General Debate 16 December 2010

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Mr Nobody NZ

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December 16, 2010 8:17am
flipper

Questions re Pike River fund….
1. How many individual contractors were employed at the mine?
2. How many perished?
3. Since “employees” will be getting redundancy etc… should not the individual contractors (not companies with several employees) get some priority in the allocation of assistance?
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December 16, 2010 8:21am
peterwn

flipper – no, the receiver (and liquidator -probaby ‘when’) have no legal mandate to give some unsecured creditors priority over others. to say that ‘one person’ contractors should get a priority would imply a special legal status for them via a vis other contractors.

These ‘one person’ contractors could go off to the Employment Tribunal and argue that they are in reality employees and if successful would give them ‘priority’ over unsecured creditors.
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December 16, 2010 8:36am
Manolo

The immense disconnect between the American congress and the public: http://www.gallup.com/poll/145238/Congress-Job-Approval-Rating-Worst-Gallup-History.aspx
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December 16, 2010 8:50am
thedavincimode

Flipper, that’s a stretch too far.

Extending a redundancy notion to this type of situation is in complete conflict with the fundamental elements that distinguish contractor and employee relationships. Redundancy payments are an employee benefit as is, broadly, security of tenure depending upon the contract terms. Self-employed contractors are in the same position as contractors with more than one employee. They trade off employee benefits for business opportunity which includes, amongst other things, a premium charge above the cost of labour. The fact that it is their own labour in the case of self-employed contractors doesn’t alter that principle, nor does the fact that this is a national tragedy.

Assume for example, contractors at Silver Fernz in Te Aroha were in the same position, would that still be a case to treat contractors differently? The only difference between Silver Fernz and Pike River is death and thats why the emotions take over. If there had been no deaths at Pike River, would you have still put the question?
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December 16, 2010 8:51am
Chuck Bird

Why is it that the MSM have been so quiet about the disgusting racist comment by Trevor Mallard that Tau Henere was a chocolate covered banana? If and ACT MP made such a comment the Herald would have it on the front page for a week and censor the comments to their blog. We have Phil Goff saying Key should be condemning Pansy Wong yet I heard him on RadioLive saying that Trev’s comment were just banter and Trev gave as good as he got. I would like to know what Tau said to justify such a comment.

I guess on reflection that such a comment from from Phil likely replacement si not surprising from such a racist party. I think Louisa Wall is the first Maori Labour has given a chance at a safe general seat.

Maybe Trev would like to comment.
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December 16, 2010 8:53am
Manolo

The media doesn’t cover it because it doesn’t avance their left-wing cause. That explains why you don’t hear Joris De Bres raising the issue either. A perverse and despicable sense of solidarity permeates these people.

I suggest we start saving money by ditching the Race Relations Conciliator immediately and firing comrade Joris.
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December 16, 2010 8:57am
Pete George

the disgusting racist comment by Trevor Mallard

He even explained it last night on Back Benches, stressing that yellow was his main point. At times Mallard comes across as a determined, hard working, knowledgeable politician, but can’t help delving in the shitty side. His arm doesn’t look chocolate, too often.
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December 16, 2010 9:10am
RobbieBlack

Surely there are worse things to called than a chocolate covered banana?
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December 16, 2010 9:22am
Falafulu Fisi

I saw on a TV commercial about Brainetics, which is a program that’s supposed to accelerate kids learning in maths. I dig around the internet to see what evidence or opinions that has been said about the product and I didn’t find much. BUT watching the vids on their website and I came to my own quick conclusion:

#1) Such program is unlikely to get kids to excel when they’re advancing to higher level
#2) It looks like rote learning to me, which is a form of learning that won’t advance kids understanding
#3) It concentrates on a small sets of fact memorization (just multiplications or squaring of numbers) but not much about anything else in math
#4) They don’t teach kids concept formations (it is bad)
#5)… and may be more

Overall, I won’t be bothered to buy this program for kids since it hasn’t shown that it can help kids long term. It may help them in their quick multiplication , such as squaring of 2 digit numbers (eg : 75 x 75), but that is rote learning and not concept understanding & formation which is what underpins learning, ie, integration of different concepts and form them into a whole (with no contradictions). This will enable the learner to think outside the square.

