Friday, 31 May 2019

Noelle McCarthy interviewed someone about "assholes" this morning. (Jun. 1, 2019)

Morrissey12
1 June 2019 at 11:22 am
IRONY ALERT! Noelle McCarthy, who laughs at the suffering of political prisoners and sneers at human rights protestors, interviewed someone about "assholes" this morning.
RNZ National, Saturday 1 June 2019
After the 9 a.m. news the breathy, chirpy, Cork-accented Noelle McCarthy interviewed oneJohn Walker, a Canadian who has made a documentary entitled Assholes: A Theory. According to his own publicity material, the film is "a direct response to psychology professor Aaron James' witty bestseller about why some people are assholes and how to deal with them – in an age when the trait seems to be on the rise."
The interview itself turned out to be neither particularly amusing nor insightful. At one point Noelle McCarthy chortled knowingly when he said: "Imagine the situation when one of these assholes is actually running your country!" Perhaps she was thinking of the situation in New Zealand from 2008 to December 2016.
The discussion was interesting, though, for what it left out: a sub-species of asshole who delights in the suffering of others. I sent the laughing hostess the following email….
You forgot the most disgusting assholes of all
Dear Noelle,
In your interview about "assholes" with John Walker this morning, neither of you mentioned a particularly noxious and heinous example of the genus, viz., those unspeakable individuals who laugh at the suffering of political prisoners. 
Here's an especially repellent example of that kind of thing:
"Heh, heh, heh. Well someone else with not such a good view is Edward Snowden. [snicker] Looks like he’s STILL in the airport! … Y-y-y-y-yeeeeeessss, …. [snort] ….he he he! He’s still in hiding. He he he! …. He he he he he! Yes he is still in that terminal! …[snort]… He he he he he he! ….[snort]…. He’s got a choice! Venezuela, Bolivia or Ecuador! …. Bolivia would be hard with the altitude! …. "
Hopefully you can interview John Walker another time, and add that kind of vicious asshole to his list.
Yours sincerely,
Morrissey Breen
Northcote Point

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Thursday, 30 May 2019

Dildos wanted. (Jan. 18, 2016)

  1. Morrissey13
    18 January 2016 at 12:41 pm
    If you have any spare dildos, send them to these guys
    • te reo putake13.1
      18 January 2016 at 2:23 pm
      Ha! Well spotted, Morrissey.
    • marty mars13.2
      18 January 2016 at 5:56 pm
      lol
      “now’s the time for action”
      hit the trip wire there you’d think – I spose they have outlived their usefulness now…
    • Once was Tim13.3
      18 January 2016 at 7:07 pm
      Rest assured, if I had any spare they’d be going to a number of local politicians, their spin masters, and quite a few in the media. The ones they have must be nearing the end of their useful lives.
      I’m not sure whether this will take …. I’m possibly banned for thinking wishfully
      • greywarshark13.3.1
        19 January 2016 at 11:03 am
        You like being banned don’t you Once Was Tim? It adds a bit of spice to your life I
        feel.
  2. Wisdumb14
    18 January 2016 at 12:44 pm
    In November, MFAT issued a two-page summary of the estimated tariff and non-tariff trade gains from the TPP for the year 2030, when all agreed tariff changes should have been completed. In the column headed “Government treatment of results,” someone has slashed Goods NTBs in half, from $2,912 million to $1,456 million. This reduces the estimated total benefit to $2,704 million from $4,160 million. MFAT $$$ Summary Showing Arbitrary Cut
    Such a reduction is surprising – the government normally hypes up the value of the TPP. However, what we see is a bold new theory of economics – if you don’t like a number, don’t understand it, or don’t have the political guts to accept professionally prepared data, then reduce it by 50.00000%. Problem solved! Now we know why the TPP negotiations were so secret. Even Bill English did not know about it or he would have cleared the Budget Deficit years ago.
    In reality, of course, this 50% cut is completely arbitrary and completely dishonest because the Government is setting up to game us even further regarding the TPP. Readers might have noticed that recent government statements qualify the dollar benefits of the TPP by using use phrases such as “At least ….” . Rabbits out of hats will come.
  3. maui15
    18 January 2016 at 2:19 pm
    Just because everyone is dying to know the details of the PM’s son’s life. It will be good when this stops.
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Never thought I’d say this, but: Bring Back Mike Williams.(Jan. 18, 2016)

