Owing to unexpected personal circumstances Bull-chips must cease operation at least in the short to medium term, if not permanently.
I therefore wish to thank everyone who has ever had the interest or the inclination to read the ramblings of this warped and acerbic mind.
It has been a wonderfully educational and cathartic experience which unfortunately cannot continue for the moment.
Hopefully the very existence of this blog has contributed in some small way to the democratic process by at least trying, to help keep the buggers honest and accountable.
If Bull-chips is ever able to resume operations at some future point, we will get the message out there.
Thank you for your interest.
PS. Is that champagne corks that I can hear popping in city hall?
02 July 2009
DIVERSIONARY SPIN
The Nelson City council and it talking parrot the Nelson Mail, also utilise another major piece of diversionary spin to deflect attention away from themselves and their outright rejection of democratic and legislative process.
That diversionary tactic is to characterise their critics as being opposed to each of their pet vested interest projects.
They further characterise that opposition as being anti visionary, anti arts, or anti sport, or anti progress, or whatever label they can hang on their critics, to create dissent and division, in an attempt to hide their own deceit and deception.
But I have never seen any criticism, based simply on any form of anti sentiment or specific dislike, of any community of interest, or of a particular project, per se.
What is being loudly voiced, is total opposition to council's blatant rejection of constitutional democracy, and statute.
What those critics vehemently oppose is the ignoring of legislation, that is involved in imposing their vested interests on the community.
They oppose the insane economics, the pork barreling, the imprudence, the recklessness, the rape of the public purse, the disregard for the economic well being of the ratepayers, all to achieve minority vested interests.
If council actually did things properly and prudently for once, they might even carry the community with them, and their critics might even support those projects.
That diversionary tactic is to characterise their critics as being opposed to each of their pet vested interest projects.
They further characterise that opposition as being anti visionary, anti arts, or anti sport, or anti progress, or whatever label they can hang on their critics, to create dissent and division, in an attempt to hide their own deceit and deception.
But I have never seen any criticism, based simply on any form of anti sentiment or specific dislike, of any community of interest, or of a particular project, per se.
What is being loudly voiced, is total opposition to council's blatant rejection of constitutional democracy, and statute.
What those critics vehemently oppose is the ignoring of legislation, that is involved in imposing their vested interests on the community.
They oppose the insane economics, the pork barreling, the imprudence, the recklessness, the rape of the public purse, the disregard for the economic well being of the ratepayers, all to achieve minority vested interests.
If council actually did things properly and prudently for once, they might even carry the community with them, and their critics might even support those projects.
01 July 2009
DEBT: FIGMENT & SPIN
Is is amazing how the Nelson City council, parroted by the Nelson Mail, continually and deliberately mislead the public about their critics stance, in an attempt to justify and divert attention away from their insane economics.
The prime example of this sleight of hand, is council's repeated mantra that it would be irresponsible for them to accede to their critics demands to stop or reduce capital spending, during the current economic climate, as that would itself hurt both jobs and the economy.
The only problem with that load of old bull chips, is that no critic that I have ever seen or heard, has ever made any such suggestion or demand.
That accusation is outright spin, and a blatant invention of council and its talking parrot.
What the critics have all said, is that it is highly irresponsible of council to expand and increase capital spending by threefold in such tight economic times.
In other words council should contain and restrain its capital expenditure at existing levels, instead of this profligate and unwarranted massive blow out of capital expenditure, purely to satisfy their own vested interests.
It is that totally unnecessary threefold expansion of capital expenditure that the critics consider to be such imprudent economic insanity.
Council claims about their critics demanding, cessation or reduction of capital expenditure, is a deliberate figment of council misdirection and spin.
The prime example of this sleight of hand, is council's repeated mantra that it would be irresponsible for them to accede to their critics demands to stop or reduce capital spending, during the current economic climate, as that would itself hurt both jobs and the economy.
The only problem with that load of old bull chips, is that no critic that I have ever seen or heard, has ever made any such suggestion or demand.
That accusation is outright spin, and a blatant invention of council and its talking parrot.
What the critics have all said, is that it is highly irresponsible of council to expand and increase capital spending by threefold in such tight economic times.
In other words council should contain and restrain its capital expenditure at existing levels, instead of this profligate and unwarranted massive blow out of capital expenditure, purely to satisfy their own vested interests.
It is that totally unnecessary threefold expansion of capital expenditure that the critics consider to be such imprudent economic insanity.
Council claims about their critics demanding, cessation or reduction of capital expenditure, is a deliberate figment of council misdirection and spin.
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