Posts by Jonty
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BT should take a moment for quiet reflection. Meditation is good ... better than sitting around doing nothing!
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Marcus: The less anyone listens to Matt McCarten the better - it would that he cannot but help but undermining the Left in NZ despite his intentions.
You don't recall when NY City went bankrupt and everyone's retirement funds evaporated?
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Anyone got any comments on Matt McCarten's reaction to KiwiSaver? Something along the line of ".... KiwiSaver will destabilise Cullen's superannuation scheme ... working people now not only have to take a pay cut but still pay income tax ... the final act in the privatisation of the welfare state ... working people's savings being gambled by investment speculators, etc, etc"?
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That twat Clarkson has a bloody great race track at The Mount which lies empty most of every week. Why doesn't he open the gates wide and let the youngsters charge around in there?
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Tom Semmens: We should be mature enough as a nation to stand on our own two feet without running off to Mummy England's courts.
On ya, Tom! That's the stuff to keep the bad decisions rolling and the innocents banged up.
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Nobody Important: S.O.P -- whassat?
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Che:
this case smacks of detectives taking a look, deciding who the murderer was, and then building a case to convict him.
A la Scott Watson -- no alibi? Tough luck. Mind you, when the media and the public are baying for a suspect and the police are under pressure for a result then it can be anyone within arm's reach without an alibi who gets his collar felt. I'm sure there are others inside who are victims of the same flawed system.
However, that doesn't excuse the disgraceful performance by members of the NZ judiciary. As Karam said to Geoff Robinson on Morning Reort this a.m: "How would you feel if it was your son in the hands of the two Appeal Court judges who turned down his last appeal" -- both of whom are now sitting pretty on the Supreme Court.
It's worth remembering that the Privy Council, last year, overturned three decisions of the NZ Appeal Court -- and yet it's from this small gene pool that the Supreme Court judges are chosen.
While I lament the fact that we no longer have recourse to the Privy Council for a final decision, the next best thing would surely be a Pacific Supreme Court encompassing the finest legal minds in our region. I wouldn't go so far as to say the necessary intellectual stamina is lacking in NZ, merely that we're too small a pool to have the necessary detachment. -
NatRad this morning had the Korean student in the States for only eight months ?
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Haven't been back to CNN since.
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Controlling emotion regardless of what news is being read is, of course, the art of the professional broadcaster. Phillip Sherry many yonks ago had a 'one face fits all' style of delivery a la Cronkite (mind you it could have been a rubber mask), and dear old Richard Long was quite good at the stiff upper lip no matter what, unlike Jude who had adopted her sad face/happy face so we would know what to feel. But for sheer bloody unprofessionalism of the worst sort was crossing to CNN the night of 9/11 and seeing them howling and gnashing teeth and losing all sense of objective journalism -- I had to make a quick dash to the BBC to try and get some semblance of sense out what had happened.