Quote of the Day

Being rational about privatisation, remember Labour tried to sell part of Air NZ to Qantas? Funny that. Via Twitter.

Quote of the day – Orwellian Edition

Ok, I should only have one “quote of the day” but this one was just too much to sit on. Still, she has never faced serious criticism in public in a campaign setting, and it’s impossible to anticipate how she would react to it Who is that talking about? Sarah Palin. Now, It doesn’t seem…

Quote of the Day

What Hawking appears to have done is to confuse law with agency. His call on us to choose between God and physics is a bit like someone demanding that we choose between aeronautical engineer Sir Frank Whittle and the laws of physics to explain the jet engine. Source. Incidentally, I was debating the existence of…

Quote of the Day

I’m serious. You mess with Bill Clinton, you could wake up with a horse’s ass in your bed, like he does every day. Can you imagine the outrage if someone actually said this? 3 guesses as to which conservative the quote was really insulting.

Quote of the day, identifying the Savages edition

“moral guilt fully belongs to those who commit actual murder in response to mere symbolism.” From this post, which continues… They’re not just talking about burning our flag. They’re doing it. Are we behaving like packs of animals and going around killing people? No. Because we’re not savages. And the radical Islamists are.As Dafydd notes:…

Quote of the Day

From Idiot/Savant: Update: And according to the Herald, Henry has made the usual non-apology, “apologising” that “ome[sic] people have taken what I said in a way that I never intended”. In other words, its not his fault – its ours for being “hypersensitive”. What a prick. Tuck that one under your hat for the future……

Thought for the Day

Isn’t it interesting that the people who criticised the “rush to war” in 2003 are the exact same people who now want us to take drastic and immediate action on climate change? Consider the parallels: a problem that might never happen widespread agreement on the dangers of ignoring it from the experts in the field…

Quote of the Day

“It’s staggering that artists continue to support people who oppose free expression.” Referring to Oliver Stone literally cuddling up to Hugo Chávez.

Kennedy

During his presidency, Kennedy privately admitted to friends that he didn’t feel that he deserved the medals he had received, because the PT-109 incident had been the result of a botched military operation that had cost the lives of two members of his crew. When later asked by a reporter how he became a war…

John Minto – “Get rid of the dole and child abuse will go”

To reduce child abuse and alleviate the awful social problems which bedevil the country we need economic policies which redistribute wealth from those who haven’t earned it to those who do the work. So John Minto wants to get rid of the dole. Talk about moving to the far right! Who knew? And yes, I…