Posts by Jeremy Eade
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"Or standing up, as Ron Mark did in the House today, and engaging in frankly cringe-inducing chest beating about locking crims up and throwing away the key."
yeh, that sucks, you're right but other parties aren't so keen on keys either. (no puns please)
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"You will pardon me if I weep no crocodile tears if they never get a voice in my fate."
and more power to you brother, let's face it there are sectors of our society who need to be braindirtyied thoroughly with the beauty of science. It's beyond fucking disgusting.
That's why the exclusive bretheren freaked me the fuck out. if nz first harbours that kind of shit good riddance but that's a story i'd like to see.
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"There are people out there who would like nothing better than to see people like me stripped of any civil, political and human rights worth speaking of. You will pardon me if I weep no crocodile tears if they never get a voice in my fate."
Explain more. What's' the agenda?
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"Seeing the end of him would be like losing , satisfying in the short term but disenfranchising the legitimate concerns of many Kiwis.'
I guess MMP is saying if there are 5% of ya we might as well see you and hear what you're about. Is 5% too low? Personally I think that's about right.
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Winstons career has been an amazing up and down ride. He's of old school National heritage, 3 terms with our GOP and the fact he is of Maori ancestory use to be a big asset to that version of the National Party in that it made them look more inclusive.
His party popularity does seem to largely revolve around talking consistently to his core supporters, the elderly and to be honest that's a sector of society who deserve much more political attention.
You've paid your taxes all your life , you've got 10 - 20 years to live and only one bugger seems to be taking your standard of living seriously.I don't really follow him closely and like many have found his immigration statements ugly and uneasy,(although I'm sure it's a debate we need to have more time on and i'm sure a lot of immigrants would like to tell us alot of things about us that some of us probably don't want to hear.)
I have met fans though and they seem to point to four areas of achievement.
1) The winebox saga - an admiration of the bravery it took to take those guys on.
2) Free health care for under sixes.
3)A understanding of the limitations of the reserve bank act.
4) Listening to our seniors and championing them..... he's hardly our greatest politician but he's argueably our most productive third party politician.
Maybe he should just do the Bob Jones political exit strategy and just bop the media on the nose and go fishing.
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"Darth George might be paying for his own summer hols this year, if Chris keeps masticating the scenery like this."
Yep, he's got competition.
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.'I spoke to an international referee the other day about a game he did. First thing he said was that he needed to learn more.'
Ii think we know what that refs name was.
I think you'll find in at least rugbys case the fact that refs have different rulebooks and different gaps in knowledge makes for an
injustice when it comes to results and my team the all blacks ,undoubtedly the greatest team in the world deserve better...but there is a war in the middle east which makes these sporting debates seem small.
and good luck with your reffing, it is a tough job.
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"Well, put another way: Perhaps the referees are a joke because it's thought that would appeal to clowns. God knows that the sports media would be so much dead air and blank newsprint without the ritual sledging of the ref."
Sure but the trend is more to slag off players and coaches for the
inexcusable sin of not anticipating a shocking referee performance,
indeed the "rattue-style" logic is build a gameplan around bad calls. It's absurd.We do waste to much time on sport. Why does it have it's own slot on the news?.....and our sportsmedia seem to enjoy developing personal beefs with OUR sporting heroes rather than talking about the reality and context of OUR NATIONAL sport.
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"Very few referees know the rulebook of their sport off-by-heart"
We are talking international referees Kyle....and to be honest I think you're doing other codes a diservice.
I'm not aware of players and coaches ever struggling with football (soccer) rules to this extent. The rules of football almost certainly are it's popularity.
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"It ain't all doom and gloom either Tom. All time the ABs have a 74.02% win record and since we went professional it's 80%. The all time record has been dragged up a touch by our record in the last 15 or so years."
Some people do stats , some do world cups. We are the greatest team in the world and have been forever.