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duggledog

Yesterday’s post on ‘Why National Super Will Be Unaffordable’ pissed me off. There is and will be ample money for a pension if the bloody Government would only stop flushing it all down the shitter.

– Paris climate scam
– Comfy prisons
– Foreign Aid
– Maoris
– Need I go on?
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July 9, 2017 8:02am
- Happychappy
  
  Well go cuddle up to your Meshia Winston and see if he will help you. Winston First will promise but will he deliver.
  
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  July 9, 2017 8:10am
- EAD_TWO
  
  But Duggledog,
  
  don’t you realise that the fact you pay for all these things through your taxes and “new kiwis” can come here and get the full smorgasbord of benefits including pensions without contributing anything is a sign of your “white privilege”?
  
  If you complain about this Alice through the looking glass bizarro mirror world then you’re a “far right extremist” who’ll probably vote NZF?
  
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  July 9, 2017 8:20am
- MCos
  
  You can add natural disasters to your list if you really want to save some money.
  The cost of the Christchurch earthquakes, for example, was in another order of magnitude to that lightweight lot.
  
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  July 9, 2017 9:06am
- doggone7
  
  You forgot the bit about there being ample money for a pension if the bloody Government would only sell schools and hospitals and contract out most police work.
  
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  July 9, 2017 9:35am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Unaffordable? They forget those of us who are on super or about to get it have already paid for those who received it in the past. I have contributed for 50+ years so the Govt could pay the pension to those who retired.
  Don’t tell me this is unaffordable. Fake news.
  Edit, copied from below. “Turn OFF the Welfare taps”
  
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  July 9, 2017 10:17am
  - Harriet
    
    “….. I have contributed for 50+ years so the Govt could pay the pension to those who retired….”
    
    And that’s why the first option is to put it out 2yrs or so, and not means test it?
    
    I’d guess they will next means test it for those above say $3mil and cancel theirs.
    
    It’s more politicly acceptable than making the masses work longer for the betterment of the few! 😎
    
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    July 9, 2017 11:23am
- KevOB
  
  There is always money for a universal pension as the government holds the chequebook. It’s production which funds them and we need faith in our long term prosperity. I see no sign of that failing. The baby boomers will go and another generation with lesser demands will replace them. Natural increase in GDP should provide.
  
  Kiwi Saver is a peculiarity: a funded scheme and gift to the insurance industry. These funded schemes have been surpassed by universal benefits where the cost of admin is a lot less. Separate investment and planning is not required either giving economic freedom. A problem now is to prevent Kiwi Saver contributions being deducted from eventual NS. Passing out KS to private control has reduced government ability to direct investment and manage foreign exchange requirements. KS creates inequities as it is mainly wage workers who contribute and they get subsidised savings. It may be that KS will have to morph into a peoples bank in time with the subsidies forming the capital.
  
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  July 9, 2017 12:44pm
- BeeSting
  
  Retirement in NZ will be spent protecting your self
  from roaming gangs of what they intend to import.
  
  There will be no Retirement.
  
  The War in the Pacific is being Timed for
  when Demographically white people are older.
  2025-2035 is when the Next Great Pacific War Starts.
  
  There will be no retirement only Global Collapse.
  
  I will have 3 different locations to Retire to.
  
  NZ will be last on my list.
  
  Trust me You and most of Australia
  
  Will be slaughtered or enslaved.
  
  Don’t believe me – study the History of
  Communism for 30 seconds.
  
  It is over Folks and you know it.
  
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  July 9, 2017 2:26pm
Manolo

A bit late, I reckon.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4676640/Europe-underestimating-scale-migrant-crisis.html

The number of migrants crossing into Europe from Africa will be in the millions within five years unless urgent action is taken, a senior EU official has warned.

Antonio Tajani, president of the European Parliament, has said the scale and severity of the migrant crisis is being underestimated and must be tackled urgently.
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July 9, 2017 8:02am
- cmm
  
  Underestimated? No, willfully ignorant.
  
  Turn on the welfare taps and throw the borders open and of course they will come in their millions.
  
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  July 9, 2017 8:23am
EAD_TWO

In another twist to the “Trump vs. CNN wrestling match” meme, the people who run the MSM have gone hysterical that the creator of the meme is a so called “far-right/nazi/anti-semite/(insert word meant to shock here)” etc. due to him once retweeting an image that showed the vast over-representation from one particular ethnic background including CNN’s President, Chief Strategy Officer, Vice President, Executive VPs, Chief Political Anchor, Chief Political Correspondent, Sr. Legal Analyst etc.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/anti-semitic-racist-reddit-user-behind-trump-anti-cnn-tweet/

What I found curious in this hysterical reaction is that these same media organisations day after day, year after year continually spew forth their ~~propaganda~~ views that it is white (read European) males who run the show due to “white privilege” and that white males must be looked over in favour of lesser qualified “minorities” when hiring (some form of “white privilege” that is!).

Why such a double standard?

EDIT: Ann Coulter has noticed the same hypocrisy:

https://youtu.be/CXuwGievRuU
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July 9, 2017 8:12am
- EAD_TWO
  
  If you’re wondering what the “offensive” meme was, here it goes with its food for thought comment at the bottom:
  
  https://m.imgur.com/mdi1NQo
  
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  July 9, 2017 10:00am
Paulus

Have been reading articles recently regarding the huge and exponential increase over the last 20 years of mental patients in New Zealand.
I cannot see why this is so as the demographics have really changed little.
I know it is election years so every organisation is screaming for more money, including the mental health service workers, who do a great job.
The amount of money going into the overall health budget has grown by billions in recent years especially – so can anybody help me understand why particularly mental health has exploded.
Or is more being reported or are there greater vested interests involved.
What I cannot find is any trustable analytical breakdown figures.
Why are we really getting more numerically mentally affected ?
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July 9, 2017 8:14am
- VicParking
  
  Its not that we are getting more “mentally effected” its just that more people are diagnosed as such.
  Its the name of the game “nose in the Trough” ether by doctors or paitents, they all have their hands out and governments are only to pleased to fork out the money.
  
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  July 9, 2017 8:28am
- cmm
  
  Well here’s another one: https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/94247538/manifesto-dangerous-expectations-lead-men-to-suicide
  
  Maybe, just maybe, the relentless abuse of males through their lives – starting in schools and right through life and pushed by MSM is having an effect.
  
  Telling boys, then men, they are evil because of mythical patriarchy, “rape culture”. Telling them they are defective for not being more like girls. It is relentless.
  
  Add to that the increase in single-mother households where many boys never get good male role models.
  
  Then add all the western guilt, climate change (the world is going to fry to a crisp and simultaneously flood and its all your fault for leaving a light on). Then add all the doom and gloom of robots taking your job.
  
  I’m surprised the suicide rate is not much higher than it is.
  
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  July 9, 2017 8:38am
- kowtow
  
  Maybe it’s the crazy world we live in.
  
  “The number of children being referred to gender identity clinics has quadrupled in the past five years, figures show.”
  
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/08/number-children-referred-gender-identity-clinics-has-quadrupled/
  
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  July 9, 2017 8:52am
  - cmm
    
    Much of this is due to the screwed up attention-seeking parents who want something to talk about.
    
    In the old days it was considered perfectly natural for a girl to be a tom boy and then find her femininity later in life.
    
    Same for the “mummy’s boy” that might like baking etc and then bloke up when they hit puberty.
    
    Both my sons grew long hair and one really liked pink (pink clothing, pink bedroom…) and were sometimes confused with girls. They’re both blokes.
    
    Now we see parents insisting their 6 year old is wrongly gendered. Bullshit. Wait until at least 20 to make any such determinations.
    
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    July 9, 2017 9:12am
    - wiseowl
      
      Leighton Smith had an Australian Pediatric Professor on last week to discuss this gender issue.
      He was well worth listening to .
      
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      July 9, 2017 10:16am
  - B.L.Zeebub
    
    Back in the 90s the Parental accessory du jour was the “autistic” child with a special ability, now that autistic applies to any kid with a behavioural issue, a transgender child is what the modern parent wants, cos` Aspergers has lost its gloss also.
    Shit, back when I was a kid all I wanted to identify as was a Fighter pilot, truth be known, I still do… : (
    
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    July 9, 2017 11:13am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Fidget spinners will fix it.
  ffs
  
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  July 9, 2017 10:20am
duggledog

Happy Chappy fanboi

I have said many times here I neither like nor trust Winston. Protest vote. That’s democracy for you. You want to be tribal, you go for it.

Me, I want to send huge spending, huge taxing, Maori elite fawning, immigration swamping, National a message. Are you comfortable with National MPs telling small business owners they must just give up selling tobacco if they don’t want to be robbed? Nice one.
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July 9, 2017 8:16am
- Happychappy
  
  duggledog: Call me what you like if that justifies your rants about all those horrible immigrants you don’t want here, so don’t try and make out your heart bleeds for them because a National MP said if you don’t want to be robbed don’t sell cigarettes.
  
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  July 9, 2017 9:43am
Manolo

The seller of smoke and myth cannot help himself:
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/cnsnewscom-staff/pope-francis-says-america-has-distorted-vision-world

Pope Francis told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica on Thursday that the United States of America—and Russia, China, North Korea and Bashar al Assad’s Syria—have “a distorted vision of the world”–(“una visione distorta del mondo,” as reportetd in Italian by La Repubblica).
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July 9, 2017 8:19am
- cmm
  
  Well he’s right. Americans DO have a distorted vision of the world.
  
  However his view of the world from a little mono-theistic state (surrounded by walls to keep everyone else out), if far more distorted than anyone else.
  
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  July 9, 2017 8:40am
- G152
  
  The pope claims others have a distorted view of the world???
  WTF
  He lives behind walls and guards, appears in armored cars, believes in a Jewish god and the ‘son’ of the same.
  Surrounded by yes men and paedos …
  
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  July 9, 2017 9:11am
  - MH
    
    what’s with the old one, he was hooked on kissing bitumen.Fear of flying?
    
