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Keeping Stock

Dear Denmark

Please don’t send Marie Krarup (or anyone from the Danish People’s Party) down our way again. We already have more than enough xenophobes of our own.

Best regards
Keeping Stock

http://keepingstock.blogspot.co.nz/2013/04/dear-denmark.html
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April 7, 2013 8:05am
Tauhei Notts

I think daylight saving goes on two weeks too long.
It should stop in the period 21 – 27 March in each year.
The commencement date in early October is about right.
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April 7, 2013 8:06am
Steve (North Shore)

If all of this daylight was saved, where did they put it, and when do we get it back?
Ask NIWA I guess
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April 7, 2013 8:13am
duggledog

Mmmm I love the sleep in you feel like you get for the first week. You don’t really get one of course but it feels like one.

I’ll bet Russell Norman likes it too, it’s just like quantitative easing
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April 7, 2013 8:18am
Judith

Steve (North Shore) (3,558) Says:
April 7th, 2013 at 8:13 am
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Many MP’s have been storing it – you get a glimpse of it when they stand up.
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April 7, 2013 8:19am
kowtow

If there really was anything tangible to save from daylight savings, the government would have taxed it already and the Maoris would put a Treaty claim on it.
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April 7, 2013 8:21am
HB

a really interesting post on Key and his latest (of many!) brainfades….

” It is becoming hard not to see John Key as a man who not only regularly fails to meet the standards expected of a Prime Minister, but who does not even understand what those standards are.”

http://publicaddress.net/hardnews/key-questions/
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April 7, 2013 8:31am
iMP

OMGosh, drones have got how small?

http://conzervative.wordpress.com/2013/04/07/fly-spy-the-nano-mosquito/

Presumably Russians could also use these with plutonium solution to inject and kill spies?
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April 7, 2013 8:35am
dishy

HB: The people who find it hard not to see John Key that way will find a lot of things in life difficult – simple things like where spending money should come from.
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April 7, 2013 8:36am
Harriet

“…..I think daylight saving goes on two weeks too long…..It should stop in the period 21 – 27 March in each year…….”

Spring forward and Fall back keeps it simple enough for everyone to understand when and how they change to and from Daylight Saving Time.
It should be expanded to include all of spring and the fall.[1st saturday to last saturday]
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April 7, 2013 8:36am
dishy

Steve. If you find out where all the saved daylight went, please let me know. I might then be able to find all the money that my missus has saved by buying stuff because it’s cheap. And to think that some people say that a woman will pay $1 for a $2 thing she doesn’t need while a man will pay $2 for a $1 thing he does need……
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April 7, 2013 8:40am
cha

OMGosh, drones have got how small?

A shopped photo is what it is.

http://www.photosfan.com/insects/
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April 7, 2013 8:47am
joe bloggs

Some recognition from the IMF for the direction that the NZ economy is heading – a lot better than what they see in other parts of the world

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10875936
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April 7, 2013 9:03am
Manolo

Picking losers Obama-style: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/04/06/report-obama-backed-fisker-lays-offs-workers-faces-suit-by-solyndra-related/
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April 7, 2013 9:04am
duggledog

Wallace Chapman on Radio Live this morning:

Re Rio Tinto being a Think Big Project: “Really was it?”

Re drop in crime statistics: “For people like us who don’t want to believe it…”
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April 7, 2013 9:05am
Fletch

I think Daylight Saving starts way too early.
The weather is always total pants – rainy and windy – and it’s not possible to make use of the extra daylight anyway.
It shouldn’t start until after Labour Day like it used to.
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April 7, 2013 9:17am
Fletch

I think Marie Krarup may have been a bit extreme in what she wrote, but on the other hand, do we have to have a Maori ceremony at just about every important event? I was debating today with someone as to whether the Aborigines do this in Australia and she thought that they did, but I’m not so sure they do it with quite the regularity that we do.

I know the Americans don’t have Native Americans performing some sort of ceremony at everything.

I had to laugh though at –

When it was time to sing, Krarup said the waiata sounded like a Danish children’s song about a happy ladybird. She said it was accompanied by a “kindergarten-teacher-guitar-accompaniment”.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8517466/Danish-politician-slams-Maori-welcome

I must admit, the infamous ‘rim-a-taka’ strum can sound a bit childish.
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April 7, 2013 9:37am
publicwatchdog

Good moaning Kiwibloggers!

IS Mighty River Power a ‘good’ investment?