      • Morrissey11
        18 January 2016 at 12:13 pm
        Never thought I’d say this, but: Bring Back Mike Williams.
        Stephen Mills flattered to deceive last month; he’s just another politician.
        Political Commentators, RNZ National, Monday 18 January 2016, 11:10 a.m.
        Lynn Freeman, Matthew Hooton, Stephen Mills
        Lynn Freeman is a far better, more thoughtful and tougher host than Kathryn Ryan, but the basic problem remains: the “Left” person is dodgy, to say the least. Not long ago, I praised Stephen Mills as superior to Mike “I Agree With Matthew” Williams, who had a monopoly on the “Left” seat for much too long. [1] I was impressed by the no-nonsense way that Mills had taken on Matthew Hooton; it seemed that here was someone, finally, who had the guts to actually contest what Hooton said.
        I’m sorry to say that my assessment of Mills was wrong. This morning, in the first program of the year, Hooton was immediately back into it; his little performance consisted of sneering at unions as “dinosaurs” and scoffing at the rise of politicians like Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders.
        For any principled and alert commentator, that would have been the perfect opportunity to point out that Corbyn and Sanders are not outliers, as the likes of Hooton always insist they are, but are firmly in the tradition of democratic, centrist, sensible thinking. Mills, however, decided to reiterate the Labour Party political leadership’s line. I sent the following email to Lynn Freeman….
        Stephen Mills’ highly contentious claim about “most Labour voters”
        Dear Lynn,
        Stephen Mills (From the Left and Right) made the highly contentious assertion that “most Labour voters in New Zealand would support Hillary Clinton” and would regard a Jeremy Corbyn style leader as “inappropriate for New Zealand.”
        New Zealand Labour supporters are probably not much different from British Labour supporters, who overwhelmingly voted for Corbyn as leader. And Bernie Sanders, who Stephen Mills chooses to portray as some sort of extremist, advocates moderate, sensible, humane policies that are pretty much the same as Labour has represented in this country, at least until the Douglasite faction took control.
        The producers need to get a more rigorous and well informed representative of “The Left” for this program; we don’t need someone reiterating Matthew Hooton’s rhetoric like Mills did this morning.
        Yours in concern at the standard of commentary on RNZ,
        Morrissey Breen
        Northcote Point
        • Paul11.1
          18 January 2016 at 12:19 pm
          Here are some of Corbyn’s key policies.
          Renationalise railways to bring down fares. Franchises would be managed locally;
          Locally owned energy suppliers, emulating the German model;
          Integration of health and social care;
          Creation of a lifelong education service that would help retrain and reskill workers;
          Universal childcare;
          Repeal the Tory Trade Union Act;
          Fixed pay ratios for companies to stop top management earning many multiples more than lowest paid workers;
          Restriction on dividend payments for firms that don’t pay the living wage.
          How Mills could refute Corbyn is beyond me.
          • Morrissey11.1.1
            18 January 2016 at 12:30 pm
            People like Mills are the problem in the Labour Party. I have no doubt he actually supports Corbyn’s policies. But in the tiny, introspective bubble of Labour Party “strategy”, the only possible option is Blairite/Clarkite opportunism and “positioning”. The only views that matter for the likes of Mills, Stuart Nash, and whoever else is formulating “policy” for the Labour Party are the views of right wing political commentators like Hooton and the views of right wing business leaders.
            Mills knows as well as anyone else that Corbyn is far more popular than the Blairite rump that dominates Labour Party discourse, and that it is Hillary Clinton, not Bernie Sanders, that is the extremist candidate for the Democrats.
            I was very disappointed that he lacked the character to state that firmly and unequivocably this morning, instead opting for the nonsensical dogma of his Party leadership.
          • alwyn11.1.2
            18 January 2016 at 1:21 pm
            I wonder how Corbyn would be in dealing with the SNP, if what you say about his beliefs is correct?
            “Franchises would be managed locally”
            “Locally owned energy suppliers”
            The SNP appear to want the opposite approach where they centralise control over everything. I suggest you have a look at this opinion piece.
            http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21674723-soft-autocracy-nationalist-scotland-cawdors-shadow
            The SNP sounds like an organisation of the most rabid contributors to this blog and to WO.
            • Paul11.1.2.1
              18 January 2016 at 1:34 pm
              His problem is that the majority of the Scottish Labour Party sold out the Scottish people a long time ago, through years of Blairite treachery, so the Labour Party north of the border is toast.
            • Morrissey11.1.2.2
              18 January 2016 at 5:12 pm
