Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Cracker: Spotted, in reply to Caleb D'Anvers,
I know what we can do to stop Winston!
We can distract him with a full-length mirror!He shows up in mirrors?!!
I’m just trying to work out how I managed to become part of a clique in 83 posts. It’s like I was on some sort of clique fast-track oar summit.
Once you've nailed your 95th theses doors will open...
...or maybe if you're being strung along you'll need to
consult the Martin Luthiers to keep on song
The view from a Libertarian logo's head -
I first saw it as UBERTARIA which
I thought was just, well, Super!Then realising it was an LI
I figure it must be advertising
a collection of places to see Liberace
and other heavenly stars... -
Low humz and peach thrills...
So there's a rad new obstler to swallow on the block...
it's a must you say...
and we're to take the piss but luckily
' it’s not going to flood our stream':- )
What no Peach!
Only Plum, Feijoa and some fruit called Natural?
Bar plum plug!
and what about us unsweet, if not tart, non-tweeters?
the tyranny of technology wins again!#zumwohl Hark, no low humz but a clarion call for sliver wits to bottle or kirsch the ruling classes...
(Interesting to note that Mr D Farrar was a child alcoholic/imbiber)
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We are entitled to know the truth of what has occurred …
Lianne Dalziel* makes some very good points in this Opinion piece in today’s PressWhat on earth is going on?
As a former minister I know exactly why a government chooses to release a report on a Friday afternoon. It virtually ensures the scrutiny the report might otherwise receive does not happen.
Experts usually aren’t available to read the report and comment by the Friday evening news deadline and it is no longer news on Monday.
I am sure this was the reason why the ministers for the environment and earthquake recovery deliberately chose a Friday afternoon on October 1 to release the report entitled Canterbury Fact Finding Project – consideration of liquefaction & lateral spreading hazards in the zoning and development of a) the eastern suburbs of Christchurch from 1977 to 22 Feb 2011 and b) Brooklands, Kaiapoi and Kairaki/ The Pines from 1977 to 4 Sept 2010.
Given that this report related to my electorate, I asked for a briefing from the relevant authorities that afternoon.
However, Gerry Brownlee’s office and Nick Smith’s office “declined the opportunity” to give me a briefing. So much for transparency and accountability.
So I read the report for myself and it was soon apparent why the minister wouldn’t want any scrutiny at this time.
…*No relation (well not directly or recently, maybe back in the ancient inbred hills of Lanarkshire, Scotland)
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On a sad note…
I have just heard of the death of Eric ‘Android’ Marsden
last week – so the twins are back together again, RIP Eric…
He was always the saner, practical one of the band (and Lincoln Road flat), I used to think of him as the quartermaster of the Androidss, there’s a memorial in Chch this friday, more details when I hear them…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=88rNfOYf1rU#! -
Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to DexterX,
"spend like a drunken sailor", was dumb
- it could have been so much better...'Spend like a Meth addict on a bender' maybe
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The Halloween Men...
Key is doing a domineering Lucy van Pelt impersonation
with Goff somewhere between Linus and Charlie Brown
he's a nice guy and needs a shot of Snoopy to shoot down Key's
Red Baron-like barking, snarking and dog fighting... -
Winston's Myth: We Winston, You Winston...
...but I wouldn’t be surprised if Winston Peters chooses not
to stand in an electorate seat.Surely the honourable thing would be for him to run in one of those grey electorates like Ohariu or Epsom to muddy the waters...
PS: all the best for Wednesday.
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No shirking tricky treats...
Speaking of books - I see a fine list of Halloween reading in the Guardian's Book section - Good to see a kiwi author amongst Calvino, Atwood, Ballard, DeLillo and Greene, et al...
Well done that man! -
Legal Beagle: Referendum Fact Check 4:…, in reply to BenWilson,
Hussar, Hussar…
…and at most other times he was a cold, ruthless barbarian. His life is practically a litany of deliberate attempts to block progress, almost all of them involving large scale violence.
Happy to let Gandhi starve to death he was a crushing Boer, indeed.
But Churchill ‘Occupies History’ as he also:… assisted in passing the People’s Budget becoming President of the Budget League, an organisation set up in response to the opposition’s “Budget Protest League”. The budget included the introduction of new taxes on the wealthy to allow for the creation of new social welfare programmes. After the budget bill was sent to the Commons in 1909 and passed, it went to the House of Lords, where it was vetoed.