Any parents here who have bought this program?
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December 16, 2010 9:22am
pollywog

chocolate covered banana ???…i’d take that as a compliment.

so if chris carter were called a fruit filled sponge, would you consider that homophobic ?
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December 16, 2010 9:25am
Murray

“At times Mallard comes across as a determined, hard working, knowledgeable politician,”

What milisecond did that happen in because I missed it.
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December 16, 2010 9:28am
grumpyoldhori

Bloody hell you Nat types are sensitive, you drag Henare around all the branches stating see we have a hori in our ranks, I bet he believes there should be two classes of foreshore ownership, one for his pakeha bosses the other for Maori.
Henare and Wall, Maori, I bet they put the Nats way in front of Maoridom.
And while we are at it Henare’s ability in reo is pretty bloody poor for a so called Nat Maori MP.
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December 16, 2010 9:38am
KiwiGreg

“And while we are at it Henare’s ability in reo is pretty bloody poor for a so called Nat Maori MP.”

If that’s a requirement for being a “maori” most will fail.
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December 16, 2010 9:46am
grumpyoldhori

Peterwn, leaving the receiver etc aside, there is NOTHING to stop the shareholders reaching in their pockets to at least pay all the small contractors.
Pretty poor that THEIR employees are dead in a mine and it seems they have made no effort to get the contractors who took in the rescue attempts, paid.

A nasty cynic might just start to believe that those shareholders believe the mug taxpayer should pay for the recovery of the bodies.
Ah, the wonders of LIMITED LIABILITY.
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December 16, 2010 9:47am
Falafulu Fisi

I have been coaching Physics/Mathematics (both senior high school & university level) in the evening to students (mainly to those of families & relatives including some from the Tongan community) over the last 8 years or so. Rote learning is good for fact memorization (which I teach them only on a small number of facts), but I also tried to get them to understand the WHY’S & HOW’S? There have been some students that their parents came to me asking for help, which I found was too late, even if it was Einstein who was their tutor, they wouldn’t have improved. Overall, I have lifted their learning ability dramatically. All of those who came thru me have followed on courses in engineering, medicine and science.

It is only this year that I have started coaching primary school kids as well. There are 4 kids that I started a math program with them since the beginning of the year. There is one 8 year old, a 9 year old and a 10 year old. I find that the 9 year old learns better. His learning & understanding is getting faster & faster compared to the beginning of the year. The 10 year old is to sit Cambridge AS-level math (year-12 equivalent) and the 9 year old is to sit A-Level math (year-13 equivalent) at the end of next year (ie, November 2011). The 8 year old won’t be sitting any external exam until 2012 because I find her a little bit difficult. The 9 year old (which he’s also taking both Cambridge Mechanics papers – equivalent of Physics University stage 1) is my best student and here are some of his YouTube math vids:

#1) Calculus (Polynomial Indefinite Integration)
#2) Calculus (Polynomial Differentiation)
#3) Algebra (Linear Simultaneous Equations)

My primary students are not gifted (@ the beginning of the year), but I believe that their knowledge now, they can be regarded as gifted (not natural but manufactured – ie, via external help).

I believe that my methods if being applied to other kids (gifted or just average), they will improve in their maths 100 folds. I believe that my method is not special at all. It is that kids’ minds are very receptive & absorbent at those young ages to concept formations. I just happened to give it to show it to them, but they’re there waiting & ready to roll.

Finally, I may publish a series of online articles of how to accelerate kids’ math learning, i.e., condensing what’s being taught in 10 years to just 1 year. The more likely site that I will publish these is Not PC blog. It will be a tutorial, showing step by step of how to teach topics from low level up to higher level.

My online tutorials will be much better than the Brainetics program I mentioned above. Parents can follow them (with or without knowledge of math) and watch their kids knowledge of math grow.
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December 16, 2010 9:56am
Pete George

Henare and Wall, Maori, I bet they put the Nats way in front of Maoridom.
And while we are at it Henare’s ability in reo is pretty bloody poor for a so called Nat Maori MP.

