Posts by David Slack
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After an initial interest in the subject most media now seem to be willing to now give not only Don but also John a pass on this question.
I read it this way: the media give Don a pass not so much because they accept his word, but because he's history.
Conversely, the rights/rites of honeymoon get Key a pass no matter how dubious his defence might sound. He's the new player and they don't want to see him bloodbinned after thirty seconds.
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it's nearly a quarter of a billion dollars shy of being paid for
<quiet voice>how much to do the temporary seating and bill a decent chunk of it to the promoters?</quiet voice>
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A few thoughts:
stadium
lafo
spider
unbundling
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Transferred post by Jeremy Andrew
suppression
injunction
exclusive
Does anyone else know people who belong to the brethren? Not the exclusive ones, just the standard, run-of-the-mill brethren? Have you noticed the poor folks have pretty much had to change the name of their sect to "The Brethren-not-the-exclusive-kind-the-other-ones-that-don't-try-to-pervert-the-course-of-democracy". -
Stumbled across the Merriam-Webster Word of the Year site. Voting is about to close for 2006.
The site also lists the Top 10 from the past few years/
Vote for the 2006 Word of the Year.
(Moderator's Note: we liked this suggestion by Jon Knox so much, we've moved it over to the main board to make sure no-one missed it.
Whatever might qualify for word of the year here in New Zealand will only get swamped over there. Let's vote for it here.) -
Then I graphed the results and mapped them to show the "moral" geography
That's a very big red dot over Kelburn. Llew, I can see your house from here.
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Couldn't be too difficult to map the votes on to two axes, one for personal freedom and one for economic freedom, and voila!
Trouble is, mostly their votes are party whipped. (ie: You are obliged to vote according to your party's position).That's principally why I chose Key's conscience votes and preferences expressed in his speeches. ( In which regard, such express positions took a little finding, which chimes with Peter's assertions here - recommended reading - about what motivates Key and English to run.)
Still, it would be interesting to trawl through the speeches and statements and Hansard to try and tease out express positions they've taken, and map them.
As for conscience votes, they're well catalogued here.
One further consideration that muddies the water: MPs will sometimes maintain that they should cast their conscience vote according to the wishes, as they perceive them, of their electorate.
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When we are holding Laws up as a (good) example my guess is the thread is starting to seriously unravel...
I'll make it official by invoking Godwin's Law. Hitler was kind to animals.
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One example to consider is Michael Laws. He either doesn't draw his mayoral salary or donates it to charity, I can't recall which.
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Been trying to find a column by Basset saying what a great speech Orewa 1 was (without disclosing he wrote it)
James, will this do?