Posts by Tom Semmens
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Ohhh here is a thought that just occured to me... is Waiheke the New Zealand answer to the Hamptons? After all, I'm going to be there.
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Goodness me, everyone in Auckland is decamping for Waiheke as far as I can tell.
We've got ourselves a place on the island organised for Xmas/New Year and the social calendar is positively tizzy with BBQ's, picnics, vinyard visits, long lunches, beach time and semi-strenuous hiking about will sorts of friends who are over there as well.
OTOH, its going to be Christmas for the burglars of Auckland thats fo' sure!
Now I am going to head down the line to fetch my dear Mumma and take her shopping for the xmas groceries tomorrow.
I hope I get to hear Snoopy's xmas on the car radio. It's my favourite xmas song and makes me feel all seasonal.
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Given the history of factionalism in the ALP I would think the greatest threat to Rudd at the moment is Julia Gillard. Lets face it, her and Kevin Rudd don't exactly share the same agenda.
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"...I see a lot of playing the man not the ball going on right now which tells me he is being pretty effective..."
Thats politics, isn't it? -
FORMER Prime Minister, as opposed to CURRENT National Party activist. Anyway, it turns on the relevance and when you have the chief on-line dog whistler of the National Party being presented as an independent commentator that should bother most people.
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"...Well, more to the point Danyl if you don't know who David Farrar is, where he's coming from politically and precisely what his party political affiliations and history are you're functionally illiterate..."
hmmm, what does that tell us about the TVNZ newsroom - http://www.thestandard.org.nz/?p=657 - then?
Prosecuting a guy for leaving bruising on his kid is fine example of S59 in action if you ask me. -
The most important part of this bill to my mind is the part that extends the spending restriction to start from January 1st 2008. The impact of this on the planned activities of the Sensible Sentencing Trust, Family First and the tax cut now lobby can only be imagined, and it effectively eliminates a repetition of the 2005 kiwi/iwi dogwhistle billboard campaign. Personally, I don't see what is wrong with election year being fought between registered political parties who have candidates up for election and policies for voters to look at and mull over. the SST and FF people can spend however much they like in the other two years of the election cycle to win over public opinion.
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I don't think it was the fire that did it in for the St. James; I think that after the fire the fire brigade took one look at the state of the rest of the wiring loom and and condemned the whole electrical fit as unsafe.
The place was a fantastic venue; But by the time it finally got given its death certificate by the fire service it was a falling down derelict of a once mighty venue. I am not sure if any private person will have the financial inclination to bring the St James back up to a state to be a safe venue again, but time will tell.
Personally I think its the sort of venue the council should own, so they totally do it up and then charge so much money for a promoter to hire it that no one under the age of 40 will ever get to go to an event there again, like all the other council venues downtown.
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"...Yeah, lot's of people have regurgitated this sentiment but the logic of it still escapes me. Since when did 'they're no worse than the neo-nazi's' become the criteria for legitimacy in our society?..."
My point was more that Tuhoe may have a gripe about being singled out.
Having said that, the outfits that rabble on the hiko are wearing appears to little more than a poor taste attempt to be provative. What they hoped to achieve in terms of hearts and minds escapes me. All through the land people will be watching the 6.00pm news tonight and saying to themselves, "well theres the smoke, I suppose there must be some fire."
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It seems to me the police could have got a lot of comments of a similar flavour for a lot less trouble in any one of a number of skinhead hangouts in Christchurch.