Flogging a dead horse
The internet tells us that the tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, is: “When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, best strategy is to dismount.”
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However, in government (council?), more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
1. Buying a stronger whip.
2. Changing riders.
3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses.
5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included.
6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired.
7. Hiring out and selling to contractors to ride the dead horse.
8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.
9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase the dead horse's performance.
10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.
11. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses.
12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
And of course....
13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position (or electing it to council!).
So, let’s remember what the Dakota Indians say and be careful which candidate we vote for on September 10.
Jeff de Jager
Coila
Geelong Star off Batemans Bay
So sad to see the Geelong Star back again in our waters raping our ocean.
It was straight out from Batemans Bay - 20 degree waters, 1000 fathoms, dragging nets.
Bait fish?
Seriously?
They were next to us. We were marking and catching yellow-fin tuna.
What do they do?
Tell the tuna not to swim in the nets?
Pino Vecchi
Malua Bay
Gun sales approval
In his letter to the editor (Bay Post, August 10), Dan Field challenged me to name the date on which Eurobodalla Shire councillors “voted on or were asked to support gun proliferation in this area?”.
I'm happy to. At the council's meeting of November 25, 2014, a majority of councillors approved the application by the South Coast Hunters Club for a number of changes to its Huntfest licence, including one that involved permission for gun dealers to display and sell guns and ammunition on community-owned land at future Huntfests.
Five councillors voted in favour, including three (Rob Pollock, Liz Innes and Milton Leslight) who are seeking re-election at next month's council elections. On March 22, 2016, these particular councillors also voted to extend the Huntfest licence, including the display and sale of guns, through to 2022.
A sensible person would accept that approving the display and sale of guns by gun dealers could be deemed as promoting the proliferation of firearms. A sensible person would therefore assume that the particular councillors who approve such an activity are supporting gun proliferation in this shire.
I would also like to thank Mr Field for promoting the Animal Justice Party's event Coast & Nature – a Narooma Festival which is still in early stages waiting for an appropriate weekend in 2018 to become available. I hope to see him at our festival once it is up and running.