Posts by giovanni tiso
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Besides, why have a dog and bark yourself?
That is a lovely sounding proverb that some day I plan to understand.
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Not sure what it means yet but I'm sure someone can supply something appropriate
First you pillory the guy as per usual, then you slap him on the face with copies of Mr Pip. Hardback or paperback, depending on the nature of the offence.
I've got to tell you guys everything, and it's not even my first language.
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I'm still waiting for that failed academic who has never had a real job in life (see how easy it is?) to bring some.
How easy is it do what? Isn't lecturing for ten years at Otago university a real job now? And you could try beating being finance minister for nine with a stick.
But you know, I'm not suggesting we start flinchin random mud, perhaps we could talk about what a currency trader does, it's all I'm saying. You seem to find the strangest moral equivalences sometimes.
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Rereading your own comments for typos couldn't hurt either, I guess. Apologies.
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After all, Cullen is trying to paint himself as the sober hand on the tiller. Not seeing much evidence of it so far.
Other than everything is done in his first eight years as finance minister, you mean, or are you only ever as good as your last budget?
Besides, I thought you weren't against questioning somebody's qualifications to govern a country. I'm not saying Key should be piplloried for having been a currency trader, but perhaps a slightly more critical and nuanced view than the current "he handled money, he made money, he's ready to go" couldn't hurt.
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It IS lame-o point scoring but that's because Cullen didn't push it far enough.
Too right. Key is runinng on the self-made man myth, let's have a little conversation about what a currency trader does and how he makes his money, and whether you'd want to put him in charge of a country.
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I respect the ability of negative politics to work if done properly. All Kos needs to do is attack McCain (never Palin) and attack him on his weaknesses.
I suspect that when he says 'flinging the shit' he doesn't just mean going negative (which, of course, has a place). He means swiftboating the Republicans. And all I can say is that if the Trig thing was his first foray into that, it was an unqualified disaster.
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One can only hope, because there is stuff all chance the windbags will stop sabotaging Obama's campaign willingly.
Kos explains it thusly:
To all the concerned people emailing me about "being played", don't waste your time. I'm not about to revert to writing puff pieces about Obama thinking that his magic "new politics" bullshit will carry us to victory. He may or may not believe that crap, but I don't. We're going to win this thing the way campaigns are won -- by playing hardball. Politics is a blood sport. Republicans understand this and never flinch from flinging the shit. We won't win until we learn to fight back in kind. And I'm more than happy to get down in the mud with our friends on the Right so Obama doesn't have to.
Which is all well and good, except I think the flinging of shit in the Trig-Bristol-Sarah Palin saga was very costly indeed. And I did make a comparison with Berlusconi's rise to power the other day, proposing that making the campaign about McCain and Palin would hurt Obama's chances just like it destroyed the chances of the Italian left back then. Kos disagrees:
I asked one of the Republican Party's smartest, most candid heavy hitters last week whether John McCain really has a chance to defeat Barack Obama in this season of Republican discontent. "No, if the campaign is about McCain," he replied. "Yes, if it's about Obama."
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The rendered fat which is left behind after cooking can be used for Pate, Confit and other heart-attack inducing delicacies.
Posts like this are why I love Public Address. Although I must say that my triglycerides had a surge just by me reading it.
Speaking of pork scratchings: there's a saying in my grandma's village, that I was reminded of recently due to the obama-palin-pig-lipstick insanity. If you want to compliment a beautiful woman, you'd say that she's just like a pig: nothing goes to waste.
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And I'm not keen to test the patience of the solicitor general by further discussing that.
Zipping it starting... now.