Posts by Neil Morrison
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While arguing about bare faced lies let's remeber Gore lied about us.
I'm not taken by Save The Planet Man's latest role as The Reluctant Bride but it's bit harsh to call over-heated rhetoric a lie.
But this is funny - Al Gore's son caught doing 100mph in hybrid car containing marijuana and pills
A hybrid car. Let's hope the dope was organic.
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So it wouldn't surprise me if some of the Labour hacks are picking up the phone and telling Helen "I think it'd be good if you came out against the electricity company that cut that family's power" and "against that family in the state house that everyone is bagging in the media right now".
a bit unfair on Clark I think. That state house is in her electorate so as an MP she has to take some action and I'd be very surprised if she didn't know the back-story to it all.
HNZ made a bit of a harsh of this, possibly thru no fault of their own, and as the local MP Clark has a duty to advocate on behalf of the aggrieved neighbours.
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silver linings perhaps -
Commuting Prison Term Is Implicit Critique of Sentencing Standards
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polls show again, that Al Gore would sweep the Democratic nomination if he chose to run
people always prefer what they can't have. But what the polls also show is that Hillary has 37% and Gore would win against her but with only 32% of Dem voters. Not quite so convincing when framed like that.
But the reality is that Hillary has a double digit lead over her closest rival which for some reason happens to really annoy most white male liberal middle class American punidts.
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Don't all terrorists have at their core a legitimate grievence that history will eventually pove them right (if not rightous as we now celebrate the ANC)?
That is undoubtedly what bin Laden believes.
How do you view Nelson Mandela?
With a simple comparison to Mugabe.
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So why choose Tiger Tiger
The choice of target - a nightclub on Ladies' Night - is also revealing. When a similar gang plotted to blow up the Ministry of Sound in 2004, they talked about their desire to burn alive the "slags dancing around".
This is a reminder that the bombers are not only blowing back against the worst in our system of government: the torture and chemical weapons in Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, and our support for Arab dictators. They oppose the best in our system of government too: the intellectual freedom to write novels that question religion, the sexual freedom of women to pick their own partners.
When I receive my own tedious drizzle of jihadi death-threats, they always mention my homosexuality long before they get round to my views on foreign policy.
My partner took a taxi to Heathrow just a few days ago. The driver was a young guy - second generation Pakistani. They talked a bit about religion - he has the occasional drink and goes to the Mosque infrequently. According to him the Koran gave women rights that they didn't have beforehand. So the conversation was going fine and then he said - if my sister went with a non-Muslim I'd kill her.
There's something worrying going on in the psyche of some young men.
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Bottom line, They don't want us to get high, but it's too late to do anything about the bolted horses of Alcohol and Cigarettes.
I can make myself a bit clearer. It's not so much that the horse has bolted but that people need an enemy drug so that they can happily delude themselves that what they imbibe is not a drug. That gets dressed up in the causes harm argument but what's really going on is a form of charade. Damn those druggies and pass the bottle. Denial.
Anderton I think really is on about harm reduction (and although I disagree with him I can understand why he makes such an issue of this) but I think in the population at large the motivation for criminalising particular substances is part of a process of denying that substances like alcohol are actually drugs.
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...yes BZP does cause harm to self - though perhaps not death - so it's no surprise it's been banned on those grounds.
I sort of disagree. Yes, the overt argument is one of harm causation but the underlying, emotional, argument is "your drugs are evil and mine aren't". People are very immune to seeing their poisons as poisons and correspondingly very keen to see the poisons of others as the source of all evil. The two views go hand in hand.
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(a presumption of supply will kick in at 100 tablets).
great, free legal advice. i'll stick to around 90.
There's something oddly homely about a hand written nuclear letter, much like how the change of power is represented by walking in and out of a compatively modest terrace house.
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I don't know how many jobs it provides, but the money must be pretty good.
True, but mining is capital intensive with comparatively few jobs. Some mining money does get back to aboriginal land owners, I'm not sure how much but undoubtably less than what they should get, but that money gets back to the communities via the Federal govt as welfare. Mining, and I'm mostly pro-mining, can play funny tricks on local economies if not handled right which it hasn't.
Being locked out of the tourism industry is pretty shocking.