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As well as reviewing “The Spy Who Wouldn’t Die Again” at Downstage, I also got moderate the Meet the Artists session on Tuesday.

I was a bit nervous about doing it. I’m pretty used to public speaking, but normally it is on areas I am a bit of an expert on. When it comes to plays, I am just an enthusiastic attendee.

I got to see the backstage to Downstage. It’s actually incredibly small. There’s so many props and costumes they use during the show, that it get pretty cluttered.

I thought the forum went quite well. It was actually quite fun being able to ask the cast whom their favourite roles were, and also talk about how they came up with the ideas for the various gadgets in the show. The final question was to Tim Spite, the director/writer (and actor) about how he judges the success of a show, apart from ticket sales. I liked his answer which basically was when all the different elements (the cast, the plot, the set) work together in harmony. It was a good answer, as that was what stood out about the show.

Most of what I now do, I never thought I would. At 18 I wanted to be a doctor. I never thought that one day I would be a pollster, a “political commentator” and also an “arts reviewer”. I was actually involved in the drama club at school – but mainly because we got to hang out with the girls from our sister school

Labour have released their 2011 party list. I’ve blogged it below, with two extra columns. The second column shows whether they are likely to win their electorate seat or not, and hence where they are on what one calls the effective list. For now the assumption is no electorate seats change hands (except Wigram goes to Labour).

The third column is what approximate level of party vote is needed for Labour for that list candidate to get elected to Parliament. This assumes that there is 5% wasted vote.

Some general comments I would make:

1. Sue Moroney has done very well to be the effective No 3 on the list
2. Jacinda Ardern’s very high placing suggests Labour are not relying on the outcome of Auckland Central to ensure her return
3. The bottom ranked list MP is junior whip Steve Chadwick.
4. Only three new candidates are ranked above Caucus List MPs – Andrew Little at 15, Deborah Mahuta-Coyle at 26 and Michael Wood at 32 – two unionists and a parliamentary staffer.
5. The latest poll (Roy Morgan) has Labour at 31.5%. If this was the result and the assumptions are correct, then Steve Chadwick would lose her seat, and the only new MPs would be Andrew Little and Deborah Mahuta-Coyle
6. Ashraf Choudary is not on the list, so is dog tucker. Damien O’Connor also not on the list, but he is standing in a marginal seat, so may return.
7. Overall Labour have not been as bold as they were in 2008 when they injected many new candidates in ahead of current MPs.  Those ranked from spots 18 to 25 are all current MPs, and they could have put candidates like Kate Sutton, Jordan Carter and Josie Pagani higher into a more winnable spot - all three would do miles better than Rajen Prasad.
8. It will be interesting to see what National does, and whether they place any new candidates above current caucus members. I hope they do – places should be on merit, not status quo.

John Hartevelt writes in the SST:

THEY USED to mock Anne Tolley. They used to laugh at her rambling, head-scratching monologues and wonder at how she had made it to such an important job. They used to say she was not up to it and that she would surely get the flick from her boss, John Key.

But the joke is not so funny any more. Anne Tolley has turned in to this government’s great survivor.

She has seen off four Labour Party pretenders to her job and, after two years of battening down the hatches, the minister of education is finally on the front foot.

Besides dispatching Chris Carter, Trevor Mallard, Darren Hughes and the short-term acting spokesman, David Shearer, Tolley has also witnessed the backs of arch union leader critics Kate Gainsford and Frances Nelson.

She has stared down endless and noisy criticism of her flagship national standards to the point that she is confident enough to show up at this weekend’s meeting of the Principals’ Federation and tell them all about a controversial new policy she’s pushing to fast-track teachers into the job. …

Once she has managed to consistently avoid gaffes that make her look stupid, Tolley’s ordinariness becomes an asset. The barbs from the intelligentsia then start to rebound and become political assets to Tolley. National Party voters like nothing better than straight-up sheilas sticking it up the namby-pamby commentariat.

That’s why they reckon Tolley is such a hit in the airport lounges. Her supporters say she often gets parents walking up to her without hesitation to talk about her national standards and to puzzle with her about why people hate on her so much.

The campaign against Tolley was so nasty and personal, that having endured it she got sympathy. You had union leaders on television sneering at her, and making it clear they would rather destroy her than work with her, and the average punter didn’t like that.

