Best comment Ive ever seen on here, nice work Kay
How on earth do we as a nation understand the haka before a rugby match if we don't know what Waka Kotahi means! Best they gas that to :) ( tongue firmly in cheek)
Why wouldn't you want a gun registry? I have several hunting rifles and see no reason not to have a registry unless you want illegal firearms and or would partake in illegal activities? Last time I went hunting the deer fell over with one projectile
Not being a betting man, but I wonder what the odds are that Luxon or one of his mates or a family member or a trust or a... has shares in a satellite launch startup!
Very good easy way to explain to people who struggle with reading / understanding policies https://electionscorecards.org.nz/
Bang on Mike, Tech is part of our society whether we like it or not, they should probably ban windows in classrooms whilst they are at it, just in case a kid is daydreaming about living in a world they can afford. Headline grabbing policy, blah blah blah
Again Labour fails to protect a small part of NZ for future generations, all for profit, when oh when will any of these "leaders" actually lead NZ where it can thrive for all? Absolute losers! Go the Greens
As expected, another "leader" not doing what is clearly the right thing to do, wouldn't it be nice if a politician actually put the greater good before trying to keep their jobs for another 3 years and they wonder why there is such a low voting turnout at ...
"The problem is, no-one can present any serious evidence of this, only a few neoliberal papers that inevitably have a piece of mathematical circular logic hidden in their depths that mean the conclusions always magically match the economists' pre-concieved...
@Marty: Yeah, I can buy that. Actually, you might be able to help: I'm looking for a decent data series on the NZ minimum wage (and other wage regulation), but I can't find one after half an hour or so of Googling. Ideally, I'd be able to go back as far as...
DPF noted the poll is shonky, and I tend to agree in this case. It gave respondents only three options: reduce the minimum wage; hold minimum wage steady at $12.50/hour; increase minimum wage to $15/hour. I'm perfectly willing to believe 60% of kiwis want ...
I'm pretty much agnostic on the minimum wage at this stage, so I won't comment on that here, but I will offer a correction: "That would lift the minimum wage nearly back above 60% of the average wage, where it traditionally was before the neoliberal ...
My bad. Apologies.
Agree totally on the abysmal standard of the AP piece. There's a much better short summary at Popular Science: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-01/nasa-finds-hotter-weirder-bodies-ever-sky?page= I'm not sure where the AP got 14000 degrees Celsius...
Hi Marty: thanks for the graceful response. I'm a little pressed for time this afternoon, so I won't be able to reply in full until a bit later; suffice to say there are a couple of quibbles, and a couple of points I'll be conceding to you as well. Just ...
Yeah, because National is the party of the Wall amendment. When it comes to gay rights stuff, my position is pretty simple: a pox on all their houses. And how the hell am I equating being gay with waving the pink flag? I'm pointing out that different gay ...
I can't speak for Rocky, but I imagine she brought the example up to demonstrate that in politics, taking offence is weapon used opportunistically, and often hypocritically. An example: I take opportunistic offence at you calling Chris Finlayson "an Uncle ...
I've gotta say, even though I'm not historically your biggest fan: this post is awesome. It's amazing how the towering stupidity of TVNZ can unite everyone from all along the political spectrum.
Toad: If the 5% threshold were abolished, the Kiwi Party would have had 1 MP in 2008. It's the magic of Sainte-Laguë.
We didn't. The "gap" increased a little both in absolute and relative terms. Check the source cited under the graph if you don't believe me. (For the record: I happen not to believe economics-by-league-table is very interesting to start with, but if we're ...
Hear hear. If the decision-maker's Wellington-based, coffee's on me.
Apologies QtR. My comment wasn't really directed at you. I'm a terrible communicator, and I'm not quite sure why I put that particular comment there. If I were English, I would be complaining to TVNZ and 3News. This would open me up to accusations of ...
Just because something's been published, it doesn't follow that it's cool to publicize it.
Toad, I'm not trying to divert attention away from the English controversy: I'm pointing out that publishing a politician's home address is seriously uncool. I'm doing that in the forum I regard as most appropriate: viz the comment thread to the blog post ...
I'm sorry, but I've gotta ask: how precisely does this round out the picture? Does knowing the precise address where the DPM's family live make any difference—any difference at all—to the debate. Wasn't it sufficient to know that the house is in Karori...
The entry says "English keeps up the fiction that he's based out of Wellington to 'rort' the system." I'm seeing this word 'rort' a lot lately (such as in Michael Laws's recent opinion piece). Wikipedia gives a brief and unreliable explanation. Why are we ...
This is really interesting, if it can be confirmed for certain (this generally takes a decade or so, until the Presidential Library is opened). The last President to write his own speeches was Reagan. Certainly his stump speech and inauguration were ...
I can buy all that quite happily. Maybe it's just a case of me being in too close; I'm within earshot of the grievance-airing, so I take that to be "normal". In that case, I'm really not the best person to comment.
@PB: I'm happy to stand corrected here, and I don't have the time right now to dig through all the old archives. From memory, it was this part of the notes that was contentious, and further reports attributed the statement to Smith. (I once won a prize at ...
Ag, it's remarkably tacky to imagine you've looked into my soul and divined my opinion about a piece of scientific research you assume I haven't read. I'm very familiar with the study, and I had no problem with it (with the exception of John J Ray and his ...
@PB: What is long-forgotten, of course, is that Don Brash never said "gone by lunchtime". Lockwood Smith did. Yet it was repeated mindlessly, ad nauseum, and uncritically by Labour supporters for years. I'll have to think about your broader point a bit, ...
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