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Doc Holliday

How many Christians does it take to change a light bulb?

None. Christians stay in the dark praying a god will throw some light on them. Nothing happens. But it will when you are dead. Listen. Listen carefully. Keep listening. Voices tell you.

How many Catholic priests does it take to change a light bulb?

None. They prefer to grope in the dark and then the priest is changed.
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November 7, 2013 8:00am
stigie

Len Brown has to resign today !
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November 7, 2013 8:01am
iMP

Dr Billy Graham, 95 today. What a great man. An interesting quote, “War does not incresase death.”
Here he is with larry King 1988.

http://conzervative.wordpress.com/2013/11/07/face-of-the-day-billy-graham-95-today/
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November 7, 2013 8:01am
iMP

How many Doc Hollidays does it take to change a light bulb? The lights are off up top and targeted prejudice reigns.
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November 7, 2013 8:02am
duggledog

Watched The Vote last night on TV3, the debate was ‘should we mine and drill more.’

The depth of hatred coming from Russell Norman towards the mining / drilling sector was truly astonishing. If this guy were able to, he would crash NZ through the ‘transition we must make to renewable energy’ and to hell with the chaos. He looks to me like the sort of guy who would rain vengeance down upon those that create wealth and jobs in this country.

He spoke well, but also employed the same condescension we heard from Julie Anne Genter towards Sean Plunket during a debate about Trans Gully. To paraphrase, ‘you are dinosaurs, we are modern, we are the future’.

It’s a brilliant ruse and works beautifully with the young, feckless, stupid and envious voter.

Worth watching on demand.
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November 7, 2013 8:10am
Doc Holliday

How many iMPs does it take to change a light bulb?

None. He’s too feeble to sock it one.
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November 7, 2013 8:13am
iMP

Duggledog, NZ could be as wealthy as Kuwaitis, none of whom work. We have the wealth but not the will.
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November 7, 2013 8:14am
big bruv

Len Brown is a lying piece of shit who should resign.
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November 7, 2013 8:14am
big bruv

“Dr” Billy Graham is scum.

Remember, this is the man who called the 9/11 attacks a wake up call from God. There is nothing that these anti science bigots will not do to further their fucked up views.
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November 7, 2013 8:18am
Colville

Looks like those Roast Buster guys are going to have a few years inside to learn a bit about rape.
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November 7, 2013 8:21am
Lance

Who done it?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11152800

Who cares?
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November 7, 2013 8:29am
gump

Only in America: Police plumb new depths…

http://www.kob.com/article/stories/S3209305.shtml?cat=500#.UnqbZWQayc0
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November 7, 2013 8:46am
peterwn

Aratere failure – the ship seems jinxed but in fairness, the problem seems unrelated to other problems experienced. Metal fatigue of the propeller shaft seems the most likely problem which immediately puts the other shaft ‘under a cloud’, so the ship should do no sailings until the cause is known. This places a strong incentive to try and fish for the propeller and stub of shaft if possible – the cost is likely to be more than the replacement cost of the propeller. This is especially if the remaining part of the shaft cannot be removed without dry docking.
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November 7, 2013 8:51am
Paulus

I hear that the Marae are complaining about the cost of Insurance for them – like everybody else.

Try this one – All the Marae should get together and self insure – it must be all as collective spread is essential.

There is a calculation method called a “Burning Cost” which can be applied to them to determine each Marae base premium annually. Generally be based on a three year basis

Claims over Premiums x a Ratio to cover such as “Claims Incurred but not reported” (called IBNR) losses under negotiation and expenses.

This not a profitable idea but a Mutual – owned by all the Marae call it MaraeInsure. Particular Marae can make their own terms and retained excesses from this base rate.

Don’t wait for the NZ Post/KiwiBank associate/subsidiary KiwAssure – it will not happen.
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November 7, 2013 8:54am
iMP

Ian Wishart’s latest hyperbole is out. While obviously intelligent and well-researched, I disagree with the basic premise, which – if I’m right, and he is wrong – would sorta undermine the whole theory in Total(itaria).

http://conzervative.wordpress.com/2013/11/07/ian-wishart-one-world-govt/
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November 7, 2013 8:56am
Lance

@gump
sorry gump, Manolo beat you to this story yesterday.
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November 7, 2013 8:57am
Manolo

@Lance: the world didn’t lose anything with Arafat’s demise. The old terrorist was long overdue to meet its maker.
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November 7, 2013 9:00am
Samuel Smith

Excellent News from Len Brown.

