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Also, "Why are so Many Christchurch Women Brutally Murdered?". My daughter read it and laughed, she thought it must be a joke.
The moment I spotted that cover, the words "uncovered meat" immediately sprang to mind.
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In any case, the amount of money involved is a secondary issue. The primary issue is about "do as I say, not as I do", after making noises about pledge card overspending.
Still, Sir Roger's "entitlement" is the big Daddy of the lot.
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The flagship University of California system is hundreds of millions of dollars in the red. This is what happens long-term when you expose financial planning to public referenda.
Come to think of it, California itself is in the red. Proposition 13 has a lot to answer for.
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Want a simple yet effective logo for Greater Auckland the way things are going?
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But why stop at singing or cooking or graphic design? Why not let everyone have a crack at being an architect? Or an engineer? Or a neurosurgeon.
Or even a Dirty Harry? Live snuff on demand.
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Has anyone also observed that NZ is already glutted in the commercial radio market? We have more commercial radio stations per capita than Sydney alone, courtesy of ridiculously low FM spectrum prices in the late 1980s.
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One of the things that is currently driving me nuts about the handwringing comparisons to Australia, never mind Finland, is that no one in Opposition seems keen to mention the higher minimum wage, the stronger union movement, the superior conditions for workers, and the generally more regulated environment. GRAAAR.
And of course, the hectares and hectares of desert wasteland that's of little use - except of course, coal exports to China and toxic waste dumps.
What's even more grating is that nations with little or no natural resources have wised up and harnessed their brainpower. Right now in NZ our movers and shakers seem bent on the exact opposite.
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Apparently the proles should be taxed harder via GST, because it's the only way they'll learn not to torpedo our balance of trade via JB Hi-Fi
Thatcher tried to do something not all that different, and look what happened.
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And ironically the Clark Govt was accused of political interference in TVNZ. With respect to Coleman's threats to dumb down RadioNZ - and many of his teabagger colleagues for that matter - anyone notice the resemblance of the following?
“Life in Australia is neither urban nor rural but suburban. If your ambition is to live on Ramsay Street, where nobody has ever been heard to discuss a book or a movie, let alone an international event, then Australia may be the place for you.” - Germaine Greer
"New Zealand is in real danger of becoming a McDonalds nation - nothing more than a bland plastic replica of suburban USA - simply because we can't seem to believe that we are as good as we are, or that our own culture and expertise have the value they do. As long as we remain focused on the trap of being "Little America", we're ignoring our greatest strengths: our individuality, our number-8-wire approach to finding novel solutions to problems, and an inherent humanity that believes that there might be more or better reasons for doing something than just the bucks in the bank." - David Harris, creator of Pegasus Mail