My favourite is short but sweet: "Key is a fuckwit of the highest order, but nowhere near as dense as his cabinet."
Coalesce around one issue - water. Everybody understands at a visceral level that we need water - good to drink, swim and fish-in water. No other political engagement necessary. Just take that issue and go for it, no holds barred until we get it. Take ...
I agree with that. It's a pity librarians aren't in charge of the internet, they'd have it catalogued and classified, ranked according to reliabilty and accessible in far more useful ways. It was glaringly obvious in high schools that information literacy ...
Our local libraries out in the provinces are also playing host to kids who are Te Kura students, but either don't have computer access at home or need to work with a wider range of resources (like books!!) and ... just get out of the house. There has been ...
yes, I agree re: their ultimate aim. In the US corporate education providers (from memory Pearson are the big ones) get to write the content, all the lesson and unit plans and provide the online resources to supplement those, as well as writing the exams ...
It's illegal to leave kids home alone under 14yrs, after that ....
So, any registered school will be able to be "COOL" - I'm picking that will be a rubber stamp exercise for them, just fill out the paperwork. High schools will love this, especially at years 12 and 13, where half the students are filling in time, there to ...
Thought I'd share this David Cameron rap my son found .... Tory Rap Artist
I think the farming vote is up for grabs. The traditional farmers are not happy about corporate farms and their practices; they will be viewing the prospect of more corporate take-overs as they swoop on mortgagee/must go sales, with horror. My opinion is ...
Amazing how NZ keeps following the UK political pattern, isn't it? So much for rowing our own boat. I predict a big bump for NZF and the rise of a UKIP style party, let's see, who of the Nats would lead such a thing - Collins? I always picture Judith in ...
Well said Mrs Brillo.
Quite. I wonder why it is not plain for some to see that the powerful don't give a flying what ethnicity, gender, values one has, as long as you have money and/or resources to trade or exploit. The powerful can create their own subculture where they do ...
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I wonder, Stephanie, how Labour are going to reconcile their stance (when they figure out exactly what it is ) on the TPPA with their Principles? I won't copy them here, but these are some relevant pluckings: "honour the Treaty", "People are always more ...
Do you consider the Principles to be equivalent to "the values" of the Party, Deborah? Or are we talking about two similar, but different things? Are LP values implicit or explicit?
And if the LP are up for a quick spot of introspection (rather than the long-winded consulting talkfests they seem to indulge in), an honest fact match of how their policies and actions reflect their Principles would be worthwhile.
Yes, they aren't obvious and i think it's a worthwhile discussion to have, ie: are principles and values the same thing? Is one a deeper and more complex iteration than the other?
Beat me to that RNZ link! Very interesting listening to the Regional Council spokesperson, Liz Lambert, on how a tender is coming up in July for lease of the Napier-Gisborne line to private operators. The Regional Council is facilitating this, rather than ...
I think you're right on the money viz: language. We are too often talking past each other, even when we think we are on the same page. To have a truly meaningful conversation means establishing what the vocabulary we are using actually means in the first ...
Aren't the Principles the statement of LP values? Principles Or are you seeking to build on/amplify these?
Thanks Bill. I caught up with some of the other opinion too and I think they're over-thinking it. Movies are fashioned to hit all the marketing buttons, with the effect of leaving gigantic plot holes and incoherent themes. Remarkably like having cake and ...
What? What is this man-ban stuff you speak of? I enjoyed it, but then I put my critical faculties on hold these days to watch movies or else all i do is critique them. Can't expect more from someone who happily watches anything with Statham in it { and ...
I ate a whole block last night. Guess I'll be going for a very long, brisk walk today...
Watched Mad Max: Fury Road ... wow! Full-on humans gone feral. Charlize Theron was great, but I'm not sure what they ate because apart from Max devouring a lizard, food did not appear. At least I don't think so, it was such a cacophany of noise and terror ...
You mean a CoP like our Glorious Leader: "I exploit you, still you love me I tell you one and one makes three I'm the Cult of Personality." Living Colour
Hey MM, enough with the "deep, shimmering streaks of iridescence" already! Imagining a sinuous reclining figure with an iridescent streak swimming over its flank ... and they're making tabletops. Pardon me, I'm just off outside to scream.
How about swamp kauri be offered to NZ artists first? We have wonderful carvers and sculptors who would be utterly delighted to get their amazing hands on swamp kauri. Isn't it taonga? Isn't it meant to be treated with respect? Where is the Arts Council's ...
Mmm .... I'm mulling over whether they would go for it as a matter of efficiency, they can sell it to business as giving them their casualised, flexible workforce without the public angst, thus maintaining competitive impetus in the global market, cut the ...
Great posts on tramping, Red, think you get to the heart of it. Long time since I've been tramping and really never got beyond occasional overnighters, but i get what you mean about the stripped down to essential self stuff. Gets the batteries recharged. I...
Yes, i appreciate that, I'm thinking the bureaucrats are getting their ducks in rows. Certainly the removal of the bene stigma & endless hoop jumping will be welcome and you can bet the whole thing will be sold as some wondrous manna from the godkey.
If I'm reading the situation correctly, I think the UB is already functioning as a kind of UBI. My work life is precarious - unpredictable, unreliable and also unavailable for some months of the year. I can get full UB in the weeks I get no or little work,...
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