Posts by Bart Janssen
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Hard News: Drugs, testing and workplaces, in reply to Tinakori,
So you are conceding that English was told these things by employers. Therefore he wasn't lying when he said so. Thanks for that.
I am still saying English was lying.
As I explained in the bit that your confirmation bias made you unable to understand -
Those statements would have been checked before English repeated them, by the time he repeated them he would have known full well those statements were false.Repeating something you know is false is a lie.
Pretending it's OK to repeat something you know is a lie just because someone else said it is something we teach children not to do.
But your unwavering defense of our PM is admirable.
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Hard News: Drugs, testing and workplaces, in reply to Tinakori,
I very much doubt that English or any other politician would say that employers were telling him this if they were not.
Which is exactly my point. You doubt he lied. You can't bring yourself to believe anything else. You want to trust him because, well, he's the PM.
But let's flip this around a moment. You're the Prime Minister. You represent all New Zealanders, even those who didn't vote for you. You get told something by some employers. Something that with about 5 seconds of rational thought seems pretty far fetched.
Now do you
A) send your staff away to find out the actual numbers so that if there really is a problem with job applicants failing drug tests you get the facts straight. It is after all quite a scary claim - saying most or even lots of young job applicants are failing drug tests.or B) Just repeat said claim without any fact check at all.
Now I don't think Bill English is an idiot and frankly, in that job, you'd have to be a complete idiot to choose option B. So I'm going to go with option A.
And that means when he decided to make that claim he knew it was false, he knew that what those employers said to him was false.
Now technically he might just get away with saying "I only repeated what they were saying and not that he believed it himself".
But that's the kind is bollocks you expect from a five year old - not THE PRIME MINISTER.
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Which brings us to Prime Minister Bill English's anecdata yesterday about employers who tell him they have trouble finding prospective employees who can pass a drug test. He
LIED:
fixed that for you.
Seriously, our PM told a bald-faced lie. And nobody in the media was willing to say that.
People wonder how Trump gets away with such atrocious lies - this is how. Because our media is too ... er ... polite to call out the prime minister when he lies.
We let the little fudges slip by and next thing a million and a half people are cheering in the bright sunshine.
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franchising lawyer, an accountant, a professional director, a toxicologist and Christie
WTF!
Ok a public service announcement is needed - if you ever see a board with this structure run away, don't walk, don't pause just run.
How does Christie have any credibility as anything now??
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Part of the problem has been the self inflicted degradation of the MSM. For the past two decades the news media has shifted from researched serious news to fluff. Because fluff sells.
That's business and the MSM is business so we can hardly criticise them.
But that has meant that most folks treat much of the MSM as if it was junk entertainment. If you're going to spend 5 minutes of the 6 pm news on Richie McCaw's wedding then how can I be expected to take any story about Trump and more seriously.
And no not-all-media. But enough that a significant number of folks are only too happy to accept that media stories about corruption in the white house are simply more junk media.
Especially if it confirms their biases.
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Up Front: The Little Things, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
To put Trump in perspective:
Rejected due to absence of cat references or photos
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Up Front: The Little Things, in reply to Russell Brown,
Even mature cats do odd things. Here's Colin sitting in the cubbyhole by our new Ikea shelves last week.
Apollo has decided the place to sleep is on top of my rucksack which I put down on the workbench in the garage.
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Apollo is our evil cat. At random times for no discernible reason he will savagely attack our arms - full on death claw and bite to the bone mode. We don't know why. For the rest of the time he's lovely, last night he wanted cuddles so came and lay on my mouse hand and purred. he doesn't do laps but likes to be between us so we have to leave a space on the couch just for him.
Artemis is his sister and a perfect example of why you should be very careful with cat names - after discovering who she was named after she has spent every minute of every night trying to live up to her name. She's generous though - she will bring her victims up to our bedroom to let us play with them too ... at 3 am.
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Speaker: Broadcasting and the Public Interest, in reply to Dylan Reeve,
As long as the management was on board with the vision then I think any reasonable mixed use structure could be managed.
Just echoing what Damien and Russell have said. This kind of thing could work well BUT it needs the right CEO.
From my experience in a CRI most CEOs are fundamentally accountants in nature. They focus on "business" and most Boards of Directors are the same. In that environment the "purpose" of the organisation gets lost.
When you have a CEO committed to what the organisation is actually meant to do, be it science or public broadcasting, you have a much stronger chance of getting the desired outcome. There are always plenty of accountants hovering around to make sure the business is OK but without that genuine commitment from the CEO to a goal bigger than simply making more dollars you quickly become just another business.
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So THAT explains those texts.
It is deeply frustrating that Pharmac is stepping away from balancing cost/benefit relationships (and yes those include letting people die) and making the call on "risk of diversion".
If there was genuine risk of diversion it should be dealt with in other ways and not within the purvue of Pharmac.