Posts by william blake
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There is only one thing worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wild.
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Aside from the "median voter theory." This may be why there isn't a centre party
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/may/political-centrist-voters-051515.html
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It seems odd that there isn't a swingeing centrist party at one third of the actual vote. Not your bigot party like NZ first or quasi Christian conservatives but a Party with no policy, no ideology just sharp clothes and $100 haircuts.
A guaranteed coalition partner with any party and a refuge for expired celebrities and knackered sports stars. The stuffing in the turkey. -
Distinctly New Zealand would have had the cars.
Words / Lyrics / Story telling. Dennis Glover perhaps, covering suicide and the collapse of farming, hence the fence.
What was the option that came with the over engineering from Germany called?
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I used to have a room with a wonderful family and Don used to run a large successful electrical company. He was always saying that under Muldoon having more than half the country employed by the state was a recipie for disaster. He had a good point. He also said politics was a pendulum from Left to Right and it all balanced out over time. But since the end of the 1970's pollies like Regan, Thatcher and Douglas have shifted the pivot point of the pendulum way over to the right, so the swing to the right is much harder and the return to the left is less and less.
What beggars belief is that a system that is designed to benefit the few can be supported democratically by the many.
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From what has been reported Kelly Van Gallen is an active visible community leader. She also by her own admission distributes cannabis albeit for free. As a role model for her community the judge may have seen it as his job to severely punish her for promoting a sanctioned substance from a position of respect and influence.
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A prison sentence for someone so highly engaged in her wider community seems stupidly counterproductive. The judge is the person here showing that the law is contemptible.
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Urban hillbillies
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Letting the community take ownership? Not on John Keys' watch.
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I only know one Bogun, he's from Sarajevo.