Posts by dc_red
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When do we get to let off our fireworks?
At the same time that McCain/Palin are elected (Nov 4th in the US, but Nov 5th in NZ)? At which point recalling Fawkes' intended use of the gunpowder might be appropriate.
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o be blunt, if Clark is willing to very publicly humiliate personal friends and political allies like Ruth Dyson and Lianne Dalziel when needs must, what the hell made Glenn think he was that special?
With respect, Craig, that's ridiculous - Dyson and Dalziel humiliated themselves through drink-driving and lying, respectively.
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Meanwhile, I'd be quite happy with that if the Maori Party caucus stopped voting on legislation that affects we tauiwi.
Heh, New Zealand's own version of the West Lothian Question?
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I’ve got a major problem with it DC.
I also don’t like the implication in all of this that this Maori media do not need to apply the same kind of rigour in their questioning.
I’m not saying that’s the case, but the inference is there for those who may want to exploit it.
Yes, Leggie, that's exactly what I was trying to say ... albeit not very eloquently.
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I had a very different experience 18 months ago ... I was flying back from Vancouver to Auckland on an AirNZ ticket. In the absence of a direct flight (now redressed, thankfully) I had to fly first to San Francisco on Air Canada, and then an hour or so later board AirNZ.
I checked in with Air Canada at Vancouver, and they tagged my bag, which I then had to take through US Customs (they pre-screen you on Canadian soil), before placing it on a conveyor belt for its trip to Auckland via San Fran.
I did this ... only to have the bag's handle come clean off in my hand as I set it down. Attached to the handle was ... the only tag.
AirNZ uses a supplementary bar code which they place elsewhere on the bag ... but Air Canada relies on the single piece of paper. Which I was now holding, along with the broken handle, while the otherwise unlabelled and generic suitcase had long since disappeared through the chute.
The baggage handlers at Vancouver were no use in redressing the situation, and no one at San Fran had a clue. Long story short ... 10 days later AirNZ found my bag, by some minor miracle, got it to Auckland, and then had a taxi drive it out to Massey.
The bag itself was smashed to pieces in the course of its whacky journey, but the contents were generally unharmed. I was incredibly impressed with AirNZ since the incident was (a) bizarre and (b) not their fault in any way.
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Turia doesn't do 'Pakeha' media on the fairly sensible grounds that we don't vote for her.
Actually, the more I think about this, the more it's problematic. She's set to be the leader of the 4th largest party in Parliament ... and she won't speak to the general media. She doesn't even pretend to be accountable to, or representative of, the public ... only a select ethnicity.
Do National talk to the Maori media despite receiving bugger-all support in the Maori seats?
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I agree Danyl, but surely Maori media have as much interest in investigating her allegations of corruption as anyone else does? Or they should do.
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I thought Owen Glenn's press conference veered towards the self-aggrandizing (with some delusion thrown in: "I'm just an average kiwi bloke") ... and his credibility was rather strained at the end in claiming Mike Williams was on hand-and-foot (almost) asking for a job, and assuring Glenn he's "articulate".
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As if Glenn would want to get rid of that Laura Ede…
Now that you mention it, I am getting tired of checking my own messages. An executive assistant or two wouldn't go astray.
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... shaking my faith in a Labour-led government would first require the Opposition to publish a coherent and meaningful set of alternative policies...
Sometimes a coherent and meaningful sentence appears to be beyond them.