Posts by Ken Sparks
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As we’ve driven around the Nelson/Golden Bay area in the last week I’ve been joking about making my first citizen’s arrest if we encountered a bad driver. I won’t be joking about that anymore let alone doing it. Seems the best approach would be to pull over and call the police with a description of the car, registration no. and the location/direction of travel. If there are two of you in the car I guess you could follow the car until it pulls over somewhere, then engage the offending driver in some sort of conversation while the other person calls the police.
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Hard News: Public Address Word of the…, in reply to mark taslov,
I’m not a total fan but I’m way happier to have Jacinda and co in charge rather than that other sorry bunch. For that reason my phrase of the year is ‘Let’s do this.’
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Jacindamania
This remarkably popular woman almost singlehandedly turned her party’s fortunes around and (with a bit of help from Winston) led it back into power.. -
Polity: Cold, calculated and cynical, in reply to Bart Janssen,
He could desist from name calling and actually behave like an adult with a real job.
I don't think it would ever enter our PM's head to modify his behaviour in the House or anywhere else for that matter.
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Hard News: Whakamomori: Raw, open and honest, in reply to John McCormick,
Before editing the documentary I was given a specific directive to exclude any references to methods of suicide for the very reason John states. It wouldn't have been in any way helpful if we had but we did have to be careful when editing interviews with those who had attempted suicide. What is helpful is to hear from those people who have come close to suiciding but are now really pleased they didn't and have managed to turn their lives around.
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I had a completely different opinion of Mike King after editing the 'Target Zero' documentary. As a comedian he never appealed to my sense of humour but I'm filled with admiration for him and the way he manages to connect with people less than half his age. Handing out your phone number to who knows how many desperate teenagers is a huge responsibility and I'm pretty sure he doesn't take that lightly.
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Envirologue: Swamp Monsters – the…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I was gonna put a link to this fine piece in the comments there, but I am stuck elsewhere and have forgotten my Stuff log in details
Done!
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Envirologue: Swamp Monsters – the…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Collins is doing her best here to make sure politicians rank as low as they possibly can on the 'most respected' list.
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Thank you Dave for confirming all my worst fears. In any sane world this latest round of publicity would be enough to shut down this illegal 'business' venture. I really despair about the current Government's worship of the almighty dollar at the expense of everything else - particularly our most fragile environments. Actually, it makes me really fucking angry...
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Hard News: Word of the Year 2014: #dirtypolitics, in reply to Sacha,
A swish merlot sounds good anywhere and I'd like to think that investigations into the revelations of dirty politics are far from resolved. There are many unanswered questions.