I this week attended a public meeting, with law and order on the agenda, by a visiting cabinet minister. This paragraph from the post above could have been his crib sheet. From 2008, a failed policy re-emerges in 2023. He did not claim it to be ...
This site displays an article on the demographics of gun ownership in the US. Factors include gender, age, education, family history of ownership, race, location, rurality. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2017/06/22/the-demographics-of-gun-...
Regarding parties' responsibilities to elect worthwhile people as candidates, I have been banging on about this for nearly fourteen years on TS. Below is what I wrote on 24 September 2010. I'm not claiming any special knowledge or wisdom, it's just a ...
À propos of Richard Prebble, I heard him as Minister of Railways talking in Parliament about the stupid complaints he got in his mail box. One was from a commuter in Wellington who complained that every time he came in on the train all he saw were workmen ...
RNZ re Simeon Brown in a stand-up at Picton. He won't blame Kiwirail management. When will the workers be blamed, indeed? "He did not respond directly to a question about his confidence in the leadership of KiwiRail. This was a question for the Minister of...
I am not sure that our CoC is aware of the difference. But isn't it lovely to see them being satirised. "In any case, the funding and financing of the Cook Strait Bridge basically takes care of itself. We’d obviously turn this bad boy into a public-private...
Isn't it interesting how problems all fit into cycles of three, sixes and nines? I'd rather look at causes such as privatisation, corporate incompetence and profiteering, short-term thinking, and political will.
Democracy may be in dire straits but so too is the inter island ferry which can't even get out into the Strait, fortunately in this case.... The NZ Initiative has the answer. Use the fast track process to build a bridge over Cook Strait. No problems there ...
Good ID number. There are 9 quintillion possible 19 digit numbers, so digital safety should be assured! 6,371,240,326,365,614,833 6 quintillion, three hundred and seventy one quadrillion, two hundred and forty trillion, three hundred and twenty six billion...
There is more than one issue. I have just put in a submission on the Bill. My arguments, five in all, are these. My principle argument is that this is discriminatory against Maori and is therefore wrong. My second argument is that this is an unnecessary ...
I'm not sure that the mindset of ramraiders, assaulters and the mindlessly violent is a protest against an unjust law. But hopefully I am none of these, so what do I know?
"Up to $26 more per fortnight for a superannuitant couple." Whoopee! A cup of coffee per week, or a trip to the cinema every three weeks! "Up to"......... what's the bet it's less?
Speaking philosophically, there is a role for parties that we might individually oppose in our system. Their role is to keep their opposition honest with their questioning and their challenges. Even the party I prefer (which was hijacked back in FPP days.)...
"one guess who will benefit from this …" The National Party from grateful landlord donors, to join the mine-owners, fishing industrialists, truck operators, corporate farmers, tobacco companies and others to whom National is beholden? This is starting to ...
And because I am not hearing huge and widespread condemnation, I fear that Marcellus was right. As my interestingliterature citation above says. "this rottenness has come to infect not just the royal marital bed but the whole ‘state’ of Denmark." More is ...
National MP stood down by Luxon. He failed to declare a total of $178,000 made in 19 donations, $168,000 was donated in 2022, and $10,000 in 2023. $168,000 donated to a new candidate in a non-election year. Unbelievable! I was a candidate for two elections...
How big a 'wallop', how much pain it causes, and how indiscriminately inflicted is yet to be determined- but "codswallop' certainly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8XeDvKqI4E Watch the end!
How much money, time, court and government resources were spent when the government supported the Children's Minister against appearing before the Waitangi Tribunal? The case then went to appeal. How much did all that cost? Was that wise and justifiable ...
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/516786/some-say-the-treaty-of-waitangi-divides-nz-a-new-survey-suggests-the-opposite-is-true? Radio NZ reports today on a survey on the Treaty of Waitangi. I am very hearted by the article on the survey which says ...
Stuff have a poll running which has 68% currently against charter schools and 32% supporting. Even Seymour can read and understand these numbers. Been there 2014-17. Reject that.
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/plan-3000-more-public-homes-2025-–-regions-set-benefitPublic Housing In October 2017 there were 66,234 public homes. As of July 2023, there are now 79,510, an increase of 13,276, including over 11,000 brand new builds. ...
... variety and calorific intake. Mrs Mac1 has eaten in French schools...
I don't know what Hipkins meant as his statement is capable of two interpretations. One, which seems more likely, is that he 'every day' makes a lunch box for kids. Every day, of course, would exclude holidays, weekends and I would suggest actually means ...
Kenneth Williams knew about foreign muck! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhZvemMvE_A A brilliant Peter Cook-written recording from 1959 about a cup of tea.......
"The 2% claim is fiction." Or is your claim fiction? The paper reported him as saying it, so it's not that fact that he claimed it. You dispute his claim? Can you offer more than a counter claim? McAnulty would have some figures at his disposal since he ...
I heard Kieran McAnulty say that 3 Waters would have meant a 2% increase in water charges. Here is what he said. "Labour’s local government spokesperson Kieran McAnulty said the Government’s plan will still cost Aucklanders more in rates than if the ...
Yes, calm and measured, and all Peters could do was be personal. The other fail I saw was the theatrically bad answer by Jones with pantomime vocal delivery ending on an artificially raised tone such as used by the poor misunderstood Widow Twankey when ...
Watching the footage of parliament on TV1, what struck me was the look on the face of Minister in the chair, Simeon Brown. I'll not describe here what I saw, but let others see what they see.
$4238 is 42.38% of Luxon's new salary as PM, per week!
Yes, alwyn, but such snow was almost as interesting and informative as the Question Time I am trying not to watch right now; whereas a wee dram under the stars does have a certain reflective charm.
The universe as we know it, Some say what we consider to be the universe is actually part of something bigger; others say we are oscillating in expansion and contraction cycles from Big Bang to Big Bang; other say our universe came from a black hole in ...
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