Posts by william blake
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Oh dear, an $86,000,000,000 bill at the end of the capitalist banquet, make that + GST and don't forget to tip the waiter.
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Hard News: More than a bang on the head, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Long pause.
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La Belle Époque does it for me, Satie, Debussy, but the scene would have been wild.
A link to one of the best musical things to come from the influence of French colonialism in the Congo.
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Though I have to say using ‘bear-knuckles’ sounds pretty dangerous!
Constitutionally guaranteed in USA; the right to bear arms.
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Legal Beagle: The flag referendum:…, in reply to Matthew Hooton,
If we are living in such a liberal democracy why were we not asked if the flag needed to be changed?
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Legal Beagle: The flag referendum:…, in reply to Jeremy Andrew,
It's also not a colouring in competition.
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Legal Beagle: The flag referendum:…, in reply to Johnny Canuck,
New Zealanders aren’t asked (and don’t have the opportunity) to swear allegiance to the flag.
Isn't that what the referendum is demanding, or meh not so much for you?
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By not just giving the job to a team of professionals and presenting the result as a fait accompli, the business necessarily becomes amatuer and political. The referendum should have asked if there was a desire for flag change and the threshold should have been really high 75% or more for change. Then passed on to experts, what the flag looks like is actually irrelevant, it is what it symbolises that matters. The flag is supposed to represent all New Zealanders. Not just a majority of New Zealanders.
The biggest risk with the ‘new’ flag is that if voted in, a very large minority will feel left out. Bad flag. Being asked to swear allegiance to a symbol you don’t want is a fundamental of fascism.
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. Now that it looks certain the 'Lockwood' version is going to MOTAT, Key and his merry band of spinners are labelling the process politicised.
I think the flag that best represents Key, Farar, Hooten, Croby, Textor et al is a giant kids windmill, pointlessly spinning.