Posts by Steve Withers
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A S: The problem with public knowledge is that people are being born every day while others die. So over 20 or 30 years, you and I may have heard a message a thousand times, but in that time a 1/4 or third of all people currently breathing at the start may have died and been replaced by others who know nothing. In 1996 most people understood MMP. Fifteen years later, the number who understoodit had fallen by roughly the number who would have turned 18 in the intervening years. Messages need to be repeated over and over and over just stand still.....never mind move forward.
Today, I think we are coming close to the limit of most people to absorb what they need to know in order tom ake wise choices. The cost of ignorance is growing all around us. Many people don't know enough and they don't know they don't know enough.
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I sold my 1990 Nissan Terrano for $2000 and my 1997 Toyota Ute for $7000 and used the money to buy a 1998 Mazda Demio for $8000. The mazda actually has more foot room and more head room than the Nissan Terrano did! This saved me 40% on my weekly fuel bill without changing anything else...
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$150 a pop for not indicating. The driver of the little blue car in front of me northbound on the Harbour Bridge earlier this week must have been up for no less than $600 in fines between the top of the bridge and the Onewa Rd exit.....where I saw her execute her 4th unsignalled lane change when she shot out of the exiting lane back into the mainstream of traffic, apparently not having read any of the signs saying the lane she was in must exit.
John Carter is an easy target. He only holds his seat because so many of the Labour voters in his area are on the Maori roll.
Is he the best that the National Party in North can put up? That's a scary thought.
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Lovely! :-) I hate stock photos. They are effectively canned lies in the wrong context...and this would appear to be one.
As for the EFA, I looked into it last week. I can spend millions on newspaper, radio and TV ads - no limits - explaining my views on any topic I care to explore. Provided I don't refer to any party or candidate or ask for anyone's vote, I don't even have to register as a 3rd-party. I need only identify myself and give my address.
The possibilities are endless. I'm not sure why anyone is complaining. The EFA has effectively REMOVED any spending limits for someone with imagination who can see the possibilities in this. Stock photos could be liberally employed in support of all manner of personal goals and ideals......
Or you can avail yourself of the foreign billionaire loophole in the EFA and buy or create a large media outlet. Imagine being able to deliver a free marketing sample to every home in New Zealand once or several times a week. It would be absolutely chocker with editorial content bashing the parties you don't like and lauding the parties you do like.....and writing it all off as a marketing expense to build circulation. You could editorially endorse your favourite party....and be completely free of any EFA encumbrance or limits.
David Farrar and his mates just haven't thought this through.
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Found it. The dairy at the corner of Rangitira Rd and Beach Haven Rd sells 2 litres of calci-trim for $4.80 and one litre for $2.40.
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As for Hillary-loving "feminists" claiming they will vote for McCain rather than Obama, such sillyness makes me wonder specifically about the truly extent of mad cow disease in the US and broadly about whether or not there is intelligent life on Earth.
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Michael Bassett has been an arrogant purveyor of one-eyed, self-serving twaddle for many years and wouldn't his new book to be any different from all that went before it. I'm glad Bassett was outed a few years ago for boosting Don Brash in his DomPost column while also being involved behind the scenes in helping Brash get the Nat leadership. At least I didn't have to put up with his propaganda in the DomPost any more after that.
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I've paid well over $4 for two litres of milk very recently. Maybe it as at the corner dairy. Maybe it was at New World in Birkenhead. I don't remember.
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Angus: The Greens have been warning of climate change for over 20 years. You have nothing to be smug about
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I read the interview with Brash and thought:"The poor sod doesn't have a clue!".
Does it provide a valid insight into how policy is formed in the National Party today? The popular leader ambushes his caucus? is this why we se no policy from National? Wo does make policy in that party? Why don't grass roots members apar to have any concern at all about that? Are Tory parties really just the emotional legacy of age of absolute monarchs and the Leader is the Leader?
The interview, against the backdrop of the current policy vacuum surrounding the National Party, raises more questions than it answers.
Not about Brash......but about National and the apparantly large number of people who might vote for it having NO IDEA what it stands for......whether they are party members or not.