Posts by Ian Dalziel
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off colour tips for people... (& Bower birds)
I must go down there and arrange them by colour...
you can arrange your web browsing by colour too...
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Meanwhile back in Sin City...
Here's hoping Momentum got the right people
for all those Super City jobs...
Bell City in California is discovering what
happens when council staff go bad...
LA still looks like Chandler/Hammett territory...
Who will save Gotham from these Jokers? -
TV One breaks big story...
Jessica Mutch live tonight, talking about Chris Carter's return to Parliament:
"Chris Carter still considers himself an ACT MP!"
Oh dear, either Chris needs another holiday
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If Garrett is being opposed by dark forces, is he saying that he is on the side of the light?
I think he might be standing in front of the light
and shadowboxing - oh well, with his backlit darkside to the front, there's always a career
in Blag Ops... -
Breakfast in the Ruins*
Paul Henry, Pippa Wetzell and the Feelers ...
Haven't we suffered enough?Raw sewage, right here, right now
in the square you say?*an aside: the continuing adventures of Karl Glogauer, and who knew that Michael Moorcock also wrote Zip Nolan of the Highway Patrol and Skid Solo for Fleetway comics and also wrote for the Sexton Blake Library.
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waterworks
Did anyone notice that guy (council, sewerage, Civil defence?) was just crying as he tried to address the residents.
That was Mark Christison, City Water and Waste Unit Manager, and he and his team are well stretched, but to be applauded for their Herculean efforts in general.
a confederacy of dunces...
CCC CEO Tony Marryatt should have been at that meeting as he doesn't seem to be doing anything else useful - apart from staying in the background so his "boy" Bob can hog the limelight... a bit different to his Hamilton days maybe, as ex-Hamilton Mayor David Braithwaite recounts in his book Making a StandIn the book, publicised as "200 damning pages of life as city mayor", Mr Braithwaite also said that Mr Marryatt "never lost an opportunity to tell me how powerful and important he was".
"He was, he said, the best chief executive officer in New Zealand. Clearly in Tony Marryatt's view, he was the city's king-maker and infinitely more important than people who had merely been elected to their positions by the public. Council employees were at his direction, so why not the mayor and council as well?"I'd also like to see Marryatt trying this on Jim Anderton, when Jim is elected:
Braithwaite wrote: "I was elected on a Saturday and on the following day I was visited by Tony Marryatt at my home.
"He presented me with a hand-written paper on which he outlined who should hold positions of responsibility on the incoming council, who the deputy mayor should be and that councillor Dave Macpherson should hold no positions of responsibility at all."Coincidentally ex-CCC CEO Lesley McTurk is the head of Housing NZ which is doing a pretty appalling job on behalf of their Avonside tenants - maybe there will be more whistleblowing from HNZ about the handling of this too...
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double, double, toil 'n' trouble...
...political potiions
well there is that witch Christine O'Donnell in the USA... hope those Tea Party types can find all the ingredients for their infusions...
Eye of Gingrich and toe of Sarkozy
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Councils shape cities. Along with DHBs they strongly influence the wellbeing of the people who live in their area, directly and indirectly.
I'm just wading through the DHB candidates for Chch - though it seems pointless when the Govt can just appoint whoever they want to it as well - witness last election when Alister James was not re-elected but, then Health Minister, David Cunliffe overrode that and appointed him Chairman - Democracy at its finest...
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his 'n' hirsute...
Since my husband has decided to grow his hair long to approximate the style of Jon Bon Jovi... ...hairbrush plucking has become an increasingly significant feature in my life...
...a veritable follicle à deux
oh well maybe you'll get a shag out of it...
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Kitty fiddlers... it all comes out in the wash
and then we have The Istituto per le Opere Religiose a.k.a. The Vatican Bank (not to be confused with a PayPal Bull) not only is their paedophilia dirty linen being aired but they are apparently laundering their money as well...
...shades of the Banco Ambrosiano imbroglio in the '80s - when bridging finance meant finding BA's chairman Roberto "God's Banker" Calvi hanging under Blackfriars Bridge in London, allegedly murdered by the mob...
Actuaries, and other quiet retiring types...
...Meanwhile they continue fiddling with pension funds in America - there is something ill in Illinois...And because the calculations are esoteric, it is hard for anyone except a seasoned actuary to see what is going on.
The Buck stops here...?
Investors and traders dumped the dollar and sent gold to yet another record high Tuesday ($US1,289.40), taking their cues from the Federal Reserve’s apparent readiness to drive interest rates down further and inflation up.
The markets’ verdict was clear: They believe Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke is willing to debase the dollar to avoid the risk of the economy falling into deflation.read LA Times article here
so look for a run on Gold and Silver, but people will have to watch out for Fractional Selling Schemes and serious scams like the the gold plated Tungsten ingots that have materialised - another article here and a YouTube clip here also...
time to invest in something like comics then?