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Steve Parks, in reply to
... the Labour Party [have] 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).
Good reminder. I'm leaning towards voting Green because of just that sort of thing.
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Islander, in reply to
Herzog:
"The Cave of Forgotten Dreams" is very much *his* interpretation ( I love the fact that Chauvet is now, sort of, kind of, on line.)I dont think albino alligators (they wernt crocodiles) had anything very much to do with anything much at all, BUT! the very fact we could sort of see, in a sort of 3D
manner into Chauvet is ....truly awesome.I love being alive now, and seeing this kind of stuff-
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Steve Parks, in reply to
Anyone know who’s responsible for it?
Anyone know who's responsible for National's?
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Kracklite, in reply to
Just to be off-thread, but… what the purgatory, things that don’t seem to matter immediately are often the things that matter in the long term… yes, that was one of the most beautiful films that I have ever seen, because it gestures towards the things that – don’t transcend, exactly – but surpass the ephemera of politics, and remind me that whatever happens, there is something constant that matters across the scale of millennia. In this case, it’s the human urge to record, to make sense of what happens, to reify a connection with the world.
I really wish that a politician would speak of such things in such terms… and not (fear to) be laughed at.
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
What’s wrong with Jackie Blue?
More's the point, what's she done?
Nothing to make anyone consider her untrustworthy so far as I know.
So far she's shown that she can be trusted not to frighten the roosters by attempting to deliver on whatever urban liberal noises she might have made in the past. Like her colleagues Nikki Kaye and Nicky Wagner, the vaguely progressive aura that they once lent to the Nats has faded to the faint whiff of stale deodorant.
Nicky Wagner accepted an invitation to address the Avonside red zone rally a few weeks back, then pulled out at the last minute with no explanation. Perhaps it's to her credit that she may feel acute embarrassment at being required to heel to her master's voice.
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Nek minnit
Julia Gillard already to the rescue according to twitter for those who don't twit, like me -
Kumara Republic, in reply to
Nek minnit
Julia Gillard already to the rescue according to twitter for those who don’t twit, like meThe attitudea of Qantas management seem not unlike those that caused rubbish mountains and unburied corpses in 1970s Britain.
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What get's me about
Fridays Herald Aritcle is this:Representatives of pilots, engineers and ground staff are also outraged by Qantas's decision to boost Joyce's pay package by 71 per cent to Aus$5.0 million ($5.2 million) just as he announced Qantas's restructuring plans.
Says it all really.
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Biobbs, in reply to
I wish that they’d started thinking and talking this way three years ago. Why now, why so late? How deep, how intractable is that commitment?
+1,000,000.
I'm also delighted to see the party finally rediscover its mojo, but if this what they really believe, why the fuck is this the first we're hearing about these values?
Re putting kids in political broadcasts, I'm fine with the Greens doing it but not any of the others. Because it's clear that the Greens really do care about kids and the future of the planet, whereas it's hard to see any sincerity from any of the other parties on these matters. (OK, Labour under Clark did do some genuine good things for families and education, but not much for the environment, and has shown bugger all interest in these things in the last 3 years).
Somewhat O/T, but why is it that the people who shout loudest about protecting children (promoting censorship of books, music etc) are also the ones most vehemently opposed to doing anything that really helps them - like free education, free health care, safe and extensive cycling pathways, public libraries?
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Islander, in reply to
If *any* politician was moved by the matter of Chauvet - as you & I & a thousand thousands others have been- I'd truly listen to them.
It is a film to show your children, parents, friends.
It is a film that really shows - +30,000 years ago, ancestors *were creating these stunning & insightful works of art.
We dont know why they did- but we can assurredly appreciate what they did.*They were in what we now call Europe, but I dont think we can call them 'Europeans'- they went off & wandered much further away-
"Cave of Forgotten Dreams" - get it or view it, share it where-ever possible (and look out for the kids' footprints & finger-scribings - they emphasise that whyever the marvellous works were done, they arnt the work of a priestly elite, but of familial groups-)
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Biobbs, in reply to
OK, Kubrick’s dead. Werner Herzog, maybe. Cave of Forgotten Dreams showed that he thinks in the long term.
And he made Grizzly Man! Best ever delivery of the message 'animals are animals, not oversized cuddly people in furry suits, got it?'
But call me a low-brow populist, I'll go for the Coens as the best living director (team). Scorsese in second place.
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Islander, in reply to
Interesting. I go for works, rather than directors etc.
