Posts by Peter Calder
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I wonder if the last few weeks of Obama's campaign were coloured by a feeling of "Do I really want this job??"I'm sure you've seen
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/black_man_given_nations
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As a matter of interest, I copied my comments above to Poneke and 30 minutes later I was locked - permanently, I hope - out of his blog. What's that old Broadway saying? Ah, I remember: "If you ain't praising 'em, they ain't listening."
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Nice post, Russell.
Re Poneke. He says: The job of police marksmen is to shoot the bad guy holding the gun to the head of the hostage, not to shoot the innocent, hard-working 17-year-old courier van driver being held hostage with the bad guy’s gun to his head.
The job of journalists is to publish what they know to be correct. Not so bloggers. Halatau Naitoko (whose name he misspells) was not being held hostage. I think I would rather see what an official investigation discloses than rely on such intemperate, error-ridden and extravagant comment as his.
My bad-taste prize of the day was of the witness from a nearby house whose shit-eating grin as he said something like "there's somebody lying there and he ain't moving" made me sick.
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Surely "issues". No two minutes pass on Morning Report without its being used. People are not "sick"; they have "health issues". Organisations are not understaffed or shorthanded; they have staffing issues. Sometimes people just have issues - as Helen Clark was said to have with Brian Connell so he was dropped. Issues are usually around things, so that if you find "health issues" too bald and abrupt, you can have issues around health. Count 'em, tomorrow. This is not the most overused word; it is, after "the" "a/an" and "and" the most used word.
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In his autobiography, Lange recalls replacing Bassett as Minister of Health with David Caygill. "[Bassett] told me at one point that he would never speak to me again unless he had to, so the news was not all bad."
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Taihoa, Anke. Pineapple lumps are one of the world's finest foods - just behind pate de foie gras but well ahead of that damn currywurst