Posts by dc_red
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<quote>What was McCain doing to pass the time in the jungles of Viet Nam?</quote?
Watching a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor ... and surviving?
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I'm willing to call it:
George W. Bush: Worst. President. Ever.
Pity that pretzel didn't finish him off, really.
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Meanwhile, Winston rides again! Ariba!
Meh, he's still Dog Tucker.
He'll lose Tauranga by more than 3000 votes, and if NZF can break 3.5% of the part vote I'd be surprised.
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And the Nats chose Clem Simich over David Kirk, if I recall?
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Rather off-topic, but can anyone explain why the people of Epsom look set to re-elect Rodney Hide? It's one thing to be an irritating buffoon, another to be AWOL for the majority of a Parliamentary term.
I'd take a hard-working-in-the-local-electorate type - a Ross Robertson if you will - over that kind of clown any day.
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What interested me most about this footage (seen on the news) was that Clark hardly missed a beat. She got straight up and carried on with what she was about to do. Kudos to her -- whenever I stumble I go through some elaborate charade for the benefit of anyone possibly watching.
Indeed. I also know that if I was out campaigning and covering the kind of ground a party leader does I'd be taking a prat-fall at least once a day. If there's an uneven floor, misplaced chair, untied shoelace, unmarked step, tree root, crack in the ground ... loose 10c coin ... I'll find it and fall over it. Even clearly signposted steps get me with some regularity.
To get up and get going like that, especially when you're not exactly a spring chicken, is very creditable.
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criticised Labour, saying it had undermined the moral values of Pacific people by decriminalising prostitution and allowing civil unions.
Groan. How exactly do either of these things undermine anyone's moral values? Are all strongly-held values suddenly out the window when they are no longer enforced in/through law?
Are Pacific people en masse abandoning their self-proclaimed "moral values" and opting instead to join civil-unionized same sex couples who frequent prostitutes?
If so, I guess those values can't have been too strong in the first instance.
The inability to distinguish between personal values (or prejudices) and the values (or prejudices) of the law indicates a basic intellectual failing.
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petty misogyny
Indeed, although such prejudice among the vile mob doesn't extend to Sarah Palin, interestingly enough.
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littered with talk of "his mission to destroy his enemies".
No wonder he worked well with Winston, then.
Although the Kurtz metaphor threw me at first, upon reflection Rodney is so far "up river" it's the kind of place a master tactician such as Meurant might just go a little crazy and entertain "unsound methods".
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The Herald seemed oddly conflicted between presenting it as a genuine story which involved some actual work on the part of its own reporters, and a nasty Labour smear against that nice Mr Key.
I guess it's found in favour of the latter. Again.