Posts by linger
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Hard News: The Hager saga continues, in reply to mark taslov,
The hilarious thing is that Roughan seems to think Te Harrumph! is an “independent news service” (as against his alternative of a press release regurgitator). One or both of those descriptions would seem inaccurate.
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Kracklite,
One swallow doesn’t make a commitment, as they say.
(Specifically, Tim Brooke-Taylor, on I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue.)
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Dylan Reeve,
the others are probably evidence collection specialists or similar. Searches are what they do
nah, that's spies .
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Raymond A Francis,
Just BTW, if you’re going to attempt to be pedantic about definitions, you should note the difference between “ingeniously” and “ingenuously”. Fascinating how one typewriter key makes the difference between a compliment and a slur.
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Meanwhile, Scott Adams nails the appeal of Key:
Leadership is an illusion created by the abuse of underlings.
The more pain I force you to endure, the more of a leader I appear to be.( Dilbert , 5 Oct 2014)
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(Today we get gerrybrownleeing instead: making living conditions in an electorate so unbearable that opposition voters decamp to other regions.)
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to Trevor Nicholls,
hard to see how [FPP] could be gamed
FPP was very easily gameable, on a grand scale, by gerrymandering: redrawing electorate boundaries to encompass regions in which you know your party has a narrow majority. Result: you win more than half the electorates, without needing half the total vote. (Meanwhile, opposing parties get their supporters ghettoised into a smaller number of very strongly held electorates.)
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Thanks DeepRed, that’s the one. The Japan Times ran the same article pretty much word for word.
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to william blake,
dead dolphin
And it’s just made the news here in Japan (of all places!) that New Zealand is about to face trade sanctions over the lack of measures to protect Maui’s Dolphin and its habitat.
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I ask all members to comply with these expectations
Alas, certain of those in caucus have already been conducting themselves as … bigger members than that.
Effectively, a big swinging bunch of John Keys. And the media so enjoys the resulting rattling noise.