I can mention the 6th of June because I stand on this side of the invisible line. Take one step towards Beijing and I have no right to say it. Seems a little silly to me. Silly like those medal tables. Cunt trees not countries. Let athletes represent their personal views not their nations. I'd pick Team Apathy to win that medal table but that's life. As Ivan Drago said in Rocky IV "I win for me". The people of the People's Republic don't have to kowtow to the governments of Japan, Britain and France anymore but they still have to kowtow. People are people. People have rights. States aren't people.
And Minto was wrong when he mentioned the brave duo. It was actually a brave trio. The silver medal winner took part in that protest too, and was consequently given a hard time by the rednecks when he got home.
Someone should ask John Key why he's so keen to get elected to government. Questions like that make me laugh.
The BPs would have known for a long time that the vote wasn't going to go his way.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10489581&r...
"If I was on the jury, I would let him get away with it, but that is just me"
Incredible.
//hmm, maybe a little harsh in that list of generalizations there homeslice.//
I was talking about the leadership not the membership.
Henry is a great coach. He made some decisions during the world cup that turned out to be wrong, but a lot of people who criticise him now are only doing so with the benefit of hindsight. Deans is also a great coach. He's as good as Henry and the NZRFU should have given him the All Blacks to stop him going to the Wallabies.
Looking forward to the Bledisloe Cup now. Should be a great contest!
More like the Vindictive Sentencing Trust. They want to make our prisons more like Joe Arpaio's prison camp in Arizona. That's the one where prisoners die in custody and the authorities destroy the evidence to save themselves.
I remember when McVicar was on Eye to Eye he kept ranting on about "a failed [social] experiment" and when Tariana Turia asked him what he was talking about he said something about Civil Unions. What the hell do they have to do with crime? SST are just another one of those lunatic lobby-groups who want to take us back to the 1950s when women stayed at home and didn't divorce, Maori knew their place and homosexuals "didn't exist".
//Big donations from the odd rich cunt to national might just even the playing field a bit.//
Why does that make the playing field more level? Fairness isn't half way between National and Labour, it's giving everyone in the community an equal opportunity to have their voice heard.
Business interests opposed this Bill because they believed it was a grave threat to 'their' democracy, but it's not. There are plenty of loopholes for them to continue to dominate politics in this country, they can still own the media. Economic power and political power are intertwined and the only way to achieve total political equality is to have economic equality. There's no way that Labour would ever want to do that.
Next year some ultra-rich businessman with links to the Roundtable will deliberately spend over the limit supporting National and ACT and he'll be caught and punished. What will his punishment be? A fine that he can easily pay. He'll get to act like a martyr on the TV news. Really we should be punishing people who overspend on elections with lots of community service. Manual labour would serve as a much more effective detterent.
Prison is a crime school and there are too many people in prisons. Home detention should replace prison in most cases with prison for people who break home detention rules. For potentially dangerous offenders like murderers and rapists prison is the best option. I'm not sure whether ten years is too long or too short. It depends on the nature of the crime and the attitude and mindset of the offender.