Posts by Hebe
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Hard News: In the red zone, in reply to Russell Brown,
It starts to look like collective punishment.
It certainly does. Only damaging to the govt if Aucklanders and Wellingtonians decide they cannot stomach behaviour that is so repugnant to natural justice.
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This is even more sickening than Key's comments. A large group of Port Hills property owners has been waiting for a decision on their land since God knows when. Gerry Brownlee says today he can’t tell them the decisions on the land due to yesterday’s Quake Outcasts decision.
He rubs salt in the wound by telling them he would have announced the hills decision today had it not been for the court case. So all the geotech info is in and weighed up, but he won’t say until the compensation package is set in stone by the courts.
So cruel for these people.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/9098095/Port-Hills-zoning-postponed-amid-appeal -
Foot note for David: Beloved says Brufen is the top-of-the-tree anti-inflammatory.
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Hard News: In the red zone, in reply to Russell Brown,
And I’m relieved that this post has been universally well-received. I didn’t want to be Earthquake Tourism Guy from Auckland.
You weren’t. Someone must document it. You've done so sensitively but without sentiment. I haven’t the stomach for it, though as a life-long writer/journalist/politico I feel remiss about not doing so.
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Southerly: Continuing After A Short Interruption, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Where’s the pride?
No death penalty. In my day, the Chief Sub and the Deputy Chief Sub were Gestapo graduates. I served under one (work is not the right word) who had been in a gulag – probably as the guard. It just wasn’t worth the trouble to make a mistake.
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Hard News: In the red zone, in reply to Lilith __,
as if the inhabitants one day forgot to come home
You've named that feeling Lilith. Clever.
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Southerly: Continuing After A Short Interruption, in reply to Bart Janssen,
You have no idea how guilty it makes me feel to not be able to give a reference.
Hehe: you can recover from the need to reference. Part of my recovery from decades of sub-editing is leaving the odd typo or mispunctuation. It's therapeutic to not follow the Frank Haden stylebook too (he would've fatalised me for that).
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Blossoms and the wreckage of picket-fence dreams: frigging weird. Friends are campaigning to get a food forest happening in the red zone and green frame.
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Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Pink shoes and Dad: what more could a little girl want!
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Capture: Spring Breaks, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Awww.... are they really bad-tempered and smelly?