Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Grrrr... Phil Goff, unctuous lying prat... snarl... Lockwood Smith grinning Thunderbirds puppet... spit, foam... Russell Marshal, human blancmange... gibber... Maharey, Mallard...erk! (immediate stroke).
Do I sound like DFJ yet?
Nope, you've got to work 'lickspittle' in somewhere. Let one of the Freuds explain why that deliciously antique invective is so popular among the wingnutterati, 'cause I'm not going there.
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Sorry for the digression, but I've finally figured out National's secret agenda.
**JOHN KEY IS AN EVIL SCANNER HELLBENT ON WORLD DOMINATION!**
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Ms. Knowles 'Bouncy'.
now that's a picture i'd go to the trouble to find.
Well, the poor kid hasn't quite got the undies/togs distinction yet; because she once capped it with, "Poor Bouncy. Someone stole her dress. Is she cold?"
What do you say? 'That's a bikini, I don't think so, and has anyone told you you're a scary kid?"
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I know a sprog who calls Ms. Knowles 'Bouncy'. Out of the mouths of babes etc...
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Craig - thanks for explaining what a "koan" is.
No, thank you for the reminder that being too clever for your own good is really dumb. :)
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The more I think about the Key and Clark "youth announcements" the more I think it's humbug.
To be fair to both,aI sheaf of speech notes may well be the beginning of a substantive and well-thought out policy that you may not totally agree with, but can at least see the logic of.
But I'm really not feeling over confident. The more I look at both speeches, the more flimsy they become.
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And as for poor-taste images and two-faced whiners, one need not wonder too hard what the reaction would be if David Farrar's local giant billboard with a pic of Mao and a suggestion the Greens are _just like him_ was, say, Mussolini and Rodney Hide, or Goebbels and Tony Ryall.
Just you wait, rodgerd. I'm sure you're going to get an answer sooner rather than later; though if we get through this electoral without certain folks who should know better predicting race war in the streets if National wins, that's an improvement.
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What's a "Koan"? I could google it I suppose, but it'd be nice if someone could explain its meaning.
"Two hands clap and there is a sound; what is the sound of one hand?" is a famous (if usually bastardised) kōan. Very basically, they're stories, dialogues, questions, or statements that serve a number of functions in the practice of Zen Buddhism. Sometimes they are focal points for meditation and other activities; records of the insights and experiences of masters (along with a rich and complex literature of commentary and interpretation); or ways to confound old habits of thought and shock the mind into awareness.
Outside Zen, these are often assumed to be riddles, unanswerable questions or meaningless statements. That's not true, but they're not opened in the same way as a syllogism in Logic 101.
(Knowing PAS, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a Zen Buddhist lurking out there. Please feel free to chime in if I'm totally FUBARing your spiritual tradition.)
Anyhow, I guess a joke that had to be explained at this length isn't a very good one. But traditional Western logic isn't making sense of Helen Clark's 'I know National's secret agenda' line. But I guess, when all else fails scare the living shit out of those wobblies.
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I am so stinking mad Im not expressing myself very well.
Hope this doesn't come across as a patronising pat on the head, but you're doing fine. A damn sight more measured than I've been on the subject -- between seeing that turd Christchurch City councillor and Annette King & Len Brown using Othello Drive and its residents as the backdrop for a photo op on the late news, I'm surprised the neighbors didn't call in a domestic. Got to remember the people in the telebox can't hear me. :)
It would be nice if someone could just say Pihema Cameron's life had the same intrinsic and inalienable value, and it's abso-fucking-loutely irrelevant whether he was 'tagging' a fence or not. The man who has been charged with his murder is absolutely entitled to the presumption of innocence, until the charges are proven beyond reasonable doubt in a fair trial. But how about the presumption that that Cameron didn't ask to be stabbed to death?
Think I'm going to have a day where I go sit on an relatively quiet section of Takapuna Beach with a book, and mentally de-tox.
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And here's a Kōan to mull over, courtesy of Herself:
If Helen Clark keeps banging on about National's secret agenda, is it really a secret agenda at all?
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