Posts by Kumara Republic
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Steve Barnes:
And you guys could cut your demand by that much by not being so gluttonous. Try walking down to the Crusty Burger store to get your Chicken fried steak burger with double cheese and fries instead of taking the Hummer. Compulsory liposuction could supply enough energy to run half of all your wars. ;-)
Reminds me of this gem from ex-GOP Arianna Huffington:
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Tyson H... ROTFLMAO.
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Sorry to hear of Tonka. One of my brother's cats got hit-and-run earlier this year, and her twin littermate was pretty despondent over it.
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Angus R:
Or it can bleed, but not be close enough to secure air-conditioned hotel rooms or feature properly photogenic victims.
A close relative of the Missing Pretty Girl Syndrome. Jon Stewart parodied the whole thing with a mathematical formula in America: The Book.
I'm sure someone's done a formula of this before, but here goes:
1 dead American ≈ 2 dead Europeans ≈ 5 dead Asians ≈ 50 dead Arabs ≈ 1000 dead Africans, and so forth. -
Grant D:
If one was prepared to consider the consequences of ending welfare I'm sure one would quickly see its huge benefits
Benefits, indeed - to firearms dealers, bodyguard hire services, manufacturers of Kevlar jackets and riot helmets, gated community developers, barbed wire installers, and bulletproof glass installers.
And for good measure (unless South Africa has already banned it) ...
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I wouldn't be surprised if the wanna-be 007 is from outside the usual political system, e.g., Indymedia.
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Barack Obama:
"It's like these guys take pride in being ignorant"
My choice for Quote of the Decade.
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Mikaere:
One thing we need to really start discussing is population growth. How many people is too many ? Is Auckland full ? IMO, a lot of the value of living here derives from the comparatively low population density. Uncrowded beaches and all that.
Then again, one's tranquility is another's boredom. Also, places like Los Angeles that were originally established on the above premise eventually did urbanise, but only after the development of the freeway system and suburbanisation. And what happened?
Unless someone forms a Unabomber militia and/or sets off a thermonuclear device, NZ's population will continue to grow on current trends. So there are two ways to deal with growth - build outwards or build upwards. Vancouver seems to be a model example of the latter.
In these respects, I'm whole-heartedly in agreement with this post on WellUrban.
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The idea that the US federal government might instead drunkenly spend and borrow its way into the control of China's financiers, or that America might lose productive capacity and economic control to its putative enemy; or that commerce and internal pressures might actually drive democratic progress in China more than a kind of fantasy military encirclement? Not there. It goes without saying that these guys didn't see the Euro coming.
A Suez Crisis for the 21st century, anyone?
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and the MFC? "space station". every time i see it i expect cylons to walk out.
If the MFC is a space station, then the Oaks Complex just down the road is a semi-abandoned biodome.