Posts by Clint Fern
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I heard Cop Killer at a young(ish) age and here's some news for Greg, amazingly my police based homicides are still nil many years later.
I may be wrong but I'd suggest that the causes of the police "being attacked all over NZ" might have more to do with the confrontational us against them attitude of O'Connor and Collins than old rap songs.
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Bizarre that the quote at the top of the redbaiter blog is from George Orwell - is he unaware of The Road To Wigan Pier?
It'd as perverse as if you headed this blog with an Ayn Rand quote.
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Loved Emily Perkins talking to Cameron Slater on the Good Word tonight. Talking about a series of books on Genghis Khan -
Slater - Genghis wasn't really practising genocide
Perkins - More family first really
Slater - Thats rightPoetry. Or a punch in the guts for McCoskrie.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Che Tibby,
- Winston return - i'm not sure where this meme comes from. WP has been making some noises, but it's nothing like the Winston of old. he could make a late run, but... i doubt it.
I really hope you're right Che, but Winston has been pretty active on the sly - seems to be at Nelson airport all the time on his way to the Grey Power meetings. Somehow I've caught a lot of him on TV - native affairs and the news - maybe just unlucky timing on my behalf.
He wasn't that far off last time, despite the Owen Glenn thing and this time around he can use the Marine and Coastal Areas Act to get some of the rednecks back from Key. I'd be more surprised not to see him back but I could be just a pessimist.
- Dunne - there's every chance every chance he could be back representing me.
And I thought I had it bad with Nick Smith. God forbid we see the return of the sanctimonious silver quiff.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Che Tibby,
I'd certainly agree that Key is highly likely to be the leader of the next govt as I can't see Goff managing a diverse coalition, I'm not sure of how comfortable it'll be in terms of numbers. There are so many possibilities that could influence it -
Maori Party could drop one or two seats
ACT could disappear (yes please)
Winston could return with a sizeable number
Dunne & Anderton may go
Greens may increase with disaffected Labour supporters
Chch votes may be affected hugely by Brownlees rebuilding or reaction to ECanThis to me makes Labour's fencesitting with Goff bemusing. They may not be able to win the election but they could make the governance of it very difficult for the Nats rather than the fairly free ride they're being given. As fair or unfair as it seems the media and general population have decided upon a text of Goff as a hapless ditherer / figure of fun - there's no way I could bring myself to vote for him.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Che Tibby,
assuming they lose Katene's seat they could still manage three at a minimum (again assuming an overhang).
Its my understanding that the overhang would work against a party forming the govt in that they need more seats to form a majority. Normally there would be 120 seats in parliament so you'd need 61 members for an outright majority, with the current MP overhang of 2 thats 122 members and you'd need 63 members - could someone else verify if this is right or wrong?
However, if the MP do indeed drop the Katene seat but keep the same party vote then there would be no overhang so if the Nats got 60 that's be enough with the MP to govern, but they would need to get them to agree to every piece of legislation for a majority..... not entirely comfortable.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Grant McDougall,
Surely Labour can come up with something better than just hoping that something goes wrong for National.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Christopher Dempsey,
BTW: I have a windows machine and I don’t see any ‘edit’ thingy when you hover next to the reply button.
It only appears for a limited period (5 minutes?).
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Nick Kearney,
Yes, which is why I commented (sarcastically) on the absurd suggestion David paid for his list position.
What you mean that Hide fell for the "I'm not a dead baby identity stealer" and "the cheque's in the post" as well?
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Sacha,
Imagine the desperation of that being a plausible tactical voting possibility
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No, I couldn't go there. And I mean no as in the dictionary definition not the Winston definition.