KAPAI'S CORNER: Top dogs humbled as underdogs have their day

A couple of local councillors seem to be hell bent on stuffing up the code of conduct this last week with behaviour akin to a couple of spoilt kids arguing over a toy neither of them own. WHAT a week it has been on the global and local stage for sticking it up each other - especially for the underdog telling the top dog to go and get stuffed. It certainly adds a bit of entertaining heat to the cold stones of a southerly hangi that has me all stuffed up at the moment.
Getting stuffed is what happened to the Ngati Skippy Prime Minister last week, who was gone quicker than his soccer team at the World Cup.
There was no time for emotional farewells just a bit of boohoo juice as Kevin Rudd said see ya to his mates and went on his walkabout into the never never of political wilderness.
Let's see if the new sheila lasts long enough to waltz with Matilda after the next election. Or will Australia's first female Prime Minister be snapped into an early election and gone quicker than a top seeded Brazilian quarter-finalist.
The Dutchies have passed everything from the left-hand side in South Africa and stuffed the opposition, including the South American favourites.
For my two bobs' worth of World Cup betting the Orange Roughies could go all the way. Choking off the surging tide of talent by stuffing their feet, fingers, and anything else they can find on the field, into the opposition's defensive dyke has worked wonders for them in the past and it could very well win them this World Cup.
Closer to home women's soccer is far from stuffed here in Tauranga Moana.
When I watched the mighty Te Puna Rebels take on their next door neighbours Omokoroa in the freezing cold yesterday, there was no surrender on either side, and the one-all draw had me stuffed just standing on the sideline cheering.
But sometimes the side line is not a safe place to stand - just ask the newly knighted Dame June Jackson.
When interviewed on TV1's Marae yesterday, as part of the powerful group of leaders who lobbied Parliament last week to lift the drinking age and address the alcohol epidemic sweeping across the land of the wrong drunken crowd, Dame June tried to sideline the alcohol issue by saying the horse had bolted with alcohol and it was drugs we should be campaigning against.
That would have been a statement to knock the stuffing out of many drug and alcohol addiction clinics up and down the country, who say alcohol is a very powerful and dangerous drug in the wrong hands - especially our teenage tamariki.
Having walked the 12 steps and realising one is too many and 1000 never enough, it is an opinion I totally tautoko (endorse).
Until we stop glamorising one drug and chastising the other, we will never see a solution to a binge drinking drug culture that is stuffing our society like no other.
A couple of local councillors seem to be hell bent on stuffing up the code of conduct this last week with behaviour akin to a couple of spoilt kids arguing over a toy neither of them own.
Let's hope Stu's sand pit has a new bunch of free thinking talented tamariki playing in it after the next election. It may seem like bread crumbs on the council kai table - with this petty point scoring - but breadcrumbs are the raw ingredients of stuffing so hopefully there will be enough to stuff these nit-picking, time-wasting turkeys for at least another three years.
Boil ups and blazing fires are to winter what stuffing is to a Sunday roast and right now deep in the eye of a cold wintry storm, worrying about a winter pelt is low on my wish list.
Let's face it, from a puku point of view kai tastes so much better when it warms you from the inside. Or is that what the diet gurus call comfort food? I agree as it sure makes me feel comfortable on a cold winter's night.
Besides there's always a bit of zumba to shake it back off again and still have the same sense of feeling stuffed.
Nah stuff that, the shortest day has been and gone, and hopefully the winter puku will be gone quicker than an Aussie Prime Minister - or its soccer team at a World Cup.
Pai marire.
broblack@xtra.co.nz