Michael Field in Stuff has an interview and profile with Charles Wardle, who claims to have worked for the SIS, spying on Muslims in NZ. He was previously a jihadist himself.

While one can not be certain, I find his claims of working for the SIS to lack credibility. He has not one shred of proof that he did, and can’t name who he dealt with. Some extracts:

Testimony from a man serving a life sentence for his role in the Mumbai terror attacks revealed a Kiwi connection. Michael Field meets the man who once trained to be a terrorist before becoming an SIS spy. 

THE WAY Charles Wardle tells it, a warehouse converted into a mosque is where jihad might some day be launched on New Zealand.

Wardle’s quietly told story is almost beyond verification but it has left New Zealand’s 36,000-strong Islamic community severely embarrassed and distressed that the Security Intelligence Service (SIS) is targeting them over claims of a holy war they say does not exist.

The story is beyond verification, so why does the article state as a fact he became an SIS spy? Shouldn’t it say he alleges he was??

Wardle signed secrecy provisions of the Official Information Act and said he had no contract, was paid in cash, starting at $25 per hour and later $450 per week. He was told his pay was tax-free and it would not affect his student allowance.

As far as I know the SIS do nto have an exemption from the Tax Act. And why not keep a copy of what you signed?

Wardle said he would meet his handler each month at a restaurant.

Which restaurant? Do the owners confirm this? They tend to remember regular customers.

The policeman I talked to said there were big egos

So the Police were involved too? What was his name?

Other than a business card and phone numbers, Wardle has no proof he worked for the SIS. But he wrote to Intelligence and Security inspector-general Paul Neazor in 2009 complaining the SIS had not paid “the annual bonus and travel that had been verbally contracted”.

Neazor replied he would discuss the matter with the SIS director “and once I have sorted out what I can properly deal with, will respond further”. So far Neazor hasn’t.

Well this is wrong. Wardle has the response from Neazor on his own blog.

Wardle seems obsessed with the SIS. He has done videos about them, and has posted his “story” on multiple discussion boards. One lengthy one is on Indymedia. One extract is:

My de facto partner, who I claimed falsely to be Christian, a virgin prior to having been with me, and to be my wife, also followed numerous restrictions. We often walked separately when outside and she followed conservative restrictions on what she wore and how she behaved in public. I tried to keep the SIS informed of what was going on.

What sort of person just drops that into a public letter?

I don’t know whether or not Wardle had dealings with the SIS, but there seems to have been no attempts to verify his cliams, which might disprove them.

Matt McCarten writes in the HoS:

The major problem the Labour Party has is that it doesn’t seem able to look like they are trying to win.

It’s clear they are sleep-walking to defeat. They look tired and lacklustre.

Frankly, they look like a bunch of losers and it annoys me. Everyone knows the game plan is that, through a lack of an alternative option, they let Goff run until the election then replace him. Then supposedly they will make an effort for the elections in 2014.

That may well make sense, given that it’s plainly obvious they are a hopeless opposition, so why would anyone think they’re ready for government?

Ouch.

I look forward to its completed party list to see whether it promotes new and current talent and takes the cleaver to its non-performers.

Otherwise, it is simply rearranging the deck chairs on a ship that may well sink.

I hope for their supporters’ sakes they do the former.

The Labour list will be interesting. They actually did a pretty good job in 2008 of promoting new talent ahead of some of the existing caucus. They need to do that again.

Bevan Hurley in the HoS reports:

Barry Hart was rebuked by Judge Charles Blackie in Manukau District Court on Wednesday for telling the Herald on Sunday that the name of a man charged over a cocaine smuggling ring had been suppressed.

Hart told the court the incident had been a misunderstanding and he had been acting in the best interests of his client.

Surely this is a disciplinary matter? Or does the Law Society not have a problem with a lawyer inventing fake supression orders and lying to the media?

In January a group was charged in connection with the importation of 3kg or $500,000 worth of the Class A drug. The paper approached Hart’s client on a Friday and later checked with the court to ensure he did not have name suppression. The next day, Hart called and said his client had interim name suppression after an appeal at Manukau District Court.

In fact, Hart filed an appeal the day after the report was published – with the name removed. He lost, but after an unsuccessful appeal to the High Court, the full case for suppression was heard at the district court this week.

