Posts by Lucy Stewart
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Well I don’t know what Just Thinking was just thinking, but I thought the butt of the joke was Worth.
So it's okay to slander a woman to make a joke about Worth? The kind of slander that women in positions of power get all the time, by virtue of being women?
Yeah. No.
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It had a Warning up front so was pretty obvious it was not a serious accusation?
I'm gonna grab my Humourless Feminist hat and say that just because it was intended as a joke doesn't make it okay.
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It's an evidence based question.
No, it isn't. It's a fairly nasty piece of implicit slander, based on Worth being a sleazebag and Rankin being widely disliked. However much you may dislike Rankin's appointment, and God knows I disagree with it, to imply she slept her way into it without any basis other than the above is not on, and, quite frankly, says more about you than anything else.
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What role did Richard Worth play in Christine Rankins new position?
Okay, that's a place we shouldn't be going, and not just for the mental image - implying that someone slept their way into a job is *not cool*.
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I don't think Russell was using the term "murder" in the narrow legal sense
Is there *any* sense in which the evidently premeditated gunning down of an unarmed man is *not* murder? Seriously?
Could you define terrorism for us, Russell? Our legislature once did but then they repealed because it would have given the term a finite meaning.
While one murder may not in and of itself be terrorism, the concerted and lengthy campaign against abortion providers in general and Tillman in particular - including, as Russell noted, bombings, attempted murder, actual murder, death threats, intimidation, and the like - is most definitely terrorism. It is a campaign to stop abortion providers from doing their work through making them too afraid to do so. If that isn't the definition of terrorism, I don't know what is. As a part of that, I wouldn't hesitate to label this murder an act of terrorism, and a particularly despicable one.
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I wait to see details of the $2b "reprioritisation" in spending as to how those priorities have worked out as well.
Yeah, that bit makes me *very* twitchy. It's so...non-specific, with such a large amount of money.
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Name three.
(Sorry, had to be done)
Some lovely bush walks, nice wide streets, and a distinct lack of celebrities.
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Errr, what? Like how miniature? Pimple, miniature? Truth be told, Auckland is an oversized Upper Hut.
That's not entirely fair - Upper Hutt has redeeming qualities.
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They signed their name (Dr)
A lot of homeopaths, naturopaths, and so forth do this. I'm rather skeptical that this person has an actual medical degree (and if they do they are *bollocks* at communicating it.)
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Just to clarify: you *can* have bacteria in your bloodstream causing illness, but that is a specific and serious condition known as bacteremia, not a general description of any infection requiring antibiotics. I wouldn't expect a doctor to be that inaccurate.