Posts by Kumara Republic
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You practice what you preach, or I'm rather short of sympathy when you're exposed as a hypocrite.
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I'm the parent of two ASD boys, and well aware of the over-representation of people on the autism spectrum in prisons in most countries. The idea of that as a solution gives me the shivers.
After Martin Bryant went on his shooting spree in Tasmania, rumours circulated that he was diagnosed with Aspergers. In truth, he was assessed as legally retarded, but from what I remember the lies travelled halfway round the globe before the truth could punch in its username and password.
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Completely agree. It's this that makes me so stridently against people being able to own 10, 20, 30 rental properties. That's not growing the economy. It's not contributing to the means of production. It's just depriving real wealth-makers of possible funds by tying the money up in unproductive assets.
Second that. The little Machiavellian in me says that subprime sharks would succeed where a capital gains tax might fail.
Seriously though, investors still remember Black Monday and Fay Richwhite like they happened last week. Kiwisaver and R&D tax breaks are part of the solution, but they've been raided so that Kath & Kim can buy a new Hummer. It wouldn't be far fetched to see credit cards going subprime, the main difference is we'd be seeing repo men instead of foreclosure signs...
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When is a New Zealander not a New Zealander?
When they're a Somali Refugee who has had a NZ Passport for years, that's when.
Good old TV3 news last night had the very troubled women who holds a NZ Passport as a "Somali" and finished with the Korean born golfer Lee as a New Zealander and the ink isn't even dry on his Passport yet.
A little bit of the C word wouldn't go astray - Consistency I mean
"All immigrants are equal, but some are more equal than others."
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Google "America's first black president" and click I'm Feeling Lucky. The result may come as a surprise.
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A good supply of short-range guided missiles could do the same task as jet fighters for a fraction of the cost. The biggest problem with that? There's less of an adrenalin rush launching guided missiles.
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And previewing 2009 I fear we will hear a lot about 'Rodney the razor' and the NACT.
Bomber Bradbury calls them 'MACTional'.
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They probably wouldn't be so cocky if they were suddenly faced with a miners' strike with cardigans.
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I'm sick of the MSM bringing up this old chestnut year after year after year. It's lazy and pointless.
They seem quite happy to stoke the small-minded suburban mediocrity/Kath-&-Kim-ism that they purportedly bemoan is driving away our "best & brightest". And no, Liz "f--- you NZ Idol" Shaw doesn't count.
I think Obama's best ever ICBM (IntelleCtual Ballistic Missile) sums it up quite nicely.
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I'm guessing that those who repeatedly brandish those two words have never lived in the UK...
Or Singapore for that matter:
"If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one." - Lee Kuan Yew
What'll be Axl Rose's follow up album? "Singaporean Democracy" methinks?