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    July 9, 2017 3:07pm
Manolo

CNN and other liberal hacks will take him to task for this:
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/great-trump-refuses-wear-g20-pin-opts-american-flag/
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July 9, 2017 8:21am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Goodness,
  I thought it was only North Koreans that had to wear lapel pins.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Il-sung_and_Kim_Jong-il_badges
  
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  July 9, 2017 9:09am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Ah,
    The Public Watchdog wears a badge…
    Penny was wearing a “Living Wage” badge. In a world where people protest with hashtags, seeing someone sport an actual badge was delightfully authentic and it matched her iconic beret.
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/94437519/damien-grant-im-in-awe-of-this-recklessly-defiant-nonratepayer
    
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    July 9, 2017 2:12pm
- cmm
  
  And so he should.
  
  His prime purpose is to look after American interests, not sell them out to globalists.
  
  Merkel could learn from him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2HHgY59lGI
  
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  July 9, 2017 9:15am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Trump trolling CNN? Never!
  
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  July 9, 2017 10:30am
duggledog

Paulus

‘huge and exponential increase over the last 20 years of mental patients in New Zealand.’

It’s meth my friend but also cannabis. Weed is really, really strong these days.

Wait till they legalise it. We’ll think these were the good old days.
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July 9, 2017 8:22am
- Nukuleka
  
  It is disappointing that so many KBloggers and Kiwis in general are so inadequate as human beings that they cannot get through the day, it would seem, without resorting to the prop of drugs such as cannabis. Saddoes.
  
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  July 9, 2017 8:42am
  - Gruffydd
    
    Don’t forget to swallow your weekly transmogrified magic wafer to help you cope with reality.
    
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    July 9, 2017 8:46am
    - nasska
      
      And wash it down with blood……sorry…..I meant wine.
      
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      July 9, 2017 9:23am
- Gruffydd
  
  The focus of this year’s report is on the transformational journey that mental health care in New Zealand is undergoing. In 2015 a record number of people accessed specialist mental health and addiction services. This increase is consistent with international trends, and has occurred in the context of population growth, improved non-governmental organisation reporting, growing social awareness and increasingly open discussion of mental health issues.
  
  http://www.health.govt.nz/publication/office-director-mental-health-annual-report-2015
  
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  July 9, 2017 8:43am
  - cmm
    
    Mental health not being the taboo it used to be. Heck it’s almost getting to be trendy.
    
    I grew up with my mother spending 50% of her time in a mental hospital (and most of the rest of the time away with the fairies). Nobody talked about it. Ever.
    
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    July 9, 2017 9:20am
    - Monique Watson
      
      I don’t mean to be trite. But I will prescribe a bottle of gin. It’s not the drinking that does the damage. It’s giving up the drinking.
      
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      July 9, 2017 9:32am
      - cmm
        
        Monique, thank you for caring about my wellbeing (or were you prescribing the gin for my mother?).
        
        I thankfully found someone who encouraged talking about this who helped me get over the weirdness of it all. I married her. That was 30 years ago and she’s still my rock.
        
        If the gin was for my mother… booze + drugs for mental issues tend not to mix that well.
        
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        July 9, 2017 9:50am
- cmm
  
  It’s the rise in single-mother households.
  
  Nothing, but nothing, is a better predictor of poor life outcomes than single mother households.
  
  http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8926685/Nearly-half-of-babies-born-outside-wedlock
  
  For those that don’t understand statistics: Yes, of course you can find examples of kids from single mother households doing well and kids from “normal” households doing poorly, but we’re talking about averages and populations here.
  
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  July 9, 2017 8:48am
  - Gabby
    
    It’s back to useless gutless males then isn’t it cmmie bokkie. If they stood by the product of their fornication and kept their fists in their pockets or kept it in their pants in the first place there would be fewer single mums.
    
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    July 9, 2017 9:44am
    - cmm
      
      Well yes, the useless males are part of it.
      
      However it does take two to tango. Girls can keep their pants on too. The girls should be a bit more choosy about who they have babies with. ie. choose based on who’s going to be a good provider/father than who’s just a good root.
      
      The welfare state stuffs it all up. The girls can have their fun with the biker boy knowing the taxpayer will bail them out if it turns to shit.
      
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      July 9, 2017 11:45am
DifferentPerspective

Eating humble pie

So odd! After the biggest rugby game since the RWC (maybe even bigger) and ….. silence on GD about last night’s game?

Maybe us Kiwis don’t love sport so much, maybe we only love winning?

Still, I’m here to eat my full helping of humble pie after suggesting yesterday that the ABs were sure-fire 20+ point winners. I was wronger than a wrong thing, wronger that CNN were about Hillary’s victory and wronger than Helen Clark’s airbrushed election hoarding picture all those years ago. Wronger than John Key’s flag vanity project. Wronger than Trump’s hairdo. Just plain wrong.

Still, it wasn’t boring – that’s for sure.
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July 9, 2017 8:29am
- Manolo
  
  Excellent and tense series.
  I reckon Barrett cost the ABs the series due to this inconsistency with the boot.
  
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  July 9, 2017 8:33am
  - MCos
    
    Goal kicking doesn’t lose games, it wins them
    Poor handling killed NZ last night . . .
    
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    July 9, 2017 9:16am
  - Southern Raider
    
    In the last two minutes they had at least two drop goal opportunities yet no one stepped up to take them
    
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    July 9, 2017 9:36am
    - howitis
      
      Cue 2007 RWC vs France ..again.
      
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      July 9, 2017 12:04pm
  - pdm
    
    Yep Manolo I am a strong advocate of the Murray Deaker selection doctrine – PICK YOUR GOALKICKER FIRST!!!
    
    So if Jordie isn’t going to be the goalkicker then Lima Sopoaga starts.
    
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    July 9, 2017 10:16am
  - lilman
    
    Here they come all the people with an axe to grind.
    Barrett missed kicks,its his job to land them,don’t mention the certain try he save with an early intercept.
    Defence was strong and he ran well.
    Maybe Reads early second half penalty was the cause.
    Maybe the drop by Servia in the early stages contributed.
    Shouldn’t have got that scrum penalty to put us in front.
    
    Lions simply played well,to come over here play the the best regional teams and the draw a home series against the ABs who are two times world champs is a very good effort.
    
    I enjoyed it all and can live with the result.
    
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    July 9, 2017 11:02am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  So after the Americas Cup all we needed was a whitewash against the Lions to guarantee an easy National win.
  Now, it’s looking like a hung Parliament.
  
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  July 9, 2017 9:14am
  - Tauhei Notts
    
    Interesting.
    I think that Hewson’s last minute penalty against the Springboks at Eden Park in 1981 clinched the election for National, later that year.
    
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    July 9, 2017 8:02pm
- Nostalgia-NZ
  
  The ABs showed why they are World Champs. The Lions were happy with a draw according to Gatland. From the position they were in when awarded the penalty that drew the series the All Blacks would have attacked the line to put themselves ahead had they been trailing on the score board. They also attacked at the death where the impression was left the Lions would have kicked to touch. Have to mention the Lions lock Itoge, probably the best player on the night and most certainly world class – French referee not at all.
  
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  July 9, 2017 9:41am
Happychappy

Paul’s: In 1950’s-70’s not many family’s had mother and father out working and children even though they did no have the equipment of today’s youth had parents that helped them study and were more hands on than the parent of today. Now days parents give and keep on giving to children’s demands because they like to have a social life also so when they come of age some can’t handle the expectations that some parents need them to meet and end up not being able to handle their failure.
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July 9, 2017 8:30am
VicParking

Two games, two last minute decisions that have gone against the AB’s. Two Ref’s who were out of their depth.
Mind you the way the AB’s played last nite, mistake after mistake after mistake………
Lets look ahead, at least we will be able to get back to playing real rugby again not that boring crap the northern hemisphere play.
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July 9, 2017 8:34am
- RF
  
  I blame SBW and Hansen for the mess last night.
  
  SBW was playing for the wrong code again and got confused last week. By having him red carded the ABs suddenly had to change their game plan at short notice.
  
  Hansen has put all his eggs in the one basket and went with SBW ahead of others who were loyal and more deserving.
  
  As payment SBW screwed concessions out of the ABs and has had a free ride. I believe handing out his medals to kids was just a PR exercise so we can sing his praises.
  
  This has bitten Hansen in his proverbial arse.
  
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  July 9, 2017 9:17am
  - doggone7
    
    Some get bitten on the arse – others talk out of it.
    
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    July 9, 2017 9:36am
  - MCos
    
    So how come the Lions couldn’t win when SBW was on the paddock & the ABs couldn’t win when he wasn’t?
    
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    July 9, 2017 9:44am
    - Colville
      
      Yip.
      The ABs really missed SBW last night.
      Just needed a bit of maturity in midfield to pull some of the flashy stuff together.
      Why on earth Hansen had 3 players with <5 caps in the backline for a massive pressure test I have no idea.
      
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      July 9, 2017 11:43am
      - Keeping Stock
        
        You think? J Barrett and Laumape were outstanding last night. The Lions certainly never got through the area Laumape was defending, and his offload to Leinart-Brown to see Barrett score was as good as anything SBW could do.
        
        But my player of the series for the All Blacks was Codie Taylor. There was huge pressure on him to step and fill Dane Coles’ shoes, which he did, in spades. This series was Taylor’s coming of age. And the sin-binning apart, Jerome Kaino was a beast last night, and was probably not the player the AB’s should have subbed off last week after Williams’ red card.
        
        It’s sad that the match ended in such a shambles. Monsieur Poite lost control of the game in the last 10-15 minutes, was influenced far too much by the players of both sides, and made one critical error. World Rugby needs to accept some blame for the refereeing appointments. Peyper was adequate in the first test, but both Garces and Poite were all over the place, and neither team will have been satisfied with their respective displays. Angus Gardiner from Australia should have had at least one of the tests.
        
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        July 9, 2017 1:45pm
      - Don the Kiwi
        
        SBW is a good athlete, and has some great skills. however he is over-rated as an All Black inside back, and unsuited to Test Rugby.
        His real skill set is much better demonstrated in Rugby League, where he should stay.
        
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        July 9, 2017 1:47pm
      - Don the Kiwi
        
        Totally agree with KS also.
        
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        July 9, 2017 1:49pm
  - cmm
    
    Blaming is a waste of time.
    
    My son was lucky enough to have an Olympic level hockey coach as his coach for a couple of years.
    
