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And where exactly did the "$50bn welfare bill" figure come from, since the media don't seem to be telling us the whole story? Treasury figures? Or just the twisted imagination of a few yes-people?
If it's the latter, then Orwell lives.
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You can also throw in some (unfortunately) successful astroturf campaigns by the likes of the trucking lobby as well.
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And mood swing or not, the party needs to develop a long-term message around unemployment, flush out stories about real people, and depict the current government as complacent. Or, better yet, relaxed.
David Cunliffe could do worse than to borrow the "It's the economy, stupid!" mantra.
@Danyl: I wonder if "nanny state" and "social engineering" are really code-words to farm culture war pigs?
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I'm kinda interested in how many people on this thread started university at age 16. Was/is that common? I can't help thinking of Doogie Howser M.D.
Not to mention he was probably the world's first blogger.
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And of course, there's the popular myth about The Vapours' Turning Japanese...
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CraigR:
Oh, I really really hate being right: Time to impeach Judge Vaughn Walker.
From the web site you linked:
In doing so, he frustrated the express will of seven million Californians who went to the polls to shape their state's public policy on marriage.
Seems to overlap with the whole "States' Rights" thing.
Swap 'marriage' for 'smacking', and it sounds all too familiar.
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Best b'day wishes for your mother, Russel!
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Alexander the Great failed, the British Empire failed, the Soviets failed, and now NATO seems to be failing in Afghanistan. Can civility ever come to Afghanistan? They'll probably be fighting outsiders - and amongst themselves - for years to come.
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Graeme:
So a TV remake of Sleeping Dogs?
I've got it! Sleeping Reservoir Dogs!
Ben W:But it's entertaining to try to adapt models of how it happened elsewhere to how it could happen here.
Seriously though, here are just a few models to follow. Funnily enough, they're all from the 1980s...
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As others have pointed out, the blandness of the This Is Not My Life environment is explicitly intended to be creepy.
And what NZ TV needs next is something that'll make the establishment truly brown its pants. Like a Crash or The Wire with Kiwi accents. Or even, if anyone can grow a pair, V For Vendetta.