Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: About Campbell Live, in reply to Sacha,
Sure he’s weird but that’s a distraction.
Weird is how the Guardian's spinning it, but I'd say the overwhelming impression is creepy.
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Hard News: About Campbell Live, in reply to linger,
DPF’s mitigating response
Thanks to the interwebs, even the follicly challenged can tug a virtual forelock.
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Hard News: About Campbell Live, in reply to ,
John Key is an adolescent, with a fetish
Is there a known cure? I remember a video made to demonstrate a form of therapy for anti-social compulsive behavior in children. The subject was a young girl who, among other things, was a chronic hair puller.
The first scene showed her having a story read to her by a guy with the kind of quiff that Dick Driver once sported on Radio With Pictures. The girl could be seen eyeing up the guy's hair while appearing to pay little attention to the story. Before long she'd grabbed the quiff and given it a hearty and utterly shameless tug.
The process was repeated with a female, whose story reading skills failed to save her. Finally the girl was shown having a story read to her by an older man. While she didn't appear to be too taken with his reading there was no hair pulling.
The only problem, and one would have to have been such a party pooper to point it out, was that the last story reader was completely bald.
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Speaker: Christchurch: how did it come…, in reply to Keir Leslie,
here’s what Labour thinks about the Common Sense Plan:
Thanks, but that's Ruth Dyson, who seems to speak for Labour's other Chch MPs. Given that Lianne Dalziel appears to be currently as closely aligned with Councillor Raf Manji as she is with her supposed fellow Labourites, and that Manji has dismissed their proposal as "political point scoring", Dyson's after the fact endorsement is hardly the line in the sand the much of Chch has been hoping for.
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Speaker: Christchurch: how did it come…, in reply to Sacha,
James Dann has a brief follow-up question about the convention centre.
After being sacrificed as Labour’s throwaway Ilam candidate, Dann’s freedom to speak out candidly on post-quake issues seems to require that he distance himself from the Party. Curiously enough, so do the six Peoples Choice councillors with their “Common Sense Plan” alternative to asset sales. So it seems more than timely to be asking just where the Party stands.
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Envirologue: What has Neoliberalism Done…, in reply to andin,
Muldoon had accumulated a lot of debt before he was defeated I hear.
So I’m kinda wondering if the neo liberal ideas then doctrine at the IMF and World Bank had any and what influence on the incoming Labour govt?The “incoming Labour govt” only did what National Party figures such as Derek Quigley had been advocating since at least 1981. There was a certain amount of carping from the then opposition about Labour having stolen National policies. The irony was that a number of those complaining had been diehard Muldoonist inteventionists when it had been politically expedient. As Denis Welch noted at the time, much of what Lange-Douglas were implementing was National's policy, even if they’d kept it garaged apart from the occasional sedate Sunday drive.
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Capture: "They Were Doing A Pretty Good Job", in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Um, Russell, your counter has stopped working, too…
<mk 19409 #post338872>Oh dear, could this be evidence of the big cosmic winding-down?
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Up Front: Reviewing the Election, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
is that also the age at which someone can be tried as an adult in the courts?
No prosecution without representation…According to the Juries Act of 1981, eligibility for jury service is "Every person who is currently registered as an elector". Presumably that's everyone of voting age. Listed among those who cannot be a juror is "anyone with an intellectual disability (as defined in law)". Yet as far as I'm aware there isn't a similar restriction on being eligible to vote.
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Hard News: About Campbell Live, in reply to Jeanette King,
Well shut mah mouth...
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Hard News: About Campbell Live, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
He really is the master of the vapid and vague soundbite – yesterday he had this to offer in Chchch:
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