    He always told players that there is always stuff outside your control (the other team, refs, the weather,…) and there is stuff inside your control (you). Focus on the stuff you can control and don’t get riled up about the stuff you can’t control.
    
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    July 9, 2017 11:51am
- calendar girl
  
  I’m still waiting for a bit of humility and a formal apology from “The New Zealand Herald” to Warren Gatland for its disgraceful clown ‘cartoon’.
  
  Born, bred and a resident in this country, I’ve rarely been so embarrassed by such crass rudeness towards a major visiting sporting body. Childish, vindictive, unsportsmanlike behaviour from the “Herald”.
  
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  July 9, 2017 9:53am
  - Kimbo
    
    The Herald tried to cover their tracks with a “go the high road/Gatland and Lions earn New Zealand’s respect” editorial earlier in the week:
    
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=11885406
    
    …but as the NZ Herald has long since forfeited any respect by turning into the worst of sleazy tabloids, I don’t think most rugby fans, be they Kiwis or Lions, much less Gatland and his team gave a crap what the Herald opined about them.
    
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    July 9, 2017 10:06am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Herald cartoonist Rod Emmerson is actually a transplanted Australian.
    
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    July 9, 2017 1:46pm
    - Gabby
      
      Emmers will be clowning himself any day now.
      
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      July 9, 2017 2:45pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Its very simple. Don’t read the crap. I have not read it for years, and will never buy it, not even to start fires with. I have heard about the crap about the Lions in that piece of shit publication, most people should boycott it and the advertisers as well ( as far as is practical). I have no clue who lowers themselves to advertise in that rag.
    
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    July 9, 2017 4:20pm
VicParking

I know I will be flooded with down ticks for this but I’m getting sick of all these challenges and haka’s.
From people arriving at the airport with some obscure cup to mum winning the “Best cat at show” we seem to have to suffer with some form of “traditional” event consisting of half naked men poking out their tongues and screaming at the top of their voices.
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July 9, 2017 8:44am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  And who pays for the crap?
  
  I am sure it is me because maori turning up and doing something ‘cutural’ for nothing is just not believable.
  
  Who pays for the stoneagers performances we see on the ‘news’ when the PM is in London or Gallipoli for instance?
  
  Interested cultural going half way around the world on their own dime my arse – Jim Royale
  
  Nothing promotes a whiplash like reaction with the remote than the words ‘impromptu haka’
  
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  July 9, 2017 9:00am
- RF
  
  Have a look at their tongues. White & furry. The sign of a poor diet and possible gut trouble.
  
  Why do they persist in subjecting visitors to this cringeworthy primitive display.
  
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  July 9, 2017 9:03am
- Viking2
  
  And that goes for all the bullshit ceremonies that various MP’s like Bridges and Adams turn up to. got to turn a sod on a minor housing development, need to have my photo taken on a a bit of road that others started and were responsible for.
  
  Ludicrous to see Adams in her tight skirt climbing out of a big digger or bridges and Her fondling a shovel at some bit of dirt.
  
  then of course the local Ethnics needing to have a karakia at the diverting of a minor stream after road works. I kid you not.
  
  The Kaitemako culvert is also completed and NZTA is liaising with hapu to arrange karakia on site before the stream is rediverted.
  
  “We’re looking to do karakia this Friday morning then the stream diversion take place next week,” says John.”
  
  http://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/157700-culvert-completed-stream-rediverted.html
  
  Pathetic.
  
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  July 9, 2017 12:30pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  But if that is their employment, would you deny them?
  
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  July 9, 2017 2:12pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  me too. Stupid stone age crap.
  
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  July 9, 2017 4:28pm
rightoverlabour

I trust Putin over Hollywood and CNN.

http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/07/08/putin-g-20-tv-trump-different-real-trump
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July 9, 2017 8:48am
- VicParking
  
  CNN at it again
  http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2017/07/08/cnns-anonymous-source-falsely-claimed-trump-not-press-putin-election-interference/
  
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  July 9, 2017 9:09am
Kimbo

As I posted on General Debate late last night, great game and a great result. Morally it should not have been a penalty (it is practically impossible for a player in a situation like that to avoid grasping at the ball, just as it is almost impossible for a player like Faumuina to pull out of a tackle in the situation that resulted in the winning penalty last weekend). You play and follow rugby long enough you know sometimes the calls go your way, sometimes they don’t. And on balance the Lions didn’t deserve to lose the series. Not like that, anyway. And it’s there in the record books forever, and makes them on the same level as the great 1955 Lions that drew the series in South Africa – Cliff Morgan, Jeff Butterfield, Tony O’Reilly, Phil Davies, Dickie Jeeps, Rhys Wiliams, Bryn Meredith. Now Warbuton especially belongs in that pantheon Really great captain and a class act, especially after missing out on selection in the first test.
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July 9, 2017 8:49am
- Kimbo
  
  …and speaking of the 1955 Lions, they played a test match that was fit to rank with last night’s effort and was even more dramatic. The Springboks were down and out with 20 minutes to go, and then scored two tries in the last minutes to make the 22-23 with an attempted South African winning conversion
  
  …, which gave rise to the one of the most dramatic sports photos ever. As Keith Quinn says, “This picture tells an awful lot…”
  
  http://keithquinnrugby.com/favourite-photos/this-picture-says-an-awful-lot-about-the-beautiful-but-sometimes-sad-game-of-rugby/
  
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  July 9, 2017 8:51am
  - dad4justice
    
    I think Gatland nails it with the last laugh:
    http://www.msn.com/en-nz/sport/rugby-union/lions-coach-gatland-has-the-last-laugh/ar-BBE0vNy?li=BBqdg4K&ocid=UP97DHP
    
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    July 9, 2017 9:12am
    - Kimbo
      
      Fair call. No one is moaning about “Warrenball” now! Is a real testament to his coaching ability to do what he has in the last 6 weeks. The Lions is the toughest assignment in rugby – once every four years you start from scratch picking players and forming a team from players who are usually the most implacable of international rivals. And even though they have the best fans in all of rugbydom, all of your games are away from home.
      
      Speaking of which, maybe there was a series winner – the Lions fans. Great bunch of people. Kicked Kiwi rugby fans’ arse, and win, lose, or draw, they were always going to enjoy their time here. They were great i 32005 following a poor team. Now they got their reward.
      
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      July 9, 2017 9:23am
  - Biscuit
    
    Wow, Kimbo, thanks for that link.
    
    An awful lot is indeed told by that pic!
    
    I am about to kick The Boss out of the house for the day (SHE would say “I am going to a Baby Shower. Do the dishes. And straighten that mat up, for crying out loud”) so will go right through that site in peace.
    
    Already I have chuckled at one of the campest haka pics ever (which looks more like the Can Can, heh heh).
    
    And there’s a pic of the Springboks head won by Wellington in 1965 with the beastie in question looking like it hasn’t aged a day in the intervening 52 years.
    
    Again, thanks!
    
    Right, off to do some dishes and to straighten a mat.
    
    Henpecked?
    Moi?
    
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    July 9, 2017 10:20am
    - pdm
      
      Feed the bloody cat or it will get you!!!
      
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      July 9, 2017 10:22am
- virtualmark
  
  Kimbo,
  
  Agree that Ken Owen’s being offside was something of a bullshit penalty. But it was less of a bullshit penalty than Faumuina’s in the second test, and that one stood.
  
  Likewise, I agree that Kaino was properly yellow-carded last night for collecting Wyn Jones on the head. But I can’t figure how that was any different from Sean O’Brien clouting Naholo on the head in the second test, with Naholo clearly dazed if not briefly unconscious.
  
  The ABs just didn’t get the rub of the refereeing decisions in this series. Recognise that that is rugby, so not complaining about it too loudly. But also recognising it is a thing.
  
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  July 9, 2017 9:20am
  - Kimbo
    
    I don’t think that the O’Brien swinging arm last week was clear and obvious to the ref and TMO. It was obscured and it was only when you looked closely for it, without the pressure of time to get on with the game, that you saw it – and like Wynn Jones last night, Naholo ducked into it. So it was unlike the Kaino tackle, which was in open play.
    
    Incidentally, I note that Longknives last night, in the heat of the moment and trying to avoid ponying up with substantive evidence that what Umaga and Mealamu did was intentional in 2005, tried to make a “character reference” connection between Kaino and the O’Driscoll incident in 2005. Desperate!
    
    He omitted mention of the O’Brien swinging arm – which, like Kaino last night was a mistimed and reckless thing (Wynn Jones did slightly duck, but Kaino was still responsible and you knew it was at least a yellow card straight away).
    
    But I think I know how it works with Longknives now, when it comes to applying Hanlon’s Razor (“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”) to the matter of unintentionally reckless vs intentionally dirty play-
    
    Overseas rugby player – is unintentional
    
    Brown New Zealand player – dirty!
    
    Brown Muslim New Zealand player – even dirtier!!
    
    New Zealand team coached by Graham Henry? – Dirtiest!
    
    European team coached by Graham Henry? – Who knows, and I’m past caring what Longknives has to say 😉
    
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    July 9, 2017 9:35am
    - Nookin
      
      Kimbo, I have long since given up on the embittered attacks by BB an Longknives on the All Blacks. It is irrational and on a continuum somewhere between twisted and fact free. I guess we have to accept that it is akin to D4J’s adulation of the Family Court.
      There were two issues involved in that incident last night. First –was Read’s challenge in the air in order, second, was it a penalty or scrum to the All Blacks. The former was a forgone conclusion. He went for the ball. Full stop. He turned to avoid a head to head collision went he realised that he would not get to the ball.
      A competent ref, with his wits about him, would have recognised the issues and at the same time, noticed that the NZ 12 had broken two tackles and was on his way to the line. A competent ref with his wits about him would have played the advantage rule.
      Maybe the try would not have been scored. Maybe the last tackle was half-hearted because the whistle had gone. The fact is, in this standard of rugby, the players deserve better.
      
      It did not matter if it was a scrum or a penalty. You do not blow the whistle the instant of occurrence. That simply suggests that you had no idea what happened and wanted time to think without the complication of on-going play.
      
      A good moral result? How do you measure. These lions were always going to be good. Predictions of a whitewash of the worst lions team to leave UK were nonsense drivellings of idiots who do not know rugby and wanted their names in by-lines –the sorts of idiots who think it is funny/clever to adorn the opposing coach with a ruffle and red nose. As you say, they were the gutsiest players to come here in a long long time. They also showed flashes of brilliance.
      
