Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Hard News: Ante Up, in reply to Steve Barnes,
ACT sacs...
Are those helium balloons supposed
to represent their policies?.Yup, squander scarce natural,
or costly to create, resources
while floating lofty ideals...When they obviously
have enough hot air to
gas bag with already! -
Hard News: Occupy: Don't call it a protest, in reply to Sacha,
an internal corporate gym
bloody number crunchers
with their vaulting ambitions... -
Cracker: Spotted, in reply to Richard Aston,
Galt edged...
I remember the Ayn Rand wave – those people were scary, their shiny eyes and brutally cold logic turned me right off.
I hear them referred to as Randroids, or Ayndroids maybe,
(never Rosenbaum-bots ) or are they just Greenspanners
and Randumb Factors... -
Free parking...
If the Occupy folk had to move from Aotea Square
wouldn't Myers Park, near the top of Queen street,
be the next best place to go and as I recall it was a
designated free speech area if not people's park...
still has a fair bit of passing traffic and isn't at all
far from the madding K'road... -
Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to Islander,
an economy
of words...Let’s wait and see-
weight and sea
rimes with anchors
wade antsy
slime n ankles
way dandy sieze
crimes that rankle
whey dance seed
cries spilt milk
ova......and out
me thinks
I'll do the right
thing and retire
with this great
Shaun Tan book
its like Frans Masereel
& Jim Woodring
& Leunig had
a dream baby
and like nothing
else as well...I enjoin you to
seek and enjoy -
Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to James Millar,
pensée...
an automatic pension being paid to anyone aged 65+, funded by general taxation by a shrinking workforce (notwithstanding those over 65 still paying tax) is going to put immense strain on government coffers in coming decades.
But won't the people paid this pension be spending it back into the economy?
It's not like they are getting it and going out the back and burning it in the incinerator or in some other way taking it out of circulation... -
Hard News: Ante Up, in reply to merc,
...ask an actuary.
isn't that how key begins all his answers
"Actuary, at the end of the day, basically..."
waffle and tripe, and so on ad nauseam...(H/T to Terry Kearns in today's Press letters page)
and all I want is a simple Constitution and A Bill of Rights...
...And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses
And I can't look at hovels and I can't stand fences
Don't fence me in
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Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Electric sheep dreams...
there’s a memorial in Chch this friday,
Will put some quiet time aside to think of a beautiful friend.Chch memorial is this Friday (Nov 4) 4pm to 8pm at what's left
of the Richmond Working Mens Club*, Stanmore Rd/London St cnr
People will be 'getting jumpy!'Auckland event sounds fun
- someone say gidday to 'arry Ratbag for me...* Mr Bollard will not be in attendance...
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dystopia or dyspepsia...
Key promises that the NEW assets he will economagically create, including broadband for all will return massive amounts of money to the country - so maybe we will just have TVN7 as a YouTube channel for all to access - which we'll be able to watch in our cars as we drive on all the new roads (with free wifi) that he will create as well, and what with us unable to own our own homes or moving in convoys away from the scorched earth of Chchch, the distraction will be welcome... -
Speaker: Doing the right thing on retirement, in reply to David Cormack,
You know I’m really surprised at the level of
invective towards National....heat ...kitchen ...portal
no more so than at a party when people behave badly
or in sport when one team persists in 'gamesmanship'
they get called on it
it's politics not tiddlywinks
so people get bagged...
I wonder if National will tell us how they'll vote
on Nov 11 at The UN on admitting Palestine ?
will they (purportedly on our behalf) once again abstain
as they gutlessly did on the recent UNESCO vote.The USA should be ashamed of itself too...