http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/haneef-released-charges-dropped/2007/07/27/1185339250715.html

If they give care and support to those in need good on them.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4140568a11.html

A bit concerned at the report they're setting out to cure cancer though.

15years sounds like a good start.

I quite favour this as a legal concept

The reports also claimed that Haneef was allegedly one of a group of doctors who had been learning to fly in Queensland.

Ah yes, only pilots should be allowed to learn to fly. I've always been suspicious of Paul Holmes' motives for learning to fly. I mean, why would a…

The cops made the shit up . . .

Haneef gave his sim card to a stingray – or maybe a dingo.

As someone once said about 'Honest John' Howard, he's called honest just like red-haired people are called Blue.

Labour introduced the new Terrorism laws where any activity that hampers business is Terrorism (wee exception for employee based union activity).

Save Happy Valley are Terrorists under Phill Goffs law.
You know those guys saving snails (dying to tie this to the French & Rainbow warrior…

You buy one of those 'Pressie Cards' at the PostShop, load it with a $50 value and give it to your mate for his birthday. Your mate buys fertiliser at the local hardware shop and makes a bomb. The Police find the…

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/articles/2007/07/14/1184438112407.html

Because that is one of many illegal copies flooding the internet after a video file was stolen by _

Call me old-fashioned but I thought it was an official site! Surely Mr Moore coulda/shoulda had the site shut down by now…

Buy Snow Crash, go to a decent second-hand bookshop (Browsers if you're up this way) and just buy it. You'll be reading it more than once anyway.

Pity the last third is loses the plot and the 'facts' about linguistics are complete crap.

I made the mistake of the starting…

Call me old-fashioned but I feel we should respect Michael Moore's efforts by at least paying for a ticket to see the film in a cinema.

His efforts might have deserved respect had his motivation been anything other than money and self-aggrandisement.

His recent conversion to the cause of health…

why wait? see it here:
Michael Moore's Sicko

Because that is one of many illegal copies flooding the internet after a video file was stolen by someone working in the post-production studio (several weeks before the film received its cinematic release). Call me old-fashioned but I feel we should respect…

(which is a pity really, it would have been quite fun to have you out flank me from the left :) )

Heh... but I'm beginning to feel more and more sympathy with the historian Robert Conquest, who once said what was really needed on the political scene was a…

As opposed to the in plain sight crazily rich HMO's ???

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/pogues/streets+of+sorrowbirmingham+six_20109737.html
Pogues lyrics of Birmingham six still have a ring of truth to them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw45mKWAGKg&mode=related&search=
Christy Moore Scapegoats

Sigh....time...to.....switch....to......backup.....brain.......

Has a good go at the terrorists and socialised health care thing in the NYT. open link

Yes, they were obviously ultra-sophisticated international terrorists. Clearly the one and only gap in their skills was not realising that petrol isn't an explosive

There would probably be a correlation between wealth and party membership that might be more insightful or any number of other clues.

Just no sure you can drwa the…

In this recent vid, Tommy appears on FOX News' 'Your World' show to talk about immigration with the painfully smug Bush apologist Neil Cavuto, who doesn't quite know how to react to Chong's repeated assertion that President Bush…

What about all the money wasted on faceless bureaucrats and unnecessary form filling by our GPs?

Stories told to me by friends about their experiences with the US health system, insurance companies, etc, make our system look sane and efficient in comparison.

Seriously, monkeys on acid could design a better…

Don,

Just in case your post doesn't end with the same tag: bureaucracies…

Efficiency: On indicators of efficiency, the U.S. ranks last among the six countries, with the U.K. and New Zealand ranking first and second, respectively.

What about all the money wasted on faceless bureaucrats and unnecessary form filling by our GPs?

A lot of scientists joined or supported the Nazis (von Braun and Heisenburg, for instance). I'd suggest that early 20th century scientific training was pretty narrow and that, combined with German attitudes to authority, led to them accepting Nazism without too much thought (for…

Frankly, there are valid reasons for concern about having to constantly import doctors doctors trained in other systems.

Not the least of which is that it implies that the local education system is failing. If you can't channel the money going into the education system (not an inconsiderable amount) into…

I'm wondering if the high percentage of doctors joining the Nazi party might have had something to do with the widespread acceptance of eugenics in western societies during the early twentieth century.

I would imagine it was more of a high-society thing. When certain members of the community join the…

Gasp! we could be a target. Heck we'd better scrap the system pronto: party vote ACT this election. That's what I say.

Well, if you're that worried about dirty furriners prodding your nethers before they strap a bomb to Granny's new hip — and judging from the accents and skin…

I'm not trying to get this thread Godwined, but while it would be nice to think putting your kids though medical school would act as a vaccine against being a religious fanatic or a murderous ideological bigot, it doesn't work like that.

I'm wondering if the high percentage of doctors…

I find it hard to think of any demographic less likely to become terrorists than doctors. They have a lot to live for, and live to heal.

I'd like to think so. But Ben Goldacre dug up a rather disturbing factoid, in passing, in the column I linked to in…

That's a great piece by Craig. But I did enjoy the irony of his "and pay careful attention" admonishon to his listeners :-)

Fair cop, you could almost hear me waggling my finger in a school-marmish way. :) But, really, if you're going to use the plural form of 'group'…

I tried hard and only managed to singe my eyebrows. It's the KNO3 that's hard to get. Plus the right grade of sulphur and charcoal. Plus your proportions are wrong – read Clive Ponting's book "Gunpowder"…

Could even be the subject of one of Russell's monthly story gathering initiatives

Encyclopaedia Britannica, open science classroom window, hey presto – gunpowder. 70% carbon, 20% sulphur, 10% potassium nitrate (memory hazy). 1987 I think...

It was a very hard transaction to complete, unsurprising when you see the 20/20 segment.

(where Now == 16 days, and counting)

I almost got the cable people to put a block on FoxNews, 'cos I was starting to throw things at the screen when I surfed past.

Of course, my next major stop after the US is the UK..... (sigh).

Any fifteen year old with internet access should be able to make a bomb.

This was the case even before the advent of the internet. Could even…

and to perpetually perceive threat.

and then there is the "new" threat to Bali and Indonesia as per the new MFAT travel advisory from Australia. I was told yesterday by a neigbour from their consulate that there is no new information or threat, just a worry that too many Australians…

Interesting the fear that foreign Drs will import their problems with them (problems largely exported by the west).
Contrast this with the Yarpie at Waikato DHB looking to exclude 'ineligible'…

What a quack. Need any more really be said?