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Biobbs, in reply to
Interesting. I go for works, rather than directors etc.
Yep. That statement does include written works, rather than writers, as well.Fair point. I think my love of the Coens is because I've enjoyed every one of their works without exception, even the ones that were less well liked by most people. Just something about what they do with story structure, mood, and how they get the best out of their actors, that appeals to me.
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
Somewhat O/T, but why is it that the people who shout loudest about protecting children (promoting censorship of books, music etc) are also the ones most vehemently opposed to doing anything that really helps them – like free education, free health care, safe and extensive cycling pathways, public libraries?
Partly because those sorts of people would rather farm culture war pigs.
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
Partly because those sorts of people would rather farm culture war pigs.
Roger Douglas and Paul Keating both dabbled in running piggeries. Both of their operations ended in bankrupty long before their political careers puttered out. Douglas told an interviewer that he'd named individual pigs after people he didn't like, and claimed to have a David among their number. Given his grasp of everyday practicalities it's doubtful that he could have distinguished one pig from another.
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Hey, so if anyone wanted to revisit the McPhail & Gadsby "Night, Leader" clips, there's a short one at the end of Part 4 here, after the credits. Strip out the audio (please do! no, really! this was "funny", back in the day??) and go for it.
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Rock on...
Werner Herzog, maybe. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
showed that he thinks in the long term......and in more than 2 dimensions!
At least 4, possibly 5!
in short, he knows the peace of string...<aside>
While doing some follow up reading at the Bradshaw Foundation site,
I discovered this connection to another ancient scribe...Of course we all know that owls can do this, but if asked
to draw an owl, how many of us would depict it like this?
I suggest not very many, if any.</aside>
Funny old game, Cricket...
As we have MMP, the reason for voting Greens
- is to insert a conscience into the debating chamber
and by Jiminy they've got my Party Vote...Lunacy...
Re the ACT Party's orthodontal duffers of all ages pitch
they let one thing slip that explains it all - one of them
described themselves as "Were Patriots" - hence all the
howling at the moon, being useless at least once a month
(generally much longer) and probably explains this! -
My favourite billboard so far: Labour's "If you're in a hole, you don't sell your ladder"
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Mellopuffy, in reply to
+1 re George Monbiot, Christiaan. Thanks for putting that link up, it encapsulates my feelings perfectly...
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I found the Maori Party broadcast quite powerful. The music went a long way, and the idea of having a female rap in the middle worked. The message "we are Maori and we reprazent!" is something they might as well be straight up about. Their list of achievements at the end, though, scrolled by far too fast to read. I had to go back through it with MySky. At least one of them (repealing the F&S Act) is highly significant, perhaps their main reason for even existing.
It crushed all of the other minor parties, which were just hammy.
ACT's message "We've got Don Brash!"
Libertarianz's message "Foreign corporations avoiding tax will save Christchurch"
Alliance's message: Blinked and missed it
Conservative message "Move over Winston, and let someone with a decent suit have a go"
NZ First message "I'm still here, and I can still block things from the middle!"
UF Message "__I'm__ in the middle, and here to make sure National does what they say, but nothing more. I've also got the most complicated way of dropping taxes you can imagine, because I'm competently in the middle. Did I also mention that I'm in the middle?"
ALMP "Weed is Good" -
Richard Grevers, in reply to
The other message I got from ACT's effort was that even their younger candidates are disconnected from the 99%. All in all I'm rather glad that our TV is broken at the moment - and not rushing out to replace it.
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Jackie Clark, in reply to
I heard Goff say that on the telly thing. Very good analogy, I thought.
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Danielle, in reply to
the red background, faux-stencil typeface and ALL CAPS combine to make them look a little… how do I put this… hammer-and-sickle?
I'm actually finding all this red warmth and looming smiling on Labour billboards a little... sexytime. Carmel Sepuloni's in particular (I see it a lot, because I'm in that electorate) is making me feel all 'how YOU doing?' Which I suppose might be a useful response to Paula Bennett's cold blue qualities.
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Good policy just announced by PG and local LP Auckland candidates at outdoor public meeting to transfer money from holiday highway to Akld trains (50:50 with council). Still do some improvements to the road north but not that major new highway. Also some more investment in coastal transport.
Now just need to announce they won't to the useless and destructive Kapiti expressway and instead will electrify the train to Palmerston North or put it towards light rail in Wellington.
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