Daily Review 03/11/2015

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   We live in strange times when a Labour MP attacks the site and occasional commentator Matthew Hooton praises it. He said nice things about Ad’s rugby post on Monday …

   http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/201777000/politics-with-matthew-hooton-and-stephen-mills
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      You (the left) had this coming. Now how is out of touch, if his comments were to be believed?
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         what?
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            Think about it a little. Might be hard, I know.
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               TBH I can’t make sense either. Too oblique. How about you dumb it down for us?
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                  Writing the sentences properly would probably help too. But hey, it’s always interesting to see who doesn’t want to be understood.
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   Well I’m a chump. Last night I wondered to myself “has a female jockey ever won the Melbourne Cup?”. Now considering I never think about horse racing from one end of a decade to another – this was a pretty unusual thing to wonder about.

   And if I’d the brains of a newt I’d have put down $100 on her horse and been $7900 better off this evening.

   Now here is the really cool thing; Michelle Payne actually grew up locally here in Ballarat and she’s a close friend of one of my partner’s staff. She’s ecstatic as you can imagine. Michelle has had to battle her way to this:

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Payne
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      I was about to put some money on for a win, because it kinda looked good on paper, but didn’t. Ended up losing $150, while my mate was up a cool $500 off $6.
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         my daughter put 10 bucks on winner because she liked the name
         1000$ winnings
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            Well done, I’m slightly jealous!
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      heh the moment where innate gut instinct kicks in but the educated brain doesn’t quite figure it out in time…
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      I am of the opinion that the day I gain the power to see into the future, would be the day I start betting on racehorses…
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         I have a system I am working on.

         I just need to to get the timing worked out.

         It is called hindsight.
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            dv…I’m not betting on the horse sighting your hind. 😉
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               LOL
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   The rejection of Iraq-born Muslim Warda Jawad by the New Zealand Defence Forces reflects the Islamophobia that has become rampant in the West, but this same Islamophobia ensures that the West will continue to lose wars in the Middle East: http://readingthemaps.blogspot.co.nz/2015/11/islamophobia-and-other-ways-to-lose-war.html

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