Posts by Brent Jackson
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Took me a moment to realise that the final row is a key, rather than the average for the first 3 columns.
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I assume that the illegality around photographing your ballot paper, is to stop you from being able to prove how you voted in the case where you were bribed (or intimidated). Without proof the briber cannot be sure how the bribee voted.
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Speaker: Are we seeing the end of MSM,…, in reply to Alfie,
I too am now never visiting the Herald site, whereas I was previously a daily visitor. You've got to wonder at how much their traffic has fallen since the makeover.
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It is ghastly to use on a PC. So much so, I am not going to bother any more.
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Nothing says autumn like lots of leaves in a puddle (unless it’s trumped by being caught in a squall before getting back to work because of taking too long to take photos of leaves in puddles).
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It’s like finding out United Future and David Seymour are the only people who agree with you.
I think "NZ First and Don Brash" would be a better analogy, considering that United Future is a 1 MP party, and David Seymour is a current MP. Tony Blair hasn't been an MP since 2007.
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Up Front: I Never Been ta Borstal, in reply to ,
My interpretation, is that it is about male assumptions of entitlement to sexual gratification, divorced of empathy toward the female involved.
This. So much this. (Though "female" could be changed to "other").
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Legal Beagle: A war crimes inquiry; or…, in reply to Neil,
Have Hager or Stephenson given any indication as to why their coordinates were inaccurate?
The impression I get is that they knew the villages were in the northern part of the Tirgiran valley so assigned them to those two villages based on satellite pictures. However, they must've got the scale wrong, and the villages were further south and much closer together. The statement by the Afghan villagers' lawyers provides the actual names of the two villages that were incorrectly named in the book.
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And now the villagers' lawyers are saying "Tirgiran locals: ‘Tirgiran is not a village, and therefore “Tirgiran Village” does not exist’".
Basically, the book was incorrect in identifying the location of the villages, which are actually both within the red area that NZDF identified as where Operation Burnham took place.
