Posts by Don Christie
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I just hope it doen't start yet another tiresome Jafas v. The Provinces war of words.
Gollly gosh I hope not, because if you dish it out you shouldn't have to take it back. Is Brad Butterworth, blessed gentle flower that he is, an Aucklander by any chance?
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I watched part one of Andrew Rawnsley's The Rise and Fall of Tony Blair last night
Rawnsley has spent 10 years predicting the implosion of the Blair/Brown relationship. It never happened. I sure it was "robust", but it never fell apart in the way he kept predicting. I think this programme was his way of justifying a largely wasted amount of newsprint.
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Of course it's an election ploy. Simple politics 101 for some in that game. Find a disenfranchised minority with problems. Come down hard on them because, of course, they are just a bunch of bludging losers. The solo, usually non-voting, teenage mum is an old favourite but in Australia indigenous people have been pressed into the role as Howard's election prospects are no doubt a "national emergency" to him.
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This thread is getting a bit heavy. In the meantime, in the real world Prince William, Middleton rekindle romance.
Hope they are old enough.
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Brilliant write up Russell. I was at the schools stage challenge in Wellington last night. Talk about creativity. I think the future of NZ is in good hands, even if they can't vote yet.
Oddly enough, he said, because the two big carriers, SingTel and StarHub, were so "competitive" - in other words, they won't peer sensibly - the fastest path between sites on either network a few kilometres apart was via the United States.
If ever there was a (missed but maybe recoverable) opportunity for NZ to sieze a competitive advantage this is it.
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... there is a good case for giving 8 year olds the right to vote.
Yes there is. My (then 6 year old) went to some considerable effort to identify all the party colours and posters, understand the basic policies and find out who her mum was voting for.
The look on her face when we turned up at the booth and she discovered that she was without franchise, was to put it mildly, stunned disbelief.
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16 year olds voting I don't mind. Governments controlling the education of the majority of them at the time, I do.
David Bain retrial - you missed the important part. Nine months of Dunedin police having their reputation dragged through the mud by FoB (friends of Bain). All the gummint's fault, of course.
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We need to raise the obligation of Property Investors to supply & maintain safe insulated housing.
Will those expenses be tax deductible under the "ring fence" regime? If not, why would landlords bother?
If tax changes take the heat out of the housing market, I say go for it. I have a suspicion however that it would be similar to the Reserve Banks intervention in the currency markets. Fiddling at the margins. Idiot Savant posted this link elsewhere:
Brian Easton points to the global as opposed to local nature of the problem.
Getting back OT. The F&R boys have been pinged for a transaction that took place in 2002. Years after the winebox debacle. This is the story that keeps taking.
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Does any of the above make me a nasty right-wing beneficiary basher?
As I said once before, your podcasts changed my perspective, you sound much less nasty in real life :-) I think was somewhat taken aback by your comparisons between F&R and beneficiaries.
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Heh, nice quote Terence. Come back Craig, all is forgiven.