Finally all Council workers will be paid a Living Wage. About time!
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November 7, 2013 9:05am
Lance

@Manolo
Also at his demise it was discovered he had looted at least a billion dollars of aid money and other stolen assets that was meant to have gone to the Palestinians.

A fine example of a peoples hero
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November 7, 2013 9:06am
Yvette

The Corporate Plot That Obama and Corporate Lobbyists Don’t Want You to Know About
A US-led trade deal is currently being negotiated that could increase the price of prescription drugs, weaken financial regulations and even allow partner countries to challenge American laws. But few know its substance.

The pact, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), is deliberately shrouded in secrecy, a trade deal powerful people, including President Obama, don’t want you to know about. More than 130 members of Congress have asked the White House for greater transparency about the negotiations and were essentially told to go fly a kite. While most of us are in the dark about the contents of the deal, which Obama aims to seal by year end, corporate lobbyists are in the know about what it contains.

… with Australia, Canada, Japan and eight other countries in the Pacific region.

I hope the fact New Zealand is not even mentioned, is not a reflection of our bargaining power. This fait accompli is apparently due delivery around New Zealand’s silly season
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November 7, 2013 9:06am
Ross12

duggledog

I flicked onto The Vote last night just as Norman was speaking –you are right about his attitude. Couldn’t watch it all as he pissed me off so much with his misinformation.
NZ is fortunate to have a very large part of our energy needs met by so called renewables .But we are fortunate from a cost point of view, nothing else. His comment that the IEA report says renewables is the fastest growing industry worldwide has to be out of date. It is probably the industry losing money the fastest. He forgets there are currently 1200 coal fired power stations being built around the world. ( Including the Germans building about 20 as fast as they can to avoid energy poverty levels growing and to cover the massive shortfalls resulting from their failed attempt at converting to renewables)
In the UK there is the stupid situation of wind farms building diesel generator plants next to their farms to cover the times when the wind doesn’t blow.
In Australia if the Greenies would shut up for a bit they could reduce their emmisions below the “Kyoto” target levels by just modernising their coal fired power stations with up to date technology. But no the lefties don’t want to know. Blinkers !!
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November 7, 2013 9:07am
flipper

So Len the railway stud is coming out of his closet today with a diversionary tactic – propose the $18.40 min wage (actually, it will cost more than $23.50) for all ACC employees.

Oh dear. So what happened t6o all that belt tightening he promised???
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November 7, 2013 9:10am
flipper

November 7th, 2013 at 9:07 am
duggledog

I flicked onto The Vote last night just as Norman was speaking –you are right about his attitude. Couldn’t watch it all as he pissed me off so much with his misinformation.
88888

Did not see the programme, but wonder: Was Norman given a free ride?
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November 7, 2013 9:25am
Longknives

“Finally all Council workers will be paid a Living Wage. About time!”

Including the cleaners that have to mop up Len’s jizz??
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November 7, 2013 9:37am
flipper

Samuel Smith (163) Says:
November 7th, 2013 at 9:05 am
Excellent News from Len Brown.

Finally all Council workers will be paid
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OK, Sammy/Haminda…,if Len moves to apply the $18.40 (actually $23.50) to ALL council employees, that would be a really progressive policy that most Auckland ratepayers would accept.

But that would mean that the definition of ALL. included the Mayor (when Akld gets one), Councillors, their appointees, all executives and managers, including the over puffed Town Clerk. Everyone.

That would be fair, would it not, Sammy?

Fat chance…..
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November 7, 2013 9:40am
Fletch

Posted this on yesterday’s GD thread early this morning.
Not quite sure what to think about it. A lot of conservative sites are posting it.

Obama’s being gay has been mentioned before, but no one ever took it seriously or seemed to care.
A school classmate of Barrack Obama (or Barry Soetoro as he was known then) named Mia Maria Pope confirms that he was gay. Hung out with gays and wasn’t interested in girls. He was even back then a pathological liar and a drug user. Used cocaine etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy2K5SIuK2E

Not sure why she would have a reason to lie.
Just who really is Barrack Obama?
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November 7, 2013 9:41am
jcuk

I think it is disgusting as I put up with an inferior service … copper broad band …. at the same price as the superior version.
The commerce commission did good to try and remedy the situation …. but of course the politicians want to upset that becuase it upsets their other plans …. we are getting almost as bad as America.
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November 7, 2013 9:44am
Ashley Schaeffer

Not sure why she would have a reason to lie.

