Posts by Sam F
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Btw, who's Hilary Calvert, whose page on the Act website can no longer be found, and is she likely to support Boscawen or Roy?
The most I've heard comes via Dim-Post comments:
The next one on the ACT list (Hillary Calvert) is a staunch neo-lib who will support Roy and Douglas and reject the Garrett/Hide authoritarian stuff. The tide may turn, and ACT return to being a party of principles (albeit the wrong ones).
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Cancel the Hammer Party. Cancel the Hammer Party. Gerry might turn up!!!!
Stop hammertime?
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oil rigs. interesting. is that where you recruit Act party candidates?
Helps to be used to spending time in the doghouse, perhaps.
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I don't think the Sensible Sentencing Trust really gets the meaning of the word "inexcusable".
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Here is where I do my semi-regular rant about poor Cookie Monster now being forced to sing 'cookies are a sometimes food'. He's fucking COOKIE MONSTER.
Oh no! Don't tell me that. I loved him and Orinoco because of their excess - what a way to spoil it.
Very very belated, but when I saw that I straight away thought of this:
We told ourselves that he had just wised up,
Was being cool; but we could not fool ourselves for long,
And we turned away, our eyes on the ground. Crushed.
He had been our Destroyer, the doer of things
We dreamed of doing but could not bring ourselves to do...I prefer 3410's optimism above, though. :)
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And where have the media been on this? It didn't even make the TV news tonight .
Bloody hell. I switched on to One about five minutes into the bulletin and assumed I'd missed it.
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I spoke to Paul Millar about his experiences finishing his Bill Pearson biography (he mentioned in his speech at the launch that it had taken him 12 years to write it). I asked him how he finished it? He replied that he had got desperately desperate, and so locked himself away in a room every Saturday for six months or so and worked on the manuscript for the entire day.
That must have been horrible. But worth it from my selfish readerly point of view - the book is just superb.
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Srsly dude, don't read the relevant Kiwiblog thread. I only just managed to drag myself away from engaging with the idiocy at play there.
As usual with your recommendations re: Kiwiblog I've gone and taken the exact opposite course of action.
I admit, you were right, but at least I got to see this:
rouppe (117) Says:
September 14th, 2010 at 4:31 pm
Well that’s odd. According to Stuff…He was fined $750 for each count, a total amount to $6250, and ordered to pay $130 court costs for each charge.
When rapists go on a rampage and violate several different women, their sentences are usually concurrent, not consecutive.
Why has Slater been handed consecutive sentences for relatively minor offences?
Repton (639) Says:
September 14th, 2010 at 5:15 pm
"Why has Slater been handed consecutive sentences for relatively minor offences?"I’m sure the court wouldn’t mind if he paid them all at once...