Posts by Sacha
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Basil and Sybil have moved on
Thank you for the warning. Delicious has to be the worst service I've ever experienced (though thankfully we left before they got a chance to throw us out). Why someone like that feels compelled to pollute the hospitality industry is beyond me.
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our Bank Robbers are even trying to make a stand
If blaming someone else constitutes a "stand", then I suppose they are.
I didn't realise there had been a 52% increase in bank robberies from 58 in 2008 to 88 in 2009. I imagine part of the demand for cash is caused by the genuinely dangerous upside down b, which the police could be putting more of their effort into rather than trying to demonise weed.
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Your country needs you!
Someone with more media credibility - like Ross perhaps
All of you should write a letter
Oh, that works as well
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the Boxthorn problem in Taranaki, which resulted in a great win for kiwi DIY
Ae, those "trimmers" sure are awesome beasts
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And yet this
the missionaries persuaded the locals to physically punish their children
probably had the largest bad impact, one we're still paying for
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they seem to have got their "four times stronger" figure by comparing the average strength from their seventies study (6%) to the highest figure in their range of figures from the current study (4-25%). 25% is roughly 4 times 6%, but...it ain't the average. You have to go all the way to the boittom of the article to find an average quoted (11%, for outdoor-grown cannabis) which is less than twice as strong as the 6% baseline.
Safe to say that's downright dishonest and hardly accidental. Who's writing the letter to the editor?
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looked more like they were obliged to be where they were
bouncers? promo grrls?
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paedophobic wowserism
Genius summary
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I interviewed a longtime drug-dealer for a magazine story once
Doug Myers?
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At long last, have they no sense of decency?
This is thoroughly predictable as experts said at the time - including a fair bit of comment here. It is not fresh news of moral failure.
Like many of the other spending cuts rammed through under urgency, this reflects judgements about which groups of people are worthy of state assistance. It's part of a pattern of short-sighted penny-pinching, and in this case part of readying ACC for privatisation. Note that the review panel has no members from the coalface.
Decency is a good word. Expect little of it from these shameless politicians - unless renewed public pressure now brings another craven backdown. That'll be too late for many, but I suppose it's a silver lining of having cowardly immoral douchebags in charge.