Posts by Roger Lacey
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I'm dismayed by the way the mainstream media use the prime minister as a political commentator and allow him to put his spin on other parties' policies without question.
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I’ve also been talking to a new (but familiar) blogger about joining us
Not Cam I hope.
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Hard News: Cranks, self-seekers and the mayor, in reply to Ray Gilbert,
...putting these privet prosecutions he brings In context, by giving a clearer picture of the motivation.
A case of not being able to see the wood for the trees perhaps?
Maybe he is a noxious weed?
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The online voting form didn't display in my version of Google Chrome and I didn't have the attention span to fire up another browser to check, just hit the refresh button today to see if it was fixed and found it was all over. Not worried about it, I don't think my choices would have made much difference to the overall results.
Have a great christmas season Russell and thanks for your hard work bringing us Public Address year after year. -
Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to bluebook,
Smaugmented reality
I've always pronounced Smaug that way like auger or Alison Mau. Everybody these days seems to call him Smawg. It's going to ruin the movie for me.
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The mythical creature the mumandadinvestor. They were supposed to be the primary reason for the sale of our state assets but none have ever been seen or heard.
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John Minto recently coined the word titford.http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2013/11/27/call-it-what-it-is-doing-a-titford/
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Thank you Jackie for highlighting this cause, I've chipped in with a donation and hope many more can do the same.
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Legal Beagle: Think it possible that you…, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
Does anyone here think that speech like that of Willie and JT should actually be banned? In the you-commit-a-criminal-offence-if-you-say-it sense?
Of course not. But I fully defend my right to protest about what they said. That includes e-mailing the radio station and their advertisers to bring to their attention what those two clowns said.
Radio Live handled the whole affair abysmally. Firstly they shut down comments on their website, they then removed the audio from their website and then said they would keep W&JT on air but remove ads so they could spout off for longer.
I never demanded they should be banned. I suggested to the management that they be stood down and meet with someone from rape crisis so they could have some idea of the depth of feeling their comments had generated. -
Hard News: Housing: the Feudal Model, in reply to James Bremner,
the land use restriction policies generally favored by the left, that are absolutely f*&king the less well off, those that the left generally seem to think they care about the most, while delivering a windfall to the well off.
It could also be said that those who will benefit most from greenfield development are people who have bought swathes of productive agricultural land on the city fringe and will reap enormous tax free capital gains as soon as the zoning is changed.