Posts by Craig Ranapia
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It would be a shame for him to retire after losing to Clarkson. Like Muldoon, I expect him to die in office (which is probably an idle fancy for many people). Not that you'd catch me voting for the bastard.
Meh... The one think I'll never forgive Margaret Wilson for is splitting the anti-Winston vote just enough in '99, that He Who Must Not Be Named beat Katherine O'Regan by sixty three votes. If one percent of the people who voted for Wilson (who was high enough on the Labour list that she was effectively guaranteed a seat) Winston and his squalid personality cult would be a dim nightmare today.
I guess dropping a small thermonuclear bomb on Tauranga would be beyond the pale?
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Very good, David. Particularly the last one. (And then there was Kate Sheppard and her feminazi PC social engineering ... "jury still out" - Garth George).
Oh, yes women's suffrage was a particular stroke of genius on the party of Labour, passing the legislation twenty three years before it was established. I think we can cut Labour Lite for being a little late to the party, as it wasn't founded until 1936.
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Yeah, it is getting a bit hard to find a new angle on that at the moment ...
Oh, I don't know - it was kinda fun watching Goff doing his best Francis Urqhart impersonation.
And, Paul, as far as I'm concerned any side Winston's on is the wrong one -- and I'd rather forget how many dedicated activists walked away from the National Party when Bolger entered into his marriage of inconveniece with Winston First. There is, after all, a line between being pragmatically slutty and the cheapest of cheap whores.
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duh! It's only spam if it comes from the party you don't care about, otherwise it's a useful informative email.
Not quite, Hadyn, I'm a financial member of the National Party so (yes) I expect and welcome a certain amount of correspondence. Anything that drops in my letterbox with a Parliamentary crest on it -- regardless of party -- goes in the bin.
Also, these preferences don't have much meaning until everyone has announced some actual policy, which would logically have a significant bearing on the views of the respective voters.
Oh, how about we try gaming coalitions after we've had this queer thing called a general election? I'd prefer that Winston Peters bite his tongue and die, but that's exceedingly unlikely. I'd be downright orgasmic if National got such a good result that coalition negotiation consisted of John Key extending his middle finger and chanting "we won, you lost eat this, Mikey." But that's not going to happen either.
To be quite cynical, can we just write this off as a rather lame attempt to sex up another 'Labour has another humiliatingly bad polling cycle'. Fail to see how an essentially meaningless question becomes any less so with more data.
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My doctor told me he never got spam before he gave his email address to the National Party.
Funny, the only unsolicited mail I get from any political party is Labour, and I can't for the life of me imagine how I ended up on their mailing databases.
On one level, if Labour wants to waste their resources spamming the least receptive household on the North Shore, mmore power to 'em. I'm just surprised that political parties don't have the advertising savy to realise how damnably irritating it is -- especially after polite 'cease and desist' notes have been ignored.
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The debate is produced by the Labour Party as part of the Hero Festival, and also benefits the Cartier Bereavement Trust, an excellent HIV-AIDS support organisation whose leader, Karen Ritchie, spoke movingly at the event. I'm not about to be intimidated by Mr McCully into not supporting something like that.
Yes, the Cartier Trust is an entirely worthy cause -- and one I hope Judith would be supportive of as the local MP -- and I guess I can't complain about the sponsors engaging in a wee bit of product placement but FFS... the freaking Labour Party conference wasn't as heavily 'branded' as that stage, if the photo was anything to go by.
Judy, take it from this style queen, there's a fine line between fabulous excess and the plain tacky. And I'd be saying the same if McCully and the East Coast Bays Nats turned a fund raiser for (say) the local hospice into an excuse to use up all the old bunting.
Having said that, I've dropped Mr. McCully a line asking whether I should resign from the National Party when I finally get my paperwork done to come on board as a writer for Media 7? Or shall I go the whole hog, emulate Colin James, and not vote? I await the reply with considerable interest.
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Russia has just elected a new President. How do you pronounce the name of the man who will lead the country for the next five years?
You mean Dmitri Medvedev? I've not heard one radio or TV hack pronounce the man's name the same way, and if there's any Russian speakers out there who can enligten me it would help. 'Fascist douche bag Pew-tin's finger puppet' may be accurate, but is still impolite. :)
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At Auckland International Airport, who do they worry about most?
Hum... you shouldn't trust those sneaky bastard Canadians. Today Margaret Atwood paperbacks, tomorrow k.d. lang spreading lesbian germs, and then those horrible vampire pensioners sucking the economic lifeblood out of little old New Zealand.
How did they get to you, Slack? :)
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dc_red wrote:
My dislike for McCully is intense and increasingly visceral. It's not like RB is replacing failed National Party candidate Paul Henry or anything....
And what do you think are the odds that if Paul Henry ended up on The Standard, with a lovely photo of him at a National Party fundraiser he'd be in Rick Ellis' office getting hit with the stupid stick?
Now I agree with RB that McCully was (to be generous) being rather mischievous, but next year it might be a better look if the Cartier Trust (an entirely worthy cause BTW) was a wee bit higher profile and the event looked a little less like a Labour campaign rally.
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If they devoted 2 or 2 years of full time training - 5 or 6 hours a day - they could approach a reasonable copy of the Fred 'N Ginger style. But even if you tried to do that with classical ballet, you would still look really, really bad. It is a discipline that you really have to be reared in from a very early age.
Dyan, I don't mean to sound bitchy but have you ever taken a dance class in your life? I think Douglas Wright and Michael Parmenter would have a small mountain of bones to pick with the notion that the works they've choreographed for their own companies require dancers any less dedicated than those they've worked with when creating work for the Royal New Zealand Ballet. In the end, with ticket prices for live theatre being what they are, I'm not interested.
Like you say, Deborah, each to their own but don't judge people like us who don't "get" whatever new music is trendy etc.
Oh, I'm just sick of 'new' bands where I can guess what CDs they've been listening to over the last six months. Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
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