Posts by Ian Dalziel
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I see a Trump aide has offered to resign over Melania's speech:
"Over the phone, she read me some passages from Mrs. Obama's speech as examples. I wrote them down and later included some of the phrasing in the draft that ultimately became the final speech. I did not check Mrs. Obama's speeches. This was my mistake, and I feel terrible for the chaos I have caused Melania and the Trumps, as well as to Mrs. Obama. No harm was meant."
She said the Trump family rejected her resignation, because, "Mr. Trump told me that people make innocent mistakes and that we learn and grow from these experiences."http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/20/politics/trump-aide-offers-resignation-in-melania-trump-plagiarism-incident/index.html
Which doesn't really explain how Melania then didn't recognise the same passages she'd read to the writer when they appeared in her speech prior to delivering it - they're not very good at excuses or cover-ups, which might be a good thing, but no Republican or Trump supporter seems to care anyway, which is even more worrying in the greater scheme of things......I think Melania's nom de guerre should be Echo
Echo, by trying to protect Zeus, endured Hera's wrath, and Hera made her only able to speak the last few words spoken to her. So when Echo met Narcissus and fell in love with him, she was unable to tell him how she felt and was forced to watch him as he fell in love with himself.
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Speaker: Are we seeing the end of MSM,…, in reply to John Farrell,
The sixth censor...
shouldn’t that be median?
Medium - IT dead people?
I taught I tore a puddy tat, too...
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Litmus Test of the Good Taste and Decency Standard
pHuckers?
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Spooky!
I just got back from a walk by the avon and down past Banks Ave school and spotted a pile of rubbish in a section - and that classic line from Alice's Restaurant sprang instantly to mind:"Yes, sir, Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie, I put that envelope under that garbage."
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Jeez - Ryan doesn't even know how to use a gavel!!
he held the head and used the handle on the table!Trump also used the Queen song without permission
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7445695/queen-trump-rnc-we-are-the-champions-unauthorizedwho's the live band there? - sounds like The Commodores!
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Hard News: RNC 2016: A literal shitshow, in reply to Hugh Wilson,
The jumbuck stops here!
the default setting for the Coalition in Australia
Even down by the billabong
the swagmen are swilling
'denier billy tea'... -
Chief of Staph*?
... uncontrollable vomiting and loss of bowel control...
Where's the shade of Hunter S. Thompson when ya need him...?
or to paraphrase Laurie Anderson
Anguish is a virus...The Trump camp trying to claim that no one could seriously expect a Trump to say something unoriginal or foolish in front of 35 million viewers is patently risible - that's par for course on the Trump links, I'd have thought...
* I know, I know, I'm mixing bacteria and viruses
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Scoop Soper strikes out again!
Hah! Barry Soper reports on Melania Trump's speech - but missed the memo (or other reports) about the 'plagiarism' ...
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11677409 -
...if I only had words!
Michelle Obama's mana is such that Melania Trump 'channelled' her when she wrote her speech for the Republican's Cleveland convention.
It's good to know that the presumptive First Lady candidate has such a strong recycling ethic...
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The New Zealand Home on TV1 on Friday nights is quite interesting – The radio sports jock ‘everyman’ character can be a little annoying at times, but I guess ya have to cut those intellectuals down a bit for common consumption.
Last friday’s episode noted that even the first State Houses built were too expensive for the people they were supposed to cater to and in the wrong place – they also had a wee piece on an enclave of Hurst Seager homes in Sumner Chchch – I hope the mention they made of the others being empty and earthquake damaged didn’t trigger some arsonist, as one of them was burnt down on the Saturday night (owned by local old architecture fan, brewer and developer Alasdair Cassels)watch The NZ Home here:
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Speaker: Sprawled out, in reply to Aotearoan,
Already the encroachment by housing onto the volcanic cones is too much.
Keeping the natural hillside might slow the lava flow a bit too - but a built environment will give it artificial channels to speed the lava flow up and redistribute it to the lower-lands faster - though perhaps it doesn't act like water...
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