Posts by Ian Dalziel
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OnPoint: Budget 2013: Bringing Down the…, in reply to Russell Brown,
it's all a glib shillen (anag 4, 7)
...these people wouldn’t know good faith if it bit them on the arse.
I quail at the gall of Bill English's glib Gotcha! :
"...he expects discussion with councils about the supply of more housing will be tense, because they were not headed in that direction."
Bill, I think you can add the Education Sector and most of the sentient populace to the list of folk who had no idea what 'directions' you and your morally rudderless buddies might divert us in...
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Towering Inference...
Here's one from the Chchch catchment, it mostly survived the quake, but lost the chocolate fish embedded in its side - it was originally in a group show at the Silvan Gallery Cafe (now defunct), artist unknown at this point. -
OnPoint: Budget 2013: Bringing Down the…, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
mortar-fied
Equivalent funding for PTEs?
That is bloody appalling!...and I can't see how it is justifiable ?
Oh , that's right, the 'market' is too big to fail !
We have left 'unchartered' waters,
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Hard News: SpinCity, in reply to Islander,
So long, and thanks for all the bones...
byebye to all the people I enjoyed interacting with...
Islander, the story above is for you.
Sorry to see you leave, I know the feeling and have been there before. I always end up coming back though, it is after all my favourite local salon, sure occasionally some of the regulars have bad days and behave intemperately, we all do.
Detente can be achieved...
Hope to see you back with more of what you have to offer, otherwise you have my email.
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Do you see what I see?
Out on the edge of darkness,
looking in towards…A town cauldron*
As soon as you come over the Bombay Hills you can’t miss it, seething and hissing on the plain below, I pulled over to watch this portentous sky, as the 2013 Budget spread its dark pall over Joyce’s Folly, and the country at large…Such a wasted land, a salutary lesson to us all about carefully checking the fine print, when the devil is in the deal, he’s in the detail, too…
The covenant was signed. ‘t’s crossed and ’i’s dotted. The self-acclamatory proclamation rang out through the land.
The Brighter Future was dawning.
Who knew that ’bettering the outcomes going forward’ really meant creating a city of Government sanctioned pokie fodder!
Then almost immediately things started hotting up in town…
In a compact with the Devil, the House never loses, the deal may not be what it seems, The Nats thought they were getting a Convention Centre on the cheap, a simple slip can make all the difference.
Anyone could have missed it.
Right there in plain sight.
That fateful first paragraph:
"…agrees to build a Community Convection Centre (herein after referred to as the Convention Centre)…"
The Devil’s Community Convection Centre makes the most of its Vulcan underpinnings.
The Auckland cone field is now truly a smelting pot!…and still the gold and silver runs in rivers down from the suburbs to bubble and boil, in an all-consuming glowing vortex, tantalisingly out of reach amongst the rubble and roil of its callous corporate caldera…
We are now truly a land of consonant sorrow.
(apologies to Jackson Perry for repurposing his stunning image and cross-threading it while this Government screws our most vulnerable...)*Ok, I’m just Shuteing my mouth off!
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Capture: Autumn lite, in reply to JacksonP,
that sky's the limit
Blood red horizon...
it's as if Turner had an Eye-Phone
Epic pic... -
does this help?
Mr Key ...when on a mandate, ensure any dicking around with people is consensual... -
Capture: Autumn lite, in reply to Jos,
Photo tropes...
Ah, the magic of florists...
When photographer met phototroph?
Hello Helio trope...on Friday ... all still buds,
Saturday they were opening,
Sunday all up and out,
amazing timing!...amazing engineering!
There's a song in there somewhere, too...
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Hard News: SpinCity, in reply to DexterX,
Helping Corporates help themselves whilst bearing “their” buttocks at democracy.
Oh that we had, handed them their ass, and sent 'em packing!
:- )the Christchurch rebuild ... the third winter out of sorts and with out a settlement or certainty for many people – a matter of priority?
Not to Gerry B and the Place Makers...
their songbook has no Fanfare for the Common Man! -
Hard News: SpinCity, in reply to BenWilson,
all hail our betters...
...to spot people who have already revealed themselves as having a gambling problem in the worst possibly way.
John Key does seem to sweat alot, maybe he's worried the country will notice he is gaming the system and gambling away our country's future, for a short term return?
