Posts by Stephen Judd
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Incidentally, I see that Coote is an investment manager at Tower.
I wonder how Tower feel about his ideology? He certainly seems to hold his clients (the dodos) in contempt.
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Wow. Striking use of the eliminationist vocabulary:
lentivirus
disease
HIV
scrapie
tapeworm
sucking blood
mongrelised
sickness
flesh-eating bacteriaTruly Streicher-like rhetoric. (Apropos Redbaiter, I'm intrigued to learn that Streicher was widely known as "Jew-baiter"...)
If you strip all that out, Coote's basically saying that if you lost money on the basis of a finance company's misleading claims, it's your fault because you're too stupid (like a dodo). If some bureaucrat tries to interfere in the dodo clubbing (for Coote is no conservationist), it's a perverse plot to interfere with the natural order.
This is a predator's manifesto, and we ought to be grateful to the NBR for reminding us that there are people in the business community who really think like this. I imagine Rod Petricivich's interior monologue would read something very like this.
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The rules in hospitals that still prevent fathers from staying with their partners and newborns on that first night piss me off immensely.
Gosh. When my daughter was born after a long induced labour at about 3AM, 13 years ago at Waikato Hospital, someone got me a pallet and I crashed on the floor in the same room with her and her mother. Very humane, if not exactly comfortable. I am very surprised.
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Damn.
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Jeremy: [[http://vital.org.nz/entry/title/the_devil_made_me_do_it|I came up with a couple earlier if your friend is still interested. Lots of good clean juvenile fun.
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Danielle: agreed about Katrina. I really hadn't been following US politics closely up until then, but I was horrified by the callous cockup; really gobsmacked. That picture of a smiling GWB with his guitar superimposed over a Katrina victim had legs.
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We have always been at war with Oceania.
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"Israeli-aligned neocons" -- I would call them Likud-aligned.
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you guys' arguing that his voters deserve someone better to represent them gives me the willies, frankly. It's THEIR decision. What would you do, give them a list of suitable candidates to coose from?
Of course I wouldn't give them a list. That doesn't mean I can't have an opinion on Peters' effectiveness. (Hell, in many ways I'm not too happy with the leaders of the causes I support either.)
The fact that his support has been declining for a long time suggests to me that his original constituency doesn't think much to him either.
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OMG, I agree with Craig. And sacha.
Also, although a large proportion of Peters' supporters are elderly, it does not follow that the reverse is true. Most old people see through him as well as the rest of us.