{"id":834,"date":"2008-06-12T09:05:23","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T09:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=834"},"modified":"2008-06-12T09:05:23","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T09:05:23","slug":"act-party-mostly-just-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=834","title":{"rendered":"Act Party: Mostly Just Sad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The changeover of all Parliamentary offices so waste is sorted at peoples&#8217; desks (into recyclable and non-recyclable) has met heavy resistance from, you guessed it, our party of personal responsibility, <a href=http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ACT_New_Zealand>ACT New Zealand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ACT office staff are in full revolt after being told by parliamentary bosses that they must take part because it is Government policy.<br \/>\nACT leader Rodney Hide said it was an example of the &#8220;nanny state gone barking mad&#8221;&#8230;<br \/>\nIn a show of defiance, some ACT staff have turned their recycling cubes into pen holders and are ignoring the instruction to sort their waste.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/4579417a23917.html>Full story, with dramatic photo of ACT leader Rodney Hide not recycling some paper<\/a><br \/>\nI guess in this case ACT figure that personal freedom trumps personal responsibility, right? Because <strong>that<\/strong> makes hella sense.<br \/>\nAnd they&#8217;re <a href=http:\/\/www.act.org.nz\/>pushing the NZ political return of Roger Douglas to solve our economic ills<\/a>, blithely ignoring that the man&#8217;s radical free market reforms in the 80s did incalculable damage to the country from which it&#8217;s only now starting to recover&#8230;  See also <a href=http:\/\/election08.scoop.co.nz\/gordon-campbell-reviews-working-with-david\/>Gordon Campbell&#8217;s excellent review of &#8216;Working With Lange&#8217;<\/a>, Michael Bassett&#8217;s book on the Lange years that paints the Rogernome as a misunderstood genius held back by selfish fools&#8230;  Michael Bassett <a href=http:\/\/www.additiverich.com\/mt\/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=2&#038;search=bassett>is not much loved by me<\/a> and this review just gives more confirmation that he&#8217;s vile and self-deluded, and we can apparently add &#8216;virulently misogynist&#8217; to the list as well.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s all so very, very sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The changeover of all Parliamentary offices so waste is sorted at peoples&#8217; desks (into recyclable and non-recyclable) has met heavy resistance from, you guessed it, our party of personal responsibility, ACT New Zealand. ACT office staff are in full revolt after being told by parliamentary bosses that they must take part because it is Government &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=834\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Act Party: Mostly Just Sad<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-political","category-sustainability"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-ds","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}