Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Well, to be fair Emma it isn't only right-wingers trying to position themselves as moderates who start spinning more fudge than Willie Wonka on speed when asked that question. Seriously, what do think would happen to either Clinton or Obama if they stood up and said "I support abortion on demand, and oppose the death penalty because a felon - no matter how heinous - is a human being; a fetus during the first trimester is not." I may be wrong, but it sure seems to me a lot of people who consider themselves moderates or even liberals would consider than excessively candid.
Those are indeed the most difficult questions to answer, particularly if you tie it back to a philosophy. There's probably a lot of people out there who are pro-abortion, pro-assisted suicide, but anti-death penalty. And anti-suicide in a more general sense.
As a person who normally (eventually) finds a moral philosophy/reason to back up how I feel about things, I've never been able to find that on life/death - at least consistently across the whole spectrum. The best I've ever come up with is "this feels right/wrong", which isn't exactly the vote winning line.
Luckily it's not a question I have to answer to a few million voters whose strong feelings on both sides make it the classic 'lose/lose' issue.
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PS: And don't forget to vote for the Public Address Word(s) of the Year 2007.
Would a little alphabetical action have hurt too much? Hours I tell you, hours!
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Willie Jackson said on Morning Report this morning that there were plenty of young men out there who've done bad things - should they be therefore barred from higher office? I think he assumed the answer was "no".
I'm in favour of that in principle. But Rickards seems to have a bit of a way to go before he fully admits that he's done a bad thing, and making some redress for it. I'm not holding my breath.
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And folks - you can point at Lindsay Perigo, and I can post a link to Chris Trotter's various freak outs on the subject the Sunday Star Times . I'd call it a draw myself, and what a squalid game it is.
Who knows Craig, but it sounds like a good celebrity death match to me. I'll get the play dough.
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True the coach of the 2003 RWC winning side had failed in 99, but the other 5 winning coaches had not previously failed; that is a totally spurious argument.
I think it would have been very difficult for Sir Brian Lochore to previously fail, given that he won the first World Cup.
I don't care about the argument, but I think your logic is flawed. You're comparing one coach who had two goes and won it on the second try, with five (four actually) who only had one go, and won it.
The argument is 'giving a guy a second go after losing isn't a bad idea', to disprove that you need to point to people who have been given a second go and it hasn't worked.
Surely the valid comparison for Clive Woodward is with the coaches of top tier (NZ, SA, Australia, England) nations who have had two goes and failed. No All Black coaches have had that chance, I don't know about SA, Australia).
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If King unscheduled her scheduled interview - and if she cant defend her bill, because she doesn`t underrstand its implications - why should an editor have to defend something he didn't write - and you can bet he will not just be asked why he allowed those editorials, but he would be asked about the content as well.
If he's the editor, and the pieces of writing in question are editorials, then he's put his name on them. Lots of papers use various senior reporters to write their editorials, it's fairly common I believe. That doesn't mean that his name isn't on it. If papers are going to put out editorials, then someone from the paper should be able to back it up just like they should be able to back up any news story.
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I found myself a bit past the whole "most important thing happening in the world today is four guys being interviewed for a job coaching a rugby team" thing about a fortnight ago. Possibly earlier. It's the live updates that TV3 (and presumably the other lot) were doing with who was in the interview and who was up next that really got to me. Talk about the media hanging around somewhere where absolutely nothing was going to happen for want of some actual real work to do.
My only comment about the result was that they've reappointed him for two years. I can't imagine he'll get another world cup, so possibly this is a defacto appointment of Steve Hanson for 2011.
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(And yes, I have an idea about refreshing our gender and ethnic balance too.)
I wonder (either fulfilling one or both of those roles), or in addition to, there is a space and a person to fill it from a NZ indigenous perspective, or at least active in those issues.
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Scribe, Che Fu and Nesian Mystik's Feleti Strickson-Pua are all, of course, local rap artists. But what did their fathers have in common in the late 70s? Brown Panthers
I think the local variant was Polynesian Panthers. The Brown Panthers were the... Mexican version of the Black Panthers in USA weren't they?
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"Mallardorous"
Seriously, I think everyone in Labour must have had their head in their hands by yesterday. Watching it on the news, it seems only plain stubborn _and_ bad politics that he hasn't fronted up and said "sorry". This whole waiting for whatever inquiry they're having, is only going to lead to a week of bad publicity about him not saying sorry, and then him having to end up saying sorry anyway. Can Clark not get him back in his kennel?