Posts by Kumara Republic
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Hard News: The Wellington Cables, in reply to Ross Mason,
Oh look, a re-live-ation
Does anyone really give a toss, with the exception of Palinite neo-domino theorists flogging a dead unicorn?
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Speaker: It's called "planning" for a reason, in reply to Mikaere Curtis,
Not really. National won just about every rural electorate, as this map shows.
So not really cronyism at all, but rather the red-blue state divide, NZ-style.
Plus the fact that road freight pays only 56% of the cost it imposes on the roading system (wear & tear), whereas rail pays 82%. It's hardly a level playing field, and the consequences are predictable.
And the trucking lobby managed to astroturf its way out of doing so.
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Mikaere & Matt P: as in something like this?
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To all the above: what Prostetnic Vogon Joyce's pet projects need is a good dose of Think Big baggage. Didn't Heather Simpson help discredit Muldoon's one?
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And those calling for relaxations on metro limits aren't really interested in 'affordable housing', they're really more interested in building McMansions and gated communities, or an unholy alliance of the two.
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Still on gaming... allow me to introduce Level 80 number 2.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Steve Parks,
And more 'it's just inane chatter' claims:
"It's just flash gossip."
Paul Holmes is an award-winning Herald on Sunday columnist, just so you know.
Looks like he and his ilk know the barbarians are at the gate, but are in denial about it.
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And while we're at it, the intentions of this latest scheme are noble, but if it's abused, it'll be a dis-spiritual successor to the Department of Mental Defectives.
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Does Orwell's "ownlife" come to mind?
The best definition of privacy I've heard is the "right to be left alone", but this is a form of freedom the state – in all its faceless and mechanistic anonymity – seems unable to tolerate. As with the SIS amendments, the Search and Surveillance Bill is a manifestation of this sleepless need of the bureaucracy to be constantly expanding its monitoring and control of the unruly populace. Glib reassurance that you've nothing to fear if you've done nothing wrong might comfort the terminally infantilised, but the rest of us are right to be wary of plans to make it easier for the cops to install covert cameras in people's houses, or tracking devices on their cars. Especially when the agencies so keen to win these powers seem so resistant to scrutiny and transparency themselves.
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Steve Kilgallon effectively says, "take that, twatcocks!' to the so-called anti-PC brigade...
Like any good PR man, the kingpins of the "PC gone mad" tribe have subtly built this campaign against a concept that never existed on a fine tissue of outrageous lies, published in in-house journals like Britain's Daily Mail newspaper. The tales of the European Union insisting all bananas must be straight. Schoolteachers changing the lyrics of "Baa Baa Black Sheep" to "Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep", and the blackboard becoming the chalkboard. Travellers beheading ducks and eating them.
They're all rubbish, but 1984 has finally come to pass: we're all stupid enough to believe them.