Posts by Paul Campbell
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(hence I guess 'dancing with the stars')
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A friend of mine is known to quote "you can't polish a turd, but you can cover it in glitter"
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I wonder will a carbon tax work both ways - if I start my own carbon sequestration program will I get money from the govt?
(I'm going to stop recycling newspapers and send them to the tip)
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Forget about that - Dunedin's in the process of ramming though a bunch of CCTVs for the Octagon - largely to avoid being responsible for policing the bars they've let expand into the street (one cop walking the beat would so much more good)
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Someone who just missed my point above (which was about kids and who their parents are and how there are many different ways to do it) made me want to point out that none of the families I described above are polygamous (or polyandrous) ... just different and adapted to circumstance.
Emma: I do have polyandrous friends, they do exist, they do have kids, and don't know who are the biological Dads (on purpose), and in this case both are fathers and parents - another way of factoring it all out.
I also used to have as neighbours in the US a female couple who had been married for years, and had biological kids - one had once been a guy but changed (they stayed married), the kids came later - yet another way to do things
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Listening to David talking about this the other day I realised that "The George" was in itself too long and that perhaps "The Gorge" might be a better term since it implies the greed of the speculative bubble that preceded the problem and the US govt's largest spendthrift at the same time
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Obviously one point of the act is to make sure that someone is always responsible for the child - real families are of course much more complex and do change over time.
I think it is important to distinguish between being parents and mothers/fathers
For an example - I am the father of 4 children - I am the parent of 2 of them in a traditional nuclear family with my wife - I am not a parent of the other 2 who are in a family in which one can easily argue there are 5 mothers (2-4 of which are parents)
Now we make the distinction between being a 'father' and being a 'parent' and in some sense it's our own take on that particular use of language and how it applies to our situation .
PS: I've probably totally confused you with my description of our situation - needless to say it's all above board and kosher - and was in fact my wife's idea
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(err um well maybe guys should ...)
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probably has vacuum tubes in it - carefull when you pee
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You know you'd think that an Aussie Sex party would at least get the fingers the right way around ....
The other week I commented that the Green Party was the only one (in my experience) who knew how to do the 'party' bit right, I wonder how these guys will do ....