Electricity demand in New Zealand.

https://mail-attachment.googleusercontent.com/attachment/?ui=2&ik=18afffb768&view=att&th=13de0ed793e9b5dc&attid=0.1&disp=inline&safe=1&zw&saduie=AG9B_P-I5Cd-lIWIP7LzmJSi9erv&sadet=1365283886419&sads=UWgha5Vz4OMfZnQYWeqzzvPMx08

Penny Bright
‘Anti-corruption campaigner’

2013 Auckland Mayoral Candidate
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April 7, 2013 9:43am
Nookin

Dear Ms Bright

If Mighty River is not a good investment then what reasons do you advance for the taxpayer being the sole investor.
If it is not a good investment then maybe it needs a shakeup?
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April 7, 2013 9:47am
flipper

Duggledog (great sobriquet ) , Wallace Chapman shows his (its ignorance., “Think Big”: was born out of Muldoon/Birch/Gair et al.

Tiwai/Comalco/.NZAS/Rio was out of Hanan/Holyoake/Goosman/.Allen et al.

Oh well, Radio Live is just as dead …….
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April 7, 2013 10:02am
flipper

Nookin…..
Perhaps penny the dip is penny (c) wise but pound($) foolish on this as she is on everything else.
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April 7, 2013 10:14am
Pete George

This can in no way be assumed to represent wider attitudes, but it suggests that some in the Muslim world could be catching up with the modern world.

When a Muslim fraternity from the University of Texas at Dallas took to the streets to protest against domestic violence, these striking pictures made waves around the world.

http://www.upworthy.com/you-won-t-believe-what-these-muslims-are-protesting-about

And…

It was an honor for Alif Laam Meem, the only active Muslim fraternity in the United States, to represent the Muslim community at Mayor Rawlings Rally Against Domestic Violence in Downtown Dallas.

We at Alif Laam Meem say that the issue of domestic violence is one that cannot be ignored. It has repercussions that not only affect the victim, but the family as a whole. And broken families lead to broken communities, and broken communities lead to a broken society.

http://www.tmwf.org/website/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=133

Domestic violence is a recognised problem regardless of religious beliefs.
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April 7, 2013 10:25am
CharlieBrown

That danish mp may have been a bit extreme but it is good hearing that feedback as lets face it – waiatas are savage and alll about trying to intimidate.

Plus I’m tired of having that part of NZ thrown at us all the time. Maori culture isn’t NZ culture and it grossly misrepresents us when it is so prominent at every goverment function.
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April 7, 2013 10:40am
Reid

Following on from this:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/8515361/Money-trail-leads-home-to-New-Zealand

We have this:
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/1668

this: http://rt.com/news/offshore-leak-politicians-tycoons-376/

and this:
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-runs-the-world-solid-proof-that-a-core-group-of-wealthy-elitists-is-pulling-the-strings
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April 7, 2013 11:18am
nickb

Domestic violence is a recognised problem regardless of religious beliefs.

Groundbreaking, incisive comment # 17,031.
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April 7, 2013 11:25am
Viking2

Keeping Stock (8,700) Says:
April 7th, 2013 at 8:05 am

Dear Denmark

Please don’t send Marie Krarup (or anyone from the Danish People’s Party) down our way again. We already have more than enough xenophobes of our own.

Best regards
Keeping Stock

http://keepingstock.blogspot.co.nz/2013/04/dear-denmark.html

So KS, seems that you really are a true lefty.
What with trying to ban a person from visiting our shores and from speaking what they (and many others), percieve to be true you then decide that many of those others are xenophobes.

If you want that crap then you are able to pay more tax etc to fund it but once again some of us don’t so we will be obliged f you would arrange our tax and rate refunds promptly.
Thank you very much.
You are as always entitled to your opinion, BUT, then so are others.

You will make a good Mana Party Member for next years election. 😮
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April 7, 2013 11:32am
OneTrack

Daylight saving should go on to at least the last weekend in April. IMHO 🙂
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April 7, 2013 11:33am
nickb

Please don’t send Marie Krarup (or anyone from the Danish People’s Party) down our way again. We already have more than enough xenophobes of our own.

xen·o·pho·bi·a [zen-uh-foh-bee-uh, zee-nuh-]
noun
an unreasonable fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange.

Can you please point me to the xenophobia? The part where she generalised or talked ill of the entire Maori race? I find it disgusting on the odd occasion I see Chinese people spit on the footpath, which they seem to do more often than any other race I see. Does that make me xenophobic and racist?
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April 7, 2013 11:38am
Viking2

I’m sure you all noticed this company announcement this week.