Not all Maori are the same, they can range form 1840 obsessed to modern blended versions. The range of Maori MPs surely should reflect and represent the diversity.
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December 16, 2010 9:56am
grumpyoldhori

All the Maori party are fluent,most of Labour hori MPs as well, it can be learned, the Nat so called hories who do not speak it well are just too bloody lazy to learn.

Christ, pretty bloody poor when a so called Nat Maori MP needs an interpreter on a marae, Wall will not need to bother, she can sit in the back as usual.
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December 16, 2010 9:56am
david

Thats the problem Grumpy.

You see them as Maori first, MPs second and New Zealanders not at all.

The more enlightened among us see them as , New Zealanders first, MPs second and Maori third.

and that is really, really sad.
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December 16, 2010 10:05am
grumpyoldhori

Pete George the modern versions should take an interpreter on to the marae ?
or should they avoid the marae ?
Sorry, but only the bloody idle which may sum up too many MPs do not learn reo.

Must ask those Nat so called hori MPs if they are in favour of Maori getting second class land titles in comparison to what visitors get.
That will have them diving for cover.
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December 16, 2010 10:06am
spk18

Wall gets a shot in the Labour Party more for her being an angry lesbian than being a Maori I expect. And the Maori Party MPs are not fluent… well all of them except Tariana and possibly Rahui. And in any event te reo shouldnt be a prerequisite given the state of fluency among the general (Maori) population. Just would like to see some effective Maori politicians of whatever persuasion – Hekia is promising, as was Shane Jones before his hand shandy escapades; apart from some of the Maori party the rest are pretty useless and have been for some time.
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December 16, 2010 10:06am
Pete George

Wall will not need to bother, she can sit in the back as usual.

I’d rather someone given equal recognition in English rather than shoved to the back, no matter how many languages they can speak. Not all Maori customs fit in the modern world, so all part Maori MPs don’t need to go the whole old hog.
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December 16, 2010 10:08am
david

Wall will not need to bother, she can sit in the back as usual.

Isn’t that or peeling kumara the “proper place” for women on the Marae anyhoo
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December 16, 2010 10:10am
Falafulu Fisi

I found a discussion on Brainetics below:

I just came across this product Brainetics after seeing someone tweeting about it but as soon as I read its introductory page I began thinking of the Just Another Scam story.

Some of the comments on that discussion thread are similar to what I have highlighted in my previous messages.
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December 16, 2010 10:28am
Manolo

“Not all Maori customs fit in the modern world,..”

Which ones do? 🙂
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December 16, 2010 10:29am
Manolo

O’Sullivan’s analysis: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10694365
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December 16, 2010 10:32am
Pete George

Which ones do?

Ask someone who is familiar with the cultural Maori world.

Retaining some culture is fine, it adds colour to the community – I’ve heard a few bagpiper led parades lately, it’s graduation season here. They usually have a Maori component to proceedings as well.
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December 16, 2010 10:40am
AlphaKiwi

It may be useful for MP’s to learn Spanish or Chinese before they become MPs. Once you’re an MP, you’re going to be too busy to learn a language fluently. John Key has picked up some Te Reo phrases, but as he says, he’s just too busy.
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December 16, 2010 10:51am
calendar girl

In all the media discussion about the state of NZ cricket at international level, not once have I seen an open query about the competence and performance of CEO Justin Vaughan.

He’s the boss of NZ Cricket, isn’t he? Does he not draw up the list of cricketers to be offered NZC contracts? Didn’t he recommend the appointment of coach Mark Greatbatch? Approve the strange management structure of the NZ international team? Organise the NZ domestic and international fixture list that draws pathetic numbers of paying customers?

