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James

Yah! No1 No1!

Carry on you little people.

🙂
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July 16, 2011 8:06am
Falafulu Fisi

Anyone who’s trading in the commodities market? Here is something that may be of interest. It was published last year.

Log-Periodic Oscillation Analysis and Possible Burst of the “Gold Bubble” in April – June 2011

The authors have updated their analysis with the following paper. Here is a brief quote from the paper:

This article continues our analysis of the gold price dynamics that was published in December 2010 (http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.4118) and forecasted the possibility of the “burst of the gold bubble” in April – June 2011. Our recent analysis suggests the possibility of one more substantial fluctuation before the final collapse in July 2011. On the other hand, in early 2011 we detected a number of other commodity bubbles and forecasted the start of their collapse in May – June 2011. We demonstrate that this collapse has actually begun, which in conjunction with the forthcoming burst of the gold bubble suggests that the World System is entering a bifurcation zone bearing rather high risks of the second wave of the global financial-economic crisis.

The Second Wave of the Global Crisis? A Log-Periodic Oscillation Analysis of Commodity Price Series

I have implemented this model (standard version – there are different more advanced variants) but it hasn’t gone into the production version of my software, because I still have doubts about its claim.
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July 16, 2011 8:30am
Viking2

Shit its cold. Heaviest frost we have had in Tga for a longtime. Global Warming YEH!.
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July 16, 2011 8:35am
Pete George

Grant Roydhouse, Accountant and President Otago Property Investors Assn:

CGT – Dunedin investment property perspective

Imagine a capital gains tax was in place now as proposed. The Labour Party calculations by Berl Economics on page six estimated an annual price appreciation rate of 3.5%. Using this as a basis, this would give an annual increase in the first twelve months of $8,750 on which tax would later be payable of $1,312.

THIS AMOUNT OF TAX IN THE FIRST YEAR IS THE EQUIVALENT TO $25 PER WEEK.

I would conclude that over time rents would need to adjust by an equivalent amount to maintain the current position, if a similar number of landlords would be expected to facilitate supply of accommodation.

The other major factor which effects Rent levels is interest rates… and they are forecast to rise from later this year. Planning a new tax on landlords to apply 2013 might not be ideal for those who might want to rent housing.

Take away the emotive language and focus on facts. The Average property Investor is not a high income earner and may have one to three properties. Trying to save for retirement so as to ring fence themselves from Government!

Summary: CGT + interest rate rise = rent rise
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July 16, 2011 8:36am
Viking2

Now for todays mirth..

hahahaha Really.

TECHNICAL SNAG: The Labour party website featured prominently a video presented by finance spokesman David Cunliffe. When the video finished, viewers were offered links to other videos of women in labour.

Labour’s launch of a website to promote its new tax policy hit an embarrassing technical snag on its first day.

The party set up a website under the heading “Own our Future” which featured prominently a video presented by finance spokesman David Cunliffe all about the party’s tax policy.

When the video finished, viewers were offered links to other videos of women in labour. The videos played while embedded in the campaign website.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Women in Labour. Great keywords for the New Labour website that was supposed to be all about CGT.
Time Labour got some better website developers.

Soo funny. And the idiots are trying to blame hackers. Well noooooo, its called Keywords you dumb arses, and you turn off suggested video’s from U tube.

And the Stuff writer is no better.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/5294798/Labour-site-victim-of-high-speed-morons

Note the title. The only morons are the Labour Party. hahahahaha
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July 16, 2011 8:36am
103PapPap

I thought we already had a capital gains tax in NZ – but it only applied to people who actually bought and sold in order to make a capital gain. And the rate is higher than 15%. So what Labour are proposing is that the ‘little people’, who ‘accidentally’ make a capital gain will get clobbered.

Also, Australia have had capital gains tax for years. And have you seen how that has controlled prices in the Sydney, Melbourne and Brisban property markets!
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July 16, 2011 8:38am
Pauleastbay

103Pappap
You’re right.

But it was all about the IRD being able to prove that you bought the house to make money, that was the hard part.

Everybody said that they bought the house for their kids who were going to move into it in 15 years time, but in the mean time they had over committed and needed to sell, oops sorry, and I made a slight profit in the mean time ,oops sorry.

The IRD did enforce it a bit especially on people buying apartments and sections off developers plans and selling again prior to settlement.

