Posts by Glenn Pearce

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  • Hard News: Punk'd?,

    No, but Mike Williams isn't under our employ either.

    No, the but the Labour Party Research unit is isn't it ? According the Holmes this morning they were sent to Oz to search thru the 13,000 documents with Williams

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  • Hard News: Punk'd?,

    One observation: it is a little ironic that some of the people most up in arms this morning about the "smearing" of John Key are the same people who spent weeks masturbating over Ian Wishart's despicable book about Helen Clark's supposed secret life.

    True, but was any taxpayer $$ spent by Wishart producing his tome ?

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  • Hard News: Punk'd?,

    Labour might still support such a vote

    No way that would happen, Clark has already said she sees no need for them to be entrenched

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  • Hard News: Punk'd?,

    Off thread but still election-related: this there a minimum voter turn out required for a general election to be binding?

    Why ? Is that Labour's latest strategy for clinging to power, lock everyone in their houses on the 8th ?

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  • Hard News: Punk'd?,

    I'm timing how long it takes for Craig to reply to this post... 10 mins so far ;-)

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  • Cracker: All In,

    he was the HEAD of foreign exchange.

    If he says he didn't know about this fraudelent transaction, it will be about as believable as Winston saying he knew nothing about Owen Glenn's donation.

    In most of the organisations I've worked in the HEAD of any given department would actually have been the last person to know what was going on......

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  • Cracker: All In,

    Nope, when it comes to people around Key who have an entirely rational desire not to get back in that abusive marriage of inconvenience, Rodders is at the back of a very long line.

    I'm sure that's the case Craig but not many of those other people are potential coalition partners for National

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  • Cracker: All In,

    If that's what it takes, I'm sure we'll hear lots of parsing from John Key as NZF slithers in the back way.

    Don't think so. The real reason Key is so adamant about not doing a deal with Winston is because of Rodney Hide's pathological hatred of Peters.

    Key knows that he can't do a deal with both of them so he's picked Rodney and trying to pick up votes by categorically ruling out Winston.

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  • Cracker: All In,

    Even a NZF voter is entitled to his/her view.

    really ?

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  • Hard News: Don't bother voting,

    From the Pharmac website one of the criteria used when determining whether to fund or not is

    The Government’s priorities for health funding, as set out in any objectives notified by the Crown to PHARMAC, or in PHARMAC’s Funding Agreement, or elsewhere; and

    So presumably the Govt just needs to "notify" them that treating using Herceptin is an objective or put something specific in the funding agreement about it.

    Is the current funding agreeement publically available ? Are there any specific directions of funding in there now ?

    Personally I think if you believe Pharmac is compeletely independent of govt you would believe in fairies too.

    Did anyone see those poor kids with prader-willi who had been denied funding because they were .5cm too tall

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