Posts by dc_red
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Hard News: Briefing, blaming, backing down, in reply to Russell Brown,
Can I just say that it’s telling and admirable the way you’ve all gone for the actual policy issue, rather than pontificating about who won and lost?
The Union for Pontificators might have something to say about us taking Duncan Garner's job. That man's passion for declaring winners and losers - usually based on unstated criteria of his own invention - knows no bounds.
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I doubt Shearer is a plodder in the intellect department either. Where he struggles is in communicating that intellect in decisive and effective ways. In fairness, Cunliffe's had a lot more practice (as an MP since '99?).
Also in the interests of fairness ... Key can do smarmy, and it doesn't seem to have hurt him in any way.
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The removal of the first pair of chimneys
(emphasis added).
A combination of words that has seldom needed to be written, I'd wager!
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Recently I've been struck by some people knowing the cost of everything and the value of nothing. The first was when Key proclaimed that Monday-izing two public holidays would cost $ [insert invented millions here]. The second was this case. Can't help what wonder what some international media would make of it, if the story ever got their way. Wouldn't reflect well on NZ I'm guessing...
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
People need the opportunity to find a way to contribute to society, be it in a traditional 9-5 job or otherwise, that lets them live without constant fear that this week will be the week the car breaks down or they have to go to the after-hours or all the kids need new school shoes.
Well said Lucy. In all seriousness, I think that for a lot of New Zealanders that society is called "Australia". And for the odd one it's called "Canada". ;-)
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It's one thing to say that a) poverty, b) climate change, or c) both are the big challenges facing the country. It's another thing entirely to convince other people that is the case and persuade them that it's something government can and should do something about.
Both are easily put in the "too hard" and "someone else's problem" baskets. In the case of poverty there's also a strong victim-blaming mentality - i.e., it's seen as the result of indolence.
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Well that's really the point Bart - that interview was entirely devoid of both. I would have settled for one (preferably content, as you say) ... but got nothing whatsoever.
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Just caught Mercep's interview with Shearer (here). Atrocious. Shearer just mumbled empty platitudes, badly.
He had no content to convey, nor even anything interesting to say, and this the day after he ascended to Leader of the Opposition. Not promising.
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Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to Anonymous Author,
captured the zeitgeist of 2011 by being simultaneously ludicrous and disastrous.
Are you thinking of the Republican Party nomination process by chance?
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Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to Ben McNicoll,
Akshully?
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