Posts by DexterX
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When the game is over - for me I don't think I will ever forget what it is like just now in NZ – the circumstances visiting NZers now are to my mind the worst has been, by all sorts of measures, in my lifetime.
"We've got to mop up the years and years and years of poor vaccine delivery."
In regard to this comment made in the NZ Herald this morning in an article “Doctors urge mass measles vaccination to beat outbreak”, one could replace “vaccine delivery” with a range of other factors that impact on life in NZ.
I don’t hold much hope that deep sea oil exploration/drilling won’t be a disaster when as a nation we for decades haven’t been able to effectively enforce a building code.
It is tragic that half of New North Road was without power for the RWC final though very typical of a half arsedness that pervades NZ.
As an aside I watched 'Bad Taste" yesterday afternoon - in between working early morning and late afternoon - and thought that showed NZ as it was at the time it was made and was a prelude for the future.
We deserve better, the win RWC 2011 won’t change the reality of what it is really like just now.
I am tired waking up stuffed in a tub of water with a leader of flesh eating aliens telling me I am about to be eaten and finding my kind to be ruthelessly harvested by corporates.
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Whilst pondering the great question, who to vote for, I had a vision of Joyce, in drag doing, Fauxy Lady - I'm sold.
It went a bit like this:
Fauxy
FauxyYou know we hate sweet little allegators
Fauxy
You know you're a throat slash gesticulator
FauxyWe wanna take your home
Oil won't do you no harm, no
Its got to be mining, all mines
Ooh, fauxy babyIou credit down grade on the scene
Fauxy
We smile when we make you wanna scream
Fauxy
Ah, party vote now
make up my mind
Epsom Voting Act is not a waste of time
Second term will be mine, all mine
Fauxy baby
Here we comeWe wanna take a big loan,
The deficit won’t do you no harm, no
Assets Sales and Mines, BabyHere we come
We're gonna get ya
FauxybabyYou look so good
Yeah, Fauxy
Yeah, vote us some
Fauxy
Yeah, get it, Fauxy
You make us feel like
Feel like sayin' Fauxy
Fauxy
Fauxy baby
Fauxy baby -
There is a default view that you need people "top class degrees" to stay put and save us all. NZ is losing a skilled workforce across a wide range of levels to Australia and other places - it is not just the young that are leaving - it is across the age cohorts that it is happening – that I can see.
The layered nature of an economy takes many people with many varied skills.
The problem is one of governance, and I can’t see that the Party Political system consisting of two just right of centre parties like Labour and National have done much good.
There are answers – but you won’t get them from central or local government.
I thought the year ending 31 March 2011 was the wrost it has been and that things would get better - it is in my view getting worse.
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Rena, the throat slashing gesture and the credit downgrade have painted First Citizen and some of the senior members of the inner sanctum as petty incompetents, hateful and disingenuous. Such that some of the much love the people have for First Citizen has waned.
I’m just wondering whether First Citizen John Key the Firsts hosting on Radio Live now has the flavour of work experience, so that if he, supernatural creator and overseer of the universe of your choice forbid, losses the election he will have somewhere to go that keeps him out of the house for extended periods.
What was shaping up as a no contest will be interesting if Labour can resist the urge to press the self destruct button, I have to concede they do not appear as a govt in waiting.
The recent spate of Frist Citizen faux pas appear to be addressing the balance of political stupidity, a realm that was Labour’s own till now.
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The best things about RWC is the way the schools and preschools got the little people involved and opened their minds to a wider world of people and fun.
The ABs will have to move “it” up more than a notch or two to win and one can't underestimate the role of the referee in the match, which may well be decided by penalties.
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Hard News: The Politics of Absence, in reply to Steve Barnes,
philosophies promoted by successive governments are not working.
They are working - just not for most of us.
Successive governments includes Labour Governments.
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Hard News: The Politics of Absence, in reply to Sacha,
The glow that will never end.
From the McCarten Article.
"Maybe the Labour Party's charge that Key is more interested in photo opportunities than doing his job has a ring of truth about it."
The same could be said about Lange before he pulled up for a cup of tea and Labour imploded.
The Prime Ministers of Photo Opportunities.
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Hard News: The Politics of Absence, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Really - I can't see that Labour are any more or less competent than the Nats..
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Hard News: The Politics of Absence, in reply to Sacha,
more about quality than quantity of governance
In a nut shell - you are saying what I am saying.
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The situation is akin to waiting for the town to burn down before you think about getting a fire service.
Just as long as the Govt restructure and MAF and the Dept of Conservation - next disaster will be a massive bio security incident which say ruins agriculture or the great outdoors, all on account of another otherwise readily preventable set of circumstance.