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Look Something Blue!

November 7th, 2008 Comments Off on Look Something Blue!

Te Atatu Pony Club’s grounds share a boundary with Auckland’s busy North Western Motorway. Last night Matt and Sheridan were up at the Pony Club helping to set up jumps for this weekend’s One Day Event (ODE). As Matt was one of the few parents who had turned up to help the club president asked […]

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John Key on Religion and Public Life

September 30th, 2008 21 Comments

A few weeks ago someone gave me a copy of this interview with John Key. Now the first thing to note is that the article was published by Gaynz.com. Gaynz.com are not a terribly reliable media outlet, and Madeleine would say that they are beneath the term “media outlet”. Hence, much of what is written […]

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Next time you want to tape a politician…

August 7th, 2008 Comments Off on Next time you want to tape a politician…

I will resist the urge the comment on the content of the recent taped conversations, well I might say *yawn* what political party does not contain MP’s that have ideas about where they would like their party to head in the future, in fact to swipe my 16 year old’s comments, there would be something […]

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Key a PC Socialist?

December 2nd, 2006 5 Comments

Murray certainly thinks so and I am inclined to agree from what I have heard so far from the man. Of course it could all be the way the media are reporting things but Key does appear to be pulling National more centrist and last time National were over there it was disastrous for them. […]

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Nuclear Freedom

December 1st, 2006 1 Comment

John Key’s statements that National has no plan to lift the nuclear free policy of New Zealand are very disapointing. While David Farrar has a good point about it being “one less stick to be beaten with,” New Zealand’s nuclear free policy is stupid. No I am not advocating that New Zealand enters the arms […]

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Brash is Gone

November 30th, 2006 Comments Off on Brash is Gone

Brash has quit parliament apparently. Its a shame in many ways because he really had a lot to contribute and I would have liked to see him do more. That said, if he had an affair whilst in office [note use of “if”] then he is unfit for office and quite rightly should go and […]

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