Posts by BenWilson
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Hard News: Event Season, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Yes, and it does depend on what the rest of the team does, too. If they go to work undermining him, then disciplinary measures are on the table. I hope they'll just go to work winning the election, though. Since their jobs depend on it, that seems like the likely option to me.
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Hard News: Event Season, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Well, it is called "Team NZ". Expensive naming rights, but if we win we'll probably make back more than Emirates will.
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Did I hear Royals playing after the ABs scored a try last night?
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Cunliffe it is. I'm quite pleased about this.
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Now that Assad has said he will destroy his chemical weapons, the next part of the tightening noose is to demand weapons inspections, which is an open card to be allowed to see all of their military installation. Even then, you can't prove a negative existence claim, so more rattling can continue.
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Hard News: This time it's Syria, in reply to Chris Waugh,
If you go back to Vietnam, OK then. But more recently, they're more inclined to small scale stuff, whereas the Republicans launch at least one major war every time they get elected. It's their thing.
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Hard News: Game Lorde, in reply to Lilith __,
Success is a great revenge.
Yup, hope she breaks all the way to #1. It's not my kind of music at all, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't recognize talent and hope for stardom for one of our children. I don't watch shotput on a daily basis either, but I'll watch our star getting a gold medal, for sure.
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I like Robertson's answer to that one. The idea of actually finally recognizing that Asperger's can be a disability is hugely important.
ETA: Although Cunliffe is clear he'd support such a ministry. Hmmm. OK, I like both answers. Can we have both of them?
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Hard News: This time it's Syria, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
Yes, there's a lot of maneuvering that happens beforehand, particularly the diplomatic assault and all the sabre rattling, the demands, either with UN resolutions or just unilaterally. The PR battle aimed at convincing the world (and especially the US population) of the righteousness of an assault, mostly done through pointing out the badness of the regime, for which, of course, there will be ample evidence.
I don't think, however, that the Democrats are actually very good at this game. Obama is not to doing them any favours, I think, since the warhawks vote Republican anyway, and it's much more likely to turn Democrat voters off. It's a very strange path he's on, I wonder how much of it is the hubris of power that you get after 6 years as the head of the most enormous military in the world.
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Hard News: The shaky ground of…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Do we have laws and practices in NZ about separation of church and state?
Our head of state is also the head of the Church of England....
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