Posts by Cecelia
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Hard News: No Red Wedding, in reply to Keir Leslie,
More than placebo?
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Hard News: No Red Wedding, in reply to Andrew Geddis,
Scary. I'm a big fan of Turei and Norman and consequently not best pleased to read the above. Don't want taxpayers dollars going towards treatments that just don't work - and I've had three cancers and a number of injuries so I know what I'm talking about:)
(Can't believe that ACC funds acupuncture.)
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Hard News: No Red Wedding, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Bearing in mind The Greens still publically believe in fake medicines
What fake medicines are those?
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Hard News: Jonesing, in reply to Russell Brown,
Having genuine character is important because a large chunk of the electorate rely on an 'intuitive feel' of politicians, rather than an intricate grasp of the policy detail.
Priceless
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Hard News: Jonesing, in reply to Tom Beard,
salt-of-the-earth misogyny and homophobia
That's what has annoyed me greatly about Jones' campaign and the journos who have espoused it. I actually admired the way Jones' coped with the porn scandal so I don't think that incident has put me off him. It's what he has said since and an overwhelming feeling that so intelligent a man with such potential to help the people of the north has sunk so low. He MUST have felt pretty stink doing that 3rd Degree story.
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It has provided a very positive platform for him to show his wares.
As a one-time reader of The Female Eunuch (eons ago) and a sometime reader of The Woman's Weekly, I'm appalled at his "wares":)
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I love the ending - it resonates. I like the "fractured horizontals". Brill.
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OnPoint: What Andrew Geddis Said, But…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Even though disabled people make up about 20% of the population and the likelihood that everyone will probably either require care or be a carer sometime in their adult life, we have no academic departments focussed on disability policy.
This is an important point. I'm a carer now for my husband who is sinking deeper and deeper into dementia. We are being helped by a variety of organisations both public and charity-based. They are all stretched - aged care is a growth area - but I've found them good so far. It breaks my heart to think that disabled children and their parents have to struggle more than I do for assistance, so much so that when my husband goes into care I hope to be able to use my teaching experience to help disabled children in some way.
Yes, there should be academic departments devoted to this area.
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Loving the mellowness: must check out the plane trees of Wenderholm.
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Cultural diversity in the garden: shot through laundry window. I don't know what the (Australian) plant is that attracts the parrots but they just love it.
