Posts by Rich of Observationz
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Peter Verschaffelt's meth manufacture charge
Who? Wikipedia says he's a Flemish sculptor, which can't be right..
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If wards are multimember, they can be of widely different sizes (unlike single-member electorates), although to maintain fairness the number of voters to a councillor should be fairly similar.
The unfairness in the proposed council system comes from electing multiple councillors to a ward using FPP, which means that a ward with 3 councillors and a CitRat majority will elect 3 CitRats. STV might be better, but really there are two options that deliver proportionality:
- MMP, where half the councillors are from wards and the rest on a party list, as for parliament.
- an adjusted regional list system, where councillors are elected in wards from a party list. Any distortions are then adjusted for by replacing councillors to achieve proportionality. -
the Auckland electorates could be the basis for the community boards
That's been objected to because it would create "rivalry" between council and MP. I dont't really understand this, because in my world if an MP is input, good or bad, then that should be heard. But in the world where the functional of the council is to steamroller whatever ACT want through, then obviously any extraneous opinions are bad and need to be suppressed.
Competitive cities like Singapore, Shanghai and Rangoon don't have all this pesky democracy, after all...
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In the absence of pigs for ethical reasons, we'll just have to eat elephant bacon.
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I stand corrected. How stupid, I will check the source of my bacon in future.
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we must also ban the import of meat from animals raised in sow stalls
I'm fairly sure that we don't import much pork, and that local free-range meat would be cheaper than factory farmed dead pig hauled here from overseas.
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There's a lot of ways of liking sport. I've competed (badly for the most part) at skiing, sailing and polo since leaving school (didn't do sport at school at all).
I don't think you have to equate liking sport with a partisan support for whatever the national ball game of the country you live in is?
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I guess the good think about F..Kings is that it provides a place for the assholes and munters to drink where no normal human being would ever go.
Sorry Haydn, but if you want a half-decent pub with tellys, JJ Murphys has sport on, in fact nearly all the "pubs" in Wellington do. I'd rather the Southern Cross didn't bother. Wellington has a bit of a social divide around rugby (a bit like Brits and soccer). Most people with a brain have been put off the game by the munters some years ago and actively avoid it. I guess that's less so in Auckland.
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earlier this year she discovered Soka Gakkai, a Japanese Buddhist tradition which emphasises the power of chanting.
Things mad people shouldn't be allowed to do:
- accumulate huge arsenals of firearms
- be appointed to senior jobs in the public service -
Why does god need armour? Being omnipotent you'd have thought she could just dodge?