Posts by Graeme Edgeler
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Hard News: CELEBRITY DRUG SHOCK NEWS! AGAIN., in reply to Rich of Observationz,
That said LSD.
So it did.
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I read a piece linked on my fb wall today (searching …) available here that mentioned JFK had used [edit: LSD] while President. Had not previously heard that.
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to dyan campbell,
The idea that if someone with a disability wishes to participate in the life the rest of us can take for granted, they'd better find the money to do so themselves would be considered unacceptable, inhumane, unjust and possibly insane in Canada.
No-one has suggested that Mathers must find the money herself*.
The worst this could be described is that some people have suggested that approximately 0.5 of the 2 full-time staff the taxpayer provides her to help her do her job, or ~1.3% of the money provided to the Green Party to help its MPs effectively do their jobs could be used to help her effectively do her job.
*I'll concede that some random talkback caller, or kiwiblog commenter may have, but no-one serious.
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to Russell Brown,
I get annoyed about inaccuracy in media too. I wrote about it at quite some length last week. But this seems an odd one to jump on – let alone to scold me for linking to.
It was just the latest in a long line of media and social media reports about this story, published at a time when I had the opportunity to comment.
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I just hope he wasn’t doing it from his work computer, during work hours…
Parliamentary email, apparently. So it may not matter.
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to Steve Bell,
So where is the cost saving?
Physical copies, I think. I believe there is one fewer printed version of Hansard as a result of the changes.
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You’re going to a lot of bother to justify refusing to read a news story because you didn’t fancy the headline.
I did read the story.
Mostly, this matter annoys me because almost all the coverage of it everywhere has been wrong. People who want to understand what has happened have had to piece together little bits of news stories here and there and ignore large screeds of the rest.
Having been busy the last few days, I haven't posted a great deal on the story, and your link to a story that could very easily mislead people into thinking that the Speaker was denying funding for technology, because you know, it said he was being staunch about technology funding, was the one where I decided to launch off. It wasn't really just about this story.
Ideally, I'd have chosen a story that implied that Mathers was being asked to fund anything, but at least that (worse) initial deception doesn't seem to have been repeated lately.
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to Mikaere Curtis,
Really, is there any other way to read his stance on this ?
Abiding respect for the Bill of Rights 1688?
:-)
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to Russell Brown,
This is the first two paragraphs of the accompanying story, which is based on the script for the report
Which I saw after you linked to the video.
I note however, that the article quotes someone pointing out that the Government has promised that disabled people will be able top perform public function "with the use of assistive and new technologies where appropriate."
And given that is not in dispute, the decision of the journalist to include it in the story leads me to the concern I already expressed: how can I be sure that any other factual claim about which I don't have knowledge is accurate and will assist me in any way in understanding the situation?
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to nzlemming,
Ministers are chosen by the Prime Minister and appointed by the Governor General
You appear to be under the impression that the Prime Minister could not ask the Governor-General to appoint someone else as the Minister responsible for Vote: Parliamentary Service. I am intrigued from where this impression arises.