Posts by Kerry Weston
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It would be cool to hatch a word, give it a press release, and send it off into the wild, eh?
I reckon. "Is that somewhere near Wankernui?" replied one wag.
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Maybe relevant - there were big newspaper headlines down here in the Manawatu, just before election day, that Key had said the airforce base in Auckland would be kept on, as would its personnel of course. Simon Power, local mp, wouldn't comment - people down here have been expecting an influx of personnel to Ohakea over the next few years - an economic boost to the area.
Ohakea also has a very long, brand new runway which seems quite unnecessary for helicopters.
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I used to be a big cricket fan - from the glory days of Lance Cairns and his one-handed sixes belted out of the park, Hadlee, Howarth, Lees etc. to the 90s, but gradually lost interest. And, how awful, I liked watching the Aussies - warne, border, merv hughes, glen mcgrath and the magnificent craig mcdermott, who i have just discovered has been a bit of a bad boy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_McDermott but he was a great bowler to watch.
Who was the commentator with the plummy voice ...can't think of his name, but he was quite entertaining.
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I've thought for a while now, that the best model for "family" is a communal configuration. whether that is the traditional extended family, or a group of friends. Capitalist societies hate any form of communal grouping - the whole point is to split groups into isolated individuals who spend more on stuff for themselves alone, where
" individual choice" is predicated as freedom - you don't have to watch broadcast TV along with everyone else, you can pick & choose whatever you want, and watch whenever - Luxury! Don't look after your own oldies in the family - make sure they still create economic turnover by turfing them into rest homes and provide clients for home services. Goodness, real mothers and fathers & grandies looking after children, when we have state ordered childcare?? Governments simply see no economic benefit in families raising & caring for their own. Seeing it as an investment in the future and saving us from having to build new prisons and spend $80k a year each on keeping prisoners, and radically reducing the costs of the bloated, can't-cope court system, or the can't-cope mental health system just doesn't seem to occur to them.I realise I've diverted away from the theme, but it doesn't matter to me on what basis people form their groups - it's the quality of nurture and relationships that is always important. I have no ready answer to the feral family problem - but fear the inability to solve it will result in laws that will be enacted in the public good, rather like the anti-terrorism laws are used as an excuse to spy on and restrict everybody's freedoms.
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But when he turned around, the fish had gone
Welcome to the Plunderdome
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Wait for them to abolish the dole.
Hasn't Turia said she is in favour of replacing it with work schemes or something? I'm sure Rodney would agree. And, of course, under Labour, the DPB is now lumped in with the Unemployment Benefit, single parents being unemployed in their eyes.
There's nothing socially progressive, liberating, or even "equal" in demoting motherhood to an optional duty outside work hours. And people wonder why there's so many social/family problems...
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in a mental happy place where you can almost sense your longed-for pony, some element of reality intervenes, and the result is several dozen boxes of Pedigree dogroll...
so my pony turned out to be a spotted nag, with Rodney up front and Tugger Douglas the horse's arse?
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*in the Cockney rhyming slang sense
Thats what I was thinking about when I mentioned the trap.
John Key = Richard the Third.
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Rollin' Rollin' Rollin'
Keep movin', movin', movin',
Though they're disapprovin',
Keep them doggies movin' Rawhide!
Don't try to understand 'em,
Just rope and throw and grab 'em,
Soon we'll be living high and wide.
Boy my heart's calculatin'
My true love will be waitin', be waiting at the end of my ride.Move 'em on, head 'em up,
Head 'em up, move 'em out,
Move 'em on, head 'em out Rawhide! -
Que?? Key on a pony?
I must have missed a whole chunk of smart arsery. Translation?