Money? I’m no fan of Obama, but this story reminds me of the birth certificate saga and has a whiff of conspiracy theory about it. As RB has said, progs need to be defeated on ideological grounds rather than personal attacks. Obama may very well be a Manchurian Candidate but he is also just a symptom of the cancer that is progressivism.
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November 7, 2013 10:01am
Ross12

Samuel Smith

So the Brown is saying to the lower paid ACC workers –” Sorry guys we have just realised we have been screwing you over the past few years so we are going to increase your wages to help you out “. Are your union mates going to go in after the increase and ask the the exist relativity has to be maintained ??
If the ACC think it’s cleaners and others are being under paid for the work they do , that is fair enough and they can make adjustments but using this ” living wage” logo is just going give to dear old Lenny a bigger headache than he already has.
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November 7, 2013 10:04am
Jack5

Immigration has got to be a hot topic in the next election.

The Ombudsman’s decision on partners of student and work visa holders being allowed entry means that for universities and language schools, every student they recruit can now bring with them a whole family to gain citizenship.

Next it will be every tourist who buys a ticket to NZ as a reward will get be eligible for citizenship – and their spouses, parents, children, and cousins.

A good start on change would be to give the power of the Ombudsman authority to act only on behalf of existing NZ citizens.

The politicians, the foreign-owned MSM, and supporters like the Palmerson North university guy who sings the multicultural song, are giving the country away.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11152906
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November 7, 2013 10:09am
OneTrack

“So what happened to all that belt tightening he promised???”

The left don’t know the meaning of the word. We should tax more and spend more. Other peoples money – yay.
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November 7, 2013 10:17am
Manolo

How to square politics and economics? http://www.cnbc.com/id/101175140
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November 7, 2013 10:19am
OneTrack

jcuk – “I think it is disgusting as I put up with an inferior service … copper broad band …. at the same price as the superior version.”

So get the “superior” fibre version then.
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November 7, 2013 10:20am
Gulag1917

Obama the humanitarian
http://www.businessinsider.com.au/obama-said-hes-really-good-at-killing-people-2013-11
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November 7, 2013 10:23am
duggledog

Flipper;

No Norman was not given a free ride (unlike on his regular-to-the-point-of-being-the-voice-of-the-opposition on Morning Report).

He gave as good as he got and I thought it was very well balanced indeed. He, Bunny McDiarmid from Greenpeace and the gentleman from Gisborne scared the shit out of me, because I know what people like that will do given the chance. But they are very, very attractive to the younger constituents who have not had the benefit of hard life lessons in the real world. Which is why the Greens want to lower the voting age.

My only complaint about ‘The Vote’ is that the final result, which was roughly 55 % against more drilling / mining and 45 % for, would not necessarily be indicative of the nation’s temperature on this issue itself. The poll is an aggregate of the audience (clearly but not purposely stacked – who else is going to be in a studio audience in downtown Auckland at short notice but downtown Aucklanders), Twitterers, Facebookers, visitors to the show’s website and texters, so therefore possibly not that many people over the age of 50.

If the result is indeed indicative then the drilling / mining sector faces an uphill battle should there be a change of government next year, and we’ll be right back to square one in a year or two – i.e. the cupboard will be bare again.

Again, it’s a must see to try and watch on demand as it clearly shows Russell Norman’s raison d’etre in full technicolour
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November 7, 2013 10:23am
Manolo

The Luddites will be pissed off: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/06/nyregion/referendum-to-expand-casino-gambling-in-new-york-is-approved.html?hp&_r=0
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November 7, 2013 10:27am
kowtow

Yasser Arafat.

Fashionable face of Palestine and hero to the media and loony left.

An Arab born in Egypt.
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November 7, 2013 10:45am
kowtow

TV3 The Vote

You can be damn sure that the No side ,Greens ,Greenpeace and the maori anti industry guy would have been preparing their fan base for quite some time to vote and skew any results.

We on the common sense business side of the house really do allow these fucking activists to set and control the agenda.But then the media are on the “climate ” side so it’s even more of a fight .
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November 7, 2013 10:49am
dime

I know lefties tended to study poetry more than economics at school..

Have any of them heard of the wage/ Price spiral?