This appears to be an absolutely blatant lie. And worse, it has suceeded. If there was a register of supression orders, then the Herald on Sunday would have known Hart was laying, and could have legally published the name of his client.

This also reinforces the need for blogs to have the ability to easily check if a supression order exists. Under a proposed law change, we will face criminal liability for not removing the name of someone with name suppression, if we have been alerted to it. Now this would allow lawyers such as Mr Hart to tell a blog owner that the name of their client is suppressed and must be removed, and the blog owner will feel obliged to comply, even if the lawyer is lying.

The proposed law should be amended so that a blog owner only has to remove a name, if the request comes from an official source such as Ministry of Justice or Crown Law.

This article shows that defence lawyers can not be trusted to be truthful about whether their client has name suppression. If this is unfair to all the other defence lawyers out there, I’ll retract it once I read that some of Mr Hart’s colleagues have filed a disciplinary complaint against him.

Judith Tizard does another valedictory speech – this time in the Herald on Sunday.

Whale has a summary:

Forty uses of the word “I“
Ten uses of the word “I’d“
Four­teen uses of the word “my”

Two aspects amused me:

While I grew up in a political family, my real apprenticeship was in the hard, cynical school of the Auckland Central Labour Party where Richard Prebble and his mates took no prisoners; where any tactic was fair if you won; where attack (personal or otherwise) was the first line of defence. And you never, never gave up, no matter what.

But I also found people I respected and enjoyed working alongside. Margaret Wilson, Helen Clark, Cath Tizard and Jim Anderton ran smart, inclusive, positive campaigns which taught me and many others like Mike Williams, Len Brown and Matt McCarten how to make a difference.

Matt McCarten has in fact been one of Tizard’s harshest critics.

I saw the on-going attacks on my character and my work, in blogs as well as in the Herald, as a Crosby-Textor/ Karl Rove-style attempt to destroy Labour leaders …

Oh goodness. Not just a Crosby-Textor style attack, but also a Karl Rove style attack. Judith left out Dick Cheney and Richard Nixon.

John Robertson got recently elected Leader of the NSW Labor Party. He is a former union boss who many hold responsible for the civil war which tore NSW Labor apart. Here’s what Paul Keating said to him, in a letter in 2008. Some extracts:

“Your manipulation of the union base in New South Wales, with the connivance and support of the Party President, Bernie Riordan, succeeded in destroying the political life of both men, and with them, probably the Labor Government of New South Wales itself.

“When I came to see you about the Iemma Government’s electricity privatisation proposals in April 2008, you will remember me telling you that reckless indifference by you and Bernie Riordan to the Government’s fortunes, may see the Government destroyed and for which, you and Riordan would be held accountable.

“This letter is about that accountability.” …

When I met you and went through the history of the establishment of the east coast electricity market by the Government I led in the 1990s, and why the privatisation of the NSW power stations was consistent with the benefits of that market, you never offered one serious point in rebuttal.Not one cogent economic argument to thwart the logic. You batted the argument to one side, implying it would somehow be sorted before any rupture arose.

But instead like a banshee on a rampage, you tore at the Government’s entrails until its viability was effectively compromised. …

Let me tell you, if the Labor Party’s stocks ever get so low as to require your services in its Parliamentary leadership, it will itself have no future … the people of New South Wales have their problems, but they would be way better rattling through than turning to someone like you in some hope of redemption.

It may be a novel concept for you, let me say that the conscientious business of governance can never be founded in a soul so blackened by opportunism. …

I am ashamed to share membership of the same party as you.

So that is from the former national leader to the current NSW state leader. I think it will be sometime until NSW is governed by Labor again.

The Manawatu Standard reports:

The Broadcasting Standards Authority has not upheld a complaint from the Manawatu Standard about a TV One Close Up item poking fun at Palmerston North.

The Broadcasting Standards Authority has not upheld a complaint from the Manawatu Standard about a TV One Close Up item poking fun at Palmerston North.

But Standard editor Michael Cummings says a message has been sent that the city won’t stand for being mocked.

Won’t stand for being mocked? Really? What are they going to do – fire cruise missiles at anyone who does.

To defy the no mocking edict, I repeat the words of the great John Cleese:

•  If you ever do want to kill yourself, back lack the courage, I think a visit to Palmerston North will do the trick.
• We stayed in a little motel. The weather was grotty. The theatre was a nasty shape. The audience was very strange to play to.
•  And we had a thoroughly bloody miserable time there and we were so happy to get out.

