General Debate 30 May 2015

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UglyTruth

FFS, ease up on the firearms laws so we can defend ourselves. The State isn’t going to defend us.

To paraphrase Baron Parke: if statute is absurd, repugnant, or inconsistent with law then it isn’t law.

… principles of literal construction were qualified by the so-called “golden rule”, described by Lord Wensleydale in
Grey v Pearson (1857) 6 HLC 61; 10 ER 1216 at 1234 with effect that:

“the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words is to be adhered to, unless that would lead to some absurdity, or some repugnance or
inconsistency with the rest of the instrument, in which case the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words may be modified, so as to avoid the absurdity and inconsistency, but no further.”

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/NSWJSchol/2013/37.pdf
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May 30, 2015 7:26pm
Fraggle

hj, wiseowl and Reid: here’s something to get your blood pressure up…

certainly did mine… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfmywzjdtRM

I sincerely believe these people are actually stupid and/or insane. They must be, surely?, to believe what they do without questioning it. The more I think about it the more disturbing it is.

I’ll go watch Basil Brush to cheer myself up.
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May 30, 2015 7:29pm
Sir Leslie Bottocks

NZ Music Month.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICXQzv9jm3Y
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May 30, 2015 7:35pm
OneTrack

stephieboy – “Any further thoughts about combating ISIS apart from nuking them into submission.?”

Changing the NZ SAS’s role in Iraq to a full combat role?
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May 30, 2015 8:07pm
wiseowl

If they want to live in Somalia then why the hell don’t they bugger off back there?

Brainwashed.
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May 30, 2015 8:32pm
kowtow

manolo

The ridiculous thing about Kos is that all those “refugees” have come through Turkey ,our great friend and ally, to get to Europe.
I don’t doubt for one second the Turks are sending them across to Europe instead of doing the right thing as a responsible member of the international community and looking after them ( yeah right) and other members of the EU know it but don’t have the balls to send every last one of those Muslims back to Turkey where they belong.
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May 30, 2015 8:44pm
Shane Le Brun

My latest blog post on the legal Medical Cannabis option in NZ
http://yournz.org/2015/05/30/what-is-sativex-can-we-do-better/
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May 30, 2015 10:29pm
SPC

So the final should now be in either Wellington or Dunedin, there could be a new title winner either way.
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May 30, 2015 10:39pm

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