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Comment on Doing something right by SalaciousTCrumb

SalaciousTCrumb — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:26:00 +0000

Pull the other one Kosh. Use that sort of commie diatribe at the Standard.
Anyone with a modicum of common sense would accept the public service has become bloated, but then beuracracy is the child of socialism, isn’t it?

Comment on Winston’s Wisdom, Ctd by jay cee

jay cee — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:25:00 +0000

my guess is he just wanted to get back in so he could “retire” and save face.

Comment on Herald Editorial on Len’s pools by Chris

Chris — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:15:00 +0000

Last time I looked Auckland was surrounded by water (The sea) and its free.

Go to the Beach.

Comment on Blood and Guts, Ctd by jabba

jabba — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:10:00 +0000

”I do not believe that Prime Minister Gillard can lead the Australian Labor Party to success at the next election,” he said
Change Gillard to Goff and Australian to NZ and who do you have?

Comment on Face of the Day by Philip ure a cock

Philip ure a cock — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:08:00 +0000

What the unsuspecting beauty technician gets when she gives Maryan Street a brazilian

Comment on Pimping the Poor, Ctd – Labour Collude With Herald by Spanishbride

Spanishbride — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:46:00 +0000

Like Robert Kiyosaki, WO is not interested in becoming a best writing author but instead a best selling author or the case of a Blog the most well read Political Blog in NZ……. wait a minute….

I am sure that when the book he is working on is published he will have the benefit of an editor then.

Comment on How to piss off allies and cost yourself the top job by MrV

MrV — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:39:00 +0000

Yes, it looks like the angry kevin burger could be back for a limited time.

Comment on How to piss off allies and cost yourself the top job by tas

tas — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:31:00 +0000

It sounds like Rudd will be crushed come Monday. He was rejected by his party in 2010 and crawling back to him will be about as tempting as swallowing a dead rat.

But I have to admit one thing: Rudd knows the meaning of revenge.

Comment on Deception, Lies and Forgery by Jeremy David Thomson

Jeremy David Thomson — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:27:00 +0000

The decline was in tree ring density.

Comment on Doing something right by ConwayCaptain

ConwayCaptain — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:27:00 +0000

Can you tell me that when there is a transport accident, marine for example:

We get the Marine Investigation people, the Transport investigation people and sometime the police all investigating the same incident and this can also appy to air and land as well/

Comment on How to piss off allies and cost yourself the top job by Phar Lap

Phar Lap — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:24:00 +0000

Everytime i hear the sick word “Greens ” it means vomit.They are the lying pariahs of the western world.Of course Trotsky trained and to the image of Joe Stalin.Never mind” Herman” Brown in Australia look at the sick***** Norman and Turei.

Comment on Winston’s Wisdom, Ctd by Johnboy

Johnboy — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:20:00 +0000

When you are a God you never have to say sorry!

Comment on Blood and Guts, Ctd by Kiwidon

Kiwidon — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:17:00 +0000

Geez mate, is he up himself or what!

Comment on Why high tax rates are silly by captain kidd

captain kidd — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:10:00 +0000

If you own none of your service or can have no property you are a slave.If a 100% free person has total control over ownership of his service and property what is the state of a person whose govt controls some of his services,not free ie some part of a slave.

Comment on How to piss off allies and cost yourself the top job by MrV

MrV — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:07:00 +0000

Part of the reason the Australian Labor govt is in the situation they are in is because Julia bent over and took one (well several actually) from the green fool Bob Brown who makes Wussel Norman look halfway sane.

Comment on Why high tax rates are silly by captain kidd

captain kidd — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:07:00 +0000

http://mises.org/etexts/rootofevil.asp

Taxes.The root of all evil,should be complusory reading for all.

Comment on Will Corrections be fined? by Mike

Mike — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:04:00 +0000

And they get to learn a new language in the process!

Comment on Pimping the Poor, Ctd – The Issue by Sarrs

Sarrs — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:56:00 +0000

Hakim – who looked on wikipedia? My name is Sarah and I’m a girl so if you’re talking about me you should say ‘SHE looked on wikipedia’

Also, I didn’t find that on wikipedia…the O RLY owl has been an internet meme for a couple of years now. You post ‘O RLY’ and that’s all I can think of so I can’t help but post the pictures…I think it’s funny and obviously a few other people do too. Catch yourself up on meme based humour
http://knowyourmeme.com/

Comment on Quality teachers is the key by phillip ure

phillip ure — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:45:00 +0000

i have a couple of pieces on this…

(and i really think the high pay/prestige given teachers is a factor..)

“..The task is as hard as weeding out the brightest youngsters for
places on Oxford and Cambridge Universities’ most popular courses.

There
are 16 candidates for every vacancy – and somehow the 2,000 applicants
have to be whittled down to 120 by the time the course starts.

We are not talking about law and medicine at Britain’s most
prestigious universities, though.

This is Finland and the applicants are
desperate for a job in what is the most sought-after profession in
their country: teaching.