We will see.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10875477
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April 7, 2013 11:39am
OneTrack

“That danish mp may have been a bit extreme …,”

Was she really? I don’t think so and we have similar comments from other people who forget that in NZ you aren’t allowed to say anything except highly positive comments about the indigenous culture. She must have missed the memo.
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April 7, 2013 11:40am
OneTrack

“Domestic violence is a recognised problem regardless of religious beliefs”

Nek minnit

“Muslims in Pakistan stoned a woman to death on charges of adultery by following the Prophet’s command 100%.

Multiple authentic hadiths say that Prophet Muhammad had ordered stoning to death of a number of people for adultery. “
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April 7, 2013 11:46am
jaba

just saw Shearer on Q&A .. oh dear, what a shocker
about to watch the panel .. wtf is Helen Kelly on again for .. she is like a broken record
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April 7, 2013 11:47am
Pauleastbay

Thinking about marriage between a man and a woman and how sacred and precious the whole thing is and how those homo’s shouldn’t be allowed a bar of it.

Just thinking.
No married man has everbeaten the tar out of his missus or killed her , why ?because marriage is such a sacred institution.
No married man or woman has ever beaten the tar out of their kids or killed them , why ? because marriage is a sacred institution
No married man has ever fucked around with his secretary, why? because marriage is such a sacred institution.
No married man, after fucking around with said secretary has left the sacredness of his marriage behind to leave his wife and kids dependant on the state to survive, why? because marriage is a sacred institution.

I can see now why the religious amongst us here are so vehement that the homo’s shouldn’t be allowed to marry. It so obvious, marriage is a sacred institution and its plainly apparent that if the homo’s are allowed to marry the entire fabric of society will be ripped beyond any recognition and we will start beating and killing our wives and kids because of the homo’s….surely….won’t we….?
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April 7, 2013 12:10pm
Pete George

jaba – I agree, although someone on the panel said he was much better I don’t agree. He was more fluent when switching into recital mode, but if he didn’t have a rehearsed answer he didn’t seem to have a clue.

Helen Kelly was Labour’s main mouthpiece, incredible that they keep including her on the panel.
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April 7, 2013 12:12pm
jaba

just loving the way people want the SIS and GCSB to be more transparent .. they are spies for gods sake.
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April 7, 2013 12:29pm
PhilP

@ Jabba
“just saw Shearer on Q&A .. oh dear, what a shocker”

I have to agree, although in the first part of the interview he seemed quite decisive and made his point quite forcefully. Then captain Mumblefuck really got into gear over Susan Wood’s questioning of him re his overseas bank account, what a shambles he was. Then he was completely off the mark and lying about no growth in NZ year last year the economy grew 3%. How is it he can go on national TV and tell blatant lies and expect to get away with it. He kept evading answering Susan’s questions of how he grow the economy and do things differently AND PAY FOR IT. What a twat, if NZ think he is our best option to John Key then God help us. I could go on and on and on and on…………………….
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April 7, 2013 12:49pm
edhunter

Here is Oz while we don’t have the whole Maori greeting party thing happening, before a load of official functions & sporting events there is at least a thank you & acknowledgement to the ‘original’ owners of the land & quite often a representative from the local tribe. I believe it’s only a matter of time before we start seeing unfortunately all the native bells & whistles being brought out.
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April 7, 2013 12:57pm
kowtow

“Domestic violence is a recognised problem regardless of religious belief”

Could almost have come from the “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others” theme.

Like the Muslims who account for (despite Fisks’ attempts to tarnish other religions with the same brush) the vast majority of this outrage.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-the-crimewave-that-shames-the-world-2072201.html
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April 7, 2013 1:16pm
PhilP

Isn’t it interesting that Shearer can accept his forgetfulness over his non disclosure of his UN bank account as “just one of those things” and quite ok, yet pillories John Key over forgetting about a phone call made 18 months ago. The double standards and total hypocrisy is mind boggling. He would not say to Susan Wood that he was a “rich prick” just that he didn’t have as much money as John Key. Does this man have any credibility to lead NZ forward as PM?…….not.
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April 7, 2013 1:34pm
Left Right and Centre

“There are so many different ways to raise a child and there is no one right way. Every child is different and there is no one-size-fits-all approach.”

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/8518785/Pressured-new-mums-not-always-honest

Bullshit. Endless insufferable parade of nanny state do-gooding cunts ceaselessly telling parents *exactly* what to do with their children and don’t dare suggest anything else to them.