What is ludicrous about labours proposal is, you might own a rental for 20 years, put up with all the damage , the skipped rents , the tenants that you can’t move out without taking days off work to appear in Court and all the other shit that goes with being a landlord and then still have to pay tax when you sell it.

The housing market is such now that there will not be the speculation that was rife, especiallly in the cities three – 4 years ago. The majority of people in rentals are either proffessionals or mums and dads with a house or two using them as a super scheme so they can pay their own health bills etc and wont need the government to see them to the grave.
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July 16, 2011 9:04am
Falafulu Fisi

On commodities again & the stock markets, here is a recent publication that may be of interest tor economists, financial analysts, fund managers, bankers, etc,… here on this forum.

Dependence structure of the commodity and stock markets, and relevant multi-spread strategy

The journal is a subscribed one, so if you want a free copy, then send the author/s a request for a personal pre-print version of their paper. They usually do send free copies on request.
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July 16, 2011 9:13am
wat dabney

More squalid revelations from the “University” of East Anglia.

Today brings news of the arrest of the managing director of a firm hired by the University of East Anglia’s CRU (Climatic Research Unit) to carry out “covert” operations…Neil Wallis of Outside Organisation was arrested today in connection with the spreading News of the World scandal…’The university’s Climatic Research Unit wanted Outside to fire back some shots on the scientists’ behalf after leaked emails from the unit gave climate change skeptics ammunition and led to an avalanche of negative press about whether global warming was a real possibility.’
http://climateaudit.org/2011/07/14/covert-operations-by-east-anglias-cru/
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July 16, 2011 9:26am
Pete George

Phil Goff’s biggest problem

In most of his interviews (and yes, again launching Labour’s CGT) he looks uncomfortable with his message. He looks like he’s saying what he thinks he has to say, and not what he feels and believes.

He’s been in politics long enough to be familiar with dealing with media interviews, so it’s not inexperience.

Goff looks like he is an uncomfortable party puppet, a party that is dragging him in directions he’s not comfortable with.

http://yournz.org/2011/07/16/phil-goffs-biggest-problem/

He doesn’t look and sound like he believes in what he’s saying. His face and voice betrays his words.
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July 16, 2011 9:26am
Viking2

Yeh and their website cockup is just about to go all around the world on facebook. hahahha

What will Ms Clark have to say about that??
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July 16, 2011 9:39am
Other_Andy

The Mother Gaia worshippers are accusing the Freitas of heresy.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10738739

Maybe they should read the latest paper by the National Academy of Sciences.
“Given the widely noted increase in the warming effects of rising greenhouse gas concentrations, it has been unclear why global surface temperatures did not rise between 1998 and 2008.”
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/06/27/1102467108
What!?!
No global warming?

Oops, the facts don’t fit the dogma.
Find new facts.
“We find that this hiatus in warming coincides with a period of little increase in the sum of anthropogenic and natural forcings. Declining solar insolation as part of a normal eleven-year cycle, and a cyclical change from an El Nino to a La Nina dominate our measure of anthropogenic effects because rapid growth in short-lived sulfur emissions partially offsets rising greenhouse gas concentrations. As such, we find that recent global temperature records are consistent with the existing understanding of the relationship among global surface temperature, internal variability, and radiative forcing, which includes anthropogenic factors with well known warming and cooling effects.”
But, but…I thought you said the Sun had no affect on the Earth’s climate?
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July 16, 2011 9:45am
Nookin

We do have a form of CGT on land – not just those transactions where someoone buys with the intnetion of selling. A modest subdivision of, say a rural lifestyle block, large urban section or farm is likely to be taxed if the scheme is started with 10 years of acquisition. Gains made if a propoerty is rezoned and this adds to the value (15%, I think) can be taxable. A major subdivision of a property is taxable regardless of the date of acquisition. Unfortunately these rules are so complex ( esp in the case of smaller subdivisions) that it is difficult to know the position before it is too late.
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July 16, 2011 9:47am
Fletch

@Pete George,

Goff reminds me exactly of Helen Clark in his spoken delivery. Just compare video of the two. He could be her clone.

Both have this patronizing, smarmy manner of chuckling and smiling when they answer a question, as though they know the answer because they’re smarter than you, and the person asking the question (or with an opposing point of view) is stupid and doesn’t know what they’re talking about. The manner of delivery is the way you’d explain something to a child or an idiot.

