I haven't really been following it, either, because it makes me depressed and disgusted with human nature. :-/
Oh man, don't ever get into American politics at all then. I've got a trainwreck relationship with it, and at the moment I'm reading about Ann Coulter, one of the most insane conservatives ever. She said, among other things, that the 4 widows of 911 who got the 911 comission were "harpies" and "I've never seen anyone enjoy their husbands deaths so much." Sick shit. Compared to some of them we're cheerful.
I think so too. And support for these things goes up after they've been around for a while. While Brian Tamake might claim that 90% of NZers didn't want civil unions at the end a majority did and a lot didn't care. Now that people have realised omg the sky didn't fall it's up. Did you see the letters in this week's tv guide? Last week some asshole wrote in complaining about Homer's offhand comment in a Simpson's episode that it's okay with him whatever Bart did. This week there are 3 letters shooting him down. Awesome.
AHAHAHAHAHAAH YOU FOR THE WIN. *tears from eyes*
*grin* Thanks. It's just so easy to mock.
After the teacher’s union strikes in 2002 (in which teachers rebelled against Political Correct teaching and used terrible un-PC methods such as actually writing “fail” on a student’s test papers instead of “not achieved”, and using actual red pen, which is of course known to kill spirit in students. Thirteen students died in horror after their clearly very efforted answers (though actually wrong) received no credit.) It was to this backdrop that National ran its platform on … doing everything Labour promised only quicker and with more “thinking of the children.”
Unfortunately, Bill English C29000 proved a rather ineffective leader. He failed to win much support in the debate on Paul Holmes’ show after he said the word “education” 163 times and his jaw fell off. Prime Minister Helen Clark continued the debate, apparently without noticing English’s plight, as did Paul Holmes.
I may spend too much time in pol classes...
Gosh, I miss Bill. I'm thinking of campaigning for him, because, well, it's him or John Key and well... Key's a Young Conservative. *blecch*
I liked Bill. And he's proven defeatable, so I'd totally vote for him in some sort of primaries for the leadership. Key... I dunno. But I think if he knifes Brash then someone will get him right after.
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Oh man, don't ever get into American politics at all then. I've got a trainwreck relationship with it, and at the moment I'm reading about Ann Coulter, one of the most insane conservatives ever. She said, among other things, that the 4 widows of 911 who got the 911 comission were "harpies" and "I've never seen anyone enjoy their husbands deaths so much." Sick shit. Compared to some of them we're cheerful.
I think so too. And support for these things goes up after they've been around for a while. While Brian Tamake might claim that 90% of NZers didn't want civil unions at the end a majority did and a lot didn't care. Now that people have realised omg the sky didn't fall it's up. Did you see the letters in this week's tv guide? Last week some asshole wrote in complaining about Homer's offhand comment in a Simpson's episode that it's okay with him whatever Bart did. This week there are 3 letters shooting him down. Awesome.
AHAHAHAHAHAAH YOU FOR THE WIN. *tears from eyes*
*grin* Thanks. It's just so easy to mock.
After the teacher’s union strikes in 2002 (in which teachers rebelled against Political Correct teaching and used terrible un-PC methods such as actually writing “fail” on a student’s test papers instead of “not achieved”, and using actual red pen, which is of course known to kill spirit in students. Thirteen students died in horror after their clearly very efforted answers (though actually wrong) received no credit.) It was to this backdrop that National ran its platform on … doing everything Labour promised only quicker and with more “thinking of the children.”
Unfortunately, Bill English C29000 proved a rather ineffective leader. He failed to win much support in the debate on Paul Holmes’ show after he said the word “education” 163 times and his jaw fell off. Prime Minister Helen Clark continued the debate, apparently without noticing English’s plight, as did Paul Holmes.
I may spend too much time in pol classes...
Gosh, I miss Bill. I'm thinking of campaigning for him, because, well, it's him or John Key and well... Key's a Young Conservative. *blecch*
I liked Bill. And he's proven defeatable, so I'd totally vote for him in some sort of primaries for the leadership. Key... I dunno. But I think if he knifes Brash then someone will get him right after.