Posts by Alex Coleman
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Jackie Clark,
I hadn't heard this, Scott. Thanks for that.
Yes, thanks for that Scott.
If anyone wants to hear him read it, he is brought in about 12.30m into this:
http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/aft/aft-20110225-1640-The_Panel_-_part_2-048.mp3
I was also struck by his intro, and the immediate reaction of the panel afterwards.
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Gerry Brownlee claims that this is going to be the biggest insurance event of 2011. How does he know what the next 10 months holds?
Que CERRA CERRA, I guess.
Edit: "Whatever I will, will be"
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Danielle,
I hate you, panel. So very, very much. </Cartman>
Gary McCormick's poem just now though, was the shit.
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Carol Stewart,
Can anyone make head or tail of what Jim Hopkins is on about?
Not very often, no. He is consistent at whatever it is though.
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There are some peeps stranded @wellington airport in need of billets if folk can help...
http://www.facebook.com/WellingtonAirport/posts/204356046245380
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Hard News: Gaying Out, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
So what discomfort did Goff offer to anyone
Precious little, but what comfort there was, was in the direction of more reform. He said that the reforms so far were the right thing to do, but that more needed to be done.
Key went out of his way to avoid saying that. Maybe he thinks it, but for whatever reason, he didn't care to say it (just yet). We have to wait until after his political career. For some reason.
Goff didn't exactly stake any great claim to being out front on the side of the angels, but these are not equivalent profiles in courage.
YMMV, but if so I'd like to understand why.
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I wonder what advice they’d have for gays.
Just say no?
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Or Rastafarians from smoking herb.
I know I know, it's not exactly the same.
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That John Key 'wait for the book' response has got me more pissed off than it probably should.
This is what 'straight up' and 'not liking political games' looks like I guess,.
I blame the PoMo.
What it looks like to me is that he is, (still), hinting to both sides that he has their back.
'I'm actually liberal on this, and in the fullness of time, I'll be in a position to make my liberalism apparent, but for the moment, well politics'
Pandering to bigots, seeking their votes, offering them comfort; is bigotry.
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More from that cache of emails that anonymous hacked:
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/10/lobbyists-chamberleaks/
yowsers.
According to e-mails obtained by ThinkProgress, the [U.S. Chamber of Commerce] hired the lobbying firm Hunton and Williams to spearhead this effort. Hunton And Williams’ attorney Richard Wyatt, who once represented Food Lion in its infamous lawsuit against ABC News, was hired by the Chamber in October of last year. To assist the Chamber, Wyatt and his associates, John Woods and Bob Quackenboss, hired a set of private security firms — HB Gary Federal, Palantir, and Berico Technologies (collectively called Team Themis) — to develop tactics for damaging progressive groups and labor unions, in particular ThinkProgress, the labor coalition called Change to Win, the SEIU, US Chamber Watch, and StopTheChamber.com.
According to one document prepared by Team Themis, the campaign included an entrapment project. The proposal called for first creating a “false document, perhaps highlighting periodical financial information,” to give to a progressive group opposing the Chamber, and then to subsequently expose the document as a fake to undermine the credibility of the Chamber’s opponents. In addition, the group proposed creating a “fake insider persona” to “generate communications” with Change to Win.