Two examples from the top of my head (the document SPC links to is one hell of a wade, most of us won't have the time). Stjepan Radic shot and mortally wounded by a fellow-member in the Yugoslav parliament in 1928 (the king later suspended it and ...
That's why we should dump the current configuration of the House, which only serves to provoke and support this sort of confrontational behaviour. There should be no more "sides", no more monolithic blocs of members all from the same party. And whoever "...
Maybe she should have had someone accompanying her on that visit, as a potential witness. (But going in team-handed can in itself be construed as intimidatory.)
I've looked at the footage. No actual physical contact, it's true, but she did get into his personal space, standing and leaning over at a distance less than the reach of her fully-extended arm. That's too close.
Anyone indulging unnecessarily in that sort of sniping has already lost the argument, in my view. As a reformed corrector myself, I say don't bother doing it, unless it's one of those rare cases where a wrong interpretation could be made, and clarification...
Ren(t) and StinKey.
While on that theme: "so long, and thanks for all the cash".
42 = Clinton; 38 = Ford. Clinton Ford was a UK showbiz personality of days gone by. This seems to me the most fitting selection from his repertoire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOj4Lx6g-rY It's fun to think of ol' Simeon strumming on his uke as the ...
First fat cat: "Our waist measurements ...." Second fat cat: " .... in inches!"
A bad bastard all right, but the mutilation part of the sentence is going too far. One has to wonder what law provided for it in the first place. It shouldn't survive the appeals process, surely? (Cruel and unusual punishment ... )
Bang on the money, Bill. I would add to that one of my favourite aphorisms: Mother Nature is the ultimate quartermaster, and she ain't got no secret reserve stores.
Wonder what plum(s) she'll pick up on leaving the House? Maybe an unripe damson or two, but nothing as ripe and succulent as Pullya's, I'll bet.
One of the great weaknesses in our adversarial parliamentary system, is the default 'oppose' stance from the opposition-of-the-day to any legislation introduced by the government-of-the-day. IMO, it's lazy politics, playing to sound-bite journalism. I ...
Reading such chilling nonsense immediately called to mind this short story from long ago (published a few years after Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca5pvvx481Q
Is that a word, Joe?
My security software assesses that .pdf as a "security risk" and won't download it.
" .... and at more than 70-years-old, at the end of a busy week, he was prone to saying things which he would later regret." So being elderly excuses everything, does it? Must remember to invoke that principle when the time comes.
Southland is what they call "another country". They do things differently there ....
With you all the way on dairying. I've come to really hate what they do to cows (and have done, particularly the grotesque results of selective breeding). Oat milk, though pricey by comparison, is a pretty satisfactory substitute in drinks and pouring on ...
My bad too, Weka. I could do with more time for preliminary fact-finding, tbh.
Have the Scottish Greens been captured by GI ideologues the same way as the wider UK party apparently has? (See https://thestandard.org.nz/chris-hipkins-values-matter/#comment-1993957) If so, I think it would be unwise to take any lessons from them.
I think the question should read: what will ECAN be allowed to do? (Without being sacked and replaced by a compliant commissioner or two.)
After all that time around politics (including the "dirty" era), she ought to have been able to sense that she was being set up to fail - and turned the job down.
Sixteen years in the House, and this is all it amounted to? She'll be no loss.
Is either of them a smoker, or an ex-smoker? Just askin'.
No, he's Hypocreti.
Yeah, something in that. Attack the characteristics they can change, not the ones they're stuck with.
Obviously been taking lessons from his minister of "communications". A ratio of that adverb even higher than she usually achieves.
Real estate shouldn't be considered part of the economy at all. It doesn't generate wealth of itself; it's just a mechanism for redistributing it.
NZ Centre for Political Research The rule seems to be: the more harmless-sounding the name, the more maleficent the organisation is.
Add Marlborough DC, Nelson CC and Westland DC. Port of Tauranga and Talleys give one pause as well.
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