Posts by recordari
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"Need" is what we might some day get around to responding to, when we feel sufficiently magnanimous and the budget allows for it. A "right" just has to be fulfilled as a matter of duty.
This. What I was trying to say earlier. Define it as a right, and then defend the hell out of it.
I also see Sacha's point about 'needs', but I wonder if there are many that could not be traced back to a fundamental right? If we allow institutions of government a language of scant imperative, then they will, as they are, run roughshod over our 'rights'.
The trouble is party members are more or less emasculated
I call bingo.
Bingo, bongo the drums the drums.
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if Labour is the party of the top 20% of income earners, who the hell are National the party of?
John Key. The thin end of the wedgewood.
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I don't see how pandering to moral conservatives - which is what we're talking about - can be sold as "having listened to the electorate" the way that you have.
Harking back to that Olsen interview, wouldn't it be nice if the debate could be couched in terms of 'basic human rights', or even 'constitutional rights', especially in regards to, in Gio's words allowing gay people to enter into civil unions or protecting children from physical abuse (I'll leave out the the energy efficient bulbs, well, obviously) rather than 'pandering to the electorate'? In fact, is that not the case? Surely certain fundamental rights do exist, even in little old New Zealand. And these rights should not be at the whim of whichever party is in ascendency at the time.
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Most people define 'Judicial Activism' as Judicial decisions they don't like.
Volumes.
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So society doesn't get to say that marriage should be between a man and a woman, even though society has said that for 1000s of years?
No, you dumb-ass, it doesn't.
Next question.
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Stevens, who survived a similar crash in Alaska in 1978 that killed his wife, was on a junket to a fishing lodge...
That's quite tragic, which ever way you look at it. You would think that surviving one crash would give you some sort of credit in the probability stakes, if not statistically, then at least prodigiously*.
* Not sure this is the best word, but it conveys some of what I mean...
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Wow, thanks for that AAMC. There's just so many to look through. The child hitting a burning car in Srinagar. What a moment!
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Which is, as I've said before, what I've learned from our kids: an understanding of the way people are different. It has been an incredibly useful insight to me.
'You must have chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.'
F. Nietzsche.
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And then sometimes people are so annoying you just have to Lose it.
Slater was charged with criminal mischief and reckless endangerment.But why? It seems like an entirely reasonable response, don't you think? Had the plane been in flight, then that would have been a little over the top.
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Sooo, do I require an invite to the Great Blend RB or will I gate crash? Have I missed a thread that has mentioned the venue?
Umm, yes, I'm wondering the same thing. Although it feels like I know, or should know, but can't quite remember.
Life is like one big Déjà vu at times. Then that could just be the Billy Idol chair-dance.