The timing of this interesting from the local government election perspective. The press release proclaims Coates' credentials as past: " Executive Director of Oxfam New Zealand". More relevant to me is that he contested the Mount Roskill electorate in ...
Paul If you're going to spam OM everyday by cut&pasting entire articles, could you at least learn how to use blockquotes (or even simple quotation marks). You surely don't want to be a plagiarist - support journalism by leaving people a reason to click on ...
If antipathy is to be binned, then can we still use sympathy? Animosity is a bigger word, though roughly similar and widely understood. Not everyone uses language the same. Should we not use Māori terms because we want to; "dumb it down"? And our ...
Firstly: I do not condone child abuse (to preempt any facile splutterings), & trigger warnings aplenty for those who chose to follow the links (the quotes should be low impact). Is anyone else uncomfortable by the way the Moko Rangitoheriri killing is ...
Yay for the Hedwig reference! But English is nowhere as classy as that east German punk transexual.
Re: Cancellation Numbers Hadn't seen this when I made my earlier comment: The Southern District Health Board this week confirmed 58 people in Dunedin had cancelled the service since January 18, leaving 152 recipients. http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/...
integralenz Thanks for the link, I didn't realise that Heatly had ever been a nurse. She is quite the posterchild for management culture these days. It is telling that she identifies more with bankers than with healers: Shortly after starting as the £230,...
[MikeySavage: A typo in the third paragraph before the Seymour quote, you have; "Gaddis also discusses..." instead of "Geddis". Delete this comment after fixing if you want to.] [Ta. Now fixed - MS]
weka There is another locally prepared Meals on Wheels program, but it isn't subsidised by the health board and is thus more expensive. The potential health risk of keeping prefrozen meals for reheating, means this outsourcing may prove to be a false ...
Even with every factor tilted to their advantage, Compass' Meals on Wheels food is pretty unappealing: "I hope I don't ever have to rely on that sort of food when I get really old.'' That is the verdict of award-winning Dunedin food writer Charmian Smith ...
O (T) I thought you were talking about Shaw, but apparently it's someone else entirely: Vernon Tava, a Green Party co-convenor in Auckland, is reported to be throwing his hat in the ring to be the party's new male co-leader... He is a Waitemata Local Board...
Rodel That is two polls now: http://www.colmarbrunton.co.nz/index.php/polls-and-surveys/political-polls/q-a-colmar-brunton-poll Out of interest, could you elaborate on why you think the TV3/ Reid Research poll in particular was dodgy? Yes; it's a landline ...
TJ This election may seem stupid to you, but it is neither; pointless, nor pre-determined. The party representation proportions will be significantly changed once the votes are counted. Even if you believe that the next parliament will be; Nat-led, rather ...
That's right; both Bad12 & phillip ure are IMP aligned, but I don't see them throttling back on the robustness of their discourse (or feud, if you will). So it's not that we focus on; "slagging everyone else on the left off", as we also go after ourselves,...
lprent "IMP supporters spending their time slagging everyone else on the left off... the complete concentration of fragile egos who spend less time working on building a party and more on talking about the new miracle" Am I included in this group you so ...
T Allen If you regard commenting on TS as community work (as I do), then our phillip would work way more than a 3.5 day week! Especially if you include his website (though I've only glanced at it the once; all those dots just made my eyes glaze over, I ...
PU Not that I disagree entirely, but our present labour market is geared to; having many working long days with an unemployed reserve driving wages down - and acting as a threat to workers of being discarded onto that same scrapheap if they dare complain ...
This is interesting: Police are investigating after bullet holes were found in the front window of Mana Leader Hone Harawira's electorate office... At least two shots were fired through the front window of the office last Thursday night. Harwaira said he ...
La What else do you expect of any project with which PG is involved? He even had me avoiding TS for a while, a couple of months back; because I couldn't be bothered scrolling past his interminable drivel. Fortunately, it does seem that his drivel has been ...
Grumpy Christopher Booker quoting the "Real Science" blog is your proof? Do you also follow his lead in denying the risks of; passive smoking, BSE, and asbestos? Do you favour the conjecture of Intelligent Design, over the Theory of Evolution by Natural ...
Grumpy I'm a Green Party member, not Labour. Have you a better term for one who; takes National MP donations for his Labour leadership campaign, and then promptly flees to a job specially created by National when this revealed in the media?
BM What do you reckon the % of Pākehā would be who are actively involved in community organisations? 10%, 20%,50% ? Depending on past actions, anyone (Māori, Pākehā, or Tauiwi) can cruise along to the local Marae and get involved. The tikanga (protocol) of...
SHG When did you stop beating your wife?
HEY GUYS LOOK OVER HERE; SHG IS UTTERLY UNABLE TO COMPREHEND WRITTEN ENGLISH AND IS REDUCED TO SHOUTING IMBECILIC SLURS UNFOUNDED IN EVIDENCE. I do regard John Key as a sociopathic crytofascist stooge of foreign interests. Yes, he is Jewish on his maternal...
W The issue for the Nats is they are unable to debate issues on their merits, so fall back on facile insults - eg; "Devil Beast", and the; Full Meteria Jacket hooha. I do believe Turei that New Zealand is well on the path to becoming some sort of third ...
The name I was looking for was not Dr Bob Lloyd after all (who was the other speaker), I should have put; Colin Campbell-Hunt ( Head of the Department of Accountancy an Finance at the University of Otago). Although my post at 6.1.1.3 is based upon my ...
Bomber's welcoming of Norman as; " New Zealand's next minister of finance" really seemed to put Shearer's teeth on edge for his whole speech. But then, Shearer's mumbling drabness did help Norman get his standing ovation for best speech of the night by ...
@ tas Your inability to understand; how societal groups and racial identification intersect, says far more about your ability to understand than it does about the reality of concepts which have rushed so far over your head. As for your attempt at muddying ...
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