The best solution I have heard for what to do with Palmerston North, is to turn it into a quaratine camp for gingas. That’s a real win-win.

To be fair, Palmie does provide some value. It allows people in New Plymouth and Wanganui to feel better about themselves.

The Telegraph reports:

Russian MPs ‘banned from wearing miniskirts’

Russian MPs and their aides will soon have to follow a new ethics code forbidding miniskirts and indiscreet behaviour that may tarnish the image of parliament, a report said on Friday.

This is very wrong. MPs should be free to wear what they deem appropriate.

My position is based purely on constitutional principles and freedom of speech, and has nothing to do with the fact that the two people in the photo above are Russian MPs.

The Herald reported a couple of weeks ago:

Andrew Collins had a special reason to queue outside the Yoobee computer store in Newmarket from 5.30am yesterday to buy the latest iPad model.

Before his 40-year-old sister Clare died on Tuesday, she made him promise her to buy the new version of the tablet computer for her two sons, aged 10 and 12.

That is so very sad. I know Andrew – he was the Head Prefect at Rongotai College when I was there, and a mate of my brother’s.

It was an emotional day for Mr Collins, who lives in Australia. He was the first person in the queue, waiting in the rainy conditions all day for the 5pm launch of the upgraded model.

“Even if I was 10th in the queue it wouldn’t have mattered, but to come out the door with the first one and hear the crowd cheering was very uplifting,” said the 46-year-old.

“And especially for the reason I’m getting them today.”

He had made friends with his neighbours in the queue and they had a place-holding system worked out for food and toilet breaks.

Why I call this history repeats, is because this is not the first time Andrew has done a queue and dash for a new product. In 1982, microwave ovens started to become commercially available, and the James Smith store in Wellington had a huge sale, including a microwave for only $199. Back then they cost well over $1,000 or so.

Anyway my brother and I camped overnight to be first in the queue, and then were joined by Andrew for the dash when the door opened. It all went according to plan, and we got the microwave.

What I haven’t mentioned is that Andrew at the time was the NZ Under 20 sprint champion

Wasn’t quite cheating, just sensible use of friends.

So always been grateful to Andrew for that effort. The news story jogged my memory.

Just like I don’t know how I coped before the Internet, I don’t know how I’d cope without a microwave over! We owe a lot to technology.

The Herald reports:

Christchurch East MP Lianne Dalziel will not stand on her party’s list this election, saying if the people from Christchurch do not want her to return as their electorate MP she would prefer to leave Parliament altogether.

Ms Dalziel is one of only two MPs who have spurned the safety of the party’s list for the election this November.

Labour’s moderating committee will meet to complete the list rankings tomorrow and most sitting MPs usually secure high enough places to stay in Parliament.

Only Ms Dalziel and Ross Robertson, who has the safe seat of Manukau East and has consistently refused to go on the list, are not going on it this year.

This is a very curious decision. MPs are generally encouraged to be on the list. Generally there are two reasons an MP will refuse to go on the list:

1. They are worried they may get a ranking which will embarrass them
2. They are worried that they may lose their seat, and want to send out a signal that if you don’t vote for them in the electorate, then they won’t be in Parliament at all

Ross Robertson clearly fits into category one. He knows he will be ranked lowly by the party, so why bother – he doesn’t need a list safety net anyway.

Dalziel was ranked No 15 in 2008, on Labour’s list. She is one of the few Labour Chairs of a Select Committee, and is generally fairly well regarded. I can’t imagine she is worried about a low list ranking.

So it is No 2. But her majority in 2008 was 5,765. Why would she feel the need to go off the list, unless she felt there was some risk of losing. So why does she think she may lose to Aaron Gilmore?

Michelle Hewitson interviews new Labour MP Louisa Wall:

I asked her an absolute patsy question about Goff: Could he win the election for Labour? She said, “I think brand Labour can win.”

Ouch. One more vote for Parker/Cunliffe/Jones/whicheversuckercanbetalkedintoit.

