Posts by Joe Wylie
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Polity: Saudi sheep: Misappropriating…, in reply to Alfie,
Auditor-General Lyn Provost will carry out an inquiry into the Saudi sheep bribe. Does this mean that Murray McCully will finally have to front up and actually answer the difficult questions?
If the recent online sacrificial slagging of McCully from those who habitually employ the PM's rectum as a pulpit is any indication, yes.
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Speaker: Why we need to stop talking…, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
Natrad dug a 41 year old interview with Bill Rowling out of the archives.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Criminal Life, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
- and seeing the kitchen brings it all flooding back. With horror (knowing what I know now of asbestos-laden post-quake Chchch) - How Chris and I scraped all the stippled wall plaster off the walls and ceiling by hand, with cheese graters being the most effective tool, and the occasional wet hanky over the nose and mouth!!!
So that's how it was done. Someone had gone to a certain amount of trouble with sweeping strokes of a trowel and plaster to create the ambience of a tacky pizza parlour. Never mind, said Chris, they'd be bringing it up to aesthetic scratch by "electronic means", which turned out to be one of these fitted to a godawful great corded drill. Having managed to nearly flog a hole in a nice old kauri door with a similar gadget I could only wish him luck.
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Chris Knox with Rackets at the Basement as part of "The Experiment" this week
Hey thank you. As someone who found The Nothing just a teensy bit comfy, that's the real Knox deal.
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OnPoint: My last name sounds Chinese, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Of course, there was no racism here until "Labour did it":
Blame "Farmer Bill" Massey, whose Reform Party presided over the forced breakup of Chinese-Samoan marriages, after braving a single German gunboat to invade the place.
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Polity: Saudi sheep: Misappropriating…, in reply to Alfie,
I'm old enough to remember when Tom Scott was still funny.
To be fair he still hits it occasionally, but he pretty much lost me back when he got sucked into crusading for a particularly goofy form of moral panic over marijuana.
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Polity: Saudi sheep: Misappropriating…, in reply to simon g,
the "rugby and beer" story is now about the Greens
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Polity: Saudi sheep: Misappropriating…, in reply to Rob Stowell,
And on the framing side: it seems we’ve largely swallowed without gagging the ACT party framing of government expenditure as ‘taxpayers’ money.’
Though no-one's raiding ACT on Campus's meagre legacy of attempted wit by calling Key the "Prime Moneywaster".
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A unique and highly readable personal survivor's account - the late June Opie's Over My Dead Body.
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Hard News: Judicial caprice is no way to…, in reply to Lisa Black,
Thank you Lisa, most enlightening, though you've rather lost me with this:
That is the reason people say we are just doing our job. If you don't like the legal arguments we are bringing (for example the provocation defence) then work to change the law so that those arguments cannot be made.
In the climate of public revulsion following Weatherston's use of the provocation defence, Simon Power announced his intention to do pretty much what you've suggested. My understanding is that claiming provocation did Weatherston's case no good. Presumably a capable lawyer could, indeed should, have used their notable powers of persuasion to talk their client out of what they should have known was a futile exercise in wilfully destructive bloody-mindedness. Instead they knowingly became an accessory to their client's apparent wish to inflict further damage upon the family of his victim.