IWI - I want it

[liljegren]

I'm glad Hone Harawera's name has entered this discussion. He is a loud mouthed, disagreeable part maori. His mother has purple hair. He is slightly MORE maori than me. If he wishes to trace his whakapapa back far enough, he will discover that he is basically Korean, or Taiwanese. However, by mastering the art of oratory (basically talking shit loudly) he has managed to convince some other part maori up north, that he is special, an deserves special consideration.
Where are all the politicians with bone in their nose? We know where to find those with bones THRU their noses!
I suggest we cast off the Motherland, and learn to enjoy NZ, each of us with what we need and work for, nothing more complex than that.

[Matariki]

I found out something interesting today when I went out for a stroll enjoying the spring breeze. Apparently thinking about David$ WINZ claim can cause dead, Rank'in possums to fall out of the sky. This one here landed on me before it hit the ground. I'm still trying to figure out what this means...

[scumdog]

I suggest we cast off the Motherland, and learn to enjoy NZ, each of us with what we need and work for, nothing more complex than that.

I concur!

[ducatilover]

I found out something interesting today when I went out for a stroll enjoying the spring breeze. Apparently thinking about David$ WINZ claim can cause dead, Rank'in possums to fall out of the sky. This one here landed on me before it hit the ground. I'm still trying to figure out what this means...

I saw this once after sifting deeply in tea leaves, something about purgatory wanting Rankin back, I think.

[Muppet]

Water, Air - that only leaves fire.

You left out radio waves.

[short-circuit]

I'm glad Hone Harawera's name has entered this discussion. He is a loud mouthed, disagreeable part maori. His mother has purple hair. He is slightly MORE maori than me. If he wishes to trace his whakapapa back far enough, he will discover that he is basically Korean, or Taiwanese. However, by mastering the art of oratory (basically talking shit loudly) he has managed to convince some other part maori up north, that he is special, an deserves special consideration.
Where are all the politicians with bone in their nose? We know where to find those with bones THRU their noses!
I suggest we cast off the Motherland, and learn to enjoy NZ, each of us with what we need and work for, nothing more complex than that.

Hone is great. My number one pollie - and I'm a Greens voter.

His pot shots (at misguided and self serving Maori who either sneakily or stupidly try for gains for their people by working with the very people that are fucking them over) are on the money.

On a seperate but related point, If these claims can stall or derail Asset sales (that are criminally shortsighted, unpopular and fisically woeful), then go Maori. As JD pointed out, this is the main intent behind the claims and Maori "ownership" in their sense of the word will be far more beneficial to me than privatisation.

[jim.cox]

More pigs 'n troughs revealed in today's paper...

Sir Peter Jackson's plans to build a world-class film museum in Shelly Bay were scuppered when Sir Ngatata Love's partner sought $750,000 in consultancy fees to help secure the land.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment...um-was-ditched

:sigh:

[Maha]

And what will happen to the people, when the day comes when the child no longer owes his exsistance to his two biological parents?

[flyingcrocodile46]

More pigs 'n troughs revealed in today's paper...

Sir Peter Jackson's plans to build a world-class film museum in Shelly Bay were scuppered when Sir Ngatata Love's partner sought $750,000 in consultancy fees to help secure the land.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment...um-was-ditched

:sigh:

If the wider Maori population had any motivation and real cultural pride (instead of feigned pride and/or apathy) they wouldn't allow self serving wankers like that to represent them at any level.

[mashman]

If the wider Maori population had any motivation and real cultural pride (instead of feigned pride and/or apathy) they wouldn't allow self serving wankers like that to represent them at any level.

heh... you could say the same for whitey mcwhite. Praps we have more in common than we think (people being people n all)

[Ocean1]

Praps we have more in common than we think (people being people n all)

Yup. Read the sig.

[flyingcrocodile46]

Yup. Read the sig.

Nice.

heh... you could say the same for whitey mcwhite. Praps we have more in common than we think (people being people n all)

Indeed, but given that such a small minority attends the various Maori meetings that bestow leadership roles (my guess would be well less than 5% of those eligible to vote), it would be a lot easier to gain control of the leadership roles with a small number of voters (which is exactly what the current leadership have done)

[mashman]

Yup. Read the sig.

Indeed, but given that such a small minority attends the various Maori meetings that bestow leadership roles (my guess would be well less than 5% of those eligible to vote), it would be a lot easier to gain control of the leadership roles with a small number of voters (which is exactly what the current leadership have done)

Those who seek leadership most are seldom suited for it. Aye, ain't democracy grand.

[Ocean1]

Those who seek leadership most are seldom suited for it. Aye, ain't democracy grand.

It's an expanded subset of the behaviours known as the Dunning Kruger effect.

Interestingly, it's somewhat more pronounced in western societies.

But then, so is democracy.

[James Deuce]

More pigs 'n troughs revealed in today's paper...

Sir Peter Jackson's plans to build a world-class film museum in Shelly Bay were scuppered when Sir Ngatata Love's partner sought $750,000 in consultancy fees to help secure the land.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment...um-was-ditched

:sigh:

That's not Maori mining for money, that's just typical land-developing lawyer bullshit. I thought her consultancy fee was on the light side of what I've seen some lawyers go for.