I know of no business whose performance is so dire where the CEO continues to speak soothingly to the media without being challenged as to his own “contribution”. On the surface of it, the loss of Martin Sneddon to Rugby World Cup 2011 (an inspired appointment by the rugby boys) has proved to be an organisational disaster for NZ Cricket.
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December 16, 2010 11:10am
Brian Smaller

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/4464676/DOC-slams-rare-gull-massacre

What is up with those folk down there? This is plain stupidity. Unless someone dobs them in they wont get caught but they sure as hell need to be.
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December 16, 2010 12:05pm
sbk

WTF…another case of lead tainted toys…three years after the first cases came to our and the worlds attention and after repeated assurances from the appropriate authorities that the checks were in place,the toys are still popping up on the shelves…inspecting/testing after the fact is a recipe for disaster.It is obvious that they cant check for everything and if we continue to import goods from nations where graft and business go hand in hand we will always be at risk… buyer beware.
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December 16, 2010 12:06pm
Pete George

…another case of lead tainted toys…

Hopefully parents won’t learn the hard way that guns, lead, dangerous.
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December 16, 2010 12:21pm
grumpyoldhori

Whoopee, the Nat tax cuts are working bloody well are they not, only borrowing a cartload of dosh a day and notice that unemployment has dropped to fuck all because of the Nat policies.
Grow a fucking pair Nats, drop the borrowing for idle bloody students at the rate of fuck all, dump free university education except for the Degrees we bloody need, them fund in full and then contract the buggers to stay in NZ for ten years, no contract, no education, no you bloody high school students have not earned the right to a free tertiary education.
Fire two out of three of paper pushers at both local and national including DHBs,
fire those bloody hories at DHBs, raise the pay of doctors at hospitals, if a specialist is not making what a bloody government minister is making something is bloody wrong.
OK, that will make a start, easy is it not ?
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December 16, 2010 12:46pm
minto57

GOH is turning into a regular national socialist with his tauiwi type comments.
Prehaps he has a final solution in mind
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December 16, 2010 1:04pm
wreck1080

@grumpy – you should see what the economy would have been like without tax cuts.

30% unemployment, massive queues at the dole office.

Bit lucky aren’t we?
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December 16, 2010 1:34pm
Redbaiter

” it adds colour to the community ”

The sad cliche that is so often the mark of the brain damaged progressive. They’re well known to talk and think in such absurdly abstract ways.
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December 16, 2010 2:00pm
eszett

# Redbaiter (12,488) Says:
December 16th, 2010 at 2:00 pm

” it adds colour to the community ”

The sad cliche that is so often the mark of the brain damaged progressive. They’re well known to talk and think in such absurdly abstract ways.

Absurd and abstract, that’s usually your domain, Red. And shamelessly advertising a link again, mate, you are desperate, aren’t you?
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December 16, 2010 2:15pm
Nookin

Well said Calender Girl.

Justin is chairing an inquiry into the adequacy of a team structure that he created! He might be a nice guy. He might have been a moderately talnted cricketer but he has no appeal as a CEO when all this crap happened under, and quite likely because of his watch! The rot is not confined to the last two one-day serieis. It has become pervasive and we need someone elso to take charge.
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December 16, 2010 2:27pm
Redbaiter

Eszett, TrueblueNZ is a communist free site. That you expect I would allow fools like you to take it over (as you have done Kiwiblog) is just another example of how deranged you all are. People need to read your one dimensional drivel like they need a hole in the head.

If it were up to me, you would be confined to Red Alert and the Standard, two examples of the left’s utter hypcorisy in that they profess to be for open discussion but delete and ban anyone who seriously challenges their ideology. Play their game though and you’re OK.

They’re not for free discussion. They are liars and hypocrites.

TrueblueNZ has a clearly stated poilicy that does not include any such pathetic communist double speak and artifice. Please make sure you stay away in future.
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December 16, 2010 2:37pm
Manolo

Darwinism at work: http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/4463633/Hysterical-girl-tries-to-pull-dead-teenage-driver-from-crashed-car

NZ has saved a few dollars in future prison costs.
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December 16, 2010 3:15pm
Pete George

….the left’s utter hypcorisy …. delete and ban anyone who seriously challenges their ideology

Classic. You wouldn’t delete or ban anyone that challenged your ideology, would you. What do you call someone who is hypocritical about hypocrisy? Monobaiter?

