Posts by Sacha
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There was also a bit of 'seriously? Are you nuts?'
I'll need to come back to this - my eyes glazed over in self-defense after the first few sentences of tosh
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Speaking of which, Manukau City Council's policy committee rejects attempted censure motion 13 votes to 2 and rounds on accusers, reports Manukau Courier.
Deputy mayor Gary Troup says the attempts to discredit the integrity of the mayor and council staff are dragging Manukau into the "political gutter".
"We wouldn't be here today if two of our councillors hadn't declared their loyalty to Citizens & Ratepayers and the polls didn't show Len Brown leading by a country mile."
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Councillor David Collings told his eastern suburbs colleagues to stop "making a mountain out of a molehill".
If the Pcard spending was "so serious" why had Mr Ross failed to take any action during his nearly three years as chairman of council's performance and accountability committee, he says.
An "extremely disappointed" audit and risk chairwoman Maggie Burrill asked why Mr Ross had also never raised any concerns as a member of her committee which gets regular reports on Pcard spending.
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"oversight" is what they most fear
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To me, it's a lack of sophistication in understanding how power works socially.
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it gives no weight to the content of the man-woman conversations.
How's this? The test makes sexist assumptions about the nature of a conversation based on who's having it.
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English claims the money was generally for economic development, not just PEDA. Idiot/Savant has a snapshot of the relevant Budget line to show that's a bald-faced lie.
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Would people have bought and grown the plant anyway, without the cutting being made? Or would they perhaps have bought another plant later by the same gene-splicer?
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We need a PSA equivalent of Godwin's law
Eternal vigilance, my son. And when did the trade unions become involved?
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It can be a massive investment of the time of the artist to make a CD that is meant to earn them a living. The copying of it does possibly deny them money and damage their investment, just the same as the seeds. The only real difference is the means of copying and distribution.
What's the seed equivalent of concerts and merchandise?
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I salute Bob's taste in musical women.
The Pixies 'Gigantic'
Oh yes. I read somewhere that it was going to be the album title but was felt not to combine acceptably with the cover art.