Posts by Kracklite
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Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to Islander,
You know you’re old. I’m suffering ( suffering , I tell ya) the realisation that I’m old. Since I consider that significant, that must mean that there’s still some emo teen in me yet. :)
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Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to Islander,
Have to be Gaylene Preston, when she was feeling sad!
Ah, Mr Wrong - I saw that when it first came out. I'm old...
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Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to Sacha,
Key's dorky handshake, the gift that keeps giving.
This is so much better:
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I must confess that I haven’t sat through the party addresses in their totality yet, but Labour’s focus on its heritage is… <strain in voice akin to the effects of constipation> potentially… gratifying… </strain in voice akin to the effects of constipation>
Thinking of heritage, my father and my mother were lifelong Labour voters and their pitch does resonate, but I find it hard to overcome my scepticism, considering Goff’s own history and the party’s own woeful performance as an alleged “opposition” and its rudderless, focus group driven spineless cynicism. This is all very good, but very, very late in the day - maybe too late. My mother’s now voting Green, my father’s dead, I’m leaning Greenish, maybe, now that the worst Luddites are leaving.
It would be nice to think that this presentation represents the real heart of the Labour Party, but they’ve spent so much of the last three years demonstrating that there’s no-one they won’t throw under the bus, no principle they won’t compromise, no cock that they won’t suck (such as the members of Brian Tamaki and his Blackshirts). I’m yet to be convinced, to put it mildly.
If this is all about film criticism, then I’m voting for Stanley Kubrick.
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Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to Islander,
I got whacked once because my father thought coming second in a primary school exam was somehow insufficient. WTF!!
You know what Buzz Aldrin’s father said to him when he came back from the moon?
“So you were second.”
I'm glad that my father wasn't like that.
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Someone help me, please. I have a picture of a scantily-clad Liz Hurley shooting gaggles of gay autistic looters (after they've been drafted into the army so that they can be court-martialled, naturally) from the pillion seat of Phil Goff's Brut 33-fuelled motorbike as he speeds towards a Destiny Church fundraising barbeque in Waitakere. Now, how can I fit shovelling oily sludge into this picture?
Yep, attempting to clean up without safety equipment and training is a bad idea.
No, it's a really good idea for him and with luck we should get a decent martyr out of it. I just want the rest of the front bench to do it too, while smoking unfiltered Black Russians.
OK, sorry about my cynicism (I don't waste time being sorry about bad taste), but at least I consider the Labour front bench worthy of contempt.
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
A fascinating world in miniature, anthologising the major features of terrestrial planets. I can't wait to see what Dawn finds at Ceres in 2015!
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to Sacha,
I chose to ignore that, myself. I was motivated by some desperate desire to simulate tact, I think.
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to Hilary Stace,
I’m sorry, but that simply epitomises Labour’s failure to formulate an effective media strategy. I know that it’s sincerely intended, but how many people read Beige Alert? Does anything posted there get out into the broader arena? No.
And T’ Standard?!
There’s a word for that: solipsism.
Sermons to fora composed entirely of a bastard mix of the choir and some trolls are guaranteed to be forgotten.
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Reminds me of the "I'd love to see wages drop" affair and the pressure brought to bear after that.
And our loyal opposition?
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<sound of crickets>No doubt a focus group will suggest what to say soonish.
It’s a pretty fundamental principle of civil rights, specifically the right to free speech and a free media, I would think. A party or parties less obsessed with pursuing demographic groups (with utter incompetence as it is) and more concerned with articulating universal principles might have something to say.
And say it twice, and consistently.