Posts by Ross Mason
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Last couple of paragraphs of the introduction of the AGs report:
“My final thought relates to transparency. New Zealand has worked hard to have an ethical and transparent public sector. Accusations of corruption and bribery should be of concern to us all. During my time as Auditor-General, I have seen an increase in these accusations.
None of my inquiries has upheld those accusations. However, complacency is not an option. We should all continue to demand transparency in how our public resources have been used and what was achieved with our money. Transparency is the best foil for corruption.”
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Legal Beagle: The Spinoff: Offensive and…, in reply to Matthew Hooton,
Lawyers entertainment.
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Horse Parking. Great description. Still cackling over it.
Shooting was good eh?
Even had a mid aged woman ask me to take her to try out shooting today too!!! -
Horse Parking. Laughed my arse off with that description.
Good result for shooting :-)
I've already had a woman at work ask me to take her shooting cos she wants to give it a go.
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I’ve been watching this on BBC/Skynews from Prague. Fascinating.
I recall Blair praying a lot over whether he should go to war. God spoke to him apparently.No mention of God in the report it seems…..
I suspect it is now the god afflicted guilt that is seeing him ‘travel to the Middle East 3 or 4 times a month’.
Lies, deceit, utter bullshit about WMDs seem words that fail to describe what Rumsfeld, Bush(s), Rice and those truly nasty bastards Wolfowitz and Chaney got up to. What is thankful is that Clark had the gumption and the guts to say stuff you to the USA.
Oh…and lets not forget what happened to the poor bastard who spilled the beans on the Dodgy Dossier. David Kelly.
No wonder a little tipping of the scales was needed – or, as Blair also put it in his book, “politicians are obliged from time to time to conceal the full truth, to bend it and even distort it, where the interests of the bigger strategic goal demand that it be done”.
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Umm......regarding the tool use by your children David. Not being unduly parenting over the fence but I have found safety glasses quite handy to keep two eyes functional.
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Sheesh. Every H&S Officer would be pulling their hair out what with those kids not having safety glasses!!!
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I will no longer be able to report that the second wife of my great grandfather committed suicide by cutting her own throat?
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So this money comes into the country. Sits in a trust. No income is made in NZ therefore no tax is paid. So....other than somewhere to put the money away from home....but pardon my ignorance, remind me where the fudge is the benefit to NZ? Oh...wait a minute....are we subsidising lawyers and money-go-rounders again?
Or are we just somewhere "safe" to move the money from here to another bolt hole, do some wheeling dealing, send it back to NZ and voila! Next time I bring it all back home...I haven't made any money in NZ, I haven't made any money back home... and I spend the excess and start again. Shit...why didn't I think of that?
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Is it the most votes wins or the % of votes cast?
If informal votes are counted as part of total votes cast then I would vote informal. That makes it a 3 way vote. If >50% is informal that says stick it up ya jacksy.