Actually, this is just down the road from where I live:
There is a colony of penguins that live for part of the year up at the north end. They come to Piha Beach to nest.
Lucy Lawless grew up a short drive from here.
Posted on 11/16/2008 4:03:22 PM PST by roadkillcafe
11/5/08 -- What a great day for America and the world! Congratulations to you all. Now I can become an American citizen, I guess.
It was a momentous relief for me to hear a President mention “Global Warming” with the gravitas it deserves, not a nebulous concept to be buried under platitudes. Over the course of my life, weather patterns in the country of my birth, NZ, have changed dramatically. Perhaps we are more sensitive being a long, skinny island nation. We also have Antarctica in our back yard, so we feel any threat to the ice caps as our own.
I am sorry for Prop 8. The laws of a nation should be about safety and fairness. They should not enforce second-class citizenry.
I have my own issues with “marriage.” I think it is a throwback to feudal times. It ought to be phased out. We should have agreements that get revised at ten-year periods. I can't think why gay people should necessarily want it, but if they want it with all its strictures and ownership over one another, then let 'em have it. What's the big deal? What the heck are we afraid of sharing? Our sacred heterosexual rite?
Being raised in a moderately religious home, I grew up being taught that marriage was a Sacrament -- Sacred. I was told, "No one must come between a husband and wife." Then I would look over at a relative with a black eye meted out by her husband in the privacy of their sacred matrimonial chamber, and the bruises on her child, and I knew that was bullshit. There was nothing holy there. Only love is sacred and heterosexuals don't own that.
I am thankful that the days of anti-intellectualism are over. The last 8 years were like a steady diet of Ho-Hos for the brain. Both Al Gore and John Kerry were torpedoed by this and the vicious assertions of a wicked propagandist, Karl Rove.
Ironically, it was Karl Rove's own predictions about the outcomes of each state that we were following last night. He's undoubtedly a genius, but something got twisted up inside him and he should go down in history as a creep and frankly, a traitor.
Who the hell forced Palin on John McCain anyway? Some pale imitation of Rove? "Let's put another slogan-totin' cowboy up there, only let's put him in a skirt and get the wimmin's vote!" What a horrible mistake. And yet, THANK YOU!
I must say that Rob and I stopped the tivo and got the boys in to watch John McCain's concession speech. We wanted them to see how a great man behaves in the face of defeat. I believe he is a good man and if he had won the Republican nomination 8 years ago, the world would look very different to us now. Still, this diet of hotdogs with Clinton and Ho-Hos with Bush are what has brought us to a new craving for something holistic and someone substantial who will walk beside us through the dark days ahead.
The next eight years will be undeniably hard, but with Obama, I don't think we will feel so alone. Up and at 'em! L
> ...oh, and she guesses shemight become an American citizen now. No thanks, New Zealand can keep her and her ‘great’ intellect seeped in literalism!
Nuh-uh. Nuthin’ doin’. Finders-Keepers-Losers-Weepers. You know the rules! We lost her fair and square. She’s your problem now, sunshine.
> We’ll see how NZ fairs if sun spots don’t appear soon...
Late summer. Outside the wind is roaring thru the jungle where I live, in the mountains west of Auckland. The power only just came back on an hour ago, after being blacked out for a while...
Boo, scary! Maybe AlGore the Inventor of the Internet(R) was right!
> See what living in New Zealand will do to your brain!
No, but I can see what having Lucy Lawless in your country has done to yours!
Actually, this is just down the road from where I live:
There is a colony of penguins that live for part of the year up at the north end. They come to Piha Beach to nest.
Lucy Lawless grew up a short drive from here.
> What will it take for your nation to take her back?
We’ll surely have her back — but she’s probably annoyed that John Key is our Prime Minister now. I don’t think she’d come back here willingly.
Beautiful.
> Beautiful
All of the beaches are free for the public to use: there are no private beaches anywhere in New Zealand. Piha itself is protected by law against commercial development, which helps to keep it a very nice place to visit.
ROFL...although, I really don’t think ‘we’ found her. I think she just followed us home and hoped we’d ask Mom if we could keep her.
Become an American Citizen? I hope not! I'd rather see her deported halfway back to Kiwiland ... If the denizens thereof want her, they can come and get her. If not, she can live out her days with the gooney-birds on Midway.
> If the denizens thereof want her, they can come and get her.
Nuh-uh, no way in Texas. That ain’t how you play Poker. You guys won her fair and square. We wouldn’t dream of cheating you out of your prize.
> If not, she can live out her days with the gooney-birds on Midway.
With the added bonus that the gooney-birds won’t care one way or t’other. I’m in favor of that!
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