Posts by Steve Barnes
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Isn't it more significant that he was emphatic on the point that they were "all dead", and er, how did he know this? Isn't it more significant that he was emphatic on the point that they were "all dead", and er, how did he know this?
Much as I don't like to make assumptions we can only assume the facts behind this particular scenerio.
My assumption would be that if you walked into a situation such as this it would be unlikely that you would expect the rest of the family were too busy having breakfast to deal with the carnage imediately and thought they may get around to it eventually. -
Hmm, Stephen Franks. Can I smell sulphur?
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but without the music, sadly.
We don't need no stinkin' music. I'll just shut my eyes and imagine Bill Rollston.
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Damn not refreshing before posting.
Yes, Sacha. Please make sure you shower and brush your hair before going to the Post Office.
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"I came home and they were dead" is a contraction of
"when I came home, they were dead"
This does not suggest that the subject may now be alive.
The context is predicated in the "when" thus placing the subject (the dead people) in a previous time fixed upon the time of his arrival which proposes the premis, which is, obviously, an universally quantified conditional.
When deconstructing language involving single entities (the I) using only propositional logic we are limited by the level of basic propositions. To overcome this limitation one must take one step further and invoke principals pertaining to predicate logic.
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Damn. I was really hoping mad Dave was going to write something.
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Oh come on. If he really did "shoot the prick" where was his massive groin injury?
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Ah. Aspen. Great pix Jolissa.
Did you know that one of my heroes, Hunter S. Thompson, ran for Sheriff there? and very nearly won. That, if nothing else, endeared me to the place.
As for the tea at altitude thing. Can anyone tell me why the water has to be 100c? is it an enzyme conversion thing? (seems too hot for that to me) or is it a resin extraction process? </g33k> -
If Worth had just said, "I was having a bit of a joke and it backfired badly, I'm sorry for any misunderstanding"
Would this thing have just gone away? I think, maybe it would have.
But hey, this is politics right?.
There is no accident here and it has little to do with Worth as I said in an earlier post. The motive and endgame are still not apparent to me.Unless, of course it was a bad attempt by Goff to discredit Key. The scenario here is that Key got to hear about the plot, the plot being;
Goff warns Key of Worth's indescression, Key does nothing, Goff exposes Key as an indecisive leader who thinks sexual discrimination etc. are just PC nonsense.
Once Key's band of merry misanthropic Machiavellian misogynists discover the plot they set Worth up for the fall and put the blame on Goff. ie, why if it were so important didn't he go to the police etc.
Either way Worth was a sacrificial wombat. I actually think I fee a wee bit sorry for him.If only there were a way to turn this into a by election for Epsom, now wouldn't that be a hoot?.
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I'm kind of baffled they even thought they could get that admitted.
A last ditch attempt to justify the the whole sorry episode?
I am not going to go either way in terms of Bains guilt or innocence, I'll leave that to the jury who spent a considerable amount of time listening to both sides of the argument.
However, if Bain were the culprit he has already done 13 years and "paid his debt to society" and is unlikely to kill his family again. If he wasn't then it would seem unconchanable that a guy who has experienced such a traumatic episode, followed by 13 years in jail, should be subjected to public speculation based on the content and syntax of his call for help.
I know the needia (sic) are just a pack of salivating jackals and hyenas but do we have to join the circus?.
As far as the tape goes, I'll wait for the remix.