealand’s nuclear free policy is stupid. No I am not advocating that New Zealand enters the arms […]
Tags: John Key · National Party · Nuclear Power