If you want to attract serious numbers you may need to allow some serious bunfighting. There’s a limited number of posters who want to futilely nod noodles in unison ad infinitum.
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December 16, 2010 3:18pm
Viking2

Manalo: and a fair bit of trash sperm being spread around to propgate the species.
Self selection to extinction.

A copy of a letter to John Key & Lockwood Smith

FROM A CONCERNED KIWI

I voted National! – What a mistake?

The seabed and foreshore bill should not go ahead!

I have been galvanized into action and am in disgust with the National party’s treatment and disregard for the majority of New Zealanders.

The Seabed and foreshore bill is the first time I have taken an interest in what is happening with politics, due to the number of people I know who have expressed and voiced the same concerns to me. I am sure there is a lot more things I should have been taking notice of as well.

In the main I have trusted that Good Kiwi People in Parliament will always do the right thing by people and for those that support them.

Unfortunately with the National Party that is a misguided trust and the old saying ‘never trust a politician’ it would seem aptly applies to the National Party and John Key

National Party does not have a mandate to proceed with the repeal of the seabed and foreshore bill

I wonder how many other bits of legislation are being passed with no mandate or support?

With my new sudden interest in politics, I submitted my first submission and went to voice my concerns at the ‘pro’ Maori affairs Select committee hearing!

I was given a whole 2 minutes and was grouped with 4 others who each were given 2 minutes! yet other people were given individual time – I assume that was because it was a Maori affairs committee and we all opposed the bill.

The ‘attitude’ questions that were asked by the pro Maori committee were ‘do you have a problem with Maori owing the foreshore’ and ‘what about all the rich Americans and Dutch that own coastal land – have you had any problems accessing their beaches’. There seemed to be a little bias attitude in the committee!

Well I personally, in all my years of surfing, have only ever had problem with Maoris and beaches, with intimidation, threats, and abuse, charging fees, Maoris on Horse back with black alcathene pipes being threatening. Maoris have always been the most unwelcoming people.

I have never had that problem with any other race of people who own coastal land.

I have surfed on pretty much every beach that has surf on in New Zealand Nth and Sth and have done so with respect, and simple requests for access and leaving it as you found it attitude!

I can only imagine more of this ‘Maori Welcoming attitude’ once John key and the National party hands the coast over

The Seabed and foreshore act should remain as it is, where all New Zealanders are treated equal for access, ownership, rights and equal opportunity for economic benefits and be able to have a say on this resource.

With one rule for everybody no matter of race, colour or belief.
No body should be able to do a back room deal with a minister for a privileged opportunity where nobody else in New Zealand can be heard or allowed to voice a concern.

No one based on colour should be given vast economic resources that belong to all New Zealanders
This is just plain wrong!

We are all one people, – New Zealanders with one rule for all

No one group should be given preferential opportunity over another.

Why is there a dispensation only for Maori and not for all in respect of the resource consent?

It is time that New Zealand moved on from race based legislation.

This type of race based politics does nothing to endear respect for the National party and in fact respect of the Maori people. -It is very divisive.

I am appealing to you to do the right thing and stop this nonsense and do not repeal the seabed and foreshore Act.

The National Party has already acting against the wishes of the majority of New Zealanders and from what I can see the majority of National Party supporters in certain bills and acts, and legislation.

Chris Finlayson would have to be a liability, calling good concerned New Zealanders clowns for opposing his blatant pro Maori biased support! – For which he is prepared to give up his holiday to help the Maoris. – I am offended by his comments! why doesn’t he join the Maori party

I for one will not be voting National Again due to this piece of racist, divisive, legislation being forced on good kiwis

Good on the Labour party for actually standing up and not supporting the bill!!

My votes up for grabs and I would be certain that everyone else who I can tell about these exploits will not vote National

An average concerned Kiwi!

Paul
http://www.nzcpr.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13&sid=5bc34e5361317ae1802f23a2908a34fc&p=33346#p33346
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December 16, 2010 3:31pm
Fletch

Looks the the new Super City councillors are already going to give themselves a pay rise off the back of upping rates.

