Posts by Steve Barnes
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Oh Yeah, and for you science fic fans. We were there at ..................Bottle Store Galactica.
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Glad you made it home ok Jackie. great to meet you and Craig and Paul and Linda the lurker and Russ, who finally realised who the hell I was (after knowing each other for years, work that one out.) and Grayhum (Reid that is) and and and and.
We must do it again. Maybe at Russ's house? ;-) -
i tells ya but then again confidergog i am doing this im the dark from the quadrent bar i think i wan doing ok anat init
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Damian, if you had a curious feeling you were being watched over the weekend it could be that I have a large telescope mounted Here
It is, indeed, a lovely spot. The Fantails were twittering all weekend. didn't bother me in the slightest. -
As long as the evening doesn't turn in to a scene from "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" I'd love to be there. I am looking for a new hangout after being BANNED from Galbraith's for 2 years, I may mutter and growl about it to anyone who cares to listen. I'm innocent I tell you, innocent. ;-@
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I have been giving this subject a lot of thought over the last few days and the more I think about it the more worried I become.
As others have said, Auckland is not easily generalised. There are some areas that would seem to require some sort of regional oversight (and I dont mean flying over it in a helicopter) and for that we already have the ARC albeit a little dysfunctional.
the biggest worry to me is the psychological aspect of how the residents of Auckland feel about their communities and how they are represented. As it stands we have North Shore City which extends from the harbour north-wards until the "City" peters out into rural New Zealand, Rodney District (I always loved the concept of an area called Rodney, if we end up with a "Supercity" can we call it Brian?) Waitakere City which extends out from Avondale to the wonderful west coast beaches and Manukau City which extends out from Onehunga and sprawls out almost indefinitely to places where Dragons and wild creatures be. The last one is a worry. As it is the people of Manukau have a center that they can relate to, a place that has a vast population of disparate peoples, from some of the poorest to some of the richest, from some of the most violent to some of the most funnymentaly religious, from the right wing to those that may even have wings. I could go on but I think you get my drift. I we lose any of those local councils we run the risk of marginalising a great deal of the people who need the most representation, services and help. The south will become a ghetto of the dispossessed and I shudder to think of the consequences. -
Bolger will be off to something else shortly...
I hear leader of the National party might be up for grabs. Did I just hear "Let's do the time-warp" on the wireless?
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Post. AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Or to put it another way.
"You'r either with us or you're with the [insert name of marginalised group here]
I really must remember to finish writing before I hit -
I meant to add. About almost anything controversial.