Posts by Paul Campbell
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The following was in today's ODT ....
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And a belated new year from almost the last place on earth to get it - may your's be more stable than last year
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Hard News: Merry Christmas, Blossoms, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
This is my second North American Christmas, and if it doesn't turn up snowing in the next forty-eight hours, the North American Jetstream and I are going to have words. If I have to be cold and twelve thousand miles from home it should at least be a white Christmas. (Likely it won't be - it's been uncannily, unseasonably warm for the last two months - but I'm hoping threats will work where pleading hasn't. To inanimate weather systems. Oh well.)
I don't expect it to actually snow in Berkeley - the kids are off to Tahoe for a couple of days skiing (it's a dry La Niña year - mostly man-made snow here). In California this means potential upcoming droughts - it was raining more in Dunedin before I left a week ago.
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Here I am stuck (with my family) in North America for a month - it's cold(ish), gets dark early, there are xmas lights everywhere, a definite buzz, feels just a bit like xmas ....
I offer the following xmas tidbits: walking directions from the Shire to Mordor
And Tim Michin's banned performance of Woody Allen's Jesus:
Not being religious we celebrate Xmas - the capitalist holiday of buying stuff for people - may you extract some wealth from the 1% - Merry Xmas everyone -
given that we're all legally required to be on the electoral roll the elections people should be following up those 300 people, not with fines or anything, but with an aggressive attempt to get them enrolled - perhaps starting with a card in the mail "So, your vote wasn't counted because ...."
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and the murders, why does she write about the murders ... if I lived there I'd have had her chased out of town years ago ..... the place would be so much safer
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Mendicino .... a nice foggy little tourist town, most known for its large number of fictional murders ... and the pot grown inland
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done, and thanks to everyone at PA!
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Legal Beagle: Paula's Peril; or The…, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
although the Netherlands won't allow a party's first seat to be a remainder seat, so it would be kinda like us having a threshold of 1/120 of the vote.
This is my favourite alternative - the threshold should be exactly that required to earn a seat.
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Rather than "ghost-chips" I'd offer ghost-? as in "You know I can't do your ghost-jobs, John"