Posts by Joe Wylie
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Speaker: Dancing with Dingoes, Part II, in reply to Jacqui Dunn,
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OnPoint: Pay Attention, in reply to rodgerd,
I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s news to quite a few in the Australian Labor party that one of their Senators appears to see his first loyalty to the United States rather than, well, Australia.
A surprise to some in the so-called grassroots membership perhaps, but unlikely to be a revelation to Senator Arbib's political colleagues, thanks to the disfunctional level of career-driven cynicism in the NSW ALP, both left and right.
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Speaker: Dancing with Dingoes, Part II, in reply to sally jones,
Tan is such an understated - and probably, underrated - colour.
And there was me thinking that chicks dig beige, but only because I once had a neighbour who had that slogan as a bumper sticker on his beige Ford Laser.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Tom Semmens,
Meanwhile, in Australia a Labor cabinet minister has now been outed as an American spy
Spy? He's only working to restore Australia to its former status under Julia Gillard's hero Hawkie as a de facto 51st US state. Compared to Howard's clumsy deputy sheriff approach under Bush, Arbib is a very slick operator. The Greens will make hay from this, while Tony Abbott will be driven into Phil Goff mode.
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Speaker: Dancing with Dingoes, Part II, in reply to Tamsin6,
I recently spotted a billboard offering bulk tan slice on special outside a bakery with a factory-type shop here in light-industrial Christchurch. As the tan slice name has always rather dampened my curiosity, I'm unable to vouch for the stuff.
Amy:
. . . cheese-n-onion sandwiches and other nearly-lost cultural artifacts
Cheese & onion sandwiches seem to rule around here, every lunch bar has the bloody things. I bet they even have a gluten free version, which of course isn't the same as gluteus maximus free, i.e. no ham.
The Rutles:
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Manakura,
. . . consider setting up a thread specifically for those who wish to indulge in wild conspiracy theories/hysterical rapist accusations? then this thread could continue as a discussion of the content of the cables? with errant comments being deleted or redirected to the appropriate ghetto?
Yes please.
One of those Stuff-style polls, where any takers can make a Xmas wish for either an Assange inflatable love doll, or the voodoo effigy version with needles. It'd save a lot of fluffing. -
Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Che Tibby,
. . . there is no “file on citizen X", you’d need to compile that information from a range of highly uncooperative agencies, all of whom are extremely cognizant of the Privacy Act
Understood, though searching a particular name at Archives NZ’s Archway site can turn up files from a variety of sources, such as military and immigration records, often relating to living individuals. Entering your own name can be edifying. Perhaps reassuringly they’re generally embargoed for 100 years from the “date of closure”.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to ,
I’ll just duck over and get the details of my elderly neighbour’s series of bowel ops, though from the number of times he’s attempted to corner me with the saga I should have the whole thing down pat by now. He’ll be rapt to know it’s going on line without having to wait for some hacker to get around to uploading the entire DHB archives. Let’s all spill our guts before they do it for us. Liberation from within, rather than wait to be liberated from without, as Che (not you, Tibby) used to say.
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How long before the contents of the New Zealand Police computing system is lodged onto Wikileaks? The confidential records of WINZ or the IRD or of the DHB’s uploaded by an anonymous employee, motives unknown? It will happen, it is only a matter of by who and when.
And then The People will rise up and say "We've had enough, Mr. Man", but only when they've had their fill, if ever, of perusing everyone else's no-longer-private details.
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Hard News: Popular Paranoiac Politics, in reply to Matthew Littlewood,
How could you resist?
According to a first-hand account from someone who was lured to a phoney lecture on "zen buddhism" back in the 70s, the sight of lecturer John "Ultimate" Dalhoff's massive gut overhanging his Levis proved highly resistable.