Posts by dc_red
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Rose-wilting heat in Dunedin last year? Unprecedented! This year though there's been lots of snow around so clearly global warming is a myth.
Hide is parrots the most primitive denialist talking points (or "factoids" as Russell terms them) and is, frankly, an ass when it comes to this topic. No net warming since 1998 indeed.
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Hamish McCraken rates very highly in my books for the feat of almost knocking the vile Murray McCully out of East Coast Bays in 2002.
Ahhh, happier days.
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Agreed, Craig.
I think that, almost by definition, a late-20s candidate for political office is going to have an underwhelming CV. For two reasons: a) they're relatively young and haven't had time to accumulate much experience; and b) what experience they do have relates in large part to party politics and securing the nomination.
That's why I tendered that the fundypost was on firm ground characterizing Kaye's CV as "underwhelming".
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Tim appears to have a very low threshold for defining "foul and nasty",
as well as a deep-seated grudge against Judith Tizard.Nevertheless, the fundypost is perhaps on firmer ground in describing Kaye's CV as "underwhelming" as opposed to "largely fabricated" in the absence of evidence to support the latter.
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Oh yes, the other problem with England and Wales is that you can get arrested for, well, just because.
Yes, and we shouldn't forget that the NZ Police have at least their fair share of lying bullshit artists, and power-hungry rule-mad freaks. And that many of even the most minor and trifling offences are "potentially imprisonable."
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I like the young Mr bin Laden's hair-do, I have to say. No one with dreads could be a bad man.
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They are selling back the BMWs and getting a 'City Hopper' Daihatsu Sirion.
A used one, I trust?
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In retrospect, the fact they outscored the 2 parties supposedly representing 87% of an outraged community was quite a statement in itself.
Well said. And they basically performed as well as a third party of a similar ilk (the Kiwi Party), which put in a lot of effort, it must be said.
The demise of the Alliance was remarked on by a few (just 1700 party votes) - but if you take in all the constituent parts of the old beast the tally is quite impressive.
Greens (6.4%) + JAP (0.9%) + Alliance (0.08%) + Democrats (0.05%) + a proportion of the Maori Party's 2.2% (I assume this is where the Mana Motuhake party went?)
The only old member of the Alliance to have been completely obliterated were the "Liberals". Gilbert Myles and that other guy.
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Being the chairman of Kiwi Bank certainly has lifted him up in my estimation.
Gotta guy the guy his duesCuriously, he still struggles to blurt out more than a sentence or two before making some sort of verbal blunder or egregious offence against the laws of grammar.
And yet he managed to be PM for seven years. Curious. Bodes well for Key, too.
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Although, it must be said, that is still rather better than our own smacking parties did on Saturday
Heh - both RAM and the Republic Party got fewer party votes than they have members (assuming both genuinely met the 500-member threshold).
Good on Bill and Ben, btw. No mean feat to get more than 1 person in 200 voting for you.