Posts by Gareth Ward
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Queenstown Recreation Ground is a noticeable absence...
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Magnificent and rings very very true. I'm not sure I should have LOLd at this:
For a while last year Kevin Roberts was giving a speech in which he urged us all to shake off the "dark, brooding, gothic streak that runs through our national psyche". He then, bizarrely, went on to laud Colin McCahon and declared that Janet Frame "has big ideas", making her sound like a property developer.
but I did.It's intriguing to see what's held and what's changed over the intervening eight years. The VAST majority of it seems to be the former.
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I learned of the case of one Wackenhut facility where the company made its savings by packing prisoners in two to a cell while providing only half the number of guards. naturally, there were riots - so many, in fact, that the state government had to establish a special ready response squad just to clean up their mess. Which more than ate up the cost "savings" of privatisation...
That would NEVER happen here, no Government would let them double bunk 2 prisoners in a 6.5m cell cause that would just...
Oh waitBut the most interesting thing about the profile is the contrast between John Key's posture in it, and the face he presents to the New Zealand public. He does seem to have a habit of telling everyone what they want to hear.
Yes, apparently someone forgot to tell Bill English that we aren't running a fiscal stimulus:
A significant fiscal stimulus is already under way, he says. "In fact the sharply rising debt shows just how much the Government is going to be borrowing to inject into the economy."
By the Treasury's reckoning, the stimulus is the fifth largest, relative to the size of the economy, among developed ... Read morecountries. Over the two years to June 2010 the cumulative boost would amount to about 5 per cent of GDP.
Most of that was set in train by the previous Government - a hefty increase in spending in the last Budget and the October tax cuts.
But there are also National's tax cuts to come in April as well as accelerated infrastructure spending and the relief package, through Working for Families and the accommodation supplement, for people who lose their jobs.And Sam F - hilarious-if-it-wasn't-so-depressing huh. WACKENHUT? Is the new private ACC provider called Deniaclaim?
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atheism is not a religious belief any more than not collecting stamps is a hobby.
Like.
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That would explain why Holmes' garden is all over One News at the moment.
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They rebranded?
And completely shifted cities. Still haven't won a damn thing though.
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Mormon: Excuse me, sir, ...
My wife: Mate, I'm a girl, and I don't want to hear about your dumb-ass religion.At which point, the second Mormon broke out laughing
Ha, literal LOL with attendant odd looks from colleagues.
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And I only just found that they've been the New Orleans Hornets for the last 8 years! With quite a cool fleur-de-lis (sp?) hornet thingymawhatsit that would look great on a Starter jacket.
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I wouldn't be surprised if a large number of people liked the clothes first and then the team/band
See: Charlotte Hornets, mid '90s
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(Not a ninja.)
How awfully disappointing.
And you're certainly getting my share - never met a missionary. Or a Hare Krishna at the door come to think of it, with or without tasty stuffed pastries.