Daily review 15/05/2024

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  1. 1

    The current mob in the beehive are useless to only but a few…..

    Dylan's words ring around my ears….

    Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl
    Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl

    It's all just a simple twist of fate…..

    It has to be …right….

  3. 3

    Of course Luxo will have words.

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    “Sadly, these things are never a juicy conspiracy,” Shane Jones says of his office neglecting to include a dinner with mining interests in his ministerial diary.

    “They’re largely a cock-up – not a particularly polite expression but it is a regular feature of politics.”

    […]

    On Monday, Jones told Newsroom his dinner with Bragg wasn’t included in his regularly disclosed ministerial diary because “it was very much a last-minute thing”.

    But after more questions were asked, Jones is correcting the record. Not only was the dinner organised in advance, it had two other participants.

    https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/05/15/jones-undeclared-dinner-had-two-more-mining-industry-attendees/?

    2. 3.2

      Isn't that more-or-less exactly why Clare Curran was hounded out of office (and eventually politics)?

      1. 3.2.1

        At least we are free of the spectre of the hounder being in the role.

        Taking someone out trying to realise change when it was needed and having nothing to offer when in the job …

        And I still do not know if Michael Wood's speech in the House in 2022 was a subtle put down of the wrong sort of politics by those in parliament as well those outside of it.

      1. 4.1.1

        All along the watchtower … they saw

        … Woodhouse with a crown of thorns and a river was diverted away from the good people of Auckland …

  5. 5

    Polling isn’t done to inform.

    /

    @michaelharriot

    In 2020, Trump won 8% of the Black vote

    The weighted sample contains 391 Black voters. 13% of all respondents were between 18-29. If weighted the same as the total group, in this poll, the difference between 8% & 20% is 6 responses.

    Yep. Even with all that math and science, the entire notion that Trump is gaining ground among 1.2 million young Black voters is essentially based on phone conversations with 6 Black people

    Six.

    @JoshKraushaar

    "Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden are essentially tied among 18-to-29-year-olds and Hispanic voters, even though each group gave Mr. Biden more than 60 percent of their vote in 2020. Mr. Trump also wins more than 20 percent of Black voters — a tally that would be the highest level of Black support for any Republican presidential candidate since the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964."

    https://x.com/JoshKraushaar/status/1789973371079266604

    https://x.com/michaelharriot/status/1790213728228528144

      1. 8.1.1

        I watched hipkins on the te news yesterday morning, affable answers questions , compared to sweaty dodgy ,line repeating mr angry luxon, people will grow weary of him quickly.

        1. 8.1.1.1

          It’s interesting how we all view these things. I line the two up side by side and have difficulty seeing anything inspiring in either of them.

    1. 11.1

      Not to mention it's equally damaging cousin…sugar…

      Many of the food-peddlers are essentially poisoning/sending to a premature death their victims/consumers…using those two…

      As just one example…try finding a breakfast cereal that hasn't been soaked in sugar ..

      Surely it's a primary role of government…to protect citizens from such wholesale exploitation..?

      So what are they doing..?..short answer:..not a lot…

      It's probably too 'woke' for them to bother about..

      ..and then there is the political clout of those poisonous-food peddlers…

      1. 11.1.1

        Recipe for most supermarket food…

        Large amounts of salt ..

        Large amount of sugar..

        Binding agent ..

        Taste-maskers/flavourings.

        (And there you have it..!..)

    2. 11.2

      And that's why Obtrectatrix and I have nearly always cooked from scratch, using tins and packets as little as possible, and opting for reduced salt and/or sugar wherever possible, even at extra cost. On those rare occasions when we do open a sachet and heat up the contents, the taste of the salt is almost overwhelming.

  12. 12

    Joe90. Wasn’t this exact same reason that Clare Curran was bullied into a breakdown in Parliament by Melissa Lee and Michael Woodhouse and she had to resign? In jones case seems a lot more serious than CCs omitting to diary an appt with Penfold.

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