Perfect example- anti-natal classes where pregnant women are denied any information help or advice regarding bottle-feeding.

It’s a ‘one nanny state fits all’ socialist propaganda machine… don’t you dare try to think for yourself.
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April 7, 2013 1:42pm
Keeping Stock

@ Viking2 (11.32am) – if I visit another country, I try hard to be open to their culture and traditions. I don’t drink coffee, but when my wife and I went to Ethiopia a few years ago there were several coffee ceremonies done in our honour as guests; a traditional Ethiopian expression of welcome. I grinned and drank my three cups of coffee (as is required in the ceremony; bloody strong coffee too!) through gritted teeth. I have had traditional welcomes in other African countries that involve the eating of things that normally I wouldn’t even contemplate eating!

That’s one of the great things about travelling; new and different experiences. But you have to be open to them. My point in the “Dear Denmark” post is that Ms Krarup has come to New Zealand with a mind completely closed to cultural experiences outside her comfort zone and political ideology. She was clearly determined not to enjoy those cultural experiences, and has bleated about them on her return home. Given that she is a representative of a party whose co-founder and former leader has said

“It has been mentioned that 9/11 became the cause for a ‘clash of civilizations’. I don’t agree. Because a clash of civilizations would require that there were two civilizations, and that is not the case. There is only one civilization, and that is ours”

her views and her unwillingness to be open to something not of her culture should hardly surprise.

You may applaud her comments; I do not. But because we are a free country, we can hold differing opinions, and the world won’t stop turning.
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April 7, 2013 1:51pm
Left Right and Centre

http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/love-sex/8503901/When-the-clock-strikes-40

Woman decides to have baby by herself at 40+ with the help of good old fashioned romantic love and care known as modern medicine.

Mum, who’s my Daddy? Ah…. you don’t have one mate. But I can introduce you to your gay sperm donor, how about that?

“The fact it’s harder to be a single mother is so obvious, first of all. And second of all, it’s like one of the single mothers says in the film, ‘I don’t want to keep thinking, it’s not ideal, it’s not ideal,’ because nothing is ideal. Why should I compare myself to a norm that is ceasing to exist anyway?”

She *chose* to be a single mother from the start… hello? It’s not ideal is fucking right… so ‘nothing is ideal’ therefore… choosing to be a single parent is justifiably the same as a married couple having kids because ‘nothing is ideal’. Whatever you fucking idiots. Ceasing to exist? No.. committed couples are not ceasing to exist, sorry.

People talk a lot of shit and America is a fucked up scary place.
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April 7, 2013 2:02pm
Left Right and Centre

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8517466/Danish-politician-slams-Maori-welcome

I hate the native shit. I should move to Aussie or UK.

Do you have to fucking like it? Do I have to like Susan Boyle? Of course not. If you don’t like something, you don’t like it.
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April 7, 2013 2:13pm
Fletch

Short but informative video on Natural Marriage vs Same sex marriage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cQCi4ehXkg&feature=player_embedded
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April 7, 2013 2:45pm
Tauhei Notts

Left right and Centre at 1.42 p.m.
Ante Natal classes are where expectant mothers are denied any information, help or advice regarding bottle feeding.
Anti Natal classes are the coaching given Super 15 players in the week prior to their clash with the Sharks.
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April 7, 2013 2:52pm
mandk

LRaC @ 2,02
I read that piece too, and it’s obvious the woman is a head case..
I mean, who thinks this sort of stuff: “I was like, ‘No way, there is a penis growing inside me and I am giving birth to a boy. That is the weirdest thing in the world. I’m going on this big blind date and when he pops out, I’ve never met him; I don’t even know if I like him. I don’t know the first thing about this guy and I’m spending the rest of my life with him.'” ?
You have to worry for the kid.
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April 7, 2013 2:57pm
mandk

Thanks Fletch.
Good video
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April 7, 2013 3:04pm
Scott

Epic liberal fail Part 72

“The world’s first transsexual mayor, former street prostitute Georgina Beyer, admitted yesterday she was naive when the trade was legalised. At a passionate public forum in Papatoetoe yesterday, South Auckland residents berated MPs for not addressing the notorious street prostitution problems around Hunters Corner. MPs from National, Labour and New Zealand First spoke. Beyer, a former Carterton mayor and Labour MP who championed the push to decriminalise sex work a decade ago, said lawmakers glossed over the issue. “We thought, naively, that with the liberalisation of prostitution, that it would not be desirable necessarily to be a street worker.”

