Posts by Craig Ranapia
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The left-wing masochism of the last two weeks has been exhausting.
"Guys, you might want to leave at least one toe intact. That's got to hurt..."
I just can't help but feel we got played.
Well, Mr. Whipp and Ms. Kelly have a standing invite to my Friday night poker game. They're really awesome at doubling down on a weak hand, and playing chicken at the wrong table.
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And you can always depend on Trevor Mallard to bring the Kiwibogian troll-bait to the party. Doesn't this man have any work to do?
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A visual representation to cheer or annoy (depending on your situated perspective)
FFS, Trevor, don't you have any work to do?
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I'm equally queasy - seems the Nats have our laws for sale to the highest bidder
Well, that's the line Labour intends to take, obviously. Might want to choose a less cringe-inducing mouthpiece than Trevor Mallard.
And once again urgency rears its head so that National can expedite the resolution of a "problem".
Well, this time at least we're not going to see a repeat of the CERRA farce, to be fair to Labour.
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Would that make Craig the Dragon, then?
Get off my mountain, you God-damned kids... dwarves. Whatever. Sod off! :)
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Given the passions stirred by this dispute, I'm also hugely impressed that the Public Address System culture has held up, and that the discussion has been very largely civil and intelligent. So thanks, people. Thanks.
What you said -- as usual, not only enormously pleasurable but a great education from honest and honourable people you can agree to disagree with.
Best reaction to the news though (and it's not my line)
"Roman Polanski expresses interest in filming in NZ: John Key commits to lowering the age of consent to 13"Damn, I'm blushing in the most unfortunate places again. (Though in a delicious irony Polanski is shooting the film adaptation of Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage in Paris, but adapting Christopher Hampton's English translation. Polanski will also retain the change in setting from Paris to Brooklyn, New York, made for the play's Broadway transfer. Also, the cast is Anglo-American with the exception of Christoph Waltz.)
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And here's a tweet from Bernard Hickey:
James Cameron has started writing 2 sequels to Avatar, WSJ reports here http://bit.ly/aXqWlK Will we have the Hobbit fight again?
I'd not only pay to see Simon Whipp trying to play hardball with an infamously cold-blooded, hot-tempered SOB like James Cameron - I'd volunteer to help dispose of the body. :)
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@DexterX
I did really say that. They can do it under extreme urgency if the Speaker of the House consents - it is not as if coup d'etat assisted by a hobbit and elf army has taken over the house.
No, but I don't back down from my view that avoiding a by-election in New Plymouth nobody really wanted was a piss-poor justification for retrospectively amending the Electoral Act under extreme urgency. If you want to talk about setting mad, bad and dangerous precedents...
The Electoral Act, Dexter -- I don't think it is hyperbole to say that's the very foundation of our democracy, how we elect our legislature. And in my view, that's something you don't fuck around with lightly or with undue dispatch, and certainly not to suit the political and financial self-interests of the Labour and National Parties.
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It's almost amusing to me that the people worrying about ceding New Zealand sovereignty to an American film company were quite relaxed about ceding it to an Australian union.
Irony double down: Fretting from the powned serfs who were perfectly happy to cede their "sovereignty" to Sydney and Dublin -- and solidarity be damned when hundreds were laid off, and hundreds more had their pay and conditions erroded. But, of course, that's different.
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John Armstrong gets to the heart of the matter (and then backs off):
Perhaps getting to the "heart of the matter" would require asking uncomfortable questions about the "corporate hospitality" (and aggressive lobbying) of foreign-owned media "mega-money" like Fairfax and APN's corporate parent. Can't be biting the hand that signs your pay cheque, can you?
What is important is that this fiasco does not set a precedent for a further flexing of industrial muscle - the commercial sort, not the trade union kind.
Wonder if there's any PASers who got downsized into oblivion by APN who'd have a point of view on that...
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