Blogs Bits
- Trainee journalist Sandra Dickson blogs on why she is not going to become a journalist.
- Tumeke celebrate their 4th birthday. Congratulations. They even managed to keep going while the founder was in jail for sedition
- Big News has an economic study of female circumcision done by one of the Labour candidates for Mt Albert. Is actually an interesting study.
- Bryce Edwards has a review of the 2008 election for the European Journal of Political Research.
- Not PC calls Greg Mankiwi illiterate for advocating a negative interest rate.
- A guest post at The Standard calls Perez Hilton illiberal for his attack on Miss California’s response to a question on gay marriage.
- Keeping Stock blogs on a Bobbitt
- Paul Walker fisks The Standard on Zimbabwe
- Adam Smith highlights what Labour’s friends say about being in the trenches with them.
- Whale Oil has a poster for “The Haliburton Candidate”
- The Standard doesn’t think it is a good idea for Phil Goff to criticise National for cancelling tax cuts, when everyone in Labour thinks they should be cancelled.
- No Right Turn lashes Kevin Rudd fo ruling out civil unions in Australia.
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April 29th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
“The Standard doesn’t think it is a good idea for Phil Goff to criticise National for cancelling tax cuts, when everyone in Labour thinks they should be cancelled.”
And some of us here don’t think it’s much of an idea to bag Labour’s David Shearer for advocating ideas that you are supposed to agree with.
Same principle really, isn’t it.
[ Oh, and thanks for the link
]
[DPF: Well I have not bagged Shearer. I have praised him and said I want him made Minister of Defence]
April 29th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Gee Peter you have not been keeping up have you?
DPF has been saying right along that Shearer is good stuff, and would make a great MoD
(oops sorry DPF I see you have replied…ah well)
April 29th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Big News has an economic study of female circumcision done by one of the Labour candidates for Mt Albert.
There is more than one way to read that sentence.
April 29th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
“And some of us here don’t think it’s much of an idea to bag Labour’s David Shearer for advocating ideas that you are supposed to agree with.”
“us”.. groan (a collectivist Libertarian?)
What is it with these dimwits (like Mr. Cresswell and Annette King) that they can’t seem to grasp that the thrust of your criticism is that Shearer is a credit to the Labour Party because of his clear thinking on such issues.
So called Libertarians, who run their blog like a soviet gulag, always seeking out piffling things to complain about while important things like their electoral support drops to about 1000 votes.
See they’re still posturing in the blogosphere as right wing too, when just about anytime I’ve ever crossed words with them they’re as violently opposed to right wing ideas as the most brain damaged leftist. Given their leadership’s irrational fear of criticism, maybe they should just settle for “chicken” wing.
April 29th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
“The Standard doesn’t think it is a good idea for Phil Goff to criticise National for cancelling tax cuts…”
Really? Someone should tell that tool lprent who is still parroting the party line.
“Of course [National] are starting to break promises – looks like the later tax-cuts are vapor.”
April 29th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
“DPF: Well I have not bagged Shearer. I have praised him and said I want him made Minister of Defence.”
You seem to have neglected to add the necessary smiley face to make that statement fully accurate, David.
April 29th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Glad to see you’re still fretting about being one of only two people I’ve had to ban, Redbaiter.
April 29th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Well I have not bagged Shearer. I have praised him and said I want him made Minister of Defence.”
I believe it could be more correctly expressed as “damning with faint praise”
April 29th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
“Glad to see you’re still fretting about being one of only two people I’ve had to ban, Redbaiter.”
Yeah right, haven’t slept for months..!!
April 29th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Civil unions are not full equality – they are “separate but equal”, which never is. At the same time, they are a marked improvement, and a step on the road to full equality. Rejecting even this half-measure is the sign of a party – and a country – which is still deeply bigoted, and does not yet accept the fundamental principle that everyone is born equal and should be treated as such. We expect that from the right; to see it from the left is deeply troubling.
There will never be full equality for pairings that do not consist of one member taken from each of the two distinct genders.
No matter how much the so called progressives rewrite the English language in the vain attempts to lead us to Nirvana no male/male or female/female pairing will ever be able to procreate.
I suggest those who are unhappy with this need will to take it up with a higher authority than their chosen elected official. For these people despite their lofty rhetoric about “everyone being born equal” cannot alter this inconvenient truth.
April 29th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Andrei – you’ve missed the point of equality before the law.
To speak of “equality before the law” is not a factual statement that everyone is equal. Rather, it is a prescription that everyone should be treated equally. People aren’t born equal, but if they live in a just state, they can expect to be treated with equal consideration.
And by your “procreation” logic, the elderly should also not be able to marry, as they can no longer procreate? Same with the infertile? What about those of us using birth control?
April 29th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
“the law states that everyone will be treated equally ” with the family court being the exception to the rule of law.
April 29th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Dad4Justice – Maybe we don’t live in a perfectly just state. But a whole lot more just than most other states.
Or maybe it’s just the family courts judges.
April 29th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Bignews kind of screwed up on the female genital cutting story.
They state:
“In the article she argues that female genital cutting is a pre-marital investment associated with better marital outcomes. Which has got to be good for social and economic policy.”
Which sounds horrible as female genital cutting is roughly equivalent to cutting off the end of a man’s penis.
But if you read the paper or just the abstract, it becomes clear that the paper is actually suggesting measures to eliminate the practice of female genital cutting.
To quote the last sentence of the paper:
“We argue that in this case regulation results in a (potential) Pareto improvement, and that even weak regulation can be effective in eradicating FGC. ”
(Where FGC=female genital cutting.)
April 29th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
And MWT posts on Goff’s pathetic showing in parliament yesterday: http://monkeyswithtypewriter.blogspot.com/2009/04/moronican-idol.html
April 29th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
From the blog post (mentioned above) of trainee journalist Sandra Dickson on why she doesn’t want to be a journalist any more: “… so fascinating Te Whiti o Rongomai is acknowledged internationally as a leader on the scale of Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi -”
I think Sandra’s making the right career decision. The Dominion Post is far enough Left and PC enough already. It’s also revealing that Jim Tucker suggested the peace festival as a topic for her.
The mainstream media is already liberal and leftist. But apparently not enough for Sandra…
For another view of bias in the media look towards the end of the following article, which I cite via Arts Letters Daily.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124043553074744693.html
April 29th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
I can’t marry a man and nor can any other man. Looks like equality to me.
April 29th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
Tumeke is a joke blog surely? Bomber has ruined it a long time ago.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Yes a thousand times.