Maybe we should send you?

Perhaps Deborah Coddington could start a "Hikoi Veterans for Truth" action committee. I bet?

Does "Jedi" count as both an occupation and a religion for census purposes?

Damn. I'm going to be thinking about that all day now ...

What do you put as your ethnicity if you are from a galaxy far, far away?

We probably need a generic and not-very-descriptive catch-all term. One that ignores the substantial cultural and ethnic differences between, say, people from Tatooine and people from Alderaan, and can be used as a pejorative?

ET

Nice. My vote was going to go to "aliens" but I realised that it sounds a bit too much like another word used for a similar purpose...

She has a letter in the new Listener claiming that you are the one who is "mistaken" about statistics

I haven't actually read the letter, but I would abserve that 'I know you are, but what am I?' isn't a defence that works with matters of empirical fact and mathematics.

Salient quotes:

before Ng?s piece was published I?d already made a correction to my Herald on Sunday column, which indeed should have read ?four out of five teenage pregnancies in Asian women ended in abortion in 2003?. That was not, as Ng?

Don Brash deserves a hefty commission for his brilliant promotion of Nicky Hager?s book. In fact, if I can find proof that the two collaborated, I could write a book about it.
?Gavin Maclean (Gisborne)

I haven't actually read the letter, but I would abserve that...

hmmmm.... interesting word. 'Abserve'. is that an observation made 'from the gut'?

if it is, i feel we may have captured ms coddingtons journalistic style.

Possibly to make an observation made without particular regard to the looking?

Or as used above, to offer one that does someone a disservice they deserve?

I?m not sure if questions of ethnicity are entirely relevant in the context of wider galactic socio-economic trends

That's exactly the sort of dismissive attitude I'd expect from a member of the dominant morphological archetype.

We probably need a generic and not-very-descriptive catch-all term. One that ignores the substantial cultural and ethnic differences between, say, people from Tatooine and people from Alderaan, and can be used as a pejorative if necessary.

Keith's description of the Hong Kong elections was very interesting. I am curious to?

Oh I see, she only drew attention to the "irrelevant" low pregnancy rate out of selfless concern for teenage Asians' health.

...immediately after noting the importance of contraception. So, it's very important (for their health) that these foolish Asians learn to use contraception, but it's irrelevant that apparently they're already?

She says:

Ng alleges my statistics were wrong. He?s the one who?s mistaken. He uses ?crime statistics? involving all Asians aged 0 to 99 to show ?the number of offences attributed to Asians in 2001 was 3182. In 2005? 3182?, a difference of ?precisely zero?.?

Wow, whilst his cartoon is hilarious, Baker is one giant nerd.

Yes I am giant. So giant I block out the sun. Thank you for noticing.

Dude. That Coddington woman's on your ass. She has a letter in the new Listener claiming that you are the one who is "mistaken" about statistics, repeating her hilarious whoopsie about Asian crime rates like it was a burning insight and generally hatin' on you.

Heh, I actually sent her?

I tried to find an online version but noy joy,?

And please excuse Jarrod. He's from Coruscant.

I suppose everyone from Coruscant looks the same to you.

Next you'll be saying that all Hutts are criminals. Seriously bro, you shouldn't let a couple of bad apples taint the reputation of an entire people.

There were numerous letters criticising Coddington/N & S, and in persuasive detail. There was one supporting her, and not addressing any of the facts at all, from Deborah Pead. The smokescreen she chose was, of course ...

drum roll ...

"Political Correctness". Well, Deb Cod had?

I suppose everyone from Coruscant looks the same to you.

Next you'll be saying that all Hutts are criminals. Seriously bro, you shouldn't let a couple of bad apples taint the reputation of an entire people.

Can't we all just get along? Is this what poor old Ben Kenobi died?

0.5% of the population vote for an arbitrarily allocated portion of an 800-member Election Committee which has no subsequent responsibilities or means of accountability to its constituents which then elects the head of government which has no subsequent accountability to the Election Committee.

Inspired! Diabolical! [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Council|Stole the idea off Babylon?

Chewbacca dies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How do you do?

Can't we all just get along? Is this what poor old Ben Kenobi died for?

Either that or to become more powerful than you can possibly imagine...

Jesus. Do you and Baker have nerd-offs or something?

Sometimes, but Keith always smokes me in the maths section.

but do you own?

Is it just me, or does a dead Pinochet totally win the Yoda look alike competition?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3897678a12,00.html

How do you do a little smilie of a crying person? Would it even be a smilie? Would it be a cry -ie ?

:'-(

Perhaps it would simplify your problem if you referred to them as 'emoticons'.

To pull this back on topic, [[http://planetsmilies.net/smilies/star-wars/|you can get you Star Wars?

A fraction:

The ?grab bag? approach taken to include as many negative features that can be possibly associated with immigration from Asian countries including, quite unnecessarily, a single case of TB, presents a distorted, discriminatory and alarmist view of Asian?

Is it just me, or does a dead Pinochet totally win the Yoda look alike competition?

Yoda? I guess, quite a bit.... but almost 100% Jabba The Hutt I'd say.

Multi levels of disturbment.