Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: That escalated quickly ..., in reply to ,
You know that even back here in New Zealand the New Zealand Labour Party where sexist and racist. so was the union movement, by today's measurements. Thay where all leftist.
Yet even at their most compromised - for example, former pacifist Peter Fraser's conversion to authoritarian militarism in WW2 - the Labour Party at least paid lip service to social justice, i.e. redistribution of resources according to need.
Winston's never bothered himself with that, or with nonsense like human rights. Like his mentor Muldoon his brand of socialism deliberately plays off sections of society against one another. On the issue of gay marriage he called for a referendum, where the rights of the minority were offered as an electoral bribe to a bigoted majority, Springbok tour style.
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Hard News: On benefit fraud, in reply to ,
Now that we are onto the turning of phrase, I’ve been noticing politicians not answering questions by saying : “sorry, that’s above my pay grade”.
Is that right? Not that I'd know, but it's the kind of talk that I'd have assumed happened with strippers and football teams.
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Hard News: Drug Symposium day two: Māori…, in reply to Aotearoan,
The berries from the Tutu plant (Coraria) were pulped and juice separated from the toxic (tutin) seed and stalks. The juice was consumed fresh, but also when fermented into wine. This was a potent intoxicant from accounts recorded by pakeha.
Hopefully more reliable accounts, though unlikely to be as entertaining as the tutu scene in Red Mole's Slaughter on Cockroach Avenue. Visiting a rural commune, guru Don Heke, played by Alan Brunton, exhorts his hippie devotees to "Eat sacred tutu berry!" Under the influence of what look suspiciously like jaffas the hippies dance wildly as they're transformed into animals. Eventually they change back, except for the undercover spy who attempted to infiltrate their group, who ends up beaten to death for being a rat.
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Hard News: One big day at the drug symposium, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Sean Plunket
...There goes their credibility in my universe....
As long as your cat's microchipped those huas can't touch you.
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Hard News: Drug Law Symposium Day One:…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
...a drinking party or convivial discussion, especially as held in ancient Greece after a banquet (and notable as the title of a work by Plato)
"Plato, they say, could stick it away
Half a crate of whiskey every day." -
Hard News: Genter's Bill: Starting at…, in reply to BenWilson,
TBH, I can understand Tom Semmens POV more. At least it's a consistent position of completely missing the point that medical cannabis doesn't get you out of it at all, and takes the typically authoritarian line of a staunch communist in seriously entertaining the idea that by banning pot we've saved kids from drug abuse, and ruing only that it can't also be done for alcohol.
Tom may have passed the wineskin with the Podemos comrades there in the olive grove beneath the stars, but he was careful not to inhale.
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Hard News: Know Your Stuff: getting real…, in reply to tatjna,
...they called it Spice - which means about as much as bath salts in the world of harm reduction.
Sean Tejaratchi did a nice passing pisstake of that kind of thing a couple of years ago: "...some new narcotic called Toilet Brittle. It's made from trail mix and hand lotion."
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Hard News: Barclay and arrogance, in reply to nzlemming,
If you had a process for dismissing members on allegation of wrongdoing, it would be chaos with allegations being made every 5 minutes.
Richard Worth's exit seems an interesting example of how the Nats have handled such things. Word at the time was that his real crime was to presume that his Party grandee status entitled him to tell Key where to stick it. While the allegations that ended his political career were never proven, they achieved their purpose without having to proceed that far.
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He's a bee keeper from Slovenia.
Dang, did you get any beehive shots? Slovenia's the beehive art capital of the world, ffs!
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Hard News: Barclay and arrogance, in reply to izogi,
Shouldn't parties be explaining to voters how they're going to make it so their MPs and Ministers can't get away with the kind of stuff that Barclay's being accused of?
I don't recall too much of that during the long, slow and often faltering pursuit of "Taito" Philip Field. There seemed to be extended periods where, apart from Lockwood Smith's dogged persistance, the old horror appeared set to brazen the whole thing out thanks to a lazy opposition.