Posts by Pete Sime
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Oh I wish “twatcock” was reported the same way last year.
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I've been enjoying Peter Gabriel's rendition of My Body is a Cage
In other other year-in-reviewy goodness, Google put out their Zeitgeist video today
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to BenWilson,
Action is a lot louder than words. You can see a huge mine, you can see homeless people, and you can certainly feel the big hole in your pay packet when you get laid off. You can feel the burn when a kid replaces you because they’re on $2/hour below the minimum wage, and you can certainly notice the drop in quality. You notice immediately when your power prices go up.
Indeed. How many times has this government announced ultra-fast broadband? Despite the fact that it was already established as policy in Labour's Digital Strategy of the mid 2000s.
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Key isn’t great in the House, he is as good as George Bush ever was , I’ll give him that.
True, but the media rarely broadcasts any clips from the House proceedings. It takes away screen time from their political reporters. And I guess there's too much to wade through to get a package ready for broadcast by 6 o'clock. They seem to prefer reporting on press conferences and hallway-interviews.
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Voted at a local school in Dunedin. Since I moved down here from Wellington two weeks ago, there was a bit of faffing about but I updated my details on Monday and in the end I became a special voter.
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Does anybody know how Chris Knox is doing these days? The last I heard about him was the release of the album to support his recovery.
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Ok here's how I'm voting tomorrow (given my massive eighty comments or so makes me such an opinion leader on this site).
David Clark - Dunedin North is blessed in being a safe Labour seat, and with Pete Hodgson's retirement at least there will be some new blood.
Labour - I had thought about voting for New Zealand First as a spoiler against National, but I couldn't bring myself to do it.
MMP - we don't have an upper chamber, supreme legislation or a head of state who can veto, so proportional representation is the only way to temper the excesses of parliament.
STV - I was going to vote for FPP, thinking it would lose a second referendum, but I don't want to give it any legitimacy. STV is the pick of a poor bunch.Anyway, enjoy your democratic rights tomorrow. It is still a wondrous thing to freely select our government in this fashion when so many in the world can't enjoy the same thing.
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Hard News: The Solemnity of the Day, in reply to Peter Darlington,
Oh great, I've been reading this site for over a damned decade and now you finally tell us what Rule No One is! :) #attemptstodeleteallpreviousposts
Well, rule 34 can be so much more interesting than rule 1.
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It's interesting that they are applying the same rules to the referendum too, given that postal referendums are carried out without such restrictions. Is this a tacit acknowledgement that referendums at the ballot box are more important than ones carried out by post?
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
Even better. I was hunting around for an approiate rhyme.