MacDoctor blogs:

John Key was castigated in the left wing blogosphere for suggesting that the increase in people needing food parcels was due to issues of budgeting. It seems he was right. Not that the Herald would actually use the MacDoctor’s headline – they prefer:

Mum refused food aid under tough new rules

And then they launch into a long story about a solo mum with fibromyalgia and three children (7, 13 and 17) who has had to escape an abusive relationship. So far so good – that is what the DPB was intended for (although I would have thought she would have been on the sickness benefit, rather than the DPB). The story gets lurid with the nasty National government refusing to provide this poor lady with food aid.

Only in paragraph ten do we learn that this woman is receiving $827.50 a week in various forms of government largesse. It is not until the end of the article that we learn that she has had  four aid packages in the past six months and that she refuses to attend any budget meetings with WINZ.

I note the rent for the property is $385 a week. The article does not say whether or not she has applied for a state house. Maybe she doesn’t want to move, but if she did move into a state house then the rent would be well under $200 a week.

The power bill is $65 a week. At 25c/unit, that is 37 units a day which seems pretty high.

Also worth noting that while her expenses are currently $31/week higher than her income, $83 a week is repayments and fines. So if they had been avoided, then there would be a surplus of $52 a week.

None of this is suggesting that life isn’t challenging bringing up three kids on $830 a week. I am sure it is. But the facts show that the level of taxpayer support is already very significant, and that there are cost savings which can be made.

UPDATE: The Herald today reports:

However, a Glenfield solo mother of three children who was refused a $106 food grant on Wednesday was given the money late on Thursday after the Herald reported on her case.

Work and Income head Mike Smith said the mother, “Maree”, was not refused a grant – “she walked out of the meeting before a decision could be made”.

“Last year Maree received 13 hardship payments. She owes us $1400 for money we’ve advanced her,” he said.

“She is clearly having trouble managing her finances. We want to help her with that, rather than continuing to service the symptoms of the problem with hardship grants.”

The Greens released (after I had it leaked to me three years ago) this week their draft party list for the 2011 election. It is highly persuasive with the party membership, but normally there are some minor changes. At this stage the list is:

1. Metiria Turei
2. Russel Norman
3. Kevin Hague
4. Catherine Delahunty
5. Kennedy Graham
6. Gareth Hughes
7. Eugenie Sage
8. Jan Logie
9. David Clendon
10. Holly Walker
11. Denise Roche
12. Julie Anne Genter
13. Mojo Mathers
14. James Shaw
15. Richard Leckinger

The Greens could well get 10 MPs. Eugenie Sage is a green green – a long time Forest & Bird and one of the sacked ECan Councillors. Jan Logie stood for the Greens in the Mana by-election. She is the development manager at the New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities.

Holly Walker is a current Green Press Secretary, and former Critic editor. I rate her as a significant political talent, and if she gets in, will be one of their more effective MPs.

Denise Roche at 11 is from Waiheke Island, and a former Auckland City Councillor. She is well known in Auckland Central, where Greens do very well.

Julie-Anne Genter is a young transport planner. She has a stellar acadamic record, and from I can tell would be a significant asset to the Greens caucus.

Mojo Mathers is a parliamentary party staffer also, and No 15 Rick Leckinger is a former parliamentary staffer.  That’s three current or former staffers in the top 15. I don’t know Mojo, but regard Rick as a good guy who has a very good understand of Internet issues. He suffers from a minor disability of being born in Georgia, USA

Overall looks to be one of their strongest and most youthful line ups. Of course I think their policies are generally whacked.

For them to get into Parliament Holly, Denise and Julie-Anne etc, they need to lift their vote share from 2008. If I was a centre left voter, I’d be looking closely at whom Labour has on their list around the threshold of “might make it”, and think about which candidates you would rather have in Parliament.

This is a picture (from NZ Herald and New Idea) of Irene van Dyk (middle), with her husband and daughter. The daughter is 1.86m tall.

Guess in comments how old the daughter is?

Derek Cheng in the NZ Herald reports:

Parliament had a rare personal vote yesterday when Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia sought to appoint a doctor strongly opposed to abortion to the Abortion Supervisory Committee.

Mrs Turia’s amendment threw a spanner in the works of what was meant to be a simple vote on a motion to appoint Dr Tangimoana Frances Habib and reappoint Professor Dame Linda Jane Holloway and Rev Patricia Ann Allan to the committee. …

In addressing the House, Mrs Turia said the issue of abortion was central to family well-being. “The protection and preservation of whakapapa and genealogy is fundamental to the broken health of our whanau.

