From my understanding, they aren't because they are votes cast at a polling place. Special votes are only when you can't make it to an official polling station. http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/election/2017/08/new-zealand-election-2017-how-do-i-vote.html
Holy crap - people put petrol in their cars every week?!?!? Currently supporting a family of 5 on ~$630p/w which is precarious and I've had to support me and mine on less before. You sit there and complain about being left with so little at the end of the ...
Do you work to upskill your employees with relevant external qualifications so that, if they wish to, they can move on to another job with a different employer later in their careers? Or is what you teach them all "on the job" learning with nothing to show...
Because employers want people with 10 years experience willing to accept minimal wages/salary for entry-level/grad positions and are completely unwilling to invest in employee training or anything like that.
With one hand he gives... And with the other he taketh away... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-press-conference-dakota-access-pipline-sean-spicer-white-house-a7542481.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/donald-trump-...
On a related note, it's "funny" that this "post" (really, it was just posting a YouTube video presenting a one-sided viewpoint as a "notices and features" post without further explanation) is titled "Voices from Aleppo" because the dead have no voices and ...
What outcomes? Horrific civil wars split 3 ways from Sunday resulting in mass civilian casualties? I cannot think of a "side" in this conflict that is without serious issues. I'm not taking any sides here apart from against those that want to ignore the ...
Agreed I am tired of the treatment of sites such as ZeroHedge, Boulevard Voltaire, RT and all manner of alternate "news" sources as above reproach in such a noncritical manner. The MSM justly deserve the scorn heaped upon them because of their actions but ...
Why is this posted by "Notices and Features"? It is neither. If one of the authors wants to take this side of the argument, then the least they can do is post it under their name.
Even then, that is still more than double what the judge would have sentenced him to if given the discretion to do so. In the article I read on it, part of his statement was around how he would have given him 12 months.
I want to see more local politics discussion and how we can organize here in our own country. I've always felt that the Greens and "left arm" (if you will) of Labour are well represented around here and I really appreciate knowing what is happening even if...
If it was in Open Mike, at least it wouldn't be publicly announced on both the RSS feed and Facebook that CV has made yet another Trump puff piece and is holding court with all his alt-right hate speech buddies.
His appointments so far have been Reince Preibus as Chief of Staff and Steve Bannon as Chief Strategist. These are both very clear signals that the next 4 years will very much be detached from reality and future developments will be extremely alt-right. ...
Completely agreed. Everyone keeps talking about how to fix the Democrats so as to provide a "more left" option to the Rethugs but that can't ever happen until voter reforms happen to allow more representative democracy to occur. That every single office of...
*sigh* Fox News is only ever going to be shilling for a Republican candidate. If they ever shilled for anyone else then they might ever be worth listening to. That their candidate won the election is no great sign of any "analysis" because they would have ...
I don't really know that I can remain subscribed to the feed from this site with a post like that nearly every day. On one hand I should be better than this and be able to "rise above it" and ignore such drivel but, at the same time, it is disappointing to...
He was probably rent-a-crowd... *edit: sarc tag got removed* At what point did The Standard become a place where Fox News content was included as anything beyond an example of right-wing propoganda? I get that it is a writing collective but currently these...
I call past every now and then because some of the analysis and commentary here can be insightful. How far has The Standard fallen that posts now go up that are essentially Fox News content? Next I expect WhaleOil to be given posting rights because why the...
*shrug* I'm not going to be back. This was kind of a last attempt at trying to engage from me just to confirm, to myself, that my assessment was accurate. The problem that is happening here is that the most vocal minority (like yourself) cannot seem to see...
An electoral "failure" despite consistently getting over 10% of the vote? That is definitely a new definition of "failure" to me. Maybe if we were still in FPP land it would be remotely relevant but they have consistently managed to have progressive ...
Cool. Opinion noted. Glad to know your opinion gets decided for you by poll numbers rather than any kind of personal morals. However, considering you are often the sexist dinosaur around here, I personally think that this is some kind of fig leaf you are ...
How about instead of lumping everybody not in Government under the broad term "Opposition", we actually approach this both accurately and objectively. That the current government is as it stands is no proof of either competence or talent in their ...
If it were actually about merit, the majority of the current cabinet would not be employed as they have continued to display a complete lack of ability and integrity. So far, it just seems about maintaining the farce that there is some intrinsic "merit" to...
The fact that they are willing to use that language to characterize someone else as a primary description speaks to their trustworthiness as a source of character judgement. If they were someone to listen to on this, they would have been more explicit in ...
Not just that but I can understand how anyone talking to Skinny would be driven to distraction very quickly. Remember that the way in which we characterize others often speaks more to who we are than who they are. You are trusting Skinny's characterization...
This coming from the person saying that "the Left" should stop focusing on "special interest" politics... Yeah, can't have your cake and eat it too.
So what about the Oklahoma City bombing? Was the act of a loner with a beef against the US government. I have no problem with calling that an act of a terrorist. A white guy goes in to a church and kills 9 black people because they are raping his womenfolk...
Also, the second amendment also stipulates the use of an armed and well regulated militia... not willy-nilly gun ownership. There is nothing regulated about the application of the 2nd Amendment at all.
Can not +1 this enough It's always amazing how various supporters of the Left seem to think that progressive policies that assist the most vulnerable in our society and are implemented to provide a more equitable society for all, are distracting from the ...
You would be meaning Blip's vast catalogue... And not only that, the milk price collapse threatening our entire economy was pretty much predicted. It continually surprises me how many people in this current government are stupid enough to believe in "...
It can also be guessed that Australia's Minister for Women will also be standing in solidarity with Key...
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