Increase in council charges and pay rise for Auckland councillors

The proposed rates increase of 4.9% is not the only shock in store for Auckland Ratepayers.

The council is looking to increase the fees and charges it makes for a variety of services such as dog registration, liquor permits and licences etc.

Another increase proposed is Councillors’ salary levels – an additional $200,000 has been awarded to the councils Governing Body by the Remuneration Authority, but will be funded from rates.

On Thursday the council will consider raising the Deputy Mayor’s salary to $120,000, committee chairpersons will get $96,000, and councillors $87,000.

Local Board members are also in for pay rises averaging $2,000 each.

This council needs to consider the plight of many ratepayers who will simply not be able to afford any rates increase – let alone a 4.9% increase.

The call from many ratepayers is ‘cut spending’ – and the council should pay close attention to the recent changes in legislation which require councils to decide ‘core services’ and impose their own limits on the level of rate increases.

LINK

Pigs with their noses in the trough, while people down in Greymouth have lost their jobs, with contractors likely to not get paid.

Unconscionable really.
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December 16, 2010 3:35pm
Pete George

Yes, unconscionable if incoming councils can decide their own salary increases almost as soon as they start their term. This is the worst possible look – but it may not be just those elected. Why the heck would the Remuneration Authority award them more money right now? Preposterous.
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December 16, 2010 3:43pm
Redbaiter

“Classic.”

You’re a cheap coward and fraud Mr. George, altering my message so as to give it a completely different meaning. It’s why scum like you are not welcome at TrueblueNZ.

There is no profiit in attempting discussion with such amoral and mentally crippled individuals. Devious and duplicitous to the core, you thrive on deceit and dishonesty, and you can never play the game with a straight bat.
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December 16, 2010 3:46pm
Pete George

What did you mean then? That you won’t ban anyone who you deem to have a different ideology from your blog?
“TrueblueNZ is a communist free site” (your words exactly) suggests you would.
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December 16, 2010 3:56pm
Redbaiter

“What did you mean then?”

See- a good example of the problem with Kiwiblog. One just gets bogged down in exchanges with non comprehending idiots or vicious leftist hate mongers.

For hypocrisy to be present one has to claim one thing and then do the other. IE like Red Alert, claim your site is for open discussion when it isn’t. I make no such false claim at TrueblueNZ, and that is what I said in the message you perverted to suit your needs.
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December 16, 2010 4:10pm
pollywog

I know of no business whose performance is so dire where the CEO continues to speak soothingly to the media without being challenged as to his own “contribution”.

how about the joke that is NZ on Air ?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/blogs/blog-on-the-tracks/4454355/The-joke-that-is-NZ-on-Air-funding-II

and the joker running the music and video funding dep’t who has been taking the piss and sucking mighty hard with a lock jaw on the public tit that might only be able to be prised off now after 20 years

Brendan Smyth…a man who has schmoozed every minister for broadcasting/culture and heritage on his watch with industry shindigs, where they can knob it with the ‘stars’ while overlooking Smyths own glaring inadequacies and reluctance to submit accurate figures for his failures without fudging them

A man solely responsible for every shit kiwi tune you have ever heard on the TV and radio for the last 10 years, who has treated the public purse like his own, dishing out 3 mil of taxpayer money every year to which ever ‘artist’ kissed his arse longest and hardest while running NZoA music dept like a private fiefdom and only paying dues to commercial radio…but don’t just take my word for it.

If you want a hard hitting and immaculately presented report by an independent critic and longtime label owner Rob Mayes that highlights the systemic abuse of privilege afforded a man affectionately known as BS read this…

Sounds like Us – An NZ on Air Analysis
http://www.mediafire.com/?uqg11bmvvvem426
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December 16, 2010 4:15pm
flipper

Re Pike River…

Sorry…have been earning a living since early this AM rather than wasting time on a ‘PUTER.

The Pike River relief fund ($5.5M plus) to which I referred is NOT controlled by the receivers nor by the secured creditors.

