Posts by Lyndon Hood
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such as attempting to plant organic onions at a GE research site
or tagging?
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“The Corrections sector was sadly neglected by the Labour government. It is clear that prisons are under pressure as a result, and that more beds are required around the country.
It's especially transparent because in the PR this comment arises when the minister visits the building works.
Somehow, I'm not seeing an equivalence between gangs running drugs and a political party or a protest group (especially a protest group being encouraged by the informer to commit crimes so he can report on them. We call that an agent provocateur BTW).
Well, Buchanan calls it 'entrapment', so I'm forced to ask if you looked at the article.
Others have noticed this too.
Well spotted. link to that speech
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On the subject of Collins - I'm trying to decide how bemused I am by the angle on this one:
Corrections Minister makes historic visit to prison
Corrections Minister Judith Collins today visited Rimutaka Prison in the first official inspection of a New Zealand prison by a woman Corrections Minister.
Prime Minister, Governor-General, Chief Justice and now, finally, Corrections Minister!
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. . . or whatever that Irish patron saint of manic urgency is called
Damocles?
Though it did set me thinking that, in terms of dangly-slicey things, climate change policy has been more like The Pit and the Pendulum.
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Further to the ETS, judging by question time it appears they're not putting on hold or suspending anything.
Forestry continues as expected and everything else is supposed to be ready for Jan 2010.
Though if it was me, I'd be leery of those forest credits.
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Frogblog may have a point on the ETS. The foresters are supposed to start January 1 and nothing's been "put on hold" yet.
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Ah yes, that was deceptively irrelevant of me. But if people want to see someone rant about the NCEA standards,they can do it here.
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“After meeting with principals and hearing from many heads of department and others, I have decided to revise the implementation timeline for the new standards by one year to allow further consultation with the sector,” says Mrs Tolley.
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Ah yes, climate change. Let's stop and have another look at the ETS, but in the meantime we'll remove every other carbon-reducing initiative we can think of.
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a yellow mini showing up in the 1800 would just wrong
Magic realism. Problem solved.