Hard News: Crash and Contempt
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Judges are there to see justice done, that is all.
With the current glacial pace of cases coming to trial, justice is being done in it's own sweet time. It's a situation that appears to advantage the guilty while penalising the innocent.
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....cos then you'd actually need a disciplined army...
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sorry, spouting, of course safer neighborhoods or bringing the troops back from Afghanistan have no relationship with this election, as you were.
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Meanwhile, check out Chris Matthews tearing strips off a McCain surrogate on Hardball
Meh. His whole schtick is yelling at people. You get no actual information from his "interviews" and that gives his interviewees the opportunity to look all righteous and abused. Jon Stewart would have made better job of it and he's a comedian.
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wonder if there's any connection between army garrisons stationed throughout the city and very peaceful and safe neighbourhoods.
I think it has more to do with the camps and prisons you are likely to get thrown into.
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strange that, because people are still breaking all manner of other laws, hawking pirated goods on the street, evading tax, ignoring the road rules, and yet a dearth of violence, so sorry mark, NO.
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Unless they only get chucked in them for violence.
And poisoning baby formula
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but you'd hope...
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43% fonterra owned.
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Russell,
But I confess, I'm puzzled about what Angus and Simon are actually arguing about.
Lies, damn lies and statistics. We disagree about the importance of Palin and how much "character" Obama has, but it has quickly descended into an argument about statistical phenomena in a petty effort to "prove" the other wrong.
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knew about it since august.
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none of which has any relationship to violent crime or bringing the troops home which i feel should be given air in this election. the 3 dead baies and 6000 ill babies are entirely another matter.
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But I confess, I'm puzzled about what Angus and Simon are actually arguing about.
I agree with you pretty much Russell but I guess the discussion needs a d) as well: that the sheen has also gone off McCain as a result of b), she is turning into a GOP negative for a variety of reason. There is a reflection factor that Angus refuses to see, and the bounce for McCain, or at least the beginnings of it quite clearly pre-date the financial crash.
It was, after all only three days back, after the beginnings of the financial turmoil which Angus blames the poll turn on, when he, quite confidently said:
McCain will win
Hell, but I'm, very excitedly, on a plane back to China in about two hours, so what do I care....
I'm very wary of that CBS / NYT figure btw...it feels slightly unreal.
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None of which has any bearing on whether martial presence in cities brings peaceful neighbourhoods. Certainly hasn't in Afghanistan, Iraq and plenty of other places around the world.
But if you're happy in such an environment, I sincerely urge you to stay there. Please.
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which is why i think bringing the troops home from Afghanistan is a good idea,
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i think the main difference being that is almost no visible presence, no weapons in site. just gentleman and woman in shiny uniforms quietly sipping 57% alcohol, without so much as a grunt. obviously when the army is comprised of x percentage of dope smokers, posting them in the city would mean less for everyone else. thankfully here it's not the case.
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And...a bit of a eye opener Re: McCain's FP expertise:
To recap, tonight we've been discussing Sen. McCain's bizarre interview in which he appeared not to know who Spanish Prime Minister Zapatero was and, in an effort to wing it, assumed he must be another left-wing, anti-American leader from Latin America. In the Spanish press analysis of the interview, at least, many seem uncertain whether McCain even knows where Spain is, though that strikes me as a bit excessive.
Just how this will get played in the American press will be interesting to see because it cuts to two of McCain's key vulnerabilities -- the first being his apparently rather shaky foreign policy experience if can't identify the leader of a major NATO ally and the second being what I guess we would call declining mental acuity.
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and this:
I sincerely urge you to stay there. Please.
just lame,
to suggest removing NZ troops to a safer area....
stay away from our country!
we don't want your foreign ideas here!
we are white men!
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beer!
I think you've has had quite enough for one evening, don't you sir?
Perhaps you should go home now. Everything will seem better in the morning.
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Just came across something in researching next week's Media7 (about the US elections, trivia vs crisis).
It's Daniel Pipes' Confirmed: Barack Obama Practiced Islam, for the conservative flagship FrontPage magazine.
If ever you needed proof that Pipes is certifiable, and American conservatism has mutated into something that cannot live, this is it.
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It's Daniel Pipes' Confirmed: Barack Obama Practiced Islam, for the conservative flagship FrontPage magazine.
Um, OK, so by the Pipes standard I'm an Anglican (because my father was one, and I've attended functions, weddings, christening and funeral/memorial services in Protestant churches) .
Never mind that I'm an observant Catholic, most of my education was in Catholic schools and... Oh, fuck it. I'd rather be a Proddie than spend any more time on this bullet train to Crazyville.
And this is just creepy:
All this matters, for if Obama once was a Muslim, he is now what Islamic law calls a murtadd (apostate), an ex-Muslim converted to another religion who must be executed. Were he elected president of the United States, this status, clearly, would have large potential implications for his relationship with the Muslim world.
By the same people who probably wouldn't be too keen on an apostate-Episcopalian-turned-Baptist in the White House either?
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If ever you needed proof that Pipes is certifiable, and American conservatism has mutated into something that cannot live, this is it.
It's in its last throes, I wouldn't worry too much. Cafferty and the many others who are foreseeing a future of irrelevance for republicans have got it right. They managed to win a couple more elections that they had any business winning, but it was a pretty scary devil's pact that they made in the process. The Palin choice falls into that particular brand of desperation, and demonstrates that even McCain, forecast by some to be able to rescue conservatism from the Rovian playbook, has recognised that appealing to unreason is the only road to power for his lot at the moment.
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i read articles about police shortages in New Zealand, i give a suggestion
it's illogical to imply the effect of foreign military occupation is anything akin to a a public military presence of our nation's army. but more to my point,
why does New Zealand have troops supporting a regime which has imprisoned tortured and sentenced some journalist to death for distributing an article about gender in Islam, meanwhile paying lipservice to human rights claiming to be working for the release or whatever of that guy, maintaining troops in the region to keep that regime in place.for any leader worth her mammary glands, that's the time to pull them out.unless this reprehensible, keep your trap shut and your cave open, attitude of the Afghani government towards females, is how Helen believes women should be treated,
then in which case, when citing pro rata stats re NZ non involvement in that other war, she should follow the same doctrine she and her party are encouraging the women of Afghanistan to take hard and fast.
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