I have to first put all my cards on the table. My default setting is one of cowardice and I have only ever felt one earthquake in my life, but I think people who are stubbornly staying in Christchurch need their heads read. I understand if you are stuck there by owning a property. The value has dropped and…
DetailsSo here is the question for y’all. From Stuff.co.nz Accidental Millionaire in Court The man known as the “accidental millionaire” has appeared briefly in Rotorua District Court this morning but will remain behind bars for now. Leo Gao, 31, faces 16 charges of theft and 11 of money laundering after Westpac accidentally loaded a $10…
DetailsThe Ports of Auckland is currently being held to ransom by it’s workings looking for better pay and conditions. We can never know exactly what the ‘behind the scenes’ conditions are like but let me lay these details on you and you can make your own mind up. Ports of Auckland has lost $27 million…
DetailsThe answer is simple. Barrack Obama will win in 2012 because of Romney, Perry, Gingrich, Santorum and Paul. For the sake of the GOP I hope this isn’t the complete list of candidates to take on Obama in 2012, I hope for their sake there is a dark horse hiding somewhere in the wings that…
DetailsI have to be honest, this is a new ‘issue’ for me, I only really first heard about it last week so am pretty green on the whole thing. I am going to investigate it over the next few weeks and will come back to you, but these are my initial thoughts and explanations to…
DetailsI often hear people say to me, “I thought you were a Christian.” to which my stock reply is, “It depends what you mean by ‘Christian’”. People see me in advertising like this and get confused sometimes by my position on various issues. That’s fine by me, I never claimed to fit easily into anyone’s…
DetailsFrom Stuff.co.nz Tampon maker Libra has been branded “outrageously transphobic” over its new ad implying transgender people are not real women because they do not menstruate. The television commercial depicts a drag queen character and a blonde woman standing side by side in a nightclub restroom putting on mascara and lip gloss, and adjusting their…
DetailsSomeone asked me the question once which was if internet access was a ‘human right’…I thought then that it probably wasn’t…yet…but within a very short space of time, when everything has gone digital, newspapers no longer exist and all our ‘television’ comes through a fibre optic cable to our front door…then it probably will be.…
DetailsOver the past two years I have been sporadically…very sporadically…blogging at www.averagejoe.co.nz, that blog is still there and uploaded but with the beginning of a new life I though a nice new blog would be in order, so welcome to PatBrittenden.com I intent on using this space as a place to put my thoughts and look at…
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