Craig, no harm done

Nah… the power of the bitch must be used for good (against arseholes who deserve) not collateral damage when freaked out ’cause some odd soul sent my a very strange picture with the suggestion that I “suck Helen Clark’s cock”. (Forget it Jake. It’s Crazytown.)

So, yes, I really am sorry for giving you an out of line bitching.

As for my lovely correspondent (who may be lurking here): Sick fuck. Professional help. NOW.

Charlie Tan, are you a resident of Alcatraz?

Fair cop — sorry for getting snippy but there’s been some, shall we say, rather peculiar correspondence coming through the electro-mail. Sorry, but did I black out and call someone’s mother a crack whore?

Ahhh now that the division has begun

Don’t trot out the Dr. Evil cackle quite yet, Charlie, because I’m not too fond of the left-wingnuts either.

Ahhh now that the division has begun, we can work on the conquering. Maybe I’ll think about it over the weekend while I:m sitting on my island in the sun. Later, dudes.

Craig, perhaps we might add to this list; take a breath before launching into Henny Penny mode.

Sorry, PaulW, but what the fuck are you going on about? I’ll swallow a lot of dead rats around these parts — since our host seems willing to put up with them — but when the cream of the wingnutterari call me a liar and sycophantic arse-sucker without any basis in fact, then I’m going to respond. Often in a way that wouldn’t win the Emily Post Seal of Approval.

Deal with it.

I also stand by my comment that striking ideologically purist postures in blog comments is all well and good (done it myself enough times), but the pragmatic realities of political life aren’t the same thing. And no amount of blog-bile is going to change it.

Let’s look at this closely.

Is it a “bribe”, in that John Key is proposing to use Taxpayer Money to induce student loan borrowers to vote for him, seeing he is not now going to scrap their interest free loans?

They may as well have a second bite at the same tax payer provided cherry . A bribe on a bribe? Electioeering has started. Or as has been said fittingly elsewhere. The Great Auction of Taxpayer’s Money/

Yes, Paul, and I generally try to avoid folks who still haven’t gotten through their grieving process for FPP, crank up the heresy trail every time DPF has the gall to opine that the Government might actually have a point, and on and on and on…

Here’s some good things to learn if you’re interested in governing rather than ideological pure irrelevance:
1) Learn how to count.
2) Pick your battles (and make sure they’re really worth taking hits for), rather than flailing ineffectually.
3) And remember that there are one or two people out there you’re going to have to win over.

Craig, perhaps we might add to this list; take a breath before launching into Henny Penny mode. I think what is more than a little amusing is to see David simultaneous discover the vissicitudes of politics and preach the doctrine of neccessity. I usually treat David’s hyperbole with scant regard but what next will discover National now supports? Had he been a little less shrill in ‘05, he’d look less silly now.

In any case, this is a sidetrack. It may assuage most of your friends’ guilt in following their leader as turns greek*, but I’m sure they’ll be crying into their pillows tonight.

*That is, all Helenistic.

You may consider social workers, ward nurses and prison guards “slackers” unaha. But I don’t let the market decide for me the worth of a human being or profession.

Funny, because I keep hearing public sector unions making awfully right-wing, market based arguments that if you pay peanuts and offer appalling condition, you shouldn’t be surprised if you get monkeys. Welcome to a tight labour market where demand exceeds supply by a considerable margin.