Posts by Tom Semmens
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Goodness, a lot of right wingers resent the way the cool musical types like Helen Clark.
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Hmmm, I'm on a training program building up to a half marathon just now as well. I have discovered that when it comes to 12km runs on sore legs, Nurofen is again your friend. Still, I've run a couple before and trust me - training for the first one is the hardest by a long shot, the body DOES have some sort of fitness "memory" where once you've run 21km once it just knows how to do it again. I haven't run one for about seven years, and feeling my body respond to the demands being made of it is quite splendid.
Now, I have a social life that involves a fair degree of weekend mayhem, and since drunken social smoking with the hotties and vast quantities of liquor do not mix with long distance running I've also given up that for the duration (i.e. the next seven weeks). It is quite amazing how even three beers the night before a big run can affect your performance. But when you take a break, you are are right about noticing how all-pervasive liquor is.
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Yes, DPF and co. are doing their resentful conservative routine. Again.
When I was over there taking a peek, I was struck by how much dogwhistling your base into a lather over the culture wars now suddenly looks so tired and irrelevant. Shower heads? Christmas Crackers? Tuck shop pies?
Good grief.
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I bet the art's departments of our universities are breaking out the champers right now.
The greatest problem of student loans has not been student debt IMHO. It been the turning of our universities into intellectually sterile degree factories where people look for the meal ticket that will justify all the money they've borrowed.
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Poor Trevor! He was just retaliating after Henare put in a cheap shot.
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Labour has so far run a flawless campaign. To use a rugby analogy, they are like an aging team of seasoned rugby players, the educated boot of Clark is making sure they are playing the game in the opposition half, their experienced pack has dictated the pace, and they've pounced on opposition mistakes. Now, with the try line in sight, they've upped the urgency.
I've got no idea what to make of the polls, the observation I will make is that a variance in the National lead of 3-19% across three polls in one weekend will surely be ringing alarm bells within the polling companies themselves, because whoever is wrong is going to be seriously dicredited post election.
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And to make matters worse, Clint Heine has told me that he has an email that sheets home the spelling of "Tolerence" to a conspiracy from the ninth floor designed to shut down their message.
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"...Meanwhile, Alan Bollard couldn't tell Sean Plunket this morning what constitues a "deposit"..."
Bollard gave a reasoned answer to a simplistic question, and Plunket fell back on his usual annoying dumb-ass hectoring that he adopts where he demands the answer be a bumper sticker.Plunkett has been bad than good on Morning Report, and I can't wait for him to bugger off and get that National Party comms job or whatever the hell it is he is angling for in his drive for "journalistic freedom."
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Jason: I think the U.S. style culture war waged against labour by the likes of Family First, Sensible Sentencing etc etc over the last three years has managed to put doubt into the minds of a lot of traditional Labour supporters, moving some of them into disengaged no voters, undecided voters and even -heaven forbid it to be true - possibly reluctant National voters.
But while the third party culture war offensive of the right has shaken these Labour supporters, it hasn't detached them completely, and hopefully (for us Labourites) they are now starting to come home to mumma in the campaign.
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Hmmmm... Maybe everyone who is going to vote National is already voting National and has been for the last couple of years, whilst Labour is now hoovering back up the previously uncounted undecideds?