Posts by Idiot Savant
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Could be when they role out the Industrial relations policy.
They rolled it out last month. It's all about screwing over unions and allowing employers to fire at will for 90-days. No commitment to increased workplace flexibility __for employees_ at all.
otoh, housecleaners are frequently in demand in hi-income households. and perhaps nannying.
So we'll be forcing poor parents to neglect their own children and households in order to support thoseof the rich. That's just wrong.
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Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome
It has a name? I thought it was just geek-lag.
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Send me a gug, she said. I'll review it.
I think someone ha already beaten you to it:
It was a paw, fully two feet and a half across, and equipped with formidable talons. Alter it came another paw, and after that a great black-furred arm to which both of the paws were attached by short forearms. Then two pink eyes shone, and the head of the awakened Gug sentry, large as a barrel, wabbled into view. The eyes jutted two inches from each side, shaded by bony protuberances overgrown with coarse hairs. But the head was chiefly terrible because of the mouth. That mouth had great yellow fangs and ran from the top to the bottom of the head, opening vertically instead of horizontally.
Naturally, there's a plushie.
(Sorry, Cthulhu on the brain)
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And even a Registry Office wedding requires vows and a ceremony.
Actually, all it legally requires is doing the paperwork, declaring that you don't know of any impediments, and saying "I call on the people present here to witness that I, A B, take you, C D, to be my legal wife (or husband)" or words to similar effect. That's about as minimalist as you get.
OTOH, in Chicago you only had to do the paperwork. Cool.
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No, the policies haven't been stolen. They're in basement, in the safe, and will be put on display before the election, but only under tight security. There's a risk that the Labour Party, short on inspiration and willing to do anything to win this election, will steal them.
The dog ate them. Or Gerry Brownlee.
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Maybe National could clear all this up and explain that we're all confused, and do this by saying: here, explained in detail, is what our policies actually are.
Adopt the democratic source and actually be honest witht he electorate?
No chance. it might "scare the horses"
(Someone should probably tell National that we don't use horses any more, and therefore have no tolerance for horseshit)
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Craig: you can joke about it all you like, but I'm serious. This isn't sniffing Bill English's panties. It's not inquiring into what Lockwood Smith does in his bedroom or whether he gets on with his family. It's about their actions as politicians and the policies they plan to pursue if elected. That's very definitely a legitimate matter of public interest, and any claim to the contrary - i.e. that we plebs have no right to know how others intend to rule us, but just have to suck it regardless - is the worst sort of aristocratic bullshit. If you want to live in a country like that, try the UK.
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Craig, for or against Woodward, Bernstein and Deep Throat?
An interesting question indeed. To be consistent, he'd have to be against. And that makes it very clear that he is no democrat.
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Yes, Kyle, and the legislation requires whistle-blowers to clear a slightly more stringent bar than "it's a matter of public interest cuz I say so".
The policy positions and long term policy plans of political parties around election time are clearly a matter of public interest. And if you think they're not, you're not a democrat.
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Craig: Hardly. But it is well known that there are people in National who would find ACT a closer match for their policies, and those are the extremists I was referring to.