General Debate 15 December 2010

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Murray

My battered old ATM card isn’t working… but its made two atms’s go into a sulk and shut down already today.

Clearly I must go to every atm in every mall in town! Lets see those retail numbers take a dive.
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December 15, 2010 8:21am
MikeNZ

http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=31668&pageid=13&pagename=Analysis

Anwar often sprinkles his presentations with Arabic phrases from the Quran and other Islamic books while touting the socio-political aspects of Shari’a banking. He claims that Islamic banking and economics, based on “maqasid al-shariah,” i.e., “the objectives of Islamic law,” could help create wealth and eradicate poverty.

Anwar’s noble talks of solving poverty and spreading justice and democracy seems to distract his Western supporters from his commitment to replace Western political, social and economic principles with Islamic laws. However, throughout his political career, Anwar has openly rejected Western values while promoting Islam. In his 1983 speech on “Development and changing political ideas,” at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Anwar criticized the “wholesale imitation of Western values and practices” in Malaysia. These should be replaced, he argued, with Islam, which “provides an ideological alternative to the dominant paradigm.”

Taqiyya — Religious Deception at work.
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December 15, 2010 8:24am
JiveKitty

Kosovo’s prime minister is the head of a “mafia-like” Albanian group responsible for smuggling weapons, drugs and human organs through eastern Europe, according to a Council of Europe inquiry report on organised crime.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/14/kosovo-prime-minister-llike-mafia-boss
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December 15, 2010 8:28am
Neil

I am getting sick of Phil Goff and his mates still laying into Pansy Wong. Pansy has done wrong,resigned and yet we still have Labor weighing in. Doesn’t matter about Chris Carter,Phillip Field and other Labour nonentities.
I watched Pansy’s valedictory which was done well.There is obviously a lot of love between Pansy and her National colleagues. Pansy is a fun loving and a real human person.She has offered much for NZ ethnics
Witness her major opponent the boorish gum chewing Pete Hodgson who acts like a zombie-along with Mallard,Hodgson is Mr Dirt for Labour. Couldn’t Labour at least show some feelings towards Pansy.
Pansy got a wonderful reception following the valedictory with National members rushing to show affection with Pansy.
I watched the Labour party functionaries seated,not one showing any sign of applause and being really sour. What a grim lot of heartless individuals.
I sure hope that when Hodgson gives his valedictory next not one government member rises in polite applause.
Pansy mentioned how speaker Smith has improved the climate within the House. We still know that Labour has that element of nastiness and anger at them being sour about being in opposition.
While we have that class warfare attituide of people like Mallard,Hodgson and even Goff, Labour is still full of hypocrisy and hatred.
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December 15, 2010 8:30am
Nookin

Murray
I had an electric frying pan like that. Turned it on and the entire neighbourhood was without electricity. Gives you a real sense of power (no pun intended).
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December 15, 2010 8:30am
Murray

I hear you. If there was a button in front of you that said press this and blow up Auckland who woulnd’t press it just for the rush?
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December 15, 2010 8:35am
Nookin

Now you’ve got me thinking. I could patent frying pans like it and sell them.
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December 15, 2010 8:37am
Pete George

While we have that class warfare attituide of people like Mallard,Hodgson and even Goff, Labour is still full of hypocrisy and hatred.

Trying to maintain a sense of power in a vacuum. Anyone can be an arsehole, looking able to lead the country is completely different, Labour are only achieving the former at the moment. The stink can linger long after a shit.
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December 15, 2010 8:38am
Inventory2

@ Neil; well said. It was noticeable too that after Kris Fa’afoi’s maiden speech last night, the first National MP to congratulate him was a beaming Hekia Parata who seemed genuinely pleased for her Mana opponent. The contrast between that and Labour’s attitude towards Pansy Wong’s valedictory could not have been more stark.
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December 15, 2010 8:52am
BeaB

As I said the other day, Goff and Hodgson deserve the Veitch Award for 2010 for kicking a woman when she is down.

I think Pansy has done the right thing. Public life is hard enough without putting up with this kind of crap. Good luck and much happiness to her and Sammy. And may they long enjoy the international flights they are entitled to!
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December 15, 2010 8:59am
david

The classic line this morning on ZB was Annette “full moon” King telling the nation that JK should have waited until all the evidence was in before making any move to deal with Pansy Wong.

