Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Agreed. I'm generally not a fan of Peters, but I was pleasantly surprised when he said that this morning.
Oh, crap - perhaps if Winston actually spent as much time doing his bloody job (or at least the tiresome parts that contribute to sound legislation) as he does posturing, he wouldn't have to say such things in the first place. Found his performance on Morning Repot typically appalling, which only proves, I guess, that it's a day with a Y in it.
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That Guardian story was terrible: I found myself counting the nuances it missed -- such as the "right-wing New Zealand First Party" being led by a Maori and having in recent memory held Maori seats.
And what the hell is Ron Mark - chopped liver? :) If he's been "reasonable and logical for far too long", reason and logic have no meaning. I've certainly found it in short supply on all sides in recent weeks...
Now, I really have to go work on my PA Radio piece suggesting that Family First and the Catholic Church do have a point, just not quite the one they think. Really don't want to get stuck on this for the third (fourth?) week in a row, because I've sure run out of anything useful to say.
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Ah, just wait until Wee Rodders is a petulant, dirty teenager then threaten to e-mail this post to all his friends. Make teh interwebs work for you, and remember you have the rest of his life and yours to even up the karmic scorecard. :)
Or you can go the Loudon Wainwright route, and write a charming wee ditty lyrics like this:
Rufus is a tit man
Suckin' on his mamma's gland
Suckin' on the nipple
It's a sweeter than the ripple wine.
Yes its sweeter than the wine.
You can tell by the way the boy burps
that it's gotta taste fine.Rufus turned out not to be much of a tit-man after all, but that's a whole other story...
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It was sort of interesting to read such an article written by (I assume) someone without any of the emotional buy-in one gets from a domestically written article.
Grrr... am I the only one who get a wee bit pissed off at the Te Borg shorthand that gets used in pieces like this.
What the frak am I supposed to make of this:
It turns out, though, that there are - and that feelings about them are starting to run dangerously high. Listen, for example, to Allan Hawea, a moderate, law-abiding Maori community worker from the Bay of Plenty. New Zealanders of European extraction, known in Maori as Pakeha, he warns, "can harp on all they like about how tired they are of Maori considering themselves above the law, or how sick and tired they are of hearing Maori bleat on about the race issue. Well, friends, get used to it. We will not have you tell us how we will respond to the issues that concern us. We will decide how we respond. We are not going away. If you find our response unreasonable, illogical, perhaps it is because we have been reasonable and logical for far too long."
Well, it's a point of view. But I really have a very big problem indeed with the descriptors used for Hawea - and what I read as the inference that this is typical of 'moderate, law-abiding' Maori. I personally not only found that quote far from moderate, but hellishly creepy.
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And to be positive for once, big ups to the neighbors who pushed a note through our letterbox - as they do every year - advising that they'd be having a small fireworks party in their backyard, it would be over (or at least the festivities moved indoors) by 9.30 and we might like to make arrangements to have our pets indoors.
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Brown's Bay is part of the suburban North Shore and the station keeps gentleman's hours.
Ouch... slightly unkind, Russell. There are plenty of suburban stations that are not staffed 24/7, and least anyone complain that I can't give the incumbent Government credit for anything I can literally turn my head 90 degrees to the left and see http://police.govt.nz/district/tasman/release/2475.html. Ten minutes, at most, from Browns Bay - and a damn sight more accesible to the motorway and most of the North Shore than the former HQ in Takapuna.
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I've seen some crazy shit over the years, including the guys from the local kebab shop who were standing out on the footpath letting off fireworks held in their hands, WTF.
If you can draft legislation to ban morons (or at least put them in some gulag on White Island) I'm soooo there. Can see some problems though... bloody civil libertarians. :)
The fact that damage this year seems relatively contained has me questioning if I was knee-jerking that call though...
Well, I keep coming back to this question - don't we have perfectly adequate laws regarding destruction and damage to other people's property, cruelty to animals etc. No, I wouldn't be best pleased if some fucktard threw a sparkler through an open window into my house. But not more or less than if the offensive object was a lit cigarette, or a rock. And anyone who screws with my pussy is asking for a world of hurt -- don't care how you do it.
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Even without the Khandahar analogy, it was a silly thing for Clark to say. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the issue's safety, and not an important person's right to read the New Statesman in peace ...
And very surprised to hear her on Close Up saying the noise was so bad she had problems sleeping! Bloody hell, this is a woman I'm reliably informed can sleep on a Hercules air transport -- which may be known for many things, but it's business class appointments are not among them.
Terrifying? Disgusting? Um, no.
SheeshIndeed - especially when Fiji is horrendous enough without adjectival sexing up and editorial brow-furrowing. (Though to be fair, Dallow has a long way to go before he matches Judy Bailey or Paul Holmes for Parkinsonian Mummy Of The Nation [tm] body language.)
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I missed the verse that said that. Is it only on the special edition CD?
Oh come on... catchy tune, but I don't think you need a Ph.D. in textual analysis to get the subtext. We care, they don't; we love all the colours of the rainbow, and they don't. Gag... Sorry, but it's why I've freed up a lot of time by not reading 99% of American political blogs anymore - because I can enjoy an bare-knuckle argument, but I've really lot my stomach for bullshit (however attractively packaged or well coded) where if you don't agree with us, you're not only wrong but stupid or evil.
And am I really the only person who got through the 2005 campaign feeling as if our politics has gotten a little too 'American' for comfort?
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Oh, and before anyone get Mandy Rice Davis on my arse (well, he would say that, wouldn't he) - I think there are now, and always have been, plenty on the right who could with a wee fistful of party pills laced with STFU.
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