Posts by Sacha
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Hey, worked for Labour voters at the last election..
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Lawyer Rick Shera has the full 70 page judgement embedded.
My take is less considered: Slater is a cowardly cockhead with a raging sense of entitlement. His obvious mental illness does not excuse that, and nor does it excuse those who enable his ongoing bad behaviour.
That includes ignorant media who characterised his actions as a principled political campaign and decided to provide a platform for continued defiance rather than properly report the Judge's findings. The two main tv news shows did not even explain that the suppression orders Slater took it on himself to violate were for the protection of victims of violence, not offenders. Sloppy and shameful.
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Always
Compulsory in small town cinema with sloping wooden floor and two dozen steps before that satisfying final thunk against the front wall
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Ones that fail to dispel stereotypes about Aucklanders..
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Danielle, I'm only characterising what I've seen online last week.
None of us are stupid enough to think that's what all American people think or that they did so at the time. I share the sadness that it wasn't an opportunity for that great nation to become better rather than bitter.
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Forgive my hectoring and snarky post about the postal ballot.
Not all all. It's a great example of creative collaboration - our votes influence the shape of the region (including its cultural life) for the next couple of decades. The other day I found myself hectoring someone into voting this time even if she never did again.
Previous concerned citizens and responsive councils led to the restoration of the Civic and the Wintergarden. It's up to each of us eligible Auckland region voters whether that type of investment can happen again.
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Shame they had to be collateral damage
Muslim Americans still seem to be having a hard time of that one.
Would it be equal to the "nation mourns" bullshit that will flow when the All Blacks get knocked out of the Rugby World Cup next year?
Though I am not looking forward to the wailing, you've made my point all too well - it would be like us claiming that the *whole world* mourns our loss.
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A concise historical explanation of tapas on El Faro's page - and they even serve churros
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The Press piece by Philip Mathews is excellent.
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Can we re-establish the comparison after somebody has actually flown commercial airliners into our buildings, killing three thousand?
When we offer plausible motivation to do such things by decades of violently invading other regions, distorting economies in our own interests and exporting our culture, perhaps.
I'm tired of the braying flag-waving and unreflective, "whole world looked on in anguish" bollocks. US exceptionalism was challenged by someone bloodying their noses in their own backyard and that hurts, yes. But regardless of the empathy we feel for a shocking human event (and let's spare some of that for the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians subsequently killed), assuming 'we' are all Americans is one of the root causes of the problem. It's immature and it lets down the great things about their national character.