Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: The positive option of Red Peak, in reply to Matthew Hooton,
Has even a single Maori leader publicly supported Red Peak and agreed with the "Maori aspects" of it, or has this Maori story just been made up by liberal Pakeha from Grey Lynn and Aro Valley working in the design industry?
You're seriously saying that it's necessary to engage a rent-a-kaumatua in order to creatively reference the concept of Rangi and Papa in a very simplified form? What you appear to be preaching is plain old cultural apartheid.
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Hard News: Friday Music: If DJ was your trade, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Lawnmaster..... Clutch Cargo
Great stuff Ian.
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Speaker: Are we seeing the end of MSM,…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I had no idea that Rod Oram was a well-known Anglican. Perhaps he could bang a few of his co-religionists' heads together while he's in Christchurch. Because with the permanently stalled ruined cathedral & all, the place seems to have become an Anglican version of Father Ted's Craggy Island.
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Speaker: The government's Rules…, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
If that is all verifiable...
It's a site I bookmarked some time ago which has since been a handy reference. I'd imagine much of the author's spin would be actionable in a strictly legal sense, but unfolding events continue to confirm the underlying facts.
Surely a big part of the problem is the deep cultural (is that the right word?) denial of corruption in NZ, when disruptions such as the Canterbury earthquakes only seem to confirm that it flourishes in plain sight. I feel that our best hope right now is the growing impetus for a Royal Commission. The wheels of justice may grind slowly, but they have provided some degree of redress against this sort of thing in the past.
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Speaker: The government's Rules…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Having a Prime Minister that can't even hit a nail on the head does not mean the rest of the country are an incompetent hamfisted wunch of Bankers.
The one time I met David Lange, around a year before he became PM, was when he was a fellow guest at an Auckland wedding. As I made to set my drink onto the railing of a second-storey balcony, not far from where Lange was settled in conversation, a carpenter to whom I'd just been introduced quietly suggested that I find a better spot, as the railing was already bearing the weight of the leader of the opposition, and he didn't trust skew nailing at the best of times.
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Speaker: The government's Rules…, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
One big circle jerk
Tip of the iceberg Sofie, tip of the bloody iceberg.
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Hard News: On youthful indiscretions, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Ian Wishart and his scabby organ
Ewe...
"Tell me again how you got your scabs, Ian...."
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Speaker: The government's Rules…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Bogan.
How dare you Sir....
I resemble that remark...
[not the Aussie kind though]Surely you're thinking of bogong*, as in let bogongs be bogongs?
*AKA the Australian coffee moth. Once it's found it's way indoors it will unerringly seek out a freshly made mug of coffee, where it will noisily drown itself.
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Polity: So who exactly placed conditions…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
The people's flag is deepest red,
It shrouded oft our martyred dead,
And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold,
Their hearts' blood dyed its ev'ry fold.Then raise the scarlet standard high.
Within its shade we'll live and die,
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer,
We'll keep the red flag flying here.Yes, Labour never wanted a Red Flag.
There were also vernacular versions, e.g.
I'm out of work and on the dole
Go stick your red flag up your holeand
So shove your red flag up your arse
I've got the foreman's job at last
