New Zealand Conservative

'..And the crowd cheered as the New Zealanders crossed the line to win the 32nd America's Cup by one second!'. Hang on; have I got it wrong there? Well, perhaps I'm referring to the New Zealanders skippering and crewing Allinghi. It's hard to really know what to feel when your national team loses to the competitor crewed by fellow countrymen. In a way, Allinghi owner Ernesto Bertorelli has bought and paid for that cup that's going to stay on his mantelpiece. That's the way I see it anyway; call it sour grapes if you like. I suppose it brings up again the argument about teams made of of crewmen from different countries; it still doesn't seem right to me. What happens in the Olympics? Does each member of the team have to be naturalised? I'm not sure. The defeat still leaves a bad taste in the mouth though. I wonder if Butterworth felt a swell of patriotism on the win; and it so, for whom? Powered by ScribeFire .

Hey hey. Some of my old posting buddies are back on the air! It's like SCTV* all over again. Great to see some activity from you guys. I'm going to open a beer right now and celebrate. Join me for a virtual quaffing and click on the link: The Dept of Unspin-off *sorry, bit of a cryptic comment with the merest of relevance that only a few Canadians might get, if they remember the intro scene to SCTV.

Libby Scooter got a pardon had his sentence commuted by Bush. Good job. That's one down now two to go. These two guys are deserving of an immediate pardon, a couple of medals and a few million dollars in compensation. Their story is a sad testament to the danger the USA faces from within. George Bush, stand up to these idiots and pardon Ramos and Compean. Two U.S. Border Patrol agents were sentenced to prison terms of 11 years and 12 years for shooting a drug-smuggling suspect in the buttocks as he fled across the U.S.-Mexico border. U.S. District Court Judge Kathleen Cardone in El Paso, Texas, sentenced Jose Alonso Compean to 12 years in prison and Ignacio Ramos to 11 years and one day despite a plea by their attorney for a new trial after three jurors said they were coerced into voting guilty in the case, the Washington Times reported. As WorldNetDaily reported, a federal jury convicted Compean, 28, and Ramos, 37, in March after a two-week trial on charges of causing serious...

So, ACT is talking to Labour about something or other to do with maybe supporting Labour in Parliament. Is it just me, or does anyone else think that no good will come from this?

Any moron can write haiku; just stop at the seventeenth syllab --Anon The haiku remains popular, usually in the 5-7-5 syllable form, sometimes in 3-5-3 form. However, haiku purists dispute the rigidity and verbosity in the English version of Haiku's, due to the different structure and natural rhythm of the Japanese language. For those interested in such matters, here is a good short article discussing this perspective: Keiko Haiku Rules . That background makes this list of rules a little more understandable: Haiku Rules . As Geoff suggested: "Learn them, then forget them", or perhaps: Haiku rules are most important to follow forget I said that --ZenTiger Also, some Haiku poets suggest incorporating a kigo , a season word, which indicate in which season the Haiku is set. For example, cherry blossoms indicate spring, snow indicate winter, and mosquitoes indicate summer, but the season word isn't always that obvious. Part of the reasoning behind this is that the con...