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It's you know, R&B and them video things, with here! a pic of a tattooed guy, http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10814047
Nothing rational about our drinking. -
Dark days indeed, why no public scrutiny?
The Ombudsman had told a Parliamentary select committee there were "strong reasons" for the state-owned assets remaining open to public scrutiny.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/7127734/Dunne-slams-asset-sales-amendment-push
And don't forget the enablers, Dunne and Banks. Charter schools are an Act thing are they not? Where is old Banksy these days... -
"Alan Bollard may well be right," Mr Key said. "Treasury may well upgrade their numbers and decide they are more in tune with the Reserve Bank. I don't know and none of us really know at the moment.
"It's just a very uncertain time."
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10813900Epic fail. No forethought, no answers, no courage, no plan...just a very uncertain time. The most failures of any NZ Govt. at any time, history would be unkind to them if they weren't...
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"Some parents assume the decile ranking is a proxy for the quality of the school and that can be very unfair ... I have gone to a number of decile one to two schools that I would more than happily send my own children to, and decile 10 schools I wouldn't send them to."
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10813891
I just love the way this guy frames things, so folksy and non-academic...oh wait. -
Certainly as a parent I know I've always been very keen to have information about the performance of schools my children have been at...
Dudes either got his tense screwed up or he's been post evaluating his kids school performance after they left.
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Cannabis, cars and cops, the Govt's holy trinity for keeping you and me in check.
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Hard News: Briefing, blaming, backing down, in reply to BenWilson,
I am unconvinced. If I am not allowed to conflate voting with working then you are not allowed to haul in carparks ;-)
I read that for the left they see this non-voting as The Menace - in my view it isn't. I am always wary of power and sniff every compulsion that comes from it.
As for our own telling our own what they should be doing, that is not a line I want to cross. I question power and it's aging, not my own and theirs. -
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10813234
The best case scenario is a clean bill of health, allowing the negotiations with Sky City to conclude and construction on the convention centre to start before the election providing 1,000 more construction industry jobs and the other associated benefits of a $350 million construction project.
Just wow, you simply cannot beat blind loyalty to ideology.
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Hard News: Briefing, blaming, backing down, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Maybe the AG needs to probe the asset sales process too?
The reason that will not happen is the reason why the system is token.
What rights do we give away when we vote? What rights do we obtain? For me it is a rights issue foremost, then we can argue over the selling thereof. -
Can't get here from there,
"National won with the biggest result it's ever had in MMP history and Labour had the worst result. So the people of New Zealand have spoken."
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/7108265/Asset-sales-legislation-clears-another-hurdle
Black and white logic. Same old memes, to our detriment. Does not matter what we do when all they do is lie at you."Over the next three to five years the $6 billion in proceeds from these share offers will pay for priority new public assets like modern schools and hospitals through a new Future Investments Fund.
"That is $6 billion we would otherwise have had to borrow from overseas lenders."I call BS on that, and it's not about voter turnout, jury service, playtime parliament, journo enablement or the price of milk...it's because they lie, often, and with impunity.