Posts by Steve Barnes
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For a while now she had had a nagging doubt, she had begun to feel that her memories were not her own but those of another and a strange suspicion that she was not a woman, maybe not even Human.
She felt her body swell as she slipped into the Avon...An unnerving presence loitered on the periphery of her awareness like the memory of a dream, unspeakable things slithered in the darkest parts of red zone, she could hear the slapping of wet, filthy flesh, the acrid stench seared her nostrils. She slid back into the water and with a deft flick of her tail she was alone again... or so she thought.
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Hard News: Angry and thrilled about Arie, in reply to asnz,
Screw 'em, Bayonet 'em, either way the light bulb gets the juice..
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Hard News: Meanwhile in Epsom ..., in reply to Che Tibby,
you'll also need wereweta. even the small ones have a pretty nasty bite.
Weta can bite with powerful mandibles. Tree weta bites are painful but not particularly common. Weta can inflict painful scratches, with the potential of infection, but their defence displays consist of looking large and spiky, and they will retreat if given a chance. Tree weta arc their hind legs into the air in warning to foes and then strike downwards so that the spines could scratch the eyes of a predator.
Kind'a sounds like ACT
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I think there is something going on here that we are not being told. Perhaps the Plice want clarification from a Judge as to what "looting" actually is. A total waste of time but they are proving to be more interested in doing that than anything else, Manurewa liquor store anyone?. They seem to be crying out for someone to tell them that the more vulnerable members of society are not the enemy.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Russell Brown,
the refusal was coming from ‘on high’ – directly by telephone
What chance do the innocent have against such technology?.
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Speaker: John and Phil meet Bob, in reply to George Darroch,
Ian Grant was recently handed a $2.4 million contract by the Government, without the least bit of due process or scrutiny. Many questions remain unanswered.
And the ones answered make little or no sense…
His resignation from the Government-appointed Families Commission was announced last Tuesday, just two days before the contract was revealed in the Budget.
Bennett said this was a coincidence.
“He had absolutely no idea that he was getting this contract so there was no correlation there, in fact when he said he was resigning I obviously knew he was but I couldn’t say to him ‘this was might look a little bit funny’ because he didn’t know so he had to resign at his own will and at his own timing,” she said.
‘this was might look a little bit funny’
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And I am very glad Labour has finally had the nous & uterine fortitude to offer Anything...
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Hard News: A Capital Idea?, in reply to Gareth Ward,
I know the latest Tax Working Group didn’t.
Scoop, Monday, 8 June 2009
Key was quizzed on the issue at his weekly post-Cabinet press conference about work under way by a government tax review advisory group, and comments last week by the Treasury Secretary, John Whitehead, who advocates a capital gains tax on investment property.He also said something else that day...
He also slapped down suggestions of a higher rate of GST, which Whitehead also appeared to favour
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to James Butler,
/threadmerge
Indeed but maybe more cross-threaded thus misaligning the flange...
I got confused.
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to BenWilson,
People who save up do usually end up with a big stack from quite modest but constant investment. But most people don’t save up. It’s really quite hard.
I would say that putting money away in property as a form of saving has proved to be quite profitable over the last twenty years or so for many and these are the people that are screaming now and I can understand them, but, we have to change that game. Too much investment has been tied up in property and derivatives where it could have been doing something far more useful, like, er .... Flying Cars or, you know, making neat stuff... and exporting it.
The people complaining about a CGT are the same people who say things like
If I buy a house or a lump of silver and it does not devalue at the same rate as money or other items, those that spent their money on items that do not do so well at holding value want to ensure I have not benefited from my "wise" use of resources, my hard work, my risk of getting it all wrong and going broke, my denying myself and my family many pleasures small and large.
What a great life...