Posts by Gareth Ward
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Craig: I don't agree with Goff here and certainly think the Maori Party can (and will) sort there own views out (the fact they are at least holding hui is a step beyond many others) but I was a little surprised at how "appalled" some commentators seemed to be by the comments?
I don't enjoy pointless politicing (sp?) but enjoy hyperbole media even less...
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And speaking of saying something nice, I have to say Mr Trotter surprised me this morning. Hopefully his vitriol was an election tactic and we can expect more of this new tone...
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I'm kind of struck by how many more words have been written about what he said than he actually said
Amen - I looked through the stories and only found these as his words:
"It has made this decision notwithstanding the fact that in every Maori seat, voters on the ground gave the majority of the party vote to Labour, outpolling National by six to one."
"The promises were betrayed and NZ First lost every Maori seat at the next election."For the opposition to question the moves of a party setting itself up in Government is hardly ground-breaking and his first point is certainly a valid one. Claims of colonial paternalism is absurd and demeaning to the Maori Party who should expect to be treated like any other political party.
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In which case I hope you caight South Park last night - in which an elaborate "Hispanic teacher inspires those down-on-their-luck-black-kids-from-an-urban-school" setup was created pretty much entirely to call Belichick and the Patriots cheaters...
"This is Bill Belichick, coach of the New England Patriots. He's won three Super Bowls. How? He cheated. He even got caught cheating, and nobody cared. Bill Belichick proved that in America, it's OK to cheat, as long as you cheat your way to the top. ... If you cheat and fail, you're a cheater. If you cheat and succeed, you're savvy." -
Is that a discount voucher? Or a "buy one Maori kid, get one free" voucher?
As long as I get 4c a litre off I don't really mind...
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'wait a minute, why do you need to know who my next of kin are?'.
They clearly know about the ninjas...
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I thought Jim Slater was the guy who started Silicon Graphics and Netscape - got that wrong obviously. Jim Clark apparently.
The story in "The New New Thing" (Michael Lewis followed him round for years) runs that the only reason he built Netscape is because he was going for a walk one day after selling Silicon Graphics and saw Ellison's new yacht in San Fran Bay. Which was clearly bigger than his. So he needed a few hundred million to build a bigger one so better go start a new firm.The internet - bought to you by Corporate Small Pen!s Syndrome...
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It's possible our new neighbours are all ninjas, which would, quite frankly, be unbelievably ace.
Would it what.
You'd have the best Neighbourhood Watch committee, that's for sure...
And re "fibre up your driveway" (my that sounds faintly rude), you can check this out to see just how close it is. According to that I LITERALLY have fibre up my driveway... I'm off to plug my kettle into it to see what happens -
better take the town-belt to get home, after dark.
It is I, Leclerc...
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Lockwood Smith to be Speaker? Well I guess he's been round long enough to understand teh rules, and this way he gets kept out of policy...
And they reckon Key'll take Welfare off Collins - please please please...