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lol @ Craig.
My jokes may not be funny but I like your style of humor.
I'll leave the funny stuff to you I reckon, eh.The future under National will be like those Sky City advertisements, where everybody wins on the pokies and the tables, where everybody is happy and everybody is white.
yeah and in the U.S. they have Obama and Las Vegas.
Here we have John Key, two dollar slot machines and chicken in a basket... -
Yes, Craig - yadda yadda, it's the Convention Centre at Sky City, nothing to do with gambling.
lol
I was talking irony by name association - I guess you don't do that?
It was quite funny I thought, noting that the media did not use the word 'convention centre' when referring to the venue.
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LOL - I take it you don't like Trotter, Craig.
Maybe he should take a leaf out of Hootin's book and start using the C-word.
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A thought:
Anybody find it slightly ironic the Nat's had their election night party at Sky City? -
...well "responsible for" when the times were 'good' and house prices went through the roof...
...or "responsible for" when times are not looking so good and house prices are tanking....
I guess it's the latter from what the polls say.
And besides, the global credit crisis was all Cullen's fault eh? -
Craig, where did the 3,000 murdered line come into it?
Any party can have bigots - I agree.
And a zealot is a zealot, no matter which side they support, which can be very, er, annoying....However, from what I've seen the 'generalisations' actually add up to a reasonably large amount.
It would be indeed hard to tar everyone with the same brush, but where there is smoke.... -
It'll be very interesting to see what happens with the Party.
Their mandate was to consult with the people after the elections.
Pre election polling indicated a overwhelming majority preferred to go with Labour if the option arose.
I wonder how they will get around that or if it will be a case of going in with the Nats despite that 'for the good of Maori'.It would not surprise me if Key is kicking himself at the moment in regard to having sided with ACT, pre-election.
I'm sure (it seems) he'd prefer to work with a center-minded party like the Maori Party rather than the rantings of ACT but he's no doubt wondering how to get around this issue.It has struck me that Rodney Hide has been actually like one of those little poodles that are owned by many of Epsom's residents and repeatedly humping Key's leg at ever opportunity...
Key probably tolerated it for a few days but now he's on to his tenth pair of Hugo Boss slacks and he is wondering maybe if he could have this little doggy put down.
Not only that but there is a 100 year old rottweiler with rabies by the name of Roger Douglas waiting to get out of his cage and get humping also (but not just Key's leg).So, what's a bet Key will minimise the influence of ACT if at all possible, by going with the Maori Party instead?
He look much more tolerant, forward thinking and 'embracing' while diffusing the extremist nut cases.... -
On the subject of Nikki Kaye and Auckland Central.
Judith wasn't really to be seen but to be fair most MPs were seemingly locked down to a point... maybe she thought she'd get in easy.
However, it does make sense that AK central is National voting - after all, it's not much different than the make up of Epsom these days.
ie. lots of Range Rovers. Sure it still has large Green and Labour support - you could call it 'monied people with a conscience' if you like.
I take it the voters there decided they would forgo a little of that conscience so they could afford to update the Audi next year, with an additional tax cut.I did hear Nikki Kaye make what I thought was an extraordinary comment re her electorate.
Something along the lines of how she has "noticed lots of young families in the area and how housing affordablitiy is an 'issue' for them".
WTF? We are talking AK Central here - Ponsonby, Grey Lynn, Freemans Bay, Herne Bay etc!
Unless these 'young families' are incredibly well off they have very little hope in affording a house in AK Central.
Housing affordability would be an 'issue' for anybody who wanted to move into that area, not just young families. -
Actually, re Chris Trotter - I found his column in yesterday's SST really nailed the election result from my point of view.
Possibly written with an emotive election night hand but good stuff.I was dismayed to read in the same paper a small interview with National's candidate for Mt. Albert, Ravi Musuku.
He pulled out that appalling line about 'having no kids makes you inferior' - citing the fact that the front bench of the Labour Party had one child between them whilst the National Party had 23.
This is the sort of attitude a lot of these people have - right wing, bible banging, so-called 'morals'.
Pretty scary.
There are still a lot of people out there (men and and women alike) who really HATE Helen (and I use the word HATE in caps because it is just that) because she has no kids and 'looks hard', 'doesn't smile much' etc etc.
I know this because my mum is one of them!
Unfortunately people still can't get past physical looks and preconceived ideas and a majority of those people have voted for a government made up of similarly minded people... -
ahh well he was just wearing black this time - lol.