Last time it was a post on the White House website about a commendation the unit received while on active duty.

This time it's a Norwegian general who has revealed where the SAS will be stationed in Afghanistan, and what their likely duties are.

And why is he revealing it? Because it seems that, in Norway, the government doesn't try to hide the ( Read more... )

Spent today in a union meeting, which is all well and good. We're continuing to network, communicate, and prepare for what may be an... interesting renegotiation of our employment agreement ( Read more... )

Posted here mostly for my own future reference ( Read more... )

dear god, i am getting more and more concerned about the amount of effort the baldockites put into thinking up ways to beat their children.

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Since apparently the Larry and the Baldockites have spoken, it might be interesting for S59 to be amended by simply adding "Nothing contained in this section shall make a smack as good parental correction a criminal offence ( Read more... )

Throw toys much, Rodney?

Sometimes... just sometimes... I get tired of defending Sue Bradford in the various forums and discussions I am involved in, within my life.

But only sometimes. That way, I feel, lies the future.

It ain't easy being green.

I just suddenly realised that our current credit based consumer economy is nothing more than a company store writ large, where we're lent money by our employers at inflated rates that can only be spent at the employer's store, meaning the entire result is life-time indenture to the employer and a net transfer of every product of our labour and ( Read more... )

NZers 'unlikely to heed housing warning.'

The Reserve Bank Governor's warning against a renewed 'borrow and spend' habit is unlikely to dampen New Zealanders' enthusiasm for property, according to the Real Estate Institute.

Governor Allan Bollard said early signs of a recovery from the recession have emerged bringing with it a risk that households ( Read more... )