Given PhilKoff’s constant bleating about JK not sacking her immediately and saying that he would wait until the evidence was in before making a judgement shows a gobsmacking level of either hypocrisy or fractionalisation within Labour that suggests a total meltdown is imminent.

The saddest part of the ZB session was that neither Steven Joyce nor Mike Hosking called her on it.
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December 15, 2010 9:07am
grumpyoldhori

The taxpayer paying to try and get those blokes bodies out of the mine, interesting.
It seems the shareholders do not believe they have any moral responsibility in paying for it, still, no surprise in that is there.
Contractors who were trying to get the blokes out not to be paid it seems, why am I not surprised.

Tell me again what is the advantage of limited liability companies ?
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December 15, 2010 9:07am
Murray

“The saddest part of the ZB session was that neither Steven Joyce nor Mike Hosking called her on it.”

New Zealand journalism david, virtually an oxymoron.
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December 15, 2010 9:38am
dime

grumpy – the advantage of LLC’s? ummm they encourage people to start businesses? They provide jobs.. they allow “ordinary” kiwis to own shares and save towards their retirement without fear of losing their shirts etc etc etc
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December 15, 2010 9:40am
Pete George

“Current affairs television is expensive, investigative journalism like 60 Minutes is not cheap,” TV3’s Mark Jennings said.

The current affairs of “celebrities” and other paparazzi crap must be cheaper than journalism. And sells more advertising. The market rules.
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December 15, 2010 9:49am
Fisiani

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Every time I write something astute or clever or simply oppositional I am promptly deleted and accused of being offensive or lying. This is my only way to ensure a comment remains in the blogosphere.

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December 15, 2010 at 9:47 am

This Pavlovian obsession in the Labour Party with knee-jerk visceral opposition to private enterprise whether it be in prisons, schools or hospitals or wherever is mean spirited and dogmatic. Life is complex and needs to be dealt with on a case by case basis. One privately run prison is hardly a human rights issue. This mentality probably fits the DSM criteria for paranoid personality disorder.
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December 15, 2010 9:52am
gazzmaniac

“Current affairs television is expensive, investigative journalism like 60 Minutes is not cheap,” TV3′s Mark Jennings said.

Shame that programs like 60 Minutes tend to make such a hash of journalism, producing one sided “investigations” that are presented as fact. I’d rather have the population lapping up Wills and Boon than 90% of the shit that is “investigative journalism”.
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December 15, 2010 9:58am
Jack5

Re Grumpy 9.07 and Dime 9.40

The Pike River receivership isn’t so much with limited liability companies, but with our receivership law, IMHO. Limited liability companies were what allowed the world to take off, though they have in latter days been vastly abused by ratbags, in NZ’s case, like finance companies and rogue property developers.

NZ Oil & Gas, which is a keystone shareholder of Pike River is also a major creditor of Pike River. It pulled the plug on Pike River. The Pike River directors asked NZ Oil & Gas to put it in receivership, making it theoretically voluntary, but they would have been doing what NZ Oil & Gas told them.

Receivers represent the creditor or creditors who put a company into receivership. They are there to represent the creditor’s interests, though they are restricted legally. Perhaps some lawyers could tell us why there couldn’t be some sort of commercial court or service to administer receiverships along the lines of the Official Assignee in bankruptcies.

Grumpy (9.07) is right about moral responsibility. However, as noted yesterday, I think if the Government had the will it could use NZ Oil & Gas’s need for State approval in its application for oil rights. If Key and the Minister of Mining Dreams, Brownlee, really wanted to they could surely twist NZ Oil & Gas’s balls to get a fairer shake for the surviving miners and for the recovery of the other miners’ bodies.

It’s not hard to attend a funeral after a tragedy and express condolence. The test of friendship and character is how you help the victims’ families and the survivors.
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December 15, 2010 9:59am
Jack5

A true anecdote for Pete George, who aligns his computer and screen carefully so that he faces Mecca as he posts to Kiwiblog.

An English business in executive this week is stopped by one of the police swarming through Stockholm, the big city in ever-so-liberal, PC Sweden.

“Where are you from”, the cop asks in English of the foreigner, who stands out as under-dressed for the 15deg below weather.

“I’m just over from England.”

