Posts by Ian Dalziel
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I saw this in today's paper...
...Her profile on the C&R website praised her exceptional leadership skills and said she would help pursue greater vibrancy in the community.
...that vibrancy would be shuddering, right?
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When the share price is that low, things can only go up, right?
oh forget Allied Farmers, I can take that troublesome cash-cow off your hands in
exchange for these magic beans... -
Let's go to the hop...
It's a bit like Krufts
So I guess then that some of the beers were dogs?
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Not the V8 thing again, I beg you.
Hay, Auckland will have to bale out its inner city roads sometime or crash and burn...
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sometimes almost illogically and one accident can stop the southern motorway for an hour.
Much like coastal Highway One from Oaro to Kaikoura, yet another truck jack-knifed there this week, blocking the road for hours. The road is so totally not suitable for big trucks, and has a great rail track adjacent largely empty of freight...
gawd help us if they let those new 55 ton road trains use that road... -
the reneger in the woodpile...
Perhaps Rodney Hide will suddenly decide that as no one really viable candidate has emerged, he will, selflessly, take the role himself...
...and Aucklanders dismissed the E-Can semi-putsch! -
Careful. That's "mum and dad investors"™ you're talking about.
hell no, they're all waiting in the wings to invest in KiwiBank - The Willy Wally from Wallace, er Bill English, told us so...
In the US after the '29 crash and the great depression Roosevelt passed a bunch of laws limiting what banks and other financial could do, at the same time providing limited deposit insurance.
The Glass-Steagall Act the repeal of which was championed by the triumvirate of financial "Freedom" er, malfeasance: Larry Summers, Robert Rubin and Alan Greenspan, the fourth rider of the apocalypse must've been on holiday in the Bahamas (or Caymans)...
There's a statue somewhere in Washington depicting trade as a wild horse being bridled by a man.
saddled with debt and
spurred on by cowboys... -
Not only ... but also.
one of my treasured possessions
(sadly, soon to go on TradeMe)
is/was an autographed copy of
The Dagenham Dialogues
by Peter Cook & Dudley Moore -
sorting the wheat from the chaff
There still seems to be a lot of confusion between the SCF situation being conflated into the other Hubbard enterprises and trusts' problems and management...and I'd imagine that didn't help SCF find new investors...
(I'll also be interested to know if the Dave Hendersons of the world got their hooks in there as well...)... so I think some blame can be laid at the Govt's door for the heavy handed way they stepped in to the whole Hubbard financial avalanche management process and didn't help in clarifying what was what, and who was who...
Reading the uninformed redneck idiotic and banal comments on Bernard Hickey's seemingly unmoderated site is as depressing as talkback, Kiwi blog and ilk...
Big men writing under the cover of anonymity, impressive stuff...
bring on the killer asteroid!Hell I hear that Obama is a Muslim
and other Chinese whispers... -
there ya go... he said cryptically
I really do love the middle class.
speaking of middle class...
whatever happened to The Las?I've put the middle of classes behind me, though...