Posts by Steve Barnes
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It seems there is no panic. According to an impeccable News source, surfermag.com/
As you were...
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Has anybody asked about the Pacific Islands? Has anybody heard anything?
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Or a plate of sizzling sausages.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to ,
Public parks! I don’t understand not drilling public long drops where required and knocking up temporary, but robust public ablution blocks as a priority drain laying event.
This has bothered me enormously for many reasons.
Having a chemical toilet in your street would actually dis-encourage some from digging their own long-drops (assuming they have somewhere to dig) and put more pressure on the sewage treatment plants (those that still function) to dispose of the shit and use up valuable manpower that could be better directed. I can understand the elderly and infirm needing assistance but isn't that the sort of thing we have a peacetime army for? -
That link should have been this one
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Hard News: An excellent evening in Newtown, in reply to recordari,
Speaking of atmosphere,
I just found this on Soundcloud
This I can play LOUD
Dark Star ( Closing Winterland)- The Grateful Dead -
Hard News: An excellent evening in Newtown, in reply to recordari,
Hope you find this Steve.
Found it is.
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One of the things that seems not to have been mentioned is the fact that those of the same bent as Michele Lawhs seem to think property is more important than people.
It seems to matter not one jot that the light fittings were more likely than not to have been carted away by the demolition company and sold for scrap along with the copper plumbing and the wire scrap. Sure, the company with the contract has the rights over the spoils but anyone with an ounce of sense would not see Arie's collecting of "interesting things" as looting, in the sense that any intelligent person understands the description, they would see it as what it was, a curious innocent going about his day as any other would. It is the ignorant spitefulness of the self entitled, to point the finger at a marginal case to make their nasty little point. Micheal Lawhs has revealed himself to be no better than trash, which, according to his ilk, makes him more valuable than a person.
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Anyone following This?
From The Independent UK.MPs were "warned off" pursuing the phone-hacking scandal in Parliament as part of a cover-up, a Labour frontbencher claimed last night during an incendiary speech in which he accused the country's biggest police force of misleading a Commons committee, and its biggest newspaper group of engaging in the "dark arts" of tapping, hacking and blagging.
Damning the behaviour of the Metropolitan Police and Rupert Murdoch's News International, Chris Bryant claimed his friends had been told by an ally of Mr Murdoch that their raising the issue "would not be forgotten". Suggesting there was a "full-blown, copper-bottomed scandal"Juicy scandal, yum.
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While our esteemed Prime Minister goes of to Play Cricket against a guy with a Hot wife maybe we can take this opportunity to look at actually doing something useful for Chrishchurch.
As I suggested Last Week a relocation package now seems to be likely but far from being a unanimous position.
I have a suggestion to put forward.
Instead of doing any major repairs to the suburbs right now I would propose a massive building program on unaffected land, there is no better test for earthquake suseptability than an earthquake so geotech. surveys could be kept simple. Move the people out on a need basis and when all is done give those wanting to go back first option on buying back their sections. The worse affected areas could by used for dairy pasture and land swap deals could be made where agricultural land is more suitable for development. In all this it should be paramount to attempt to retain communities wherever possible.
Wadaya think?.