Posts by Don Christie
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Finn Higgins was known to users of the Public Address System discussion forums as a keen-minded, literate, witty and sensitive debater, and an asset to the community.
Yes. That's how I remember him.
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What, instead of bad-faith ads about how the Scary Black Liberal wants to teach sex to six year-olds? Do tell.
Russell, that was my point, I think.
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You can make a serious fiscally conservative argument against Obama's economic policies.
Craig, I could hug you. I really do wish this case was being made by conservative movements across the globe.
It is one that needs to be considered and argued for and against. I used to have a teacher (Mr. Gelling FWIW) who thought that Tory and Labour governments needed to alternate, one to spend the money and the other to save it for the spending. This ying and yang seems to have been lost to us.
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David, yeah, I thought of PD also (or at least, that's my claim) but Ron Marks seemed funnier, not sure why.
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Heh, I was just about to run a tab on who would be the first NZ politico to compare themselves to Sarah Palin.
So, John Banks *is* a candidate, but rather too obvious. I was thinking maybe Ron Marks.
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It was leaked accidentally by The Standard Blog:
Sorry to burst your bubble, PA, but by your logic Kiwiblog is closer to the PM than The Standard.
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You mean, apart from being a blind chook with a big arse?
You could try a little lipstick with that...
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Although the Herald's effort, posted 1 min earlier, does contain the first third-party comment. Rodney Hide, of course.
Just like to point out that the "posted time" on a story on the Herald site is not necessarily a reliable indicator of its availability.
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A pox on you OpShop philistines. Here, go educate yourselves.
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The line that this was all some nefarious Labour/Clark plot has not been supported by today's evidence - in fact, the opposite.
That was certainly my reading of DPF quotes.
*But*, I still think the most interesting aspect of this is, as Russell has stated, the implications for funding of political parties and the precedence being set for investigating political funding.
A propos of nothing, does anyone else remember those "I've been Thinking" books Richard Prebble used to publish? For some reason the came out just before a general election.