This kind of thing doesn’t go over well with adults, who don’t like to be treated with contempt or made to feel stupid because their point of view differs with his.
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July 16, 2011 10:06am
starboard

our natives in action again…

“Police are still searching for three armed offenders who smashed their way into a Hastings home early yesterday.
The intruders, carrying a gun and another weapon, burst into the Lyell St house about 2.30am”
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July 16, 2011 10:07am
starboard

“European regulators will release potentially unsettling details on the finances of 90 banks today to convince markets that the financial system as a whole could withstand big shocks, such as a Greek debt default.
The publication of the results of the stress tests by the European Banking Authority is supposed to reduce the uncertainty hobbling banks’ activities through disclosure of details including who holds how much in bonds issued by Greece and other shaky eurozone governments.”

shit , meet fan…
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July 16, 2011 10:11am
wat dabney

Thanks Other_Andy,

An entire decade with no warming whatsoever and we’re still getting the same old boilerplate alarmism such as “there is no debate over the direction of change. Global warming is happening and will continue to happen and it is driven by human activities so the recent warming is not part of a natural cycle” from one ‘Glenn McGregor, director of the School of Environment at Auckland University.’

What a complete load of wank. It would help if he could learn to read a chart.
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July 16, 2011 10:18am
reid

Could you take one of these?
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July 16, 2011 10:48am
Pete George

Just watched David Parker on The Nation saying he was resolutely behind Phil Goff as leader, as he squirmed in his seat and looked away.

Missed most of the interview about CGT, but Garner then pushed Parker on the age of eligibility of Super “because Goff said Labour will address the big issues that National won’t”.

Parker said Labour are not discussing that – “one thing at a time”.

I’d hope a major party could multi task.
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July 16, 2011 10:55am
Other_Andy

What is the poll in the NZ Herald telling us?

Does Labour’s economic policy have you reconsidering which way you’ll vote this election?

68% no
32% yes

Are 32% now more likely to vote Labour or National?
Are the 68% mainly Labour voters or National voters?

It is telling us absolutely nothing, zilch, nada.
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July 16, 2011 11:04am
Pete George

Garner on The Nation talked to Gareth Morgan on the CGT, and I pretty much agree with him.

He congratulates Labour for bringing CGT up and putting it on the table, but says there are some many loopholes in their version you could drive a bus through them.

He also criticises National’s initial reaction.

Morgan says that political parties won’t do the hard things necessary unless they are made to by the public. I agree.

The best thing that can happen now is to open up debate on CGT, and
– force Labour to get sensible with a decent version
– force National to also agree to the benefits of CGT and consider adding one.

Then either way we can get what we want – and a proper non-politicised version.

I’m not anti-CGT nor anti-Labour, I’m anti poor political process.
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July 16, 2011 11:21am
Eisenhower

Some stark choices await the White House if they can’t get a deal to raise the debt ceiling. No pay for federal workers, active duty military, Justice Dept, FAA, etc. On top of that a credit downgrade will increase interest payments.

Its starting to look very ugly.

…When the debt ceiling was reached on May 16, the Treasury undertook what it called “extraordinary measures” to borrow from various accounts. That freed up about $232 billion to tide it through the next few months while Congress and the White House worked out a budget plan.

That cash cushion has been melting away; it rose briefly in June as tax payments and other receipts exceeded outlays. But it’s on a downward track toward zero sometime in early August. The Treasury projects that it will be flat broke on August 2, with no way to raise enough cash to cover all the bills.

On or about that date, government officials have to begin making hard choices. For August, the Treasury projects it will take in roughly $172.4 billion to cover $306.7 billion worth of spending that, by law, it has to pay. To demonstrate what those choices might look like, Jerome Powell and his colleagues at the Bipartisan Policy Center took a look at how far the money would go.

They started with the widely held assumption that interest on the debt ($29 billion for August alone) would be paid first, thus avoiding the disastrous impact of a default.

The rest of the incoming cash would cover a month’s worth of Social Security ($49.2 billion), Medicare and Medicaid ($50 billion), veterans affairs programs ($2.9 billion), education and tuition programs ($14 billion), housing assistance for the poor ($6.7 billion), food stamps ($9.3 billion), and unemployment insurance ($12.8 billion).

