Posts by Danyl Mclauchlan
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Trotter's Goff worship is very weird, considering Goff is a solid believer in free markets and social democracy while Trotter is a Marxist-Leninist.
I get the feeling recently Goff met him for dinner, or drinks or something, and Trotter was dazzled by the novelty of having someone important pay attention to him, thus we get these weird 'Phil Goff: Friend o' the working man' essays, and vituperative attacks against anyone Trotter dimly percieves to be Goff's enemy.
I don't think any of it is significant, or germaine to what's happening inside the Labour Party.
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A lot of my reluctance to exercise comes from competitive sports at school. I was shit and therefore discouraged from participating which meant I both stayed shit and became increasingly self-conscious about my physical abilities.
I had the same bad experiences at school: a couple years ago when I decided to lose weight for my wedding I got up at 5:30 in the morning to go running, the only time of day the streets were dark and deserted enough for me to exercise in public. I was so unfit I could only run for 2-3 minutes before I had to stagger back home gasping for breath.
Eight months later I was managing two hour runs; I dropped about 25kg (although part of this was due to a change in diet). The first six weeks were pretty awful, but it was worth it.(I do know it's PAS heresy to suggest that I was overweight because I ate badly and didn't exercise and lost weight by changing that, but it does happen to be true.)
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Also,
Tinkerblog: Noun. A blog or other commentator who writes endless variations on the same fantasy in the hope of making it true; eg. climate change is not happening, the National government is deeply unpopular.
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Icestralia: Noun. Portmanteau of Iceland and Australia. The belief that our economy can 'catch up' with Australia by doing the opposite of everything they've done.
McCully: Verb. (to McCully: third person singular simple present. McCullied: past participle). To decieve or mislead a person or group of people for no reason other than the mistaken belief that it enhances ones own reputation for cunning and political strategy.
Glibertarian: Noun. Politician who simultanously believes that all welfare and other forms of state spending should be abolished and that taxpayers should bankroll their luxury holidays.
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Okay, someone explain this to me.
Brash, Fran O'Sullivan et al are insisting that cutting spending back to 29% of GDP is no big deal, since that's what it was in 2005, and that this would allow the government to cut taxes to 20%.
The thing is, all of our taxes were a lot higher in 2005 than they are today. I know we ran surpluses and that we have costs like WFF and interest free loans, but those numbers still don't quite add up to me. I suspect there's a scam or a bait and switch somewhere - but where?
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we don’t do enough to encourage or celebrate business success, and are openly hostile to people with wealth.
I don't think this is true; we're hostile towards a lot of our top business people, but that's because most of them are evil thieves. Self-made guys like Bob Jones, Sam Morgan, Steve Tindall and (yes) John Key are widely admired.
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Haters and wreckers, anyone?
Eh, what are Maori gonna do about it huh? Form their own party? Go into coalition with National? Ha! I'd like to see that!
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As much as he might wish it, women, Maori and gays aren't going to just get back into the kitchen/closet/whatever and go away
They'll go away in a sense, in that Maori, urban liberals and female voters will happily vote for the Maori Party, National and the Greens instead of Labour.
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I ended up at Whailoils site.
I checked it out a couple days ago, now it burns when I pee.
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To my mind the key passage quoted in Kate's post was:
Editorial could take a more conservative approach to the subject matter and content of the risky or contentious articles. Where editorial identifies an issue or risk in an article the relevant passages could be proactively removed, or rewritten internally, to remove the perceived risk, as an alternative to obtaining legal advice on the risks of publication
The gravity of this depends on where Kate's documents come from; if the CEO or the board of APN is giving this advice to their editors, well that's a really big deal. If it's some memo that someone in accounts sent out suggesting ways to trim costs, not so much.