Posts by Danyl Mclauchlan
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I confess, that's probably the basis of my response. Downer is a smug, unpleasant, political bully-boy.
Our own international statesman is hardly a humble envoy. And in twelve months time we'll probably have Murray McCully representing our country.
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That's easy, I'm editing Danyl Mclauchlan's page.
You better have a reference for that stuff about me and Chuck Norris.
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Well the VUW addresses all resolve to our proxy servers so I can't track down which of my co-workers is obsessed with editing the 'English Folk Music' page.
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Great, the wikiscanner site is down. Now what am I supposed to do all day?
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As Foreman indicated, it appears that the "political enemies" were "closer to home", so they may well not have had a problem with National winning the election anyway.
One theory would be that whoever organised it considered it potentially useful to have certain information regarding the next Prime Minister. It was a pretty weird time, wasn't it?
Its also worth considering that the break-ins at Foreman's apartment might have had nothing to do with politics. She does co-own a multi-million dollar company with her husband, and was widely considered to be conducting an affair. That combination could make for a hell of a divorce case, and a much more plausible basis for private detectives to be sneaking around her house than some plot hatched between John Key and Heather Simpson.
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Nicky Hager was adamant that there was no stealing or hacking of e-mails. He said that important senior National Party people were supplying his information. Probably true.
I think that's unlikely - the leaked e-mails arguably cost the National Party the election. I don't think there are any 'principled conservatives' in the National Party so unflinching in their convictions that they'd be willing to let Labour have another 3 years in power rather than see the sacred cause of conservatism tarnished.
I still hold to my original theory - that someone in the leaders office working in an administrative capacity (IT support, PA, receptionist) simply burned a bunch of .pst files onto DVD, or copied them onto a USB key.
I also note that Diane Foremans apartment was broken into the night before the election. If any political dynamite was discovered then it would have been absolutely useless to Brash's political enemies: the papers would have all run to press and by the time the country found out about it on the 6 PM news the election would have been over.
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David Cohen was on Breakfast this morning talking about autism, and he said that whenever a family tragedy like this happens, everyone starts wailing and offering opinions and saying things must change, "and then, suddenly, nothing happens."
That's because the solutions tend to coincide with peoples political hobby-horses. Clowns like Laws and Hopkins are insistent that _something__ must be done, but were also on the front line fighting against the Bradford ammendment, and the recent initiative to survey hospital patients about a history of abuse. What Laws et al really mean is that something must be done as long as it doesn't affect or inconvenience them in any way whatsoever.
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_-None of them seem unduly troubled by the fact that Nia Glassie's mother, Lisa Kuka, was not a beneficiary. She worked long hours in a kiwifruit factory in Te Puke; six days a week, leaving the house at 5am and sometimes not returning until 10pm. For $600 a week.__
Doesn't she know she could have been getting millions of dollars a year on the DPB?
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Does Michael Laws actually want John Howard's heavy handed cultural imperialism?
What Laws is suggesting sounds like it would be pretty similar to Australia's 'Stolen Generation' policies. I think he'd regard Howard as a bit of a softie.
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But Key has at least one supporter posting here - something that cannot be said for DBP & the post concerning his demise.
Try the last post in the thread, an impressive litany of lies and innuendo nobody else seemed to take issue with.
Re the therapeutics bill, I was in a health food store the other day when I discovered something called 'Authentic Tibetan Goji Berries' being sold at an exhorbitant price. These had a wide range of miraculous properties, from preventing cancer to increasing intelligence and boosting your sexual potency. I was especially impressed that Tibet, a country with subsistence agriculture, minimal rainfall, six month frosts and virtually no roads was able to ship out these wonderful berries in large quantities. The berries look identical in every way to Chinese Wolfberries, except they are far more expensive.
Don't people think there should be some sort of legislation protecting the slow and gullible from spending their money on products like these?