Posts by recordari
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I'm not sure where to post this, but we mentioned incisive journalism, so this'll do.
Did anyone else get a horrible feeling they'd flicked to the Movie channel and District 9 II: The Haitian Incident while watching the news last night?
The UN asking illiterate (as the reporter kindly pointed out), starving people to sign forms before receiving aid, and then driving away when things got out of hand. And the police wandering around taking pot shots at 'looters', while the UN forces practised their marching band. Is that someone's idea of a joke? Bloody hell, if we thought Katrina was bad, then this is too horrendous to comprehend. There was talk of creating a new 'Haitian' zone in Africa, or was it Miami also? I'm flabbergasted. The idea that some 'band aid' (both meanings) is going to solve this problem is a little naive. In order to do that there would have to be some form of coordinated effort, and so far the only group that seems coordinated, or making an effort, are the Cuban medical crews, and the other foreign rescue teams, who now are unlikely to find anyone else alive.
Mike McRoberts has done a pretty good job of reporting this so far, and I admire his integrity, although some have questioned his need to be there. Good on him, I say, we need to know how shocking this all is.
It does make me wonder whether this is all part of the American strategy to take over and bring democracy to the region, as was alluded to elsewhere when it started. There won't be much left to 'democratize' if they don't hurry up.
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I am not alone in thinking there maybe some people in the slammer who may not be innocent but may not be guilty of the crimes they are being punished for.
Yes the 'oh but they're far from innocent' case for the prosecution doesn't sit too well with my understanding of how our justice system is supposed to work.
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And wasn't that tennis awesome tonight? I don't recall a match when so many completely impossible shots were made to look easy, or if not easy, then just down right miraculous. Worthy of a final. Not so sure about the Waltzing Matilda afterwards though.
Of course that was just the earlier game, now it's NADA and MURR. When am I going to sleep?
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I just noticed we're both not holding our breath, so better grab an aqualung.
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You know you're not a real geek when your first thought is "nuts"
Estimated Time of Arrival, right?
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That XKCD has a great mouse-over text, too.
I Know. Sometimes that's the best bit.
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While we're all being pendantic about science and logic and stuff
Boy, you guys sure know how to keep an in joke going. On a quick search, the etymology of the offending word goes back to 2007, but I'm just angling for a pendant, so don't mind me...
Surely someone posted this already?
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Let's see a week or two of the show before we declare its descent into utter tabloidism. I'd love to see Campbell do a Jon Stewart, but not holding my breath as all those writers would be expensive.
This started some time back, IMhO. So I might see if it has changed for the better after the break, but I'm not holding my breath. Actually his love of music sure comes out when he interviews bands like Them Crooked Vultures, and for that I applaud him.
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@Deborah. Sorry to hear about that. Not something I've suffered from. Generally if you have seen where they come from, swum around, and even maybe picked a few up yourself, it has been ok, at least for me.
(That line about not washing the Internet above? Lyndon's. Just thought I'd better point it out.)
What? I'm all subtitled out.
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*we get our kina from the kaik' at Moeraki (East coast side)
At a wedding on the coast last year, lots of city folk came along (including me I guess, cause we live in the Akl now), and there were bowls of fresh Kina sitting there with everyone pulling faces, while I got a chair and fork and had a merry old forage. Waste not want not...
Time for some Duck curry from the local Thai, and I may even read a book...
...but really I'm dreaming of hooking bobos [sp] with safety pins after boiling them on the beach at Whanarua Bay.
Arohanui.