Posts by DexterX
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If one listens to talk back radio (daytime) we are all racists, with sex problems, bad backs, we like to kill weeds and moss in our spare time, most of us are on some form of welfare, we expect everyone else to pay everything and we don’t like each other.
I took my 2 1/2 year old into town on Saturday to ride at the Sky City Cinemas the space ship lift and escalators and then buy a Barbie DVD. On the way out we came across the guy in the Nazi uniform and his placard wielding clan and it pissed me off because even though I hadn’t seen or heard what he was up to I guessed and it turned out my guess was right. He was wrong on so many levels and insulting to many people - it was not a joke.
The march, the recent behaviour of elected representatives Hone and Rodney, the way the Emissions Trading scheme is being passed under urgency and so many other things highlight to me that as a whole the nation of NZ just doesn’t get on, particularly in political and public life. There is a lack of discussion and openness.
I thought it was great that just below the march Mike Treen from Unite was promoting a petition for a lift in the minimum wage to $15.00 an hour.
Barbie makes more sense than the marchers; she is right up there with Mike Treen trying to do the right thing the right way.
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Good on Havoc for doing something – it is not a scandal, it is sensible and there is no crime. The Hos have tried to make “it” salacious and dedicated far too many column inches to what should only warrant a passing blurb.
There are more pressing issues for us all – isn't the real scandal the manner in which Auckland City goes about fining everything that moves - over 50 metres in a bus lane, parking etc, etc.
Matters will only get worse - during the boom local government has ballooned and now in the recession there is this massive bureaucracy that no longer has the basis to support itself and it has to come after someone and that some one will be “us”.
I agree with Gareth’s comments on today’s Herald editorial, which should have been titled “God Defend Infratil”.
Can’t you see it Infratil getting their mitts on the NZ Super Fund and then using those funds to take control of what were local body infrastructure assets and then running them in the same manner they run Auckland buses.
I assume Rodney Hide's role is to gift-wrap places like Metro Water for Infratil and others.
The standard of journalism is criminal.
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Oooh and it makes me wonder,
how much of his other works should give credit to others.What a witty pity to show the integrity of action and independence of thought normally attributed to politicians, truly witless.
There must have been a bustle in his hedgerow.
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The NZ media are largely a disappointment; I would add to the recent woe of lows the coverage of Debra Webber in relation to the drowning death of Aisling Symes and with the recent bus disruption the number of times it was called a strike when it was actually a lock out.
Can’t think, can’t spell, can’t read nor write what do you do, consider a career in media?
Bunch of wingnuts.
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The thread should remain up.
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Originally we needed a better way of selecting the parliament so they actually represented "us" and there were fewer of them. We ended up getting more MPs.
Would one call the Labour Coalition a successful MMP government, I feel they did little more than stay in power for 9 years?
In my view the success of MMP has to date been the influence the minor parties have had particularly NZ First and the Greens.
MMP also provided in part the pathway for the Maori Party. Their influence along with that of Act will be interesting/scary/very Zen.
I do not favour a return to FPP and the recreation of a one party parliament.
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Cringe Worthy - NZ is Yours - Nightlife Light
This is why we really really needed punk rock.
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STOP.............
The problem isn't really the law or the fact that $9 million that could have been spent better elsewhere was spent on “this”.
The problem is that a lot of the households that are involved in beating children to death have a prevalence of drug and alcohol use or abuse. The sensational deaths and beatings are only the tip of a rather ugly iceberg.
In the last week or so three girls under the age of three have died - likely beaten to death.
I can’t see it that the law either way will make a blind bit of difference to those most at risk and those that are abusing them.
NZ has become a basket case where most seem to have an overwhelming sense of entitlement and an under whelming sense of responsibility. That aspect was equally true for both sides of this argument, which was set about to prove the other side very, very wrong regardless.
If “government” is capable of leadership it could harness the issue and lead it in the direction to create something right.
The people in society that deal with the end result of the “child abuse” should be involved in creating something that deconstructs "the abuse". Those are the people we (government) should listen to first on behalf of children and infants at risk.
Everything else seems to me to be off the point/issue.
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When people measure happiness, would that be as happy as two motherless children whose mother was tortured against her will by her aunts and uncles resulting in drowning and death?
The curse came about when other family members stole a concrete lion statue from outside a tavern after a drinking session. That’s a sounds basis for initiating a spiritual mission and subsequent ritual.
The "curse" according to the accused came down on only two family members a 14 year old niece and Janet Moses. Off course the curse visits the most vulnerable, the ones who can be over powered.
The judiciary live in another dimension as do the accused.
The "crime of love' sentence is an insult to any sense empathy or humanity and is disgusting in the most extreme sense of the word.
What crap.
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The legal aspects and facts of the matter were never addressed - it was weird - the reduction in charges in exchange for a guilty plea, the references, the sentence.
I view these as enablers in that he hasn't been held to account - and for him and his kind it is a "good" outcome.
Perhaps there is nothing like being a little bit above the rule of law that common people would be subject.
It would have been interesting if Veitch had pre trial been remanded in custody.
The enabling would have been less prevalent and perhaps the focus and resources would have been directed in getting the matter quickly to a hearing.
They both appear to me to be as queer as fish and insincere.