Posts by Steve Barnes
Last ←Newer Page 1 2 3 4 5 Older→ First
-
Hard News: Friday Visions, in reply to Jackie Clark,
I would have smacked your arses - because I did sexist shit like that back then - and told you to smile.
You still do Jackie, you still do.
;-) -
Hard News: Friday Visions, in reply to recordari,
Introduce your children to your music
I tried introducing one of my boys to Bob Dylan, he wouldn't have a bar of it. One day I asked him if he could write down the lyrics to Black Diamond Bay for me as it was a song I wanted to add to my repertoire, this he duly did. A couple of years back we were chatting, he is in his late thirties now, and he told me that it opened his eyes to words and music, he is now a published poet. Cool eh?
-
Hard News: Friday Visions, in reply to Peter Darlington,
What is depressing is that most of his friends seem to like '80s power ballads (Bon Jovi, Poison etc...) and ACDC. WTF is up with that?
Blame Radio Hauraki and the average NZ work place for that I reckon.
-
Stuff article on Teh internets law, I would normally embed the URL but...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/4882838/government-is-totally-fuckedNot much of an article but the url says it all.
-
Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to Kracklite,
I hear that there’s a global helium supply crisis…
Bollocks, there is no shortage of people sounding rather elevated in their manner of speech.
-
After looking at the atrophied wives of football stars apostrophies seem to gain in stature…. i'n'''it?
-
Hard News: Dreaming of a world without evidence, in reply to linger,
“they cherry-picked, abused, and tortured evidence to tell stories that fit pre-existing policy preferences.”
Sounds like our esteemed PM
-
Hard News: Dreaming of a world without evidence, in reply to DexterX,
Labour are ’wiggy” and not up to much, if they had remained in govt they would have moved into assets sales.
But..
Then on Agenda, on July 14 2008 Mr Mallard reconfirmed that policy: 'I'm happy for things which are not part of the core to be partially floated, at the moment there's none of those that are big enough to be interesting'.
Mr Brownlee says Labour needs to explain which 'non core' assets it is looking to sell.
Brownlee doesn't have a clue what"non core" means.
If we were to have large Government owned assets that could be managed by private companies I see no problem with selling them off, providing they were "Non Core" ie. not strategic infrastructure such as Power companies or water boards.
National, on the other hand would sell their Grandmothers if there was a buck in it for them or their mates. -
Muse: Hey Greg O'Connor, Krup You!, in reply to Clint Fern,
Greg O’Connor is a nasty twatcock who harms the interest of police union members and the wider public.
As a union rep is he not elected by his peers?
Which, by definition means...
;-) -
Hard News: Dreaming of a world without evidence, in reply to 81stcolumn,
various kinds of evidence
Empirical, anecdotal or contradictory. It all works when you have an agenda.
;-)