Posts by Rich Lock
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they're still facing a massive obstacle to win a workable majority thanks to an FPP system massively advantaging Labour
Not the only reason, though. They really, really cocked things up last time they held the reins, at least towards the end of their stint. And quite a large proportion of the UK electorate have long enough memories to remember that.
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take that rich guy ? he spent a bit of time dissing that andrew fella by making some inane post in the hope of getting a few laughs. how lame is that cos it's not even funny
Yeah, Russell should ban that rich guy. He's a cock.
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I blame it on the Equinox winds.
Those hot dry winds that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. ”
Raymond Chandler, "Red Wind"
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Can anyone here wire up a 3 pin plug ? Fix a leaking tap?
Yes, but why would we want to do that, when we can get some dipstick like yourself, to do it for us, for peanuts?
Indeed. And if the forelock-tugging pleb scum fail to show a sufficiently servile attitude while expressing grovelling gratitude, I generally have my coachman see them off the property by whipping them the length of the drive.
By seriously, Andrew, your ideas interest me. Could we perhaps come up with some sort of system for participation in the NZ democratic process, based on whether a person is a 'real' kiwi or not? Obviously, given the No. 8 mentality that all true kiwis must posess, this would be based around DIY proficiency.
For example, if a person can change a lightbulb, they get minimum-level participation rights. Bronze-level, if you will. The right to express an opinion on talkback radio, write to 'your views', that sort of thing.
For silver-level rights, they would have to demonstrate a greater skillset. The two skills you've used (plug and leaking tap) would be a good start. Demonstrating proficiency in these skills would allow them the right to vote.
For gold-level democratic rights, they would have to really pull out all the stops. Demonstrate that they can re-frame an internal wall, or put up a retaining wall, perhaps? Re-wire a house? Possibly even back a trailer/boat combo into a tight space?
Difficult, but as well as the right to vote, this would allow them the right to actually stand for office. And having demonstrated this level of skill, they'd really show that they had the necessary empathy with all kiwi battlers on struggle street, wouldn't you say?
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By 'not getting the benefit of the defence', I would guess you mean his lawyer was unable to run that as a defence stategy at the trial.
Oh, wait....
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people who are six months pregnant are often incapable of staying up past 8pm, I've discovered
People who are four weeks old are quite often the same. But, oddly, quite capable of staying up for hours when they wake up at 2 in the morning.
Anyhoo, I've heard CYFS takes a rather dim view of leaving them alone for the evening, even if you do leave the remote within easy reach and $20 pinned to their nappy in case of emergencies (curse you, nanny state!). So much as I'd love to meet some more of you, I'll be sitting this one out.
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Is that actually their [Gage et al's] stated aim, though?
It's stated as being so on the debunking website Stephen linked to, but I can't recall reading it on any of the 'truther' stuff which I've skimmed through.
I just find the whole mentality bizarre. Why a person would go so far as to concieve of a baroque, byzantine, horrendously over-elaborate conspiracy run by a shadowy cabal of puppet master conspiracists, rather than acknowledge any one of dozens of far simpler and more likely explanations, is quite beyond my comprehension.
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You probably need to work the large hadron collider in there somewhere as well, seeing as it's back on line.
And Obama is going to use it to travel back in time in order to plant the fake evidence of his birth in Hawaii. The evidence is right there: after all, his birth certificate exists, right? So he must have travelled back in time to plant it there, right? How else can your science explain that one, eh?
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Because America needs its cult of dead heroes. It needs figureheads that can't talk back to weigh down political decisions and make any criticism of them "tasteless" and "unpatriotic". Questioning whether all those people needed to die on 9/11 is akin to wondering whether young soldiers who die in Iraq and Afghanistan needed to die. It strikes too close to the bone, requires too much self-reflection and self-criticism.
This isn't a uniquely American trait, though the fetishization of those who die violently is almost as strong in America as it is in many dictatorships. It's one of the few features of American culture that is scary and troubling, which is what makes it all the more distressing.
More or less the point the article I linked to was making - a number of widows* of the 'dead 9/11 heroes' have deviated from the convenient script the media provided for them. As a consequence they've generally been subject to sustained villification from that same media.
*word used advisedly. Almost all of those on the receiving end appear to be women. And that's a whole 'nother can of worms.
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John - the point is that the feds were following these guys before 9/11. The feds thought they were enough of a risk to keeps tabs on, and they knew they were visiting flight schools, including the actual school they got their training from.
They just flat-out lied about it after the attacks.