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Stateside With Rosalea: For crying out loud
Friday, 14 February 2003, 9:06 am | Rosalea Barker
Who remembers Leapy Lee and his annoying song, 'Little Arrows'? It goes: "Little arrows in your clothing, little arrows in your hair, when you're in love you'll find those little arrows everywhere." Well, Happy Valentine's day and all that, but ... More >>
Stop! Don't unlock that cage
Wednesday, 12 February 2003, 9:11 am | Rosalea Barker
Next week, I will be the same age the United States presidency was when the Treaty of Waitangi was signed, and it got me to wondering why that office has become so powerful in world politics in so short a time - just 214 years. (Yes, I really am ... More >>
Stateside: Not yer Missile Crisis
Monday, 10 February 2003, 1:19 pm | Rosalea Barker
Just in case you thought I was a few paua short of a pattie with last week's little hom-ily about huiaroha, I'd like to confirm that. Oops! I mean elaborate. I hope you'll stick with a couple of paragraphs of technical bits up front. More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Huiaroha
Thursday, 6 February 2003, 9:23 am | Rosalea Barker
I beg your indulgence again, for my yearly ex-pat homily on Waitangi Day. If nothing else it'll make a bit of light relief on a day that radio commentators introducing Colin Powell's address to the UN Security Council said will determine the relationship ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Does W get Wired?
Monday, 3 February 2003, 8:43 am | Rosalea Barker
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to guess the question that leapt to mind when I was told the space shuttle had exploded over Texas: "With the Israeli on board?" The first image that came to mind, however, was quite different - giant mutant spiders ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Chairman Powell
Tuesday, 28 January 2003, 5:50 pm | Rosalea Barker
"On December 11th at approximately 11 o'clock, a.m., I was in the studio at Berkeley Liberation Radio. I was doing security because we had had a break-in and someone had stolen the two CD players out of the studio. At 11 o'clock I hear (knocks loudly) ... More >>
Keep your hand on the plough, hold on
Wednesday, 22 January 2003, 9:42 am | Rosalea Barker
Stateside With Rosalea: On Sunday night I went to the second annual musical tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr at the First Congregational Church of Oakland: 'In the name of love'. I kind of missed the point... I got really, really angry, and ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: What would Mary do?
Monday, 20 January 2003, 11:13 am | Rosalea Barker
"George Bush, get a clue! The people of the world are not with you. George Bush, get a clue! The people of the world are not with you." The chant is swallowed up by a kind of Mexican-wave cheer that is passing from the back of the march up to ... More >>
Why I am not quite an atheist
Wednesday, 15 January 2003, 9:32 am | Rosalea Barker
It's comforting to believe that God sees into the hearts of all mankind. And there you have it - the sum total of my religious beliefs. The words may be a little old-fashioned: for example "mankind" is code for "people". And "God" is code not just for the Christian ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea – Images of a Time
Wednesday, 8 January 2003, 12:20 am | Rosalea Barker
Stateside With Rosalea captures images from another perspective from inside the USA. More >>
Stateside With Rosalea - Oh-two in review
Wednesday, 1 January 2003, 5:34 pm | Rosalea Barker
Rosalea considers the best, the most, the favourite, the scariest, most interesting, most obvious, the clearest, and ex-Pat Kiwi Moments of 2002... More >>
Stateside With RosaleaThe Seven Barbies of Kwanzaa
Tuesday, 24 December 2002, 9:15 am | Rosalea Barker
Clearly I watch too many PBS documentaries, like the one on the 'Mystery of the Three Kings' that aired this week. But the weather's been badder'n a blister on a postie's foot at Christmas, so what's a girl to do but venture gingerly back into TV-land ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea - Mickey vs Mouse
Wednesday, 18 December 2002, 9:04 am | Rosalea Barker
I really do wonder what I used to do to amuse myself before the Internet. Last week, curious about an icon with a large E inside a square, I clicked through to find myself squarely back in the eighteenth century. Article 1 Section 8 of the US Consititution, ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Off with her head!
Wednesday, 11 December 2002, 9:49 am | Rosalea Barker
December 8 marked the third anniversary of me and my luggage spilling on to the footpath outside one of the most expensive hotels in San Francisco. The Amtrak bus, which had come across the Bay from the Coast Starlight LA-Oakland train, was supposed to ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea - Hale and hearty
Wednesday, 4 December 2002, 8:32 am | Rosalea Barker
Last Thursday was the fourth Thursday in November, so it was the national holiday known as Thanksgiving Day. According to my trusty Readers Digest 'America A to Z', the original celebration at Plymouth in the autumn of 1621 was a three-day celebration ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea - We can be heroes
Wednesday, 27 November 2002, 8:55 am | Rosalea Barker
One balmy summer evening in 2000, as newly endorsed VP candidate Dick Cheney innocently aided and abetted terrorists by giving an audience of millions a monument-by-monument description of the flightpath to take for a landing at the Pentagon, my home was ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea - A House is not a home
Wednesday, 20 November 2002, 8:36 am | Rosalea Barker
Featuring on the Chron's front page last Friday was a photo of San Francisco politician Nancy Pelosi resplendent in red, celebrating her historic win as "1st woman chosen House minority leader". Well, to paraphrase an old saw, you can paint a donkey lipstick-red ... More >>
Are YOU buying into WWIII.com?
Wednesday, 13 November 2002, 8:42 am | Rosalea Barker
Monday, being the 11th of November, was Veterans Day, which is observed as a holiday by sufficient people for there to be 'holiday sales' at many stores, but it's not a holiday for the NY stock exchange. Well, why should it be - war is and always has ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea - One in twenty
Thursday, 7 November 2002, 8:54 am | Rosalea Barker
Poor George. The golden apple slipped from his grasp, after all. Ironically, the Republicans' success in the South, on the East Coast and in the Midwest was probably the cause of their loss here in the California Governor's race. By the time the polling ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea - Horse sense
Wednesday, 6 November 2002, 8:31 am | Rosalea Barker
After this year's dramatic - or should I say, theatrical - market slide, the media puzzle only deepens. Was what happened on 14/11 or 15/11 any more significant than what happened on 9/11? More >>
