Posts by Craig Ranapia
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They'll be to busy moving to Aussie, or inciting a military coup, or simply retreating to the bath with a 40oz bottle of Bombay Sapphire and a stanley knife.
Oy vey...
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That is breathtaking.
Certainly is, then again do you think perhaps Labour has made a rod for their own back - just a wee bit? Sorry, Don, I just don't buy the notion that there's any blameless victim here.
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Oh, and I don't think it's OTT to say I'd certain like it if National, Labour, NZ First and the Greens wouldn't play party political silly buggers with other people's health and potentially their very lives. I've little time for 'alternative' or 'complimentary' medications, but there are a lot of folks out there who don't share my POV.
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To my mind this shitfight is the outcome of flipflopping. If National would simply make their position clear in policy documents then this argument about "what people meant when they said X" would just never happen.
Oh, Ben, how delightfully naive - there's always the nefarious 'secret agenda' (which, of course, you can't rebut because secret agendas are... well, secret). So, the game plan for securing a fourth term is to FUBAR your own legislative program, and perhaps make sure any cross-party relations are absolutely toxic? Now, if you're a purist libertarian who thinks legislative gridlock is utopia there's no downside. The rest of us might have some doubts. Don't get me wrong, Ben, I applaud the breath-taking cynicism and contempt for the electorate you're proposing. I'd prefer to have a little more faith in the intelligence of the peasants.
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Felix:
OK, I've probably missed something here (at least, I hope I have) but had Clark actually seen a copy of this SOP when she was talking it up? What was the basis for her 'understanding', because it seems that the 'Peters Compromise' definitely wasn't going to fly with the Australians.
I'm seeing nothing to change my view that nobody is staggering out of this farce with their dignity intact, and there's been way too much game-playing for domestic consumption on all sides that everyone has to be held accountable for . Frankly, I don't know who to believe - and this is one issue where that's just not good enough.
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Meanwhile, Jordan makes the expected post and his regular hostile commentators get completely bizarre. Certainly entertaining.
Not even that, Russell - "Yo bitch iz a fat old-digger! Yeah! Well, yo bitch iz a lying nappy hobag!" If I want to listen to this crap, I believe there are any number of hip-hop artistes who will stroke off for my listening pleasure at a modest price. But considered political debate it isn't.
But if this is a taste of things to come over the next sixteen months or so, I don't think I'm going to be the only one looking back on the more demented patches of recent political history with nostalgic longing.
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BTW, I'll just put on the record a hearty 'you go girl!' to Audrey. While I don't think John Key is one of those paranoiacs (not looking at anyone, Winston) who thinks the Press Gallery are out to get him, I don't blame Young for getting uber-pissed at (in her view) being called a liar who fabricates quotes.
I just hope Key is going to have the sense to take Audrey out for an (off the record) drink, apologises publicly and rebuilds some fences. Politicians fuck up - so do journalists and bloggers. It's what you do afterwards that counts - and this is a golden opportunity for Key to regain some points in my book.
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FFS, is this the way they plan to run a government?
Well, Russell, I certainly hope the next National-lead Government isn't going to be playing quite the same silly buggers with the Opposition we've seen recently. If there's a hell of a lot of toxicity and flat out paranoia on both sides at the moment - and I'd say that's a considerable understatement - then I think everyone (and that includes Cullen and King) needs to take a deep breath and just chill out.
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The girls in my house get a bit hot and bothered about munter actually....
Um... Tammy Davis is definitely man-candy, but Munter? Eww... that character is so much a child in a man's body it would just be wrong to want to shag him 'til his eyes popped out. :)
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Seriously, is he actually meant to be mentally handicapped or is he just dumb?
A little from column A and a lot from Column B, perhaps? :) Then again, I don't think it's that big a stretch that under the amiable doofus with maco 'tude to burn Van could turn into a very, very scared (and rather scary) little boy. Hell, where would we be if any of the Wests responded to a crisis in a calm, deliberate, thoroughly reasoned manner?
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