Propellor-head economists love telling us all what we should be doing...so how come those who usually object to be told how to live or whatever are suddenly kissing their feet? You just about can't read a blog these days without some crystal ball gazer ...
I have 3 kids and fully support S59. I could not agree more with Red's 5.20pm comment. There is no reason on this green earth to use pain as punishment. A good parent does not hit their kids. Human rights - the right to live without violence - do not stop ...
Irish Bill - I'm probably one of the few on the centre-right who support MMP - I always have. The NZ public now have a sophisticated understanding of MMP, and the next election will show that. The public are going to vote like we still have FFP - either ...
Irish Bill - I will be voting National for my party vote. One of the reasons is because Key enabled the S59 amendment. He is a decent man. Politics doesn't affect my life much - like most my life will be unchanged no matter who wins power. Few people are ...
Lyn said 'Actually I'm too anti-social to turn up' Same here! The thought of having to make conversation with people I don't know sends my anxiety levels off the Richter Scale...so I often say I'll come to events and then not turn up...which isn't a good ...
Hardly "Billy". What is irritating to many good parents is the fact that the pro-smackers have always said "How many kids do YOU have?" to anyone who supported this law change - as if it is a given that those who have children use pain as punishment.
Green MP and bill sponsor Sue Bradford is not surprised at the result, saying people have come to realise there are better ways to bring up children that do not involve violence. Bravo Sue Bradford! If you cannot raise and teach a child without resorting ...
Why wasn't the rubbish about Key's taste in architecture on the graph. Quite a few blogs - including this one- went nutzoid over the appearance of his beach house. Didn't come up to their high standards. That was right out of Stuff White People Like (...
I would hope National do not take that on board. It's a funny thing with the right - there is the belief in the primacy of individualism - which I agree with - and yet they look at crime in a collective way. Which is quite wrong. Some parents DO need to ...
I hope the Herald are embarrassed. Massaging the ego of a blogger who caters to the most dim-witted partisans in NZ is not a good look - and has the potential to seriously backfire on them re advertising etc.
Its election year strategy and "manifesto' have been wrapped into a single line: Let's rely on a mood for change. So? This strategy is as good as any other.
Pretty funny - rich white kids trying to be all 'hood ;-) Not a vote catcher.
*at* the hip
I have no doubt that The Standard would denounce KBB if they put up anything like Whaleoil's post. Like it or not DPF controls a large swath of online political discourse. He is well aware that some of the sites he endorses are not benign, but are truly ...
Irish Bill mentioned that DPF enables this repulsive stuff, others disagreed. Whale oil's blog is well known as one of DPF's favourites, and he heavily promotes it. He isn't responsible for the post, but he most certainly facilitates this sort of thing. ...
Higher standard if they do love this country they have a funny way of showing it.They bash it at every oppportunity. With the John Key hate sites like this one most of the time, and the Helen Clark hate sites, it is easy to get tarred by the negativity if ...
I hate this rhetoric too. Contrast this to the American view. Those from the right, left, far right, far left ALL have a love of their country. Incidentally many US top execs who have been transferred here for a 12 month contract have stayed. They have ...
On the other hand, he has bought himself a fight, and Douglas seems to be spoiling for one. I'd agree with that. Douglas has a huge ego, and wants to be a fly in the ointment. I don't think he will succeed though. Interestingly, when speaking to a former ...
Nothing Key says will ever meet with your approval will it Steve? ACT are dead in the water. I predicted over a year ago that they will not be in the next parliament. I stick to that.
Yes the less of this stuff available the better HS. I do voluntary work with 'at risk' youth - in fact I have a few 'camping out' on my property this weekend. I am not convinced that party pills do not lead to weed, then P, and so on - judging by the ...
So much for ACT's ethics...eh? The BZP ban is well supported by the electorate. Stoners and libertines on the internet don't count for much. My daughter was offered party pills at intermediate school - when she was 11 years old. The school sent home a ...
Governments often get booted out, and, um, so you've got to be careful you don't get too negative on things when you're an opposition politician, because you can, you can see bad things in, in a lot of things, and that may not always, you know, always be ...
The panic here is overblown. The offshore opinion is rather different, and you can't get any economists here who are not either employed by banks, selling their book, or have an axe to grind. We have got 100bn a day going through NZ - it is viewed as one ...
ACT is all sizzle and no steak. Douglas coming back won't increase their vote by an meaningful amount IMO. Theirpolicies are deeply unpopular. The public does not want ACT and Key is advised to steer well clear of them, which he has done so far.
Steve - senior ministers and all MPs are not in it for the money. There are far easier ways to make money. They are in it for ego. That goes for all parties. And has been the case for centuries. Shakespeare has a good quote about it which I have forgotten ...
Quite frankly I dont care that only 10% of the additional ammount I pay goes back to the farmer, thats 5 cents (costs about 50 cents per cup here to get freetrade coffee) more than the farmer woudl have otherwise got. Exactly right. Fairtrade is like the ...
I love all this stuff - was just saying to a friend - good lord how I wish our politics in NZ was this much fun. Too much nastiness here - the nastiest being vitriol spewed about John Key from the Far Right, not the Left.
Funny. A couple of years ago I wrote a blog post "Why do conservatives hate the poor?" and it was met with nostril-flaring outrage... Not all conservatives hold the poor in contempt of course, but a fair amount quite obviously do. They could be a lot more ...
This is an issue that the electorate will love and every last one of the talking heads from the Banks, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Goldman Sachs and Fran O'Sullivan will loath. I think it's the other way around my good man ;-) Most NZers couldn't care less ...
There was an announcement an hour or 2 ago - they are continuing with their offer as a minority shareholder without a controlling interest. So could be a buy at this level.
That's what you get with politians - not just the Grteens. A lot of these people are deeply unprofessional and they are their own worst enemies.
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