Posts by Ian Dalziel
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OnPoint: Because Statistical Rigour, in reply to Islander,
Organ grinders..
Why not with gagged & bound politicians & long knives?
Their entrails must be much more reliable for prognosticationHaruspicy relies heavily on the liver for augury, imagine divining the future from Muldoon's liver, just prior to a snap election!
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Capture: BOTY Potty., in reply to Aidan,
When ducks attack Palmy Style
Not a picture of the young Trevor Mallard,
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More Democracy in action...
I hadn't fully realised the Draconian nature of the CCDU's envisioned Chchch CBD retail zone, The Press reports today that:New quake recovery rules require retail developments to be planned in 7500-square-metre lots, which is about a third of a city block.
A landowner with a site smaller than the required lot size will have to submit a development plan for the surrounding 7500 square metre block to get permission to build on their land.
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"City centre landowner Miles Middleton, who owns three small sites in the retail precinct, fears he will not be able to develop a building on his own site independently.
This creates a lot of uncertainty because if everyone can't agree, Cera will step in. If all our sites were on one site we would be quite happy, but we have to deal with lots of neighbours now," he said.
"If one landowner doesn't agree, then the land could be taken away from them. If they do agree, I am not sure about the funding and how it will be done."nor had I realised just how truly venal and abhorrent some of the current large land title holders are...
Central city landowner Anthony Gough, whose family own about 7500 square metres of land in the precinct, welcomed the new rule.
"If you are a small land holder you will be worried as heck, but if you are a big land holder it doesn't matter a hoot," he said.
"People with small parcels will be worried as they can no longer hold people to ransom. This is so important for Christchurch. To get the city up and running again we have to do something dramatic. It will bring smaller landholders to heel."Yes, down boy! Oh those little people and enterprises do threaten and clutter up the city don't they? Shame they are usually the things that make enough of a difference to make the city worth visiting, good luck with Alphaville or Stepford...
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Speaker: The Democracy-Free Zone, in reply to Stephen Judd,
Unchartered waters...
...what would happen if all the children turned up to class and the teachers continued to teach in their schools as usual...
...maybe a 'management/staff' buyout
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Speaker: Friday Music Guest:…, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
As was this group in the Opotiki District in the late 1920s
What's their game, then?
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Pukekolings?
And another
what fabulous chicks!
paging Dr Seuss, please call
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Speaker: The Democracy-Free Zone, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Micrograve coven...
...a council in exile as such.
we even have a surfeit of blasted heaths
'pon which they could meet by starlight...who believes not reading a document
means it’s contents do not existThe pryme minster (from Hel in Lensville)
knows well the power of magic wave
and glamoured smile, and
he knows not to read the words
of power and knowledge, lightly
lest they burn his brain
and blight his house of cards
and dismaying demesne...his dominion is only over the 'do minions'
so our rallying call shall be
Just Don't!<aside>
Yesterday I noticed what must be advance spin for either asset sales or an upcoming Ayn Rand movie - a plane towing a sign saying 'Money is Good' also posters about town... Did I also see a poster saying 'Money is Bad'?
What is reality?
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OnPoint: Because Statistical Rigour, in reply to DexterX,
The word is “juvenannihilation”
drow!
(word up!)
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OnPoint: Because Statistical Rigour, in reply to Lilith __,
A Liddell logic...
In a week when the Ministry of Education can describe closing schools as “rejuvenation”, I no longer expect anything to make sense.
Yeah verily, indeed!
It has sent an 'Alas, through the Looking Class...'or the the whole thing may just be more of Juvenal's biting social satire coming back to bite us (large parts of him are at the heart of 'rejuvenation') ...
Anyway Trader Key Co is just playing the old 'create-a-big-problem-then-cut-it-back-in-the-face-of-inevitable-outrage-to-more-than-they-could-have-got-by-fair-negotiation' scam, again.
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OnPoint: Because Statistical Rigour, in reply to DexterX,
too down, he said cryptically...
The answer I come up with is,
“A change of government”.I too, have an answer to a change of government
- having cast the characters,
and spun up the angramaphone -
the answer to
a change of government is...
(the very apt descriptive)...
<sfx> drum roll</sfx>
ventmongerit is after all
the only things
they seem to do now,
make and sell cuts,
cleave communities,
disgorge hot air,
and bile,
arseholes...
traders, raiders
wheeler dealers,
wheedlers, stealers...grrrr....
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