So many people emailed me blue food suggestions and left comments that I feel compelled to give a review of our election gathering last night. Despite efforts to be inclusive, my sister and brother-in-law preferring to manipulate visually impaired voters into voting Green instead (they had to take Rich’s mum to vote and teased me […]
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Election Themed Food Dilemma
November 7th, 2008 12 Comments
I need some help, you see we sent out these invites to our election gathering (don’t want to risk calling it a party as it may run the risk of breaching the EFA). You will note the instruction regarding the food…. Come and Celebrate or Commiserate (depending on the outcome and your political affiliation) Election […]
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A Voting Guide
November 7th, 2008 13 Comments
How to choose who to vote for tomorrow, from Glenn (once again – what can we say? he is brilliant and we ran out of time *ahem*) Extract from: So who AM I voting for? (the election blog, part 3) Basic Human rights/freedomsThere are some bottom line human rights and liberties that should always be […]
Tags: ACT Party · Christian Parties · Due Process · Elections · Glenn Peoples · National Party · Rights and Freedoms · Role of the State · Welfare
Decisions Decisions
November 7th, 2008 8 Comments
We have still not decided who we will give our party vote to so tonight’s mission is to finally work out which party we are voting for. Our previous list of potentials has been whittled down to: ACT – have Sir Roger Douglas, NZ needs him right now, they are the second most correct and […]
Tags: ACT Party · Elections · National Party · Voting
Last Minute Election Craziness
November 7th, 2008 Comments Off on Last Minute Election Craziness
First of all it was the over-excited motorists honking at anything blue. Then I just went shopping, I wanted to buy myself some new shoes and take a break from being serious and deliver invites to our election gathering. My phone beeped. A text from a stranger: Politics is changing. This election keep the Government […]
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A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
The Voting is Over
November 8th, 2008 4 Comments
Curiablog‘s final results: National 59 (46.8%)Labour 44 (34.6%)Green 10 (8.1%)ACT 3 (2.6%)Maori 4 (2.4%)United Future 1 (0.5%)Progressive 1 (0.2%) There will be an overhang so the magic number to chase is a majority of 122 seats. Most likely formulae are: National+ACT+United Future = 63 seatsLabour+Prog+Greens = 55 seats Other possibilities could happen. The next days […]
Tags: Elections · John Key · National Party · NZ Government