It is this mistaken stupidity that results in “class warfare ” crap from the likes of McCarten.

Please grow up – learn before you speak/write !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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December 16, 2010 4:23pm
Pete George

“For hypocrisy to be present one has to claim one thing and then do the other.”

Ok, I thought you have claimed to be a supporter of freedom and free speech, if you are not a hypocrite then you mustn’t support freedom. At least we’ve clarified that.
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December 16, 2010 4:28pm
eszett

# Redbaiter (12,491) Says:
December 16th, 2010 at 2:37 pm

Eszett, TrueblueNZ is a communist free site. That you expect I would allow fools like you to take it over (as you have done Kiwiblog) is just another example of how deranged you all are. People need to read your one dimensional drivel like they need a hole in the head.

If it were up to me, you would be confined to Red Alert and the Standard, two examples of the left’s utter hypcorisy in that they profess to be for open discussion but delete and ban anyone who seriously challenges their ideology. Play their game though and you’re OK.

They’re not for free discussion. They are liars and hypocrites.

TrueblueNZ has a clearly stated poilicy that does not include any such pathetic communist double speak and artifice. Please make sure you stay away in future.

You are such a joke,red. Talk about free speech, but then exclude everyone you disagree with. Even before they posted anything on that site. What a fine example of “free” discussion you are. Talk about one-dimensional personal drivel and hypocrisy, which is too weak a description for you.
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December 16, 2010 4:41pm
Redbaiter

As usual, you leftists don’t have half an idea what you are talking about. Why you are so dangerous. Thick people are so easily perverted to totalitarian causes.

http://truebluenz.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/for-leftists-this-is-a-true-example-of-attacking-freedom-of-expression/

You’re just not worth arguing with.
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December 16, 2010 4:46pm
Manolo

Another experienced liar at work: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/133909-obama-tells-lawmakers-not-passing-tax-deal-could-end-presidency-dem-says

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/15/AR2010121505744.html
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December 16, 2010 5:05pm
eszett

You’re just not worth arguing with.

Then why are you here, Red? Other than to post links to your site to boost your google ratings, like spam from some cheap smutty pornsite? Did I already mention how desperate and pathetic that is?

Why don’t you just stay there with your other calcified geriatrics and continue your tireless effort of mental masturbation?
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December 16, 2010 5:18pm
Redbaiter

“Then why are you here, Red?”

Basically just to get under the skin of scum like you (obviously that is working well) and to let you know you don’t have everyone bluffed. I get enough reads a day. What’s important is not that we waste time arguing your idiotic drivel on your terms, but that we continue to show to those as yet unaware just what poisonous and despicable people you and your comrades are.
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December 16, 2010 5:30pm
Manolo

You wonder what is the US FCC trying to achieve?
The net-neutrality project, another pet of the liberal left, gets closer to fruition: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1516757220101215
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December 16, 2010 5:33pm
eszett

I get enough reads a day.

Obviously you don’t, otherwise you wouldn’t need to resort to such low-level tactics as you do.
It seems to me that we “lefties” get more under your skin than the other way round. Why else would you be banning us where ever you can?

You are so far of the scale of anything resembling logic and reasonableness your posts are but for amusement only.
A scary glimpse at the bizarre fantasy world you inhabit that nobody wants to visit.
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December 16, 2010 5:45pm
shady

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/4466602/Phil-Goff-admits-house-remains-unsold

Rorting the public purse – still? Missed this first time round in 2008.
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December 16, 2010 5:57pm
Hurf Durf

Looks like Ezzie Baby needs his nappy changed again.

Queef Locke still whining about the intelligence service. It’s fairly obvious the Gween scum hate them because of the threat they pose in exposing what they’re really like and blowing open the whole Red edifice. I’m glad of it. I hope Queef and friends keep squirming.
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December 16, 2010 6:27pm
thedavincimode

Steady on shady.

Gaffey has been busy with getting stuck into Pansy, holding onto his job and raising concerns about a matter involving a particularly attractive Asian woman to deal with this minor matter of credibility.

