Posts by Sacha
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As the latest Lhaws mindfart shows us, women aren't the only systematically devalued athletes.
International Paralympic Committee president Sir Philip Craven, said he was "utterly disgusted" by Laws' comments which were an insult to all paralympic competitors.
"His derogatory comments are an insult to all athletes within the paralympic movement who train for long hours each day to compete at the highest level," Sir Philip said.
Must be good for talkback's munter ratings, I guess.
Perhaps pandering to easily-threatened piss-weak male audience members is also behind suppressing recognition of superb performances like those world women's rugby and netball finals - both easily amongst the best games *ever* played in their code.
Strong men delight in that. The problem goes deeper than sport.
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How about that weather, then
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Former Auckland C&R councillor (and supposed historian) Paul Goldsmith shows the type of fundamental ignorance likely to mark any discussions about Treaty issues this election year.
Naturally the smug little twat from the prosperous Eastern suburbs reckons there's a level playing field for all but mainly his discussion of Auckland's new Independent Maori Statutory Board makes a good case for compulsory Treaty education for anyone seeking public office.
They will be looking for taniwhas around every corner - adding yet more cost to progress and development in the city.
Surely, it makes more sense for the Maori Board to be modestly funded and its influence limited to issues that specifically affect Maori and that have been overlooked by those who are duly elected.
New Zealand needs to think very seriously about where it is going with its special treatment of Maori. More than 170 years after the treaty, as the population intermingles, we should gradually de-emphasise differences over race, proudly asserting the intrinsic worth of all New Zealanders, regardless of background.
Instead, we seem to be going the other way, towards ever more differentiation on the basis of Maori ancestry.
No good can come of it.
The problem for Paulie and the other Actoids who drafted the enabling clauses is that if you apply a holisitic worldview, every issue affects Maori - and every decision has a relationship to the whenua as well as the tangata. Behold the howling of the dispossesed rich white folk.
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Hard News: Gaying Out, in reply to Danyl Mclauchlan,
This idea that Key's just going to suddenly vanish is related to the common sentiment in the Labour Party that the public should just 'wake up' and vote them all back into power. It's magical thinking.
+1 - and it's no substitute for being an effective opposition
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to DexterX,
I have covered these points before
And la la la I can't hear you is an unattractive response when people have asked you politely to provide evidence for statements that contradict respected experts in the field you're discussing. Such as this:
The CGT that is being contemplated is in effect a land tax and is likely to be recoverable annually
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to Steve Parks,
Why are these types all so arrogant?
Because their argument is so powerful, etc, etc
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Overconfidence is thick on the ground - a twattish young insolvency practitioner offers more pearls of wisdom and reinvented history:
The proposed sale of state assets has caused some hand-wringing by economic illiterates fretting over the risk of foreign ownership.
...American capital and know-how transformed Telecom from a moribund behemoth into a dynamic enterprise driving the explosion of telecommunications infrastructure that propelled New Zealand into the internet age. The new American owners took their dividends but these were dwarfed by the benefits returned to the wider economy by a transformed Telecom.
Try building Trade Me on a telecommunications network made from number 8 wire.
A farmer borrowing money to develop his farm may lose equity in the land but if he ends up selling more milk to China the overseas lender, the Kiwi farmer, and the Chinese consumer all benefit.
When we as New Zealanders swap some of our assets for cash our net wealth remains unaffected. If the new owner invests and develops that asset New Zealand makes an economic gain.
Someone's illiterate, bud, but it's not who you think.
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Going beyond tolerance, one of my favourite images from Tahrir is of Christians protecting Muslims as they pray.
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to DexterX,
The increase in GST has killed of a gathering recovery, and has in my mind been partly responsible for the double dip recession that I understand we are looking at. The “government’s books” may even have been in a better position if the increase n GST had not taken.
That we agree on - and English was warned that he was about to make the same sort of mistake he's made before. Proudly ignorant fool.
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to DexterX,
you encourage it by providing it with a tax break
yawn - please update your dogma