Posts by Russell Brown
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Wooo! Some Friday!
The terror-raids contempt charges against Fairfax have been dismissed.
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Further on the Prime Minister's upbeat mood:
Might she have had an inkling that the SFO would find that while there could be breaches of electoral law, NZ First did not commit fraud?
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The only saving grace is that Rudd looks like the sort of guy who loves a challenge – and the more the better.
But is he a Ricky Ponting or an Alan Border?
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I thought Roy Morgan was a nasty foreign organisation with dodgy methodology and a long run of rogue polls?
I wouldn't say "rogue", but the odd one has provided false comfort to Labour in the past, for sure.
Still, does show that not releasing any policy and sticking to headline-grabbing 'reallocations' is doing the trick. Perhaps.
I fear shopping lists of policy initiatives are the stuff of fonder times.
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Kevin Rudd could face the same fate as Scullin, the only other one-term Prime Minister ...
They bat longer than us at cricket too.
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In other news, Pakistan is on the edge of bankruptcy. This would normally make headlines, but not right now.
I was meaning to go read up on what that might mean, but it seemed a little bleak for a Friday. I mean, really.
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In our neck of the woods, substitute "GM" for "Telecom", and "Charles E Wilson" for "Rod Deane".
In the recent TVNZ 7 Internet Debate, the only time that Rodney Hide really stopped clowning and became passionately serious was when I pointed out that since the telecommunications reforms, my neighbourhood had seen historic levels of physical investment, my service had improved greatly and I had a choice of competing voiceline providers.
(Further, Telecom Wholesale can now choose to sell a service that Retail doesn't want in the market. Indeed, under the oversight rules, it has to make an independent commercial decision, rather than protecting another part of the company. The Telecom Wholesale people I've talked to in briefings seemed genuine in their desire to do business widely and in an enterprising fashion.)
I put it to him that he surely wouldn't reverse that, and he went off about the property rights of Telecom and its investors. He really believed that the national interest was something other than it appeared to be.
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Meanwhile, British police authories and councils have a billion quid sunk in Iceland's failed banks.
The Icelandic government is refusing to guarantee British deposits and in response Gordon Brown is threatening to use anti-terrorism legislation to freeze Icelandic assets in Britain. It does make things here seem quite sedate.
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Dismiss this as "eat the rich" if you want - but its being willfully blind to a serious threat to our way of life, and one of our most powerful long-term political dynamics.
Passing character judgements on real people on the basis of what you think they earn is extremely hazardous, whether you're talking about beneficiaries or highly-paid knowledge-workers.
Ironically, Nielsen says that the readership of this festering cesspool of leftism has a higher earnings profile than that of a certain popular right-wing blog ...
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__...so he can give a great stonking tax cut to his rich mates.__
Is that sort of rhetoric really helpful? I earn somewhere close to the top tax bracket and yet...
We all love and respect I/S and we strive to forgive him his "eat the rich" moments.
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