That’s where the cash runs out and the list of unfunded programs begin. There would be no money left for defense contracts ($31.7 billion) or military active duty pay ($2.9 billion).

The Department of Justice ($1.4 billion) would close, shutting down the federal court system and halting operations at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. So would the Department of Energy ($3.5 billion), including national nuclear energy programs.

The Transportation Department ($1.3 billion) would cease functioning, including the Federal Aviation Administration and air traffic control system. So would the Centers for Disease Control ($0.5 billion).

And there would be no money to cover tax refunds ($3.9 billion) from the IRS. Even if there were, there would be no federal workers ($14.2 billion in salaries and benefits) to mail the checks.
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July 16, 2011 11:23am
Manolo

And this in the land of the free: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/07/15/georgia-police-close-girls-lemonade-stand/
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July 16, 2011 1:01pm
Viking2

Pete, you are reverting to form.
Stop taxing people and redistributing the money.
All CGT is for is to continue the same old shit.
And you want to make a difference.
None that I can see.
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July 16, 2011 1:23pm
backster

PETE G…You, Morgan,DPF, and Labour may feel the people need to be taxed more. I don’t. I think the Government and Business are making satisfactory progress. I am alarmed at the amount being borrowed by the Government but I think this can be reversed by elimination of waste and downsizing government. There is absolutely no reason why National need to consider or debate any Labour proposal to raise extra tax. John KEY has already stated that to impose such a tax would stop productivity in its tracks. I agree with him.
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July 16, 2011 1:33pm
Manolo

To all the hand-wringers, do-gooders, socialists and pinkos who want higher taxes and are rooting for a CGT implementation:
Why do you feel constrained by the current tax structure? Why don’t you pay more now out of your own volition without trying to impose this mess and burden on the rest of us?

The state will never turn down your generous donation. Go ahead.

I pay enough taxes already and will never ask for more!
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July 16, 2011 2:00pm
Viking2

Well Aussie has CGT and look at the predictions there right now.

Interest rates set to plunge, Westpac says

Geoff Elliott, Business editor
From: The Australian
July 16, 2011 12:00AM

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ONE of the nation’s big four banks expects the Reserve Bank will soon slash interest rates, while some of Australia’s most prominent businessmen have warned that the European debt crisis and struggling Australian households are slamming the economy into reverse.

As Julia Gillard attempts to sell a sceptical public the carbon tax, which she acknowledges represents a massive economic transition, business leaders are warning that the carbon tax debate is about to be overwhelmed by international events they fear could spark a second global financial crisis.

Westpac economist Bill Evans yesterday reversed the bank’s long-held view that the next move in interest rates would be up, saying things had turned so bad so quickly that rates could be slashed over the next 12 months by 100 basis points. If passed on in full, this would slash the current standard variable home rate of about 7.8 per cent to 6.8 per cent.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/interest-rates-set-to-plunge-westpac-says/story-e6frg8zx-1226095585635
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July 16, 2011 2:25pm
Jimbob

Jo Doolan from Ernest & Young is calling the CGT “death duties by stealth”. Which is exactly what it is. Once it is in, you will never get rid of it.
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July 16, 2011 2:32pm
reid

Jimbob it’s really bad for the farmers which hits National and mum and dad property developers which hits Labour. Since those two games are big in NZ relative to total population this is why it’s not been on the agenda till now. (Since the mum and dad property developers went to the Greens.)

I’m surprised they want to tax businesses. What would happen to the economy if a CGT was applied to public companies and partnerships as well? Imagine a 15% tax on an M&A on a large public company. So if they don’t do it in that commercial arena, why are they taxing single proprietor owned businesses? What’s the logic there?

Assuming that’s what they’re doing, is it?

I’m in favour of a CGT, but well designed and implemented when good times are here not now, and not for the foreseeable future either. We are in for a long hard haul globally so why waste time with long-term re-structuring policies that short-term: i.e. for 7 years create strong fiscal drag? Where is the sense in that?