The sky is falling. If we took every liberal law of the past 30 years and repealed them all we would become a much better country.
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April 7, 2013 3:14pm
mandk

PhilP
The bit in the Shearer interview that I liked best was when he complained about the exchange rate being too low.
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April 7, 2013 3:27pm
Reid

I’ve posted this before but if you want some Sunday arvo viewing, this isn’t bad. It’s about the institutions that run Whitehall, starting with the Cabinet Office.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DofmtU5pauo
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April 7, 2013 3:35pm
Johnboy

Jolly good Reid. I prefer this clip it seems more like the way things are run in Whitehall! 🙂

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEo8sjnU8Jo

Could be applied to the DPRK situation as well I suspect! 🙂
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April 7, 2013 3:43pm
wat dabney

Scott,

I don’t think the mayor is saying the legalising prostitution was a bad move but rather that it didn’t eliminate street prostitution, which was one of the anticipated benefits.

It’s still a good law for all that.
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April 7, 2013 3:57pm
The Scorned

KS: “Dear Denmark

Please don’t send Marie Krarup (or anyone from the Danish People’s Party) down our way again. We already have more than enough xenophobes of our own.

Best regards
Keeping Stock”

Dear Denmark…..KS, while usually a decent guy with his head screwed on the right way is, in this instance, being a whiny sell out PC wigger……do disregard him. Please send Marie Krarup back anytime….it was great to have someone fresh to NZ say what so many of us feel but are bullied by PC racists intro not openly expressing… That modern Maori “culture” in NZ today, IS primitive, savage and embarassingly over sold shitty nonsense based on made up faux history and distortions of historical facts and we are well over it…..That its taken an outsider to objectively state the blinking obvious is to our shame….not hers.

Thanks

Real NZ
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April 7, 2013 5:33pm
Manolo

Dear Denmark

Please send Marie Krarup down our way again and again. We already have more than enough PC worshipers and Maori apologists of our own, so it’s very good to have a different perspective on these uncivilised Stone Age rituals.

Best regards

Manolo
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April 7, 2013 5:44pm
Johnboy

What the hell:

Dear Marie. Please come back so I can marry you as I find your beliefs far more interesting than all the black sheep crossbreeds that seem to dominate the NZ national flock these days! 🙂

Yours Johnboy
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April 7, 2013 5:49pm
Manolo

The flesh is weak, very weak: http://www.stuff.co.nz./national/politics/8518821/Top-NZDF-boss-stood-down-in-sex-scandal
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April 7, 2013 5:51pm
Viking2

The Scorned (492) Says:
April 7th, 2013 at 5:33 pm

KS: “Dear Denmark

Please don’t send Marie Krarup (or anyone from the Danish People’s Party) down our way again. We already have more than enough xenophobes of our own.

Best regards
Keeping Stock”

Dear Denmark…..KS, while usually a decent guy with his head screwed on the right way is, in this instance, being a whiny sell out PC wigger……do disregard him. Please send Marie Krarup back anytime….it was great to have someone fresh to NZ say what so many of us feel but are bullied by PC racists intro not openly expressing… That modern Maori “culture” in NZ today, IS primitive, savage and embarassingly over sold shitty nonsense based on made up faux history and distortions of historical facts and we are well over it…..That its taken an outsider to objectively state the blinking obvious is to our shame….not hers.

Thanks
-===========================
Kinda like the young person who pointed out the Emporer had no clothes on.
Perhaps that young man was Danish as well!

Well for Goodness sake, Look what Wiki tells us.

Buy THE EVERYTHING TOLTEC WISDOM BOOK

Toltec Wisdom

A wonderful story written by Hans Christian Andersen 170 years ago describes the power of the dream of the planet to influence the opinion of others. It tells the story of an emperor who lived many years ago. He was an average fairy-tale ruler, except for the fact that he was very much identified with his fine clothes.

One day a couple of smart hustlers(Maori) came to town. They spread the word that they could make a cloth and garments that were so fine that they could not be seen by anyone who was stupid or incompetent. The emperor was quite taken by this idea, because not only would he have some very fine clothes to wear, but he could also learn who was stupid and incompetent in his court and kingdom.

As you probably remember, the hustlers(Maori) pretended to weave and sew, and the word went out into the kingdom about the emperor’s magical clothes. The ruler was a little unsure that he would be able to see the clothes himself, so he sent his trusted aides first. Of course, there was nothing there, but they would not admit they were stupid or incompetent, so they agreed that everything was so very beautiful. When they reported to the emperor, he agreed to dress in his new finery and join a procession through the town to show off his clothes.

