Posts by dc_red
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It's perfectly clear that Ton hates John Key
How exactly does one do an unauthorised interview?
How does one hate John Key? It's like 'hating' something entirely ethereal. A mere phantom on the breeze.
Unlike Bill (bring back the Birch) English, who can be a nasty little ball-breaker when he feels like it (as can most MPs), Key is so entirely bereft of substance I find it hard to muster any emotion about/towards him, other than a vague bemusement.
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This is very late in the piece, but was there anyone else who, when trying to remember a quote which spoke to Bolger's alleged statesmanship, could only recall ... "Bugger the pollsters!"
Anything longer than a sentence he tended to mangle ... an ability he hasn't lost I noticed during the KiwiRail launch last week.
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I talked to someone involved in an electorate campaign for Labour at the beginning of the year -- they mentioned strong signs of "mortgage belt poverty" coming up in polling in places like the North Shore. I guess it makes sense that the most over-extended people will feel the strongest sense of grievance in a credit crunch.
Hmm, the same North Shoreans who make weekly trips to the Westfield Mall at Albany, filling the carpark to capacity with late model BMWs and SUVs, before proceeding inside in an attempt to consume their way into the upper middle class?
And probably using their credit cards to do so?
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hat are they not getting from the current crowd that they believe they'd get from a different government? That would make another interesting poll question.
Yeah, but very few people seem to care about the answer. ;-(
This is all too depressing, I'm off for a drink (and perhaps to plan my emigration, a la the Your View hordes who are often "just about" to jump on that plane to Australia).
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So, the SST supports such "crimes" (or, at least, "infringements" under the relevant Land Transport legislation) of blocking motorway lanes, failing to keep within 30 kph of the posted speed limit when reasonably practicable, repeated sounding of horns for a purpose other than advising other road users of danger, running red lights, and running through pedestrian crossings complete with pedestrians trying to use them.
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Meanwhile, Your Views is its weirdly, sadly compelling self. I suppose it was inevitable that people would start finding links between road user charges and the anti-smacking law ...
Those Your Views chumps are going to be mighty disappointed if, should National be elected, it repeals neither the RUC increases, nor the anti-smacking law (which they all voted for), nor the Civil Unions Act (now entirely normalized).
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To put that extra $500 pa for some trucks in perspective ... over my lunch hour I calculated that my petrol bill has increased by about $2200 pa in four years (based on a 96c/L increase since July 2004).
I can't pass any of that extra cost on to anyone else (not having any customers), and nor is it a tax-deductible business expense. It comes out of my post-tax salary. Oh the horror!
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Perhaps "protests" are what students, leftist radicals, and unwashed hippies engage in? Whereas wealthy corporate interests "parade" in front of the masses?
Fairly adoring masses in this case, sadly.
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there will be small businesses which have dropped the additional annual cost of the RUC in just one morning. No one will be compensating them.
Such as my favourite (and independent) coffee shop, which didn't open this morning.
The all-lanes blockade was also formed on the NW Motorway, just before the Newton offramp. Interestingly, traffic was flying along at around 80kph until that point.
Such obstructions, which surely cannot be legal(?), are in strict contravention of the trucker PR parroted on last night's news to the effect that "truckies will occupy the left lane only to minimize inconvenience and disruption" on the news last night.
Trucks running through reds as I tried to cross with the buzzer on Queen St was another highlight of my morning. Such reckless disregard for pedestrians didn't stop cheers from Rodney Hide, and supportive mutters from Maurice Williamson, I noticed.
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A blogger doing actual research, while lazy media hacks simply report National Party press releases as news? Unprecedented!
Seriously, great post, David.
Although I fear that yet again the damage is done. ""A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on" as Churchill said.