not to mention - why on earth would they want to win it? I could not see National doing well out of the next 3 years if they were landed the responsibility. They do best when it's not going to affect their electorate too badly, and they can ride that fine ...
Are you quite sure of your facts there? It still looks very much like SCF was admitted into the scheme on 19th Nove, 2008. Funnily enough on the first day in office of John Key's govt, someone who supposedly knew a thing or two about banking.
You're joking right? How much do you suppose Sue Bradford would have achieved from the opposition benches?
Yes, it will be. Some will be sooner, some will be later - like Muldoon's promises that it'll be all fine cashing in the superfund, the Government will look after you. Of course the ones who took the punt were the same ones that Winston Peters had enormous...
I can just imagine how much of a backseat approach they'd be taking if I tried to fondle his hair in such a "private social situation". I dare say my backseat would be hitting the ground pretty damn hard, and I can't imagine many of the sycophants of the ...
one absoute parallel springs to mind; John Key's insistence that we don't need to do anything now about superannuation problems in the future. Excepting that JK hasn't cashed in the Super Fund, this parallels exactly. I've seen a number of comentators ...
Ka Mate is already decontextualised; it's Te Rauparaha's haka and has a history far beyond the All Blacks. Whatever you think of him there's a history to this haka that's often overlooked. Was pleased when the ABs commissioned another, haven't looked into ...
like this one?
it's not his organisation. he was employed by the company to get a job done. He worked at the face of the operation with his team of miners and whoever else got the thing going on the ground, and having done that has has been moved into a different manager...
You clearly have no idea about the effects of randomness and as a result you see causality where none exists. Wow. You clearly have no idea of the effective use of public funds in a field where constancy and randomness need to be balanced. FYI, I work in ...
You're not from the VHEM are you? You sound pretty righteous on it. I'd like to have children, and I'll make damn sure that they'll be raised to understand what they need to get by and enjoy life, just like my parents passed their parent's values on to me....
interesting; I just had a listen to that interview and I don't think that comment of his in closing is a bit brief to judge him on. It was interesting to compare her retort (she would say that she'd given him the opportunity to state his case) and his ...
Instead we got your Bill English impersonation Thanks for the compliment. Clearly the change in funding for biosecurity staffing levels is of no great relevance – it’s quite clear that there were biosecurity breaches during times of high spend one of the ...
and it is even more unlikely that John Key would ease the way for a Douglas-backed ACT candidate. I think this is true to a certain extent, but only a certain extent. Didn't Richard Worth have Brash's 'full suppport' for Epson? I think National and ACT ...
Second question. Anyone think Winstone ‘will’ work with Key? Not a chance. Every chance. Who thought he'd work with Bolger, Birch and Shipley after '96? Actually, quite a few people, just not the 2/3 of his supporters who expected him to back Labour just ...
gonna do a Winston here; you're completely misrepresenting what he said; all that he said was that he wouldn't have anything to do with a government that included Bolger, Birch and Shipley. and of course he eventually made good on this by taking half of ...
also the sooner they're no longer in their first term either; if Rodney did hold on to Epsom then there's a whole lot of policies no longer off the table for National. Also hasn't been very long for the impacts of the changes they have made to really sink ...
Jesus you're a thickie; would you buy a house in Strawberry Fields genuinely expecting it to be covered in strawberries? Perhaps they called it Greenland because some grass grew there in a few places, perhaps even enough to support a small low level ...
I think the comparison is useful, coming from a background in ecology rather than economics. What I do have issues with, is people making analogies and suggesting that 'natural' makes things desireable - something that VTO isn't (I think) actually doing. I...
and NZ First in '96 - ex Labour voters not quite trusting them yet and thinking that Winnie 'no deal with Bolger, Birch or Shipley (I think...)' Peters would see them right. From memory 2/3 of NZF voters expected him to go with Labour post-election. '99 ...
I don't think they'll have much support left for Don 'Family Values' Brash these days. Talk about backing a bad horse!
yep. I was just pretty much starting to learn to analyse politics for myself at the time, and I distinctly recall the contention at the time that 'the market will sort it out'. Specifically, that builders and developers who built shoddy buildings would be ...
longest honeymoon? Did you happen to miss the 2002 election? [captcha: detail - ha!]
fuck off he should; it's irrelevant whether spaceman builder can make pirate robots - he still _isn't_ one. Pirate Robots all the way.
I'd love to see the figures; from recollection the (Labour) Govt pumped around $3 into Telecom for every $1 or so that they (Nats) later sold it for, but I've not ever been successful finding these, so just a hazy recollection... Anyone?
therein lies the rub eh; 'ecology' is the study of the house (oikos) 'economy' is knowledge of the house. ecologists are interested in looking at how the house works. Economists reckon they've got it figured; the work involved in economics seems to be ...
so, umm, what do you make of all the previous heads? There's a few of them, isn't there. Do you notice that there's a wee trend there? Just a hint - as you move forward in time, the heads tend to be a bit higher then most that preceded them. Did you notice...
I dunno, Brash was one of the names suggested and I could imagine him holding the seat for ACT. I'd always assumed that Epson returned Rodney to help a Nat/ ACT govt, not for Rodney per se. But I do agree that ACT couldn't put up just anyone...
When times are easy, it is possible to have lots of fat and get away with it and remind us how much fat English's special taskforce found? Good lord, John Key's already blown the previous record hip-hop tour budget.
If we are not careful we could end up like Greece well if Brash'd had his way (2005, or of course now...) we might well have ended up like Ireland and Iceland, the darlings of the right only a couple of years ago... Wasn't Brashes plan to cut taxes and ...
'totally respectable mainstream newspapers' are still not a particularly good source of science, let alone someone trying to stringing together an arguement on a scientific topic and using them as back-up...
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