tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post2587830338986039581..comments2024-03-28T16:48:18.088+11:00Comments on loon pond: Day 90 of MUC and day 43 of MOC, and the pond is defeated by a terrible dilemma involving the fearless Order of Lenin hunter ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-29554137579484301092016-06-20T08:05:41.343+10:002016-06-20T08:05:41.343+10:00The pond is intimately aware of the way, thanks to...The pond is intimately aware of the way, thanks to a ruling which goes back to John Howard's days, that prohibits expanding the public service, but makes no mention of using consultants at vast expense, and so, in the spirit of the US military, simple jobs that could be resolved by spending 150k a year on an employee end up costing $2k a day on a consultant, much of which goes to a hiring company which does sweet fuck all for its 30% or so ...<br /><br />It's enormously stupid, up there with the decision by Fairfax to abandon any notion of quality or quality control and expect people to pay for the result.dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-62578530455520550982016-06-20T04:50:52.912+10:002016-06-20T04:50:52.912+10:00Oh dear Fairfax. Are your NZ subbies on holiday? ...Oh dear Fairfax. Are your NZ subbies on holiday? 3 million a week becomes 150 a year. Seems to be a bargain to me.<br /><br />"The $3 million a week being 'wasted' on consultants<br /><br />State government spends $150 a year on what critics claim is 'privatisation by stealth'."<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-77179381584431187052016-06-19T20:09:55.195+10:002016-06-19T20:09:55.195+10:00We have a Trump! It's Eddie McGuire. A genuine...We have a Trump! It's <a href="Eddie%20McGuire%20under%20fire%20over%20comments%20about%20AFL%20writer%20Caroline%20Wilson" rel="nofollow">Eddie McGuire</a>. A genuine "mate" who would cringe beneath the skirts of "PC!".Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08158673564017581517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-87886249815706736392016-06-19T15:30:38.208+10:002016-06-19T15:30:38.208+10:00The beauty of living "hatred of leftism"...The beauty of living "hatred of leftism" Anony, is that "Leftism" can be given any shape or flavour that suits your prejudices and bigotries. C'est magnifique.<br /><br />But the bit about "I don't care if I'm hurt so long as "Those People" are hurt worse" is to compare that stance with game theory based Behavioural Economics. In that case the idea of suffering some disadvantage in favour of others is praised: the idea of the games in which somebody is given, say, $20 and they have to decide how much of it to give to the 'passive' player. The thing is that it's mostly half (or near to it) and retaining about half for themselves.<br /><br />Praiseworthy self-sacrifice ! But not if the idea is how much 'negative reward' they want to pass on - which is always very generously much more than 50%.<br /><br />So it goes.GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-87411085692670065512016-06-19T15:00:39.581+10:002016-06-19T15:00:39.581+10:00Love your work. Matty corman has already yelled l...Love your work. Matty corman has already yelled liar at bill.<br /><br />I know it is not your usual fare but please pretty please would you do a piece on the number of minutes in an hour's ( the name we dare not speak partly owned by fox) Nauru story tomorrow night.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-45421132016086098552016-06-19T14:56:16.641+10:002016-06-19T14:56:16.641+10:00"...let us not talk of the wars in Iraq and A..."...let us not talk of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan conducted by a Christian Crusader nation, or for that matter the adventures in Libya and Syria, and the gulag known as Gaza..."<br /><br />Indeed and also let us not mention the First and Second Vietnam (Indochina) Wars and the "carpet bombing" of Cambodia, the French (a lovely Catholic nation) in Morocco, Algeria and New Caledonia (amongst several others, including terrorist acts against Greenpeace in NZ), the British in Kenya. And I'd mention the Suez Crisis too, but I don't dare to publicly criticise the "chosen of Yahweh".<br /><br />Anybody else want to add a few more examples of the peace-loving "civilised peoples" of the 'Judeo-Christian Western Civilisation' ? The Dutch in Indonesia perhaps ? Or the Belgians in their Congo, maybe ? There was a couple of really big dramas up to the middle of the last century, too, I think.<br /><br /><br />"... Peta the scourge ..."<br /><br />Ooh, I like that ... I had tentatively labelled her "Peta the harpie" but that's unkind in a multi-faith nation in a multi-faith era with politically correct multi-faith dinners hosted by politically correct multi-faith Prime Ministers (he has to be politically correct because he objected strenuously to a bit of genuine multi-cultural holy law. I bet he eats prawns and works on Sunday, too.).GrueBleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-62925731079005462752016-06-19T12:36:07.396+10:002016-06-19T12:36:07.396+10:00ABC live feed from Labor's launch cut off twic...ABC live feed from Labor's launch cut off twice, so they show Poodles instead. A conspiracy?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-72826857075762239992016-06-19T10:58:05.207+10:002016-06-19T10:58:05.207+10:00The RWNJ's are an unforgiving mob. One of them...The RWNJ's are an unforgiving mob. One of them linked to today's essence of Devine with the comment "Miranda, the prodigal has returned".<br /><br />One reply seems to indicate that not everyone is impressed;<br /><br />"....it’s too little too late.<br /><br />"Personally, I hope she and all the other aiders and abettors, who should have known better, live very long lives so they might see first hand the world they will have bequeathed to their grandchildren.<br /><br />"I hope they are here to clutch at their pearls as hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children die gruesome, painful and pointless deaths because she didn’t have the wit to read and understand history.<br /><br />"I hope she has decades of life ahead of her so that she may repent in leisure.<br /><br />"After that she can rot in hell with her like-minded colleagues."<br /><br />These people have a lot of emotional disabilities and cognitive limitations that become very apparent when they talk among themselves; the 'always escalate' response is something that they are not ashamed to promote. There is a fundamental confusion about who they as not lefties are and what they actually believe in. The only thing that unites them and they can talk about is a hatred of 'leftism', or their flawed and ignorant idea of 'leftism', and a lack of shame at a shared preference for hurting people they all have, rather than wanting to help people.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com