Posts by Rob Stowell
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Ah, yes. Dismiss this as anecdata, but I know one elderly white South African woman whose membership in the Black Sash routinely attracted threats of rape, physical assault and harm to her children.
So, big ups Margaret – you’ve managed to demean a woman whose flaxroots non-violent opposition to apartheid should have your respect not your sneering, privileged condescension.
You did listen to the clip? Not just the soundbite 'south africans come here' (which, to me, didn't sound like she meant all south africans, anyway- charitable interpretation perhaps) but the rest of it? Cos really, y'know, you are dumping on her by making a point she made herself in the interview, rather more eloquently.
The points she makes are uncomfortable, and hyperbolic, to a degree, but read with even a modicum of charity don't amount to accusing NZ of apartheid. At least as far as I heard :) -
I'm curious why a land-tax is preferred over capital gains. Any ideas?
(My reservation: it seems to punish hippies, greenies, tree-huggers, indigenous folks , etc- anyone who doesn't believe forcing land to produce max $ is always its best use.) -
Reading was used above in its recreational sense. Not as part of a communication process.
When someone asks "what have you been reading?" only a tiresomely unfunny ass would reply "a cornflake packet" or "a phone number".
So what if the answer was "Public Address System"? Is *this* reading, socialising, or something else again?
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Anyone else noticed that National's billboard slogan "For a brighter future" could easily become with a splat or two "For a righter future"?
I saw one last week (out Halswell way) that said "For a blighted future". Gone the next day, though!
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I wonder how that 5,5 we had at 8.34pm
went down at the fanzone in Hagley Park ?Folks were strangely calm, reacted but settled down to the game almost instantly. The big screens did wobble, rather.
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what with the cuts at the University of Canterbury
Not yet a done deal. If anyone wants to help out a tiny bit- and shares the feeling Canterbury needs a decent, broad-based university- please consider signing this petition from the TEU.
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What system do you favour, Graeme?
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Love, ta mate :)
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Not aiming at derailment, just a little side-tracking: anyone heard of Aspiritech? It’s an organisation/company in Illinois that
champions the unique concentration and detail-oriented strengths of its 15 employees, all of whom have been diagnosed with disorders on the autism spectrum.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to merc,
Just talking to a Merivale person who is currently orange zoned, but will be red in the next six months. This person reported that the first person to visit them was not from insurance, or interested in assessing the house- just there to assess what the land would be worth in ten years, on the market, after remediation.
NZ Govt 'help out' Chch by speculating on real estate ?!