      At the end of the day, the series was there for the taking by the All Blacks but they were just not up to it. Silly mistakes (dropped passes by Savea and Barrett when the line was open) and inexperience (Laumape when he did not look for support earlier and ended up rushing the pass) cost.
      
      The result was a good reflection of where the All Blacks are at present. We saw a lot of potential and some brilliance (coincidence maybe that the one rule Poite really did understand was the off-side rule?). They are still re-building and establishing depth. I think Hansen’s priorities should be to look for somebody to step into Kaino’s shoes. Kaino still more than justifies his place in the team but we need a hard man to replace him. We also need to look for a competent backup number eight. Read played well but has a history of concussion problems and is of an age when he will start becoming injured more frequently.
      We are blessed in the backs. We need a backup for Ben Smith (fearfully, sooner rather than later) and we need one more wing with real gas. Hansen still seems undecided whether Naholo has a place or not. I think he should tell Crotty, Liennart-Brown, Laumape that they are there for the long haul. I like the look of Aso and Goodhue, also. Cruden has gone. It is either Sopounga or Mo unga. I am inclined to the latter.
      First, tho, I would tell Perenara that if he ever engages in histrionics trying to milk a penalty while the opposition is gleefully knicking the ball from under his nose and fleeing to the other end with it, he will have his testicles roasted over a bunsen burner.
      
      FWIT, IMHO and all that shit.
      
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      July 9, 2017 10:59am
      - Kimbo
        
        There were two issues involved in that incident last night. First –was Read’s challenge in the air in order, second, was it a penalty or scrum to the All Blacks. The former was a forgone conclusion. He went for the ball. Full stop.
        
        No. Not necessarily so. Again, you are arguing absence of intent means that no penalty should be incurred. Not so. Read, as Gatland argued, had unintentionally or not, invaded the space of the Lions player in the air. Also, the Lions player was off his feet, so contact should not have been made. nd it was that contact which dislodged the ball and drew the offside infringement.
        
        So that makes the rest of what you suggest a non sequitur. Mind you, as the ref didn’t penalise Read, I’m now in a place where the ref maybe got two calls wrong 😉
        
        And yeah, I can live with that. Is a just outcome.
        
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        July 9, 2017 11:05am
      - Kimbo
        
        A competent ref, with his wits about him, would have recognised the issues and at the same time, noticed that the NZ 12 had broken two tackles and was on his way to the line. A competent ref with his wits about him would have played the advantage rule.
        
        But by that measure a ref would never make a mistake. As you mentioned them, including our inability to take our chances, is Savea not also incompetent because he can’t catch a ball, or Beauden Barrett because he missed the second conversion, or Perenara for neglecting the ball at his feet?
        
        The ref’s initial reaction was instinctive – it’s a penalty, so he whistled accordingly. Then his second reaction was fully human too He second-guessed himself taking into account the enormity of the decision (as happened with Wayne Barnes in 2007, and Bryce Lawrence in the Wallabies vs South Africa 1/4 final in 2011, and Craig Joubert in the final that year)
        
        …and rationalised in his mind why a penalty should not be given.
        
        Well done by Warburton, btw, who has come out saying, after Scotland lost that 1/4 final in 2015, he thought about what he would do as a captain in such a situation – ask the ref politely yet firmly to check it and plant the seed of “accidental offside” in his mind. Brilliant clever captaincy, including the ability to think and anticipate in advance! You can argue it is a shame that “massaging” a ref’s thinking is so much a part of the game, but to me, a guy like Warburton does not deserve to lose a series, not on a shit rule like that.
        
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        July 9, 2017 11:13am
      - Nostalgia-NZ
        
        Glad to see you fired up Nookin. I’m cool and calm with it all, the game and series was dramatic – the AB’s never quite fired and I thought it would have been last night that they did. Need to give credit to the Lions for that, they injected a certain amount of uncertainty that flared time and again. The AB’s front row showed itself as the best in the world, the team was smart enough to get the ball into the line out quickly thus turning that part of the game around. The 20 year old Auckland winger has got the goods for the future and the Highlander’s and Hurricanes have each produced a potential no 6 of the Kaino mold. McKenzie remains on the list at fullback and has been possibly the best open running back in the super series. I agree about Aso. One extra game may have made the difference with Julian Savea he was hungry last night but the fine touch just escaped him and many others. As for Perenara that’s his game. Must mention the players who played their last game for the ABs last night, world cup winners all.
        
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        July 9, 2017 11:39am
    - Dave_1924
      
      “It was obscured and it was only when you looked closely for it, without the pressure of time to get on with the game, that you saw it – and like Wynn Jones last night, Naholo ducked into it.”
      
      Kimbo – that is just bullshit. Sorry but bullshit.
      
      O’Brien came in second or third man in with intent to dislodge the ball – hence the swinging arm. It was reckless and collected Naholo in the head. A clear foul on replay, just as Kaino’s was last night.
      
      O’Brien got away with it in game – that’s life and the rub of the green. But how it was judged in the citing tribunal as not worthy of a suspension is beyond me. Doesn’t have to be deliberate to cop a sanction…. player safety is paramount and O’Brien injured an opponent by hitting the head with a swinging arm…
      
      Naholo didn’t duck into it – he was turning in a gang tackle to present the ball and was being driven to the ground by the first in tacklers when O’Brien arrived and swung his arm in aiming to dislodge the ball….. but hit Naholo in the swede instead…
      
      Seriously Naholo ducked into it – you’re having a laugh son…
      
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      July 9, 2017 11:01am
      - Kimbo
        
        To me Naholo’s head is descending as he takes his body slowly to the ground, to avoid being held up, but slowly enough so his support has a chance to pack over him and stop the Lions snaffling and jackling for the ball.
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_EqU1qxf_Q
        
        So I don’t think the ref and TMO can be blamed for not seeing it at first or even second look.
        
        However, I do agree that the subsequent judiciary got it wrong, as they had no such excuse. I think O’Brien was swinging his arm to try and get it under Naholo so they had a chance at holding him up.
        
        But, yes, you are right, as with Kaino last night, intent is irrelevant. Mind you, do you suspend a guy for what would have been yellow card offense on the field? 10 minutes off the field vs 80 minutes in the next game? Seems to be addressing one injustice with an even greater one.
        
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        July 9, 2017 11:22am
      - Dave_1924
        
        To Kimbo – as I can’t reply to your comment. Yes you suspend him – doesn’t matter it was missed or might have been a yellow on the field at the time. O’Brien placed another player in danger of serious harm – and he should have been suspended.
        
        IF that had been the other way round with an AB dealing it out and a Lion on the receiving end – do you think a suspension would have been levied? I think it would have been almost certainly levied on the All Black…
        
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        July 9, 2017 2:38pm
      - Kimbo
        
        @ Dave_1924
        
        Like, say, Sam Cane in Dublin last year?
        
        http://www.rugbydump.com/2016/11/5465/sam-cane-cleared-while-malakai-fekitoa-receives-one-week-ban
        
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        July 9, 2017 2:51pm
    - Longknives
      
      How many Wine Coolers did you have last night Kimbo?
      I never mentioned Kaino once….
      
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      July 9, 2017 1:03pm
      - Kimbo
        
        No, you didn’t “mention” Kaino by name. So this post of yours last night (with my emphasis), at about the same time Kaino was sin-binned:
        
        Ha Ha- Is Character Evidence ‘admissable’ Kimbo?
        Because your beloved Defendants aren’t quite the ‘Angels’ you are presenting to the Court now are they??
        
        July 8, 2017 8:30pm
        
        http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2017/07/general_debate_8_july_2017.html
        
        …wasn’t a reference to Kaino? Not when you had posted earlier in the day:
        
        …You are living in Disneyland if you think such a thing could never happen- Over the years I’ve seen All Blacks do it to opponents…
        
        July 8, 2017 3:17pm
        
        But ok, if you insist it had nothing to do with Kaino, and, on the basis of Hanlon’s Razor I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt that you are an honourable man (a charity you don’t extend to Mealamu and Umaga, btw, despite repeated appeals for evidence to the contrary),
        
        …and apologise and withdraw as I’ve put two and two together and got five
        
        Well?
        
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        July 9, 2017 1:29pm
      - Kimbo
        
        @ Longknives
        
        https://i.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/94483436/playbyplay-all-blacks-v-british-and-irish-lions–third-test
        
        Hmm. Kick off at 7:35, so the half finishes at 8:15 at the earliest (but likely later with stoppage time). Ten minute break for halftime (8:25), and then Kaino is sent off ten minutes into the second half (8:35 at the earliest – 5 minutes after your post).
        
        Sir, I humbly apologise and withdraw.
        
        However, I note you almost certainly posted it after play had commenced in the second half…at about the same time Read was penalised for jersey pulling.
        
        So was it Read you were referring to (in which case I think the gist and essence of my original assertion stands – you are making a connection between an incident in 2005 and alleged All Black targeting of opponents now)
        
        …or you were just gripped by a spontaneous desire to post something at me during the game?! Getting bloody close to stalker status, LK! 😉
        
        Well? 😉 Put it this way, buddy, IMHO my evidence is more compelling than yours that Henry sent Mealamu and Umaga out with a plan to target and injure O’Driscoll.
        
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        July 9, 2017 1:43pm
      - Longknives
        
        Continuity error Kimbo- I was still talking about Umaga and Mealamu and the BOD incident.
        
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        July 9, 2017 2:02pm
      - Kimbo
        
        @ Longknives
        
        Hmm. OK. Even though I suggest, as with Mealamu and Umaga, the circumstantial evidence and balance of probabilities may say otherwise than your version of events, nonetheless I withdraw and apologise…again.
        
        But I am right that you posted while the test was on?! Buddy, that’s just a bit too…clingy and needy for me so I think we have to start setting some boundaries. 🙂 Hell, I don’t let my wife interrupt me when the rugby is on, so no way I’m gonna tolerate it from you! 😉
        
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        July 9, 2017 2:06pm
  - Happychappy
    
    A poor tradesman can’t blame his tools, this is no different if you drop the ball several times when you should have scored is not the referees fault. ABs had their chances and blew it.
    
