Posts by Paul Campbell
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I think I just answered that - I'm genuinely upset by their behaviour running around with guns, being dressed like IRA assassins rather than in uniform (might make sense if you are sneaking up on someone in the dark, completely pointless in daylight, they should have taken off the ski-masks, no reason to scare random members of the public), pulling random people out of cars and photographing them and road blocks - all that stuff seems to me to be beyond the pale - the rest we'll have to wait and see what's behind the kimono
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well i don't know any of the people involved but to me it seems obvious that for a lot of people the issues are: secret stuff is going on, people are being rounded up, denied bail, people are being pulled out of there cars and photographed without warrants, police are going around dressed as ninjas - it just seems so, well, un-kiwi .I think the secrecy just pushes people buttons.
Personally I'll wait and see what evidence the police have, it had better be good and if they've screwed up and pulled in some people by mistake there had better be consequences.
On the other hand if we want to be policed by ninjas we would have hired ninjas, cops ought to be walking around in uniform with their faces showing and guns should be out of sight unless they are needed not being paraded in front of kids on their way to school
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I'm actually surprised Helen (or someone else from Labour) hasn't commented before - there's a better than even chance that they're going to have to form a coalition with the Maori party next year if they want to stay around and they're walking on some pretty thin ice at the moment ....
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Colbert's bid got shot down
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Mother Jones has an entire issue about withdrawing from Iraq
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(sorry should have put a smiley in there - I was joking about Ted Kennedy .... it's really Cheney)
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Michael: nothing wrong with being married to a Kennedy - just not something you'd expect of someone who's a staunch republican (Edward Kennedy being the tool of satan and all that)
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Craig: what you say is largely true about elections for national office but california's state govt pretty split between the hardline republicans and the democrats - it's very much a town/country north/south sort of split with some of the rightmost politicians in the country facing of with some of the most lefty (hilarity ensues ...)
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Arnie was into steroids ....
as a relatively recently ex-california resident I find him a bit bizarre - he's married to a Kennedy, spouts republican drivel, drives a Hummer, everyone I know thought he'd be a disaster and were quite embarrassed by the whole thing (but then I lived in Berkeley ...)
On the other hand at this point he seems to have more democrat friends in the state govt than republicans (it's been sadly deadlocked as long as I can remember - fighting over what little is left of the pie since prop 13) and seems to piss off and embarrass the national republicans which can't be a bad thing
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Yamis: one thing I've done with my kids a bunch of times when I've found something they've written that so obviously wasn't theirs has been to cut out some text and past it into google .... finds it every time ..... next question is always "If I can do it in 10 seconds do you really think your teacher can't?" .... followed by an explanation/discussion about why just copying isn't acceptable