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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (64218)	5/25/2005 4:10:35 AM
From: Gib Bogle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

"I'm hoping to get what's called an extreme right-wing party elected here in a few months. act.org.nz or better still, libertarianz.org.nz" Now I know you're not serious. Pigs will fly before ACT gets anywhere near power, in fact they'll probably do worse than last time. The Libertarians will have to wait until pigs can fly to Mars. I wouldn't be concerned if ACT did have a miraculous victory, but you'd be better advised to hope for National - they at least have a shit's show. Gib

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (64218)	5/25/2005 9:42:27 PM
From: Slagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Maurice, Re: "United Nations" I have a better idea. Why don't we send to whole UN, New York headquarters building and all there to New Zealand for Helengrad to manage. The UN headquarters could be re-erected on a site of her choosing there (the Lord of the Rings movie set comes to mind). If FEMA could demolish the world trade towers to the last brick and pack all the steel structure off to China to be melted down to pig iron in a few months (to destroy the evidence of sabatoge if you believe Raymond, and I think he might have a point) then surely the UN building could be removed to New Zealand in a similar manner. We have a real problem with the UN headquarters that I am sure your Helengrad could solve if the whole outfit was there under her watchful eye. Let me explain: There are some 200 odd member nations of the UN and some of these places are pretty small backwards, though surely charming places. And when "El Presidente" sends his country cousins from his most remote province to New York on a UN junket here you have people who have never seen a wide dirt road before on the New Jersey Parkway in a rental car. How else would the delegates get to the strip clubs and the gambling joints in Atlantic City? And as you can imagine this is the cause of lots of death and destruction on the nations highways. This is a hot political issue even as far away as Atlanta. Seriously, there is almost always a case making its way through the Georgia courts involving some car wreck involving somebody from the UN, and with some innocent Georgian being run over by someone with no insurance and diplomatic immunity. Sometimes the diplomat may be in search his native grog, be it made from goats milk, palm sap or sweet potatoes, and not finding it is tempted by our bourbon or sour mash with the predictable outcome. My best friend, an Atlanta attorney obtained his home due to one of these affairs. It had belonged to the Nigerian Consul, who was forced to flee the country due to a serious car wreck. But there in New Zealand your Helengrad would put a stop to all this nonsense. She would have the newly arrived delegates trussed up in helmets and protective gear and drug tested before you could say "Welcome to New Zealand, home of the United Nations". And the Kiwi taxpayer would benefit too as she and her coven would be too busy with their new charges to focus on her countrymen. The UN was sold to New York taxpayers on the "hidden benefits" basis but this was after the more sensible (back then anyway) San Francisco taxpayers had rejected the offer. Maybe you could get New York to give you an estimate of the "hidden benefits". I really believe this could be a match made in heaven. Slagle