Comfortably numb
Originally Posted by short-circuit
It means I don't consider him to be talking unsubstantiated shit like many journalists do.4. deference to a right, privilege, privileged position, or someone or something considered to have certain rights or privileges; proper acceptance or courtesy; acknowledgment
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Definitely. It's very worthy and right now, just after the Bikeoi, is when they'll be most receptive.
Easily wound up!!
I agree whole-heartedly Paul but....
it all smells like Socialism to me... you'd better watch that. It's not too popular around these parts
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was and never will be" - Thomas Jefferson in the 1770s.
He is also quoted as saying
"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves. If we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion! "
About the only information for their discretion they get these days is so massaged by a compliant media, it's no wonder they are ignorant - unless it's about which celebrity star shagged which other non person last week in a country far away of no import!
“- He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”
You're nuthin
The wikipedia bio I posted up certainly suggests otherwise: Freak Wishart
That aside he is christian, right wing, anti gay, anti science, anti sexual health in schools, anti environment...with that kind of values system and worldview I think it would be fairly safe to assume he'd also be racist and anti women as well.
How would that be for journalistic bias?
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The media is in fact so compliant that I was the only one at Parliament yesterday not stinking of vaseline.
I do stink of motorcycles, but meh, what ya gonna do?
I went for a walk at lunchtime today and the NZNO (Nurse's Organisation) was having a protest in Midland Park. There were 12 of them, a small dog and a poor, blind old man who'd got himself snagged on the shoulder bag/accessory clothing item that a butch planetoid holding one of the banners was carrying.
There were 3 television stations there with cameras, 3 radio stations, a couple of newspapers and sundry others. The media outnumbered the protesters.
Which should give you an idea of how much the media "care" about political protest carried out by thousands of motorcyclists. Not. Very. Much.
More pressure needed, a better communications plan, and some carefully considered "leaks" when planning to carry out acts of Civil Disobedience.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
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Great post Paul.
Please send it as a letter to the editor to a couple of papers. I think you have hit a common and rich vein of thinking about our community.
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Comfortably numb
If you had read Eve's Bite, and AirCon (with an open mind) you would realise how far off the mark those accusations are.
The socialist indoctrination is strong in you grasshopper
You're nuthin
You say this like it's a bad thing.The socialist indoctrination is strong in you grasshopper
Same musta been true of Justice Woodhouse eh?
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well done man.. Excellent post!
Trouble ;)
Me too....
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Po ta toes
Better than being pissed on.
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This is what Michelle a'Court wrote...
ACC
First published in 'Your Weekend' 14.11.09
There is a black bird nesting on a clutch of eggs in the climbing rose by my front door. I take this as a huge compliment – I like to think it says I am good person who has made such a peaceful home, wild birds want to be my neighbours and raise their chicks here.
It’s an unsought reward for a winter of putting out bread and keeping the feeder filled with seed. And for my patience when the birds steal make-up sponges I leave out in the sun to dry. I’m hoping she took some of them – I like to think her little ones will be snuggled up in a nest made of things I had lying around and can afford to contribute to their comfort.
This may be hogwash. Black birds possibly lay eggs in old boots on the side of busy roads in industrial areas, and in the gardens of murderers and wife-beaters. All the same, I check on her from a safe distance and keep the cat at bay. It makes me happy that she’s happy.
Let me make what might appear to be a great leap. On our better days, as members of a community and a democracy, this is what we do for each other, and why. On a small scale, we bake muffins for friends in need. On a grand scale, we built a welfare state based on the notion that we would all be happier if none of us were homeless or sick or hungry.
When the Accident Compensation Scheme was implemented in 1974, it was built on principals of community responsibility for accidents and support of victims. ACC’s architect, Sir Owen Wilson, now 93, blasts proposed changes – double and triple levies for some, victims forced back to work sooner and on lower incomes – as “uncaring and predatory”. People who do our dangerous jobs, he says, shouldn’t pay higher levies. We all benefit equally from the work they do, and that’s the way we should pay - equally.
Somewhere in the last 35 years, we’ve lost some of that sense of a grand community. We’ve been encouraged to focus on the care of our own nest which is commendable but, simultaneously, we’ve adopted the view that if someone’s nest collapses, it was probably their fault. When bad things happen now, we ask, “What did you do wrong?”
Which doesn’t match up with our old “no-fault” attitude to accidents at the heart of the ACC scheme. If it keeps going this way, I fully expect the black bird in my garden to sue me if her eggs don’t hatch and there’ll be a carrion bird on my doorstep dressed as a lawyer.
Aio ki te Aorangi
Nice find Paul...
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