“Be careful,” the cop says. “The Wogs are coming over here now to blow themselves up.”
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December 15, 2010 10:08am
Fletch

Neil, I agree. Watching the Pansy Wong thing on TV last night, I just thought, what a storm in a teacup. Goff and Labour are total hypocrites.

I’m sure most people in life aren’t as audacious or brazen as an MP, who says something one day or whose actions are reported by the media, and then goes on to criticize someone else for exactly the same thing their party did.
Sometimes it’s hard for me to understand.
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December 15, 2010 10:22am
kowtow

Thing about the likes of 60 Minutes is if you personally know even a little about the subject under”investigation” and have average intelligence you know more about the subject than is presented. They are basically little girl gossip type magazine shows dressed up as serious journalism.
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December 15, 2010 10:45am
Pete George

Fletch, I agree with you on that.

Jack – I don’t follow any superstitions. “Facing” Mecca is something I’ve never aspired to, but it does puzzle me about how others might manage it from the other side of the world. Strictly speaking facing anywhere horizontally is facing out into space, the direction determined by the time of day and time of year. Flat on my face means I am facing somewhere on the edge of the Bay of Biscay (through a bit of rock and stuff). I can’t be bothered working out where Mecca or the Vatican or wherever is in relation to that.

Another puzzle – the Church of England talks about it’s Built Heritage – but they say “ranging in date from St Martin’s in Canterbury, already in use when St Augustine landed in AD 597” – surely that was more a Church of Rome.
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December 15, 2010 10:55am
BeaB

Jack5 – what makes you think there is still anything resembling bodies down there?
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December 15, 2010 10:56am
kowtow

To mark Holbrooks passing and to add to the debate on Balkan “stability”, here’s a slightly dated article from The Sunday Times UK about Saudi money in the region.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7078771.ece

And the Turks are also actively seeking to increase their influence in a part of the world they probably still consider “theirs”.
Stability…….?
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December 15, 2010 11:04am
RightNow

Last Christmas I gave my mother-in-law a casserole pot. She said it was crap and threw it out.
This year I bought her a fire extinguisher, and filled it with butane.
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December 15, 2010 11:22am
gravedodger

Bannen gets 9 years with 5 1/2 non parole for killing two older people going home from their Gym when double drink driving limit and fleeing police pursuit.
I suppose it will be appealed on legal aid FFS . Police claim absence of any remorse and guilty plea not much influence. Give that Beak a pay rise.
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December 15, 2010 11:39am
starboard

lifes cheap in NZ…what else did you expect?
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December 15, 2010 12:04pm
RobbieBlack

That Close-up article on giving Aussies a hard time was interesting.

Strange, but I quite like them, Aussies I mean.
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December 15, 2010 1:11pm
Fletch

WTF is wrong with kids these days? Some teens were arrested yesterday for stealing cars and having a “demolition derby” with them, and now this morning, one of them has done it again – breached his bail conditions, stolen a car, crashed it – with a 13 year old passenger suffering neck injuries.

Are they just plain stupid, or do they think Hollywood movies are real? Or are they playing too many video games.

pathetic.

A boy who was arrested for his involvement in a demolition derby yesterday using stolen cars, has stolen and crashed another car this morning.

Three boys, aged 14-15-years old, were arrested yesterday morning after police recovered two cars stolen from Hamilton and Mt Maunganui.

The cars had been driven into each other – one was found in a ditch and another in a paddock, while the third was used as an attempted getaway car.

Sergeant Andrew Connors of the Otorohanga police said overnight one of the 14-year-old boys breached bail conditions and stole a Ford Laser from Hamilton.

“This morning we received a call about 5.30am about a car abandoned on SH31, outside Otorohanga, responding officers encountered three boys being treated by ambulance staff at the intersection of Honikiwi Rd.

“It turns out the 14-year-old driver had crashed the car into a bank and the three occupants abandoned the car, picked up by a good samaritan who called an ambulance, they were dropped off at the intersection.”

Mr Connors said a 13-year-old travelling as a passenger in the car suffered neck injuries in the crash and was taken to Waikato Hospital by ambulance.

“Two 14-year-olds are currently being interviewed by police and the driver is facing a variety of charges from theft of a motor vehicle, breaching bail and driving offences causing injury.

