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David
/ 30th July 2020I am listening to a train wreck interview of Nationals housing spokesperson Jacqui Dean and I have lost the will to live, she would give Labours folk a run for their money.
Make it stop please, probably one of the worst interviews I have ever heard it sounded like they they were interviewing Doris from number 37 who saw a funny incident with a dog and has found herself on TV being asked about it.
artcroft
/ 30th July 2020I see the greens have voted to repeal the Waka Jumping law, they voted for at the start of this term. And like most Green initiatives, this repeal is ineffective because there’s no time to advance the law into statute before parliament rises.
Just… hopeless.
Duker
/ 30th July 2020Whats the problem… John Key announced the Kermadec sanctuary at the UN in 2015 , introduced it with the same first reading in 2016 and put it on the shelf as the Maori party promised utu if it went any further…Key never checked to see if it had support but the Greens loved it
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/72497269/john-key-announces-one-of-the-worlds-largest-ocean-sanctuaries
Just…hopeless
Alan Wilkinson
/ 30th July 2020Cancel culture doesn’t want to follow the science:
https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/07/28/prominent-environmentalist-censored-forbes-called-white-supremacist-writing-sense-about-climate-14938
Duker
/ 30th July 2020I pointed out the cancel culture alive and well in the Dominion decades ago when it came to Peters and the Winebox…you said it was irrelevant.
.Im sure they binned opinion pieces from left wing authors too, all the while Roundtable favoured authors were double dipping for their pieces, which by magic could be assured of being printed.
Why doesnt this dude discuss the white supremacist claims rather than some usual non alarmist climate stuff.
Could it be that he ‘doesnt want to go there’
Griff.
/ 30th July 2020That would be good if your chosen nutbar was following science .
https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/article-by-michael-shellenberger-mixes-accurate-and-inaccurate-claims-in-support-of-a-misleading-and-overly-simplistic-argumentation-about-climate-change/
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/07/review-bad-science-and-bad-arguments-abound-in-apocalypse-never/
Still it is a step up from your usual go to god addled fringe wacko.
duperez
/ 30th July 2020“Heron said he took Boag at her word when she said she hadn’t shared the data with anyone other than Boag and Walker.”
What with Boag being a most honourable woman.
Corky
/ 30th July 2020Laugh of the day. This is how bad things are now. I would like to have know all the facts behind this case…but I can guess.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/122280110/nurse-gets-struck-off-for-racist-comments-in-first-hearing-of-its-kind–then-walks-out-during-karakia
Kitty Catkin
/ 30th July 2020If that’s your laugh of the day, I feel sorry for you.
Pink David
/ 30th July 2020Pink David
/ 30th July 2020Lockdowns kill.
“Almost 2,700 people a week have died because of the effects of lockdown, analysis of official data suggests….”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/07/29/lockdown-has-killed-21000-people-say-experts/?utm_content=telegraph&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1596053475
Kitty Catkin
/ 30th July 2020We will probably never be told how many died here because of it. The 306 80+ people who died over and above the usual number for the time of year have had no coverage; they may have been seen as expendable.
Pink David
/ 30th July 2020Is there any good data source for NZ excess deaths? Seems quite hard to find current data.
Duker
/ 30th July 2020When I went looking a few months back , the latest data then was from 2017. During 9 years of neglect all the stats for all sorts of things was wound back.
Back in 2012 the government even set efficiency targets for the 2018 census to save 5% by the all online thing….. we know how that worked out as a major screw up even though they spent more
Kitty Catkin
/ 30th July 2020Pink, the 306 figure came from the Official Information office when someone requested it.
Kitty Catkin
/ 30th July 2020I don’t often go to KMart, but was glad to see that it has been restocked at last. The possibility of it going under with the loss of who knows how many jobs was appalling; people who work there and those who worked in the transport and other areas. Let’s hope that KMart will not be one of the casualties of the lockdown after all.
Duker
/ 30th July 2020Thats been obvious even during the lockdown, the queues went out the door. Restocking maybe not an every day thing where you live , but I ones I can go here seemed to have plenty of everything
Kitty Catkin
/ 30th July 2020Not just where I live; trying to order online was hopeless as the things were not there. Not In Stock, Not In Stock, Not In Stock.
No queues out the door during lockdown here, all the shops were shut. No exceptions.
Two PDTs seem sorry that KMart seems to be all right again. How mean-spirited.
Blazer
/ 31st July 2020I don’t often go to K-Mart,but I went there one day and saw an empty shelf.
Based on this I am worried that K-Mart may have to…close.
Corky
/ 30th July 2020This types of testing won’t last for long. Why? Because 6 out of 10 bros will test positive for drugs. Then we have the middleclass P jockeys. It won’t look good when Dr Quackmeister has to reschedule is surgery appointments because he’s just been arrested for failing a drugs test.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/422372/land-transport-drug-driving-amendment-bill-proposes-random-roadside-drug-testing
Duker
/ 30th July 2020The Greens will oppose it because ….(vague reasons) but really its about votes
Kitty Catkin
/ 30th July 2020It’s arrant nonsense that 60% of Maori are drug users. Look at the statistics.
No doubt there are a few doctors who use drugs, but they are likely to be a small minority; too much to lose.
Do you regard the doctors whom you have claimed to have among your rellies as quacks ?
Alan Wilkinson
/ 31st July 2020They seem to be introducing this without evidence of levels of impairment? Seems to be sadly typical of modern reporters incapable of asking the obvious questions.
Blazer
/ 30th July 2020Billys best by..far..
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/122292806/sir-bill-english-warns-businesses-to-prepare-for-wshaped-downturn