Don Brash lives on
See anything wrong with this animated gif from the National Party website? Does that look like the past leader, Donald Brash, on the TV screen, alternating with a much smaller and less prominent picture of John Key?
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John Key and his state of the nation
National’s leader, John Key is finally beginning to reveal his policy. Today he delivered his ‘State of the Nation’ speech. I was nearly impressed. But I was also a little deflated that he was playing the ‘law and order’ card using that small subset of New Zealand society – youth. It’s easy, especially looking over […]
Presidential primaries
It seems the US primaries are living up to their unpredictable form. For the Democrats: Obama wins in Iowa , then Clinton wins in New Hampshire . For the Republicans: Huckabee wins Iowa , and McCain takes New Hampshire . While the lead seesaws from one candidate to the other lets remember that Bill Clinton […]
John Key #4
It’s official. John Key does not have an opinion on anything. I listened with amusement to National Radio this morning. The news featured a story about Winston Peters and New Zealand First giving their $158,000 electioneering overspending to Starship Children’s Hospital . Greens co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons said that no-one will be upset that Starship is […]
Peters supports Mallard over punch
Winston Peters came out today advising everyone to give Mallard a break. “Could we just have a little less of all the hectoring, lecturing, prissy, dogooder, PC, pointing-the-finger at Trevor Mallard because he made one mistake. Imagine where the … English speaking people would be in the cause of democracy and freedom … if [Winston] […]
Say Cheese!
No, this isn’t another food post. I heard Sean Plunket interviewing Assistant Police Commissioner Jon White on Morning Report this morning. Commissioner White revealed that during the police raids in Ruatoki the police photographed every person that passed through their roadblock. This was done by politely asking the occupants of cars to alight from the […]