Posts by Lee Wilkinson

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  • What Happens: The Sequel!,

    Still early days and the exit polls dont seem to actually relate to real numbers.

    Tim are you stateside?

    Whangarei Heads • Since Nov 2006 • 45 posts Report Reply

  • What Happens: The Sequel!,

    Tim, yup fair call, I was just ruminating about a nicer world

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  • What Happens: The Sequel!,

    I think the best outcome would be more accountability, better standard of debate and the end of K street and personality politics.
    Fingers crossed

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  • Flatting life in NZ in the 80s.,

    Also the Gordons and the Batts or an earlier incarnation

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  • So what happens this time?,

    pearl harbor, uss maine (cuba)
    pnacs " a pearl harbor type event would be required to get the populace onside"
    quo bono

    Whangarei Heads • Since Nov 2006 • 45 posts Report Reply

  • So what happens this time?,

    operation "northwoods"

    whew are there bonus points for feeding the trolls?

    Whangarei Heads • Since Nov 2006 • 45 posts Report Reply

  • Flatting life in NZ in the 80s.,

    Ooh. Do you reckon that might be what the Victor Dimisich Band song 'Native Waiter' is about?

    Don't look now/You might be dead ...

    Could be, RB. But I do remember the Blam Blam Blam crew and the Midge Marsden band were both regular attendees.

    Another thread, why drive to Ashburton?, the deaf school out at Sumner had some we had to cut into sections to be able to carry, and we justified it by knowing how much safer we made it for the kids. This was after sessions at the "Marine" of course.

    Whangarei Heads • Since Nov 2006 • 45 posts Report Reply

  • So what happens this time?,

    Yeah ditto Alastair

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  • So what happens this time?,

    oops rethink.....
    The internet is the only thing that can allow us to function in a truly democratic sense. There is a light~!

    Whangarei Heads • Since Nov 2006 • 45 posts Report Reply

  • So what happens this time?,

    Basically, given the abysmal reports about the hackability of e voting systems and the inability of individual states to want to do something about putting democracy into practice, the population of america will end up with the government they deserve.
    To paraphrase Jimmy Carter " there aint no way the UN could monitor this election"
    Also, it is not that dissimilar to New Zealand in the sense that there is no discernable opposition to vote for.
    Im predicting a narrow win to the Republicans that will not balance with exit polling or any physical recounts. Its kind of amusing and sick/sad that the voting machine manufacturers are the same people that make atms, and I can't recall an atm ever not giving me a paper receipt.
    Eisenhower's quote about "absolute power of the military industrial complex, to be the only thing we need to fear and fight against" is true and I have yet to see a light anywhere inside the tunnel.

    Whangarei Heads • Since Nov 2006 • 45 posts Report Reply

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