Posts by Farmer Green
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Hard News: Drugs, testing and workplaces, in reply to Russell Brown,
Most employers live in fear of a workplace accident being investigated by the OSH police, and agriculture has some of the worst accident statistics in the country.
The OSH laws in relation to drug use identify "safety - sensitive " workplaces as having a special status.
It is far from inconceivable that , in the event of a farm accident, a farmer could be held liable for having endangered other workers by employing someone known to have used drugs in the past.
You might be incredulous that such fear of OSH exists, but it is common , and it is not paranoid. -
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Hard News: I tried Sativex: it was no…, in reply to Kumara Republic,
It simply will not do for " we the people " to be taking responsibility for our own health and well-being. That way lies . . . . freedom.
Think of the doctors.Walter Last's "Heal Yourself " should be banned . . . . what would a forensic toxicologist and pathologist know about what's killing people anyway?
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" Auckland region's summer pluviality "
The entire West Coast of both islands from Auckland southwards in fact. Perhaps someone should tell the clowns at The Listener, (see last issue's editorial) , as well as Peter Dunne.
Shifting the holidays to Autumn ( which begins in February; don't believe me . . . the leaves on the trees are turning) as if that will ensure "holiday weather" flies in the face of common sense. -
Hard News: I tried Sativex: it was no…, in reply to Shane Le Brun,
, and to take large doses at bed time, improving pain and sleep,
Which is entirely consistent with the known anxiolytic, sedative and soporific qualities of cannabis, ( and of hops also) .
So, a low- alcohol IPA and a toke should see the sandman at your doorstep :-)
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Hard News: Burning down the house to…, in reply to Lynn Yum,
"If you would stereotype a group of people by presuming to guess their politics or deeming them inferior to yourself – say, the ones who worked third shift on a Boeing floor while others flew to Mexico during spring break; the ones who mopped a McDonald’s bathroom while others argued about the minimum wage on Twitter; the ones who cleaned out their lockers at a defunct Pabst factory while others drank craft beer at trendy bars; the ones who came back from the Middle East in caskets while others wrote op-eds about foreign policy – then consider that you might have more in common with Trump than you would like to admit."
Eloquent.
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@ Mark T.
It does get tricky, with atheistic Zionists claiming to have been chosen by God. -
Hard News: Burning down the house to…, in reply to Kumara Republic,
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Hard News: Burning down the house to…, in reply to Tom Semmens,
Labour’s attempts to widen it’s appeal in the name of discredited liberal identity politics,
Would you expand ?
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Hard News: Burning down the house to…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
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That was a concise summation of the dilemma.