Posts by Jackie Clark
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Feel sorry for me. I'm happy for her, why can't you all be happy for her. I waited for a long time for the other shoe to drop. As Danielle so eloquenty says from time to time: Meh.
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Robyn, I saw your wink, even if he didn't.
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Lynching, incidentally, has almost precisely nothing to do with how we're discussing the incident. No one here has come anywhere near calling for Veitch to be hung up by a tree, burned, beaten, and have his genitals and tongue cut out, while the rest of the community has a picnic and takes postcard pictures. Nor was his infraction an imaginary one based on racist fears of miscegenation or 'uppitiness'. We were just discussing legal, justice-type stuff, because, in case you hadn't noticed, he broke his ex-girlfriend's back. In four places. And, uh, put her in a wheelchair.
But if you want to crazily exaggerate it that way, be my guest.
See, at this point in the discussion, I was thinking I would quite like to marry Danielle.
If you've followed the thread here, Karen, I think you will see that most of the people here, of any gender, think that the substance of the story printed by the Dom-Post is about right, that Veitch's apology was kind of creepy, that we would like to see the matter properly tried in the courts, but that we can understand why the person who was kicked so hard that she ended up in a wheelchair while she was recovering wants to avoid publicity, and we can understand that she might have good reason for taking the money. We're also puzzled about the legal status of that settlement, and we are puzzled by how the various employment law issues will play out.
And then Deborah said this, and now I want to marry her.
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Thanks for your help, all. It's something I've thought long and hard about, and I will continue to do so - at least now, I'm a little better informed. Cheers!
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I don't think you can take one case for which you know only second hand info and slot it into the wife-beater model right away.
Cecelia, I want you and Ian and anybody else who believes he may not have done this, or thinks he may possibly not have, and is waiting to see, to watch this link the entire way through. At the beginning of his statement, Veitch says " This week there have been reports of an incident between my former partner and me 2 1/2 years ago. I deeply regret what happened......". He does not, at any stage refute these reports. He does not say " The reports are incorrect" . He does not say "The reports are somewhat mistaken", No, he says what he says. Tomorrow morning, if you so wish, you may read Veitch's "side of the story" in the Sunday Herald. He may or may not say that he broke his partner's back. Either way, to me, the lack of denial suggests that the reports from the Dom Post were accurate. IMHO, he said very little about what he actually did do because that would have been a confession and therefore admissible in court.
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I I may digress for a moment......... I'm a relative newcomer to macs. Only been using them, and then only at work, for about 6 years, and I never really liked them. But I have to say that on getting a Macbook laptop for work (leased from the nice people at RED) I am converted. For a teacher - and especially in ECE where one takes a lot of photos to be used in our assessments - iphoto is the best. And Comic Life. I love my laptop so much it comes home with me in the hols, and in the last week I haven't used my PC at all. OTOH, I don't own an ipod or anything like it, and I would like to know which would be the best one to have, really. An mpeg player would be best since most of my extensive music collection is on my PC drive, specifically on my WMP. Help, please?
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We were just discussing legal, justice-type stuff, because, in case you hadn't noticed, he broke his ex-girlfriend's back. In four places. And, uh, put her in a wheelchair.
And that's what this is about. At the end of the day. When it comes down to it. Pure and simple. There is no prettying it up, or justification. There is no circumstance mitigating enough. Just this.
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I understand that Sue, I really do. But the man gave her money to shut her up - and she accepted. How does that conversation go, anyway?
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I luckily on a lighter note can advise I had my last lot of chemo on Sunday and its all up from here as so far they are very pleased.
Oh, Sofie. That's fantastic. Big hugs to you.
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I would really love to know how much and for how long TVNZ knew about all this.
Ditto.