Posts by Jackie Clark
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Thanks for this, Jolisa. I love the WIUO - Age Pryor is my kinda musician.
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I have no comment on the game. I really don't like rugby (although I don't go to the extreme that my mother does, cheering on whoever the All Blacks are playing. Just because. ) However, I couldn't let those beautiful graphs go unappreciated. So. Yes, that's it.
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But if that is marked by that kind of royal progress down the front steps of Parliament to a waiting crown car, I'll be rolling my eyes just the same.
I'm a little confused, Craig. Yes, I am. And no, not permanently. Surely a PM leaving office would be a completely appropriate time for some pomp and ceremony? That she walked down the steps to her car is surely okay? Are you exercised that people came to farewell her? That she gave a wave to them? I'm really not sure why you find it objectionable. A lot of people, including me, thought she was a great leader. A lot of people love her to bits. You do not, obviously. And that's fine. But like it or not, she was the leader of our country for nine years, and in alot of peoples' minds, she did us a power of good. If some of them had the chance to turn out and say goodbye to her, good for them. I wish I had been there.
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Yeah, that Sir Roger Douglas is a blite on society aye. A Knighthood, numerous international awards for economics and successful government reform, consultant to governments around the world, Finance Minister of the Year (globally) in 1985. What a useless prick he has been.
Did you ever live through the Rogernomics era, Nickk? Just interested, mind. Because I suspect most of us here remember it as a generally miserable bloody time in our history. Not more miserable than Muldoonism, but, you know, up there.
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What a lovely post, Russell. Most apt, I thought. It has struck me in the last week or so that the election commentary around here was becoming somewhat reminiscent of post Melbourne Cup conversation- mine won, your's didn't sort of thing. But it's not a horse race - these are people who enter the field, in general, to do some sort of good. They often work very long hours, and very diligently because they believe in what they're doing. If, along the way, they become hardened and cynical, and stop being about principles, then maybe it's time to get out of it. I don't believe you could say that about Judith. I don't know her personally, and I never lived in central Auckland when she was the MP, but either way, you can't deny that she still seemed to enjoy what she was doing, and honestly believed in her principles.
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And as a foaming at the mouth leftie, I'd add that on Saturday night I was looking at a Key-Dunne-Hide triumvirate, now it's a minority government in which the Act is more than counterbalanced by the Maori Party influence. In terms of the kind of constituencies that the gov would be serving, at least on paper (and we've got nothing else to go by) I'm a far happier chap right now.
Yes, Giovanni. The KDH triumvarate was what scared me, as well. I'm quite pleased that Key has made the effort with the MP. It's a smart move on his part. I'm still shitting myself about this new Education Minister, Anne Tolley. No-one seems to know anything about her.
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I keep thinking weak old snapper, and I am back with Tony Ryall and his sidekick , that woman, whose name I can't mention as I mentioned earlier. I'm stuck between dogs and fish now ;(
Do you mean the venerable Anne Tolley, Sofie? She who looks touted to be the next Minister of Education?
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Fuck me, I just ran over my pony.
God, I love that expression. I was just talking to my lovely friend in Wgtn - very liberal, Jewish National voter - and I think my pony may have just bought it too.
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Here is Goffs chance, no coalition parties(NZF, Dunne) and as a green/labour united front in opposition, (I think alot of us like that combo anyway) we got a road worth going down.What is there to lose now ?
Amen, Sofie.
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Good move on Key's part not to get into bed with ACT.