Posts by Kumara Republic
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Divorce is never an ideal outcome, but banning it will do sweet fsck-all to protect the family unit. More likely, it'll come to this.
And what's the road ahead for the Families Commission if Rankin wags the dog? California's Proposition 8, anybody?
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Am I not the only one to suspect that the amount of time and money paying off the potentially displaced residents will be wildly optimistic?
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I wouldn't be surprised if this is the portent of what's to come.
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"Prosser, what about my house?"
"What do you mean you've never been to Alpha Centauri? For heaven's sake mankind, it's only four light years away you know. I'm sorry, but if you can't be bothered to take an interest in local affairs that's your own lookout. Energize the demolition beams."
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Whatever happened to Mr Key's pledge that "NZ has a growth problem, not a debt problem?"
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Indeed - that's the first time I'd heard of John Key. At the time I remember thinking how unpleasant it was to have an MP basically saying "We don't want any poor people living around here, thanks."
And it goes to show that relaxing metro limits isn't really about affordable housing, but rather it's about getting cosy with McMansion developers like the Demographia crew.
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And contrary to popular belief, "NIMBY-ism" is not monopolised by card-carrying Greenies. The blue-rinsers got uppity when plans for affordable housing on surplus Hobsonville Air Base land were announced. Another very public case in point was this infill proposal in Khandallah, where the architect threatened to build a bikie HQ instead.
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Russ B:
No to mention that it would also provoke justifiable public outrage if they did so.
Also, if the crims knew this was routine police practice, they'd probably trade in their Glocks and Brownings for Mac10's and Uzis.
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Simon G:
I assumed this was Keith creatively paraphrasing, or exaggerating for effect, until I checked the Q & A transcript.
Turns out, Melissa Lee really did say it. Oh dear.
Apples. Oranges.
Sacha:
Keith, thank you for resisting the lazy media tide that lumps Chinese, Korean and Pakistani into one simple and manageable blob of people who our grandparents felt wary about. Race is a distraction in this and the longer it's fed by some campaigns the more certain we can be that they have nothing else to say.
And complicating matters further is the little-mentioned divide between the 'old generation' (which includes those descended from Otago goldminer stock like myself) and the 'new generation'.