Posts by Rich of Observationz
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start them young on a fresh, healthy and ethical diet and they'll thank you one day
Possibly after whinging about hippy parents through childhood, teenagerness and beyond. I had non-hippy but sensible-middle-class-sweet-restricting folks and it took me until my 30s to stop buying a few dollars worth of sweeties with every fillup of petrol or grocery shop.
Also see Modern Parents
Still, I agree with the idea that dairy fat is not an essential staple of life. I have milk in my coffee and I've pretty much given up cereal (I find that if I don't buy cereal my milk consumption drops to the point where a litre barely stays fresh long enough to consume).
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Christiann: Wikipedia.
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FletcherB's prices square with Woolworths Online. Dairies charge huge prices for convenience, and because the cash and carries they get supply from are often more expensive than supermarkets. (the refusal of NZ supermarkets to supply "trade" is in my view an anticompetitive measure).
Saudi Arabia, interestingly, does have petrol at well below world prices. They subsidise it, as do other regional states, in order to stop the population getting any more pissed off with their rulers than they are already.
We could I suppose, tax milk exports and use the money to subsidise domestic milk - which is what forcing Fonterra to reduce domestic milk prices would amount to. Why this would be a good idea in a country with the levels of obesity and type II diabetes that we have escapes me?
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What Rachel said.
That was just what I was gearing up to type, and she's put it much more clearly than I would.
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and I can't spell Auschwitz.
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If his granpappy did liberate Auchwitz, it would raise the question of what he was doing in the Red Army?
It's a bit bad that an ostensibly intelligent American would be so ignorant of history and geography as to not know (i) where Auchwitz is and/or (ii) that the Soviets liberated everything more or less east of the Elbe. But I guess whoever gets elected president, they'll be an American. There are some intelligent Americans around, but they mostly live in Wellington.
(Although Brits perhaps tend the other way in the "knowing about WW2" stakes. The UK school history syllabus has been criticised for consisting of everything there is to be known about the Nazis, and bugger all else).
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Key's going to get rolled as soon as he's elected, isn't he? They'll send him off to be head of the WTO or something and we'll get Bill English. Or Don Brash. Or John Banks.
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she as PM should do something about the culture that allowed two little children to be killed
Want to point to a culture where that doesn't happen?
Austria maybe - nice wholesome yodelling people, only a few of whom lock their kids in cellars and make more kids with them.
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Dayton was deliberately chosen as a place where the various leaders would not wish to linger.
(Yalta, Potsdam and Tehran were all held in places sufficiently close to the USSR for Stalin, who didn't believe in foreign junketing. NZ PM Fraser didn't attend Yalta, preferring to remain in his electorate and address the important issue of the type of paving slabs to be laid on Lambton Quay).
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And was this over a weekend?
if it was the public service got 2 days of work from their staff for free ;)You wouldn't catch me giving up my weekend to drive to Taupo and watch powerpoints. That's a bus that would be getting seriously missed. I'd tell them my granny died and miss out the "in 1984" bit.