Teen sells virginity for $45,000 online
So that’s the going price on the open market is it? I did wonder (academically speaking of course).
I know many will find my sentiments archaic, but I find that very, very sad.
And Lisa Lewis is no longer the most expensive prostitute in New Zealand…
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De Beers, the diamond merchants, and specialists in certain disciplines are wealthy for exactly the same reasons. They both have something that is rare. It De Beer’s case, it is diamonds. In the doctor’s case it is his skills as a physician. I earn a salary way above the average for no reason other than [...]
The Abortion Supervisory Committee are pushing for more use of the abortifacient, RU486. They say that it is being used in only 6% of abortions while the “standard” overseas is 20 – 30%.
Now I don’t have a problem with RU486 being used instead of a surgical termination of pregnancy (leaving aside the whole abortion issue [...]
Dame Margaret Bazley has released her damning report on the legal aid system and it is everything we feared – and more. Not only does it appear that some lawyers are ripping off bith the taxpayer and their legal aid clients, it also appears that they are a considerable part of the reason why the [...]
And with the the words of Pink Floyd’s Money echoing in our ears, we comment on the the Herald’s somewhat exaggerated headline GP clinics stash reserves of $115m. While the total is correct, the word stashed has the same pejorative meaning as Pink Floyd’s version – a pile of money that someone is hoarding. This [...]
The left’s pointless inquiry into bank rates has now been released and can be accessed here. It says it is the Report of the Parliamentary Inquiry into Banking but it is not, of course, an official parliamentary inquiry, it is a Labour/Jim’s Vanity Party/Green inquiry and has no official government sanction as far as I [...]
My little amphibian friend over at FrogBlog is having a whine (or would that be a croak?) at ACC proposed increase in motorcycle levies. He dismisses this ACC explanation as “spin”. As usual with the motorcycle debate, there is much heat and misinformation, but I thought ACC’s new release was remarkably non-spin, considering the amount [...]
Tim Hazledine (professor of economics at the University of Auckland) seems to think that ACC is just fine. He uses the example of putting money aside for you child’s future university studies, the total cost of which he places as $500 thousand:
And you haven’t got that, have you? You’ve got about $20,000 in KiwiSaver accounts. You’ve [...]
Well, maybe not. It seems like it is suddenly going to get a whole lot more expensive. Trevor Mallard seems to think that the government is fear-mongering. He, along with Brian Fallow and Rod Oram, seem to think that the ACC blowout is merely an accounting problem, a combination of accounting standards and poor investment [...]
In the comments section of my previous post, Charlie offers a link to an American GP’s article on a single-payer insurance scheme. Dr Funke seems like a nice person, but unfortunately, he is also a little naive. A comment from Johnnieboy extols the virtues of ACC and wonders why the Americans don’t copy it. In [...]
