Tuesday, February 19, 2008

CALL ME IRRESPONSIBLE....
I sent off a text to the Sunday Times saying that Dan Naidu CEO of Commerical Waste Services knows why there was sewage in Durban Harbour. How is Sutcliffe going to keep him quiet? Gifts? Threats? *beams...
The idiots were of course emptying out the sewer lines to stuff them with cable...
What a fantastic dream this must have seemed on the drawing board pre 2004 - and what an ongoing cockup in reality...*grins...
Seems to me everyone and their aunties are aware that cable is being run through any lines available, be it sewage, water or storm-water...*shrugs... If the upper and the middle classes are comfortable with this, why the shiftiness and secrecy?
I was under the obviously misguided impression that it is the rich elite Trevor Manuel wants to nab for tax evasion Clearly more bullshit as it is the elite that are in the know and puffing along the gravy train tracks merrily....
We are slowly but inexorably being shut out of the Internet...
Google presents more problems each day and now suggests that we have malware or a virus ROFL!!! Indeed we do - a virus most Fowl!
I dutifully ran the marvellous Norton full scan which normally takes an hour. This morning it was finished within three quarters of an hour...*laughing... No worries mate, it said...
So I go to the dodgy Norton system Scan and find the same old 15 errors turn up. One is fixed, leaving 13 files missing and a temporary file that can't be touched by tards...*chokes..
Now if I were the GameWrecker, I would be concerned...but alas, he doesn't know how to deal with it so shrugs and walks away...
gmail times out constantly without loading and the entire PC has the rank stench of corruption about it.
As of course does our landline and cellphones...
Do my reports here, of the gay abandon with which we are dealt with, by someone so clearly himself as crooked as a bent nail, serve merely to ensure that you will never step out of line? *cackles.. That would be a sweaty yes? *beams..
For our Controller to deny that the PC and cellphone problems have escalated since the affair of their Bullyboy Farouk Ahmed was Minuted at the CPF Meeting, would be utterly futile...*grins..
Or would he say that it was more the attention drawn to the huge water wasteage that has raised the ire of Koobair and the Rotten Apples? Whatever.... *shrugs..
You will have noted my dogged persistence, and whether you choose to shut down our Internet access totally, it certainly won't deter me in the least... *cackles...
The more appliances you nuke and the more problems you send us, the more you paint yourself Guilty as Charged....*grins...
Sue the Book tells me that diggers did indeed arrive to fix the leak running onto her driveway... Sadly I missed the happy event....*shrugs..
The GameWrecker mentioned an acquaintance who bought a home at Umhlanga a few years back for R500.000 cash. He is already paying R1000 in rates each month before Herr Doktor Sutcliffe's wondrous planned rates hikes comes into play...
May I ask exactly what these rates cover? The electricity supply is erratic at best, and our service in particular runs in dips and surges depending on the mood of our layman Controller?
More water runs down the roads and into the ground than through the water lines...?
The Parks Department has to be pleaded with to cut verges and the valley has all but been forgotten ..?
The potholes are everywhere and threaten to destroy my little banger on even the shortest drive out....?
Is it vastly different out at Umhlanga and Mt. Edgecombe? Everything running as it should? *keels over laughing..
I'm guessing they have the same appalling mess left scattered about after Durban Solid Waste do the trash collection each week ....so - what are these huge rates increases meant to pay for?
Sutcliffe says the Rates Inspectors have completed their evaluations....*coughs...
I've certainly seen hide nor hair of such an official and our property is NEVER left unattended so....?
More lies and bullshit? fosho....
Do go and find an article run in the Sunday Tribune of Feb. 17, 2008 called "Making sense of Property valuation" on Page 5.
It appears that I was worrying needlessly....*grins..
Those that should be anticipating big hikes are:
Homeowners with large enchanting gardens (our property is minute)
Lovely views (We are at the bottom of the valley)
Noise (we are next to the Freeway)
Area with council amenities (no bus route, no library or sports facilities here)
House size (Small and basic with no servant's quarters, no shower and only one toilet)
Condition (shabby but loved)
No pool.
Plenty of cracks due to subsidance...
I am interested to see once the rates are implemented, how on earth the Muni will know that we are indeed the po' whites of the area? *cackles..
A good article and worth keeping...
Monday's Mercury was filled with lies, lies and more lies to my utter amusement...
The ducking and diving Sutcliffe is set to eventually be the fall-guy of the century...
Not that he will care, for his golden handshake will undoubtedly include homes in countries with an infrastructure that actually works... *hawks..
Neil Macleod Head of Water and Waste is quoted (a sad day BTW) on a sewage block out at Queensborough that happened about December 24 last year. He says the block was caused by a long cable that had 'found it's way into the sewer through an act of vandalism'... need I say more? *collapses cackling...
At 9.30am today this bakkie was pulled in under the gumtrees at the head of the mysterious overgrown copse of trees in the valley...
Adjustments being made to whatever covert installation lies down that bank?
Then at 10.10am the Airwing Cessna(?) flew very low out of the North and right overhead as I waved delightedly... which fatcat Minister was viewing his assets this time?
Soft grey and white clouds are heading up fast from the south. With a bit of luck we may have some rain later...
Peace..
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Tuesday 19th February 2008 at 3.36pm