Posts by Lucy Stewart
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It's called Christchurch isn't it?
(sorry: just anticipating the responses from elsewhere ...)
Which would be why I'm leaving the place as soon as my degree is put away.
No Pakeha culture
They do realise that Pakeha is...a Maori word?
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Lhaws = NZ's version of Glenn Beck
Discuss.
Could try harder. (But let's hope he doesn't.)
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Laws is one of those who is big on the idea that a separate Pakeha culture has developed here over the past 170 or so years -- distinct from both Maori culture and British culture of the early 19th century, and distinct from biculturalism too (doesn't leave much).
That's so..dull. Even if such a culture really existed, I don't think I'd want to be part of it.
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I don't think Laws is playing the race card, I think he personally really hates Maori people and culture and is furious at the idea that they might prevail over him.
Mmm, not quite - I suspect he's the kind of man whose best friends are Maori, if you know what I mean.
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the "evidence" offered by Popular Mechanics regarding WTC7 is hardly convincing. but, as you say, any questioning of the very flimsy "evidence" offered as an official explanation is an automatic FAIL because, well, such questioning is, by its very nature, nutty.
It is *possible* there is more to 9/11 than emerged in the official report. However, given the massive incompetence of the Bush government at every other level, it really does boggle the mind to believe that they could cover this up. When your basic premises require that sort of leap, then, yeah, it's hard to take seriously.
There's also two other important things to remember - firstly, what if we just don't know? In this sort of chaotic event, some unlikely things will occur. It may never be possible to reconstruct precisely what happened. That's not evidence of conspiracy, it's evidence of real life.
Secondly, it's like the moon landings - if NASA could have faked it, could they then bribe and bully every geologist to ever study at a moon rock, read a paper on moon rocks, or talk to people who'd allegedly studied them? If there's a cover-up, then how come the civil engineers of the world aren't having loud and angry debates about it?
And thirdly:
glad to know that "science" and "evidence" rules at PAS.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
ETA: oops, sorry Russell, just saw that.
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Are Lhaws' crazy eyes on Campbell Live freaking anyone else out?
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That goes very deep. It is nothing new-the communists have been infiltrating Islam since the twenties
Dude, wait 'till bin Laden hears about this. He's gonna go nuts.
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What I can't figure is why Act's embrace of these people is never cause for comment in the media.
Because a shaky grip on reality is their baseline?
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Suddenly the genesis of all those nutty rumours about Palin's youngest actually being her grandson becomes clear...
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Sorry. I lived in Christchurch for a year, can't recall how many times I was asked about my connections or which school I went too... De La Salle, Mangere... didn't seem to open doors....
I once witnessed a truly hilarious conversation between two women (in a teacher/parent context) where they both established that they were from Christchurch. Then the teacher said she'd grown up in Fendalton, and where had the other grown up?
"Oh, New Brighton!"
The awkward silence that then descended was the most salutory lesson in Christchurch social issues I ever had.