As Anna Osborne said, it's a crime scene, and we don't know for certain what happened there. They deserve the truth.
And how does this help, Paul? I get there's a big ol' wave of despondency sweeping the left at the moment, but really, the Pike families deserve a bit more than "nah who cares, everything's shit."
No one. Is chosen. "Specifically". Because of. Their Gender. You should really stop misrepresenting what the quota does and stop undermining every woman who *does* manage to get selected by implying they're not qualified.
It wasn't the women of the Labour Party who drew media attention to the entirely optional, up-for-democratic-debate remit on all-women shortlists. And if David Shearer had shrugged and said "Look, that's a conference remit. We discuss a lot of things at ...
But to choose female candidates simply because they’re female is, imo, stupid It's a good thing literally no one has ever suggested this, then. This is the point of gender quotas: qualified women are routinely passed over because of ingrained sexism in our...
Nobody is trivializing the issue except you, with your talkback radio flamebait about "10 year olds watching porn!!!!!" and acting like sexual abuse and violence never happened before the invention of the internet. And nobody is saying "throwing resources ...
hooking up with much older males for booze and drugs in exchange for sex And thus Coley's point is proved again: because apparently the "much older males" involved in these cases have literally no ability to not sexually abuse vulnerable young women. :roll...
Your constant derails are really, really obvious, CV. You have no answer for the fact that your preferred candidate is a vicious bully, a sexual predator, a liar, and an unrepentant misogynist. Literally no one is saying, "Hillary is the best person in the...
It's a two party race because the system is designed as a two party race. Without major electoral reform, a third party has absolutely no shot and it's irresponsible to tell people otherwise. I'm not saying people must vote for either of the dominant two ...
As we say goodbye to her, a good article at The Spinoff about the return of bulk funding which she has championed: http://thespinoff.co.nz/parenting/19-10-2016/a-teacher-tells-you-what-you-need-to-know-about-bulk-funding/
You know very well the difference between saying "you're using this woman as a meat-shield" and calling her "a piece of meat", CV. Thanks for proving my point, because once again you're exploiting Jill Stein's politics to bully other women into not ...
There's no mystery. The article is a reply to a column published at the Spinoff by Andrew Little about child poverty. A lot is being made about the Spinoff endorsing Bill Ralston over Mike Lee, but they explained themselves very clearly: they were ...
gifted by the Government Compensation for the mass confiscation of land and resources isn't a "gift".
Scott Adams drew some funny cartoons, but he's hardly a model of "rational" political analysis these days. http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/?s=scott+adams
... so tastefully put it) thanks Stephanie. Stein has her own politics...
I'm also quite uncomfortable with the use of "science" to explain things like political orientation. It plays into a lot of really shitty assumptions - as you said, Bill, "left wing smart, right wing dumb" - but it also means we stop looking at the genuine...
Thanks, Tina.
Seriously, what on earth is this post about? I didn't write it in Esperanto, Wayne. Everyone else except for the blatant rightwing trolls has managed to figure it out. If you were running a household and still hadn't paid half your bills for the week, ...
But not as concise as you :P
As others have pointed out, "Labour did it too!!!" is a terribly weak argument, as is "cleaners have never been paid well so your point is invalid!" And your "gotcha" game is pretty weak given that I am quite happy to be critical of the previous Labour ...
I don't think you're dreaming at all! This is something which Anat Shenker-Osorio and others have been looking at, the way the very language we use to discuss key political issues works against us - i.e. "tax relief", "tax burden", things that frame tax as...
Is there a reason that the neoliberal left still thinks that having a Government budget surplus during a time of sluggish economic activity is somehow a mark of pride? I certainly don't, CV. It might help the conversation if you discussed what people ...
Written By: Stephanie Rodgers - Date published: 12:30 pm, October 14th, 2016 - 125 comments
Categories: bill english, budget 2016, Economy, national
Tags: cuts, ponzi scheme, public service, surplus, tax cuts
Originally posted at Boots Theory. Radio NZ reports: Tax cuts could soon be on the way with the Government opening up its books today revealing Crown accounts are tracking along nicely. "We've always said, if economic and fiscal conditions allow, we will …
Keep on shifting those goalposts to suit your narrative, mate.
it shows in the massive crowds that Trump pulls, and is still pulling, compared to Hillary. On the same night Trump pulled 15,000 in Ohio. So, um ... not really? http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2016/10/hillary_clinton_draws_record_c.html
Bill, I'm all ears for suggestions of what to do. But per your comment at 19.2.1, it seems there's nothing meaningful I *can* do. So yeah ... I'm going to keep worrying about the mortgage (because I'm fortunate enough to have one, and because I need ...
Maybe watch the video in the post. Might clear things up for you.
This is always a major impediment to good health and safety at work: if people think the consequences of reporting risks or near-misses will be punitive or ineffective, they won't report. There has to be a lot of trust and integrity for the system to work.
Mike will be fantastic in Porirua.
Celebratory re-watch of his campaign video? https://youtu.be/7dLguFjpYr8
And Rotorua - Steve Chadwick's back in.
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