Welcome back Kim ! Your country needs you to keep mediocrity at bay in these 'interesting' times.
Is it a bird ? Is it a plane? It's the Caped Crusader .. also known as John Key.
Stupider .. and Stupid
So you advocate a long-term buy and hold strategy for the Mums and Dads of the nation ? Would the closure of an aluminium smelter in Bluff have any impact ? Interesting timing .. the hunters are out there chasing the stags. :-)
Thanks for that, Eddie. I had wondered who this self-important economic savant was who had suddenly popped up in the NZ media. I can see why Brierley had no time for him .. We need more critical populist economics in this vein. Perhaps you can explain to ...
How would Shearer stack up against post-Keysian pretenders such as Bill English or Tony Ryall ?
It also tells you a lot about Momentum .. very old school.
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In the old days it used to depend on holding a red-hot poker for a certain amount of time, or survive being dunked into a river while hog-tied ..
I've just found Karol's link to the news report ..
Yorick is "is the deceased court ...
I've had a bit of experience with people and wheelchairs. The fact that he/she was strapped in suggests a considerable degree of disability. I don't know who the 'random people' were, but most NZers are fairly down to earth in their assessment of risk. ...
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Re ..I’d be a *lot* more careful about describing decisions in those circumstances as “no brainer” myself – especially when using words like “official priorities” to describe first responders. .. I was careful to emphasize my limited knowledge of this ...
All I know (at the moment) comes from this blog and a short clip on TV, but I cannot believe what I read. What was more important - to save the person or the wheelchair ? All they had to to was lift him or her out of harms way (I saw a couple of able-...
@ blue leopard It is difficult to do irony in a text-based forum without sticking up a flag saying *irony*. It takes away all the fun. You are, of course, correct .. but I would caution against confusing religious teachings with ethical behaviour such as ...
Sadly, I think you are right. However, I have discovered Buddhism .. and detachment. The sun will still shine, lambs will still be born, as will humans .. life will go on. We can always retreat into our own personal nirvana to escape New Medievalism.
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Hmm .. I stand corrected. Thanks.
.. avoided, so far, a credit rating downgrade like that in the UK http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/feb/23/george-osborne-credit-downgrade http://www.smh.com.au/business/world-business/moodys-strips-uk-of-top-rating-20130223-2eyba.html http://www....
How's the cell ? Still trading ?
A tweet from Mark Textor https://twitter.com/Fascinatingpics/status/302990843856429056/photo/1
Short-term profits, long-term losses.
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tracey: I wrote it with my tongue wedged firmly in my root canal (don't ask). But yes, that's how it looks. xtacy: well done. I think I've seen that quoted in the media somewhere. It sounds like someone grimly observing Westminster-derived public service ...
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Let me put it this way for you guys. You are living in a country that is one big earthquake away from being the New Haiti of the South Pacific It is not the New Taiwan some in the Young Nationals have dreamed of, which might solve our underpopulation ...
There is another narrative .. that Shearer, having been researcher for Goff, was Goff's choice as successor. In other words he was foisted on the Labour Party ahead of others with hard-won intellectual, organisational, and street-level cred which Shearer ...
"Oh yeah, Ed Milliband was raised in a family steeped in socialist and marxist values. I’d say that he knows what being left wing is all about, and not just in terms of a watered down capitalist leaning social democracy." He was raised in the family of an ...
CV, that's a superficial reading of it. More substantially it was about two people successfully challenging compulsory unpaid work and "training" for the unemployed' in the UK ... "Mark Hoban, has declared it is "ridiculous" to describe mandatory unpaid ...
Any government capable of this http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/columnists/time-to-let-bankers-sample-forced-labour.20221840 needs to have its moral and intellectual faculties examined by certified professionals. Previous generations of politicians ...
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