Posts by recordari
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Not sure I agree that is the problem either, or that Heatly is a monkey.
He won the Whangarei electorate with 64% of the vote. Perhaps his approach to Fisheries and Housing is not to the liking of the left, but many seem to think he has done a reasonable job to date, certainly those who elected him.
Is it just me, or have public servants become the new 'entitled elite' who need a good dressing down to bring them into line. Yes his spending habits needed scrutiny and addressing, but not in public.
And while we're all getting incensed about the $70, what do you think the cost of changing Ministers is, in terms of rebuilding ministerial portfolios, bringing a new minister up to speed with select committee hearings on some fairly broad and important issues, and the 'opportunity cost' of time spent on dealing with this stupid issue? A damn sight more than $70, or even $1000 I would hazard to guess.
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They must also be "reasonable for the circumstances and able to withstand taxpayers' scrutiny".
So don't issue the damn credit cards in the first place, cause unless they're paying off the national debt (yes, on credit), that's not possible. Oh, guess that would be double dipping.
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That's right, Sacha -- nobody else is talking about any of these subjects, right? Also showed remarkable prescience of Heatley to lay the ground work for such an exquisite weapon of mass distraction.
No, not prescient, because while using the credit card was his choice, making a meal of it was not. And yes 'other people' are talking about these things, but they seem to be a minority, and it gets on my goat how the lowest common denominator effect is so pervasive in so many aspects of society, especially 'mainstream' media.
Are we too thick to handle in depth investigative journalism, or too thick because there is such a dearth of it in evidence? Or perhaps because of the Internet we are all so enlightened about everything that broadcasters have given up telling us something we don't know in favour of entertaining us. Did I say perhaps?
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It is a no-brainer to me that there is no public interest argument for any politician using a Ministerial credit card within a hundred miles of a party conference. None, Zip, Nada.
And yet here we are debating it. Screw the media. Off we go poppy hunting with a bazooka. Of course nothing else of any significance is happening either here or overseas.
Grrrr.
Footnote. I went to Scoop to look for some real news, and the top half of the front page was all about Phil Heatly. Great!
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The Road Not Taken is about 12 inches if you print it with double line spacing in 18 pt font. Does that count?
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Phew! There's many a slip twixt cup and lip...
Just ask the Arrrrgonauts.
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James K. Baxter Place! sadly
Why sadly? I suppose I can guess, but honouring people by naming streets after them is hardly new, or particularly contentious, is it? Do you prefer the more general like 'Bard St?'
(I really hope you didn't live on Bard St, cause that would be spooky. Just randomly chose a street in Sydenham that wasn't a person)
PS I think I need one of those Marian Maguire works. Have seen the James Cook one before, but not all the others.
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Oh, sorry, were they serious questions?
1. Kwiblog who?
2. Either. Some guy said 'the drinks are on the house'.
3. Knock knock. 'Stat you bro?' No, it's Dr Pita Sharples, actually.
4. What Amy said.
5. Winston Peters.
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Both movies sound great. Somewhere in our family history is a link to Wordsworth, although not sure how direct. Would be good to learn another side to the history than the bits covered in Eng Lit. Although we first studied Coleridge in form 3. Precocious teacher.
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Don't you mean;
Q. How many politicians would it take to fill a bath tub with multi-coloured machine tools?
A. A chocolate fish.
Mauhauhauhau! Pictures, exclusively, @7.