Posts by Steve Barnes
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Hard News: Dreaming of a world without evidence, in reply to Danyl Mclauchlan,
synthetic analoges that replicate the effects of traditional drugs
That are manufactured by big pharmaceutical companies, I can see Key and Joyce loving this.
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Hard News: Dreaming of a world without evidence, in reply to BenWilson,
unlike the good old fashioned weed (which is not without side-effects, but you know what they are).
Side effects? What.. what was that... God I'm hungry... what were we talking about again?.
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I would be interested to know if Peter Dunne has any brewery shares. For that matter it would be good to know which, if any, of our current crop of professional dole bludgers, politicians, have shares in the pedallers of the legal drug that is alcohol.
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"We should consider legalising the production, sale and distribution of drugs. Legalisation does not mean that drugs are good. But we have to see it as a strategy to weaken and break the economic system that allows cartels to make huge profits, which in turn increases their power and capacity to corrupt."
Former Mexican president Vicente Fox
Shame he didn't mention this when he was President.
Peter Dunne, like others of his ilk, need to realise that the War on drugs is actually a war on people, who just happen to take drugs. Prohibition creates the market which is the real problem. Yeah, we all know this, why don't our politicians?. -
As far as I have always been concerned the term "Troll" originates from a fishing term "Trolling" which means to drop a hook in the water whilst cruising, in the vague and mindless possibility of catching a fish. This works quite well as a "Troll" is fishing for a bite, capturing someone by disingenuous argument.
A story..
A man is sitting by a flowerbed with a fishing rod, ostensibly fishing. A passer-by, thinking she would humour the fellow asks "Have you caught anything yet?" the man replies "You are the third one today" -
They are not merely incompetent, they are sub-Prime.
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Hard News: Locking in the Future, in reply to Andrew E,
I think we should be clear that having an evil-enrich-your-mates-who-donate-to-your-party-and-screw-the-poor agenda is not mutually exclusive of being incompetent-and-not-very-bright.
But it is in terms of caring for yourself and your cohorts and not giving a shit about others, a survivalist mode. Very un-evolved, which was the point of the article.
Stick up for the reptilian ones if you wish but don't deny the process.
We are just better as opposed to bitter. -
Hard News: Locking in the Future, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Do I see a divide between the ‘old economy’ and the ‘new economy’ here?
Very good point. This government certainly operates on an old ideology that looks at failed policies to achieve outdated results.
Who knows, will the new economy have a more realistic attitude to the, so called, War on Drugs? -
That list should also not include Petrobras
John Key sends in the Hired Goons.An Air Force Orion has been observing a protest flotilla in the sea off East Cape at the request of police.
The surveillance plane was sent after the Government asked police to monitor the protest.
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Hard News: Locking in the Future, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Other lists of companies that may lose out somewhere are the likes of Fulton Hogan
Doh!!!
What I meant to say was "Other lists of companies that may lose out somewhere would not include the likes of Fulton Hogan..."
I don't know how I slipped up that badly.
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