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March 13, 2011 10:42am by David Farrar

General Debate 13 March 2011

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Hurf Durf

Reporters in general tbh. It doesn’t help when they scream “A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT HAS EXPLODED!” when in reality it was a nitrogen storage chamber or something similar.

The problem I have is, again, when stupid people take things out of context in order to suit their dream of a Dark Age utopia and even stupider people swallow it. Take Angela Merkel ordering checks of German nuclear reactors amid Gween whining. What faultlines are under Germany?

Speaking of which, I saw an advert earlier where the voiceover of some smug woman crowed about their product using “sustainable wool.” OF COURSE IT’S SUSTAINABLE YOU FUCKING IDIOT IT’S GROWN ON SHEEP. And some Ponsonby moron who thinks he’s clever because he browses the Guardian once a day probably snaps it up because he wants to SAVE THA EARF. It’s ridiculous.
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March 13, 2011 10:17pm
Yvette

Kaipara Harbour protected bird shootings
“… Forest and Bird marine advocate Karen Baird said the slaughter was likely an unsanctioned cultural harvest …
Whangarei Native Bird Recovery Centre manager Robert Webb said he didn’t agree with cultural harvests.
“Why make excuses for a protected bird? What’s the point in protecting it?”
Te Uri O Hau Settlement Trust’s Deborah Harding said there was no way what happened at Okaro Bay was a cultural harvest. “These guys are way out of line and we would like to catch them as much as DoC and Forest and Bird. We are shocked that anyone should treat our taonga with such disrespect.”
The chairman of Pouto based Waikaretu Marae, Patrick Lewis, said the marae had not sanctioned any harvest and didn’t condone what had taken place.”

So, can a marae actually sanction ANY ‘cultural’ harvest?
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March 13, 2011 10:46pm
Hurf Durf

And now I’m reading Duckboy’s post about it on Red Ablert.

My rage is palpable.
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March 13, 2011 10:48pm
Luc Hansen

Oh dear, ACT imploding with style!

Old men playing the race card.

Put them out to pasture.
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March 14, 2011 12:12am
Longknives

Customary
adj
1. in accordance with custom or habitual practice; usual; habitual
2. (Law) Law
a. founded upon long continued practices and usage rather than law
b. (of land, esp a feudal estate) held by custom

How the hell can randomly blasting hundreds of these poor hapless creatures with a bloody shotgun be considered “Customary’??
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March 14, 2011 7:21am
Manolo

American Thinker pans the lazy Messiah:

He didn’t attend a meeting of his top national security aides on Wednesday where the no-fly zone for Libya and other potential actions were discussed. OK – so that’s not unusual. Presidents sometimes stay away from these meetings so that everyone feels comfortable about expressing their opinion. But it seems just another way for Obama to vote “present” when you think about it.

Now, with Japan facing its “most significant crisis since World War II,” according to the prime minister – with devastation so vast as to be nearly incomprehensible from the greatest earthquake to hit the island nation in its recorded history and a hugely destructive Tsunami that followed, not to mention a potential nuclear accident that might make huge swaths of that country uninhabitable – what does our president do?

What he always does – he plays golf.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/03/obama_hits_the_links_while_cat.html
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March 14, 2011 7:22am
Manolo

Pieces of shit. No doubt they’ll say they’re entitled. Just like they’re entitled to use taxpayer money to buy their cigarettes.

And KFC too.
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March 14, 2011 7:23am
Lance

@Hurf Durf
SO a BIG fucking explosion at a Nuclear power plant is nothing to worry about?
Wow
Shit it was ONLY part of the cooling system with a pesky old hydrogen build up. Think nothing of it.

Seriously rose coloured spectacles there.
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March 14, 2011 8:28am
voice of reason

“immigant (189) Says:
March 13th, 2011 at 3:08 pm
And this is in a country that is two big islands.”

It’s 3 Islands actually
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March 14, 2011 10:17am
immigant

Two islands and a vestige of a landmass, devoid of civilization or any value save for the birdlife.
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March 14, 2011 12:55pm
voice of reason

Immigrant – The people living in Oban would be delighted to learn that they arent part of civilisation.

Its 3 Islands. Go look at a map
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March 14, 2011 2:41pm
Luc Hansen

I suppose that Hurf would consider Bhopal to be just a leaky smokestack.

I see McCarthyism has been reinvented in the US. This time, instead of commies, it’s those pesky Muslims under the hammer.

Wait for the blacklisting to start!

Breaking news, another tsunami alert in NE Japan, as bit as the last, caused by a landslide, not an earthquake.

Poor buggers.
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March 14, 2011 3:38pm
Luc Hansen

“big” not “bit.”

Edit function is so unreliable.
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March 14, 2011 3:40pm
Luc Hansen

Another hydrogen explosion in Japan, so far safely contained, but further mass evacuations happening as we speak.

Update on reported tsunami: 3 metres high.
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March 14, 2011 4:00pm

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