Posts by Grant McDougall
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TV3 News led with the NZPA story, last night. Any ideas if TV1 even mentioned it ?
As for Palin and Bachmann being "over already" I can but hope. Apart from Obama actually losing, my next biggest fear politically is Palin winning.
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I'm not so sure. Some of Tizard's comments last week did come across as petulant and as sour grapes. Her criticism of Phil Goff, which I know she's entitled to, was also a bad look as well.
Neither she or the Labour heirachy handled this well. They shouldn't have hung their dirty wash out publically. (I'm talking specifically about the process to get the next on the list, not the Hughes affair itself or Goff's leadership, etc).
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As we discovered last week "a week is a long time in politics", as Harold Wilson famously said.
It's still six months 'til the election and therefore plenty of time for National's fortunes to take a dive. Maybe Key will suffer his equivalent of "Corngate" ? Mike Williams said that Labour's poll support went down 30% when that hit. Presumably the same would happen to National ? Crystal-ball gazing I know, but anyway... -
Labour will keep Goff until after the election. They know that changing horses mid-course just before the 1990 election didn't do them any good then, so it won't now.
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A leadership change before the election will just take things from bad to worse for Labour. The likes of Shane Jones, David Cunliffe, David Parker and Grant Robertson (who all denied any likelihood of a coup on TV3 News on Saturday) all know this, so are keeping their powder dry until after the election.
Goff is as "hobbled" as English was in 2002 - he's simply up against a very, very popular PM and leads a party that the public just aren't keen on. I also can't help but wonder if the problem with Goff isn't partially to do with his advisors / staff. He was a very solid, effective cabinet minister, yet poor as an opposition leader. Maybe his current staff aren't up to it, yet he continues to take their advice out of loyalty or because there's no one else ?
Yes, Labour should be attacking National on the issues. But the quake has given Natioanl an easy "out" for bad figures. They'll milk it for all it's worth, as Labour would've too.
Tizard's a has-been with a clear case of sour grapes.
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Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to Russell Brown,
Yeah, I rememberr that. Chris was just taking the piss. It was quite funny, but he didn't really know anything about it apart from what I'd raved about to him, which was about how this was really garage music. So I wouldn't take that too seriously.
Yeah, he clearly was just having a laugh.
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Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to Simon Grigg,
the genre being discussed in this thread basically leaves me cold.
But clearly it doesn't do so for large numbers of people, including the rest of the posters here, so I'm not sure why that and the paragraph before needed to be said?
What's wrong with contributing an amusing anecdote ? Also, what's wrong with me expressing a contrary opinion ? Craig R, for example, often has a contary political opinion to many people here, but I don't see you saying he shouldn't post his thoughts.
Headless ChickensA band that enthusiastically embraced much of what this thread is about, surely.
Something I was well aware of then and now. Their poster for the gig even featured skeletons with big, yellow smiley faces, as I recall.
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I remember going to a Headless Chickens and Straitjacket Fits gig at the Powerstation, Auckland, in early '89. Chris Knox was also on the bill and did a short set before each band.
Before starting one song he declared "I'd like to dedicate this next song to Russell Brown..." then proceeded to sing a song with the chorus:
"I love my house, it is made of bricks*,
I hate acid house, it is full of pricks"Personally, while I like a decent amount of electronica, the genre being discussed in this thread basically leaves me cold.
*Not strictly true: Mr Knox's residence in Grey Lynn is clearly made of wood.
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It would've been simpler to have some of the games transfered to Dunedin, simple as that.
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The Sunday Star Times is looking very directionless and confused, in general. The Sunday magazine is basically crap - umpteen pages of fashion advertorial and once-over-lightly features often just pinched from UK papers.
The "new" sections are only "new" in format and name, completely lacking anything actualy new, interesting and adventurous.
It is now almost as hopeless as the Listener.