Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Marama Mayrick has a forthcoming exhibition at a Hamilton cafe that has a MySpace page.
There's tomorrow's lead!
If it's not on bebo they'll never find it!
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At some point during the last week Mark Sainsbury had Winston Peters on to talk about the duel between "los morons".
Winston Peters? Didn't he, y'know, have a bit of a biff himself? Not exactly a stop violence meeting was it.
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The proof will be in American Colonies rejection of transported prisoners (prior to revolution) & the subsequent actions of England as demonstrated by the time line. Your ball from here run with it if you wish.
So no references at all? That's what I thought.
I believe history is everyones concern, even IT support.
That's good use of google, but it's "IT and Research Support". As backed up by my two history degrees.
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"Mother reported for smacking child's hand"
I feel the need to go gloat at Family First and other pro-smacking campaigners. Having argued about 20 times earlier this year that the following would happen:
1. Parent smacks child.
2. Person complains about parent smacking child.
3. Police investigate.
4. Police decide to do nothing further, as they do with hundreds of incidents every day.Now it happens, and contrary to what pro-smacking campaigners have been bleating about, the woman wasn't turned into a criminal as she struggled with an incident that thousands of parents face every day. STFU already.
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Turns out, it's available here, at Kiwi Concerts.
Damn that's a good link. I'm going to have to restrain myself until I get home and on my own internet coin now.
Henare was a plonker. Mallard was an even bigger plonker.
I'm going to return to my belief that we'd all be better served if the youth parliament ran the country for 364 days of the year, and we let all the morons that you've mentioned Russell in for one day for the above entertainment.
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Dammit that 'feature' which means you can't close a quote directly after a url is starting to annoy me.
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The bio on Scoop, posted by his supporters, says he's "Half-Palestinian half Pakeha NZer, born in Greece but raised in New Zealand":
That bio could be a little one-sided. It might be that there's another side to him which will come out in court.
However if that's not the case, he sounds exactly like the sort of person who should be left to go about their political activities without interference. Born of two cultures, taken an interest from a young age in issues to do with youth pay, the investment of NZ superfund money in Burma, articulate.
Sounds to me like the sort of young person we want coming up both sides of the political spectrum.
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If Danyl and a bunch of other people were in a forest next to a fallen down tree arguing about whether art or technology...
I took David's original claim about 'art' to mean actual art, ie painting, sculpture etc, given that his next post on the topic claimed:
Art history is the physical record of the communication of ideas between people. Even a cursory look should tell you how powerful it is. Art has formed our world.
So those of you who started on about books, I think you left David's track a while back. Points to Danyl.
I'm sure actual art has played a role in communication of ideas, but so have, y'know, books. Letters. Plays. Movies. Newspapers. etc etc. Darwin wrote this wee tome which apparently got some people thinking, and at some stage some guys wrote this thing called 'The Bible' which some people apparently find influential. Martin Luther King. Shakespeare. The New York Times apparently has some impact in the world.
I'm going to put the written word higher on the list for communication of ideas and affecting society for evermore than art. Spoken word has done fairly well too. TV's up there. Art, down the list.
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I said:
Winston Churchill did NOT say that democracy was the worst form of government.
Here's what he actually said:
... with a link to the (ahem) right quote.
And Jeremy Andrew said:
Yup, that's what I linked to as well.
So I'm saying, SORRY.
Actually I was going to call him on it as well, but you beat me to it. His use of the quote, missing the end of it, totally changed what Churchill was saying. Talk about taking a quote out of context.
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Kyle historical chats via wiki will always be a bit limited.
The time line works and there is proof - promise I'm not plucking this one.
Perhaps it would help if you referenced your claims - online or offline. Your claims aren't backed up by any historical scholarship that I know of, and working in a history department, I see a reasonable bit.