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    July 9, 2017 10:02am
- wiseowl
  
  I called the ref and asked him to change the ruling because I had $2 on a draw @ $21 ,so didn’t want the AB’s to have a kick at goal.
  Nail biting finish.
  
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  July 9, 2017 10:04am
VicParking

Climate science is not a science. It is a criminal venture intended to extort money from the public. Whatever they are doing, has nothing to do with science
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/07/delingpole-record-breaking-cold-in-greenland-alarmists-look-an-arctic-squirrel/
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July 9, 2017 9:05am
- Gruffydd
  
  Here is a nice little picture for you.
  https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/www.moyhu.org/2017/07/map.png
  The temperatures of the world for June 2017.
  The red is hot the blue is cold .
  
  Look squirrel indeed.
  <bGlobal Warming.
  The weather in Greenland…..
  
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  July 9, 2017 9:35am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Bombshell study: Temperature Adjustments Account For ‘Nearly All Of The Warming’ In Government Climate Data
    
    A new study found adjustments made to global surface temperature readings by scientists in recent years “are totally inconsistent with published and credible U.S. and other temperature data.”
    
    “Thus, it is impossible to conclude from the three published GAST data sets that recent years have been the warmest ever – despite current claims of record setting warming,” according to a study published June 27 by two scientists and a veteran statistician. The peer-reviewed study tried to validate current surface temperature datasets managed by NASA, NOAA and the UK’s Met Office, all of which make adjustments to raw thermometer readings.
    :::
    Their study found measurements “nearly always exhibited a steeper warming linear trend over its entire history,” which was “nearly always accomplished by systematically removing the previously existing cyclical temperature pattern.”
    
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    July 9, 2017 2:13pm
    - VicParking
      
      Agreed and if you look at Gruffydd’s map it has been adjusted…..
      
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      July 9, 2017 4:54pm
    - Gruffydd
      
      Really funny in a look at the halfwit sort of way
      raw vrs adjusted for global temperatures
      http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-opy7LoBO__w/VNoo9u5ynhI/AAAAAAAAAg4/_DCE5Rzm9Fw/s700/land%2Bocean%2Braw%2Badj.png
      Opps
      I tried to find your study so I could read it.
      It was published in the daily caller opinion page
      Not even my friend .
      
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      July 9, 2017 5:53pm
    - rightoverlabour
      
      That article is very good and has some interesting links in the comments below it. I always suspected urban temps to be too high, and this paper sheds some light on it.
      
      http://oprj.net/oprj-archive/climate-science/31/oprj-article-climate-science-31.pdf
      
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      July 9, 2017 8:59pm
Monique Watson

Putin can’t be trusted. He talks a good game but if Trump gives an inch, Putin will annex parts of Lithuania and Poland by Monday.
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July 9, 2017 9:22am
- krazykiwi
  
  I was in the Baltics recently, and there’s a palpable fear from locals that Putin is planning such an annexation.
  
  Between 1939 and 1953, one third of ethnic Lithuanians were herded in to cattle cars and dispatched mostly to Siberia and, just as in Crimea, the population void was filled by ethic Russians.
  
  The newly imported Russians were given privileges and high-ranking jobs by way thanks from a grateful Soviet empire, and this has breed enduring enmity between the locals and the ethnic Russians.
  
  Putin has demonstrated he’ll use this enmity to further is expansionist plans.
  
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  July 9, 2017 2:31pm
  - Kimbo
    
    But as per sometime Kiwiblogger, Andrei’s ~~paranoia~~ assessment of Russia’s neighbours
    
    Finland is dangerous
    Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are dangerous
    Poland is dangerous
    Ukraine is dangerous
    Serbia is ~~dangerous~~ friendly
    Turkey is dangerous
    Iran is dangerous
    Afghanistan is dangerous
    China is dangerous
    
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    July 9, 2017 2:36pm
Monique Watson

Stuff has taken over from the Horrid for giving up the fluff stories:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/love-sex/94476812/dear-mrs-salisbury-im-38-and-ive-never-had-an-orgasm

What are hands for?
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July 9, 2017 9:37am
- nasska
  
  If only she’d lie back & think of nasska.
  
  That would do it! 🙂
  
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  July 9, 2017 9:43am
  - RalphT
    
    Or put her off sex for life!?
    
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    July 9, 2017 10:01am
    - Biscuit
      
      RalphT, if you want THE perfect sex-putter-offer, just think of Andy, Metty and Winston in the marital bed should their troika win September’s election.
      
      Imagine all the ‘It’s my turn to be on top;!’ bleatings…
      
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      July 9, 2017 10:23am
      - RalphT
        
        You win; I’m off to join a monastery.
        
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        July 9, 2017 11:52am
  - stigie
    
    Just Eketahuna would do it..?
    
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    July 9, 2017 10:26am
  - Gabby
    
    She’d certainly stop worrying about orgasms.
    
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    July 9, 2017 10:54am
- Rachael Membery
  
  lol What are men for? Rhetorical ;). Certainly can’t be relied on for that.
  
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  July 9, 2017 10:45am
- jcuk
  
  As one book I read had it …. you meet a better class of man doing it ….. likewise for men too
  
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  July 9, 2017 10:55am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  She needs to hunt down Johnboy
  
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  July 9, 2017 2:59pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  Own fault for faking it, and being a giver of pleasure not a taker.
  
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  July 9, 2017 4:29pm
Maggy Wassilieff

No gluten-free wafers for Holy Communion.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40545023
Transubstantiation requires protein.
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July 9, 2017 9:56am
- SGA
  
  Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Transubstantiation requires protein.
  
  Which raises an interesting question – can one be both a devout Catholic and a vegetarian?
  
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  July 9, 2017 10:16am
  - Kimbo
    
    Don’t vegetarians get their protein from non-meat sources? Like nuts? You have to have protein don’t you?
    
    At least that seems less obscurantist than gluten free wafers. Don’t know why we traditional Protestants wasted so much time trying to debunk transubstantiation. Just let the Pope talk about it and the inherent silliness is enough to dissuade anyone but the most committed religious zealot.
    
    Mind you, I do believe a dead man came back to life, so stones and glass houses come to mind 😉
    
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    July 9, 2017 10:19am
    - SGA
      
      What as I was meaning – ” the change of substance by which the bread and wine offered in the sacrifice of the sacrament of the Eucharist during the Mass, become, in reality, the body and blood of Jesus Christ.“
      
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      July 9, 2017 10:23am
      - Kimbo
        
        Aaaaaaah! Got it! Your wit is too sharp, and your humour too pretty for a dullard like me. 😉
        
        Well, the first Christians were accused by their critics of being “cannibals”. But I seem to recall trying to wrap my head around Aristotle (the Greek philosopher, not Jacqueline Bouvier’s second husband) and Aquinas who refined and clarified the doctrine, and I think the answer is, yes, you can be a Catholic and a vegetarian. The wafer becomes the literal body of Christ, but not protein. Something to do with the distinction between accident (a property that may have no real connection to what the thing is, like wood to a chair, or protein to a body) and essence (what it is, the body of Christ):
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accident_(philosophy)
        
        But my head hurt too much, and I decided Calvin’s “spiritual presence” was just a whole lot easier! 😉
        
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        July 9, 2017 10:31am
      - SPC
        
        The form was the so called Last Supper, the theme on that occasion seems to be about remembrance.
        
        Which would, if you saw the disciples as rabbi trainees, be a form of graduation. The bread symbolising the body of the teaching/message/word and the blood the spirit/class/way with which the work is to be done.
        
        Of course given the later development of the Temple priesthood replacement theology it became a cult of mediation of a sacrificial offering via communion.
        
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        July 9, 2017 11:38am
      - Kimbo
        
        @ SPC
        
        Interesting speculation as always, SPC, but unfortunately devoid of any substantive textual evidence.
        
        Or we could listen to what Jesus says in the canonical Gospels (and also via Paul in I Corinthians including “Christ our Passover has been sacrificed for us” in 5:7, as well as the explicit teaching on the Lord’s Supper in chapter 11- written before the destruction of the Second Temple, btw)
        
        … “this is my body, this is my blood”. His feast, his words, his…interpretation. 😉
        
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        July 9, 2017 11:50am
      - SPC
        
        kimbo, naturally mine is mere speculation, my aspect is deist.
        
        I am no theist, I do not take as “gospel” the word in the Torah, tanakh, NT or Koran. Mere men claiming knowledge of God and doing evil works, with their followers claiming supremacy before God to other humans.
        
        Read it (eat of it), but surely trust in God, not the idols/works/speculations of men. Better that than turn them into false prophets.
        
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        July 9, 2017 12:14pm
      - Kimbo
        
        @ SPC.
        
        Fair enough. ya pays yer money and ya takes yer pick. Um, tell me to mind my own business if you wish, SPC, but you have dropped a few details about stuff you are interested in – including complex details about what is happening on the ground in Israel – that cause me to put 2 and 2 together and maybe equal 5 when I speculate you are a Baha’i?
        
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        July 9, 2017 12:21pm
      - SPC
        
        I have met some of the Bahai community – refugee from Iran (way back in the 1980’s).
        
        I sometimes put down “10 Commandment (Sabbath Day) Keeping Unitarian Universalist deist” on Census forms.
        
        Basically a rebel against the Torah of the Jews – their God of Judgement and sacrificial offering, the status of Jesus as God, as well as the councils of Nicea and Laodicea. And yeah Mohammed made up communication with Gabriel etc.
        
        Do you think I should put down Judeo-Christian heretic and infidel on the next census?
        
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        July 9, 2017 12:34pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Do you think I should put down Judeo-Unitarian Universalist deist
        
        I think “deist” on it’s own may be sufficient to cover all of those those. But not “Judaeo” – Deism is a heresy for Judaism and its monotheistic offspring. Am intrigued about the sabbath keeping thing, though. Assuming you aren’t taking this piss, is it on the basis “the sabbath is made for man, not man for the sabbath”. i.e, the re-creation ethic?
        
        Christian heretic and infidel on the next census?
        
        Judging by your interesting eclectic self-theologising and hermeneutics, I think “Gnostic” may cover it! 😉
        
        No, seriously.
        
