The fact that education is a lifelong process encourages a certain humility about other people's mistakes.

I'm not entirely sure what point you're trying to make.

If you're trying to say that everyone makes mistakes and that they shouldn't be expected to carry the weight of those mistakes around for…

The fact that…

Well, it seems to me that that's kind of like putting all your chips, plus your house, shirt, pants and family on red. And then it comes up black.

Sounds like he was putting it all on 00.

I believe it is possible to articulate a position on social justice from a right perspective – that's what we miss when the voices of old-style conservatives are drowned out by the brash neo-lib extreme.

However, a bigot is a bigot. Fortunately, Bennett seems too decent to go down the…

I believe it is possible to articulate a position on social justice from a right perspective – that's what we miss when the voices of old-style conservatives are drowned out by the brash neo-lib extreme.

Yes. It's unfortunate that Lord Denning fell off his perch before we could sort out…

However, a bigot is a bigot. Fortunately, Bennett seems too decent to go down the…

Sure, it's easy to be cynical about our newsmagnet Minister for Social Development when she tells the Salvation Army:

Give a man a kumara and you feed him for a day. Teach him how grow…

I think a lot of Aucklanders would accept that South Auckland has its share of problems. But Melissa's comments hint at unattractively old school, is-what-it-is, us and them attitude to social development. You need to build a big wall, see.

Welcome to Checkpoint Taare.

You are leaving the Asian Sector.…

Not cool for a Mt Albert candidate, I would have…

but mid-way thru Dubya's term, he very publicly disowned himself from it

That I believe is more appropriately called "abandoning ship". The whole thing was hilarious, in fact, as his criticism of Bush amounted to him saying "He did exactly what my friends and I urged him to do, and…

... or were you thinking of someone else?

Having (very) occasionally read her columns, I had formed the mental image of a *very* white person. Then again, nobody's whiter than Francis Fukuyama, but at least he has the decency to bear a surname that allows me to tick the appropriate…

...a universe where commonsense prevails

Fantasist.

I mean crossing the Pacific floor and then covering it up? That's going to take some work.

Totally worth it to save Mount Albert from Pharaoh and his horsemen though.

we might be able to arrive before we depart – relativistically.

or even allow the highly strung to arrive beside themselves
thread theory even arriving in a universe where commonsense prevails

meanwhile I'm down the end of the garden
and away with the theories

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Maxwell Silverhammer

Actually I would have thought cut and cover would be more expensive.

And a tunnel would shorten commutes considerably, do it right and we might be able to arrive before we depart – relativistically.

the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he achieved a sort of escape velocity and flew off at a tangent in a random direction

So quantum physics has dispensed with the "turning into pools of delicious melted butter" centrifugal outcome – damn -…

This would explain why the tunnel option costs so much.

Actually I would have thought cut and cover would be more expensive.

I mean crossing the Pacific floor and then covering it up? That's going to take some work.

Not surprising, the NZ left is incapable of noticing similar opinions when cultivated by their own Minister of Foreign Affairs.

We've had our own Minister of Foreign Affairs? I guess Helen Clark was left when she did it for a few months. Nothing else in the past 20 years.

If I can drive past Mt Albert and come out in Switzerland or Chile then I think the benefits of this road have been grossly undersold.

This would explain why the tunnel option costs so much.

Personal experience has shown that motorways are excellent enablers of crime. They are particularly handy, for example, if you wish to evade police cars by driving against the flow of traffic at high speeds in a stolen vehicle.

Not with the congestion projected by 2015... maybe if you were on…

We lefties always think when we expose a bigot that we have won the argument. We fail to notice that opinions like Ms Lee's are heard everyday on talkback radio and are held by many ordinary people.

Totally. Being an overt racist is seen as courageous plain talking from those…

Oh noes! They're all headed for Devonport.

Not quite. See Douglas Adams' Standard Model Intrepretation of Ring Route Dynamics:

"He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he achieved a sort of escape velocity…

We lefties always think when we expose a bigot that we have won the argument.

Why should the NZ left think that? To benefit would require some point of difference.

This exposure of Melissa Lee took maybe two weeks of a campaign and is being chortled over by the left…

We lefties always think when we expose a bigot that we have won the argument. We fail to notice that opinions like Ms Lee's are heard everyday on talkback radio and are held by many ordinary people.

Tend to agree.

There's a poll on 'Stuff' at the moment – 'what…

Also, even if Lee is coming off uninformed or unpleasant, I have a feeling she has more foreign policy experience than Sarah Palin, and even knows the name of the newspapers she reads.

Interesting pick.

From Sunday's Q+A:

PAUL Okay, and so when you're not spending time with your child…

Prediction: the result of the s59 referendum will not be a happy one.

2ndary prediction: Given that it has no weight, National won't like that fact. What the hell do they then do with it?

Clearly, DeepRed's comment wasn't directed at Tze Ming, but it didn't read well anyway.

These things can happen while in a state of caffeine deprivation. My bad.

To set the record straight, I intended my comments in a political context, not a sexual one. Something got lost in translation.

It could certainly have been better phrased.

Clearly, DeepRed's comment wasn't directed at Tze Ming, but it didn't read well anyway.

Perhaps we can all move on calmly…

Bugger. @Deepred & Angus, you know that thing about sexists comments being counter-productive...?

To set the record straight, I intended my comments in a political context, not a sexual one. Something got lost in translation.

One of the many 'matters arising' from all this is how little the MSM (generally Pakeha, male, etc) bother with analysing the views of various minority groups in politics. Melissa Lee = Asian + TV + hot = good. That's as much as we got,…

Evidence suggests local Mount Albertians, not South Aucklanders, were responsible for the theft.

And when mine was stolen in February, it was found in Pt Chev ! Surely this a business case for that motorway through Coyle Park, over Meola Reef and thenceforth onto Beachhaven ;)

Uh, okay you guys.…

(I should probably point out that I mean in Grand Theft Auto,…

Evidence suggests local Mount Albertians, not South Aucklanders, were responsible for the theft.

But what would have happened if the motorway was there...

e.g. Maori are petty-crims, Tongans are liars.

I wonder if this has morphed into "South Aucklanders do burglaries on the…

To our American readers, think Sarah Palin's personality crossed with Michelle Malkin's body.

And Joe Biden's oratory skillz.

(You are not safe.)

To our American readers, think Sarah Palin's personality crossed with Michelle Malkin's body.

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It's unbelievably disappointing and so unnecessary.…

Anyone can divide Mt Albert and South Auckland, but you have to be really good at maths to integrate them. tadah psssh