Posts by Russell Brown
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And I can't make it stop!
Should I come round and stop it for you?
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The book is the very first release from Public Address Books (www.publicaddressbooks.com) -- another division of Russell 'Rupert Murdoch' Brown's ever-expanding multimedia empire.
Don't believe, it folks. This is David's baby (literally, in the case of the cover).
Among other things, he wrote the software to migrate our PA blogs to Latex for print-on-demand, created a house style for the books and set up the payments system,. He'd send me emails detailing his progress and I'd go "yup", "cool" and "wow!".
And, of course, he wrote the actual prose.
One key feature of the way David has set up the Public Address Books system is that the authors do the fulfillment (this is a fancy publishing industry word for "mailing out books") and keep all the money after Paypal and printing costs. It's a nice personal way of doing things, and we might look at doing that for our respective "proper" books too.
The ease of migration from blog to book thanks to David's cleverness opens up some interesting opportunities for us in future. I personally am looking forward to the first in Damian Christie's series of pirate novels, Pirates Vol 1: A Danger to Shipping.
So please join me in congratulating David Haywood, and buy his book in your droves.
Unless, of course, there is some fatal flaw in his plan that means everything will go horribly wrong. In which case, he's on his own.
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You give full marks to Labour for quickly 'fixing' the shortcomings of their policy, but assume National's is set in stone?
Yes, actually. There's a huge step in principle there that can't just be tweaked -- no one's even bothering to suggest a tweak. Expanding a deposit guarantee scheme is hardly the same thing.
Whilst I'd agree that National should have actually said so, I'm pretty sure that they didn't mean for the policy to run forever.
Nope. It won't work at all in the short term, because it would be madness to require the fund managers to divest foreign holdings at the present time, so the local investment level will have to be built up with money coming into the fund. The idea of of it trying to dial back the NZX in a few years' time isn't very pretty either.
It is a critical long-term change to the purpose of the fund.
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Woo! More Bachmann!
The full interview where she denies having said Obama "may have anti-American views" and then goes on to dump a trailer load of campaign slime.
Funny thing, though. Bachmann sought a pardon this year for a gangster called Frank Vennes, after he'd donated tens of thousands to her campaign, finding Jesus along the way.
When he turned out to be up to his eyeballs on a Ponzi scheme, she threw him under the bus and moved on.
Like Palin, she has a rather good blog dedicated to covering her escapades.
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Things I wrote about in my English scholarship exam included*:
I got there to discover that the kids from Boys' High had boned up on five different books for the exam and seemed to have been in a dedicated scholarship class for half the year.
So I wrote about Catch 22, which I'd read for my own enjoyment, and several books that I hadn't read at all, including, as I recall, The Naked and the Dead.
It didn't matter so much (I'd just been offered my start in journalism), but I pulled a 49, which was quite pleasing.
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(What I'm *really* waiting for in terms of outspending is the half-hour TV spot Obama has purchased for Oct. 29 to address the nation. It's both audacious and brilliant.)
Yep. I've got my mediaphile hat on for that one. I really want to see what it looks like.
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Crazy-ass congresswoman Michelle Bachmann may find that crazy-ass ranting on national television has consequences.
Short version - her opponent in the district has raised six hundred thousand dollars in 48 hours since said rant aired!
Which will doubtless be why she's now claiming she never said what she said ...
Wikipedia has more on her penchant for McCarthyism and other charming aspects of her character, including the fact that she belongs to a church that regards the Pope as the Antichrist.
Interestingly, in the election that put her in office, her Democrat opponent raised twice as much in individual contributions, but she was massively bankrolled by the congressional equivalent of the RNC.
She really is quite evil.
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Serious Question:
What’s Dan Quayle up to these days?
Oh, being looked after as you'd expect:
It was reported in the May 5, 2007 The New York Times in an article about a lawsuit filed by Greg LeMond against Timothy Blixseth, that Dan Quayle and Bill Gates both have homes in the ultra-exclusive Yellowstone Club, a Rocky Mountain ski and golf club located near Big Sky, Montana, just north of Yellowstone National Park.[26]
Dan Quayle is Chairman of an international division of Cerberus Capital Management, a multi-billion dollar private equity firm, and president of Quayle and Associates. He is an Honorary Trustee Emeritus of the Hudson Institute.
Quayle authored a memoir, Standing Firm, which became a bestseller. His second book, The American Family: Discovering the Values that Make Us Strong, was published in the spring of 1996 and a third book, Worth Fighting For, in 1999.
Quayle also writes a nationally syndicated newspaper column, serves on a number of corporate boards, chairs several business ventures, and was chairman of Campaign America, a national political action committee.
As chairman of the international advisory board of Cerberus Capital Management, he recruited former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney, who would have been installed as chairman if Cerberus had successfully acquired Air Canada.
The Quayles live in Paradise Valley, Arizona. Quayle, then working as an investment banker in Phoenix, was mentioned as a candidate for Governor of Arizona prior to the 2002 election,[27] but he declined to run.
Dan Quayle signed the statement of principles of the Project for the New American Century.And clearly in the tent with the neocons.
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To those who wrote me to demand, “Cancel my subscription,” I was able to quote the title of my father’s last book, a delicious compendium of his NR “Notes and Asides”: Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription.
That's gold.
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"towing the party line" was more than evident. i genuinely thought he was a conservative getting the shaft from lunatics.
That toeing the line. But yes.
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