Posts by Rik
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I'm no international financial guru so feel free to call me an idiot but did we have the rather large currency fluctuations that we have these days back in 1975?
I'm wondering if Nationals plan is just about balancing that out a little bit? Sounds vaguely reasonable...
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May the best team win.
Well - most popular team.
Question: Would you prefer a Labour-NZ First coalition or a Labour-National (un-thinkable, I know) coalition?
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Where were the Nats? Couldn't they have sent one member along?
Busy working hard trying to win an election!
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She knew about the donation, but she didn't necessarily know whether Winston Peters knew it about it did she?
So if she knew about it and watched Winston publicly declaring that it did not exist (ie. she knew he was lying) and then does nothing about it - what does that say about her ethics?
Good grief, what would it take - a taped phone conversation of Helen discussing this donation with Winston early this year and you would still give her the benefit of the doubt!
Does anyone know what it would cost to build a LHC (and subsequent black hole) under the Beehive?
Several billion apparently - could be worth it though?!
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I bet Winston forgot, or mis-remembered.
Rachel
What you suggest may have been possible but do you really think it was wise for him to use the grand-standing "NO" placard that he held up?
Perhaps if you plan to do something as definitive and un-retractable as that you think he might have checked to get his facts straight first?
I don't believe for a moment that he didn't know or couldn't remember - he just thought he could bluster his way through it (and remember he had ample opportunity to explain) and it would all go away. But it hasn't and now it will be interesting to see how honorably he handles being (finally) caught out. -
I'm interested to know what it would take to shake the unbending faith that the author and a large number of the readers of this blog have in Helen Clark?
As reported in the Herald today, "Mr Glenn said by February this year the Prime Minister was fully aware of his donation to Winston Peters."
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10531418
Is it really OK for Helen to sit back a stay quiet while she watches Winston Peters lying to the NZ public?
Is she really as principled as she is (all too) regularly made out to be in this blog? I don't think so. Self serving springs to mind.
There may be plenty wrong with National but there is just as much wrong with Labour.
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I am an Auckland cyclist who agrees wholeheartedly with the notion that we should have a pedestrian and cycling access across the harbour bridge.
And yet I also drive a shiny black SUV....
Hey, maybe that means I am a cyclist that will get listened to for once? I'll call the council and Transit right now as they're bound to listen to one of "their own"!
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I think snapper peaks about 1 day after being caught...bit too tough when it first comes out!
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Well he seemed like a pretty nice/regular guy on TV3's Gone Fishin' show on the 12th July:
Gone Fishin' - A Day with John Key
Sure there is plenty of debate to be had over policy, etc but do we really need a character assasination this early on?
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This is topical:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10516643
While I feel for the two that lost their lives in this terrible accident it appears that the "nasty aggressive" SUV driver was just minding his own business when the careful driver of a nice small car crossed the centreline and hit the SUV.
Probably the magnetic pull of all that metal in the SUV, huh Lucy?