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Simon Bridges is back from the wilderness in the news with the usual rhetorical innuendo and histrionics. Oh, how much I have missed him in the last couple of weeks. He posted a cunning photo on Facebook captioned Labour’s Car Tax – new vehicles. I…
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John Banks may be on the comeback trail. Or at least the folk at Topham and Guerin and Crosby and Textor may be investigating the possibility of a campaign. From Bevan Hurley at Stuff: John Banks has hired a team of heavyweight political strategists as he…
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It isn't often that I read a sports story. My view was that if you aren't doing a sport, then what is the point in watching others doing it? Work on something that you can do. However a title on an aussie ABC article caught…
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This post is a place for positive discussion of the future. An Open Mike for ideas, solutions and the discussion of the possible. The Big Picture, rather than a snapshot of the day’s goings on. Topics rather than topical. We’d like to think it’s…
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You may not know this, but about one in every 400 cars that go through the Waterview tunnel pay toll to go faster than the legal speed limit of usually 80 km/h. Thing is, these drivers often don’t know it either till they get the…
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I must admit some trepidation in writing anti Trump posts. I thought they would be universally acclaimed and accepted on this site. But like Brexit there is a significant number of lefties who think differently to me. And why do I attack Trump? Well he…
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Apologies but I won't be able to post anything today. A local infestation of unwanted critters into Titirangi is dominating my time. Tune back in tomorrow ... But in the meantime if someone could conclusively answer that perennial question that would be appreciated.
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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There is a disturbingly large chance that our civilisation is beyond the point of no return and a combination of western excess, inbuilt third world development momentum and the release of methane from the tundra not to mention the accelerating loss of ice sheets and…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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An article in the BBC News caught my eye last night. "Teens less likely to use cannabis when it's legal, US study finds". The study was pretty preliminary but quite specific. Now I can speculate about why, and I'm sure that some will. But the…
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Environment Canterbury (ECAN for short) is going through something of an existential crisis. The Board should be the vanguard for those promoting environmental concerns (after all, it’s in the name). And yet, for almost a decade there has been little ‘walk’ to go with the…
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If we are going to be carbon neutral by 2050 then something radical has to be done about transport. It has been explained to me that basically from 2030 all new introductions into the vehicle fleet have to be electric or hydrogen powered. And the…
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This rather chilling video featuring an appraisal of Donald Trump's mental health by Dr Bandy Lee is doing the rounds. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=464018517733024 Lee in 2017 wrote the book The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. She and others have now assessed the information in the Muller report…
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One of the most constitutionally outrageous things the John Key National Government did was in response to a Court of Appeal decision in Health v Atkinson which upheld a finding that to not pay caregivers who were also family members of individuals suffering from a…
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