Posts by Paul Campbell
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Izogi: thanks that must be new - last time I called them they said the kids had to go through a full naturalisation ceremony ... of course the link there to the application form returns a lotus notes error when you click on it so it may still be a mirage
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no, I think we've got the number of the major supplier of our raw ingredients, if he keeps making them we can mainline a DP scandal every week or so for the foreseeable future
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As Frank Macskasy has shown us we don't need the Man - we can figure it out for ourselves ....
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I lived in the US on my OE, for 20 years, I didn't vote anywhere for that time, not even for school board,during that time I didn't feel capable of voting in NZ , even if I was allowed as I was so disconnected from NZ I couldn't have made an informed choice
Things may have changed, in the last 5 years there the rise of the internet brought NZ back alive to me. In general though I think you should vote where you live, and if you're taxed you should get a vote on how your taxes are spent (that whole "no taxation without representation" thing that has caused the occasional revolution).
My kids have US citizenship and are second class NZ citizens (by descent rather than birth, so they don't have the right to pass the citizenship on to their kids if they are born overseas, despite having lived in NZ for over a decade) they get to vote in both countries, my wife with just US citizenship also get to vote in both countries - I guess that somehow makes up for my 2 decades long disenfranchisement in some wonky asymmetrical way.
Meanwhile I relish having a vote again ...
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Up Front: Oh, God, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
or as Tom Waits put it:
“I’d rather have a bottle in front me
than a frontal lobotomy…”or variously W C Fields/Fred Allen/Dorothy Parker before him
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Pardon me but I've been traveling .... so late last week WhaleDump dumped the lot on "the journalists" ....... and what happened? as far as I can tell there's been nary a peep
I so hope that Nicky was one of the journalists
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it also looks like he dumped everything else on the journalists .... Note he didn't say which ones, Slater (spit) only injuncted a few .... I be he's scrambling right now ....
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I have friends who live in Coventry, one was the local Labour councilor who quit (the party) over Blair's descent into war and devilry, but yes the city suffered more than its share of WW2 bombing
And don't forget all the wonderful ska that came from there .....
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Ummm .... err .... wow .....
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Geez I go off to Burning Man for a week and it all goes to pot - woohoo! If it looks like National are going to lose it's going to turn into outright civil war as they fight for the right to be the successor to the crown no one will notice the left forming a new government. Maybe National need to put more people on their list just in case they run out.