The Daily Blog Open Mic – Friday 28th June 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
While it’s great to see so many Baby Boomer MPs calling for the right to kill their parents, the reality is that the ‘suffering from a grievous and irremediable medical condition’ part of the Euthanasia Bill creates a loophole you could drive a stretch limo hearse through.
I’m not sure ‘we are greedy pricks with an obscene lust for cash but we’d never offend the gays’ is much of an ethical high horse for ANZ to ride in on – I mean your average Edge Radio Listener will buy it, but shouldn’t a bank aim higher than a breakfast Radio Show standards?
This was always about Treasury incompetence and their jaw dropping ability to claim it was a hack to hide their incompetence.
Much of the counter argument to criticism of Oranga Tamariki’s child stealing policy is ‘these babies need to be rescued because the parents are shit’.
Mediocrity in stereo.
David Seymour’s End of Life Choice Bill passed it’s second reading yesterday. It now goes to the Committee of the Whole House where all members of Parliament consider it part by part and have the chance to debate it in detail.
Glug, glug, glug” – that’s the sound a sinking battleship makes, according to Paul Keating, who deployed the sound effect to devastating effect on Wednesday to underline his argument that the United States could not expect to dominate China in the South China Sea.
JACINDA ARDERN HAILS her government as the most committed to delivering progressive change since the mid-1970s. In other words, since the Third Labour Government of Norman Kirk and Bill Rowling (1972-1975). Before assessing whether or not the Prime Minister’s claim is true, it is worth considering what on earth possessed her to make it.
5: IT’S FINALLY #MUELLERTIME. WILL ANYONE EVEN CARE?
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