Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Mark Burton was meant to be taking his medication and was meant to be supervised when he travelled a considerable distance to hunt down his mother and quite brutally kill her
Six years later he is in a smilar position although this time I hope the authorities are really are keeping him up to the mark
Good on his dad suporting him but just imagine the headlines if anything had happened. I am just glad he is your neighbourhood and not mineViolent offenders who have been released from prison are sprinkled around us. Seems a little unfair that this guy has had a job taken away from him, not through performance, him being dangerous, or any other practical reason, but solely through him being a high profile offender that the media is picking up on. How's that going to help his rehabilitation?
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Actually, I have a serious question for Doris: Do you have a bach in Queentown?
Down here they're called 'cribs'. Except in Queenstown they're called 'really really expensive'.
And Michael Crichton. There's a serious robust source to counter those peer-reviewed journal articles written by people with PhDs and often decades of scientific experience.
I'm going to counter that with 'Stark', by Ben Elton. Which is probably about as accurate, but hellishly funny either way.
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I personally would think better of the zoo if they took the approach you suggest above. However, I am sure that if they did, some of our more sensational media outlets would have made the ongoing presence of Mr Burton at the zoo a matter of further public attention. I can see the breathless 20/20 expose now .......
Yeah exactly. Just because something is the right thing to do, doesn't make it an easy path to travel. And I can't imagine the Zoo is well-financed with PR people and lawyers and whatnot. One suspects any cash they find down the back of the couch, they put into the residents.
More shame on the sensational media outlets I say. If the guy had been convicted of child abuse, yeah, fair call. But presumably doctors and psychologists have said Burton is safe to go and (literally) shovel shit. I'll take that call over the Herald Editor's vast medical expertise until further evidence comes to light.
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I actually think the Labtest fiasco is something for which the authorities directly involved should take the rap. The alternative is a return to central control of the the whole system, which I suspect Tony Ryall doesn't really want ...
To which I'll add, it's an Auckland problem. Obviously the rest of us don't care, we just get it thrown at us on the news :)
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I wonder if Paddles got on the phone to Astle and quietly asked him "so, you said you'd lost the heart for the game. How you feeling this week?"
Because seriously, if Astle was up for it, he'd be the person you'd want there, recent bad form or not. He's a big game player and he's got the stats to back it up.
But no, they've gone with Hamish Marshall. Because another middle order batsman is essential when we lose our opener, and putting a Marshall in as ODI opener has worked really well for us in the past.
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Don't over estimate Bill's help to Hillary. He will be invaluable as a campaign strategist, and yes he is still popular, but nobody will be able to help thinking that do we really want a First Husband who will be groping waitresses at State functions, and heaven only knows what else, for 4 or 8 years.
I would have thought a bigger problem would be having a husband who is more popular and has a bigger profile than you.
People will be thinking "yeah, I'd vote for Bill, dunno about that Hillary though". It's a large shadow to walk behind, and she's spent a few decades pushing him to the front, I'm not sure it'll play out so well the other way around.
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Unlike Kyle Matthews, apparently, I happen to think when you accept a ministerial warrant it doesn't mean you front up for the photo ops and patsy questions then duck for cover when there's legitimate questions to be answered.
He's a politician, and fairly experienced and good at it (relative to some of the other Labour ministers who don't know when to open their mouth and when to shut up).
If I was a media minder for a minister, I'd tell him to do exactly what you don't think he should do.
Kiss the babies, cut the ribbons, open the hospitals, turn up to press conferences for good news, and if there's bad news coming out of health, push some top bureaucrat out there to take the flak, and then come charging in and say you're going to fix it later. If the top bureaucrat gets too bad, fire them and look good doing it.
Why would the government want their ministers fronting up as the face of every bit of bad news? That's crazy strategy.
(My original point was that, the minister can't fix the health system by fronting up for the media. So he'll only do it if he's under enough pressure to be forced to do so, or if there's something good in it for him. Clearly he doesn't feel that's the case at present).
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That continues to be a bizarre selection. With all respect to what he's done in the past, his current form is terrible, he hasn't been in the team for a couple of years, and he's making no impact over there.
Everyone knew it was a bad selection at the time, the numbers, and plain logic supported it being a bad decision, and we're seeing that come true. That rubbish about which way he moved the ball, getting wickets should be the key to selection, not which way you move the ball while you leak runs.
Poor Chris Martin must be feeling extremely ripped. You couldn't get much better figures than he's had this domestic season, to be replaced by someone who's going to do a lot of drink carrying. And if his lack of batting was _so_ important, then Adams should have been next cab, he's got a reasonable slog shot.
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What I'd really prefer is the damn Health Minister doing his job instead of playing hide and don't seek with the Opposition and media. Sorry for finding all the Parliamentary wankage tiresome, but there are people out there who need medical advice based on timely and accurate lab results.
Pete Hodgson's a vet, not a doctor.
And fronting up to the media and the opposition isn't going to get people their lab results and/or medical advice either. It's just going to end up on the news, and that's ego-boosting for both sides, and neither are lacking in that department.
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As we "speak" Ireland are looking a good option to topple Pakistan on St Patricks Day! (68/3 needing 65 runs in 30 overs), and Bangladesh are very close to knocking over India (needing 29 runs with 11 overs and 6 wickets).
That'll totally throw that Super 8 up in the air. Imagine if Ireland made that.
Oh cricinfo you are a true friend :)