Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Legal Beagle: The flag referendum:…, in reply to kw,
Did anyone suggest a hologram pāua flag?
That would have been magnificent, if difficult to replicate.Current regime is not big on giving 'Pāua to the People'...
Where is the Abalone Ranger when we need him?
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Legal Beagle: The flag referendum:…, in reply to Alfie,
Get rid of our embarrassing relic of a flag” from someone called Anthony Hubbard.
Hubbard really throws everything into the pot
The claim that $26m is a large number is wrong. The claim that it would be better spent on hip operations is daft.
Last year the government spent more than $94 billion. The cost of the flag referendum is therefore a mere 0.00027 per cent of the budget. It's a piffling price to pay for the important democratic act of choosing our national symbol.It's as if he is trying to imply 'we' spent $94 billion on hip operations
(by my reckoning and rough research there are about 6,500 such operations a year (public and private) each at cost between $15,000 and $25,000 = $130 million maybe - (health insurance source for that) so yeah they coulda done an extra 1300 or so for $26 million - not to be sneezed at)and as to"the important democratic act of choosing our national symbol"
well we didn't get to choose, an undemocratically selected bunch of B list celebrities - including sycophants like Julie Christie, a saatchi CEO and Brian Lochore got to choose on our behalf - and even then they gave us no diversity of choice - 3 ferns and a spiral.Anyway it is the Australian flag that is crap, the silly sub-asterisk 6 pointed stars are out of proportion, looking more like seagull splats - while ours is nicely balanced and elegant - I was looking at them hanging along with many other nations' flags in the CPIT atrium yesterday - I think ours stood up just fine, and at least it didn't have a sword on it like one of them!
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I do like watching John Oliver...
and it appears he like watching us!
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/77475243/john-oliver-john-key-is-a-gigantic-clown -
Hard News: The flagging referendum, in reply to Russell Brown,
it don't mean jack...
John Roughan has changed his mind and thinks he’ll vote no change.
My god, he’s wrestled with this.Try this on for sighs...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/the-flag-debate/77586027/editorial-why-we-kiwis-are-such-a-sad-and-cynical-bunch-when-presented-with-the-chance-of-a-lifetimeThe sad truth is that we Kiwis are behaving like petulant children. For instance, Labour supporters – previously the most likely to call for a change – have swung in behind the old flag through (let's be honest) petty political loathing of John Key. That's the only possible explanation for their abrupt about-turn when Key took leadership of the flag campaign.
'The only possible explanation...' indeed, pshaw... obviously this Jonathan Milne ( Sunday Star Times editor) is one deep thinker - well above my league - he then goes on to say:
And worst of all, we are showing a childlike inability to compromise.
You know what? You're never going to get a new flag that keeps all the people happy all the time. But if we all agree that we don't like the existing one, let's do our best to agree on something better. That's what the first flag referendum was for.Ultimately I think he implies he'll be sticking with the incumbent, or not?
I am sick of being told this is the chance of a lifetime and we should compromise just because it's new and it isn't the old flag - that first referendum was virtually 'Hobson's choice' and no proper process at all - I still cannot figure why they needed to share the 40 possibles the 'selection panel' would choose from if we weren't allowed any say - especially as they spent so much money doing it - to what end? maybe they wanted to foment dissent and dissatisfaction ? But who in their right mind would plan something that way - did they get advice from Sir Lynton Crosby perhaps?
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Legal Beagle: The flag referendum:…, in reply to izogi,
Canvassing opinion...
But that’s been this entire circus since its beginning.
Though it is a 'four star' circus and not a '3 ring' one...
and that is the finest swamp kauri sawdust on the tent floor! -
Hard News: What you lookin' at?, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Circle jerks...
no-one is allowed to speak ill of the boy.
don't worry Tracy Watkins has gone into bat for Max 'Headroom' ...
Stuff - we create the problem then we report on it...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/77561157/Political-Week-Max-Key-cyberbullying-a-sign-that-politics-is-getting-too-nasty -
Legal Beagle: The flag referendum:…, in reply to Russell Brown,
but John Roughan seems to have changed his mind. He really is agonising over this.
He is still all over the place...
The thing about good design is it's like a good waiter (and cooks) - you should never really be aware of them, as they just unobtrusively do what needs to be done.
Same as typography is a craft that enables comprehension otherwise it's just making pretty patterns, not communicating.
IMHO
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Hard News: What you lookin' at?, in reply to Russell Brown,
Just the facts, ma'am...
But the truly weird thing – and it entirely befits the whole weird story – is TMZ’s scoop on the possible murder weapon that’s been at home with an idiot LAPD officer nearly 20 years.
I was just about to post that myself - seems to be 'a thing' police officers hanging on to evidence - I saw a case in Australia recently where a box of papers and evidence was found in the roof of an ex -police officers house:
A box full of important missing evidence from the investigation into the death of young Sydney man Matthew Leveson has been discovered gathering dust in the roof of a former police officer's home, raising hopes of a major breakthrough in the case.
In a bizarre twist in the nine-year saga following the 20-year-old's disappearance in September 2007, the coroner's court heard on Friday that the evidence had been found on Thursday night in the home of Nicole Power, formerly the officer in charge of assisting with the coronial investigation. -
Hard News: The flagging referendum, in reply to Steve Barnes,
I just can’t believe its BETTER
and Fernleaf use a realistic fern representation,
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Speaker: Waitara and the perils of…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
This is so wrong. Vindictive regional council wages war on the people and the democratic processes
Totally illogical behaviour – these people are attempting to pay off their Draconian obligation yet:
Council director of corporate services Mike Nield said on 13 November 2015 legal representatives for the three individuals were advised the trio owed $25,138.12 in total.
“As soon as all debts are cleared the bankruptcy proceedings will stop,” he said.If they bankrupt these people the council will get nothing further – Wonder if their (TRC) Aussie Bankers BNZ are behind the push – but throwing good money after bad speaks of Little Man syndrome – may their Dogma be run over by their Karma.
I also note that David MacLeod is also a ‘mover and shaker’ with Fonterra among other interests
David MacLeod was elected to the Fonterra Board in 2011 and is a member of the Audit and Finance Committee and the Co-operative Relations Committee. David also serves on the boards of Port Taranaki Limited and A.J. Greaves Electrical Limited. He is Chairman of the Taranaki Regional Council. David lives near Hawera in South Taranaki and is a director of P.K.W. Farms GP Limited, one of Fonterra’s largest shareholders, and is a shareholder of Far South Farms Limited, which owns a dairy farm in Southland.
My bolding/emphasis
- hence his interest in continuing to ‘muddy the waters’?
– massive conflict of interest I’d have thought?But hey it’s the modern way under a National Government – Gaming the system!
see: https://www.fonterra.com/nz/en/about/our+governance/board+of+directors/david+macleod
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http://www.trc.govt.nz/assets/Publications/state-of-the-environment-monitoring/pkw08.PDF