Supporters of Labour Candidate for Wellington Central, Grant Robertson, have published this video to provide evidence that Stephen Franks, the National Candidate for the same electorate, is “homophobic.” I remain unconvinced; in fact, I suggest that a careful analysis of the contents show that, if anything, Robertson is the bigoted ideologue. Unlike Robertson’s supporters, I […]
Entries from November 7th, 2008
Fisking Grant Robertson
November 7th, 2008 25 Comments
Tags: Elections · Grant Robertson · Homosexual Conduct · National Party · Stephen Franks
Look Something Blue!
November 7th, 2008 Comments Off on Look Something Blue!
Te Atatu Pony Club’s grounds share a boundary with Auckland’s busy North Western Motorway. Last night Matt and Sheridan were up at the Pony Club helping to set up jumps for this weekend’s One Day Event (ODE). As Matt was one of the few parents who had turned up to help the club president asked […]
Tags: Elections · Humour · National Party
Exams Over – Back Again!
November 7th, 2008 Comments Off on Exams Over – Back Again!
Not that I completely stayed away… My last exam was Wednesday. Studies over for the year! The exams were awful from a sitting them with an injury perspective but good from a content perspective as the questions were not scary and on reading them I immediately began formulating the answers which is how you want […]
Tags: Career · Law Studies
State of the Nation: Some Voting Considerations
November 4th, 2008 3 Comments
With each of us feeling pulled, guilt tripped, bribed, confused over not only who to vote for and how to decide Glenn does it again; read his analysis of the state of our country and where exactly we have gone wrong in our thinking. Extract from New Zealand: Land of greed, envy and political stupidity […]
Tags: Bad Policy · Elections · Glenn Peoples · Statist Mindset · Wealth Re-Distribution · Welfare
Sentience Part 2
November 2nd, 2008 2 Comments
Following on from Sentience Part 1, I will now address the conclusion of Bonnie Steinbock’s argument. Steinbock’s Conclusion Similar ambiguities affect Steinbock’s conclusion. Steinbock asserts that for killing an individual to be unlawful homicide, the individual must be sentient. However, this is ambiguous; as Don Marquis points out, this could mean that the individual will […]
Tags: Abortion · Bonnie Steinbock · Don Marquis · Feticide · Sentience
Sentience Part 1
November 1st, 2008 Comments Off on Sentience Part 1
Following on from my series on the illiberality of Abortion, discussion in the comments section turned to the issue of sentience. Commenters asked whether perhaps sentience is the property that a newborn possesses and a fetus does not that warrants such unequal application of the non-initiation of force principle by liberals. Is sentience the property […]
Tags: Abortion · Bonnie Steinbock · Feticide · Harry Gensler · Michael Tooley · Sentience
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
Last Minute Election Craziness
November 7th, 2008 Comments Off on Last Minute Election Craziness
First of all it was the over-excited motorists honking at anything blue. Then I just went shopping, I wanted to buy myself some new shoes and take a break from being serious and deliver invites to our election gathering. My phone beeped. A text from a stranger: Politics is changing. This election keep the Government […]
Tags: Elections