Posts by dc_red
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To extrapolate from the CRI I used to work for -- I estimate that it must cost around $0.50 in administration for each $1.00 awarded (which doesn't strike me as very efficient).
Aren't university scientists compelled to pass on $1.15 overhead for every $1 of research funding? I guess it's not all administration, but good god it's a lot.
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I used to think that myself and the person who put Stephen Fleming in an oversize Rexonna can-suit were the only people who could see past his dashing good looks and occasional good innings and see him for what he is - a player who goes through wild variations of form deserving of mild humiliation and critique rather than the awed reverance he has received for the last 10 years.
Well make that three of us. I would add that his much-heralded captaining skills are similarly variable. When under pressure in the field he often adopts his patented "stunned mullet" expression and is unable to do anything helpful.
Then there are the spin bowlers he obviously has no confidence in even when they're picked and standing on the field (Wiseman, and now Patel to a certain extent).
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does that mean that all non-pot smokers shouldn't be involved in legislation regarding cannabis? Hmmm, wouldn't that be interesting...puff puff
What a promising idea. Although it's Friday, Rogan, I suggest puffing before 4pm is a bit over the top. :)
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He's not English at all though. He is cricket's Zola Budd. He's South African.
Now that's a little unfair ... or at least unwise. New Zealanders don't tend to like it too much when some people (i.e., the English) suggest that the All Blacks are really made up of Pacific Islanders, and not New Zealanders.
The World Cup just shows what a melting pot of citizenships the world is ... with guys like John Davison and Ian Bilcliff happening to be born in Canada, but learning the cricket elsewhere. And it's not like NZ Cricket won't select guys born in other countries ... inlcuding Scott Styris, Matthew Sinclair, Roger Twose, and Dipak Patel to name a few.
Well, anyway, it is possible to take the labelling thing a bit far, as this commentary on the labelling of Ross Taylor as " the Samoan" points out.
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Cheers guys, I have adopted Canada as my minow, and will loudly cheer them on against Kenya and England. Sure, they won't make the round of 8, but I would put money on them giving at least one of the baracudas in their pool a run for their money.
If batting first, it only take two batsmen (or perhaps one - Davison) to fire, and they can post a good total, and then the team batting second is under pressure. Cue a quick duck from Fleming, and the BCs reduced to 44/5, and it's the road to world cup glory for Canada. Or something like that.
BTW, you realize of course that the Smoke-free Environments Amendment Act 2003 would now prohibit the kind of addition to a school cricket pitch which contributed to your prodigous spin.
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Span said:
That wasn't the depressing bit. That would be the stupid people who kept repeatedly claiming the defendant hadn't proved he was innocent.
It has to be said: good god.
As Zsa Zsa Gabor once complained about a jury: 'It was not my class of people. There was not a producer, a press agent, a director, an actor.'"
I would settle for a jury without imbeciles.
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Any politcal journo in NZ worth their salt could've driven a bus through Turia's argument. At some point in the not too distant past she would have some european ancestory herself... I'd put money on it. Thus rendering her argument completely hypocritcal.
Her father is/was American. I have no idea as to his ethnicity, and nor is it any of my business. But had she paid the slightest attention to the US during the course of her life (and I suspect she has), she would have noted that not all holders of US citizenship are "white". Indeed, it is likely that, at some point, she was herself eligible to take out US citizenship. Maybe she even took up the opportunity.
I don't think the details of her background make her "completely hypocritical" - but it was duplicitous of her to identify "Canada" and "Europe" as sources of these problematic white immigrants, when neither Canada, nor any continental European country, appears in the top 10 source countries for migrants in 05/06, while the USA does.
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Joining the debate rather late, but responding to Don Christie's point on page 1:
The squeals of anguish now that folks like my own good self are being targeted are a wonder to behold. Trouble is, no one seems to see the irony. Is it because white folk are less likely to be Muslims (in some minds at least)?
There's a fair few of us who have railed against Peters-esque immigration rhetoric for years, irrespective of who is advancing it, and which particular groups they happen to be targetting at any one time.
No Right Turn (in particular) has been very consistent in its critique of implicitly and explicitly racist immigration policies touted by a wide range of political parties. I don't see the "howls of anguish" being louder, or more anguished, in this particular instance. There hasn't been too much howling in the foregoing 70-odd comments on this board for example.
I have no time for "blood quantum" nonsense (and said so on my blog when Don Brash ventured into that territory) but one might think a person of Turia's decidely mixed background would be a little more cautious about essentializing in this way (and confusing skin colour, ethnicity and citizenship - or not even caring about the differences between these things).
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I would have assumed that there is a strong element of implied consent among those who play rugby towards pushing and shoving after the whistle, handbags at five yards, and punch-ups which don't result in any more than trifling injuries.
There is no implied consent for, say, eye-gouging, biting someone's ear off in a scrum, or knocking someone out with a punch.
Somewhere inbetween it gets a bit fuzzy no doubt, but the "ordinary violence outside the laws of the game, but nonetheless very routine" does seem to be consented to. Everyone who plays knows what to expect - they wouldn't have signed up otherwise.
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Peter Dunne plays the "reefer madness" card once too often, conspires with Jim Anderton to ban "medical heroin". Newspaper editors rejoice at long overdue new front in war on drugs. Lone doctor quoted in said newspapers expresses mild concern that morphine and codeine are now unavailable - but view is relegated to page C16, after one and a half glorious sections of super 14 round 2 coverage.
Business as usual in other words. And John Key will not visit the "McGehan Close-esque" streets in his own electorate. :-(