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        July 9, 2017 12:35pm
      - SPC
        
        I have no problem with the 10 Commandment Keeping as a way of faith in God (there are married women who could bring this into tribulation) and I think the Sermon on the Mount was a good work of explaining it is a faith/ethical system, not part of a legal code.
        
        Sabbath Day keeping is an astute way to recognise the distinction between the eternal (ideal) and mortal man across generations (less than perfect).
        
        And even Moses demonstrated the difference between the wisdom of its formation and his own intellect. This when he admitted asking for the name of God and leading the covenant nation people in breach of the third commandment by claiming to know God’s name.
        
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        July 9, 2017 12:57pm
    - Gabby
      
      Jesus is a plant clearly.
      
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      July 9, 2017 10:52am
      - Kimbo
        
        You know, when you set your mind to it, you are very amusing, Gabby, and well worth the price of admission, as also evidenced by that emphatic adverb, “clearly”. Indeed:
        
        “I am the vine, you are the branches”. (John 15:5)
        
        Which must make resident botanist Maggy Wassilieff a more astute theologian than the Pope. 😉
        
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        July 9, 2017 10:57am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/194869/137106206.79a/0_200932_ad7f2ff5_orig.jpg
        
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        July 9, 2017 11:23am
      - Kimbo
        
        Hmm, thanks Maggy. That is more impressive than seeing Jesus face in a pancake, piece of linoleum floor or dirty tea towel.
        
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        July 9, 2017 11:57am
      - Viking2
        
        That’s scarecrow Maggie.
        
        https://www.facebook.com/curtaincleaners/posts/1441327545925673?comment_id=1441338065924621&reply_comment_id=1441346979257063&notif_t=share_comment&notif_id=1499506669528773
        
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        July 9, 2017 1:00pm
      - Gabby
        
        Decrimbonated:
        
        “I agree.”
        
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        July 9, 2017 2:20pm
    - Scott Chris
      
      Quite so Kimbo but I suspect that deep down you know that Jesus only symbolically rose from the dead to stay alive in the hearts and minds of Christians just as Catholics got a bit carried away with the bread and wine symbolizing the body and blood.
      
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      July 9, 2017 7:54pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Plants, Fungi, Bacteria (and any other living group of organisms) possess protein… so I see no problem with vegetarians or even vegans being R. C.
    
    My problem is that I can’t figure out how gluten proteins (gliadins and glutenins) can be transformed into flesh proteins (myosin, collagen, elastin and actin) so readily….
    
    It’s a mystery
    http://w2.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-vi_enc_03091965_mysterium.html
    
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    July 9, 2017 11:07am
    - Kimbo
      
      Reading and thinking about it a bit more I get the impression that the Pope’s decision is based on the fact that it is not “bread” if it is gluten-free. Therefore, if it is not bread, it can’t be subject to transubstantiation. Plus, presumably to do things decently and in order, it can’t be raisin bread, or something festive. And due to the Passover feast on which the Lord’s Supper was initiated, it must be unleavened.
      
      Leavened bread isn’t an issue with most Protestants beyond the Anglicans and Lutherans. I once had communion in a service using a coconut, btw (flesh and water for the two elements). Is the “bread of life” for the Pacific island community. Greater flexibility is one of the benefits of being a Protestant! 😉
      
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      July 9, 2017 11:41am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    My question would be..
    Can a severely gluten-intolerant R.C. receive Holy Communion?
    
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    July 9, 2017 11:20am
    - Kimbo
      
      Indeed. Can an alcoholic Roman Catholic receive Holy Communion?
      
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      July 9, 2017 11:42am
      - Harriet
        
        There is one way for you to find out.
        
        Convert! 😎
        
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        July 9, 2017 11:50am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Yep,
        must (freshly pressed grape juice) is an acceptable alternative for those who can’t take wine.
        
        (also… low-gluten hosts are permitted)
        http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2017/07/08/letter_to_bishops_on_the_bread_and_wine_for_the_eucharist/1323886
        
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        July 9, 2017 1:50pm
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Yes, might just give them a funny/runny tummy after.
      
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      July 9, 2017 6:20pm
- SPC
  
  In the beginning settlement/city kingdom was based upon surrounding land being used for crop cultivation (Cain) and domestication of flocks (Abel).
  
  Two ways of feeding the settlement.
  
  Living by bread alone or not?
  
  Was Cain a vegetarian “demanding an end to the eating of sacrificed animals”?
  
  His goal may have been idealistic, but the means less than perfect.
  
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  July 9, 2017 11:30am
Hugh Pavletich

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Bang On: Housing affordability rises as an election issue … London (Ontario Canada) Free Press

http://www.lfpress.com/2017/07/06/bang-on-housing-affordability-rises-as-election-issue

More than 80 per cent of Ontarians want to see home affordability issues addressed in the 2018 election platforms of provincial political parties, according to an Ipsos poll commissioned by the Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA), the Ontario Home Builders’ Association (OHBA) and the Federation of Rental-Housing Providers of Ontario (FRPO).

According to the Ipsos study, millennials are most intent on seeing home affordability addressed by party leaders. Nine in 10 Ontarians between the ages of 18 and 34 want parties to address the issue in the next election, compared to 82 per cent of Gen Xers. Furthermore, 88 per cent millennials stated they would be more likely to vote for a party whose platform promotes home affordability.

The three associations are aligned in advising that the solution to home affordability is increasing the supply of housing in the province, and thereby increasing choice for those seeking homeownership.

This just makes sense as it follows the law of supply and demand. If there is more supply, there will be no need for the price to be driven up. … read more via hyperlink above …
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… A colourful Canadian perspective on the bursting Toronto housing bubble …

Market update — Greater Fool – Authored by Garth Turner – The Troubled Future of Real Estate

http://www.greaterfool.ca/2017/07/07/market-update-11/
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… An important mid-March media report on New Zealand polling …

The NZ homeowners who hate high house prices are revealed in Labour party polling … Rob Stock … Fairfax New Zealand

http://i.stuff.co.nz/business/money/90244287/the-nz-homeowners-who-hate-high-house-prices-are-revealed-in-labour-polling
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July 9, 2017 10:04am
- starboard
  
  “The NZ homeowners who hate high house prices are revealed in Labour party polling”
  
  That’s because those who were asked would have been liarbor supporters Hugh, all losers and no hopers who rent.
  Take it with a grain of salt.
  
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  July 9, 2017 10:20am
  - Peter
    
    They’ll also be virtue signalling respondents who, when they get to the polling booth, will not vote to devalue their house by 300K
    
    Dishonest, perhaps, but not stupid.
    
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    July 9, 2017 12:43pm
- pdm
  
  Give us a break Hugh – take the rest of the day off.
  
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  July 9, 2017 10:29am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    I’ll second that. What about the rest of the year off?
    
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    July 9, 2017 10:35am
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      There is a very broad consensus on housing issues now … something I made clear at the time of the release of this years Demographia Survey 23 January …NEW ZEALAND’S HOUSING CONSENSUS: WHERE IS THE POLITICAL LEADERSHIP ? …
      
      http://pc.blogspot.co.nz/2017/01/auckland-worlds-fourth-hardest-to-buy.html
      
      Don’t forget the extensive earlier postings guys …
      
      http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2017/07/general_debate_8_july_2017.html/comment-page-1#comment-1964925
      … and …
      http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2017/07/auckland_house_prices_stabilise.html/comment-page-1#comment-1964872 (extensive further postings above) …
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      Note too … Canada’s Garth Turner of The Greater Fool Blog (hyperlink above) is a Conservative and former senior politician.
      
      It is such a relief seeing a conservative capable of communicating. Ours here in New Zealand appear to have had ‘charisma bypass surgery’ …
      
      Former US President Ronald Reagan was of course THE GREAT COMMUNICATOR. He learned that art earlier though, when he was a Democrat with the capacity to empathize with people.
      
      Listen to Reagan campaigning for Democrat President Harry Truman in 1948 … where affordable housing is mentioned as well …
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJDhS4oUm0M
      
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      July 9, 2017 11:48am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        WHY HAVE WE ALLOWED BRAIN-DEAD POLITICIANS AND BUREAUCRATS TO SCREW UP THE PROVISION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING ? ….
        
        Think of the possibilities if markets are ALLOWED to function.
        
        The creation of the container industry is more recent than most realize … a short 6 minute history …
        
        Containerization: The Most Influential Invention That You’ve Never Heard Of … Wendover Productions … Youtube
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-ZskaqBshs
        
        … Just a further reason why we should be seeing North American new home pricing in this country …
        
        Pulte Homes examples from Phoenix Arizona …
        
        https://pulte.com/homes/arizona/phoenix/florence/parkside-at-anthem-at-merrill-ranch-7739#CommunityDetailsView
        
        Only politicians could be dumb enough to see the provision of affordable housing as ‘complex.’ The reason being … most have been on the government tit all their loser lives.
        
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        July 9, 2017 12:59pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        THEY ARE PROUD OF THEIR AFFORDABILITY IN LIMA, OHIO, USA … WHERE HOUSE PRICES ARE 2.1 TIMES HOUSEHOLD INCOMES …
        
        David Trinko: Renting or buying? Consider Lima (Ohio) region – The Lima News
        
        http://limaohio.com/news/251158/david-trinko-renting-or-buying-consider-lima-region
        
        … extracts …
        
        … The National Low Income Housing Coalition recently released its analysis of housing costs across the country, including Ohio. Based on its title, “Out of Reach 2017,” you can probably figure that this organization didn’t see a lot of optimism in the rental information it collected. …
        
        … The study looked at the fair market rent for a two-bedroom apartment, including its utilities. The Lima Metropolitan Statistical Area ties with Brown County, Hocking County, Mansfield, Perry County and Youngstown areas for the lowest fair market rent, at $681 a month. …
        
        … This region also gives you an opportunity to buy your own home affordably. Lima tied for fifth as the most affordable housing markets in the world in the third quarter of 2016, according to the 13th annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey. The survey noted the median price on a home is $110,000, while the medial income was $51,400, or a “median multiple” of 2.1 times your annual salary to afford your home, an honor shared with 10 other places, including eight American cities and two Ohio cities, Springfield and Youngstown. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
        Lima, Ohio – Wikipedia
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lima,_Ohio
        
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        July 9, 2017 2:22pm
      - starboard
        
        * Hic..Hic*…
        
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        July 9, 2017 3:10pm
Surely Knott

Our full left local board wants our smooth tar seal roads replaced with rough chip seal throughout our area, even though they are aware of the significant increase in noise, they believe it gives a nice gravel rural vibe. It is so loud, wrecks your car with loose chip, can’t be cycled on, is ugly, and increases your petrol prices. Is this Agenda 21 and an attempt to stop us visiting our parks and beaches. Is this global crazy or just local crazy. Anyways it’s bloomin’ annoying.
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July 9, 2017 10:35am
- Gabby
  
  No, it’s cheap.
  
