Daily review 03/11/2020

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  1. Andre 1
    3 November 2020 at 5:44 pm

    Off to do a load of laundry so I've got plenty of clean undies to change into for the inevitable panic-reaction moments tomorrow …

    • Drowsy M. Kram 1.1
      3 November 2020 at 5:59 pm

      Do hope voters in the 'battleground states' send Trump a clear message – "You're Fired!"

  2. WeTheBleeple 2
    3 November 2020 at 6:26 pm

    It is 15 minutes past midnight, 03/11 in Washington DC. Lines of adderal are being drawn, fences constructed around the White House. The bunker has been stocked with Pepto-Bismol & McDonalds. The city spins in darkness, awaiting the dawn.

  3. greywarshark 3
    3 November 2020 at 6:37 pm

    NZ political positioning. Chris Trotter has thoughts based on experience: https://bowalleyroad.blogspot.com/2020/11/a-curates-egg-cabinet-much-of-it-is-bad.html

    I don't know what Heather Simpson (Helen Clark's No.1?) has devised for Health. I hope it is practical as well as some innovation but not too theory-oriented.

    Another portfolio requiring a person of proven sensitivity and professional experience is Justice. That Andrew Little has been shunted aside from this portfolio to drive through Heather Simpson’s mad plans for the New Zealand health system, and replaced by the unremarkable and, frankly, under-qualified, Kris Faafoi, is, once again, a decision as irresponsible as it is awful.

    • Koff 3.1
      3 November 2020 at 6:57 pm

      Think Jacinda has been brave enough to take a punt. Let's face it, she took on the role of labour party leader, then PM with very little serious previous experience herself. That was Andrew Little's gamble. Can't remember what Trotter said then, but probably wasn't enthusiastic about it. How do you get experience without being given responsibility?

      • Pat 3.1.1
        3 November 2020 at 6:59 pm

        How many newly elected PMs have actual previous experience (i wonder)?

        • greywarshark 3.1.1.1
          3 November 2020 at 7:08 pm

          It's not a job where you train as you go. That's not what we expect from our well-paid government. Some people seem to think that the Parliament is for them to have a go at being pollies. Actually Chris does name the people who have the experience Pat. If you read the article well.

          Actually I think that a youth parliament that does have some purview over matters that aren't going to interfere too much with people's lives would be good. The kids couldn't do worse than the fully-trained planners who have brought in shared pathways and want other innovations that limit our freedoms while they register in peabrains learning from other, that they are widening community advantages.

  6. ianmac 6
    3 November 2020 at 7:29 pm

    Supreme Court NZ to rule on Kim Dotcom tomorrow 11am.

  7. The Happy Farmer 7
    3 November 2020 at 7:31 pm

    Advance NZ scoundrel Jami-Lee Ross is selling his house in Dannemora. I guess legal bills to defend against the SFO aren’t cheap….

  8. Ad 8
    3 November 2020 at 9:46 pm

    Thankyou Robert Fisk for your work. My favourite was reporting the truth against the Weapons Of Mass Destruction lies. Rest In Peace.

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/300148844/robert-fisk-veteran-foreign-correspondent-dies-at-74

    • Patricia Bremner 8.1
      3 November 2020 at 10:05 pm

      So now we have another Canadian born horror here. Olivia Pierson author???

      Making disparaging remarks about Nania Mahuta's kauae moko has led to OP's book being withdrawn. We need a social and emotional test before we let these people in.

      I suppose she will try to say it is "free speech" racist rude and plain nasty.

      • aom 8.1.1
        3 November 2020 at 10:28 pm

        The blub on Pearson's book reads, "There is only one path to shining the light of understanding on the times in which we live, and that is to know our place in history." Her place has been eloquently defined by Mighty Ape. Will she get the message and head back home to join her intellectually challenged fellow travelers, Lauren Southern and Stefan Molyneux?

  9. PsyclingLeft.Always 9
    3 November 2020 at 10:34 pm

    I'm sure MOST Canadians would disavow them….: )

  10. SPC 10
    3 November 2020 at 11:27 pm

    Slightly absurd start for the new Foreign Minister.

    We act all precious about comment about her having a tatoo – it's comment about how she looks (if any man had one, that would have got comment too).

    This is compounded by subsequent comment. Apparently when a first strike for preciousness is made, there has to be a downward spiral – second and third strikes as well. Why did they, those foreign white people focus on the PM, a white woman, just because she was the one making the appointment of the indigenous woman herself, the first ever (Peters by being a man and illiberal was never celebrated as the first indigenous foreign minister).

    We may as well now leave her at home plate, if we cannot handle her being seen abroad (can I now use this term without contempt from …). Her ministry will have to earn their money just to get her through Japanese airports (there tatoo is seen as yakuza).

    PS I have one concern with this appointment, it is being done as a wrap around project with hate speech legislation. This is the 2020-2023 Labour governments reprise of the 1984-1990 Labour governments nuclear free policy internalionalism – which kept the left wing diverted long enough for Rogernomics to be installed. This to keep the liberal twitterati happy while the governing does little to reduce inequality lest that offends the economic concerns of the more secure middle class and boomers.

    While I will enjoy BB (TDB) foaming over a Labour PM playing for the applause of the woke both local and international (as Lange once did)(something he said would destroy the Greens), the debate over free speech will cost the government as many votes as a greater focus on inequality would have.

  11. newsense 11
    4 November 2020 at 12:57 am

    Top of the NZ Herald- race baiting bs from a lead on WhaleOil. Hop, skip and a dirty politics jump…

    Fortunately I visit the site less and less.

    Also whoever the f- you are above f- off. If Japan can run the rugby world cup full of tatooed Polynesians, I'm sure they can extend respect to our Foreign Minister. Damae, baka-san.

    Mahuta is a strong name, and Nanaia in front is stronger still.

    • SPC 11.1
      4 November 2020 at 9:43 am

      Try and use the reply button before unleashing the the white noise, black rain/black noise, white rain all over the ricepaddyfield.

      The AB's covered up their tatoos when about in public. The FM could of course do double duty for the woke cause by wearing a face covering when in public and unveiling the moko when in meetings with Japanese officials and politicianscheeky

      Coz, the public would not want their government to be involved in talks with foreign yakuza.wink, anymore than they would welcome those bringing in coronavirus.

      I hope the emoji helps. Maybe a Spitting Image skit will too – which is sort of inevitable now that certain people, who should know better, made this worse by claiming noting that a FM had a tatoo was sexist sad.

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