The Daily Blog Open Mic – 17th June 2024
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
The Editor doesn’t moderate this blog, 3 volunteers do, they are very lenient to provide you a free speech space but if it’s just deranged abuse or putting words in bloggers mouths to have a pointless argument, we don’t bother publishing.
All in all, TDB gives punters a very, very, very wide space to comment in but we won’t bother with out right lies or gleeful malice. We leave that to the Herald comment section.
EDITORS NOTE: – By the way, here’s a list of shit that will get your comment dumped. Sexist abuse, homophobic abuse, racist abuse, anti-muslim abuse, transphobic abuse, Chemtrails, 9/11 truthers, Qanon lunacy, climate deniers, anti-fluoride fanatics, anti-vaxxer lunatics, 5G conspiracy theories, the virus is a bioweapon, some weird bullshit about the UN taking over the world and ANYONE that links to fucking infowar.
Eddication – that’s tapping on keys and looking at pictures or running round with balls for male and female too.
All we need to know about eddication.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/519713/call-for-cursive-handwriting-lessons-yearly-tests-is-politically-motivated-and-out-of-touch-teachers-say
And we’re open for the USA to come here and sell us some good education plans like they’ve got. So worthy and clever; take us into the future, walking backwards too. Some schools have even adopted as their motto the Ginger Rogers quote e&oe:
“Fred Astaire was great, but don’t forget that Ginger Rogers [dancing partner] did everything he did, backwards … and in high heels.”
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/519759/time-for-nz-to-purchase-new-defence-force-planes-former-minister
It would be cheaper to present a lapsed PM with a small jet as going-away, far-away present. who showed failure within 6 months of election than suffer the debacle of the rich and hungry, smug and complacent, educated but illiterate, religious but disliking most of man, woman – kind and with little kindness at all to mired dairy cows, permanently caged pigs, lame dogs, blind cats, shipfuls of cattle or sheep, caged chickens etc.
If we had a real government-run country this sort of debacle would be business as usual, what can you expect from this dopey gummint, no planning, thrird (third) world etc.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/519779/crucial-rail-corridor-at-risk-from-unstable-hamilton-street
But we have the finest sharp minds in business from world-wide – shame that they are cutting us to ribbons, julienned, in small slices, etc.
Can we really afford to go green?
$90 a tonne could add 6 percent to electricity, according to a Treasury paper.
It will also impact the price of petrol and food.
$70 to $150 a tone has been touted as being necessary to encourage investment in new technologies
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/519730/national-promised-a-strong-and-stable-carbon-market-then-it-crashed
This needs fixing now.
The number of innocent people being held in remand (prison) up nearly 100%
At more than $150,000 to house each prisoner per year. Over 2000 people equates to over $300 million a year.
Further, the amount of time they’re held in custody has also increased.
And no compensation paid out to those wrongly locked up.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/519709/more-people-serving-time-in-prison-before-being-found-not-guilty-data-shows