27 thoughts on “Open house”

  1. I tried to leave a comment under Zen’s post, but like a few other sites, it won’t accept it.

    • Actually, Farrar best represents the mindset of National–and that ought to be frightening to any Kiwi with two neurones to rub together.

  6. “..Someone estimated that fifteen percent of Americans are becoming more cosmopolitan, travelling, living and doing business abroad, while most turn ever more inward and view the rest of the earth, if at all, as hostile and unwashed. It’s a bad time to do it. We no longer live in the heroic age of American technology, of Elvis and the lindy-hop and the lakepipe’s roar, of Apollo Thirteen and Detroit iron and unchallenged American supremacy. It’s getting dark out there.”
    Fred on Everything
    http://fredoneverything.net/TeaParty.shtml

    • Fred never misses the mark….does he? I have found many Americans pointlessly inward looking in recent years.

  7. Pompuss on Marriage. (Sounds like a legal textbook doesn’t it. )
    However, as an old cat I feel entitled to comment and since my big cuzzie Zen started the thread ……
    Any marriage worthy of the name will be tried by fire at some point and the strong ones survive. That’s the beauty of a deep and real relationship.
    The thing that is so wrong with loopy leftie liberal modern views on disposable relationships which see marriage as akin to a throwaway commodity is that it stunts development and denies the chance to grow emotionally. People learn and grow by sticking it out when things get tough.

  9. “Any marriage worthy of the name will be tried by fire at some point and the strong ones survive. That’s the beauty of a deep and real relationship.”
    Yes indeed, O Wise Moggy. :smile:

    • “Wise” I will accept. But Moggy!…….Moggy? Really Wabbit – wash your mouth out!
      (Indignant superior cat exits stage right, nose in air, standing tall, with back straight and much lashing of fluffy tail)

        • Purrfect…..smoked salmon makes most things tolerable – even being ignored by the slaves while they blob out on a weekend of Rugby World Cup Quarterfinals. Yawwwn…

  10. NZ Herald:
    ‘A Kaitaia teenager has taken his appeal against his seven-year prison sentence all the way to the Supreme Court – and lost.
    Marcell Sydney Geros was jailed for seven years and three months in November 2009 for brutally bashing a 73-year-old man, then stealing from the ambulance that came to save the victim.’
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10757019
    Who funded this? Could anybody here who has a job afford to take an appeal “all the way to the Supreme Court”?

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