Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to
In case we hadn't noticed the earthquakes are all about the PM . . .
Human sacrifice, cynically harvested in the quest for political capital. As the Australian poet Les Murray once said, even a crappy old idea like Britannia can look pretty good if you pile up enough dead bodies around it.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to
I like this plant from Bolivia.
Me too, thanks. Looks like fuchsia dependens, renowned for its ease of propagation. Just a little bit of stem & foliage will usually strike root when stood in plain water for a couple of weeks.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to
At Thursday's Council meeting Aaaron Keown, the Council's very own village idiot on stilts, asked in all seriousness "Do we know if there are any spare sections in Christchurch?"
As someone commented on Facebook ". . . and yet, ask him where to find a hooker and he will give you gps coordinates." -
Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to
He is - as far as this feminist is concerned - a sad predator.
So, with my personal priority being for women to be protected against such, what
should we do?Designate him a 'useless eater', or perhaps the right-wing blogosphere's recent fave, an 'oxygen thief'? And follow it up with a suitably feminist penalty? As I believe that only a woman has the right to claim to be a feminist, it's beyond me to answer that.
What that article highlights for me is how easily the genuinely disabled - and I've no doubt that his plight is not entirely of his own making - can be damned by the same society that glibly proclaims their rights. We don't seem to have any means of protecting the dangerously vulnerable from society, and often eventually society from them, short of stripping them of all of their civil rights.
When someone appears to be pleading to be institutionalised, shouldn't there be some means where they could be accorded a measure of human dignity while receiving a degree of protection?
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to
City Council Housing here in Chch has played a significant role in providing accommodation for those with intellectual and 'psychiatric' disabilities. Unfortunately they also regularly evict tenants who repeatedly fall behind with their rent, which seems to happen all too easily. The Richmond Fellowship ran an entire Council complex in Avonside with a live-in supervisor, but that's in the red zone now.
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This is how we treat the intellectually disabled in NZ today - with a 19th century lecture on self-betterment.
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Southerly: Deconstruction and Construction, in reply to
bless that Dalziel and his hammer
unconfirmed sighting
His accompanying Clouds of Glory are usually more discreet & much better rendered.
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to
the Speaker seems to have a fundamental misunderstanding that it's Mojo being supported personally, rather than the whole of Parliament.
Nicely clarified, many thanks.
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to
Gerry was apparently busy in Chch
Gerry is always busy elsewhere. It works a treat in Ilam, where he didn't make a single public appearance during the last election campaign.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to
More excessive actions by unthinking Chch police have seen charges withdrawn...
It would seem that they've done so only because their legal advice was that they didn't have a case. District Commander Knowles's insistence that everything was done by the book is disturbingly reminiscent of the looters & lightbulbs fiasco:
Knowles was unable to comment on the fact the officers did not identify themselves when challenged by Bennett, as it was "an operational issue" he was not familiar with.
The fact Bennett was taken to the police station wearing only a t-shirt and underpants was "quite unusual", but "sometimes when you're arrested there is no niceties".Elsewhere, Nick Smith appears to slip naturally into the good cop role when responding to the concerned Cantabrians.