Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Mercury Special, in reply to recordari,
in case the pendants are looking
shhh
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Hard News: Mercury Special, in reply to Simon Grigg,
It's a wonderful thing
And it's happening to ya
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Hard News: Mercury Special, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Ta Jackie. Seems a popular place with some of the other Kiwi musos too.
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Hard News: Mercury Special, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Is Hamish based in NZ or the UK at moment?
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Hard News: Mercury Special, in reply to Russell Brown,
One sign said the car park closed at 10pm.
Because there's no nightlife around there, eh
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Legal Beagle: Voting Referendum: Jus' Sayin', in reply to JLM,
the people who will spread disinformation to try and defeat MMP
The best quote has to be:
Brash says he "has heard rumblings" about an anti-MMP campaign, "but I'm not aware of who's involved currently".
Does he really think no one has read The Hollow Men?
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Legal Beagle: Voting Referendum: Jus' Sayin', in reply to JLM,
Good article here about the people who will spread disinformation to try and defeat MMP at the referendum.
Seems even more untenable that The Herald employs "National's pollster" as a columnist without declaring his role.
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Hard News: Mercury Special, in reply to Steve Parks,
Possibly not safe for work
Ja
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Councillor Sue Wells reports CERA/Brownlee briefing, including matters like abandoning/remediating land.
(note blog theme is identical to Dimpost; may be disorienting at first)The Minister made it very clear that one of the key considerations for him is making sure all participants are on the same page and heading in the same direction before decisions are made. He wants homeowners equity protected. My perception is that the final hurdle is getting consistency across the insurers – no easy task.
EQC alone has 40 reinsurers. Each of them has subsequent reinsurers. Cats to be herded. A phenomenal challenge for the world’s largest ever insurance event. (After the May 23rd deadline passed, EQC had received 344,364 claims, with 510,000 individual claims in that. Those numbers are far higher than Hurricane Katrina, higher than lowly insured Japan.)
On that scale issue, I have now heard repeated comments that Art Agnos who was mayor of San Francisco during their terrible quake was astonished at the enormity of ours. Theirs was confined to a relatively small area. Ours is huge.
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Hard News: Someone has to be accountable…, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
I meant his opposition
The government, then (though some would argue you were right the first time)