“We will be appealing bail when he appears in court today,” said Mr Connors.

LINK

I tell you – I fear for the coming generation if we’re producing geniuses like this now…
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December 15, 2010 1:14pm
Fletch

Findings from three new reports show no cancer increase in ‘Erin Brockovich’ town of Hinkley.
Oh, well, it made for a good movie…

LINK
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December 15, 2010 1:39pm
david@tokyo

Not that many people would really care, but NZ has (as I predicted) announced that it won’t be joining Australia’s ICJ case against Japan’s ICRW compliant special permit whaling programme in the Southern Ocean.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/64255/nz-not-filing-as-party-to-whaling-legal-action

Ostensible reasons for the decision have been given, but behind the scenes I think there is little doubt that NZ’s legal advice (as with the US) is that the case doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell.

Also note that the case was announced by one Kevin Rudd some weeks before he was ousted as Prime Minister of Australia, and that he has a reputation for making hasty, poorly considered decisions (as seen in Wikileaks).

I continue to believe that Australia will eventually drop this case before they have to suffer the humiliation of not only losing it, but also essentially confirming that Japan’s activities (while not popular in Australia and New Zealand) are 100% legal. With Rudd no longer PM, there is no need for Australia to proceed to score this own goal and give Japan victory (with whale sashimi) on a plate.
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December 15, 2010 1:53pm
MikeMan

Stuff has just announced that Wayne Mapp will not be standing again for North Shore.
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December 15, 2010 2:00pm
Tauhei Notts

BeaB,
The thought of Goff and Hodgson being joint winners of the Veitch of 2010 Award is brilliant.
You deserve a mention in the New Year’s Honours List.
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December 15, 2010 2:23pm
RobbieBlack

Fletch, I am convinced there is something in the water in NZ.

Do you remember that movie Sam Neil was in at the beginning of his career?

Canadians and Russians go overboard on drugs and alcohol.

Kiwi kids are bored I guess.

I wish I had the answer but something weird is going on in NZ.

The violent crime statistics just don’t make any sense.

When I was a teenager I wanted to get drunk, happy, surf and stoned and try unsuccessfully to stick it into nice girls.

I wasn’t considering biting the lip off a cop or trying to take his head off with a machete.

I actually feared cops.

As I said I wish I knew.

New Zealand is a dangerous country.

Not good.
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December 15, 2010 2:49pm
backster

Grumpy/ Jack 5…Search and rescue and the recovery of bodies is essentially a task of the Police. That is why Supt. Knowles of that Department was repeatedly asserting that he was in Charge inappropriately as it may have seemed. The Police have a special Disaster victim squad for body recovery (first used in Antartica) . NZOG and PRC each commenced the Victims fund with half million dollar donations NZOG holds a third of the shares in PRC and the main customers Indian Steel Companies own about another third. I am unaware if they donated to the victim’s fund. Why would you recommend the Government penalise NZOG for putting PRC into receivership when the company has a duty to preserve its’ own liquidity in the interest of its shareholders. NZOG is I think the only NZ publicly owned company in its field and its’ success in exploration benefits the nation far more than that of the multinationals.( and yes I am a small shareholder in both)
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December 15, 2010 3:36pm
RobbieBlack

Cactus Kate, let me ask you a serious question.

Do you think the Chinese leaders are doing a stink job these days as far as PR goes?

What are they thinking?

You being a Hongkie I am sure you have some frank views?
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December 15, 2010 3:40pm
RightNow

” The stink can linger long after a shit.” Best Analogy for Labour award to Pete George. I only wish I’d read it sooner.
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December 15, 2010 4:02pm
RobbieBlack

Powder in Germany, half a foot deep.

The nice stuff, all fluffy and powdery.
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December 15, 2010 5:35pm
adze

Agreed, RightNow. Someone light a match!
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December 15, 2010 5:41pm
Hurf Durf

Jules Assange’s mum looks like a proper withered pothead. Apparently the New Age hippie scrunt and him moved 37 times before he was 14 – no wonder he’s a maladjusted narcissist.
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December 15, 2010 5:45pm
kowtow

Hurf; exactly my own thoughts re her appearance.

