Posts by Angus Robertson

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  • Field Theory: You play to win the game,

    This means that some players had eight Adidas logos on them! One on the jersey, one on the shorts, one on each sock, one on each long sleeve and one in each number on their back

    Ten, unless adidas have stopped putting logo's on their boots.

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  • Island Life: What I saw at the product launch,

    It was emblematic. Where once an election involved campaign meetings and the exchange of ideas, wit and banter, we now have branding experiences and mall encounters.

    Once independent groups were able to offer up ideas for discusssion in the public domain. Politicians took a stance on issues raised by the 3rd parties, seeking either endorsement or to distance themselves. This practice was curtailled by our previous government.

    As a consequence we have had an election where political parties monopolised all messages and the messages were appropriately vague. We got to choose between nebulous catch-cries of "change" or "trust". "Change" won.

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  • Hard News: History is now,

    Too bloody right. I have seen reality, and it has no satisfactory narrative structure. It just dribbles on and on and on until you fall in a hole at the end.

    To quote Marx: "I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal."

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  • Hard News: History is now,

    It's nearing the record set by the Veitch thread so far.

    Imagine how big the thread will be when Tony Vietch wins an election

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  • Hard News: History is now,

    Which 3rd world country will be the first to bombed under the Obama presidency?

    Sudan - to solve the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.
    Pakistan - the just part of the GWoT.
    Iran - they have/haven't a nuclear program.
    Somalia, Haiti, the Balkans - reprising the Clinton years.

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  • Hard News: History is now,

    Prof. Harvey Klehr n the Weather Underground:
    "The only reason they were not guilty of mass murder is mere incompetence. I don't know what sort of defense that is."

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  • Hard News: History is now,

    One of several reasons that Ayers isn't still rotting in jail is that he never killed or injured anyone as part of the Weather Underground.

    The nail bomb his girlfriend prematurely detonated on was intended for the killing of some dancing officers and WAGs.

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  • Island Life: See Waiheke before you die.,

    But that nice Mr Key thinks it would be a good idea to dial back the amount people will have deducted from their wages.

    National are opening up lower band option for KiwiSaver, makes it a affordable to a larger number of people. More people saving the better it is, longterm or shortterm.

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  • Hard News: History is now,

    So Star Trek correctly predicted a Black Man as President to be followed by a women.

    Palin2016 then?

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  • Hard News: God's squads,

    To be fair, "lickspittle" is a much better word.

    And there is the alliterative cadence leftist, liberal, lickspittle provides to D4J's rants

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