Posts by Lyndon Hood
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Perhaps an overly-optimistic comment from Owen McShane on Poneke.
Seems to be arguing that with Rodney and Maurice covering Local Govt and Building while outside cabinet, they get to form their own little deregulating posse without it falling back on Key.
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"not because it does not work, but because it was not tried."
Always interesting to see that form of argument used against libertarians.
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FWIW I got the idea the chilling effect the electoral commission referred to wasn't due to what the law said, but to people not being sure what the law said. A situation the whole debate (on both sides, really) didn't discourage.
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Did the Herald threaten to do a pre-election name and shame (with mugshots) of everyone who voted for the EFA and/or the pledge card spending validation bill?
Both? From memory there were at least two... S59?
I had a hazy impression they meant to do it on a weekly basis
I remember thinking that if they kept adding gripes they would run out of space.
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some of National's policies
I'd just like to say in every forum I can manage...
They mean to DNA test innocent people for the police database.
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http://mapmash.googlepages.com/election_map.html
If you add what the Dems won in '04 to the current projections, Obama goes over the line. And the little donkey turn into a POTUS seal.
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For comparison: The Merchant of Venice.
Now, Shakespeare is typically so full of life that it's possible to forge an understanding of the play to suit your opinions about humanity (mine, anyway). But it's even more difficult to make a (non-rewritten) unracist Merchant than a feminist Taming of the Shrew.
And even if you manage to make a performance that deals with the way pretty much all of the lead characters are bigots, some people will still have their prejudices confirmed.
I think the conter-argument is probably that people will have the prejudices confirmed by everything that happens to them, so there's no point trying to account for it. But I imagine that doesn't always wash.
(Incidentally, there's an fascinating rewrite by Arnold Wesker called The Merchant (this essay includes summary info), written basically as an answer to the racism of the original)
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With the quiz, considering the small # of questions & options it can't be all that accurate but it would be food for though if you discovered you were on the wrong side.
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the Political Compass
Not that I ever looked at his policy, but it's interesting that Ron Paul didn't make it into the libertarian side.