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  July 9, 2017 10:48am
  - Surely Knott
    
    The board wrote a guide for our area. They specifically said they want it because the like the rural gravel look. I think they want to make it increasingly difficult for people visiting the west coast beaches. They oppose most businesses and developments and don’t want more tourists. I agree it’s also cheap. But why are we spenindg 100’s of thousands of public rates money weeding private property. Then cutting costs on public roads.
    
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    July 9, 2017 11:35am
Monique Watson

Totally. Frig off. It’s too hot here to digest your rabid rantings.
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July 9, 2017 10:37am
Stars And Stripes

Just back from a brief sojourn overseas and what a great time it was.
I never did any cultural activities, did not worry about my carbon footprint, never had any deep conversations about world peace and most of all never felt one bit guilty about spending whatever it took to enjoy myself.
Come back to NZ and the first thing to greet you is a fake kind of marae entrance arch and a monotonous recording of some women wailing on in Māori about some crap which no one can understand.
Enough to depress you again.
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July 9, 2017 11:02am
- cmm
  
  It helps duty free sales no end.
  
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  July 9, 2017 11:23am
- tusker
  
  S&S. I spend a bit of time wandering the world and like many Kiwis who are feeling over exposed to the public rituals of Maori culture, I know what you mean. But I suggest the experience might feel a bit different to tourists and overseas visitors, given so many international airports are drably unexciting. And that there is much interest in these rituals from many people overseas, probably won’t have escaped your attention.
  
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  July 9, 2017 11:57am
- Gabby
  
  Come back to NZ
  
  I see where you made your mistake.
  
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  July 9, 2017 2:14pm
  - Stars And Stripes
    
    I had too as all the wasters in NZ needed someone to go back to work to pay for their useless existence.
    
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    July 9, 2017 3:48pm
- SGA
  
  Come back to NZ and the first thing to greet you is a fake kind of marae entrance arch and a monotonous recording of some women wailing on in Māori about some crap which no one can understand.
  Enough to depress you again.
  
  I really need to keep on the look out for more things to get outraged about – clearly I’m missing out. My usual reaction to landing in Auckland is to thank god it isn’t LAX.
  
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  July 9, 2017 2:43pm
  - Inandout
    
    Peter Davis had a similar reaction.
    
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    July 9, 2017 3:13pm
    - SGA
      
      I suspect most travelers do.
      
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      July 9, 2017 3:16pm
    - dad4justice
      
      Nice comment Inandout. Lol poor Peter.
      
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      July 9, 2017 3:51pm
- VicParking
  
  Be thankful you were not meet by a half naked man waving a broom stick at you and poking out his tongue while screaming in a unintelligent language
  
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  July 9, 2017 5:04pm
Monique Watson

Any papier-mache models on the airport, inbound? That was an investment for Wellington.
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July 9, 2017 11:14am
cmm

Now here’s a line of bullshit for you:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/news/94496635/solarpowered-family-car-revealed

Woohoo! A solar powered family car… that runs anywhere there’s a power grid.

So not really solar powered then…

“The car’s ability to run in any city with an electric grid, means that it does not need any special infrastructure, long an obstacle for electric cars.

The car’s solar panels are just there for show – to con the uneducated.

One square meter of solar panels will generate a maximum of 250W or so, in full summer sunlight. Let’s say that car has 6 square metres. That makes about 1.5kW or about 2 horsepower in best conditions in the old money.

That’s not even as powerful as a 50cc moped (about 5 to 7 horsepower for off the rack bikes).

Of course you’re not driving all the time, so you could store up some power in a battery (so long as you park in the sun), so that might give you a x3 or so benefit for short trips – 6 horsepower or so.

If it is night time, or cloudy you’re getting practically no power. The reason it’s a “family car” is you’ll need all the kids to push.

So you’re either going to need
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July 9, 2017 11:38am
- stigie
  
  “So you’re either going to need”
  
  The ole sheila to get out and push or become a homeless family living in their car overnight that the Labour/Greens will rant on about..?
  
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  July 9, 2017 12:05pm
  - cmm
    
    Good point.
    
    Double plus cuddles for living in an eco-friendly car with solar panels on the roof!
    
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    July 9, 2017 12:22pm
- Inandout
  
  Should sell like hot cakes in Scandinavia.
  
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  July 9, 2017 1:07pm
- Viking2
  
  Interesting video the other day. Guys in england pointing out that when you live there it is most unlikely that you will have a garage or car park on you place of abode and more likely you will park down the street.
  So, how you going to charge up your car?
  
  Send electricity down the road on the airwaves just for your care?
  
  I object to electric cars being subsidized but the Nats will pandy to that. why shouldn’t they pay to use the road?
  
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  July 9, 2017 1:08pm
- Gruffydd
  
  Tesla Model S (2013) … 3.88 miles or 6.25 Km per 1 Kwh of electricity.
  Average power generated per day by a panel in NZ winter is about three times rated watts.
  1.5kwx3h=4.5kwh enough for 28km travel a day in a large powerful sedan. You would get about 1 .5 times that 42km in a small car like a leaf.
  
  Night time no power at all from solar.
  Right now it is cloudy and raining my array is putting out 10% of rated power.
  
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  July 9, 2017 2:02pm
Chuck Bird

Great help the anti-smacking law has done. What is wrong with the judge. Does one need a parenting course to know not to hit a 4 month old baby at all? What does the far left Children’s Commissioner have to say about leaving the abuser alone with the victim?

Father punched his baby daughter so hard her intestine split open

The judge on Wednesday sentenced to man to 11 months’ home detention and ordered to do a parenting course.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/94407789/father-punched-his-baby-daughter-so-hard-her-intestine-split-open
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July 9, 2017 12:12pm
- srylands
  
  The judge has no clue. This is not about parenting skills. It is about uncontrollable anger. The home detention and the parenting course will just make him more angry and more dangerous.
  
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  July 9, 2017 12:20pm
  - GoVege
    
    Surely “home detention” must include the requirement that the victim not be left in the care of her dad again?
    
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    July 9, 2017 11:00pm
- cmm
  
  This is no worse than a tiny smack.
  
  I know because Sue Bradford said so.
  
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  July 9, 2017 12:23pm
backster

There have been interesting threads and comment on drug legalisation recently extolling the virtues of it in places such as Colorado…Reality check or fake news? http://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/07/denver-police-downtown-library-drug-use-illegal-activity/
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July 9, 2017 12:41pm
cha

I guess the Chevy up his arse brought back painful memories of that time he bottomed at a drug fueled gay orgy.

According to an FHP report, Adams — a priest at Calvary Episcopal Church in Fletcher, N.C. — was driving a red Chevrolet Corvette when he “attempted to brake-check” another vehicle, a Chevrolet Silverado pick-up truck, that was closely following his Corvette.

“As the victim attempted to pass the Corvette, the driver [Adams] pointed a semi-automatic hand gun at them,” read the report.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/priest-arrested-florida-road-rage-incident-pulling-gun/story?id=48517183
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July 9, 2017 12:52pm
- Gabby
  
  It’s ok, he felt threatened and was standing his ground.
  
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  July 9, 2017 2:09pm
wiseowl

Great speech by Trumpy in Poland.
May be his best.
Every National MP should listen and take note.
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July 9, 2017 1:00pm
stigie

“The council, through chief executive Stephen Town, offered this recalcitrant non-ratepayer the opportunity to apply for a rates “postponement”, essentially delaying paying the bill until the homeowner dies or sells the house; and neatly resolving the council’s conundrum on how to handle Penny.”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/94437519/damien-grant-im-in-awe-of-this-recklessly-defiant-nonratepayer

When will the Auckland Council grow some testicles..?
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July 9, 2017 1:09pm
- sooty
  
  Thats what the dirty witch from school road has. She don’t have to pay till she’s dead or goes into a rest home and then the rest off any money goes to the cat. As far as l aware there is no children. I do not think she can gift it away etc as she has signed it over to the council. Man the penalty interest must be mounting up real quick!
  
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  July 9, 2017 1:36pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    So being a delusional nut job has worked out for her. Was it the possum hat or the JK mask they are afraid of.
    Let’s hope there is not a rush of Auckland ratepayers who deem not paying their rates has no repercussion and stop paying their rates too.
    
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    July 9, 2017 3:21pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  “When will the Auckland Council grow some testicles..?”
  They have them – not the guys – the girls
  
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  July 9, 2017 3:11pm
cha

Throwing in the towel so early in the bout?.

McConnell: If we can't repeal Obamacare, we'll fix it https://t.co/fk8ZSKD8Xg pic.twitter.com/TcExuZqEYM— POLITICO (@politico) July 8, 2017
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July 9, 2017 1:50pm
- Gabby
  
  What? No. Fake. Chump keeps all his promises.
  
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  July 9, 2017 2:06pm
- MCos
  
  What a shambles
  
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  July 9, 2017 2:16pm
Keeping Stock

The worst aspect to the rugby last night was the lax attitude of both teams towards Head Injury Assessments.

Alun Wyn Jones was clearly knocked out by Kaino’s careless tackle. By law, he should have been permanently removed from the game, yet he came back on as a substitute in the second half. And Kieran Read should at the very least have been taken off for an HIA after clearly being stunned in a collision, through possibly not losing consciousness.

