Posts by giovanni tiso
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So Goff wants it, Good luck I say.
He looks like Zeppo Marx. I wish I could think of something else nice to say about him.
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It does seem like something shifted behind the scenes there.
It did in 2005 as well, didn't it? Clark talked to the Greens on the night and then by the next day things had changed.
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If we actually want to deal to climate change we need to confront our consumption and stop trying to shift blame to farmers or big business.
Won't happen with this government. My coal fuelled nosehair removal unit is quite safe.
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I've often thought that if you're trailing any points you score should be subtracted from your opponents score. Hence every final result would be a points differential... yeah I'm weird
The famous Italy v. West Germany 4-3 game from Mexico 1970 would be an "Italy +1" result, then? Not the same ring to it at all.
Your favourite sport, cricket, does just that though.
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I could start it with the old chestnut of should politicians write education policy in any form ?
A think a guest post from Hilary would be great.
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Well, FFS Gio,Clark still has my mad respect but did I miss the part where she started channeling Disraeli or Gladstone and started lacing her speech with polysyllables and tags from classical literature? They both did what they needed to do, and even Barack Obama doesn't hit the rhetorical high-Cs every bloody time.
The different in gravitas and stature (and yes, eloquence, rhetoric) might have been in the hear of the beholder, I guess, but I thought that Key's was a schoolchild's effort, and not a very bright one at that. Which, considering he must have known he would be likely to give a speech of that nature the other night, had me rather baffled. Of all the days he could have chosen to give his speechwriting staff off, the first on the job seems a weird one.
And, same as Michael, I do think that using no words in Maori in a speech acknowledging you've just been chosen as the Prime Minister of New Zealand is a significant political statement. As was singling Turia out and calling her the leader of the Maori party. Except the rest of the speech made me seriously wonder whether he's bright enough to mean the disrespect.
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Ten out of ten for good intentions, but it's even better if you take other cultures seriously enough to bother learning how to pronounce some basic greetings properly.
Yes, I loved how Key played it safe in his speech by not saying anything that wasn't in English and at a twelve year old's vocabulary level. Inspiring effort.
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The disregard is entirely mutual. I find it enchanting that Roger Douglas has already been appointed Minister of Very Nasty Things, the economy is already doomed (but that will be very good for Labour, so never mind), John Key is a drooling retard and anyone who voted for him is a stupid greedy misogynistic fascist, and David Slack's already decided the new MP-elect for Auckland Central is a vacuous corporate bimbo.
And it is your penchant for making straw arguments of other people's concerns that endears me to you so. I suggest you go and reread Jackie's bit on page 28, and then try to re-spew the above.
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The most recent graphical data I have available is from the 2005 election, but I'd imaging the pattern wouldn't be too different this time round.
Yep, Berhampore is still a stanch little suburban nugget of redness. I'm going to go out and kiss random neighbours tomorrow. (Seriously: Labour + Greens 74%, National + Act 22%... the chances of kissing a Tory are minimal.)
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Anyone else disappointed that it's been a whole twenty-four hours or so and the Apocalypse has not arrived? Perhaps tomorrow.
Love you and love your work, Craig, but you can be such a dick sometimes.