Posts by Kyle Matthews
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It's been my solution for years. It's not as good as it seems - you end up forking out big time for airfares, and going nowhere else for holidays.
You also don't have regular baby-sitters. Much of my first 10 years of parenting I was known as the person who never went out on Saturday night.
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Well, with the usual caveats in place the latest One News poll would strongly suggest that a frightfully clever media strategy that makes folks “inside the Beltway” cum in their pants doesn’t always translate into smart politics. If I was of a left-ward persuasion and entirely convinced that CGT was a good thing, of course I’d be bloody supporting the party whose leader was making the case while Phil Goff and David Cunliffe were doing some burlesque cock-tease routine for the Press Gallery.
I suspect that Labour will be disappointed with the poll, but I find the idea that you’d get a poll bump right after saying you’ll raise taxes weird. Raising taxes isn’t the bit that people will like, it’s what you’ll spend the money on that will attract voters.
I’m picking their next big announcement will be something on chch earthquake that addresses the gaps that David and others have raised.
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Misinformation has flourished since the CGT announcement, helped along by Farrar and co and faithfully rebroadcast by the credulous. Danyl debunks some of it.
Yeah, but 90% is even worse than the figures that were presented there.
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We have 90% of all families in NZ paying no income tax when you take into account WFF..
Umm, do you have a source for that?
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After the release Cave Creek Inquiry, Denis Marshall even went as far as quoting something from Geoffrey Palmer’s books to suggest that he couldn’t be held responsible for everything done under his watch and in his name. (The link I had for this speech is down, but I copied part of it here, search the page for ‘November 22, 1995’.) He resigned 5 months after that speech after a hell of a lot of pressure, though.
I think that's a bit misleading. He refused to resign initially under great pressure. He resigned later saying that he had fixed the problems in the department that had caused the disaster. Whether or not that's true, I don't recall there being sustained public pressure over the whole time for him to resign.
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Wrong – between 3-5 even with ECE one kids costs $4,200 for 3 days a week. And that is short days – full days are more expensive.
You need to shop around with your childcare. I pay about a third of that for two full days a week.
And once you start buying money sinks like boats and cars to tow them, you're starting to get into luxury spending that you shoudn't complain about.
I don’t understand what your point is, dude. You seem to be mildly complaining because we aren’t sympathetic enough that you can’t wipe your arse with fifty dollar notes every time you take a shit.
+ ...50.
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I need to talk up Ben Sollee, a US celloist who is doing wonderful things in a folk/pop blend. This is an official video:
But watch the same thing live and you’ll see him treating his cello a bit like a bass guitar.
The guy is also an activist against the crazy mountaintop coal mining where they blow the whole top off the mountain and push it off into the valley to get to the stuff.
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A friend of a friend is quite nuts about it all. He tapes all the action while he's at work then watches in the evenings while riding his race bike on rollers in the living room. Each year he does the same thing and generally covers about 80-90% of the course in 'real' time.
Less hills in his lounge I'm guessing.
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Also the Minister must have within their warrant the ability to intercede in situations where it is apparent that Police conduct is demonstrably counter to the judicial system. Police ability to prosecute here in NZ needs to be scrutinised.
That’s a terrible idea.
Better to have the IPCA actually have some teeth.
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I don’t think there is a strict requirement to admit guilt: ``Note that a guilty plea (either entered or intimated) in court must not be a prerequisite nor a bar for diversion.’’ (Hall’s sentencing quoting police adult diversion scheme policy.)
Diversion isn't an admission of guilt by my understanding, Diversion never reaches the guilty/not-guilty stage. It's literally a diversion before you get to that stage of the court process.
But I think you have to reach agreement over the summary of facts. When I got diversion that's what the lawyer put before me and I had to agree to as well as paying the donation/doing the community service. So Arie and the police would have to agree on the document that the police write about what happened.