Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Rich Lock,
What if the wind happens to be blowing in the wrong direction?
If I stand at my front door and look north, I can see two petrol stations and an awful lot of light industrial buildings and big box retail. None of which I'd like to be downwind of if they were uncontrollably ablaze after an 8.9 magnitude quake.
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Field Theory: Japan moves, in reply to Hadyn Green,
When the disaster was here we had the knowledge to be able to filter out incorrect information quickly.
It also helps when you don’t have media being reduced to gibbering hysterical wrecks at the mention of the N-word that isn’t nigger or Nazi. I think there’s a serious need for Mediawatch and Media7 to take a hard, harsh work at the failure of local media to do serious science reporting when it was desperately needed.
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Hard News: An excellent evening in Newtown, in reply to Megan Wegan,
Hey, I read somewhere that “people who don’t have houses aren’t allowed to pay for drinks”.
I picture millions of Japanese laying siege to the New Zealand embassy just before cocktail hour…
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Hilary Stace,
I think the Minister’s reaction was to the NZ Herald report quoting her which was repeated on the first page of this thread by George Darroch and others.
Ah, yes... and as I've said over at Danyl's place, if Collins is accusing the journos concerned of fabricating a quote she should lay a formal complaint; it should be rather simple for them to produce their notes and/or a recording of Collins saying what they put in quote marks.
Perhaps she hasn't because she knows damn well the quote is accurate, and both Audrey Young and Fran O'Sullivan have handed out public bitch-slaps to politicians who've accused them for making shit up.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Russell Brown,
As I have noted before, she doesn’t seem to like me.
Boo-fucking-hoo. I do hope Mrs. Collins will deputise a flunky to read the various disobliging things I've said about her on Public Address Radio. Her contempt would be a badge of honour.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Russell Brown,
Unfortunately, he’s been let down by his leader’s peculiar talent for stumbling onto the wrong side of moral and political issues.
That’s fair enough, but on my side of the political divide I hope decent, smart people like Chris Finlayson cringe every time Judith opens her mouth. If folks like Chris and Grant won't speak up in public, they better be opening catering cans of STFU in caucus. Please.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Hilary Stace,
The left is about collective struggle to improve the lot of the less powerful, as well as society in general, not individualism.
Well, Hillary, don't you think "society in general" deserves a lot better than Parliamentarians who seem to know nothing about the rule of law, and care even less?
it might surprise Kracklite that getting his one vote on 26 November is not more important than that of any of the other 3 or so million voters in NZ.
Grant could do with a reminder that his majority was healthy but not unassailable (and over four thousand less than Marian's in 2005), and Labour didn't win the party vote (again, which it did my a substantial margin in '05).
I live in an electorate that National has held since 1949, but I'll be damned if I'm going to put time, hard work and money into Wayne Mapp's successor if he or she thinks it's funny to "joke" about shooting people.
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Hard News: An excellent evening in Newtown, in reply to Hilary Stace,
I expect there is one at the Crown Lynn exhibition at the City Art Gallery that I haven’t got to yet.
Thanks for the reminder that I've got to slot in a more leisurely (and note-taking) second pass. IIRC, the show runs until the end of next month but if you're anything like me, that just means you'll end up in a panic on closing weekend...
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Kumara Republic,
John Drinnan seems to have ruffled a few feathers so far.
Honestly, Drinnan doesn't ruffle my feathers because he's got quite a track record of getting basic matters of fact wrong. I don't mean "taking a position that is open to debate", but going off on rants about other media players that are not factually accurate.
I would note, however, the irony that the newspaper Mr. Drinnan writes for -- the only daily newspaper in New Zealand's largest media market -- wouldn't know what a fucking free market looks like, and would smother it if one appeared. I also suspect a lawyer went over Drinnan's copy very carefully, so Joyce's wouldn't find anything.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to philipmatthews,
The Paul Henry affair was “metaphysical and mystical”. Do I want to know what he means?
No -- this is the man who said we all needed to STFU and get over the "sensual excesses" Louise Nicholas was subjected to. If you just assume everything he says is mindless and offensive, you're seldom going to be proved wrong.
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