World Rugby needs to get serious about head injuries, and there need to be strong sanctions against teams that abuse the rules. Last night, that included both the All Blacks and the Lions, and it’s a very bad look for rugby.
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July 9, 2017 1:53pm
Paulus

Stephen Town was CEO at Tauranga until he got Deputy in Auckland and then CEO.
Tauranga is still well up in the effective bankrupt position as he left it.
His replacement in Tauranga was one whose contract was not renewed in Wellington.
Another trougher who all know how to spend other people’s money
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July 9, 2017 1:54pm
Monique Watson

there’s a vacancy in Clutha-Southland.
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July 9, 2017 2:54pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Someone in Aussie gets it.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jul/09/smart-educated-and-exploited-how-internships-help-lock-the-young-out-of-jobs

Might pay for Labour to reflect on internships = exploitation.
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July 9, 2017 3:18pm
- Gabby
  
  So change the law.
  
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  July 9, 2017 3:32pm
Southern Raider

Just read there is a united front, mainly driven by unions, to make Maori History compulsory and that it would hold the same status as Maths and Science.

So not NZ history, but just Maori history
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July 9, 2017 4:11pm
- nasska
  
  The Yanks get bullshit creationism & we get make believe Maori crap rammed into our children’s heads. Then we have the Stone-age Muslims instilling their garbage into unformed minds.
  
  Subsequent generations may be the first in the history of human existence to know less than those who preceded them.
  
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  July 9, 2017 4:35pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Here’s the Teaching Guidelines for Year 1-8 (Primary & Intermediate School) Maori History
  
  http://maorihistory.tki.org.nz/assets/Te-Takanga-o-te-Wa-Maori-History
  
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  July 9, 2017 5:08pm
Fletch

In case you believed the news that Volvo was only going to make electric cars from here on out –

Volvo’s announcement was met with universal praise from left-wing U.S. media; it was also universally mis-reported. “Volvo Vaults to Volts, Planning to Pull Plug on Gasoline Engines” Bloomberg’s headline blared. “Volvo going electric, phasing out gas and diesel engines,” read the Seattle Times’. “Volvo Moves to Phase Out Conventional Engines,” declared the New York Times.

Not quite. In truth Volvo’s decision will help perpetuate the internal combustion engine, which still makes up the overwhelming majority of vehicle sales. While the automaker will add a plugin-hybrid option to every model line and build five all-electric cars beginning in 2019, its core, best-selling gas- and diesel-engine variants will simply add a small, 48-volt battery to compliment existing twelve-volt batteries.

Where traditional twelve-volt batteries turn on a car’s lights and infotainment systems, the 48-volt unit will help power the influx of electric features — steering racks, brake pumps, etc. — into modern cars, while increasing fuel economy by 10–20 percent in order to satisfy looming Chinese and European CO2 mandates. (Europe will force automakers to reduce the CO2 emissions of their vehicles to 95 grams per kilometer by 2021.) In short, contrary to news reports that Volvo is ending gas engines, the company is merely making such engines compliant with the coming rules.

“Sensationalist headlines today suggest Volvo is going 100 percent electric and ending gasoline and diesel engines,” wrote auto-industry analyst Anton Wahlman. “The Volvo announcement was not (about) going to 100 percent EVs. It wasn’t even about setting an end-date for gasoline or diesel cars. It was about making 48 volt systems standard in all cars.”

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449322/france-volvo-paris-climate-accords-electric-vehicles-hurt-automakers-bottom-lines
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July 9, 2017 4:43pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Trees need CO2
  
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  July 9, 2017 5:07pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    And we need CO2
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocapnia
    
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    July 9, 2017 5:26pm
    - nasska
      
      Healthy little marijuana plants simply thrive when CO2 reaches 1500ppm.
      
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      July 9, 2017 5:35pm
- Gruffydd
  
  On July 5, Volvo Cars held a press conference on its new electrification strategy. It announced that every Volvo it launches from 2019 will have an electric motor, marking the historic end of cars that only have an internal combustion engine (ICE)…
  
  https://www.media.volvocars.com/global/en-gb
  
  All Volvo car models launched after 2019 will be electric or hybrids,
  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volvocars-geely-electric-idUSKBN19Q0BJ
  
  Fletch the zombie mucher gets caught repeating bullshite
  How fucken unusual.
  Don’t forget to tell your kiddy fiddler in a frock you tell bullshite next Sunday Fletch .
  
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  July 9, 2017 5:26pm
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    “It announced that every Volvo it launches from 2019 will have an electric motor, ” Electric motor? like a starter motor? how odd.
    
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    July 9, 2017 6:32pm
  - dad4justice
    
    ‘Don’t forget to tell your kiddy fiddler in a frock you tell bullshite next Sunday Fletch .”
    
    Hey gripp ; like bigot blouse were you molested by a muslim as a child?
    
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    July 9, 2017 6:37pm
    - Gruffydd
      
      Not every man is like you and has had sex with other men .
      Hows the lingering smell of 18stone Tongan womans feet treating you today D4J?
      
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      July 9, 2017 6:47pm
      - dad4justice
        
        gripp I am not interested in sex with men and all the Tongan ladies were at Church today so we shut the shop up in respect for the good Lord. Are you still addicted to the bong?
        
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        July 9, 2017 6:52pm
  - Fletch
    
    Again, the wording is misleading. Forbes has the rundown –
    
    Do a search today for “Volvo” and “electric car” and you’ll be swamped with hits that declare the Swedish car maker will swear off traditional gasoline and diesel engines from 2019.
    
    And what a heart-warming thing that would be. It would make it the first well-known premium carmaker to cross over to the bold new world of zero emissions.
    
    Sadly, it’s not quite true.
    
    […]
    
    Instead, it simply said that it would have two new chassis architectures for every car and SUV it will launch from 2019 onwards. These new architectures will support three different electrified powertrains: a gasoline engine with a 48-Volt mild-hybrid system, a plug-in hybrid (PIH) system (with both gasoline and electric motors) and a full battery-electric (BEV) system.The first two levels of electrification would be available in all Volvos, while BEV power will be the high-priced option on only three Volvo-branded cars .
    
    Now, Volvo’s target is to sell a million electrified cars by 2025, but there’s a lot to be careful of in that wording. “Electrified” doesn’t mean “Electric”, and that’s the biggie. Secondly, it wants to sell a million electrified cars by 2025. That’s a million in total, counting from now, not a million per year. Thirdly, when Samuelsson used the word “solely”, he meant its future internal-combustion engines would be helped by a soothing electrical hand, not be shoved out of the engine bay altogether.
    
    That’s not to throw shade at Volvo, but at the journalists who have misrepresented or misunderstood what Volvo’s announcement really means.
    
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltaylor/2017/07/05/most-of-what-youve-read-on-volvos-electric-car-strategy-is-badly-misleading/#2df214dc2ed9
    
    Ahhh, but green dreams…
    
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    July 9, 2017 7:18pm
    - cha
      
      Ahhh, but green dreams…
      
      Company innovates and commits to meet the market and your reaction is to have a wee sneer….nice…..
      
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      July 9, 2017 8:28pm
      - Fletch
        
        Hey, I’m not against innovation. I am against green technologies being misrepresented as being pollution-free, and better for the environment when, more-often-than-not, the reverse is true. What we don’t get told about is the pollution that occurs during manufacturing or the waste caused by trying to dispose of these technologies when they wear out. A case in point: the massive problem of pollution caused by used solar panels –
        
        Solar panels create 300 times more toxic waste per unit of energy than do nuclear power plants.
        
        If solar and nuclear produce the same amount of electricity over the next 25 years that nuclear produced in 2016, and the wastes are stacked on football fields, the nuclear waste would reach the height of the Leaning Tower of Pisa (52 meters), while the solar waste would reach the height of two Mt. Everests (16 km).
        
        In countries like China, India, and Ghana, communities living near e-waste dumps often burn the waste in order to salvage the valuable copper wires for resale. Since this process requires burning off the plastic, the resulting smoke contains toxic fumes that are carcinogenic and teratogenic (birth defect-causing) when inhaled.
        
        http://www.environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/6/21/are-we-headed-for-a-solar-waste-crisis
        
        And windmills aren’t much better – the mining for the neodymium magnets they need is causing giant lakes of toxic sludge in China which poisons the environment and the people living in proximity.
        
        http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1350811/In-China-true-cost-Britains-clean-green-wind-power-experiment-Pollution-disastrous-scale.html
        
        If you are really in favour of clean energy, you need to look behind the scenes and make sure it really is clean.
        
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        July 9, 2017 8:48pm
      - cha
        
        Had Volvo committed to solar/windpower you’d be on topic. But they haven’t.
        
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        July 9, 2017 9:29pm
nasska

“Tell me when you’ve cum” ….he panted to his wife as he pumped away.

“1987 and twice in 1993.” she said..
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July 9, 2017 7:52pm
BananaLlama

Just reading about some noddy SJW principle wanting the Maori language to be a compulsory subject taught in schools a few months out from an election. God bless these complete idiots and their National party lapdogs, they will scratch their arse wondering why NZF is heading North of 10%
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July 9, 2017 8:15pm
Viking2

Amazed at Uber’s efforts. Have a look at these guys.

https://www.facebook.com/dolfderoos/photos/a.958239734278406.1073741827.180150718753982/1021064054662640/?type=3&theater

Thought Uber meant cars? Here in Jakarta you have Uber motorbike rides. And next to the Uber guy is a GoJek rider (one of over 200,000) — they not only provide passenger rides, but collect laundry, deliver medications, take in your dry cleaning, collect theatre tickets and deliver to go (take out or take away) food. Currently GoJek is averaging 500,000 rides a day in Jakarta, resulting in the company having a market valuation of US$4B. It took a massive 4 years though. I recently met the founder, Nadiem Makarim. He says the service has spawned whole new industries. For instance, the demand for to go food surpasses the capacity of conventional restaurants, and has created food preparation establishments too small to seat in-house diners, but perfect to supply the army of GoJek delivery riders, thus forming a truly symbiotic relationship between food preparers and deliverers.
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July 9, 2017 8:32pm
Monique Watson

Why in the many shades of Hell would anyone Google “Volvo”?
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July 9, 2017 8:46pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Because they can’t spell ‘vulva’.
  
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  July 9, 2017 9:12pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Might be checking up on the Latin spelling of the first person singular of the present indicative active of volvere.
  
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  July 9, 2017 9:35pm
Manolo

For the love of Islam:
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/628364/ISIS-poster-girl-Sally-Jones-last-stand-stay-Syria-until-death
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