Posts by Bart Janssen
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What seems bizarre to me is that it looks like our elected representatives on the council just voted to have the advice of the entire city council bureaucracy with all the talent (and shite) EXCLUDED from the next plan for our city.
If I understand that correctly it is insane.
And can we please have some of those bright informed young men and women on the next ballot paper so this old white male can vote for them????
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What seems saddest is that we actually have some committed intelligent informed young folk willing to contribute to the future of our city
and then that happens to themI know Gen zero and transportblog are not strictly political organisations but personally this old white male would happily tick every fricken box beside a list of their candidates.
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Speaker: The Shaken Generation, in reply to Kyle MacDonald,
In stark opposition to the Herald today, which supports Health cuts on the efficiency argument…
What struck me most about the editorial and the whole efficiency argument is that it make the presumption that health workers would naturally skive off and waste money if they could.
It's the idea that given the chance they would take their salary and just go home and watch cricket instead of doing their job.
The thing is, most health workers really wouldn't walk away and let someone suffer in pain or bleed over the pavement, they CARE about the work they do.
What is abundantly clear is that the folks in parliament and the plonker who wrote the editorial can't conceive of anyone doing their job without having a big stick waved over them. Which leads me to the conclusion that far from targeting health workers we should be targeting Herald opinion writers and politicians because they clearly would skive off home to watch cricket.
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Access: Zika and microcephaly: things to…, in reply to B Jones,
I hope it was clear that I thought the conspiracy theory to be nonsense
Yup.
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Access: Zika and microcephaly: things to…, in reply to linger,
vividly illustrates the harm of anti-vaccination conspiracy theories
NY Times article notes that "Brazil’s southernmost state went so far over the weekend as to ban the use of the larvicide in its drinking water" a theory spread by actors (spit) tweeting.
The larvacide kills mosquitoes that spread multiple diseases including zika, it's an insect hormone - it can't even harm our shapechanging lizard overlords!
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If you think it's fun and harmless to spread conspiracy theories, you are wrong.
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Speaker: The Shaken Generation, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
there will come a tipping point…
Really? 'cause ya know John Key is such a nice man and if our Richie likes him then he must be good.
I'm sorry to rag on those who vote National, I'm certain there are those who genuinely believe that making the rich richer is ultimately better for the country. There are those for whom the ideology makes so much sense that they cannot believe the bad things that happen are related to National's actions.
But there is a portion of the voters who look at the rich getting richer and think "that'll be me soon", there is a portion who think that $10 a week will make all the difference. And they are simply too stupid to realise that to pay for that $10 a week the social welfare system, the education system, the health system are being systemically gutted and sold off for scrap.
There are a few genuine believers, there are a few genuinely good National MPs, but they support a group of corrupt, venal scum who only care about the power they get to wield and if a few more people from Christchurch commit suicide to support that power then they are comfortable with that.
Yeah some IRE.
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All of New Zealand should be deeply ashamed that their government is doing this to the people of Christchurch.
The Minister is pretty much only interested in carving another few dollars off the budget so his party can buy the next election with a tax cut. Contempt is hardly a good enough word.
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Hard News: Helen Kelly's letter, in reply to Russell Brown,
If Curia says that's the case, things will change.
Wouldn't it be nice to have a government that based policy on data and greatest benefit rather than using the reality TV popular vote.
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Gambler is apt. For me Coney will always be the captain I admire the most, everything considered, thought out, planned, a reason that can be articulated.
But with McCullum it's about just having a go, doing what feels right at the time, give the natural talent a chance to succeed and if it turns to custard then that's part of the game as well. I could never be that person but I can admire it in others.
And that isn't meant to suggest McCullum isn't intellectual but to say that he has a freedom in him that is infectious. He will be missed when he leaves the field for the last time.