General Debate 26 April 2011

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southtop

So Rodney asked Don to stand in Epsom?
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April 26, 2011 8:09am
Longknives

Sharon Armstrong’s Stepmum in today’s Herald- “Sharon’s work has taken her all around the World”
I bet it has!! Anyone else enjoying watching her ‘sob-story’ chop, change and unravel?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10721522
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April 26, 2011 8:11am
Puzzled in Ekatahuna

Armchair-detective-bush-lawyer department

“Ms Armstrong, a former deputy chief executive of the Maori Language Commission, had been exchanging emails and chatting on Skype with a man she met online. Despite friends and family warning her it sounded like a scam, she decided to meet him in London.

Why, with this forewarning, did she not become suspicious when she was [obviously] asked to change her luggage to a suitcase with a false bottom in it, which must have weighed 5 kg more than she’d expect for an empty suitcase?
Why had the person, who gave her the ‘documents’ in Buenos Aires, not been able to send them secure courier to London for much less than Ms Armstrong diverting her travel through Argentina?
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April 26, 2011 8:15am
starboard

“Sharon Armstrong’s Stepmum in today’s Herald- “Sharon’s work has taken her all around the World”

Why? For what reason should she have travelled all around the world? Do we have a maori office in Istanbul?

“Why, with this forewarning, did she not become suspicious when she was [obviously] asked to change her luggage to a suitcase with a false bottom in it, which must have weighed 5 kg more than she’d expect for an empty suitcase”

Exactly. Shes no dummy Shes as guilty as sin. Throw the book at her.
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April 26, 2011 8:34am
David Garrett

Puzzled: you make excellent points…whatever it’s made of, empty suitcases dont weigh 5 kg…and did you notice that – perhaps unluckily for Sharon – her “vist to Argentina” coincided with a crackdown on drug tafficking out of Argie?
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April 26, 2011 8:54am
nasska

…..”Shes as guilty as sin. Throw the book at her.”…..

Given that she is incarcerated in an Argentinian jail we can probably afford to give her the luxury of a trial before erecting the gallows.
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April 26, 2011 8:59am
dime

Quick question:

Someone I know has been selected for Jury Duty. Its a 12 week trial at the high court. Is there anyway they can find out online what the actual trial is?

12 weeks sounds like some sorta murder thing.. or worse, a finance case!
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April 26, 2011 9:04am
starboard

“Given that she is incarcerated in an Argentinian jail we can probably afford to give her the luxury of a trial before erecting the gallows”

…ok , then we throw the book , nah 2 books at her.
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April 26, 2011 9:09am
Inventory2

It might be the murder of a prostitute Dime, in which case you could ask to be excused because you might have known her 😉
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April 26, 2011 9:17am
alex Masterley

Dime,

Possibly drugs, mephamphetamine manufacture and supply is what springs to mind immediately. But you don’t know untill you get through the door.
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April 26, 2011 9:19am
dime

iv2 – bahaha its not me. I’ve never been called 🙁 id be right into it. well, maybe not 12 weeks.

so theres no legit way of finding out? i do have a source at the high court.. will txt them :p
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April 26, 2011 9:23am
Pete George

WikiLeaks reveals US blunders at Guantanamo

The United States has botched the handling of inmates at Guantanamo, holding men for years without reliable evidence while releasing others who posed a grave threat, according to leaked secret documents.

It’s hardly a revelation, more like ho-hum confirmation of the obvious.
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April 26, 2011 9:55am
dime

fuckin lefties.

This is the sorta shit clarke would have done:

By comparison, the White House has released statements recognizing the observance of major Muslim holidays and released statements in 2010 on Ramadan, Eid-ul-Fitr, Hajj, and Eid-ul-Adha.

The White House . . . did release an eight-paragraph statement heralding Earth Day. Likewise, the president’s weekend address mentioned neither Good Friday or Easter.
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April 26, 2011 10:02am
Rodders

Hone says the Mana Party moniker would not last and a permanent name would be decided in a competition.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10721574

So “MoFo Party” is still in the running then?
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April 26, 2011 11:11am
Inventory2

@ Rodders; I still reckon that it has to be the MOFO Hone Party

Maori Or Friends Of Hone
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April 26, 2011 11:24am
iMP

MAGGIES BAG…Brit PM Margaret Thatcher’s iconic bag up for auction today, a real piece of history. I hope the Brit museum buy it and mount it alongwith a Churchill cigar and that dilapidated Treasury Budget red box that needs replacing.

I was media minding for Baroness Thatcher in 1992 at her final political event for the Conservatives (in the rim London constituency of Mitcham & Mardon) alongwith Home Secretary Angela Rumbold. I particularly liked working with Robin Harris her speech writer (who went on to do Lady Thatcher’s biography). Relics like this are a part of political history. J.
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April 26, 2011 12:07pm
Sonny Blount

Heres something the nanny statists are behind the times in banning over here, Kinder Suprises!

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/265505/choc-and-awe-mark-steyn

25,000 lives saved by seizures of Kinder Suprises.
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April 26, 2011 12:10pm
Manolo

We have money to burn, don’t we?

New Zealand will spend more than $1.2 billion on investments backing the Rugby World Cup – but the tournament will make only $700 million in direct economic returns.

A Herald survey asked RWC organisers, local authorities, government departments, public bodies, transport hubs and sponsors what they had prepared for the World Cup and how much they would spend.

“The important thing is to understand the scale of this thing from New Zealand’s point of view,” said Rugby World Cup Minister Murray McCully. “It’s way bigger than anything we’ve ever done before.
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April 26, 2011 12:41pm
Manolo

The Luddites want to warn the whole world, not only NZers.

Greens outraged at NZ’s Thai booze intervention

The Green Party is outraged that New Zealand is putting pressure on Thailand over its bid to put warning labels on alcohol. The World Trade Organisation said the European Union, Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Mexico and the United States had raised concerns about Thailand’s intentions to put health advisory messages on alcohol bottles.

The opponents argued the labelling requirements created unnecessary obstacles to trade and could be misleading.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/4924447/Greens-outraged-at-NZs-Thai-booze-intervention
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April 26, 2011 12:45pm
Mick Mac

Dime – you get what you vote for. Americans voted for a dream that had no substance, rather like their economy.
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April 26, 2011 12:49pm
Johnboy

Anyone recognise the guy in the middle?

http://mcso.org/Mugshot/

Or know of the activities of any of his relatives? 🙂
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April 26, 2011 2:12pm
Rodders

@I2 @ 11.24am – Well, that is a polite way of expressing it 😉

btw I wonder whether Phil has renewed his library membership ?
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April 26, 2011 2:47pm
reid

andrei said:

I think the point here is Reid that there is a loud demand from the secularists that politicians vote in contradiction to their religious convictions where they conflict with the default secularist position. For example the expectation that a Catholic should vote for pro-abortion legislation, that being the accepted secularist position – but in conflict with the Churches position.

Abortion appears in David’s original post as something to be preserved against the threat of a Christian dominated Parliament.

I deplore as do we all, murder. And I know many who are heavily interested in this subject describe this as such.

Fact is, it is deplorable and it should not happen. However the disagreement is not in that, it’s in the way out of this mess.

That’s where there is no guidance and I don’t really care who gives it, politicians or religious leaders, it would just be nice were there to be some of it, on this.
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April 26, 2011 10:19pm

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