Everyone in town was anxious to learn who among their neighbors was stupid and incompetent, so they lined the streets in anticipation. Seeing the emperor in his underwear, regally posing in his carriage, they all forced themselves to exclaim, “How lovely are the emperor’s new clothes.” Nobody wanted to be thought of as stupid by his neighbors.

Finally, a young boy looked up at the emperor, saw the truth, and shouted out, “The emperor has no clothes!”

In the original story, the boy’s father grabs him, says “Don’t talk nonsense,” and takes him away. Then everyone who heard the boy begins to admit the emperor is naked and a murmur rises from the crowd: “The boy is right! The emperor has no clothes! It’s true.”

The emperor (Kiwi’s) realized the crowd was right, but he could not admit it, and finished the parade standing proudly in his carriage and in the illusion that he was not stupid or incompetent. Of course, the hustlers(Maori) who started the whole thing ran off with the emperor’s money before he came back. (Sounds Familiar)

Unfortunately, in modern cultures, people are not often so willing to admit that they were hustled.

They may wake up to the fact that they have been tricked into their prejudices or their war, but have invested so much of their identity in being right about what they believed that they cannot tell themselves or others the truth. As long as the dream of the planet is not challenged, people will continue to support it. Nobody wants to be the first to say, “The emperor has no clothes.”

In the story, although the boy is taken away, everyone who hears him begins to spread the truth, until everyone agrees. If only it was that simple. Have you noticed how most dreamed universes are more intent on preserving their reality than encouraging and listening to challenges?

Earlier you learned how childhood domestication uses punishment and reward to enforce the prevailing dream. In real life, when a child says “The emperor has no clothes” and contradicts the dream of the adults, he is more often punished and silenced than heard. The dream of a group provides identity to the individuals, and to challenge the dream is to challenge that identity. Throughout history, there have been voices that proclaimed the truth about emperors of all kinds, and most have been ignored, punished, or worse.

Believing Is Seeing

Very familiar theme to this.
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April 7, 2013 5:52pm
Johnboy

Yes Manolo. I suspect it shall be revealed in due course that the young John Key sailed his model boat in the same pond as the naughty little Commodore did! 🙂
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April 7, 2013 5:57pm
Reid

Here’s another interesting You Tube: hopefully this will generate even more negative karma~~amongst the morons~~.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRSF7fpp8CY
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April 7, 2013 6:49pm
Johnboy

Is it my imagination Reid or do all the pommie polys look like they have an intimate relationship with the port bottle (except for Maggie herself of course)?

Course our own Nick Smith has a very ruddy complexion! 🙂
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April 7, 2013 6:57pm
Redbaiter

“But because we are a free country, we can hold differing opinions, and the world won’t stop turning.”

Yet when Marie Krarup expresses one of those differing opinions you say she is not welcome back in this country. You sanctimonious fraud and hypocrite.
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April 7, 2013 7:03pm
Reid

Yes I think you’re imagining that Johnboy. After all, they’re British! They don’t do that, do they?
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April 7, 2013 7:05pm
Judith

Johnboy (10,302) Says:
April 7th, 2013 at 6:57 pm
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Oh Please – politicians drinking alcohol? Where do you get these ideas from. They are all just one step away from Sainthood. Get with the story line – you rebel you! 😉
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April 7, 2013 7:12pm
cha

The DPRK shenanigans bought this to mind.

http://www.usspueblo.org/Prisoners/The_Digit_Affair.html
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April 7, 2013 7:21pm
Johnboy

Are you winking at me Judith? 🙂
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April 7, 2013 7:35pm
Judith

Johnboy (10,304) Says:
April 7th, 2013 at 7:35 pm
Are you winking at me Judith
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No, the thought of politicians indulging in alcohol and having intimate relationships has bought on erratic eye spasms.
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April 7, 2013 7:45pm
Johnboy

That’s all right then. Your virginity is safe until next time you wink at me. 🙂
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April 7, 2013 7:48pm
nasska

Scene: New York City. Crush barriers are everywhere.
Police officer: “If I were you, I wouldn’t park my bike here. The President will be here in a moment.”
Boy: “No problem officer, I’ve padlocked it.”
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April 7, 2013 8:00pm
Manolo

Frogs, stupid Frogs: http://news.msn.co.nz/worldnews/8638635/france-ups-ante-in-eu-tax-evasion-battle
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