Posts by David Slack
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Sorry - I omitted to mention that they contemplate hanging side walls of some sort, as required. James, those wind deflectors sound like a very good idea.
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WTF? David, are you being serious
Don, this one's in earnest.
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Good idea. I'll fire it up.
Keeping in mind Dorothy Parker's advice, of course:If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
And also Rita Rudner:
Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
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A jury in the long running Taito Phillip Field trial has found him guilty of most of the corruption and obstruction charges laid against him.
He has been found guilty of eleven corruption charges and not guilty of one other corruption charge.
The former MP was also convicted of 26 bribery and obstruction charges out of 35 put to him.
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Annabelle White's Food Detective
Our cupboards bear her imprint. Very helpful, always on the money. I met her once and asked about it. She said many people compliment her on it.
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thinks that tax cuts are the work of Satan
Didn't say it.
is quite happy to pocket them
You don't know that. As it happens, I pay more tax than I theoretically could.
paint himself as lone speaker of truth to power
Not what I said.
pretending that there wasn't a lot of debate around the wisdom, let alone the affordability of tax cuts
Didn't do it, didn't claim it.
rewriting history to an absurd degree.
Theatrical statement proceeding from fallacious premise.
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The ever-aspirational John Key says the honours are "a real celebration of success".
Isn't the line supposed to be that they recognise service to the community?
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Haven't read the whole report yet. I'll write something once I have, but in the meantime, some observations about my old boss.
He's not being at all prescriptive. The whole tone of the report is to invite debate, with these ideas as starting points.
Secondly, I understand the impression people get of someone out of touch, but he's not. He's a decent, fair-minded man, who is not in the least lofty away from a microphone. He also likes a drink.
Third, spend a bit of time at A and E tonight - or in a cop car - if you want to see what he's getting at.
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I have never understood this particular perk in perpetuity (90% of all overseas travel expenses for life!!), and see no reason for it to continue.
I imagine there's some impediment of legal principle that makes it difficult to scrap this. Okay then, how about a campaign to get all those entitled to voluntarily relinquish it now? They've had a good long drink, but now that the money's tight, how about for the greater good they renounce their entitlement? I'd have thought, in the case of Douglas especially, that would be just sensible politics.
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And poetry/art are *despised* in this country - unless they bring in money-
The web was also nicer before it filled up with people who consider a web site pointless if it can't be monetised. The unhappy legacy of economic rationalism has been the attitude that all actions are transactions.