Posts by Steve Barnes
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I've just read the Listener editorial on this subject. What a shallow unresearched knee jerk reaction.
That'll learn ya to read teh Listnarer.
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Be an introvert who loathes group work, a child who asks quirky questions, a child who is doing work she "shouldn't be doing yet", a kid who really doesn't give a damn about sport, and there are problems.
Hey, that was me.
I also aced all my tests but one, the 11 plus (an exam taken at the age of 11 to see whether you were a Grammar or "Secondary" student) I found out later that my form teacher, who marked the exam, had made a pass at my Mother (divorced) which she had rejected. At the time I thought I'd done rather well in the exam. My "failure" in that exam meant that my brother and I were separated into different schools. I was lucky in the fact that I went to a Comprehensive School rather than the old type Secondary School as I was moved up to the Grammar stream half way through the first year when it was discovered that I was not the failure that my form teacher wanted me to be.
It still pisses me off 45 years later. -
On the subject of Mining...
Mine this
RECENT APPLICATIONS RECEIVED AND GRANTED - MINERALSMaybe it's just my reading but there has been an awful lot of activity since August.
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John Key has just repeated, three times, that he never said "National will not increase GST to 15%" he claims he actually said "National ill not increase GST to 15% to cover deficits". So, if he handed out his latest bribe to the rich of tax cuts without jacking up GST, would that leave us with a deficit? If so then he is raising GST to cover a deficit.
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Nobody seems to have mentioned that "Businesses" can claim back all GST paid by that "Business" and I'm pretty sure Trusts can also claim a refund.
How does this affect the numbers?. -
It's simple really. T'Erald has been sitting on this headline and wants to use it "Tolly's Folly" It just has such a good ring to it, like a cash register.
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it seems to me that Bush, Blair, et al, conspired quite successfully to invade a country for no valid reason whatsoever,
That I doubt. Perhaps there are those a little further down the chain with their own agenda? Those that supplied and manipulated the "intelligence" that led Blair and perhaps Bush to make their case for war. You cannot tell me that Blair, himself, went to Iraq and came back and told the British people that he had seen WMDs with his own eyes and they had no choice other than go to war.
The question is whether others, further down the chain of command, lied to further their own agenda or was it a self perpetuating mass hysteria, political momentum, seemed like a good idea at the time, sort of thing.
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“I always used to complain that Jews ran the world,” said Reginald Weber, author of “Zionists and Zookeepers: The Unholy Alliance.” “But now I’m starting to worry that nobody’s in charge.”
Yes, my thoughts exactly.
You only have to look at George Bush, oir even our "dear leader" to know that a conspiracy is beyond the capabilities of those that aspire to power.
Dumb and dumber. Before the discussion has begun JK has informed us that he has already made up his mind on marijuana law reform. I guess he wants the drug money to stay with the gangs, after all, they did save the world from financial collapse.
Bankers, pah. -
vexillology
I was under the impression that the study of flags and their symbolic imagery depicting the status of a Nation was "Pendantary"
It won't happen overnight, but it will happen.
Ah, the immortal words of one of our brightest exports.
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Eventually no doubt it'll be 'jailbroken' - but that's a pretty crappy solution.
I prefer to call it "Housebroken" If it pees on the rug, put it out in the yard, in the rain.
Good post Mark, I couldn't agree more.
I, for one, do not welcome our digital overlords.