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Old Posted Mar 11, 2009, 2:02 AM
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Highwater, I have a favour to ask... Dundasguy got onto my ignore list a while back, but I end up seeing his posts if they are quoted. Can you avoid this if possible? Thanks!
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Old Posted Mar 11, 2009, 4:06 AM
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Dundasguy==Goldfinger
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Highwater, I have a favour to ask... Dundasguy got onto my ignore list a while back, but I end up seeing his posts if they are quoted. Can you avoid this if possible? Thanks!
You are so stuck up
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Old Posted Mar 11, 2009, 12:27 PM
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Ryan, you should read The Fountainhead when you get a chance. It's easy to be a critic.
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Given that it's easy to be a critic, here's a spot critique of The Fountainhead:

The story is contrived to push Rand's ideology. The narrative is awkward and feels forced. The characters, supposed to represent Rand's personality archetypes, are merely two-dimensional cutouts with unpersuasive motivations - especially protagonist Roarke, who comes off not so much the visionary hero as a petulant, over-precious twelve-year-old.

The dialogue is forced and clunky, with characters transparently mouthing either Rand's own diatribes or the strawmen she seeks to knock down. Roark's famous closing speech is hopelessly cranky and overwrought. Toohey is a impossible to take seriously as a socialist bogeyman.

The sexual tension between Roarke and Francon is creepy and deeply chauvinistic, playing up Rand's insistence that what women really want is to have heroic, self-absorbed men they can worship.

Frankly, I resent the fact that I'll never get back the time I wasted reading this book - and I read it in my very early twenties, when I was at my most naively libertarian.

In short, the egocentric romanticism of assholes like Howard Roarke (i.e. Ayn Rand) are a big part of the reason why architecture has become the plaything of megalomaniacs like Daniel Libeskind instead of a means to create human-scaled buildings that express public values and support community spaces.

Oops, I guess that makes me some kind of collectivist "second-hander".

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Old Posted Mar 11, 2009, 1:40 PM
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Old Posted Mar 11, 2009, 2:58 PM
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its always easier to read someone's opinion if it has some kind of basis to support it.
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Why was he banned?
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Old Posted Mar 11, 2009, 3:43 PM
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Old Posted Mar 11, 2009, 4:17 PM
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oh so how about the Hilton.
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Old Posted Mar 11, 2009, 4:24 PM
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Is anyone aware of any developments with this project? Or is it just cander like all the other proposals floating around. This city is a constant disappointment.
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Old Posted May 20, 2009, 7:31 PM
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hey a new guy

welcome to SSP calvinkool

"This city is a constant disappointment"... tell me about it. We do have our share of pump and dump land speculation,
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Old Posted Oct 22, 2009, 5:27 PM
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Has anyone seen the lot recently? The city placed cement blocks around the HMP portion to stop them from parking cars there. Thank Bob Bratina for that. Apparently he isn't as in bed with the Vranichs as we might have thought. It's an important symbolic victory even as though it reminds us that the Hilton is pretty much in limbo.
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Old Posted Oct 22, 2009, 6:36 PM
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good... that didn't take too long
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Old Posted Oct 22, 2009, 11:58 PM
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very glad to finally see that happen. now lets get the freaking property developed already.
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Defamation

The statement by Jon Dalton regarding myself and the Vranich family has no basis in fact. Certain individuals have been circulating this for their own reasons, including one who distributed an anonymous flyer in the Durand neighbourhood stating that I was "from the same Croatian village".

I was born in the Mountain maternity hospital in July, 1944, delivered by Dr. Day. My mother used the neighbour's phone on Tragina Avenue to call a cab to get her to the hospital that day. My father was born in a Croatian hamlet called Veliki Vrh in 1922, and came to Canada with my grandmother in 1928. Her maiden name was Culig, and she came from another hamlet across the valley from Veliki Vrh called Culig Brig. All of the people in Veliki Vrh were named "Bratina" and all the people in Culigbrig were called "Culig" and when I visited there in 1979, most of them were still named Bratina and Culig. Culigbrig was a few small houses in a place they now call Durlinci where my Mihelic relatives live. I had never heard of the name Vranich and there were no Vranichs to my knowledge living in Hamilton or nearby in all of my years growing up here.

The pathetic depths to which bloggers and others will stoop to undermine people whose only motivation is to help make a better City should stand as a warning to anyone considering seeking public office.

For your further reading:


Placenames of Locations in Parish Kamanje: Bratovanci*, Brlog Ozaljski, Durlinci*, Kamanje, Lukunic Draga, Mali Vrh Kamanjski, Orljakovo, Police-Pirisce, Preseka, Restovo, Rujevo, Veliki Vrh Kamanjski.

Surnames found in the Roman Catholic Parish of Kamanje:

Blazina
Borkovic
Bratina
Bregar
Busija

Cigic
Colaric
Cunjak

Culig

Dorin
Drozdan

Furjanic

Grasa
Grasin

Hlaic

Ivancic
Ivka

Jaksic
Jalsevac
Janjac
Juran
Jurdana

Kambic
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Kirin
Klemenic
Knezetic
Kobak
Kolenac
Kovac
Kozjan
Krasevac
Krepic
Kufner

Ladika
Loncar
Lugar
Lukac
Lukunic

Markus
Marsic
Martinic
Mateljan
Matesevac
Matesic
Matijasic
Matusak
Meke
Mihalic
Mlacak
Mohor
Morog
Mrljak

Novosel

Opalicki

Pericak
Petrina
Petrusic
Plesac
Prahovic
Priselac

Radakovic
Razumic
Repic
Rescan
Ribaric
Rujevcan

Sajn
Slanac
Spudic
Stipancic
Strusa

Sasak
Sut

Tomasic

Videcak

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Zmaic
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Old Posted Oct 23, 2009, 5:17 PM
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The pathetic depths to which bloggers and others will stoop to undermine people whose only motivation is to help make a better City should stand as a warning to anyone considering seeking public office.
Bob, I think you are doing a fine job . You are a good ambassador for our downtown. There are a lot of clowns you have to contend with and you do a good job considering.
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Old Posted Oct 23, 2009, 5:45 PM
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The statement by Jon Dalton regarding myself and the Vranich family has no basis in fact. Certain individuals have been circulating this for their own reasons, including one who distributed an anonymous flyer in the Durand neighbourhood stating that I was "from the same Croatian village".
Just to clarify I have never stated or circulated that rumor. The comment I made acknowledged the existence of it and also served to dispute it.
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Old Posted Oct 24, 2009, 12:15 AM
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I reread your post Jon and thought there was nothing misleading about the comment
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