He’ll have the perfect defence if they ever get him back to Sweden. “Not my fault I hate the world”.
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December 15, 2010 6:48pm
nickb

Look what bureaucracy and unionism is doing to the US:

http://www.businessinsider.com/detroit-garbage-pickup-bankruptcy-2010-12

In a futile attempt to stave off the inevitable one last time, Mayor Bing’s latest plan is to cutoff city services including road repairs, police patrols, street lights, and garbage collection in 20% of Detroit.

In 2003 the state, under pressure from the Detroit Federation of Teachers, turned down a gift of $200 million from philanthropist Robert Thompson that would have established 15 charter schools in the city.
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December 15, 2010 7:43pm
Manolo

Vladimir Putin, a man of taste: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8202295/Vladimir-Putins-mistress-on-cover-of-Russian-Vogue.html
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December 15, 2010 7:54pm
Johnboy

Cutting off the streetlights would be a mistake.

Hell you can only see most of Detroit’s mugger populace cause they grin and roll their eyes just before they whack you. 🙂
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December 15, 2010 7:55pm
Johnboy

He’s not called “Putin” for nothing Manolo. 🙂
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December 15, 2010 7:57pm
Manolo

Excellent article: http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/556625/201012131837/The-US-Should-Halt-All-Funding-For-UNs-Global-Warming-Scam.htm

“The U.N. Secretary General’s High Level Advisory Group confirmed that the goal is to impose taxes on international shipping, aviation and financial transactions involving stocks, bonds and foreign exchanges, as well as a carbon tax.

Those taxes could raise at least $100 billion annually.

Hat Tip: RB’s TrueBlue
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December 15, 2010 8:15pm
lofty

If we are to allow our producers to make money for our country…….how bloody come they are paying $500 a kw/h today for electricity?????????????. ( I have it on very good authority that the spot price reached 10k a couple of weeks ago for 2 hours!!!)Is it any wonder large producers close plant when the power price on the spot market just gets over the top???????
They bid amongst themselves to drive the price up on a spot basis…they bullshit about reduced generation capacity due to “maintenance” and the stations being offline, just to drive the large industrial producers to have to pay the artificial mega spot price.

Deregulation of the power suppliers is a crock, they cost us more in lost production than the gains in revenue from the Govt take of power tax!!!!!!

No wonder we cannot grow our industry,, if it aint the power prices, it is stupid unrealistic demands from the left wing populists who pander to the gimme voters..
Christ on fuc…in crutch this country is bereft of common sense!!!!!!!!
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December 15, 2010 8:22pm
reid

“The U.N. Secretary General’s High Level Advisory Group confirmed that the goal is to impose taxes on international shipping, aviation and financial transactions involving stocks, bonds and foreign exchanges, as well as a carbon tax.

Those taxes could raise at least $100 billion annually.

I wonder why the UN never talks about a Tobin tax? Why is that? Is it because that would destroy speculative trading in the derivative spot market? You’d think the UN would be in favour of that, wouldn’t you.

OTOH the Tobin tax doesn’t really address the problem of deploying the bureaucracy required to overwhelm national sovereignty like an AGW bureaucracy would so I guess that’s probably why, even though it would help them improve global productivity AND fight AGW ALL at the same time. If they wanted to which for some reason they seem to.
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December 15, 2010 8:25pm
Johnboy

Yup lofty:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/4459957/Tiwai-smelter-to-cut-production

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/4461496/Reforms-lead-to-electricity-price-spike

Max Bradford was and is an idiot.
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December 15, 2010 8:27pm
lofty

I really despair at the uselessness of the so called thinking minds in this country…where oh where is the alternative thinking party??

Populist pandering leaves me cold.

Industry will grw this country not wankers, greenies, and lefty entitlists… employers are the lifeblood of this little country, we will drive the recovery, but not if we are hamstrung by vote catching policies.
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December 15, 2010 8:35pm
Kiwi Poll Guy

Anybody else see Gerry Brownlee’s speech where he called Trevor Mallard “a poor man’s David Farrar”? Good laughs. Worth a watch.
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December 15, 2010 8:38pm
reid

“Max Bradford was and is an idiot.”

