Posts by ChrisW
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Busytown: Sons for the Return Home, in reply to BenWilson,
Not so idyllic when the tide drops. There will come the day for the hours-long cruise but as yet my shoulder strength is lacking, still rebuilding after wasting away earlier his year, and lower tide level makes climbing out more than just awkward and messy. Stll, sure beats the gym, pukekos etc a bonus.
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Busytown: Sons for the Return Home, in reply to BenWilson,
still need the keen eye to pick out the cool result....
Just been out for 45 mins, paddling kayak up the river at the foot of my garden, and saw my first fluffy black pukeko chick of the season, that wasn't advertising anything other than Spring.
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Busytown: Sons for the Return Home, in reply to BenWilson,
Must have been a sophisticated search engine to come up with the car-jack as well as the topiary. The Lockian variant of the human brain?
Google image search. Try "car topiary" to get 204,000 results.Fairenough and I see it won't be chance coincidence that said image is No.2 of those 204,000, but still it was the meta-ness of the literal/metaphorical car-jack that impressed me, sigh.
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how on earth did you find that? #respec
Must have been a sophisticated search engine to come up with the car-jack as well as the topiary. The Lockian variant of the human brain?
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A Steinie was the height of Kiwi sophistication then [mid 1980s].
This is scarily true.
Indeed, but after sponsorship of Round the World yachting and the All Blacks and reducing the price differential with standard beers, by the mid-late 1990s careful observations showed fully half the hoon-tossed bottles littering the streets of Gisborne were Steinlager. It would be an interesting study in marketing strategy and outcomes if it hasn't been done already.
Yes, as a cyclist I had a special interest, more in the fragmentary bottles, but still the green glass was an almost reliable signifier of Steinlager then with numerous labels for sample calibration. Not the same now, so much more choice in that end of the market, so many more greens ... The things you can see from the seat of a bicycle!
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Obviously a case against the police for attempting to pervert the course of justice and wasting Police time would have much greater chances of success.
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Hard News: Towards the Truth, in reply to John Holley,
I suspect, now that I am a quarter of the way through the book, that the lack of informed comment is because most mentioned by name are still serving officers or in senior Govt posts.
I was and am seeking review and commentary on the book that is fully informed merely by having read the book, rather then necessarily being from insiders and participants. Still, I'm pleased to see you're getting there, when you're ready it would be good to hear whether you retain your initial skepticism on the basis that Hager misunderstands command relationships in the NZ Defence Force.
The first "fully informed" review I've seen, by Mark P Williams on Scoop, is interesting - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1109/S00109/book-review-nicky-hagers-other-peoples-wars.htm
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It would be good to hear from anyone who has read the book properly, not just the details of what Ferguson knew/must have known, but a broader substantive summary and review of the book. There seems to be precious little of this fully informed commentary on-line - Gordon Campbell on Scoop a partial exception perhaps - and the issue is in danger from sinking without trace as far as the media and hence politicians are concerned.
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It 'erts, twhile on the other hand Russell has it down to a T -
Former Air Marshal Sir Bruce Ferguson, the ertstwhile chief of the New Zealand Defence Force
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Hard News: Towards the Truth, in reply to Ross Mason,
He must have used the same media trainer as Don Brash when he was in the interview on the :Hollow Men" doco. Repeat.... repeat.... repeat.....deny the question.
I think perhaps you're being a little unkind to
Former Air Marshal Sir Bruce Ferguson, the ertstwhile chief of the New Zealand Defence Force
- I didn't notice such tactics and didn't feel his apparent sincerity was faked. Maybe I'm gullible, but I wonder if Air Marshal is the key - that his fully Air Force background prior to promotion to Chief of the Defence Force meant he didn't get to see and hear all he might have from senior officers from the army and navy? These being the senior services used to ruling the defence forces, and which generated the stories Hager has documented.