tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post1784488682153963696..comments2024-03-30T00:09:27.602+13:00Comments on Not PC: Friday Morning Ramble: The ‘Justice?’ EditionPeter Cresswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10699845031503699181noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-66208097384860699862016-07-09T17:50:31.164+12:002016-07-09T17:50:31.164+12:00Frank Zappa's Valley Girl
Link to this 1982 so...<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-LArv-sEQU" rel="nofollow"> Frank Zappa's Valley Girl</a><br />Link to this 1982 song, with Zappa's 14 y.o. daughter and San Fernando Valley speak<br />Perigo would tear out any remaining hair if he heard this. The quality of NZ speak today is not too dissimilar.<br />PeterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-14269435675239160752016-07-09T15:42:12.376+12:002016-07-09T15:42:12.376+12:00Hemingway and alcohol
I think the Hemingway quot...Hemingway and alcohol <br />I think the Hemingway quote @" write drunk, edit sober " was a macho throw away line.<br />He did not drink while working, in the morning and day, but Alcohol is a cumulative threat over many years. The last years of his life were horrid. Any industrial grade practising alcoholic reaching the age of late 50's starts looking down the barrel.<br />There is also the Churchill quote saying @ "I've taken more out of alcohol than its taken out of me "<br />I am not sure. this is the alcoholic speaking. It did not work that way with me. <br /><br />In a parallel, you will hear habitual cannabis users refer to medicinal and creative advantages.<br /> Except that when you see their dope induced work it is out there, brilliant to themselves. <br />And anyone habitually using dope, has clinical relief it gives from withdrawal. Hence, @" I need it for medical purposes". <br />Hunter S.Thompson was at his most productive in social commentary early in his career. I haven't researched any other alcoholic writers, except Hemingway and Thompson a little. <br /><br /> paul scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15675247055484136242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-36603022075896310772016-07-09T15:12:51.861+12:002016-07-09T15:12:51.861+12:00Relatively ho hum, straight forward to PC readers....Relatively ho hum, straight forward to PC readers. A copy of post to Jo Holmes. <br /> <br /><br />Disgraceful history<br /> <b> Confiscation of property <i> from land owners to the Government's own land bank for the public good </i> </b> <br /><br />Something is rotten in the State. Its a cold day in Christchurch, and we are at the Nat party conference. <br />Nick Smith the softhead mouthpiece for his Government's new policy and intention, announces Confiscation of property from land owners to the Government's own land bank for the public good <br />Just about 30 years ago, Owen McShane [ bless his memory ] and others argued logically against Council zoning to direct use of land by ideology.<br />That was, and is, that people do not have any particular rights within their own property, and are subject to zoning restrictions, this directed by social zealots with regressive, [I mean progressive] training.<br />The monster 350 page RMA was invented by that master of gobbledygookspeak, Geoffrey Palmer, and foisted on us by Simon Upton in the Bolger then Shipley Government.<br />Upton twinked it a little, making it worse, then Nanny passed the thing. Palmer's objectives had explicitly included giving effect to the Treaty of Waitangi.<br />A review Group set up by Upton considered that the clauses had become a conflicting 'shopping list' of matters advanced by interest groups.<br />Judges could not understand it, no one could. <br />There was one, yes there was a Christchurch City Councillor who thought she could work with it, but it was later discovered she had read and slavishly memorised the thing backwards.<br />The RMA from the beginning, attacked for being ineffective in managing adverse environmental effects, overly time-consuming, expensive, and concerned with bureaucratic restrictions on legitimate economic activities.<br />Fast forward from 1988 to 2016, and successive Governments have not made any significant or meaningful improvement.<br />There seemed to be a light switched on, over at NZ First where Peters said the fiddling by Nick Smith only gave yet more references to Treaty and more Maori supervision and privilege.<br />Now, just now, 30 years later, we have Arthur Grimes proposing radical and brutal steps to lower housing costs in Auckland by sticking high rise apartments everywhere.<br />Don Brash [ relishing the opportunity ] says Grimes is wrong to attempt reducing prices by 40%, it should be 60% he says. <br />Haha Nanny State, asleep at the ship's wheel as for 30 years. <br />And over at the NZ First site. now, Oh dear there it goes. NZF will confiscate land, develop a Kiwi home Govt Department, to build cheap homes at someone else's expense with NZF as property developer. Labour party similar. <br />Well I don't know if it time for me to start the civil war or not. But if Nanny takes out any private property in the name of its own Stalin stupidity, and Nick Smith's rot. I will be in there, boots and all, and they will not like it.<br />Disclosure : My family and I own only one property, a home in Christchurch devalued by earthquake.<br />paul scottpaul scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15675247055484136242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-7815278609101190712016-07-09T12:02:20.565+12:002016-07-09T12:02:20.565+12:00The so called housing crisis. The housing bubble ...The so called housing crisis. The housing bubble makes the NZ economy more vulnerable to a major collapse in a far away distant land that no one here has any control over.<br /><br />Horribly inflated asset prices fuelled through pure borrowing at record low interest rates. The crisis aint started yet. <br /><br />It is almost as if 2008 GFC didnt happen. Why are those tards in Wellington allowing the NZ economy to become so vulnerable yet again?Simonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-50850575572431800842016-07-09T08:18:33.079+12:002016-07-09T08:18:33.079+12:00"40% of buildings could not be built today&qu..."40% of buildings could not be built today". I'd say in NZ that percentage is higher. In my job I also know that about 90% of street layouts couldn't get built today - mainly because of onerous requirements around treating/detaining stormwater runoff from any sealed area, but also other details such as footpath width, needing to have street trees, separation distance between intersections, etc.MarkThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06199883270652041621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-86030212404190089262016-07-08T18:29:12.213+12:002016-07-08T18:29:12.213+12:00OK, I'll bite. What's your favourite cockt...OK, I'll bite. What's your favourite cocktail? I'm a huge Negroni fan.maxxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07143698010687455948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-1935022682032045582016-07-08T17:10:24.015+12:002016-07-08T17:10:24.015+12:00"Gliding On"
Link to old NZ TV program....<a href="www.nzonscreen.com/title/gliding-on-1981" rel="nofollow"> "Gliding On" </a><br />Link to old NZ TV program. Some may recall that this was about public servants. I understand that nowadays they have quite flash offices. My point is, if people realised what public servants are like / what our taxes pay for, then they might be less inclined to allow the pubsers to be masters. "You want THEM running your life; telling you what to do""<br />PeterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-50540988726481654852016-07-08T15:23:01.212+12:002016-07-08T15:23:01.212+12:00Of all the heady topics this week for me to prattl...Of all the heady topics this week for me to prattle on about, that car. Glorious.Mark Hubbardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02541153163041831880noreply@blogger.com