Posts by ScottY
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Meanwhile Glenn Beck's sponsors desert him in droves.
Financial pain is probably the only thing that would make Fox News reel him in.
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I think Russell would call that earning a living. :)
I also don't think preventing specialists from earning good money is a wise way to go about preventing the flood overseas of experienced medical staff. A necessary evil, perhaps?
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FWIW, our family's experience of the New Zealand health system in recent years has been stellar, and that includes a series of breast cancer procedures and a comprehensive follow-up process that still continues.
I must say my own family's experiences of the public health system have been good ones. It sometimes takes a while for the wheels to turn, but once they start turning they can go very fast indeed. As an example, my boy needed a hip operation. It was relatively minor, but the day after they diagnosed him he was in surgery.
I've been watching the US healthcare debate with some interest and amzement. There are millions of uninsured people in the US who struggle for basic access to healthcare. This simply wouldn't happen in NZ.
Fox News' Beck and Hannity are spreading deliberate misinformation. The other night the Daily Show had a clip of Glen Beck in early 2008 complaining about the state of the US health system and how it was third world and needed to be reformed. He had just come out of hospital and was horrified by the treatment he received. Today Beck is saying the US system is the best in the world and that Obama's reforms will wreck it. So what changed since 2008? Beck moved from CNN to Fox News. Says it all.
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Incestuous bunch, those self-consciously 'elite-school' teachers.
Just to clarify, Kelston Boys may have a good rugby team, but it's not regarded as an "elite school". (sorry if this offends any Kelston Old Boys)
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The other common thing conspiracy theorists do (and I've had a couple of "Birthers" and "911 Truthers" take exception to some of the stuff posted on my blog) is criticise you for not reading their "evidence": "You have no right to criticise because you haven't even read [insert crazy tract name]" is their standard attack method.
And, if you're like me, you haven't done any more than glance at their "arguments", because you don't need that stuff in your head.
In the case of Wishart, I've no intention of giving him any of my money, and I'd rather put my head in a deep frier than be subjected to any of his theories.
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Ian clearly regards this as the ultimate indictment of my failure as a journalist and a human being ;-)
Should we expect to see your face on the next cover of Investigate Magazine?
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Speaking of Reason and Authority, when did Trevor Mallard lose his?
How else to explain this?
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Russell, do you mean:
Ah, Ian ...
I'm sure the irony is lost on you, but it is grimly amusing that your bleating about the chilling of free speech is so often accompanied by bellicose and poorly-founded legal threats against others.
Still there!
I look forward to watching Wishart being laughed out of court, if he ever gets that far.
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These days, he'd have to be the Count Trim-Soy-with-Calcium-Enrichement.
That's classist and elitist. I'm sure most of us at PAS would disapprove of such titular honours.
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Kyle, I agree the State should be doing the job of the charities.
But since charities have been around in one form or another since the earliest days of the Church, I'm not holding my breath for that to occur.