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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
@ Christopher. Why do we bag the Herald? Because it is a monopoly news source in NZ's biggest market and because it is so damn sycophantic.
In which case, why isn't the Commerce Commission batting an eyelid?
And it's obvious who really profits from selling what's left of the family silver - MiniPlenty Holdings Inc.
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@Matt P: what chance of a 1981 Part II happening over the wealth gap?
@Ben W: said savings policy still seems to have echoes of the Dancing Cossacks. >:(
I hate to say it again, but David Harris was right - it's the lingering cargo cultism behind current Nouveau Riche thinking that continues to make me, and us, cringe. -
Hard News: Only what we would expect a…, in reply to Sacha,
And selling ice cream to China is the ambitious future of this nation, I tells you.
Either that, or designer razor wires and security walls that blend in with the McMansion hedge.
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Hard News: Only what we would expect a…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
God knows that they'll need the distraction if they keep putting out policies with costings that look like they've been done by Mark Hotchin during a long liquid lunch.
If anyone asks Phil Goff where the money's going to come from, here's a good start.
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Hard News: Only what we would expect a…, in reply to Sacha,
And I have yet to hear any convincing explanation of how cutting government spending reduces non-government debt. Magic beans, perhaps.
Further to that, why do tax cuts for the bottom half cause deficits, but holiday highways and corporate welfare don't?
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Hard News: Only what we would expect a…, in reply to Matthew Poole,
The outraged tone of many of the comments on the article just reinforces my belief that he's on the right track. If it upsets rank-and-file readers of Granny, it's probably a worthwhile policy.
Sounds like the Common Agricultural - oops, Property - Policy cartel is starting to see the barbarians tearing down the McMansion gate.
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Beyond the coffee-specific snarkiness of the article, there's a sense in which it fits into a typical neo-con trope: if you object to globalisation and corporatised homogenisation, then you're an elitist.
It goes to show that peer pressure often persists long after high school graduation, and by the adult stage it's mutated into affluenza - or should that be "rat-racism"?. Thankfully we're immune to it for the most part.
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Hard News: Only what we would expect a…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Has The Herald learned nothing from the grovelling apology the Herald on Sunday had to give Sharon Shipton? (Not least the tacit admission quotes attributed to her were false.)
Precisely. And what's the point of printing apologies and retractions if they're only going to be buried in a sidebar corner?
No matter how much of a dick Martin Devlin is, the Granny once again concocted a storm in a latte cup. And the innocent parties wouldn't have been tarred with the brush, if the Granny hadn't tried to poke its nose where the sun never shines.
And further to the anti-PC laddishness of Game of Two Halves, SportsCafe and the Anna Faris incident, it seems loosely related to English soccer hooliganism. The common thread is a desperate need to compensate for the weakening of their self-proclaimed dominance.
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Regarding the Nathan Field article... yes, sticking it to The Man is a factor, but it's not the main factor. Starbucks might be big in North America, where it basically started from a near-zero base. But it struggled in NZ & Oz because it didn't do its research - it ended up a late entrant to a well-established market (I wouldn't say crowded).
For lack of a better analogy, Starbuck's down-under foray is the Edsel Espresso.
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And to those who are aware of Devlin, isn't he considered one of the "good ole boys" that Paul Henry, Paul Holmes and Tony Veitch also claim membership to?