Perhaps they choose to see health spending as a cost and military spending as an investment; in that mindset a fighter jet will seem a more effective acquisition than a linear accelerator and the trained staff to run it. Look at anything GDP measures in ...
Here you go, not hard to find if you know how to use google. From Charlie Mitchell's excellent item on 12 February. In case you didn't know, John Ansell is the 'former ad-man' for the National Party. He has form. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/...
The Police Officer overstated the situation obviously Erh, your hat isn't your keyboard, best not to talk through it unless you were there? That officer's description matched what I saw on the live streams only too starkly. We have no right to dismiss ...
Trembling with delighted anticipation of an easy morning canter with Mike, through a shimmering vision of gleaming towers in the land of opera tune, set to some gut-stirring Wagner?
When I was a university student in the early 1960s in Christchurch, the Winter Garden, where many great dances were held, had a sprung floor. The vibrations and bounce were best when a band played rock and roll. We specially enjoyed jumping on it in unison...
The next Mattiah approacheth across the field of fevered dreams? Does he know his Shakespeare, did he study the Scottish play at school, perchance? Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not...
Je me force de rire de peur d'être obligé d'en pleurer. McFlock gets it.
That's brilliantly straight-faced presentation that someone with a Twitter account might like to add to the Freedum convoy's hectic thread. Some might even take it literally and agree with the excellent advice offered. Such fun. Far from 'us lefties' ...
...the best idea is to argue for lower income tax in the bottom band for everyone, and offset by a more progressive taxation on higher income bands. Together with, even if it doesn't please the avaricious lords of the banking sector and those who prefer to...
Your crocodile weeping on behalf of Miss Bellis (what's the causa bellis here, some are starting to wonder...) is deeply moving. And deeply unnecessary, while the full force of the National Party's machine is on fast spin for her case. 'Think it possible' ...
Obviously nature is reclaiming the land by turning it back into a the wetland it once was. Fixed that second-last sentence for you. But thanks for posting the link. Its implications are far more important than MBIE and a regional council having tantrums ...
Thank you Stephen Doyle for making the text available to readers who reject the Herald's paywall. This is so good I am sending it to some relations who still believe 'The Economy' needs National. Simon and his platoon seem driven to use the same tactic ...
A great analogy, especially after hearing just two minutes of Chris's half-hour ramble with Kerre through the sunny uplands of focus and success going forward. Seeing made it even more challenging, he speaks as fast with similar patterns as his script ...
Yes of course Weka, ante et post sanguino, ergo femina. This 78-year-old female-born woman read that silly phrase this morning (if woman doesn't mean what we thought it meant, why would 'female-born' be any clearer in this poisonous linguistic wormhole?), ...
Sanguino, ergo femina?
Fantastic article, Michael inspiring, aptly named, Roger out.
we save nature by finding ways not to use nature Every tourist experience of NZNatureInc is less about nature than it is for humans to look at, play in, be affected by, photograph or profit from. The Key that unlocked this approach was that once-ubiquitous...
Teina Pora was such a victim, who could forget that young man's terrible punishment. A quick facts check found this excellent article. With a medicalert bracelet, young people with FASD and their families would have better access to help, while more ...
Into the valley of death she surged, her banner of martyrdom emblazoned thus: 'I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself and falls on t'other,' accompanied by the volley and thunder of the 1812 ...
If it's a rainy Sunday where you are, or if it isn't, this is good: https://behindthehedge.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/saul-verne/ Canadian John Richardson looks at similarities and differences between Jules Verne's novel Paris in the Twentieth Century, which...
Random thoughts wonderfully colliding https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20211025-the-marvel-of-chinas-multi-generational-rice-terraces
Watching the online Stuff video of the throng's brave walk behind their Harley marching band, I wished I was there with a very loud megaphone. You only need the beat and the vowels for that chant, it's an involuntary pantomime chorus after that. 'Wodderya ...
This thread began with one distant and unremarkable gunpowder plot. My memories of GF night are of loose kids rampaging round big bonfires while parents drank gin indoors, lots of screaming and terrified pets, such fun. Today is also Parihaka Day, far more...
Archaeopteryx modernis?
Alors, chacun à son gout.
Peut-être qu'il faut que vous cultivez votre jardin un peu plus. Courage, mon vieux, ce n'est pas trop difficile!
From a folder in the attic, so to speak, which contains things that seemed to shed a little beam upon the lean and hungry look of yonder Cassius - and still do perhaps. Article by Tom Pullar-Strecker. https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/78614536/qa...
Thiel meets steel.
Ultra aggressive US foreign policy is the tail that wags the dog in the US, no matter who is President, that is just a plain fact. Isn't it just a plain fact that the ultra-aggressive demand from the Pentagon for ever-increasing piles of weaponry is still...
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