Posts by Kyle Matthews
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My interpretation was 'if we don't have zero tolerance for petty crimes like tagging, then people will take the law into their own hands and stab people'. Not quite as egregious as yours, but still pretty bad.
I'm sure that's what he meant. But he really should have written it with a bit more distance between 'stabbing of a teenager', and 'petty crime' to push that wee line.
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I saw some footage of her at that California rally with Oprah and Mrs. Governator, and she didn't strike me as a woman you'd want to get in bitch-off with at the PTA, because she'd politely but firmly serve your your arse in six different ways.
I wonder if they've had someone ask her the question of what she would do if her husband had an affair. Be a good way to raise that Clinton history, without doing so yourself, and she'd just have to say "he'd be out on his ass if he ever did that to me, politics be damned" and they'd pick up 3 points overnight.
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It leaves heaps for the Democrats. Item one, cut ridiculous military costs by ending enormous pointless military engagement in Iraq.
My concern would be how long it would take to withdraw from Iraq. I would guess the only plan that does it within a year is just a complete abandonment into a completely different colour of crap than it is now. A full speed withdraw - just simply getting all the troops out - I read somewhere would take... 8 months? With no concern for how that leaves Iraq.
Some sort of staged withdraw with Iraq taking over segments and expanding personal control. 3, maybe 4 years? That's your entire first term. You'd be telling generals to move their troops out fast just so when you run for your second term you can say it's done, while the opposition hits you with 'he said he would get us out of Iraq. Three and a half years, and the last troops still have their feet on the ground...'.
A serious case of the guy before you fucking everything up so all you get to do is clean up shit for four years.
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Hey. Russell just posted that he's getting close in California polling. Are we scared yet?
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That's big. If he took California, which really is a 'neutral' state for the two of them, which she was considered to have already won... it's a massive game on. Just a couple of electoral college votes in CA.
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I wonder, with the comparisons being made about Obama with JFK, MLK, and just watching that music video, I was struck by the comparison of the circumstances with Bobby Kennedy - a man running for election at a time when a country needs change.
All of which made me wonder. Odds on history repeating, and someone going nuts with a gun.
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This comment by Karl du Fresne in this morning's Dom Post just looks silly to me:
The fatal stabbing of a teenage tagger has revived the debate about the need for zero tolerance of petty crime.
I can't read that any other way than 'stabbing of a teenager is a petty crime', which presumably isn't what he meant. But still, talk about not seeing the forest for the tiny sapling.
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Given that we've pretty much established that Ropati drove his car around whilst very drunk that evening, with no thought for the welfare of anyone else on the road, I find his brother's talk of a private prosecution against the complainant for her admitted cocaine use somewhat beyond disgusting.
The whole thing sounds like a mess all around. The sooner Ropati stops fronting up to the media and reminding us all what a dubious sort he clearly is, the better for everyone I think, particularly him.
Or is it just me whose first thought was "oh, you knew she was high on drugs, and you still took 'consent' where ever you could find it".
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I'm not even sure what 'tertiary take-up' means in relation to that. Take up is normally used in relation to loans and whatnot - % of people eligible for a loan that take it. How do you measure take up of participation, given that people can enrol at any point in their life?
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I'd heard "pax" used similarly, which makes sense from the Latin, but fans is a mystery.
My son uses 'pax', so that's definitely running down here in Dunedin. I'm sure that I used to play 'tag', not 'tig' when I grew up in Auckland, but it was a while ago.
I was playing tag/tig with my son and a random kid at the ice rink last weekend. Random kid had a rule that you couldn't be tagged whenever you crossed your fingers, which I have to say, made the game a little bit stupid.