The America's Cup. Exciting or a damned farce.

OK, I have to admit that the sight of those two huge catamarans slicing through/above the water yesterday in SF was wonderfully enticing. Yes, they were dangerously beautiful and for a while we even had a real competition.

I am not going to go on about the ‘money the New Zealand Government gave to our ‘effort’ as being ‘better spent on other issues, because in my view NZ stands to gain far more than that.

What angers me is that the ‘carnival’ could have been so much more. Let’s face it; the number of contestants was pathetic and it is only NZ’s obsession with winning back the Cup that made it of any interest to us here. Most other countries in the world would hardly even know the regatta is going on. I would far rather see a return to the days when more than a dozen countries contested the ‘Olde Mug.’

I used to love the long drawn out affair we had in the past when many weeks were involved in finding the ‘challenger,’ for the Cup. The ‘craft’ used were more traditional but even they had to be right up there in terms of technology.

Will we see a return to the good old days? Will the huge catamarans be the order of the day, because the sheer excitement and speed will rule the day? I hope that sense prevails and the winner of this round will be able to take us back to the future!

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Roskill sales. I would love to know how many.

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Australia decides that it doesn't want the damaging infighting of the Labor Party!

Yes, Australia has 'voted out' the Rudd Gillard and Rudd again Government. I very much doubt that they votes the Tony Abbot Government 'in.' We have seen this understandable fact of political life both here in NZ and Australia; indeed all around the world that purports to be 'democratic.' The alternative----well just look to Syria, Egypt and the like where either a 'military oligarchy' or a wannabe dynasty rules.
Australians will now have to live with their decision. Who can blame them for giving up on the ability of the Labor Party to rise above the petty, yet extremely damaging sector and personality driven leadership battle. Whilst it inevitable that a certain level of 'struggle' will go along with any attempt to garner support for a leader, when it becomes a semi-permanent feature of a political party, then it becomes damaging to a country. In Labor's case it seemed to be never-ending. The end result was always going to be collective,' shrugging of shoulders' as if to say, a curse on your bloody internal feuding.'
When an electorate reaches this stage, it turns it back on the incumbent party and casts it aside, like so much flotsam. It is the perception that a government does not have the best interests of the country at heart, purely because the infighting dominates any good that that government has done, in the form of progressive legalisation and economic management that leads to the destruction of trust.
Yes, I know there are many out there who would challenge any idea that such a government had achieved anything while in office, but that too is the nature of politics, right or wrong. Certain held beliefs are often unchangeable and a large 'rump' of people always vote the same way, probably just as their parents had always done. It is that quite small minority of people who think deeply and represent a true 'swinging' voter position that makes or breaks a government.
When you throw the craziness of the Labor leadership struggle into the mix, then anything 'good' achieved by that government is lost in the media attention and talkback shows as people get swept up in the perceived hopelessness of the peoples' feeling about a government.'
Labor had it coming: The polls had it right and that the Labor Party was unable to stop its mad dash along a the stuffed railway line towards political disaster was an predictable result---one that quickly played itself out on our TV screens last night.
has Labor leant from this. I doubt it!
Has the NZ Labour Party taken note of the fate of their cousins over the ditch?! I feckin well hope so!
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Today, I shall do my birthday thing!

Yes, I had a very quiet birthday on Wednesday, so today (Saturday) I shall make up for it.  No----silly, I am not going to put make up on! Nor will I replicate the 'birthdays of old,' whereby I got as pissed as a fart or forgot what I had said or done!' Quite simply, those days are well and truly done, not because I am boring, but I just can't do that anymore.
I will start by taking Perdy to her favourite park in Mt Eden and then go home and help clean up the house (but I already know that this task will have done itself by the time I get home. No, I don't have an elf living with me and now I am on very dangerous grounds if a certain person reads this!)
I will prepare a brunch for four (maybe 5) of us and that will consist of streaky bacon, grilled tomatoes and mushroom and my sisters wonderful scrambled eggs (yes, there will be cream in it).
How the hell are you able to eat all that? you say.
I don't EAT all that. I will manage one scoop of the eggs, a piece of the bacon and a little tomato and mushroom. I can manage that well now. Also, I want to stop losing weight having achieved way more than I expected. I suspect that I am going to settle around 79kilos and I am might fine with that.
After brunch we are going to take the dogs out, yes dog, because my cousin will bring her little one. Maybe we will take them to Takapuna Beach (while we still can, prior to the Daylight Saving) for a manic frolic on the sand. I can hear NOSH (an upmarket foodies paradise) calling. The plan is that we shall wander through that establishment and purvey the fine produce, making a collective decision, which I hope involves a good deal of argument about the merits of 'this or that.' If we can't agree, we shall bloody well buy the lot!
So out see, the only thing that has changed since the bariatric surgery, is a change in emphasis re my food intake. It is now most definitely 'less is more.' It is also about 'quality.' I eat a great deal less, but have increased the quality of my intake. Does it cost more? Individual items do but the hugely reduced amounts mean that my food bill is about 60-70% less. Ummm- the clothing bill soaks up the excess!
We will of course have a bit of wine, once again the better stuff. For me, that means about one and a half small glasses spread over the whole day.
That's my day, folks. I wouldn't have it any other way. Of course in two years time, when I collect my Gold Card, I may well repeat the exercise on Waiheke Island, having travelled free of charge using the said card. God will punish any evil politician who dares to change such arrangements. If he doesn't, us oldies will! OH hyes, Perdy will be able to travel on the ferry.
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China, Talk to me!

I do not know why I am seeing an increase in the numbers for China but I can say that I am very happy to see this. I owuld love it even more of you made some comments or contacted me through my website.
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Keep reading my blogs and pass the above 'site' onto your friends and circles. Indeed if you do that enough, I shall even come and visit you one day. I very much want to see the Great Wall of China!

Kim DC may stand for Parliament and will probably get in along with a few 'coat-tail riders.'

For once, I am not joking when I say that Kim Dotcom will probably get into Parliament should he stand next year. Not only that, he will slide in with a few hangers-on, riding comfortably on his coat-tails.

Why do I say this? That’s easy. Just think--- how many young people and other techies simply sit around, playing their games, chatting to one another without ever meeting and generally staying away from the political process? Their world is one that a goodly number inhabit. I won’t stick a figure on it other than to say, that many of these people don’t even register to vote. Gather up the numbers behind KDC and you can see the potential for him to persuade a large number to get out and vote for him. Their reasoning to do so may be quite diverse but there is no doubt that KDC packs quite a punch with the said group.

Watch out for his campaign: it will be like no other and will sometimes go under the radar for conventional politics as we know it. Expect a Tsuanmi of support for KDC and if he can inspire these people and others, then don’t be surprised if he sweeps in with 5% plus of the votes. That after all is all he needs to do. If we think that Winston is the master of single issues, watch this space. IMG, if Key gets back in and KDC sits on the opposition benches, we are going to see some fireworks like no other we have ever seen. I suspect that Key will have a permanent blush as he hopelessly faces KDC in the chamber.

Politics is about ‘perception’ and KDC will bring a completely new level to Parliament; high or low? ---well that’s over to you.

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