Posts by Sam F
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BTW, I'm not warming up for some Kiwibogian conspiracy theory
Sadly that's been well covered:
Am I reading that right? There’s a secret organisation running in the sikh community for over 120 years (they make it sound like the Asian Triad Gangs)
Sikhs are very Industrious, but they can be way over the top in their disdain for other Sun Continent ethnic groups.
Seen it first hand in the UK. It does come as no surprise that the elders are dismayed at being above the Radar.
However when you are a fully subscribed member of the party of Crime and disorder then the Police seem to leave you alone.
You can guarantee that there has been a frenzy of shredding and deletion of paper, phone and computer files in an attempt to put distance between the upstanding Labour candidates (and organisation) and these activities.
What the fuck is this talk of a “Sikh community”?
Do they live in this country or in a sperate sikh state? How about people just stop blindly accpeting these seperations and differing treatments as being normal and accpetable.
you know what sikhs are/ They’re people. Thats it, just people. We have people shitting themself over Paul Henry makiing the distinctionas that everyone here seems to be taking for granted. Either they’re kiws just like everyone else, or they’re lost.
The bigger message is new zealanders can’t trust the Labour party. I guess it’s the recession, cheaper to just use peoples names than give them KFC vouchers.
A more wretched hive of scum and villainy, &c.
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Nice link Max. Particularly liking that helpful timeline of Henry's more egregious bursts of idiocy.
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Consort. Not sure if it's gender neutral.
Hey, there have been princes and princesses consort over the years.
In the 2008 interview that is a permanent fixture on my iPod, Max Gimblett refers to his wife Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett as "forty-five years my consort" - said with such evident love and respect that this term earns my vote (for what little that is worth) pretty much by default.
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If I remember The Silmarillion correctly, Middle Earth's terra-forming was the result of demi-god conflicts, so it needn't be geologically correct.
Link related...
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When he's done with that he can make a start on this, which frankly mystifies me...
Same
:P
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And there's the problem: Since we still have this tiresome thing called a secret ballot (and the so-called "exit polls" being waved around have their own methodological credibility issues), we're inevitably making a lot of assumptions.
True. Of course when he made the comment I cited, Banks was also making the assumption that high turnout in South Auckland would likely mean votes for Brown rather than for himself...
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Banks was warning earlier that if present voting patterns continued we would get "a Labour mayor from South Auckland" - thus seemed to me it was more like him doing the whistling, with David helpfully holding up a frequency detector for the rest of us. But I've been wrong a few times before.
By the way this was the story I heard this morning:
A shift in voting patterns could be taking Auckland's mayoral battle to a close finish.
Among the big voting areas, the highest turnout has swung from territory favouring Len Brown to suburbs considered strong for his rival John Banks.
Last week the strongest voting had come from suburbs in Manukau city such as Otara and Papatoetoe.
The latest daily count, however, has seen the biggest surge in the central area of Orakei, seen as core John Banks territory.
Orakei turnout has topped 39%, with the big South Auckland suburbs ranging from 38% in Papatoetoe to 34% in Manurewa.
Overall Auckland turnout is 10% up on the last election and returning officer Dale Ofsoske expects the final rate to be 45% - 50%.
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Thought this was amusing, tweeted yesterday by David Slack:
Important message from John Banks and the NZ Herald to Remuera, Parnell, Milford: your cleaner has voted and is about to replicate.
And those voters seem to have been listening, judging by the sudden sharp uptick in votes coming in from traditional C&R strongholds (or so I heard on RNZ this morning).
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If any photos are published I'll sue the f*****g paper.
Somehow I'm not surprised that Henry is the frivolous lolsuit type.
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Also: Key happy to facilitate in Hobbit role.
Oh... can't you just picture it? We need Lyndon on this, stat.