With apologies to Max Ehrmann, who wrote the original text in Desiderata in 1927, “whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the communist plan for New Zealand is unfolding as it should”. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the failure of law and order and the political perversion of the police, […]
If Jimmy Shaw suddenly became leader of National there would be an outcry from the party’s supporters. The man in the street supporter that is. The hard core of the party, the same people who have let it drift steadily left for forty years, would probably be flat out on Kiwiblog and other social media […]
If you’re a believer in reason, you would no doubt be left speechless by the torrent of nonsense that is the accepted public discourse today. The term “speechless” is chosen specifically here. What does one say that can have any impact upon the overwhelming onslaught of Alice in Wonderland style absurdity that is currently being […]
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Good article and discussion in Quadrant about outrageous bias of Australian broadcaster ABC. Author James Allen.
More of Mark Scott? Surely Not
Could it be that Tony Abbott’s cabinet is infested with closet masochists, the sort who enjoy being beaten up by the national broadcaster its current managing director has so steadfastly refused to reform? It is the only way to explain this talk of extending his contract.
Let me be blunt. If this Coalition government extends Mark Scott’s term as the ABC’s managing director for a year, or even for two minutes, then I will not vote for them, no matter how awful the alternative. Spoiled ballot here I come.
http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2015/05/mark-scott-surely/
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RB, FYI on Allen West. Because of you fondness you’ve expressed for him, I’m not sure how you will look at it. For me, this is not the first time Col West has displayed judgment I find worse than merely disappointing.
source: http://allenbwest.com/2015/05/exclusive-new-islamic-terror-threat-in-florida/
hattip: http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=230117
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No-one is innocent. There are patriots, and there are traitors, but there are no innocents.
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Did you read this Pascal?
https://truebluenz.com/2015/03/30/alan-west-update-much-more-serious-sexual-harassment-charges-now-exist/
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No, I’d missed it. I’d not even caught wind of that story. Thanks.
Now I don’t feel too badly about providing you with some of the warning signs.
I’d already written him off because when he was in a position to take an important leadership stand, he folded, and in a way that left me thinking “this man is in the tank or far more gullible than he has a right to be given the promise we invested in him.” Here’s the link with the video of the man explaining his cave: Allen West: ‘Screw the TEA Party; Save the GOP’.
And here is an even early caveat that, in a way, proves that having a somewhat jaundiced eye helps stave off possible disappointment and, worse, total disgust with the process.
Please inform me via email if I chose correctly in not showing you these sooner.
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