              Alwyn, you don’t have a clue what you’re talking about.
              • alwyn11.1.2.2.1
                18 January 2016 at 6:16 pm
                No dear.
                Somehow, having read some of your contributions(?) to reasoned(?) debate I wouldn’t regard you as a very good judge.
                Just what part of the article didn’t you approve of?
                • Stuart Munro11.1.2.2.1.1
                  18 January 2016 at 6:38 pm
                  He’s a great deal more lucid with you – why not just run along and play with the rest of juveniles on kiwiblog where you belong?
                  • alwyn…
                    18 January 2016 at 6:53 pm
                    Do you, or Morrissey, actually have anything to say about Corbyn and the way he differs from the SNP?
                    Or is your style of debate simply to make your childish remarks about people you don’t agree with because you are incapable of discussing things in a sensible manner?
                    Now just what part of the article didn’t you agree with?
                    And do you think that Corbyn will be able to get along with the SNP?
            • Paul11.1.2.3
              18 January 2016 at 7:49 pm
              Why are you so hostile to the SNP?
              😱
              • alwyn11.1.2.3.1
                18 January 2016 at 8:05 pm
                I have to go out in about 5 minutes so I can’t give this question the full attention it deserves.
                My main objections are
                (1) They lied to the people of Scotland about the referendum. They promised them that they could continue to use the pound. They promised that they would automatically become part of the EU. They promised that they would not have to take any responsibility for GB debts. They promised that things would be wonderful from the oil production. I don’t believe any of those were true.
                (2) They waste the money they get from Great Britain on things to buy them popularity. Meanwhile, although University education may be free, less low income students (as a percentage) go to university in Scotland than they do in England.
                (3) They try and dominate and suppress their opponents. I think they fit into the group of people, like the ones on this site, who would close down the NZ Herald because it is not faithful to what they believe. The Venezuelan Government would be proud of them.
                (4) They want central control of all national affairs. All things are to be under the control of central government.
                I suggest you read that article in the Economist I referenced. I agree with it.
        • Bill11.2
          18 January 2016 at 12:36 pm
          The ‘funny’ bit about that segment of 9 to noon, was that Matthew Hooten was way more on to it in terms of what prospective Labour and Green voters are saying than was Mills.
          Who is he by the way – this Stephen Mills? Ah….a pollster…a bear of few brains with lots of pieces of paper with conservative numbers on them in front of him – sigh.
          • weka11.2.1
            18 January 2016 at 2:55 pm
            He’s an improvement on Mike “I agree with Matthew” Williams, which I guess is something to be grateful for.
            I thought that about Hooton as well except I thought it was all carefully crafted tosound like he was on to it and oh so reasonable ðŸ˜‰ Very little comes out of that man’s mouth that isn’t via his forked tongue.
            • Bill11.2.1.1
              18 January 2016 at 6:55 pm
              Well, he (Hooton) is ‘on to it’ enough to read the more obvious social media sites. Now that’s a very fucking low bar. But it seems Stephen Mills cracks his numb, dumb skull on it nevertheless.
        • Sacha11.3
          18 January 2016 at 3:10 pm
          You seem to be conflating UK Labour *members* who elected Corbyn and their *voters* at the next election, a much larger group who may have different views. I imagine there has been polling about those.
      • Richardrawshark12
        18 January 2016 at 12:21 pm
        62 people in the world own more than 3.6b of the poorest. trickle down working as expected I see.
        A must read Oxfam study, ( Not sure of the quality of Oxfam research) But it makes you wonder for sure.
        • The Chairman12.1
          18 January 2016 at 2:40 pm
          The trickle down is failing to distribute the wealth required to sustain consumer demand, thus sustainable business growth and return. The consequences of which we are currently witnessing.
          New Zealand has the combination of capital flight (returns heading off shore) negatively impacting on our current, ultimately leaving us with less, coupled with insufficient wealth distribution.
          Yet, instead of addressing these problems, we exacerbate them. We continue to welcome offshore ownership and largely decimated the power of unions, which help keep incomes in check.
          Since the 80’s there has been years of reforms, new trade deals etc, yet we’ve failed to put our current account into surplus and have made little to no improvements in inequality.
          Local business leaders should be opposed to offshore ownership and supportive of unions. The more workers earn, the more they drive up consumer demand, thus business return.
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