Posts by Joe Wylie
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In 2007 I went along to hear Hager speak at Canterbury Uni. A local Hooray-Henryish student Nat blogger had mentioned the event, vowing that he and others of his persuasion would attend and heckle by way of avenging the desecration of the sainted Don. Seems his alarm clock failed, as Hager's audience was attentive and polite throughout.
Responding to a question about whether he ever feared for his personal safety, Hager said that he'd probably be more at risk covering Fair Go-type issues, as that was the nature of how things are in NZ. He made a fairly convincing case that the kind of work he does helps keep things that way.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
It looked like Tolley in the photo of the BMW. No insult intended if it was someone else's family.;)
It's her, if you click download you get the full-size pic. Cats may still look at kings & all, despite tinted windows. She came bearing gifts, in the form of announcing a trade training scheme.
I'd imagine that the Kaiapoi event will be very much Cosgrove's.
Here he is at the CERA launch back in June. -
Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Brendon Burns & Lianne Dalziel, plus City Councillor Yani Johanson. As mentioned upthread, Nicky Wagner was invited but didn't show.
I believe there's an event planned for Sunday week in Kaiapoi, which is of course Clayton Cosgrove's turf.
Thanks for the vid Rob.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
I think Clayton is the best for accusing the Govt of neglecting Chch. He makes very good points when debating. jmo
He has rather confounded the doubters, including me, gotta admit. Just wish the pragmatism born of bitter experience had permeated rather further up the Party hierarchy by now. While I find JT's assessment of Brendon Burns needlessly uncharitable, his promise to the Avonside crowd on Sunday of detailed policy in a few weeks, subject to consultation with "my very good friend Phil Goff", was greeted with polite silence.
In the meantime, a few pics of the event, plus some from last week's visitation.
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Hard News: The Minister's Brain Has Exploded, in reply to Russell Brown,
At one point, the Prime Minister had to mediate between McCully and his co-minister, Gerry Brownlee, so difficult had their relationship become.
Those emperor penguins and their dodgy transmitters.
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Robert Hughes on Crumb:
We can never see things with the x-ray vision of Superman or the deductive brilliance of Dick Tracy, but we can sure as hell remember what it was like being stomped on by authorities, whether parents, cops or some terrifying ogress of a nun, as little Robert was in his Catholic school nearly half a century ago - and we can share the bloody inventions of revenge set forth in his drawings.
The buggers are still providing the raw material, whether or not he needs it.
Eat nun's head, you bastards!
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Emma Hart,
To be fair, that wasn't because people Just Loved Nicky Wagner, it was because people had really liked Tim Barnett, who wasn't running.
Understood, and while those two were political rivals there was never any real personal animosity. Wagner's given the impression up to now of being passably sensitive to local issues, considering. Not a good look that she didn't show.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Billy Connolly could easily write a sequel called The City That Sued God.
Good idea, though it was our very own John Clarke who wrote that screenplay.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Sacha,
Brownlee seems both clear and unrepentant in that article.
As he's currently away on the big grovel, over to Mr Reasonable:
"Prime Minister John Key admits he is bothered by reports that earthquake damage will leave some residents in Christchurch's red zone more than $150,000 out of pocket . . . Insurance companies should meet their obligations. We will continue to talk to insurance companies about those individual home owners.''Still in Prim Monster mode, as he goes on to muddy the waters by dog-whistling about taxpayer bailouts.
Could have been a fractionally better turnout in Avonside yesterday, as National list MP Nicky Wagner was invited to attend but wimped out, though her electorate car was parked barely 3 blocks from the event. Despite scoring a spectacular reduction in Labour's Chch Central majority last election she's obviously resigned to remaining a list MP.
And what a great fired-up public speaker Mike Coleman is.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I shudder to think to think what a cock up they'll make of the resurrection of Chchch... one hopes they'll factor humans and their ways into the equation!
“If it weren’t for the people, the god-damn people” said Finnerty, “always getting tangled up in the machinery. If it weren’t for them, the world would be an engineer’s paradise.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano