Posts by mark taslov
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what's up danielle, salt with your cornflakes again? really, no disrespect to obama, he seems great, despite the fact he has great teeth and and has said the right words, but more than that we have very little to assess how he'll really stack up against the issues that face him. It has never been disrespectful to compliment someone's teeth or use of diction and if there is any disrespect to anyone by that comment, it would be the voters, ie. not you danielle. you can read it as a 'if you're not for then your against' kind of bushism, but that merely reiterates the deep seated affect the W may have had on the way the world touches you.
i mean is it a historical day in that a black man was elected president or was it historical for the fact that a
good
man was elected president. I believe the latter.
despite his good teeth and measured speech,
you project a lot in that reply. Danielle. 'the plebs', 'the brainwashed', 'the disinterested', the 'haven't had one of those in a while'.
I'm interested hence i post, we are all 'plebs' if you want to paint the readership as thus Danielle, the brainwashed..well, yes, we are, generally, in our various persuasions to a certain extent, whether by self or not, I didn't intend to follow that post up with this kind of condescension,, but all you really brought me for breakfast Danny, is a plate load vitriol with a couple of spoons of sarc. cheer up, yesterday was history, and again Saturday will be, it's a nudge to focus. be what you are Danielle, but deviating from the old shrew role for a brief sojourn may do the world of good.
Yeah Eleanor, i hear you and agree, but that doesn't discount the fact that NZ is still one of the few countries to have a female prime minister, and in many ways this has done enormous good for the country. It's something I'm proud of. and am deeply concerned at the prospect of her being replaced by John 'to the wrong door' key.
not forgetting that for days there has been an ad to the right of these boards reminding us that all politicians are liars
Are we compelled to agree with it?
I don't know, are we? are we a we? or is that a me and a you, i tend to veer on that side of the intersection...
knowing full well that when a maori finally attains the coveted NZ captaincy there won't be half the hyperbole
I'd wait until such time and point you in the meantime to the vastly different histories in race relations in the two countries.
and yet, the vastly different histories still contain tonal similarities
and no disrespect to to Obama; he has great teeth and and has said the right words. I'm just left with kind of in awe of how successful the wires and wirelesses have been in turning the droves into US drones.
This is the thing that irks me the most. We have universal suffrage, and it didn't come cheap. You may complain about the uniformity of political choices and wank over that as much as you want, but ridiculing the people who got vote really gets my back up.
repeat this phrase giovanni; "i am not american"
i'm not complaining about the uniformity of political choices or wanking over the uniformity of political choices, or ridiculing anyone,
i'm pulling focus from the US election to our own,I don't ridicule people who got vote or game or what ever else,
it's a TV show, it's 1000s of miles a way
the frontline to another slightly more relevant political event, is at your local school Saturday, that's basically all i said, if anyone were to take offence at that spiel it could only be the US drones.and we both know you're not a US drone Giovanni, so stop eating salty cornflakes with Danielle.
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i do feel concern that there seems to be more celebration in NZ over the US voting in a black president than there ever was in NZ electing a female prime minister.
not forgetting that for days there has been an ad to the right of these boards reminding us that all politicians are liars
furthermore considering the closest 'darky' to reaching the top position in NZ has just been more or less politically castrated for doing little more than accept donations
in light of the fact that obama's victory was inextricably inked by a victory of donations and capital raised.
knowing full well that when a maori finally attains the coveted NZ captaincy there won't be half the hyperbole. (which does highlight something positive about our nature)
and no disrespect to to Obama; he has great teeth and and has said the right words. I'm just left with kind of in awe of how successful the wires and wirelesses have been in turning the droves into US drones.like a giant Truman show.
just days out from a NZ election where neither of the major parties has suggested anything more than fresh ways to tread water.
congratulations to the Obama campaign,
4 more years of totalitarianism there
and NZ is about to start its next 3 year tour of duty
with scant choice between two 20th century monoliths
most distinguished by the frequency of the light bouncing off the representatives respective neckties and flare;made all the more worrying by R.B's lack of a post today just hours out, to remind us that yes, yesterday was history but Saturday could also be, albeit not on the grand scale of the greatest sporting extravaganza on earth, just witnessed. but
most relevant.
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looking forward to them repainting the __white__house. place'll look bad.
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2000-2010=the O?ama decade
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big enough to earn the suffix '-gate'
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fucking funny don't you think how everyone has a bandwidth of an opinion about what happens to unborn babies and womens' uterus and no one gives a so much as a droplet of a fuck about young boys getting their foreskins cut off and thrown out for the dogs
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professor working phones (amazing)
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ah.. that familiar phase in ye olde exotic tribalism called democracy;
battle lines drawn, bayonets primed
and everyone but everyone
bracketedfirmly and forcefully bracketed
Michael Jones and Inga Tuigamala (very conservative Christians)
PIs (led by faith)
all the Christians (too busy with their PhDs)
Craig Young (GayNZ)
David Farrar (inciter of Clark-hate and petty misogyny)
Helen Clark (the silly bint)Clearly the best time to invade a democratic nation could be when the whole place is parenthesized to the nines.
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jamil. no way! the guy who said:
In China it is not just unemployment you have to worry about it is social instability (the government's euphemism for riots, protests, revolution) that results from unemployment. According to internal government estimates from earlier this decade, the Communist Party needed to keep the economy growing at 7% a year to ensure its own survival because if growth dropped below that level then it would not be able to manage (read - suppress by any means necessary) the resulting "social instability". I think the red line is now lower - I'm hearing more like 4 or 5% - but it still exists.
When the economy collapses in democracies you vote in a new government. If the economy collapses here there is no pressure-release valve so when things get really bad your only recourse is "social instability" of the sort we saw centred on Tiananmen Square in 1989, when China was struggling with 24% inflation, rampant corruption (at levels we see again today) and a collapsing economy.
imho the guy needs to get out of his office and onto the streets for a brief stretch of the legs and a natter with these 'revolutionaries'.
related to Meurant, the one thing that is rarely said about the corruption of the CCP is that having so much in the way of 'in party' freebies, kind of negates or undercuts the potential influence of private enterprise guys like Meurant on the direction of government policy.
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what are all these election billboards around the place printed on? is it recyclable?