Posts by Russell Brown
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Whether you're doing it independently or not, you are messaging for the National Party, and this is categorically different to expressing a point of view. You are entitled to do either, of course, but I was just pointing it out.
I've already pointed out to David, on his blog, that he hasn't got much of cause for complaint on a day when he has headlined his post on the decision to plough a six-lane motorway through Mt Albert Govt saves taxpayers $1.7 billion.
And that if a Labour government had indulged in the kind of creative accounting required to justify that claim he'd have been screaming blue murder. Really.
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Key looks so bloody smug at question time ...
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So yet again, National walks away from an extensive consultative process and merrily shits on Aucklanders.
Bastards.
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Simon Sweetman is an embarrassment to proper reviewers.
That has tended to be my view.
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I might have been immoderate in my choice of words, but I think this actually weakens Grant's case rather than strengthens it.
I tried to make this point upthread. When they had a shot at Molenaar, they took it. What they didn't do was just blaze away when they didn't have a target.
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It wasn’t a great surprise to read in the paper yesterday that Bridget Saunders’ About Town will be no more. After pretty much inventing the gossip pages for this generation ...
Which she did, actually. She was never going to be Dominic Dunne, but she did create something that became so popular that the HoS had no choice but to copy.
Glucina did her an enormous favour by emulating her style so wretchedly. I confess, I do actually take a perverse delight in seeing what indignities Glucina has forced on the English language each Sunday.
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Meanwhile, the Herald this morning sees occasion for a pissing contest:
Fact v Fiction
Details released by the police yesterday make it clear that the Weekend Herald's front-page report on Saturday was right.
Despite widespread claims in other media on Saturday morning that we were wrong and Jan Molenaar was still alive, it is clear that he died on Friday afternoon.
His last communications with his partner and brother were just after 1pm, and a single gunshot was heard at 1.28pm.
From that time there was no further sign of life from the house through phone contact or shooting. As the Herald correctly reported, the police believed him to be dead.
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"Sure it would have been heroic and made for a great Mark Sainsbury interview had an officer gone charging in and pulled Snee to safety. But unfortunately it would have been shocking police work."
Oh, dear God. Is this the best PA has to offer?
Not really, Grant. Nick, who wrote that, isn't really a regular here, and he probably disagrees with most of what I write.
But he did spend six years as a frontline policeman.
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Jan was 51. He doesn't sound like a timebomb when you hear his friends talk about him. He hadn't exploded before that .He was an angry man , who had far too many weapons and snapped due to policing methods that let's face it fuck off a lot of peolpe off.
Huh?
Jeremy, I've seen and heard plenty in the news to indicate that he was, at the very least, quick to anger, and someone you didn't cross. His friends seem oddly blithe about him tipping into a homicidal rage because someone came to his house.
On other hand, I haven't seen any evidence that the warrant executed at his house was unusual or improper in any way.
On the other hand people have suggested in this discussion that all search warrants should be executed as if there were maximum peril. Quite apart from the cost, that would engender an enormous amount of ill-will amongst the public and in the media. It would be bad.
That said, I pretty much agree with Mikaere's argument on cannabis law reform. It just don't think it's got much to to with the "methods" employed by police in this case.
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perhaps its time to pause and say a wee leavening prayer (or even bake a pavlova) for the poor addled wench taken out by policemen in whangarei, policemen who appeared not to be able to tell the diff 'twixt an airgun and a shotgun?
That was a sad case, but frankly, I don't expect the police to be able to identify the weapon being aimed at them from a distance. Especially when she had previously sent a text message to the man she was holding saying "pay up or you'll be dead".
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