Some of rock's very best musicians passed through his band over the years.
Note that the term "boot camps" comes from the common historical fallacy that you can cure bad adolescent behavior with a "boot up the arse". Seems National still believe it.
It is hard to believe National's assertion that what is planned are not "boot camps" when they called them exactly that both before and after the election. National are now so embarrassed they don't know which way to look. I don't pity them and their empty...
Something that always sticks in my mind from the Bolger National government of the 1990s. The first thing you saw when you entered a public hospital - a large sign reading "cashier, and that meant YOU had to pay twice for public hospital services - once in...
Wellington city council was a left-right battle. Tauranga was just a battle between the various elements of the right, the left barely exists there.
American politics is as weird as democratic politics ever gets. The Americans have a pathological penchant for selecting the worst examples of humanity to be their leaders. Look at their 1984 election. Look at the two primary candidates - Walter Mondale ...
I think Nanaia Mahuta actually made a good decision to sack the previous council. They were useless and did little except fight each other for personal glory. I don't know anything about Mahe Drysdale apart from his sporting achievements but he can't be ...
Good to see that Tauranga people finally have woken up to how badly run their city has been run over the last few decades by a succession of National Party and NZ First political hacks and elected a new mayor and largely new council. Even if the turnout ...
The plan you have when you don't have a plan. This whole quasi government is a crock of.....
I have to admit that I had never even heard of "heated tobacco" so I did some investigating. It appears that apart from the lack of second hand smoke, it is just as addictive and dangerous as normal smoking and because it can be easily flavoured, it is ...
The media have been crowing about falling inflation. The National government is taking credit for it whilst in reality it has just been the beneficiary of extraordinary good luck. A bumper produce crop for the last season sees vegetables and some fruit the...
"Trump's attempted assassination " is a load of baloney. You don't get scratches like that from a bullet. You get half your jaw torn off by a bullet.
Like Biden I forget things too, I get names mixed up and my merds wuddled. Except that I am a nobody whilst Biden is the president of one of the world's superpowers and he is asking American voters to keep him there. It is very worrying that a nutjob like ...
No great surprise really. The illusion of people getting what they want can be as good as the real thing if it is marketed properly. And you have to give the CoC its due, its marketing machine is very good. Of course when you hire the best right-wing spin ...
I can see where its all leading. The negative rhetoric is pointing towards having the interlanders either being sold off at a bargain basement price or (more likely) being scrapped completely on the pretext that they are too old and hard to steer in narrow...
I recall a similar incident of Peters scuppering a ferry grounding inquiry way back in the term of the Rogernome government, but he was in opposition then. To try and scupper a proper inquiry when you are the deputy PM is a bit strange.
The Greens are probably in a no-win situation here. Damned if they do, damned if they don't. But at least if they do (invoke the legislation) they won't have to put up with Tana sitting in the house gloating at them and they get a new face in the team. So ...
If mental fitness is an issue, how come Americans never question the fitness of Trump - a man who lies, cheats, perjures and conducts extramarital affairs? I wish comedian George Carlin was still alive, he would call them out on their hypocritical ...
I would assume that if any candidate, including Reform UK, hadn't supplied the necessary documentation and accreditation on application then their candidature wouldn't have been accepted by the electoral authority and thus they wouldn't have appeared on ...
She wouldn't want to talk to the CTU because they would ask her if her party wants to 1. reduce minimum sick leave for workers; 2. reduce minimum annual leave to three weeks 3. scrap the time and a half and one day in lieu for working on holidays and 4. ...
But that's not the fault of the voting system, its the fault of the con artists in those parties who duped the voters.
One thing is obvious. UK's First past the post system is not serving the needs of the people. When a governing party gets 34% of the popular vote but wins 64% of the seats there is clearly something wrong. Why are the Brits so opposed to a more ...
Yeah a low turnout definitely. I take from this, and the election of several independents across the country that Britains are getting just a bit tired of the same old party politics.
I have to admit that I watched live the declaration for Islington North and I shouted in glee and pummelled the air when Jeremy Corbyn was declared the winner! You can't keep a good man down. But a bit sobered down by the election of Britain's answer to ...
I note that Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown tonight cautioned National that their rural supporters might not necessarily be wild with delight by this. In any case, if anyone thinks this is even remotely designed to fix the housing crisis, then they are missing ...
It is called colloquially "buying out a contract". If they want him gone early then they have to make it worth it for him. The government must REALLY want him gone if they are prepared to pay that. I bet you would take the money if you were in his position...
There was a small pro-Israel demonstration in Palmerston North Square yesterday, the first I have personally seen. I noticed a distinct lack of enthusiasm from passers-by (little waving or horn tooting) compared to the equivalent pro-Palestinian ...
If the Grimm brothers were still alive they would be asking you to write more fairy tales, Maurice.
Apparently a tax is only a tax if Labour does it. If National does the same thing it gets called euphemistic names like "levy" or "economic adjustment".
No doubt the AA will be applauding this, as they applaud just about anything that National does, but would loudly protest if Labour did the same things.
The talk about "Toyota Corolla" instead of "Rolls Royce" is simply National political rhetoric and bears no relationship to the actual problem. The problem is that the Cook Strait ferry rail freight system has become a vital part of NZ's transport network....
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