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R I P to (but It's Nice to Remember) an 'Age of Civility' in which Political Discourse Actually Meant Something...As Opposed to Simply (Being a Matter of Folk) Banging On About an Impurely Partisan Political Agenda...one in which one simply has no intention whatsoever of listening to far less seriously considering any ideas that come out of either 'left field' or that don't strictly conform to one's predetermined mindset or ideological idiosyncrasies...

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And thus and so it's rather a pity that now former and incredibly short-lived (NZ) National Party leader Todd Muller apparently failed to read, digest and/or follow through upon this punter's humble submission to him upon his (briefly) becoming party leader... For 'Why Must They Always Disagree?', though written 22-odd years ago over in (Tasmania), OZ, and now placed at (chronological) position #1 on my original Nuff Said blogsite, served me well back in Aotearoa-New Zealand's 2008 General Election... ...effectively as my mini-manifesto therein...helping me secure 222-odd well-earned votes all up...18 extra (onto my initial 204) following 'specials' (i.e. special votes)... Incidentally the little 'notelet' upon the Ten Commandments, and especially the 9th - [Don't Lie] - would have both served the then newbie leader well, and simultaneously helped avoid/offset the sort of 'shemozzle' - or 'omnishambles' as some might euphem...
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Rest in Peace: The Day and Age When Words Actually Meant Something and Weren't Simply Employed In Order to Obscure Some Predetermined Partisan Political Agenda or Ideological Idol: Sadly, It's Hard to Know Quite Where to Begin Hereabouts, But Hopefully I'll Do So in the Not So Distant (Both Herein and Upon Some of My Various Other Blogsites)...-And the First Candidate Due a Proper Cross-Examination: That Popular Little Term Encapsulating Deep Drafts of Unctuous Offense and Outrage: 'Morally Bankrupt/Moral Bankruptcy'

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But does it ever legitimately apply?  You bet your obscurist bit of money!
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NOT ('sorry to see ya go'), But, On the Contrary: Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish (Pun Entirely Unintended, Yet Oh So Apropos): Regarding Rio Tinto(Formerly Comalco)'s Latest Threat to Permanently Close the Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter: As Per the Sentiment of NZ Greenpeace Head and Former Greens Co-leader Russel Norman This Morning, and as Well Expressed by Newstalk ZB's Drivetime Host Heather Du Plessis Allan Today, 'Not a Good Corporate Citizen' (as Witnessed in the Contamination (in Some Silo) They Left Mataura Residents To Deal With (Following Record Flooding))

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Though admittedly I was mistaken in the Cover Story I wrote 'back in the day' (in 1978) as a 14-year-old reporter upon my high school's student newspaper Mercury, entitled 'Sodium Fluoride: Panacea or Poison', when I suggested that the entrails (so to speak) of aluminium production at the Bluff smelter was the product used for water fluoridation here in Dunedin and throughout New Zealand... ...whereas today I understand that to be rather the residue of the local (Ravensbourne-based) Ravensdown Fertilizer Works (though doubtless such a claim would be disputed by our Dental School here).
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Civil Society in the United States of America: Yes, the Moment Greatly Hastens When/Wherein 'Every Principle of [America's Grand Old, World-Renowned and Justly-Celebrated and Honoured] Constitution Will Be Abrogated'[Revoked]...That Fraught Moment, Folks, is Sadly Not All That Long Away, it Really Isn't...

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R.I.P. the Last Remaining Bastion of Freedom and Democracy Upon the East Asian Mainland: May We Not Desert You - Hong Kongers - in Your Hour of Need; You've Stood Alongside Us (Western Powers and Upholders of Judaeo-Christianity) For Such a Long Time

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