“I think about the precious heartbeat of every child, and I think about the comment that Ngati Whatua leader Naida Glavish once made, that there is no such thing as an unwanted mokopuna.”

She asked for a personal vote on the amendment to appoint Wellington doctor Ate Moala to the committee instead of Ms Allan.

Dr Moala has advocated chastity and abstinence, and last year was a guest speaker at the All For Life conference in Nelson.

The article lists who voted which way. Around 20 Mps were absent and one abstained. The only party with split votes was National. All four Maori Party MPs voted in favour. No ACT, Green, Labour or United MPs voted in favour. Hone voted against. Of the 52 National Mps who voted, 27 were in favour, and 25 against. I’m relatively pleased with that. A few years ago I suspect many more National MPs would have voted in favour. National has a blend of socically conservative and socially liberal MPs – and it is a strength to be in a party tolerant of diverse viewpoints. But my concern in the past has been that there hasn’t been enough balance – ie too few social liberals. Things seem to be moving in the right direction (from my point of view)

The Dominon Post editorial:

Poor old Bill English. All the finance minister wants to do is sell things and all he ends up doing is bailing out failed private businesses.

Poor old taxpayers. They end up paying bills that run into the billions for those failures. …

Ideally, the company would be left to face the consequences of not reinsuring sufficiently and it would be allowed to fail.

However, that is simply not possible. AMI has more than 85,000 policyholders with 225,000 policies in Christchurch – about 35 per cent of the residential market in the city.

Ambiguity over whether claims on those policies would be fully paid out would make decisions on the rebuilding of the city difficult, and cause delay till AMI’s financial situation was clearer.

That, Mr English acknowledged, could have been several months away. Delays of that order would have disastrous consequences for the whole country, which needs to have the city functioning as normally it can again as soon as possible.

Sadly, I don’t think the Government had much choice.

I think there are lessons to be learnt here from both the SCF and the AMI collapses. They both were primarily based in one region, and with AMI especially, this has proven to be very unwise. People like to go with “local” companiees, but that means you are vulnerable to local shocks (literally). If your customer base is spread more evenly nation-wide, then you are better placed to survive.

And today, a bird introduced into NZ, the California Quail. This has the distinct colours of the male.

Click for larger, higher res image

The trick here is to get very low and close to the ground so as not to startle the bird. You also get a better angle of view than shooting down onto the bird.

We’ve got a glorious day in Auckland, so I’m knocking back coffee and wistfully looking at the forgone photography opportunities.

UPDATE: The person charged is Scott Guy’s brother-in-law, Ewen Kerry MacDonald. I understand MacDonald is married to one of Scott’s sisters (rather than being the brother of his widow). MacDonald was a pallbearer at the funeral and Scott Guy was his best man at MacDonald’s wedding to his sister.

There was spontaneous cheering on Twitter last night as news broke that an arrest had been made in the killing of Scott Guy. Of course charges do not mean the accused is guilty, but I think what people were celebrating is just that the Police have at least worked out who they think did it. It seemed for so long that there were no real clues or even suspects, and it may have remained unsolved.

Stuff reports:

The father of slain Manawatu farmer Scott Guy has revealed that he knows the 30-year-old man arrested for his son’s murder.

“It’s been a tough day,” Bryan Guy said last night.

“We were very surprised when we heard the name. It was someone we knew.”

Police broke the news to the family about 7pm that a Feilding man was being charged with murder, accused of gunning down Scott Guy in the driveway of his rural property on July 8 last year.

The man is due to appear in Palmerston North District Court this afternoon.

It will be interesting to learn, in time, what the alleged motive was.

Oh dear. Someone at the PSA is going to be busy today. They have set up a website where you can create your own billboard, complaining about various “nice to haves” that you think the Government may be cutting. However I doubt they thought through the wisdom of having it unmoderated on their own website.   Some of the billboards I can’t repeat on a family site, but some of the ones I laughed at are:

• Nice to have – swiss balls
• Nice to have – A website with no HTML errors
• Nice to have – Key rather than that other bloke
• Nice to have – your mum
• Nice to have – a 12 inch c**k
• Nice to have – an original idea, instead of stealing John Ansell’s
• Nice to have – Scott Walker as Governor of Wisconsin
• Nice to have – an opposition leader

My thanks to the PSA for such fun reading.