I prefer St Francis of Assize's words - "preach the gospel at all times; when that fails, use words.' That was pretty much what I told my brother when he became religious. I'd done a lot of reading on religions when I was younger and puzzled to find out ...
NX: Ignoring the obvious errors. You're voting for a change in political personality style? In what way do you think the style will be different. For instance Bill English is just as vitriolic in parliament as Cullen from what I see.
NX: You've defined what you are against - what are you for?
L: I'd agree that it is a hit. I've had to suffer through people insisting that it be played with loaud volumes because they're deafer than I am. It makes a *strong* impact on my ears. I just don't think that it is as big a hit as the TV ratings indicate. ...
I2: I really don't care one way or the other about marriages vs civil unions. So long as they have the same effect under the law, and provides the same level of legal protection for children - then they are the same as far as I'm concerned. Normally, what ...
Billy: I distrust all polls, good or bad. I have done so for a few decades. As redlogix says, they aren't much more accurate than online polls. Their methodology is so suspect at many different levels. You can start with the sample sizes, the selection ...
Can't remember going to any last year. In fact last year I can only remember going to one marriage - church and all that. But just after the civil union came out, I went to a few - but that was a few years back. To tell the truth it is bloody hard to see ...
Billy: In your inimitable style of humour, I'm pretty sure you've understated it. While I haven't seen it used for gays, I've been to a few civil unions for non-gays. They haven't been social workers either. But full marks for effort - tell me have you ...
I2: there are so many things wrong with your statements. But I'm nursing a mild level of dehydration. So I'll confine myself to saying that I'm interested in John Keys ability to be so much in opposition to himself. He doesn't appear to have much depth - ...
bill: you're right. It is a bit sparse. And there seem to be a completely different set of people
Sad fools - it is time to partieee.....
Hey Bryan, you lost your mags'..... I'll do a rational comment here on the weekend. Now it is time to partieee...
Phil: Keith Ng is great. Try over at HardTalk on the blogs on the left column here. He is very occasional, but always worth redaing. Like that guy at the law media site.
Who is this royal pretender ?
I'd agree with sean14 about what his writing does look like these days. The question is if that is out of conviction or for a wallet reason. He does present himself as being independent, and indeed has never said where his political convictions lie. In the...
Urggh - you're probably correct. Gas pumpers has to be a minimum wage area these days - which is kind of interesting bearing in mind how much technology they're expected to run. In 1981 there would have been at least double time to pump on sunday. Now it'd...
nd: I'd say that what you class as rent has either gone up massively. Sounds to me like you're comparing a room in a hovel in auckland (or a brick and tile in hamilton) in 1981 with a habitable 2 bedroom house in auckland in 2007. There was quite a lot of ...
Someone should send that link to Redbaiter...
Ummm I just had a think about the baby-boomers ages now. They're probably getting a bit past it for generating kids. Need more immigrants - they tend to out-perform the local population in birthrates. captcha: rabid agency - The DPF coalition against free ...
I'd say they were far too timid, so much of the issue of our aging population remains to be addressed. I'll say. Last I heard, the forward estimates on our super coverage were that the 'Cullen' fund would only cover about a third of the expected shortfall...
insider: "Nats announced their appeal on April 11." You're quite correct. I was thinking of the time period since it went to the electoral commission. I certainly hope that the high court does either determine this one quickly, or at least removes the ...
insider: 3 months? What planet are you living on. It took 3 months to get to what is effectively a status hearing. Ie to find out if there is a sufficient legal argument to let it go through to a full hearing, or to kick back to the EC, or to throw it out....
mag: higherstandard: Interesting to note that Swann has cut $A20 billion (over 3 years) of spending out of the budget to reduce inflation while Cullen is ramping up government spending It is always nice to see someone comparing apples with oranges. I'm ...
Oh no. I can stand a kiwi exodus (it happens every 10 years or so in cycle with mineral prices). But an affluent aussie stampede could shake the very foundations of kiwi society. It would be like the yanks escaping from Reagan all over again.
jon: You have to love GST. Gets the conspicuous over-consumer every time.
Been scratching my head and accentuating the bald patch. With all of the stuff Steve stuck in his post, why do I feel it isn't enough. Most of the female friends I have are getting more into the grandmother phase rather than the mother phase. They did have...
Anyway why did this come up in a discussion on thsi post?
hs: I'm not sure what the answer is but it's elsewhere. It does, but you're talking about a generational level problem. It takes generations before you see significant effects. All previous approaches had failed dismally. Those approaches had caused ...
Steve: looking at the graph you should probably stack-bar it with the major types of benefits. Only the dole really impacts on wage disincentives. DPB and sickness don't in any significant way IMHO.
Phil: what is "DPMC" ?
Think I'll just wait to the day after the election That is my general view - there is only one poll that counts when it comes to voting. I sort of mix the polls in with canvassing, conversations, and everything else to get an idea of what is going on. But...
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