Obama says he’s going to restore America’s place in the world. It doesn’t sound like his plan for Gitmo is going to do that. Mr Obama, who is due to be inaugurated as US president on 20 January, has repeatedly promised to close the camp, where some 250 inmates remain. Well, even Bush wanted to [...]
I downloaded a sample of blog stats tonight, to test some changes I’ve been making. Then I thought I’d play with the formulas, as I’d been thinking about some new ones since I noticed that the old one tended to favour NZ too much. Old is the normal HD formula. – Alexa*AlexaNZ/Authority Prop2 averages Alexa [...]
For the last 30 days, these are the times and days that people post.
It’s always hardest to see what is not there, what’s not been done that could have. One thing I realised today is that unlike Clinton, there have been no reports of large numbers of last minute pardons, particularly of Bush’s own administration. Some on the right were calling for Bush to pardon his people for [...]
Congratulations must go to Obama, for becoming the first American-American president. When he announced he would run, I felt bad for him because I was sure that he would be blowing his chance. In hindsight, I was wrong – this was his only chance to make it, and he ran an admirable campaign, one that [...]
Well, it’s good to see that some people understand the critical role inflation played in getting us to the situation we’re in now. The drop in inflation is based entirely on the collapse of petrol prices – a factor outside of the Reserve Bank’s control. Had oil not suddenly halved in value, inflation would have [...]
Anita at Kiwipolitico is musing about Section 59. The reality was very different, sometime after the 9th of June 2005 the political wheels fell off; section 59 was replaced, but the cost was huge. I could (and will write a lot about the social forces, but today this is about the political forces. How and [...]
Listening to World Watch on National Radio Sunday morning, they had a report about Greece. Apparently things are as bad as ever, with ongoing rioting. The rioters are leftists, who are trying to trigger the “workers revolution” against capitalism. So the PM reshuffled his cabinet. Seriously, he thought that would help.
At work we sometimes joke that problems are caused by global warming. But some people seem to enjoy taking such jokes and making them news. • Most commercial airlines are now replacing older three- and four-engine planes with more-efficient double-engine aircraft. Because these newer engines are quieter, birds are less likely to detect and avoid [...]
Just watching a BBC (i think) report from Gaza on TV3. They interviewed a Hamas terrorist, who did a very passable impression of Ali G. I don’t think he got the joke of calling his opponents cowards while wearing a mask, or calling Israel’s leaders violent while hugging his gun. Someone should put/find that on [...]
