Posts by Idiot Savant
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John Armstrong however spectacularly misses the point with this piece of stupidity:
Neither did it help Clark that Key had not been involved in the 1993 sale. Yet, even if he had been, what would that have proved?
Simple: it would have made him irredeemably morally tainted, deeply complicit in actions and a period of New Zealand history many kiwis today regard as criminal. But the fact is he wasn't. He may have done his bit to ruin the New Zealand currency, pocketing millions for his employers off our misery in 1984, but he didn't loot the state in the 90's.
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Actually they did. Well the Greens certainly made those points. I remember Jeanette Fitzsimons explaining them to me in depth and at length on Thursday (and yes the story was run).
And I stole the thing about overall social costs from them.
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So, it seems loads of workers chose to stay home because driving to work was to much hassle, rather than take the train? I don't get it. The train's cheaper, and less stressful as long as one allows for possible delays.
OTOH, the next public holiday is labour day, and how often do you get this sort of excuse for a day off?
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Yes, and I do hope the folks sneering at the truckers are going to take a good long pull on their fuckupachino next time they bitch about the price of petrol, or retailers 'passing on' increased transport costs when it comes to paying for their cheese and whine.
International oil prices are completely out of our control, and just something that has to be borne and adapted to. Like gravity, really.
And that said, one side effect of higher petrol prices is that it is now economic that take the bus. Though still not economic to take the train to Wellington.
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Stole my comment. Seriously, would anyone who has driven for more than an hour on SH1 come out in strong support of truckies?!?
Not in a million years. They're big, they're bullying, they're obnoxious. The fact that they don't pay their way, but rather expect the rest of us to subsidise their profits for no social benefit whatsoever is just icing on the cake.
Truck the lot of them.
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You actually rang SPARC and asked for more info???
What a novel idea...
Who knows? Next, journalists might be doing it.
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"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on"
What was the truth doing with its pants __off_, that's what I want to know...
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Helen Clark and John Key could be getting their campaign advice from the devil, for all I care. The point of this, in my not so humble opinion, is that the major opposition party in NZ is engaging in an election strategy that relies on debating only the issues of its choosing, and keeping the public in the dark on everything else. That is the scandal.
And four months out from the election, we're beginning to really need to know.
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Just listened to Nandor. All teary eyed now.Gave the press gallery a good bollocking, Jah Ras Tafari!
A very good speech, and it spoke some uncomfortable truths to a lot of people. he also said some stuff you wouldn't expect to hear from a dreadlocked rasta anarchist...
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And everyone in the country (because police officers are entitled to use reasonable force to effect an arrest).
Which in Tauranga apparently extends to torture.
I am ashamed. And angry. And wondering what the police are going to do to prevent anything like this from happening ever again.