A delicate balancing act

It is my local community so I will be looking to be present there as soon as I’m able to

I do need to delicately balance being in the right place in the right time

Ardern defended her trip, her first visit to the Chathams, saying she had been in touch with some Mt Albert community leaders

Ah, yes, she will have likely consulted with H1 Foundation for orders and then proceeded on her day trip on Air Horse One to curry favour with the murderers of Moriori rather than the family of a murdered Indian in her own electorate.

The feeling's mutual Winnie

Winston thinks he's in with a chance at the next main play, so he's laying some ground rules. 

We are not going to go with the Labour Party, this present Labour Party crowd, because they can’t be trusted.

You don’t get a second time to lie to me, or my party and they did.

Very likely that the electorate might suggest that the feeling's mutual in relation to trust.  

To me, WRP remains nothing but one who peddles electoral snake-oil.  One who is adept at dancing on the head of pin post-election on inferred pre-election policies.  And will be forever known as the enabler of that woman.

Most definitely, once bitten, twice shy. 

"It will feel good."

 Never truer words.

A short video advert from prior to his previous election as #45 explains Donald J. Trump's chances of re-election as #47.

sourced from here

Labour-Lite tosser to visit the Tron

 The would-be leader of the opposition is trying outdo Labour's 'that woman' pre-announcing announcements.  One day National may actually get a leader that shows a difference between their party and the left.

Never fear, the corrupt bribe takers of the MSM will always be on hand to eviscerate you on your every word.

National leader Christopher Luxon is making a policy announcement in Hamilton this morning.

What a bloody tosser!

Look! A weasel!

 

Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown is pulling back from election promises

Like all politicians - an effing weasel.  Jafalanders will be suffering from buyer's remorse.

It didn't take long for him to reverse course from his very publicly stated pre-election promises.  I daresay he's been threatened with the legals in the short few weeks since being elected.

In parallel, I wonder if that woman has offered an inducement re 3 waters to keep the Auckland council CCO's undisturbed.

Just cut their benefit!

Kiwis turning down jobs to remain on the benefit would be put on "income management"

They should already be on "income management" at the first strike of not accepting any offered job.

The dole is not a lifestyle choice for the would-be career bludging nephews who choose to remain on the couch.

Just cut their benefit already!  

ACT continues to show leadership in this area.

Mr Mayor, this is how you do layoffs

The unionised lurking in the ivory towers are to be slashed forthwith.  Predictably union scum are screaming blue murder. Probably will prune $15-25M off the payroll.  In my book, anything that excises tenured academics and associated shiny-bums can only be good for New Zealand.

Come on Mayor Brown,  AUT has shown you how to lance the unionised boil.   Now get on with it!  We are waiting for you get more than a head count of 1. 

Engineering ecosystems in NZ

 In the UK there's nothing but praise for these ecosystem engineers.

XXXXX serve as ecosystem engineers - a term used to describe species that can alter and maintain a habitat. The shaggy-haired animals, which have been described as "woolly bulldozers”, are seen by scientists as climate heroes.

"They are quite big and robust, so they can really shape and engineer the landscape around them," said Gibbs explaining that their fur debarks trees, they mow grass with their mouths, their large bodies create pathways throughout the dense forest and their nutrient-rich manure helps other species flourish. "Everything they do has this positive impact and shapes the world around them."

** Insert 'Bison' for the UK.  In NZ, insert 'Cows' - story from here

Meanwhile in NZ there is zero 'positive impact' as here anything that is remotely bovine is denigrated as evil incarnate with respect to engineering ecosystems.  Notwithstanding that the bush in New Zealand was tamed for farming through the use of cattle.

Hold my beer ...

 What I’m hearing is it is going to happen and Wayne Brown – I don’t know if he realises this – he doesn’t have the power to stop it.

Newly elected council wallahs proudly tout their tribalist connections to the 14% whilst ignoring the 86%.

Meanwhile the similarly connected deputy thinks 3 Waters (and no doubt SNAs) are a done deal.  Must be some good Mahuta Corp Koolaid in those waters!

Hold my beer!  

An aside, Wayne's had a great first week in office, leading up to the change of government next year.

Never in a million years

 "There's three in this marriage"

Didn't take long.  They're testing the water to drop the word "Consort".

should refer to the "Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla"

In my book a more fitting title will always be the "Whore of Windsor".

Of loyalty and duty.

 RIP HM Queen Elizabeth II.

How to stop ramraiding teens

one school district in Missouri, who have made a willing decision to bring back "physical force" as a punishment for unruly students, ... for "correcting student behaviour".

 

Like it or not statistically, violent behavior in teens has increased in direct proportion to the removal of corporal punishment - where it still exists such as Singapore teen crime, vandalism & violence is almost non existent. 

Nothing wrong with 6-of-the-best or a nun's two inch leather strap.

Long missed here in NZ, parents are thanking the school board.

Of ablaut reduplication and green little men

 

I do wonder if the same rules apply to the mash-mish of te mow-ree pidgin so prevalent in these troubled times? 

flogged from here

Council wallah out for drive gets his boots muddy.

Far North mayor John Carter went to check the slips on Friday morning and thought they looked bad

Like as if the on-site contractors who have to clean up the need more council and NZTA wallahs in hi-viz lurking at their job-site for the next year.  Yes, on SH1 there's another large underslip, 15x overslips, the Mangamuka Gorge is going to be closed again. Possibly forever.  

I'm sure a drone snapshot of the road / flyover of the slips would be of more use.  That only needs one person on site.  Hell, the Mayor might even get such footage posted on the council website to show what state the road is actually in.  And a regularly updated timeline showing progress during the repair.

After all we live in the Wuhan pox days of Zoomed calls and unwanted co-governance with a dose of 3-waters driven government holding pre-meetings online over doomed MP's.

Maybe the same council website might have some real-time information on all slips and outages around the district for long-suffering ratepayers who pay his over-blown wages.  At present such info is found out via word-of-mouth.  And if you do not have access to Fakebook via their closed local information groups, you're stuffed for info during such events.

When I drove the same highway a couple of weeks ago, the road was noticeably slumping in multiple places, with large 750+ mm slumps visible, just waiting for a small rain event such as we're enduring right now.  And this is only 200mm over a couple of days, not your typical cyclonic normality of 100mm an hour over 3-5 days.  Meanwhile both SH1 and SH10 have flooded access further south and are often blocked.

It is high time the same governmental wallahs made real efforts to future proof road access to the Far North.  A tunnel would be nice, a decent road even better!  We're only talking about a 400m high hill!

The Mayor shouldn't need to get his gumboots muddy!

The cover up continues...

 It related to a Wellington-based staff member travelling to a member’s electorate office for the purpose of team building and assisting the wider team. This is normal practise for many members when establishing a new team which has staff dispersed in different regions

So the union bullies were despatched from Trevor's head office to his office, no doubt at the behest of the 9th floor, to sort out a new MP.  And he had the temerity to complain about being made to pay their expenses?

The cover up re misuse of funds is in.  'Establishing a new team' is word soup for knocking the rookie into line.

As we also know via Cindy's utterings in recent days, he'll be further subjected to 'wellbeing' reducation.  Oozing no doubt with copious lashings of 'kindess' as the matter is put to bed.