It is quite possible, as some are saying, that we are already hitting the bottom of the cycle, and things will pick up from heronin

I'm not sure if injecting drugs is going to do it actually.

The "recession is inevitable" line is false and that is what Ganesh was trying to say before Bernard cut him off.
A lot of the economic woe stuff ash to do with it being election year, and Don Brash tried *exactly* the same line in 2005.

The talk of recession,…

Talk to the people who are in work in 2008 that were not in 1998 and ask them whether the economy is failing.

And tell the folks who've lost their jobs over the last couple of weeks to cheer up and stop whinging, and I'll have a nice ice pack…

Player Classic just fine, so I suspect it's the 2nd episode may have some encoding issues.

I get that a lot with Windows media type sites. That's why I love the podcasts of Media7.

A lot of the economic woe stuff ash to do with it being election year, and Don Brash tried *exactly* the same line in 2005. The point I made…

http://youtube.com/TVNZMedia7

And the windows media one plays the ad at the beginning, but not the actual clips. Flash one seems to work better.

I had the same issue last night. The first episode played in Media Player Classic just fine, so I suspect it's the 2nd episode may have some encoding…

Ben, Eric the RED is a WAIHEKE LEGEND. come on.. you've never seen him? In summer barefeet? a turban around his head?

No, I really have never seen him. But I'd believe he's there, really fits the bill. I see the Wiki suggests there may be TWO of him, one…

Wonder why that sort of thing isn't possible in greater Auckland? There is a clear need for an alternative to the Herald....and it ain't the DomPost.

I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there chatter a few years back that Fairfax did some serious feasibility studies…

gulf news: for the classifieds
marketplace: most likely to feature a picture of…

It equally cracks me up that Boag's rag gets such a big pickup rate. I'm sure few Waiheke folk would pay for it, on principle, but their inability to resist reading it, reminds me of my sick addiction to Kiwiblog.

Ben, from memory, the Gulf News is the only one…

And the windows media one plays…

I didn't know you could set a firewall with a journalism filter...

Made me and the very pregnant one laugh...

I'd take a close look at the byline on the original _Herald__story. Both Fran O'Sullivan and Audrey Young have taken what we shall politely call 'severe exception' to being accused of making shit up by politicians in the past. We shall see whether they cast any light on precisely what…

Got only one small criticism...the gesture of pointing at…

Meanwhile, Goff seems to be developing a rather bad case of sematic split ends of his own:
__Trade Negotiations Minister Phil Goff has denied reports he said it was "bullshit" that Foreign Minister Winston Peters could criticise the Government's free trade agreement with China.
A spokesperson for Mr Goff said…

Craig if you recall, The Greens , Maori party AND NZF all oppose the terms of the FTA with China.

I rather doubt Keith Locke or Hone Harawira give a rat's arse what Phil Goff has to say about them. Peters seems to, considering that Goff's office apparently issued a…

Goffs bullshit comment applies all three does it not!

And look at Peters acual concerns about the terms.

Dairying has a long wait for ..... quotas before the trade becomes…

I guess the Vatican already had dibs on 'love the sinner, but hate the sin'.

Burn!!

For sure. I just think it would have been more prudent to concede that National might have to talk with a range of parties, but simply decline to speculate on anything to do with the foreign affairs job.

Not a bad call, Russell, but if my memory serves (and please…

however Key's approach was typically confused.

Paul, I've been on this go round over at Kiwiblog and aren't really interrested in doing it all over again, but could you share with us all WTF Key could have said that would have made you happy?

Craig, in all seriousness, why bother…

however Key's approach was typically confused.

Paul, I've been on this go round over at Kiwiblog and aren't really interrested in doing it all over again, but could you share with us all WTF Key could have said that would have made you happy?

To be perfectly honest, I'd love…

Like Mann the climate researcher who was caught big time by the Statistical experts at the AAS as working in a field where he wasnt an expert namely statistics.

Still Mann and his colleagues publish without co authors who are experts in…

Climate change forecasts 'invalid' – researcher. The article is about two academics, what it doesn't mention is that one is in management, the other in marketing.

__Green especially seems to be good in his field (forecasting theory), but it's hard to take seriously his wholesale denunciation of people working in…

Everything keeps going up until it crashes. Particularly when you work for a newspaper that lives on real estate advertising revenue – that must put journos under pressure to keep being positive on house prices?

But it is difficult to get past 'if it bleeds...it leads'.

I thought the point that if we were all more informed about…

Oh yes, and who in the Herald decided Mike bloody Moore would be their rent-a-quote?

I blame Bolger, Shipley and Palmer (for being discreet) and Lange, Muldoon and the rest (for being dead). The role of "ex-Prime Minister" has been filled by the least qualified applicant.

When does he start…

For sure. I just think it would have been more prudent to concede that National might have to talk with a range of parties, but simply decline to speculate on anything to do with the foreign affairs job. McCully won't have been impressed ...

If he's f^%ked off McCully then…

Should be good for 1 vote in 20, and a return to Parliament.

Climate change forecasts 'invalid' – researcher. The article is about two academics, what it doesn't mention is that one is in management, the other in marketing.

Green especially seems to be good in his field (forecasting theory), but it's hard to take seriously his wholesale denunciation of people working in…

Climate change forecasts 'invalid' – researcher. The article is about two academics, what it doesn't mention is that one is in management, the other in marketing.

DomPost charged over 'terror' story. Dom post plays the expected price for…

For sure. I just think it would have been more prudent to concede that National might have to talk with a range of parties, but simply decline to speculate on anything to do with the foreign affairs job.

Precisely. Winston's position is awkward but not unmanageable for the government and…

I can remember listening to the radio...probably…

Agreed that Key seemed to handover political points yesterday but at least the guy was being honest about the realities of an MMP political system where currently the 2 major parties seem destined to run close enough to one another that they will pretty evenly split the vote...

For sure.…

And also: Media 7 direct FLV…

Getting to work by car because of the bad weather, instead of my usual walking from Berhampore to an ad agency in Upper Willis Street. Fierce wind and some rain, but only small branches down – we'd seen worse. At that stage.…

I love the idea…