Posts by Danyl Mclauchlan
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But, OTOH, I don't agree with every bloody word that comes out of the mouths of the drivelling pisspots that pass for the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference. If that makes me a bad Catholic, tough, because I've also known Catholic clergymen who have been (yes) spiritual mentors. And damn good people.
I think that might by why this whole Wright thing hasn't been the disaster that 'everyone' predicted. I suspect many Americans thought about the religious leaders in their own lives, pondered on how batshit crazy they'd appear if you spliced them into a two minute youtube clip and shrugged and moved on.
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Hoorah! In this one I'm married to Nastassja Kinski.
Don't go for any short strolls in the desert.
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at the end of the day there are a lot more civil servants in Wellington now than 10 years ago and that worries a lot of people.
My concern is that even to a leftie like me a lot of these new civil servant jobs sound pretty damn superfluous. (Maybe its the circles I move in but most of them seem to be in comms.) And I've had more than a couple of conversations with friends who've just moved into (astonishingly well paid) government jobs, told me what they were doing (keeping the vacancies content on the ministries web site up to date, writing a diversity policy for their new department) and when I ask them if its a part time job or a temporary contract - which jobs like that MUST be, right? - my friend looks offended and tells me that they have a permanent full time position.
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Y'know -- no, really, I was -- I had been wondering what Ian Wishart was up to.
And now you have your answer - Ian's been writing 'Absolute Power: The Helen Clark Years', an impartial, even-handed look at Clark as a woman, a leader, a high-flying politician and a satanic childless lesbian pawn of Pyongyang.
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"Hey mate, Toni has just told the pigs we burned down the house at Thackeray St. We need to get our story straight."
I like to think our police would still have the acumen to capture some of these criminal masterminds without the availability of archived texts.
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From my own perspective, I would be hard pressed to think of a situation where I have ever found any practical use for anything I learned at university, other than the ability to knock off a jug in fairly short order and to regurgitate whatever the lecturer wanted to hear. Not exactly the best use of $40k of student loan.....
Spot the arts degree!</sneer>
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I'm also curious to see how organisations like Family First deal with this concept of the state packing kids off to compulsory boot camp (or whatever), given that there anti-smacking campaign revolves around warning parents that CYFS might take their kids away from them if they hit them.
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I've heard rumours that the Nat Party comms team put quite a few noses out of joint with the way they handled the media leading up to the speech. 'Boot Camp!' might be a bit of blow-back from that.
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He's just as committed to divisive hate campaigns as his predecessor.
Rolls eyes.
If you want to find a valid platform to attack Key then I'd suggest looking into the detail of his policy. This speech was almost certainly written in response to the events of the last ten days or so (the Nats were leaking a totally different theme at the start of the month) so its probably policy on the hoof.
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Alternatively, I can manage your affairs and give you pocket money for a surprisingly modest fee.
Oh no. The last guy who made me that offer ended up standing over me in a car park wearing a zebra-skin hat screaming 'Don't make me go upside your head'.
I'm not making that mistake twice.