Posts by Gareth Ward
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Hard News: Fox News: I know, right?, in reply to Danielle,
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Fuckers.
This is an awfully depressing page: http://www.comedycentral.co.nz/shows/
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Hard News: Fox News: I know, right?, in reply to wendyf,
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I can't find the Daily Show.
I'm assuming he means on The Daily Show website - the NZ Comedy Central channel doesn't run it anymore as far as I'm aware (f*&% knows why)
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Hard News: Fox News: I know, right?,
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By the way, what surprises me with the Romney tape is the focus on his "47% entitlement" lines. It's actually the "and so my job is not to worry about those people" line that blows me away - here's a man intending to be President who claims his job is not to worry about 47% of the population?!
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Hard News: Fox News: I know, right?,
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Only managed to see the first and third ones there, but man Stewart gets fired up in that last one. Haven't seen him like that for a while...
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It doesn't answer the moral question of why it's proper to threaten beneficiaries with financial sanctions for the good of their children, but not WFF recipients
Which would still not answer the moral question of why it's proper to legally force the kids of people that "receive direct tax/payment assistance" into ECE but not my 4 year old*?
I have a few "upstanding middle class" friends where one parent has chosen to stay at home with their kids until they hit school age - apparently they're saintly parents caring for the best interests of their child. The exact same family around the corner that receives a benefit and does the same thing are now filthy lawbreakers who must be punished.*who goes voluntarily but that's a very different thing. I receive no WFF credit or benefit beyond, ya know, civilization.
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Hard News: Tired and emotional, for reals, in reply to Russell Brown,
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Anyway, I thought about replying to Fran’s comment on the the Herald site, but it’s just getting unpleasant now. And I think it's being poorly handled by their editors.
The fact it's being played out within their own comments is laughable...
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Hard News: Tired and emotional, for reals,
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Fran O'Sullivan now having at go at Bryce Edwards in the Herald comments on his latest roundup. Quite the little public spat they've all got going on, isn't it...
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Hard News: Reviews: #NZGT and the Herald, in reply to Matthew Poole,
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today's brain fart about the Conservative Party only needing to do 1.35 "percentage points" better than their 2011 2.65% in order to cross a 4% threshold. That may be true, but it's more enlightening to point out that it requires a 50.9% increase in the number of votes the Party receives for that to happen.
Or that the margin of error on the poll is 3.6%...
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Speaker: How the Key transcription gaffe…, in reply to Phil Lyth,
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Re invoking a person's name, there are a lot of people called Alec Ross on twitter. I am still surprised he found my mention of his name (not his Twitter handle.)
Social media monitors like Radian6 would certainly be tuned to something like that - they can do a lot with paid access to the Twitter firehose (as well as these very blog comments). It's almost certain that US State et al use one of those tools...
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Up Front: Choice, Bro, in reply to Gareth Ward,
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Forget the name of the case sorry...
Wait found it, c/o Kyle Matthews: "The case is Quilter v Attorney-General (Court of Appeal in 1997, reported in 1998 I think)"