Posts by Paul Rowe
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Hmmm...
I think Bush is quite clearly acting without guidance from the Seymour Skinners of this world.
I agree, I have long lamented the proof reading on TVNZ's site
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Perhaps my only objection to scalping comes from buying a ticket from a scalper for a certain game that NZ played against aFrance at Twickenham in 1999 :(
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But tellingly Conyers didn't push for overturning the election either. I think they spotted irregularities that when they added up the votes weren't going to make a difference.
I think Andre already answered that point:
You have the questionable outcomes and inherently partisan nature of the electoral machinery that results in outcomes that can't be trusted as being legitimate (even if they are, which is the sad thing.)
The result needs to be seen to be above board, as well as actually being above board.
The problem with the scalping is not the guy who buys a ticket then flogs it for more than face value (shit, at the RWC in 1999 thats exactly what the NZRU did when selling tickets to ex-pats in the UK) but the organised scalpers who will buy dozens or hundreds of tickets with the express intention of scalping them. RWC is exactly the sorrt of event they go for. -
you can just completely make stuff up, and their little faces kind've crunch up with effort
I told my three year old the other day that the Mr Whippy van only plays the music when he's run out of ice cream. Then I felt really guilty...
And to hark back to the first comment, Ilya Kuryakin & Napoleon Solo were fighting THRUSH (!): Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity
They were worse than Commies, if such a thing exists. -
my mind turns to the fact my father's 21st birthday was marked by the armed forced of the Third Reich trying to splatter his brain all over the sands of North Africa
Craig that's a pretty cheap shot. There are probably very few people here who don't have close relatives who weren't busy fighting in that war. You're preaching to the choir when it comes to the immorailty of war in the name of ideology.
Being called a fascist only stings because those morons can see that the link is at least partially true. The same can probably be said of the left. Stalin at least hung his hat on Marxism as a means to an end. The extremes of both left & right both have a tendency to totalitarianism.
My point (and I do have one) is that the argument is never about communists or fascists, it is about two sides espousing their ideas about how best to run the country. Those cowards who like to sink the argument in petty labels and don't have the intellectual wherewithall to argue their corner without them do their side a disservice. That takes us back to the origin of our little sub-plot:
Frankly, calling anything you don't believe a "conspiracy theory" is on a par with calling all your enemies "terrorists".
Like 3410 I was lamenting the intellectual laziness of using labels while avoiding any attempt to define them.
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Yeah, whatever gets you through the night and doesn't require AA batteries
Relax Craig, I would have added smiley face if it had helped.
The Kiwiblog comments threads show that there is only a small amount of regular contributors for whom that comment is appropriate and offensive, and those people (I don't think I need to name them) are lunatics anyway.
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or calling liberals "communists"
But it is quite fun to call the Righties "fascists" and sit back to watch the righteous indignation fly.
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Frankly, calling anything you don't believe a "conspiracy theory" is on a par with calling all your enemies "terrorists".
Or some perceived loss of rights to be "political correctness gone mad".
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civillians suffered much more than anyone in uniform ever did
George MacDonald Fraser makes the point in his autobiography that he was a civilian too, as were all of the men that he served with in Burma.
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One in Mangere Bridge about a year ago:
Perfect for people who don't like painting windows
That's me, but I didn't fall for it...