The Special Votes have been counted, the official result of the New Zealand 2008 Election is in; see the effect they have made on the provisional results: Final results in bold, (provisional results in brackets) National 44.93% (45.45%) – 58 (59) seatsLabour 33.99% (33.77%) – 43 seatsGreen 6.72% (6.43%) – 9 (8) seatsACT 3.65% (3.72%) […]
Entries Tagged as 'Greens'
The Special Votes Give a Seat to the Greens
November 22nd, 2008 1 Comment
Tags: Elections · Green Party
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
More Reasons to not Vote Green: Population Control gets a Global Warming Twist
October 18th, 2008 4 Comments
The blogosphere is abuzz with the Greens new Family Policy which “proposes setting a level of population New Zealand could sustain and leaving room within that for climate change refugees from Pacific Islands. They also want parents educated about the impacts of population growth when they are planning their family size and how far apart […]
Tags: Bad Policy · Bad Reasoning · Eugenics · Greens · Urban Myths
Another Reason to not Vote Green
June 6th, 2008 Comments Off on Another Reason to not Vote Green
I clearly have been spending to much time at Auckland Uni. The other day I was walking from one of Madeleine’s Law lectures. (I have been taping lectures and note taking for her while she has been injured) when a sign caught my eye. It stated “ I only date those who vote green” Now […]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Greens
Greens, Tasers and Torture
November 29th, 2007 3 Comments
Watching the news the other night, I heard how some UN body had declared that the use of tasers constituted torture. (At least that is how it was reported). Predictably the Green party cited this as a for rejecting the use of Tasers.The implicit argument here seems to go something like this. [1] The use […]
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.
No Defences Permitted for the Accused
June 19th, 2009 36 Comments
In, The referendum campaign is underway, No Right Turn’s Idiot/Savant gives an excellent example of an argument we see coming up a lot in the debate around the upcoming referendum on smacking. In addition to trotting out the standard ad hominem, that everyone who supports the reinstatement of the old section 59 of the Crimes […]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Crimes Act · Defences · Idiot/Savant · Referendum · s59 · Smacking · Sue Bradford · William Blackstone