Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hutchinson Ford, Tuam St, Chchch, July 011.
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Southerly: Coming Up For Air, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
As above, decked out for the Avonside red zone rally.
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Hard News: It was a munted year, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
My new postcard line…
apologies to van Gogh…Excellent dude, I doubt that Vincent would mind.
In that spirit of muntedness, one from Ms Goodie G: Brighton, immediately after the June 6.1 event. Not a situation that Marryatt, Brownlee and Parker would have a clue about.(BTW they're not waiting for a bus. They're just scared.)
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Hard News: It was a munted year, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Ian, I'm bloody spewing here, it's like a slow-motion train wreck.
Yesterday on the Press's discussion thread re. Marryatt's obscene antics there were calls for Brownlee to intervene and set things aright.
O the shrieking naivety.Should the paranoid scenario play out, we can be certain that it'll be the excesses of the Parker-Marryatt camp that'll provide the excuse, while those who opposed them will cop the blame.
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Hard News: It was a munted year, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Maryatt is increasingly looking like Roger Estall 2.0.
Maybe, but Mayor Bob did threaten to resign if Marryatt wasn't reappointed, and now Brownlee's making extremely thinly veiled threats to pull an ECAN on those councillors who'd diss His Bobness.
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Hard News: It was a munted year, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Thanks Geoff.
Compared to other Council CEOs, Auckland’s Doug McKay is on $675,000 and Wellington’s Garry Poole is on around $420,000 a year.By way of comparison with Australia, the latest figures I could find were two years old, when the Sydney district, with a population around that of NZ, had 37 council general managers pulling a total of $9.5 million. The top earner was City of Sydney’s Monica Barone, on a package worth $372,628 a year. At the time this was seen as excessive, as it was more than Kevin Rudd was earning. Now Marryatt is paid more dollar for dollar than Julia Gillard.
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Hard News: It was a munted year, in reply to Lilith __,
Oh Ian, our average IQ would plummet!
Duh, ditto that :-(
Ian:
I doubt we can guilt the man into leaving.
He seems to have a Roger Douglas-like sense of entitlement!I was thinking more of Putin and Medvedev. It seems that the Russians are rather more given to asserting themselves in the face of this kind of political ordure.
It’s sweet of Dean Peter Beck to give it a go, but even he seems in thrall to the Sauron-like cult of Marryatt when he refers to him as a ‘leader’. He isn’t, FFS, he’s what used to be called a town clerk, and he’s our appointed, not elected, servant.
Sofie:
Did you ask about Brendon or am I confused? Does anyone know, is Brendon going to be set up anywhere or has he officially left the Labour Party?
Wagner is at least showing up at community events, though I’d be surprised if she were to appear to give even tacit support to anyone directly disadvantaged by the quakes. While I’d had mixed feelings about Burns when I lived in his electorate – there was a sense that he somehow considered us fortunate to have him as an MP – at the Latimer Square rally a week before the election he definitely had the fire in his belly, and had been putting in the hard yards beyond mere duty.
Ian’s earlier point about Christchurch being ill-served by Labour’s low list ranking of Burns is all too true. Since the election there are a number of issues continuing to play out – notably the dodgy dealings surrounding the Cathedral demolition – about which we’re all rather better informed thanks to initiatives taken by Burns.
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Hard News: Name That Food Blog, in reply to Islander,
YES - do other species have this quality?
My gut feeling, after quite a bit of academically-UNdirected research is, Yes-
Torkel Franzén on animals, souls, and guinea pigs. I've posted the piece in full as his exquisite little website where I sourced it from some years back appears to have vanished from this world, just as he sadly did, far too early:
I know what most revealed religions say - only humans have souls;
animals are disposable. If any of you can point me to an answer
that I can believe and still live with myself, I'd be grateful.There aren't any answers to be had here except the ones that we make up ourselves. What I know about souls, if there are such things, I know from speaking to and touching and living with other creatures. In talking to and touching another person I know that if that person has no soul, then I have no soul. In talking to and touching a guinea pig I know this just as well. Guinea pigs, to be sure, have a somewhat limited range of interests. For example, they're not very interested in computers. Within that range, though, there is great variation. I have known (I believe) an Einstein among guinea pigs, of tremendous
intellect and curiosity, as well as ordinary guinea pigs mostly
concerned with getting a good supply of hay and a place to hide away
in.But these different guinea pigs, with varying amounts of courage,
intelligence, and determination, have all been individual beings
within their limitations and it is the most arid and pitiably limited
theology to say they have "no soul". As we move to ever simpler
organisms, the question becomes more academic. For example, the souls of bacteria are not a matter of great concern. This does not show that there is anything at all arbitrary in ascribing "souls" to guinea pigs, for the bond of love between human beings and guinea pigs shows that we partake of the same spiritual nature, whatever it may be.There are of course those who think otherwise, and I can only imagine
that they are blinded by doctrine or have no love for animals. Guinea
pigs die without thinking what it means, and herein they differ from
us, to be sure. The grief and joy they give is surely that of life as
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Capture: Colour is the new black, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Yes! You gotta double click the peacock.:)
Definitely worth it.
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Capture: Colour is the new black, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Good thing grass grows well in this country .
Quake-hardened turf team leader on the job, St Albans.
Praise for peacocks +++