Naturally it’s Silent-T’s diabolical plan to shaft Goff, everyone knows that, but Phil seems blissfully unaware. How curious.
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July 16, 2011 3:09pm
yesjg

Hong Kong has a personal tax rate of 15% and a business tax rate of 16.5% the place is booming and has been for the last 30 or 40 years. People live longer than here in New Zealand and seem to be at least as happy as us. It would seem to me to be the kind of system that we badly need but if that is so why has it not been introduced in the past, and this being the case I have some questions:

1/ What are the advantages and disadvantages of adopting such a system?
2/ What is stopping us introducing such a tax system?
3/ What would the effect be on the ordinary New Zealander
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July 16, 2011 3:22pm
reid

why has it not been introduced in the past,

Because in 198? yesjg, Lange stopped Douglas’ reforms and said we’d all take a ‘cup of tea.’

Otherwise NZ would have been one of the first if not the first, country in the world to adopt it at that time and one wonders what would have happened if we had.

That’s why.

The reason why it can’t happen is cause Liarbore play the Keynesian memes cause the idiots have forgotten the morass of the 70’s and early 80’s which was the height of Keynesianism.

The fools have made it into their base, built it into the mentality through generations. Consequently today most Western nations have sea anchors of large numbers of lefty fools who really think the market is some evil malevolent monster just waiting to gobble up them and their whanau.

Whenever these idiots get into power, they dismantle or sabotage critical Hayekian infrastructural elements. Such as they implement minimum wage laws for example. This is classic Keynes vs Hayek.

Because the other arm of the Western lefty is the commie heritage, they’re also very very very expert at spin, propaganda, et al. If conservatives were half as good as lefties we would always be in power. See Liarbore have a very powerful weapon: the sympathy card. Their trump is they occupy the heart. The conservative occupies the mind.

This combo of Keynesian economics which they really believe and emotional pull successfully sabotages the economic rationalism which conservatives are capable of bringing to the party, if only we were allowed to.
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July 16, 2011 3:51pm
AlphaKiwi

@ ysjg

I support making personal tax rates, GST, and business tax all 15%.

However, most Kiwis wouldn’t because it would mean an end to our welfare, education and health systems as we know it.
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July 16, 2011 3:51pm
reid

it would mean an end to our welfare, education and health systems as we know it.

Yeah but who cares about those, AK?
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July 16, 2011 4:03pm
starboard

“However, most Kiwis wouldn’t because it would mean an end to our welfare, education and health systems as we know it”

..except me. I’ll pay 10% of my gross to the gummit as long as everything else is tax free. I will look after my own needs thank you very much…health , super etc..the bludgers , socialists , lazy shits can rot in the street..
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July 16, 2011 4:28pm
reid

Guess who just jumped into the Murdoch issue?

Gee. Who woulda thunk.
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July 16, 2011 4:31pm
Manolo

I’ll pay 10% of my gross to the gummit as long as everything else is tax free.

I’ll go with starboard’s idea. Fair is fair.
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July 16, 2011 4:33pm
starboard

cue screaming liberals..” but think of the children!! whos gunna look after the children !!!!!”..who cares..keep it in ya pants unless you can afford them. Wake up call NZ.
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July 16, 2011 4:37pm
Falafulu Fisi

The following may be of interest to psychologists.

Self-organized criticality and the predictability of human behavior
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July 16, 2011 4:57pm
kiwisimplexity

Convicted rapist in your home, is that ok?
In 1997 John Clarke (a.k.a. John Connor) kidnapped and raped a 15-year-old schoolgirl from Lyttelton.
http://kiwisimplexity.wordpress.com/2011/07/16/convicted-rapist-in-your-home-is-that-ok/

Olé, Barcelona
Barcelona. A vibrant city with a long history.
http://kiwisimplexity.wordpress.com/2011/07/16/ole-barcelona/

http://kiwisimplexity.wordpress.com/
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July 16, 2011 5:15pm
Pete George

PETE G…You, Morgan,DPF, and Labour may feel the people need to be taxed more.

I’m not suggesting people are taxed more, like Morgan I support less tax but more broadly based. Big difference. The simpler the better to avoid avoidance loopholes – and to avoid political parties using simplistic bullshit slogans because the tax is too complex.
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July 16, 2011 6:34pm
nasska

A zoo had acquired a very rare species of gorilla. Within a
few weeks, the gorilla, a female, became very ornery, and
difficult to handle. When he examined her, the zoo
veterinarian determined the problem: She was in heat. What
to do? There was no male of this species available.

While reflecting on their problem, the zoo administrators
noticed Mike, an employee responsible for cleaning the
animals’ cages. Now Mike, it was rumoured, possessed ample
ability to satisfy any female, and he wasn’t very bright.
So the zoo administrators thought they might have a
solution.

