Posts by Steve Barnes
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Conveniently, this means that no one ever gets to ask the editor of the New Zealand Herald any pesky questions.
Oh come on, you can always write a letter to the Editor , or was that replaced with Your Veiws? (sic)
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It's not particularly more dangerous than any other flight activity that is carried out by the Air Force, hysterical
Cos they never crash eh?.
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This whole money thing gives me the shits.
Come on, be honest. The last time money seemed real to most of us was when we used to break into the beer vouchers to squander on the rent. Nowadays it's all numbers on bank statements that. most of the time we would rather not have to look at. There's that big number, the one that says how big your mortgage is and a smaller one, much smaller, that says how much you just got paid, an ugly one called the credit card and most likely, one that you opened as a savings account that still has $10 in it.
Like Matthew, many of us won't give a toss about that extra one or two bucks a week , it wont even buy us a pint but if I had 50 million bucks worth of investments, I would be well chuffed.
Well, what about that Rugby eh? better make the most of the circuses cos you will soon be paying 15% gst on that bread. -
Yes Russell, Afghanistan.
The article you link to says...How long is the deployment intended for?
The first NZ PRT deployment to Afghanistan departed in August 2003 on a four month rotation. The mission is currently mandated to September 2011. Deployed personnel currently serve in the PRT for six months.I can't see a date on it but it would guess it was before JK's brainfart. It seem to me like Key wanted to create the impression of a "no nonsense, tough talking maverick" when he met up with that US General the other week but whimped out, it would have looked good for him if he had pulled it off but, apparently, there was more at stake than he realised (think World Cup, security, international co-operation. etc.) Like I said, brainfart.
While I'm here... Did anyone round here hear those helicopters last night? (between Auckland Airport and Hobsonville), about 7.30 then again a little over an hour later. You would not have seen them, well not without infra-red what-sits, they were flying without lights and in close formation... over peoples houses FFS... in the dark. If this were just an exercise then I think it damned irresponsible and downright dangerous. But then again, it was most likley one of JK's Yankee soldier mates flitting secretly about our skies. -
@Russ... It always gets dark around this time... honest.
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I'm trying to to tap into John Key's rationale for pulling back. Although I'm not a national voter, there might be a rich vein of other voters who would hate to see a change of ownership ...
I suspect the "Rich Vein" is not voters but something a bit more glittery but there are voters who just love to hate the idea of Maori getting any kind of compensation for their losses.
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I say let's slice the baby in half.
I recall a mine owner having that opinion some time ago. :-)
Oh, it's not a pile of poo, really.
Not a big pile, not yet but you know me Russ. ;-)
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Sigh... Well this discussion didn't take long to turn into a pile of poo, not surprising considering the attitude of Mr. (snea)Key. I wonder what his mining buddies found that made him change his mind, I guess we will never know the answer to that one.
We have a major problem in this country as far as land ownership goes, when I fist came over from the UK I was astounded at the amount of land that does not have public access. Considering the population of the UK compared to NZ and a comparable amount of land British citizens have far more access to vast tracts of countryside, common land, fens, moors, plains, forests etc. and all this comes down to a land grab by the Crown who divvied it up to their mates... nothing changes much does it?. -
Who said privatising prisons was a bad idea?
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And I want to be very careful about playing the racist card,
I was playing the "Sovereignty" card, the point being that owning the land does not imply sovereignty so why the cry over Tuhoe. I know Tino Rangatira is on the wish list but the thought of a separatist state is a bit far out for the majority of the country I suspect, which poses a bit of a dilemma.