Plus he has to keep practising his new walk which involves endless visits to the gents in order to insert/remove the cucumber as required.

He’ll get onto the house sale when he’s got a moment. The coincidence in timing with the “journos” enquiries is just that. The matter was always in hand.
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December 16, 2010 6:35pm
eszett

Hurf Durf (2,328) Says:
December 16th, 2010 at 6:27 pm

Looks like Ezzie Baby needs his nappy changed again.

Are you offering your services, smurf? I always suspected that you were into kinky stuff like that.
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December 16, 2010 6:38pm
Hurf Durf

Nah mate, I only receive, I don’t give.
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December 16, 2010 6:49pm
noskire

The only excuse to watch TV3 news is about to end. Still, there’s always the Toni Marsh Soundboard.
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December 16, 2010 7:05pm
Fale Andrew Lesa

Tony Marsh, the shining pearl in the centre of an ever-increasing black hole. Who’s the lucky man? lol.
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December 16, 2010 7:23pm
Hurf Durf

British Government to make the poor pay for pie in the sky eco-socialism.

Electricity bills will have to rise by up to £500 a year to pay for a new generation of environmentally friendly power stations, it emerged.

Chris Huhne, the Energy Secretary, will outline government plans today to encourage energy companies to develop low-carbon power plants, including nuclear power stations and wind farms.

Energy analysts say the Coalition’s plans will put Britain on course for a “high cost, low carbon” electricity market where consumers pay the price for environmentally friendly generating technology.

Energy companies say that the shift will require them to invest more than £200 billion in new power stations and networks over the next 20 years.

This wouldn’t have been a problem if the Greenpeace terrorists fucked off and they built nuclear power plants ten years ago. Alas.
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December 16, 2010 7:53pm
wreck1080

Cops are implementing 5kph excess speed tolerance again , from 24th Dec to 5th Jan.

This looks like it will become a regular theme each holiday period.

A bit rubbish really, it is so easy to creep up 6kph on a really wide and straight open road.

Personally, i’d like to keep the 10kph tolerance, and permanently reduce the speed limit on some of the more marginal roads and/or black spots. Some of our 100kph roads are just not designed for that speed.
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December 16, 2010 8:32pm
reid

Proportionately how many accidents are caused by people driving between 100-110 kmh as opposed to higher speeds?

5%, 10, maybe 15%? The cops should use one of these if they want to catch dangerous hoons who cause accidents through speed, which is apparently what they say they want to do.

The really dangerous thing with holiday traffic are the slow ones who won’t pull over at every single opportunity. After 30 years of driving in holiday traffic my experience dunno about yours but mine is I’ve seen a few dangerous hoons over those years but not a lot, but almost every single long trip during holiday season I strike at least one often more people in the slow and inconsiderate category.
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December 16, 2010 9:21pm
Southern Raider

The country needs to rise up against power companies.

Just got a letter from Contact. Daily gas line charge up by 20% and the usage rate up by over 4%.

How the hell can these pricks justify these continued increases? It was only several months ago they went up to counter the ETS and a few months before that for some other non reason.
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December 16, 2010 9:42pm
Southern Raider

Just calculated since Nov 07 my gas has gone up by 33% for the daily charge and 16% for unit charge.

What a rort
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December 16, 2010 9:54pm
pollywog

You are such a joke,red. Talk about free speech, but then exclude everyone you disagree with. Even before they posted anything on that site.

Might want to add that other holy crusader for free speech at the bastion of bunnydom…KG from Crusader Rabbit

and what’s with the confederate flag as a gravatar there Red ?…fancy yourself a duke of hazzard now ?
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December 17, 2010 5:32am
Manolo

Electricity prices going up, petrol over $2 a litre, so the governmenet must be raking in the tax dollars (including the few cents added by the dreaded ETS).

The middle-classes continue to be ripped off by this rapacious government (not any different from the previous one).
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December 17, 2010 8:21am
pollywog

lucky i’m underclass and got nothing for the fatcats to steal then eh ?

🙂
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