Posts by Ian Dalziel

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  • Hard News: The next four years,

    Now that Trump has allowed the US Government to grind to a halt , does that mean we will have another truncated Summer Research Season in Antarctica?
    Reliant as we are on military supply flights from the US's military base at Chchch Airport...

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  • Hard News: Trump 2018,

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    Icing the body eclectic...
    The sponge of truth...
    ...comb on over!

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  • Hard News: Trump 2018, in reply to Rich Lock,

    Bannon, is possibly more of a more of a wight or ghoul.

    Alt-wight, surely?
    ;- )

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  • Legal Beagle: If Australia Jumped off a…, in reply to Ian Pattison,

    Also, I like the idea of people being asked more often what they would like.

    What we need is an experiment in participatory democracy...

    :- )

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  • Hard News: Music: 2017 – this is not a list,

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/100411416/buster-stiggs-of-the-swingers-and-suburban-reptiles-dead-at-63

    Influential New Zealand musician Buster Stiggs has died. He was 63.
    Stiggs, real name Mark John Hough, was a founding member of The Swingers and a member of influential punk outfit Suburban Reptiles. He played drums on The Swingers' major hit Counting the Beat.

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  • Legal Beagle: If Australia Jumped off a…,

    To me the thing with postal ballots is that there is no real way of knowing that it was returned to the post/ballot box marked by the person to whom it was addressed.

    When delivering local community newsletters in Richmond Chchch during the ‘Flag Exercise’ I noticed many stuck in overfull letterboxes of empty houses – this may just have been a post-earthquke Chchch thing.

    They could also be just taken filled in and returned, or people who don’t give a toss could pass the form onto someone else to use their vote in aid of a particular outcome.

    People will try anything.

    I reckon at an election time (either local or national) is best – when people are more ‘civically aware’ and use the time up to that, to educate and engage the public.

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  • Hard News: Trump 2018,

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    Trump’s bowtie persona would be Richie Rich, while everyone wishes he were more like lookalike Stumbo…. - maybe a little less golf...

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  • Hard News: Trump 2018,

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    apologies to Hank Ketcham – chronicler of Trump’s childhood…

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  • Hard News: Trump 2018, in reply to Rob S,

    The ” city on a shining hill” is starting to look like a shit can.

    City on the shill?

    ...watching a car crash...

    In ultra-slow motion (tell the lawyers it's called 'Peckinpahesque')
    I suspect Trump is a loose deployed airbag...
    up in the air with a lot of baggage carrying momentum.

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  • Hard News: Music: 2017 – this is not a list,

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    as well as some funksoul singles and a coupla early Australian comics:
    **Gem Comics #35 **has identifiable pacifican influences – including a strip about notorious slaver and smuggler Bully Hayes!!

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