Perhaps they could entice Mike to satisfy the female
gorilla. So he was approached with a proposition: Would he
be willing to screw the gorilla for five hundred bucks?

Mike replied that he might be interested, but would have to
think the matter over.

The following day, Mike announced that he would accept their
offer, but only under three conditions.

“First,” he said, “I don’t want to have to kiss her, and
second, I want nothing to do with any offspring that may
result from this union.”

The zoo administration quickly agreed to these conditions,
but what could be the third?

“Well,” said Mike, “You’ve gotta give me another week to
come up with the five hundred bucks!”
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July 16, 2011 7:01pm
Viking2

Oh that’s sad. naaska. and be careful or you will have the SPCA in here turning over all our blogposts looking for someone being cruel to dumb animals.

Aha , did I hear you mention the Labour party.
Women in Labour.
I see that Jacinda is twittering all about a landlord with 5 properties. He must have had more than that to make her twitter.
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July 16, 2011 7:16pm
Viking2

Reminds me of the new specsaver advert I was sent a day or so ago.
Titled”the Happy Farmer”

Mrs farmer hand milking the house cow. Mr farmer standing on the other side.
Mrs farmer needs new specs so can’t tell one tit from another. Mr farmer grinning and mrs farmer wondering what he is grinning about.
Certainly didn’t appear to be a soft cock the farmer had..
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July 16, 2011 7:21pm
nasska

Two men meet in a pub. One says to the other, “Do you know the joke about Phil Goff having to leave office and become a lavatory attendant?”
“No,” says the second.
“Neither do I,” says the first, “but I just like the way it starts.”
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July 16, 2011 7:26pm
Viking2

Labour’s plan means we can keep our countries assets – for example, the National Government #ownourfuture|6 hours ago
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July 16, 2011 7:54pm
nasska

The AMA and NZMA have declared that the long term
implications of drugs or medical procedures must be more
fully considered. Over the past few years, more money has
been spent on breast implants and Viagra than on Alzheimer’s
Disease research.

It is now projected that by the year 2020 there will be
thirty million people wandering around with huge breasts and
erections who are unable to remember what to do with them.
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July 16, 2011 8:04pm
Steve

“It is now projected that by the year 2020 there will be
thirty million people wandering around with huge breasts and
erections who are unable to remember what to do with them”

Must be those metrosexuals. Huge breasts and a hardon? And that’s just the guys
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July 16, 2011 8:21pm
Luc Hansen

# Manolo (4,641) Says:
July 16th, 2011 at 1:01 pm

And this in the land of the free: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/07/15/georgia-police-close-girls-lemonade-stand/

Neither are you permitted to feed the hungry in the Land of the Free:

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/6/24/feeding_resistance_food_not_bombs_members
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July 16, 2011 9:56pm
Griff

Anyone here read the Declaration of Independence at New Zealand revisionist History on line
seems the translations for Kingitanga and Tino Rangatira are very different to the treaty ones

Congratulations to Slaphappy Sue and Johny way to go co vice presidents. do you get a car park?

Who needs the WWC elections are way more fun

Fashionable color trends this fall The Greens are debating going from red with green spots to aqua , “mana” looks to go bright red with brown spots, Labor has faded to a Very pale Pink, National pale blue with yellow and brown spot
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July 16, 2011 11:47pm
Manolo

Some greedy people looking for an opportunity: http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/newsdetail1.asp?storyID=200638
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July 17, 2011 11:31am
Viking2

A couple of fun videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwW0g1Vy3Fw&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PQitC-z73o&NR=1&feature=fvwp&has_verified=1
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July 17, 2011 11:54am
starboard

“It is insufferable arrogance that something as important to us as the moko is used with such blatant disregard,” says Mr Stevens”

..” but give us a couple of million and we will look the other way…cheer bro..”
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July 17, 2011 12:19pm
Viking2

Its mine, you can’t have it.
eh starboard.
I copywritted it in 1840.
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July 17, 2011 12:48pm
Viking2

In defense of Alasdair Thompson and free speech.

http://www.medicinenet.com/premenstrual_syndrome_pictures_slideshow/article.htm

A must for every women and a good guide for men.
We need to know when to go fishing.
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