Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Show time...
Good news that the show survives...
But a sad indictment on TVNZ that they would foster and raise a fledging show to adulthood, then kick it out of the nest to fly with the opposition - why would they do that? Doesn't show much business acumen, but I guess we know about their issues with quality and thinking folk.
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Groser Jack, get off your back…
Who do we blame for this back down?Another chapter of the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations has been leaked, heralding “another bad news day for National”, says TPP critic Professor Jane Kelsey.
The draft text of the investment chapter, including the section on investor-enforcement, is undated, but is understood to be recent.
It confirms that National has agreed to let foreign investors like Philip Morris, Pfizer, Warners, Exxon Mobil or Microsoft sue New Zealand for damages in private offshore tribunals, claiming that new laws or policies breach their rights under the agreement.I sure don’t trust this Government enough to sign something on my behalf sight unseen…
and here’s a coupla posters for Merc and Chris:
If Government is the answer…
and
Snappy Sammy Smoot…
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Hard News: Briefing, blaming, backing down, in reply to Chris Waugh,
eschewed and spat out...
Abstention is a perfectly valid option as a vote against the system (as merc says) or a vote of no confidence in any of the parties or candidates on offer.
This could be covered by you still going to the polling booth and writing 'No Confidence' across the form, then at least you have had your voice heard - and fulfilled your obligation - otherwise your silent protest can be dismissed as apathy or construed as tacit approval - either way The System wins.
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Have the Best Boy & Focus Pullers' Union
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Hard News: Briefing, blaming, backing down, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Coming to our census...
Two things every citizen must do,
1) vote, and 2) do jury duty.I think we should make voting mandatory and non voting fineable as in Australia, it doesn't seem to create any major problems (though I don't know how many people get fined - but it could be a nice little earner).
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Hard News: Briefing, blaming, backing down, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Judge dread...
Or that Fletchers would be happily profiteering at every step of the post-quake “recovery” without pertinent questions being asked.
Hmmm, John Judge is a director of Fletchers isn't he?
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Ground control to Major Tom...
Near classic toe wash in morning sun.
Not just consulting the palm pilot then?
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Gimme a hard copy right there...
Nice, at last a light level plane field,
but let me know when it can do this......or get that View-Master©/parallax 3D thing going on
(not that this link does its stereoscopic wonder justice either...)
I think I have that Star Trek© View-Master© reel in a box somewhere deep in the Silverfish Ranch...:- )
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Capture: Going Walkabout in Sydney, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
We have progress
How effective is that 'lean to double glazing'?
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Hard News: Briefing, blaming, backing down, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Blue-Green Red allowed...
You’d have to figure out a different way of selecting politicians.
Could we perhaps grow them from biofilms, many do seem to have photosynthesis down to a fine art and are capable of a waving motion, the Beehive does look a bit like a stromatolite...
Even the First-Lawyer-of-the-Free-World, Barack Obama, is promoting pond scum...
...oh hang on, that's some other kind of AlGore Bloom...