Posts by Morgan Nichol
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PAS Lynch Mob Veterans for Truth!
I'm sure there's a wide range of reading and perspective on offer, but trying to dismiss Russell as some kind of cult leader who doesn't know what he's talking about because he has the GALL to disagree with you is way too rich for my blood.
It bloody is a cult. They killed me once, you know. I did nothing to deserve it. I mean, aside from being unforgiveably rude to one of Russell's writers, completely out of the blue, and immediately after she'd bared her soul.
Fuckin' culty bastards.
Related: Pitchforks hurt!
If Cactus Kate is one of the blogosphere's finest minds, then well, it might be time to close up shop.
What don't you understand?
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Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: dainty, delicate; sheer
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Well if you love facts so much why don't you just bloody marry them? I'd call you a commie pinko if you weren't such a right-wing mother fucker.
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but mr rent-a-goriila on the door sir, my hi top boots, russian leather jacket and designer hoodie cost 10 times more than your cheapo suit, so fucken what if i'm wearing trackpants. if i was missy elliot youd be holding the door open and kissing my arse on the way past...
I have a hunch that the reason they don't let you in is you're a giant cock.
(But I live in hope that you were just taking the piss, it's been a long day.)
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fresh retarded garble
Can I just get confirmation from the judges that this is as awesome as I think?
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Why aren't assets (as written down values) being confiscated or salaries garnisheed once the bill gets to $1000?
Yes, they should bloody-well confiscate his car. Kill two birds with one stone, as it were.
You remember it's just (or at least mainly?) for PARKING TICKETS right? You know, not burglary, or rape, or murder, or muggings. PARKING TICKETS.
Not terribly serious as offending goes.
Doesn't even disqualify one from being a police officer.
At least no one suggested lashes, which came up pretty quickly on kiwiblog. (Yes, I know that I should know better than to read kiwiblog.)
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Mikey parks in the new business school carpark now (they put in 5 floors of parking underneath that great glass monstrosity, so at least something good came of it), if bFM crew qualify for uni staff permits, then it's actually pretty cheap - much less than most commercial carparking, about $27 a week.
I think he must have accrued the fines in the foggy past before those spaces came available, which means this has been waddling along for a looong time. (Or perhaps he didn't know about the new carparking building for a while, which would be a fucking arse to discover only after building up 10s of thousands in fines.)
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The banners? No. I've not seen the whole ad, but does anyone who has think that it advocates support for a candidate or for a political party?
I haven't seen the TVCs either, but the banners are certainly not advocacy. The first panel is perhaps a little questionable (looks like an advert for English's blog), but the second panel makes everything entirely clear.
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Which part? Providing high quality education to people, no matter how fucked up their home life? Assuming we want a healthy, well educated society, then yes it is our business.
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Isn't it all in the parenting?
Absolutely, any shortcoming in the formal education system can be overcome in the home. Unfortunately there are shortcomings in many homes that really should be overcome in formal education.
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144 pages of PDF dump? Are you serious?
Ok, so a quick skim, I'll (glibly) sum it up thus:
1. Call AGRA bad.
2. ???
3. Feed Africa.I'm pretty sure that step 2 has something to do with feeding starving children delicious organic tall poppies. I've heard they're really moreish. (High opium content?)
If some of the programs the Gates Foundation are involved with don't have universal support that's a shortcoming. It'd be nice if they did. But sometimes the only way forward is to just get started, and fix any problems that crop up later on.
And of course when you're a big target, no matter what you do, some people will hate on you. I love that one of the key criticisms of one of the players in AGRA (one of the Rockefeller foundation guys) is that he's white. Nice.
AGRA are trying to take a sustainable approach to development, but they're also proponents of GM crops - no matter what results they get, this immediately puts them offside with a lot of people. (People who generally aren't starving.)
Meanwhile NERICA is a hell of a crop, if they can get it into the hands of more farmers, it'll change tens of millions of lives for the better. And it's not even GM.
The fact remains that many things the Gates Foundation is doing - particularly with vaccinations, IMHO - will save the lives of millions of children who otherwise wouldn't have been.
That some things could be done better isn't a reason to not get started.
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Starving kids in Africa? Windows 7!
You know that Bill Gates is one of the greatest philanthropist of all time, right? (And I could probably argue the very greatest, considering that the only man who has given more than him, gave to his foundation.)
Or maybe you were kidding.