Posts by giovanni tiso
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Danyl Mclauchlan,
Key wants to put all the tourists in cruise boats. In early spring. What could go wrong?
He wants to do no such thing. He's posturing.
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Sacha - those pages of inflatable shelters (with other links to other kinds of emergency shelters) - are a good & helpful idea. Marae & hall/school emergency
Yes, the issue is that it's not at all what Steve meant in the original post - and he knows that full well.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Sacha,
That's what this thread is for, now.
Suggesting that people should leave the region or move into bouncy castles is still going to be frowned upon, I would hope, now and forever.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
The audio of the Power interivew on Nine to Noon is now live.
Okay, let's talk about this. First of all: "At this stage I had to ask myself how best to serve my own interest"? REALLY?
And the whole I'm going to go at a time of my own choosing? That's insane. He's the minister of everything in a party that is about to get a strong second mandate at a very delicate time in the nation's history. He's 41. And he's in a rush to get a private sector job three years early?
I don't know what the behind-the-scene is in all this, but what's in front of the scene is pathetic.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Steve Barnes,
I think the words you are looking for are "Sorry, Emma, that was uncalled for."
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Hard News: The First Draft, in reply to Ross Mason,
Yes, it may have been a present from one of the kids.
Everyone keeps saying that, but actually it's not substantiated at all. People just fell over themselves to give him an out.
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Cracker: It's a Wonderful Thing, in reply to Hilary Stace,
As far as I remember it only impacted on what the school could routinely sell on its premises, and never stoppped kids selling chocolate or sausages for fundraisers, so why did that affect your school?
Our canteen couldn't afford to routinely sell healthy food, which is a lot more expensive and perishable. By neat coincidence, our pupils couldn't afford to buy it either. Maybe a bigger low-decile school would have fewer problems, I'm not sure. At any rate, there are no excuses for implementing sanctimonious laws without financing them. It's the worst kind of politics.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Sacha,
The credit agencies were always OK with our public debt levels, just not when you add in the private sector. And this government conflated that distinction before the quake to try to justify its ideological preferences. Now showing through a bit. That's all that's 'changed'.
Bingo.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Sorry for ranting, but I’m still too raw to get fully into the spirit of this kind of thought experiment.
Hang from the tapestry if you must, but Watkins had asked a perfectly sensible question: how come ratings agencies, who are not known on the whole as sentimental types, are so relaxed about the economic repercussions of the earthquake on our economy? What has changed that makes borrowing suddenly okay?
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Show gets replayed at 1.30pm, for those who might be interested in repeat slots.