Posts by Tim Michie
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Accomplishments are the start to the message but on their own, with each achievement a voter may consider positive; nine years in office can easily counter it with a negative incident or memory.
If however you use your accomplishments to lead in to what you're going to do to further that positive outcome of your policy it can be compared to an alternative and a case to be elected.
As we know, National hasn't been forthcoming with much of its policy and that's just how they're playing the politics game but if you hope that Labour have new policies to advance aside from those in the budget then they've also kept their cue cards close to their chests.
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Seconding Deborah on her point.
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Whatever the cost of the referendum, it seems a hiding to nothing to me:
If the question is 'Should a smack as part of good parental correction be a criminal offence in New Zealand?' and good parenting doesn't fall into these clauses:
1. Every parent of a child... is justified in using force if the force used is reasonable in the circumstances and is for the purpose of:
a. preventing or minimising harm to the child or another person; or
b. preventing the child from engaging or continuing to engage in conduct that amounts to a criminal offence; or
c. preventing the child from engaging or continuing to engage in offensive or disruptive behaviour; or
d. performing the normal daily tasks that are incidental to good care and parenting.2. Nothing in subsection (1) or in any rule of common law justifies the use of force for the purpose of correction.
3. Subsection (2) prevails over subsection (1).(As Southerly David noted and included "The word 'correction' in this context means punishment intended to rectify behaviour") then whatever the referendum's result that argument of what other aspect of good parenting needs a blow to make it good.
To me, this isn't the first referendum question, like online newspaper surveys, that almost pathelogically don't seek to answer the issue in question...
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It seemed to me that the Herald swung National in tone before the 2004 election too. But Labour eventually (just) won.
This time they appear to have gone more caustic much earlier. They definately wanmt to own the news narrative of the election and believe it's of Labour losing. But the case can be made for that with better balance.
To be fair, it isn't always thus: In 1999 they also wanted to own the Labour winning story. But Labour had the story to tell and was telling it better.
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I've been wondering how you've been fitting that in on top of Media7...
Your column and the politics were often my first reads of an issue.
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But... does one Sir Ed hold the Order of Merit or do they all? Is it one Order of Merit between them or does that devalue the honour? And if there's 20 Sir Eds about, how does anyone else get a go?
What the insiginia for blogging by the way?
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Oh good! A voice neither toned or worn from years sporting endeavour nor a presenter with a vested interest to Hype The Event (cue cheering) talking about the Chinese Olympics.
Where else (honestly, where?) but on a blog.
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The observation I most liked in the Scott McClellan 'Bush Whitehouse Mouthpiece was a Mouthpiece Shock' was Dana Milbank's accumulation of the favourite word to react to such outings in The Puzzled Presidency.
Hoodies: Practical cool for our ozone-holed times.
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Dunno about you, but it seemed to me that Sabin himself didn't like the way the media had picked that option from his suggestions and cast it as the be-all and end-all on NetRad's (RNZ Nat's?) 9-5 this morning. Oh, and he claimed it was his US research trip he did with his own money.
Seems to me certain media oulets just liked the look of how this fed into their adolescents are evil bugaboo.
What a bloody week for trying to let teens know we're not all anti-adolescent as some are more than happy to say "Yes, we are."
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"Who am I to say there isn't a Slovenian Mail-delivering Wolfhound that resembles our postman?"
Indeed. But, if so, don't tell the posties they've enemy infiltration...
Another great post well worth reading and, I hope, worth the effort in your long days (lengthened by the closer proximity to Antarctica no doubt).