"My suggestion is that we simply let evolution do it’s job" Evolution = "1. the process by which different kinds of living organism are believed to have developed from earliest forms, especially by natural selection. 2. gradual development." Concise Oxford...
A bloody site less than rampant introduced weed trees taking over everything!
+100!
"it would be far better to plant the mountainous areas and tussock country with trees like larch and Douglas fir" NO WAY! They are two of the most prolific causes of wilding tree spread! They would eventually spread throughout nearly all our subalpine ...
+1 Nor will the MSM!
Given that it was not common for married mothers to work then, it is not at all surprising that raw figures like you use do not tally!
"National is underfunding health and education." And Conservation!
The $26 million expenditure on the flag change farce would be a good start!
"As for Hoskings he is proof we come from single celled organisms and is a miracle of non evolution." 100+
+100
Some apology! He didn't even wait long enough to hear her say that she didn't drink wine!
The ODT got most of it right though. http://www.odt.co.nz/news/politics/339885/new-zealand-first-confirms-new-mp
Stuff still hasn't got it right! Ria Bond was a successful hairdresser Invercargill but has, since the election, been living in Wellington where she has been working as an assistant to a couple of NZ First MPS. She also has Northland origins,
Interestingly the "United Tribes" flag was actually one used by the Church Missionary Society. It was then chosen to be New Zealand's flag by the chiefs of the far north of North Island who gathered at Waitangi on 20 March 1834. http://www.teara.govt.nz/en...
"But, until we shed the monarchy as our head of state, the Union Jack should remain as a reminder." +1
+1111
I would have have real difficulty with a flag that includes the "silver fern". 1. It depicts the underside of a frond from a tree fern that doesn't even naturally occur throughout the whole country (the ponga [silver fern] occurs throughout most of North ...
"Who actually cares what Hooton tweets? It’s just his opinion. He is entitled to have an opinion" One can say exactly the same about your view/opinion, the main difference being that he is much closer to being right than you!
+100
Agree totally! It was a toss up between the two articles as to which one I linked. The "reasons why" one totally stumped ("stuffed" might be more accurate) our (now brand new) local MP when I raised it at last years Grey Power AGM!
http://www.theautomaticearth.com/2015/04/theres-trouble-brewing-in-middle-earth/ Provides an excellent coverage of the country's economy and the governments performance. Blinglish, Fisi and others of such ilk would do well to read it! And I am sure that ...
"econ students today are still getting an almost uniform diet of free market ideology". Spot on! But then for the last 40 or so years one has only had to teach a parrot "trickle down" and they've turned out an economist.
1. In the words of Mark Twain "First get your facts right, then you may distort them as you choose". 2. In the words of Thomas Carlyle "I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance", and you are one of the very best at the latter!.
"pig-headed ignoramus"? Don't you mean 'IGNORANUS' (ie both ignorant and an arsehole?)
Methinks the adage "Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist" definitely applies to you!
What's with your fascination with the word "Tsunami"?
For at least some 40 years successive National governments supported the (then) Land Settlement Promotion and Land Acquisition Act 1949 which, amongst other things, restricted foreign ownership of land and the aggregation of economic farming properties by ...
In the words of Aunty Acid "I like the way you think. It's almost as if you don't".
Umm ... wasn't there a strong public backlash against Cotton On's actions/proposals somewhere along the line that led to it backing down? One can hardly call that "working together" other than in respect of the union and the public!
"Next on the list is Ria Bond, a hairdresser from Invercargill. National made much of the fact that electing Winston would actually mean getting an extra MP from Southland, not Northland". Interestingly Ria Bond spent the first 14 years of her life in ...
If there was it was done under Key's oversight as he was PM at that time!
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