on the beach in NZ pondering

at Muriwai beach, NZ last week

Oct 14, I was out of town for a week then back Oct 23 showing my dad around Auckland city, the Waitakere rain forests and beaches for a week...  However, this week I haven't felt much like blogging.  Just feel like walking along the beach and relaxing. 

Politics can be boring, eh?  However, these people rule our lives.  They must be held to account...

NZ has their 3 year elections this month.  The 2 major parties are National (center-left-ish) and Labour (far-left-ish).  Labour is way down in the polls.  Under the MMP system Labour could only 'win' if National doesn't get enough votes and agreements with the other smaller parties to form a coalition.

National might get enough votes to win on their own and not need any smaller parties.  I suppose that would be OK.  It would be better if National didn't have to cow-tow to minor parties - say the race based Maori party.  National has to make weird racially motivated "pay us" and "give us stuff" concessions to Maoris for them to agree to support policies National wants.  Its weird and gives way too much power to the wee and wrong racial parties. 

Yep, I'd be fine if National was voted in to rule alone without any minor parties.  National needs to be held to account for their own policies. The current system, MMP, is just dumb. There is a referendum for NZ to have their say yea or nay to MMP.  Then, they'll (politicians) will "think about it" and possibly change the political system from MMP to something else.  Could be interesting I suppose. Maybe...

For American politics, the knives are out now for Herman Cain about some supposed "scandal" which happened 10 years ago.  The establishment and the left do not want a conservative black man in the White House.  He cannot leave the "all blacks should be in the Democratic plantation" meme.  How dare he be independent, a conservative and a successful leader and business owner.  How dare he.  Even conservatives are attacking him saying he doesn't have enough foreign policy experience (or some rot).  What, did Obumbles the magic dragon have oh-so-much experience with ANYTHING? America's standing in the world and foreign relations have magically healed under Obambam?  HARDLY...

For pete's sake, America needs a conservative POTUS.  If not in 2012, we'll work towards 2016.  In 2012 America should vote conservatives across the USA in federal and state positions and make Republicans the majority in the senate and house of representatives.  Thus, even if Obomination is re-selected illegally (might not get on Arizona ballot this time around: Sheriff Joe insists on validating birth records!), a majority of Republicans should be elected to stop the rise of communism-statism otherwise known as Democrats.  Perhaps...

We'll see.  Dunno.  America will get the politicians it deserves.  If people get engaged, informed and involved, Americans will turn away from the collectivist thinking and illegal fiats being imposed on it - and return to being a Republic. 

But... America will have to want it. 

In the mean time, I'll be on the beach... at least for awhile.  Pondering...