Posts by Russell Brown
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Paula Bennett profile on Stuff. She has an impressive story.
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We can has ministers
Full list here (I thought for a moment that the gossip about Jonathan Coleman not getting Broadcasting was true):
Who's not there? Maurice.
Communications & IT and special responsibility for getting the Big Broadband Plan happening goes to ...
Some guy you may not have heard of.
Stephen Joyce will also be:
Minister of Transport
Associate Minister of Finance
Associate Minister for Infrastructure
14th in cabinetRight after he finds out where his office is ...
But seriously, I'm betting that the broadband policy eventually enacted will not be the one National campaigned on.
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Gordon Campbell has some informed comment on National's pledge to adopt Rodney Hide’s New Zealand Taxpayers Bill of Rights Bill as a government bill.
Why would you adopt a gimmick measure that has been a failure everywhere else?
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At least I got a good laugh out of the responses...
We aim to please.
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I think if you watch the show, you'll find that he wasn't actually rolling around in the gutter.
No, it seems clear that his more obnoxious behaviour was off-camera or edited from the show.
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One thing for good lefties (which I understand to be the bulk of the scribes here) to consider - the majority of NZers that bothered to vote, voted for National.
No, a plurality -- about 45% voted National.
So while you might not like what is happening, you are now in the minority in this country.
Jeez. Don't make it sound so threatening, dude.
And I think it would be fairer to say that most people here are much more worried about the party that's acting like 3.7% is a mandate. As I said, I'm quite impressed by Key's management of his first week.
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__But... I still don't see how it's Eye to Eye's fault that he was a douchebag...__
...because the show was going out live and uneditied and since television is a world of teetotallers, the thought that someone who was well-toasted could have gone off at any moment never crossed anyone's mind?
It wasn't live or unedited -- it never is -- and the HoS story said the recording was stopped and restarted several times because of Garrett's behaviour.
Claudette made a decision to go ahead with the show as planned, and she will also have made the decisions to stop and restart the discussion. I just can't see even a whit of equivalence with Garrett's conduct.
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Ok so let's all adore McCaw for his work-rate... But I'm focusing on Carter.
13 tackles + 3 assists and 2 misses, presumably most on O'Gara... Not bad I think.Yep. Even when he's missing them from in front, he's still pulling off loose-forward work that wouldn't embarrass an actual No.7.
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I am totally prepared to accept the possibility of anthropomorhic climate change if it can be proved. By the way, Russell, you again use the 'deniers' tag for people like me. Please don't seek to close down the debate just yet by continually giving us negative labels. There is a lot at stake here.
I've said before that I see parallels between the fringes of climate denial and the fringes of the anti-GE lobby a few years ago. When you start exploring it, you see the same phenomenon of disingenuous citations, revolving factoids that circulate long after they have been debunked, and politics trumping science.
When the overwhelming majority of competent scientists and the science academies of all the major countries line up behind a theory of anthropogenic climate change, I take the view that I'd be a fool to disagree. The contrary view requires a belief that those people are in conspiracy against the rest of us.
And every time someone points to one of those lists of disssenting scientists -- which includes, among other things, the hosts of TV gardening programmes -- that view is reinforced.
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Just added this PS: to the main post ...
Media7 this week looks at the reporting we're not getting about Afghanistan. And it's more of a story for us than you might think. On Pundit, David Beatson has written some very interesting stuff based on his OIA requests about New Zealand troops handing over captives to US forces in possible breach of the Geneva Conventions, and on the lack of any end in sight to the longest foreign deployment -- seven years -- in our history. He's on the panel, along with Tim Watkin and Damian Christie (who, you may recall, got to Afghanistan under his own steam last year).
If you'd like to join us for the recording at The Classic tomorrow evening, hit reply and let me know asap.
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