Comments on: Key blames Solid Energy failure on previous Labour government and fabric of space-time

By: Sacha

Sacha — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 22:05:52 +0000

“it’s not 1950″

Don’t tell Gerry. This glorious motorway will turn Christchurch farmland into a sprawling Pakuranga and is much loved by the construction industry and sundry well-placed property developers:
http://transportblog.co.nz/2013/02/27/how-much-sprawl-in-christchurch/

By: ropata

ropata — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:10:39 +0000

Articulate Shearer from Dimension XYZZY sez:
“Never fear little Kiwis. Soon I shall defeat my galactic nemesis, the Jokey one, and usher in a new age of rainbows and pixie dust, solve world hunger, and the All Blacks shall reign for a thousand years”

By: peterlepaysan

peterlepaysan — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:20:12 +0000

Hey ropata, what would an articulate David Shearer say?

What the hell am I doing here?

What the the hell does the NZLP stand for?

One thing is for sure, there are an awful lot of non voters out there. They do not like the Labour Party..

It is hardly surprising that Shon Key does so well in the polls.

Where the hell is the opposition?

By: Ben Wilson

Ben Wilson — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:50:08 +0000

On Planet Key, there are very thick deposits of bat shit in the planetary crust.

By: Gregor W

Gregor W — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:59:06 +0000

I have, or perhaps had, a belief that the govt having major stakes in some industries served the common good.

As do many of us.

The trouble various governments don’t appear to have cottoned on that it’s not 1950, so pitching coal mining as ‘critical infrastructure’ or ‘common good’ is a bit of a stretch these days.

By: Joe W

Joe W — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:54:26 +0000

And since Labour us supposed to be a centre left party which should be able to make common good arguments I find them once more the most disappointing.

Yet another sorry soul nursing a lifelong trauma over the childhood discovery that they’d been deceived over the existence of Santa Claus.

By: ropata

ropata — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:34:30 +0000

We need urgent legislation to build an even Larger Hadron Collider and send John Key to the correct parallel universe.
And can we borrow an articulate version of David Shearer from somewhere?

By: NeilM

NeilM — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:15:55 +0000

@Gregor W

I don’t have an “unbounded faith in our elected officials” I have, or perhaps had, a belief that the govt having major stakes in some industries served the common good.

But what should go along with that is an acceptance that these SOEs will have bad times as well as good times and that to use the bad times as a mere excuse for partisan bitching undermines the common good argument.

If politicians cannot resist resorting to making this an issue of what they can out if this fir themselves than I’ve come to the conclusion that there is no good to come from the SOEs and they should be sold.

I have sympathy for the Nationsl govt as they are stuck and no doubt if the roles were reversed National would be acting like Labour and the Greens.

So no party had convinced me that the can run a business like a business rather than an extension of their election campaign. And since Labour us supposed to be a centre left party which should be able to make common good arguments I find them once more the most disappointing.

By: Frank Macskasy

Frank Macskasy — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:01:43 +0000

What we need is a Doctor.

Spacetime problems? Sorted.

Fixing Key’s prime ministership? That’ll take a bit longer.

By: gazzaj

gazzaj — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 06:22:13 +0000

It’s all really simple – if everything else in the Universe follows Einstein’s mass/energy equivalence, then surely a company named “Solid Energy” has to as well.

i.e. E (Solid Energy) = m x c^2 (money times competence squared)

So if competence is real there will be positive amounts of money. But Solid Energy is losing money, therefore competence must be imaginary..