Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Angus Robertson,
The Obama claim however is based on….
…catering to the tastes of the credulous who invariably will believe the worst of political opposites.
You really don't get irony, do you, Angus?
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Guys, guys. You're bringing logic to a knife fight. Or something...
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to ,
At home he’s the husband of the Listener’s renovator-in-chief, Joanne Black.
I think you'll find that's Grant Johnston, Key's Chief Policy Advisor.
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Hard News: Behaving badly at the bottom…, in reply to Matthew Poole,
My issue is that a judge gamed the system for (eventual) personal benefit and any inquiry into that was hushed up or not undertaken. Yes, it is the judiciary's role to police itself - the separation of powers demands that they keep their own house in order.
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Hard News: Behaving badly at the bottom…, in reply to Matthew Poole,
But where's the inquiry into his behaviour? Where's the censure for bringing the judiciary into disrepute? Where's the frickin' inquiry into how he ever got to be a judge in the first place?
If a mere mortal had strung the process along as he did, you can bet the judiciary would have looked very dimly on it. But, apart from a very curly decision (which I have read - don't make assumptions that you're the only one who does), no action on him except to pay him to be gone.
I'm happy you show respect for the judiciary. Not many your age do. But I think your assessment is a little naive. They're only human, but when they screw up, they cover each other's tracks.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Simon Grigg,
Fuck. Me.
Sad to think that Gitarzan was his greatest work.
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Hard News: Behaving badly at the bottom…, in reply to Matthew Poole,
We make a big deal out of a judge not recusing himself because he had business relations with a lawyer appearing before him.
We could only make a big deal out of it because he did it, don't forget. And, in the end, they paid him off and declined to investigate further because he'd resigned.
You don't need a conspiracy when your structures have a cultural tendency to deal with embarrassing things in private, rather than in public view.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Meanwhile, if Boehner (and the rest of the GOP's congressional leadership) can't -- or won't -- exercise any control over the Tea Baggers, I can only hope their reap the bitter harvest of what they sow
Unfortunately, it's more likely that people like Gabrielle Giffords will be the recipients.
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In another vein, I watched the Prince's Trust Rock Gala last night (well, there wasn't much of anything else on and I was too knackered from waterblasting the deck to change channels anyway) and was very pleasantly surprised by Sir Tom Jones, with a fine John Lee Hooker number, and Tom Chaplin from Keane performing with Brian May and Roger Taylor, doing an uncanny Freddie homage - vocally, at least. Apart from that, and a nice couple of numbers from Clapton, it was all pretty forgettable, really.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to recordari,
Time
Famine
Pestilence
DeathAnd they say Death rides a pale horse. Which brings us back to Julian Assange...