He sure was and indeed has risen to proven over time idiocy which is something few achieve in the hallowed halls of professional moronity. Electricity is actually a perfect example like water, of which customers get no pleasure from excess consumption. Unlike petrol for example which brings more pleasure the more you use. I like my Ferrarri V-12 for example and I rev it all the time at the lights especially when there’s a Green Rally nearby. But customers take precisely as much electricity as they want and not a drop more. You can’t advertise to sell more of the product so the only thing you can do is improve the infrastructure and Bradford’s reforms provided a disincentive toward doing that owing to the separation of the retail market which lo and behold, hasn’t achieved lower prices and better service because FFS there’s nothing to improve. There were and remain no problems with supply, keep it coming. There’s no growth possible apart from whatever new gadgets other industries over which electricity has no ownership, control nor influence decide to sell them.

I mean fucking d’oh.

We need a pebble-bed reactor in the SI to power Tiwai, no question in my mind.
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December 15, 2010 8:43pm
pentwig

Robbie Black

After reading a few Chinese blogs it is apparent you are a complete idiot among other things, and on the other things I will reserve my judgment.

It seems you have written a novel which is available free as a download on the net.
I sincerely hope you were sober when you put that pen to paper because the absolute dribble you subject us to on Kiwiblog proves you are a drunken idiot. Further, New Zealand is a far better Country now that you are out of it. Please do not return.

For your information NZ is one of the safest places in the world per population, but you being a budding failed novelist would never let facts interfere with a drunken rant.
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December 15, 2010 8:47pm
Johnboy

Surely you are not trying to say that a benighted little country of around 4 million souls does not really need three major generators, a separate main distribution company and multitudinous, here today gone tomorrow, retailers with all their management and corporate structures are you reid? 🙂
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December 15, 2010 8:52pm
reid

I wasn’t considering biting the lip off a cop or trying to take his head off with a machete.

I actually feared cops.

As I said I wish I knew.

New Zealand is a dangerous country.

Not good.

Robbie, it’s not dangerous. It’s true NZ is catching up with overseas levels of brutal violence and guess what causes that. Drugs. Some of them fuck up: i.e. block: normal restraints. Guess which drug is worst for that? Guess which drug we have recently in the last decade been introduced to, big time?

That’s one of the poisons which may or may not have specifically done this, but which currently is fucking up our beautiful land. And we just haven’t fully faced that yet.
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December 15, 2010 8:56pm
grumpyoldhori

Backster, with all these cops we have who are bloody experts in mine rescue I wonder why my mate who has not been paid was a member of the rescue team.

Best not to post what you know nothing about, the police may have a body rescue team for the surface but as sure as fuck they are not trained to go into a dangerous mine to rescue or recover bodies.
The police are COORDINATING the attempts, what they know about the GAG or the nitrogen machine could be put on a pinhead.
All our cops well trained ? including the dumb sod who was using a transmitter as I was about to blow some power gel using electric detonators , flag flying .
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December 15, 2010 9:34pm
reid

“Surely you are not trying to say…”

Fuck no John, I wouldn’t dream of it. Max is my hero.
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December 15, 2010 9:52pm
RobbieBlack

“For your information NZ is one of the safest places in the world per population.”

Is it really?
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December 15, 2010 10:40pm
RobbieBlack

And hey, the book is not free. Just click on my name and buy it.
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December 15, 2010 10:44pm
RobbieBlack

The only drug that I have taken that makes people violent is alcohol…maybe coke.

Yes if a drug makes people violent that would be a worry.

P is what you are referring to?
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December 15, 2010 11:23pm
Viking2

A lady walked into a Police Station and the desk Sergeant said “Can I help you?”

“Yes” she said, “I’d like to report a case of sexual assault”.

“Where did it happen?” the Sergeant asked.

“In the park just down the road” she replied.

“Can you describe what happened?”

“Yes, I was walking along the footpath in the park near the trees when a man jumped out of the

bushes and dragged me in there, removed my underwear then he dropped his pants to his knees

and had his way with me”.

“Could you give me a description of him?”

“Yes, he was wearing white shoes, long white trousers, a white shirt and he had these two big

long pads from his feet up to and over his knees, one on each leg”.

“Sounds to me like he was a cricketer, most probably a batsman”, said the Sergeant.

“Yes”, said the lady, “He was an Australian Cricketer”.

“That’s very observant”, said the Sergeant, “You worked that out from his accent?”

“No”, she replied. “I worked it out because he wasn’t in for very long”.
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