Finland is the country that has topped the international league table
of the developed world’s education systems for almost all of the past
decade.

And England’s Education Secretary, Michael Gove, has been taking
a close look at its policies to see if there is anything he can glean
from them to improve standards over here.

Finland’s top-level ranking is based on its performance in the PISA
(Programme for International Student Assessment) tests of 15-year-olds
around the globe in reading, maths and science.

It is published by the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Professor Jari Lavonen, the head of the Department of Teacher
Education at the University of Helsinki, is the man with the enviable
task, in some eyes, of whittling down the pack.

He is in no doubt as to
how Finland has got to this position. “We decided all teachers should
have a master’s degree – putting teaching on an equal footing with law
and medicine,” he says.

“Teacher education is therefore very attractive.”

Figures showed that
the highest-flying youngsters then started flocking to the profession
because of its new-found prestige.

The applicants are all given a book to read before being grilled on
their understanding of it.

Then the 300 top performers are interviewed
before the remaining 120 are offered places. “We want to find out how
suitable a person is for teaching,” he says.”

phil@whoar.

Comment on Pimping the Poor by Quazy

Quazy — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:39:00 +0000

where did you guys get ya crystal ball from to say there wont be any vet job available in 2yrs ….

Comment on Winston’s Wisdom, Ctd by toby_toby

toby_toby — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:33:00 +0000

Winston telling Jessica Mutch to run along… haha, what a dick!

Comment on Quality teachers is the key by HB

HB — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:31:00 +0000

If she is a first year teacher her teaching load should only be 0.8. The school should have appointed someone to oversee and support her progress toward becoming a fully registered teacher.
My advice as far as misbehaving students go is to find out the discipline process at the school and use it. Some teachers are reluctant to use it because they don’t want to look like they can’t handle it but this backfires. Any discipline issues should also be recorded so that you have an e paper trail (in MUSAC or KAMAR, depending on what your school uses)

Comment on Pimping the Poor by Jodibaby

Jodibaby — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:24:00 +0000

She won’t be off the benefit being a vet nurse. Esp if she’s only doing the Cert. She needs a Diploma and then she may have a slim chance of getting a job. Hundred and hundreds of vet nurses graduate each year and the job turn over is extremely low and also how many vet practises are there?? maybe one a village, a couple a town? Which might employ two nurses?
there are many many better choices out there to study.

Comment on Pimping the Poor, Ctd – The Issue by Hakim of phut

Hakim of phut — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:17:00 +0000

Gee , he looked on Wikipedia. HW CLVR

Comment on Herald Editorial on Len’s pools by Steve (North Shore)

Steve (North Shore) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:05:00 +0000

This Len guy is onto it. Close the six Manukau pools and run the rest on $5.5M.
That gives him a $1.2M deposit on his train set

Comment on Herald Editorial on Len’s pools by Steve (North Shore)

Steve (North Shore) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:03:00 +0000

Free? Or free swiming but fee for entering the Wharves?
I would not trust Len as far as I could kick the prick

Comment on Quality teachers is the key by Jcooper1982

Jcooper1982 — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:44:00 +0000

I’m not a teacher, but my partner is. From what I have observed of her training at UoA, it was full on and rigorous, yet very lacking in terms of anything that would prepare her for her career. Moreover, the support she receives as a beginning teacher is nonexistent as all the senior teachers are too overloaded or don’t care, and she has been piled with classes with some major behavioral issues. She started down this career path for all the right reasons but is questioning her decisions now. If there is a lack in teaching quality, I would attribute it to the dreadful amounts of work expected of them, the convoluted systems they need to work with, and the absolute lack of respect and cooperation from the student body in many cases (I doubt kids would be so lacking in discipline in Finland).
I can’t see how anyone with an inside look could possibly judge our teachers harshly. Some of the higher uppers need to wake up to the fact that there need to be educational reforms that actually work and some social changes to get rid of this entitled culture that kids have these days.

Comment on Quality teachers is the key by thor42

thor42 — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:36:00 +0000

Agreed, gazzaw.
A few years ago, I flatted with a teacher-in-training (she had almost finished her studies). Anyway, I expected her to be a real “treaty-lover” (you know, Treaty this, Treaty that…). Very surprised when she completely blew that notion out of the water – she said that she just “went with the flow” and ignored the Treaty bullshit that they shovel at training teachers. Good on her. She would be a far better teacher than any Treaty-lover.

Comment on Pimping the Poor, Ctd – Labour Collude With Herald by Euan Rt

Euan Rt — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:35:00 +0000

This is Cams blog. Be careful telling the owner how to do his job. I for one like that somone can be themselves without having to be ‘airbrushed’ to suit the consumer. You should see me…;-)

Comment on Pimping the Poor, Ctd – Labour Collude With Herald by Bored abroad

Bored abroad — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:34:00 +0000

Read fine to me. Surely you can find time to do it yourself, or even better submit your own work instead of critiquing others.