Pretty much. When the government got serious about child abuse and changed the law to allow uplift where the threat was clear Maori activists and leaders couldn't see past their reflexive sense of grievance. Maori leadership has chosen not to see James ...
hahahaha go easy on the garlic powder!
Hickey's plan has as much chance of being adopted by either main party as you have propelling yourself to the moon using only farts. Like most people here I think he government should embark on a government funded house building spree AKA the 1950s and ...
It seems to me Bernard Hickey is entirely unserious about solving the countries housing issues and instead he (along with a huge proportion of the vocal insolent left) prefers the high ground of oppositional politics. Why else would you propose a scheme ...
Trump's departing comments mentioned standing up to China and no new wars. If the economy had not tanked, he would have been able to claim economic growth as well and most likely would have won the election. Remember, before Covid the median wage of ...
No American of importance would admit it, but the pardon system is a useful tool for a litigious and vengeful country where the courts have been known to be used to jail political opponents for long sentences on (excuse the pun) trumped up charges.
Biden should pardon all the Capitol protesters on the grounds they were lied to by the office of the president, and tell them to go home and work to make America a better country. it would a gesture that would utter confound the far right and smash the ...
Truly the best sustained insult you'll see this year. Big call, being January and all, but I think it is going to be hard to tops. Especially the rant from the 9:50 mark... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvcwMcGWf-w&ab_channel=JonathanPie
I see Audrey is back at the Herald interviewing her typewriter for reckons and in doing so demonstrating to us all the media horse race politics bullshit is alive and well, and they've learnt precisely nothing from the pasting they got the last year in the...
Australian cricket is the distillation of the ugly Aussie at test match level, I loved the way India's youngsters sat the bully on his arse, blinking in surprise. I watched the last session with a young Indian guy who was so excited, when India won I asked...
"...If they focused on the rights and wrongs of the multiple Departments and Crown Entities that they headed for many years..." That would imply they are serious about what they want to say. But these guys are deeply, seriously unserious. They don't want ...
You'd think they'd have come up with a better name, you know something like "StatlerWaldorfandRizzo" but then that would require an act of self awareness these three aging misanthropes obviously don't have. It can go off and join all the other detritus of ...
After the better part of two decades of steady decline, what exactly has been changed to turn around the fortunes of these publications? They've come back with exactly the same formula as before - past their use by date boomers and tired gen-x writers ...
Despite a bored media and twitterati talking up a storm, nothing substantive has changed since before Xmas. The only thing left is a complete border closure, but Ardern's leadership style since this virus began indicates she is not going to initiate that ...
Stuff have basically declared themselves the newspaper of record for identity politics, so this story is right up their street. It will be interesting to see how it is before they merge with thespinoff and publish a story from twit complaining about how ...
The media have been pushing panic and fear mongering about COVID the entire Xmas break, there was some usual suspect - self important and opinionated expat from LA - opining in the paper the other day "...“I guarantee, if the virus has not already spread ...
I am not doubting the plan, but I am wondering about the lack of communication from the government who all appear to be still at the beach and giving free hits to every person with an axe to grind.
The media is back at full volume fear mongering, being panic merchants and acting as a megaphone for assorted lobbyists and moaners over our COVID response, where in the government? Are they all still all on holiday? Unless Labour is careful, a new ...
Those Type 12s always over-performed.
Given the general state of world affairs I suspect we might have to accept it isn't going to be an either/or choice - but rather we'll just have to pony up and get both i.e. two-four new frigates plus two-four additional fisheries protection cutters, for a...
There is the old saying, Admirals like battleships because you can't parade a band on the deck of a submarine.
Interesting comment. But the problem is the Navy brass will almost certainly not press for larger numbers of better ships for fisheries protection (i.e. something like the USCG Offshore Patrol Cutter) to replace the ANZAC frigates, but will push hard to ...
Yes, and the state of our Navy ought to be a national scandal and a matter in urgent need of remediation. High attrition and chronic skills shortages means we have two aging frigates with barely enough sailors to fully crew one of them to combat readiness,...
What a joke. We need to properly fund our Navy and warn the Russian next time we'll arrest the vessel and if it refuses to be boarded, we'll sink it. https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/300197745/russia-and-nz-in-knock-out-brawl-over-fishing-vessel-in-...
I have been thinking about how many hard core Trump supporters their actually are. Turnout was only 67% in the presidential election, so 80 million Americans didn't even vote. Given it takes a bit of trouble to register to vote, I think we can assume these...
VP Pence has unfollowed Trump on Twitter and it looks like the call is for the 25th Amendment to be invoked by an emergency meeting of the cabinet, which would be called by Pence. I think the chances of Trump still being president in 24-48 hours is ...
360,000 Union soldiers gave their lives to stop the Confederacy from taking Washington. Today the Confederate battle flag was waved inside the senate of the United States while a cosplay lunatic Q-Anon conspiracy theorist in a Buffalo headdress chanted ...
The fact the Georgians are even allowed to vote in a US election just shows how far left commie Biden is.
Happy new year to all the Standardistas, I hope you all get to drink a bottle of something sparkling and conk out under a Pohutukawa tree to a background sound of a lazy lapping surf and children playing. Cos there sure as hell ain't no cricket on the ...
"...The only mention of the ACT party..." Given the homogenity of neoliberal & libertarian ideology in our political & managerial elites, particularly in the Moore/Clark era it should not be a surprise that members of the political and managerial classes ...
"...It's worth reading the whole piece. I disagree with their basic premise (and lack of an alternative plan), but the issues they raise aren't meaningless...." Only an idiot would suppose these people are arguing in good faith, and the response has to be ...
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