Posts by David Hood

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  • Hard News: Unreasonable people vote,

    South Africa has a publicly wiccan MP.

    From a conservative American perspective, the atheists in our parliament may be worse.

    Dunedin • Since May 2007 • 1445 posts Report

  • Southerly: When Otters Get Famous,

    Islander wrote:

    if a woodchuck could chuck

    My daughter wrote this for school back in June (she had been reading a lot of Shel Silverstein prior to this):

    The Woodchuck

    How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
    If a woodchuck could chuck wood?
    Well I asked the woodchuck
    And the woodchuck replied
    "I've heard that riddle
    And I honestly tried.
    They said it was fun
    So I picked up that wood
    And I flapped and I flopped
    How I wish that I could
    Live up to my name!
    Just think of the fame!"

    So how much wood would a woodchuck chuck
    If a woodchuck could chuck wood
    With his feet on the ground
    Looking into the sun?
    The answer...
    Is NONE.

    Dunedin • Since May 2007 • 1445 posts Report

  • Hard News: Unreasonable people vote,

    nzlemming wrote:

    I mean, wha?

    Sounds remarkably similar to what happened in Fiji:
    wikipedia link

    Dunedin • Since May 2007 • 1445 posts Report

  • Hard News: Unreasonable people vote,

    And just as an update to Colorado, it looks like the late reporting precincts have favoured the Republicans. With 85% of the vote counted they are going to get around 11% of the vote (to the Consitution Party's 37%). So probably not regulated to minor party status.

    Dunedin • Since May 2007 • 1445 posts Report

  • Hard News: Unreasonable people vote,

    On the other hand the Colarado governor results are awesome. The Republican nomination went to a Tea Partist, so a Republican stood for the Constitution party.
    The final result looks like being Democrat about 51%, Constitution about 39%, Republican about 10%.

    Where is would become the best of all possible worlds is that under Colarado state law, if a party does not get 10% of the vote in the governors race they are regulated to minor party status- they don't get the fund raising advantages of major parties and the candidates are down the bottom of the ballot with the likes of the Greens. This is I gather for all elections held in Colorado until after the next Governor's election (but I am not fully certain on that part).
    Now the last results I saw had the Republican on just barely under 10%, so I await with interest if this awesome combination of circumstances plays out.

    Dunedin • Since May 2007 • 1445 posts Report

  • Hard News: Unreasonable people vote,

    I really want a Witch or Vampire to get elected now, I'm sick of all the brain dead zombies.

    Well, we know that publicly not being a witch gets you not-elected, ergo...

    Dunedin • Since May 2007 • 1445 posts Report

  • Hard News: Unreasonable people vote,

    I'd name it ........'s Law

    And thus was born Kracklite's Law

    How about Ellipsis's Law
    or Tab Leader's Axiom

    (help me someone)

    Attributed to George Santayana

    Dunedin • Since May 2007 • 1445 posts Report

  • Hard News: Unreasonable people vote,

    I don't know a lot about Thatcher, and I can readily believe she had to fight a lot to get accepted into her role. But I still think it would have been easier for a staunch conservative Iron Lady slipping into a sort of Elizabethan exception role, than it would have been for one of the more feminist types in that era.

    Well it is certainly easier for a conservative woman to become head of a conservative political party than a liberal woman.

    Dunedin • Since May 2007 • 1445 posts Report

  • Hard News: Unreasonable people vote,

    Jeremy Eade - there's more than a few of them -but they dont blog.

    Well, I'd call some of the bloggers operating in Making Light a good starting point.

    Dunedin • Since May 2007 • 1445 posts Report

  • Hard News: Unreasonable people vote,

    Gah. Read the comments under it

    I would rather remain in happy oblivion, having been running the "Shut Up" Safari extension, based on the Shut Up css file which blocks comments (but not those of Public Address).

    Dunedin • Since May 2007 • 1445 posts Report

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