But now that I have seen the re-screening of the original David Frost interview with Nixon (not the Film version) I can see that he has been working on the MakeOver of Hoskins into David Frost for many years.
Maybe DPF would like to draw on his data banks to put up the two for comparison.

BREAKING NEWS: IFL RELEASES REPORT ON CARBON FOOTPRINT OF INAUGURATION!!!

Carbon Bigfoot: 2009 Inauguration Expected To Generate More Than A Half-Billion Pounds Of CO2

(Washington, DC – January 15) — Next week scores of celebrities including Leonardo DiCaprio, Sharon Stone, Sting, and Steven Spielberg are all expected to flock to the nation’s capitol, many by private jets, to the historic inauguration of Barack Obama. The swearing-in extravaganza will surely be the largest yet and is seeing ballooning costs and a major environmental footprint.

In a report released today, the Institute for Liberty (IFL) utilizes data from federal agencies, environmentalist organizations, and news accounts to extrapolate the estimated environmental impact for the 2009 Inauguration. IFL estimates that, given the millions of people expected to converge on the nation’s capital. IFL concludes:

- The 600 private jets expected to fly visitors to and from the event will produce 25,320,000 POUNDS of CO2
- Personal vehicles could account for 262,483,200 POUNDS of CO2
- In the Inaugural parade, horses alone will produce more than 400 POUNDS of CO2
- The total carbon footprint for the Inauguration will likely exceed 575 million POUNDS of CO2
- It would take the average U.S. household 57,598 years to produce a carbon footprint equal to that of the new president’s housewarming party

The Inauguration of President Obama is truly an historic occasion that should be celebrated,” said IFL President Andrew Langer. “However, it would be very hypocritical for the scores of celebrities, VIPs and political elites to lecture on environmental policy to middle America and small businesses that are merely trying to survive in these difficult economic times, and then turn around and contribute to the half-billion pounds of emitted CO2. This is a celebration–DC’s small businesses, and thus DC’s working families, are going to greatly benefit from this event. The rest of America should share in that opportunity.”

View the full report, Carbon Bigfoot on the Institute for Liberty’s Energy Blog, TheChillingEffect.org athttp://thechillingeffect.org/2009/01/14/ifl-inauguration-will-produce-575-million-pounds-of-co2/

It also doubles as a good example of how the Left are really just shameless political prostitutes.

http://keepingstock.blogspot.com/2009/01/tvnzs-hypocrisy.html

I’ve also included Broadcasting Minister Jonathan Coleman’s e-mail address, and a link to the TVNZ online feedback form

http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=KrM0dAFsZ8k

well I dug it out. Here are the ‘peace loving’ Palestinians in action. Kinda makes it hard to feel sorry for them now don’t it?

Makes me wanna puke but just underlines the contention that all the reef-fish are going to remember about her are the ‘golden years,’ a trend which will only harden as we proceed over the next few decades. That’s why they’re reef-fish, I guess.

I voted for Tindall. I don’t think any of them however deserve the title in terms of the significance of their beneficial effect upon the NZ landscape. I mean, you could argue whether Tindall has had an overall beneficial effect and even if you think he has, Douglas eclipses him by miles, overall.

The Apiata votes, while I understand why, bemuse me. If this was 60 years ago, would we have voted for Upham over Fryberg? What overall benefit has a war hero given NZ, apart from a role model to look up to?

The fact is, it’s a very poor set of choices. Granny Herald gets it wrong. Again.

What I want to know though is who the fuck decided that Louise Nicholas deserves to be on that list?

What was she nominated for?, services to false accusations?, services to the “road to Damascus” or perhaps services to “rewriting history”

http://dynamic.nzherald.co.nz/poll/pub/polls/index.cfm?action=list

suggest you get voting to avoid the embarrassment of her even remaining in the top 3
( I notice the Herald didn’t give Sir Roger as an option, despite a high profile nomination)

Let’s hope this is one issue canvassed by the politicians. This crisis requires lateral solutions and everything but everything has to be on the table. There can be no sacred cows.

“Investors are turning their backs on New Zealand as a place to live and bring their money.

The number of approved investor migrants dropped from 1326 in 2002 to one this year, members of the New Zealand Association for Migration and Investment heard yesterday.

National immigration spokesman Lockwood Smith, who spoke at the association’s conference, told the Weekend Herald the active investor category would be the first thing to be revamped under National.

“We are missing out on investment dollars… changes to business migration is one of five key focuses of National’s new immigration policy, which will be released soon.”

Just wonder if there is a need for a new Category of Immigration.

‘Permanent Tourist’ or similar.

Skills Based Immigration is straight forward.

The Greens want more Refugees. Palestine, Afghanistan, Somalia etc. And Enviroment Refugees from low lying Islands that will be swamped by rising sea levels.

Investors got cut back to one last year, after an average of 5000 per annum. Why? Because Helen and Clayton yielded to Luigi’s Xenophobia.

However there are a huge amount of early retirees, especially from the UK, US, and Canada.
They have money, and want to take advantage of NZ’s historically higher than norm Interest Rates.
And live in one of the best countries in the World.

They may not need or even want a job. The healthcare provision is reciprocal with the UK. They can’t collect benefits.

Surely if there was a tariff saying that there has to be a ‘Total Inward Account’ of say $3m minimum incl. Houses, cars, boats,
even business assets it can only benefit cash strapped NZ.

Or is this all too simple? It would certainly piss Luigi off! and thoroughly dismay Helen and Clayton! Hurrah!

(if it were happening in Oz they’d set up a grandstand and be selling XXXX)

Duh!!!!

Of course that was OK, do you not remember how the evil Bush stole the election from Al Gore, of course the pinko media were not going to report anything that might increase Bush’s popularity.

“It is PC claptrap.”

Or not. Saying “X looks like a Maori/Pacific Islander/South American/Lebanese Arab” relies on the public all having the same understanding of what these racial groups look like.

Except that the police reports always say exactly who they are lookig for but the press report it in the PC manner that removes any reference to race.

On another subject, have you ever thought about witting a book about your time working for Winston?

Bassett’s book “Working with David” was first class, I am sure there would be plenty of us who would love to read about what it was like “working with Winston”

Chopper must be getting old, years ago he would never have left the house without at least one sawn off shotty.

I am not a fan of criminals but you have to admit he is a surprisingly likeable rouge, if he manages to shoot the odd drug dealer along the way well who am I to complain.