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Nicola Willis is deluded if she thinks her policy approach of propping up the rich more with tax cuts and reducing he bright lines tests, landlords getting tax deductions will trickle down and help Maori whanau as all her policies benefit the rich and rely on those on the receiving end to redistribute wealth when we know this has not and does not work.
Hear, hear, here. here covid pa, So full of hubris are National that they keep on doing the same old things to bring us down further and look complacently at us knowing that a whole lot of people will vote for that end; they just eat lies like lizards eat flies.
It’s Sharma Karma Day!
Will Labour cave and give him a big cuddle?
Will he keep his distance as per the covid distancing rule?
Will the Maori caucus be used to ‘persuade’ him to back down?
Will he bring down this caretaker government!
I hope so!!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/472956/snapped-50-000-escape-tickets-after-being-caught-using-phones-not-wearing-seatbelts
Okay, people want to use phones, and are in a hurry to get to heaven so don’t worry about seatbelts. So let Wahi K or what ever the Transport Authority is called find a reasonably priced device that people can use to talk while driving operating from the dash – something like taxis have. I know they say it can be distracting but worries about where or what next can also be. So fine them for not using one of these. , after makding sure that enough are available and being fitted correctly! Also find a way that a handheld device can slot into a pouch on the dash and connect.
As for not wearing seatbelts – if they have or cause an accident they have to pay part of the hospital bill arising. say 10%. If they have no money the car is impounded for a week while they put all their spare time into picking weeds, cutting down old man’s beard etc. The loopyproletariat who want to be free, can go and live on a desert island.
And he, Sharma gets ‘Cancelled!” Oh what a surprise!?
As if that’s going to stop him! Its a bit late. The horse has well and truly bolted!
Amateurs these caretaker government gaslighting types.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/labour-mp-gaurav-sharma-suspended-from-party-caucus-effective-immediately-jacinda-ardern/ZSFZKNAUPHMQFWOMHD4DVWFKUQ/
Thinking about the approach of government here to laws broken. Often a fine is slapped on. Laws are not fund raisers for the government. If someone breaks the law – hsow can it be made good?
A dog bites a vet who has serious injuries as a result. But taken to Court the Judge blames her. Is it reasonable to take the attitude that its in a days work for a vet? Does it become a serious matter only if its ‘vet bites dog’. So the owner is let off, taking no responsibility. The Council are appealing the verdict.
Tauranga City Council environmental regulation manager Nigel McGlone said the council filed the appeal because it believed the judge “made an error of law”.
“He focused on the conduct of the victim, rather than the legal responsibility of the dog owner to control the dog,” McGlone said.
“Council sought advice from Crown Law who agree that it is in the interest of the public to clarify this issue of law, as the outcome will have implications for all dog owners.”
Surely the vet is not less than an ordinary person who has been bitten? There is no word of compassion in the news item towards the vet only how the matter affects the dog owners.
He said his mum was “stressed” because of the appeal and the costs that may be involved, as well as the threat to Chopper’s life.
“It’s been stressful right from the start, but this is a whole new thing,” he said.
“We just want to move on with our lives. We want to know this is all behind us.
“Then we don’t have to worry about Chopper being taken away from us and Mum doesn’t have to have these fines and a jail sentence hanging above her.
The big problem is that gummint has seen fit to impose a swingeing punishment on a dog owner found guilty. OTT and unreasonable.
Fraser (dog owner) was charged by the council with owning a dog causing injury, ..
The attack left Schneider, the owner of Holistic Vets, with a fractured ulna, four puncture wounds and nerve and muscle damage which required surgery.
If Fraser had been convicted of the charge, it would have meant the dog was legally required to be put down. The charge carried a maximum sentence of three years’ imprisonment or a $20,000 fine.
It seems a case for the dog to be put down but not for additional punishing fines; an apology and a sum towards the cost of medical help for the vet would be entirely appropriate. Also mandatory puppy and obedience and control training for all dogs, and particularly the larger dogs favoured for guard dogs.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018853354/dr-neil-shubin-the-fish-that-evolved-to-walk-but-stayed-in-the-water
A newly unveiled fossil fish called Qikiqtania wakei is thought to have shunned the forward march of evolution, eschewing the ability to walk and deciding to stay in the water.
A close relative of the four-legged fishapod Tiktaalik, the Qikiqtania has been encased in rock waiting to be discovered.
I wonder if we will become a study by political scientists. The little country that evolved under social democracy to a high level of society attempting to embrace all within the polity, but thought it could step into another milieu abandoning its advances and benefits to emulate an apparently more successful evolution that eventually bred itself to extinction, which cessation was followed by the little country.
E\We sort of know this but it is interesting to see how the two extemes carry on the chart is it exponentially?
He’s the author of The Human Network: How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs, and Behaviors.
The analysis behind the book was based on 72 million Facebook users and 21 billion friendships.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2018853416/networks-key-to-future-income-says-study
Dr Matthew O. Jackson is a professor of economics at Stanford University with research interests in social as well as economic networks.
Ever get the feeling that we are just lab rats to these bozos (highly trained statistically inclined superior professional middle class people). ‘ The number of people who died of the extreme cold last night was the most it has been since two years ago’. Goodness, how interesting, they comment. Does that correlate with other nearby countries of the same size?