Posts by Stewart
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Happy to second Craig's evaluation of Kevin Roberts.
"Self-obsessed blow-hard" doesn't even come close.
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seem to be flowing from people who, under Labour, I'd have expected
Uh-huh.
Does the cycleway seem to you to be the pinnacle of insight as to how NZ can handle the economic debacle in which we find ourselves? (I am trying to see this not just as a public work but as The Big Idea to have come out of that summit they held.) I can't see any point to knocking it as a piece of infrastructure that NZ may derive some small benefit from.
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Ben, have you got any basis for your feeling that objections to the cycleway are anti-National? And have any of the objectors to it declared any political partisanship?
I just don't get your argument on that one.
Personally, I don't mind the idea of a cycleway, I just don't think it will make any impression on the scale or depth of the economic depression and so is something of a failure to have sprung as the primary plank from the "Doing Something About The Economy" Summit.
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Don,
I don't think people are really shitting on the idea of the National Bikepath, it is the idea that it is somehow going to lead us out of recession that sticks, somewhat.
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I'm confused...agreeing with Thomas Friedman is not what I expected.
And I really enjoy your posts, David.
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Mum writes anonymous feature lightly detailing "Life with Teenagers" - OK.
Anonymity broken & details embarrassing for children, so feature pulled - OK.
Mum writes 'fictional' book detailing family traumas based on recalcitrant son's dabbling with drugs - Still OK with that.
In interview, mum outs own son as protagonist of book with attendant parental angst, publicity and potential negative recriminations for the son - Not OK
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Wouldn't it just have been better for Ms Myerson to have kept shtumm about the fact that it was based on her own son? Blabbing about it being her son & based on real-life (where the hash/skunk is evidently the same thing) is the sticking point for me.
Maybe she got to be the centre of attention for a little longer...?
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Organized religion? A plague on all their houses.
My idea is that any religious/spiritual feeling should come from within and not be imposed or encouraged from without.
I may get some sort of spiritual uplift from natural sources (seeing a fern frond uncurl, being licked by a puppy, etc) but I can't quite bridge the 'faith gap'. I need evidence, not faith.
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Craig,
I understand your cynicism re "the vision thang"[sic] but it all just seems so fucking lame. One day off a fortnight and a bike-path... <sigh> With the current shit-storm of meltdowns, foreclosures & job losses it would seem to be a good time to envisage something a little bolder.
(My naivete and my cynicism are having a ding-dong battle.) -
I, for one, am feeling distinctly underwhelmed at the results of this summit for jobs - a 9-day fortnight and a bike-path???
Surely, given the status of the majority of the participants/invitees, they could have come up with something a little more substantial or (how's this for naive?) visionary perhaps? From my personal perspective I'd prefer to see something about changing the basic paradigm of the NZ economy but I guess that might take leadership, vision and an independence from the cosy embrace of "big business".