Posts by Russell Brown
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Civilian death toll is down to 10 a day. Imagine if Australia (as an example of a nation of similar size) had a civilian death toll at all. Or was regularly discovering piles of headless corpses. You wouldn't be saying "Ah yes, but it was only 20 corpses - last time it was 21, so it's 5% better".
The remarkable thing is the way the wingnut dead-enders eagerly hail such marginally-less-shit news as victory and vindication. Hence: "The Miracle of Anbar", in which the province was handed over to the control of the Sunni leadership the war was supposed to unseat.
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But basically he passed the feeling that everyone else besides him was inferior and non-deserving of being here.
He came on Off the Wire a couple of times and took it way too seriously.
The points scoring in the show was basically a laugh, but the second time he kept his own score to make sure he wasn't being done out victory. On a comedy news quiz where people (shock horror!) know the questions in advance, it was quite odd behaviour.
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__It was reported by precisely no one ...__
Yes it was. I distinctly remembering running a line from his office before he went into Monday's cabinet meeting and then interviewing him immediately afterwards.
Fair enough, my apologies. I did a Google News search and couldn't find anything.
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Good column by John Armstrong on Rodney Hide's crusade against Mallard, making the point that what Mallard is going to cop today is stronger than anything the Privileges Committee is likely to dish out.
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For instance, myself, ACT voter who supports legalising and regulating all substances, as I dont' think people should be treated as criminals for what they put into their own bodies.
It's a bugger that Act MPs haven't been a bit more like you, Mike.
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The man of the moment talks to Russell Brown about seeing himself on the backs of buses, playing himself on stage, and his connection to the introduction of the Breathalyser to New Zealand.
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The Wikipedia article on cannabis is a mess, but it does include this world map of marijuana policy.
The reality is a bit more complex, but check out the big, liberal island to the west of us.
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I don't understand how pot could possibly be 34% THC.
It isn't, not by a long shot. As you suggest, it's probably not biologically possible.
The British Medical Journal published an article in 2005:
Overall, European cannabis potency averaged between 2 percent and 8 percent THC, authors wrote. By contrast, the average potency of cannabis available in the US is between 4 and 5 percent THC.
Which sounds about right. New cultivation and breeding techniques have pushed up the potency a bit, but there are fairly obvious limits.
I once knew someone who had participated in a trial involving pure THC in Dunedin, years ago. He said it got boring: it was exactly the same every time.
There's widespread anecdotal agreement that the modern indica strains suited to indoor growing these days have a qualitatively different effect: a more narcotic, physical stone compared to the more trippy effect of the sativa strains (by legend, introduced as seeds from Hawaii stashed inside a surfboard in the early 70s) that became known as "New Zealand green" in the 1970s and 80s.
A friend of mine still gets old-school Coromandel hippie pot. I had some with him a couple of years ago. It made me giggle.
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My memory of what kids could get in the 80s (when I was a kid) was that you needed a joint each to get a buzz on.
I came of age between buddha sticks and the good local sativa, so we started on what was euphemistically called "leaf and tips". The arrival of the stronger pot in our lives was fairly momentous.
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OTOH, new from Bomber:
I’ve spoken to a lot of people who have seen what the Police have in terms of allegations and everything I hear back suggests it is serious, the manner in which blind support has been whipped up for the Urewera 17 I believe may end up being extremely detrimental to the activist community when the evidence is released, this plays into the hands of right wing reactionaries like Winston Peters, like Michael Laws, like Leighton Smith who will flay the activist community and those who rushed in to support people before they heard what the evidence was.
He also notes the grief he's getting personally, including the imposter posting offensive things under his name in various forums. It's quite an interesting read.
But I wish he'd learn to punctuate.
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