General Debate 27 October 2012

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The size of the thing conjures up the possibility of power outages continuing through to election day Griff, cue “act of god sent to stop Obama”.
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October 27, 2012 9:34pm
Griff

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Try this blog for the meteorological boffins as they track and model it http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2276&page=14#commenttop
They seem to be somewhat concerned
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675. FlyingScotsman 8:28 AM GMT on October 27, 2012
I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but apparently even the latest advisory describing TS-force winds 435 miles out is too conservative—Buoy 41048 has started reporting them 525 miles out!!!
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October 27, 2012 9:39pm
Viking2

Nostalgia-NZ (1,468) Says:
October 27th, 2012 at 9:28 pm

Dream on. she is a bully. Well versed in the legal manifestations of that craft.
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October 27, 2012 9:39pm
Reid

Seems that the missing 5 year old in the Rimutaka Forest park has just been found.

Very good news Johnboy. Of course, God had nothing to do with it, or did He?
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October 27, 2012 9:40pm
Viking2

School to trial early start to the day

A WESTERN Sydney primary school will change its core hours to 8am to lunchtime after a radical plan to beat student fatigue was approved by the education department.

Merrylands East Public School will start classes an hour earlier and finish at 1.15pm from next year in order to capture peak learning times in the morning and avoid afternoon fatigue.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/school-to-trial-early-start-to-the-day/story-e6freuy9-1226504230414

God forbid it got tried here. The teachers would have a melt down.
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October 27, 2012 9:41pm
Johnboy

Only if she directs the SAR teams Reid. 🙂
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October 27, 2012 9:42pm
chiz

A WIN-Gallup survey finds atheism on the rise, but only slightly.
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October 27, 2012 9:45pm
Nostalgia-NZ

‘Dream on. she is a bully. Well versed in the legal manifestations of that craft.’

Of course she is, she’s also not forgetful or willing to be tolerant of law breakers who ever they are.
She’s also not looking to change the Justice System, by daydreaming about votes and forgetting the costs.
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October 27, 2012 9:45pm
Viking2

No she will continue to have it flounder along taking forever to get anywhere at extensive costs to the taxpayer whilst continuing to get further out of reach to the average person who has an issue with the systems integrity. More brutilizing of the taxpayers etc.
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October 27, 2012 9:52pm
Reid

Only if she directs the SAR teams Reid

Raises an interesting question Johnboy. How would you have directed the SAR teams? I’m not sure myself. Fanning out from the last known point is the obvious but that of course rapidly separates the resources into separate directions and increases the chance you’ll miss the child who may not necessarily respond to callouts. I hope one of the journos asks how they did it. But let’s not hold our breath.
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October 27, 2012 9:54pm
Nostalgia-NZ

In tough times people don’t need quips, they need certainty and direction.
To this point JC has made Power and Key look like dick heads.
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October 27, 2012 10:00pm
Longknives

“damn you longknives, I would have won big if All Too Hard won it, but I covered myself with a place bet”

Sorry Zapper- I honestly thought he would pull it off but still a massive effort for an inexperienced 3 year old to run 2nd.
Still a great result for New Zealand racing with Ocean Park winning, Congratulations to the connections… (Bereal would be shocked to hear me say that- That’s if he even knew there were any sports happening on the planet outside of rugby..)
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October 27, 2012 10:10pm
bereal

Some of the short ones are the sweetest.
naaska @ 8.04 and @ 8.53.

keep up the good work.
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October 27, 2012 11:05pm
calendar girl

Nostalgia @ 9:28 – “The guy is a commie”, referring to Rodney Hide.

You really must be joking, hopefully only after a few pleasant drinks on a Saturday evening. You are welcome to disagree with Hide’s views on judicial sentencing, but Hide a “commie”? That’s surely not you at your most rational.

My impression is that a large proportion of the population considers that too many judges undershoot sentencing guidelines for serious crimes. It’s the right of ordinary citizens to hold such views, and Hide is clearly in the same camp. It is for Parliament alone to decide on the law (including sentencing guidelines), not the judges and their fellow-lawyers in the profession.

Judicial independence is important to protect tenure, and to avoid pressure being applied to judges in respect of specific judgments. It is not a protective cloak to entrench judicial views that runs counter to guidelines set by Parliament – whatever they may be at any time. Like it or not, our democracy has the ultimate say.
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October 27, 2012 11:45pm
Tauhei Notts

Longknives
Gary Hennessy has been a a battler at Matamata for many years. I was so pleased to see him finally get his big win.
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October 28, 2012 6:38am
Nostalgia-NZ

You may be right calendar girl but when politicians look to predict what the judiciary might do it conjures up thoughts that is a type of control, particularly when it’s a broadly based assumption that they (Judges) act in unison. Every case is different and so is ever defendant and it’s those circumstances which are the domain of the Court. What Hide was doing at the time was presenting a ‘popular’ policy that had it’s heart ‘fear’ for the public if it wasn’t adopted.
Just yesterday another voice from the advocates explained that they ‘just wanted to help’ Judges, help that went to ‘educating’ them. In another line McVicar admitting monitoring Judges. As I’ve said before McVicar wants to control the judiciary.
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