It was one of the first things I learned in 3rd form economics. It was quite relevant then…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price/wage_spiral

Wonder if a “living wage” would have any impact? Do lefties even care? They want the headline more than an increase in real wages?
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November 7, 2013 11:05am
Manolo

Arafat? This Arafat?
http://www.out.com/entertainment/2007/07/29/was-arafat-gay

An obscure MP bails out. Who is she?
http://news.msn.co.nz/nationalnews/8751454/wilkinson-to-step-down-as-mp
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November 7, 2013 11:06am
Fisiani

Arafat died of polonium poisoning. Duh! He was a heavy smoker as were his aides. Polonium is a deadly radioactive element that naturally occurs in the fertilizer required by tobacco plants. One atom is enough to kill you. Try googling polonium and cigarettes and the wealth of data will shock you. It is the dirty secret of tobacco.
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November 7, 2013 11:09am
Manolo

A great Australian PM speaks against this modern scam: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/john-howard-global-warming-cause-is-adopted-as-a-substitute-religion-8924587.html
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November 7, 2013 11:24am
Samuel Smith

Another Tory jumps ship:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/9372812/MP-Kate-Wilkinson-to-retire
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November 7, 2013 11:27am
Bovver

“Another Tory jumps ship:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/9372812/MP-Kate-Wilkinson-to-retire”

While your Fabian mates have never had a real job outside of politics so have no ship to jump to SS
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November 7, 2013 11:36am
dime

“Cosgrove said Wilkinson had done little to lift the profile of an electorate that still had significant earthquake-related issues.

He said she would be remembered for the “election bribe” of a North Canterbury health hub, which the community was still waiting for.”

Cosgrove is a nasty little fucker.

Does the guy ever say anything positive?
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November 7, 2013 11:40am
Manolo

Cosgrove is a nasty little fucker.
Does the guy ever say anything positive?

No. Butt-plug head Clayton is a write-off of sub-standard IQ. Another mediocrity that populates Labour ranks.
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November 7, 2013 11:46am
duggledog

Ha ha that’s right Bovver. Lefties never have any real jobs in the productive sector, they’re a bunch of parasites

Len Brown he knows full well his chances of finding employment even with his quals and experience are virtually nil. He’s got three pretty young daughters with weddings coming up at some stage to pay for, and a lifestyle in the hills overlooking the slums to maintain.

That’s the real reason he’s not resigning. Three more years of the salary, a few more years and he’s into retirement. Nothing like looking down the cold hard barrel of no income to make you cling onto your job like shit on a scoured calf’s arse.
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November 7, 2013 11:50am
dime

“That’s the real reason he’s not resigning. Three more years of the salary, a few more years and he’s into retirement. Nothing like looking down the cold hard barrel of no income to make you cling onto your job like shit on a scoured calf’s arse.”

never a truer word spoken.

No way Brown Len can earn 350 stacks a year plus perks anywhere else on the planet.

I dont think he could earn that much if he harvested his own organs for billionaires.
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November 7, 2013 12:01pm
iMP

Citing Obama’s ‘gay-ness’ is a bit reprehensible. Who cares? But she has an opinion like anyone else. Obama is a chameleon, he changes colour to suit his environment: Irish, African, American, foreign, Muslim, Christian, dove, hawk, transparent, Executive Order Chief, whatever he needs to get what he wants.

In case you missed it, this feisty Irish MP was having none of his ‘appropriation’ in the Emerald Isles. http://conzervative.wordpress.com/2013/10/29/feisty-irish-female-mp-roasts-obama/
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November 7, 2013 12:04pm
OneTrack

Oink, oink, oink – is that Len I hear?
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November 7, 2013 12:11pm
flipper

Ooppssss…

Another reason for a CC review body????

Doug Graham might now be regretting his acceptance of MoJ advice NOT to implement the Law Commission’s recommendation….

” … Sir Edmund [Thomas] said his comments were likely to upset the judges involved in the case. But he said he wrote the critique in his academic position as a distinguished fellow at the Auckland Law School.

The article was not a crusade in support of Graham or Jeffries, but was motivated by the miscarriage of justice, he said.

“And to a large extent, I am angry with the court. The court has got to rise above popular sentiment and act judicially. I feel that the court just didn’t do that.”

For the directors “it has been six years of living hell” for them and their families, he said.

“In this case I don’t have the slightest doubt the court got it wrong, not the slightest doubt,” Sir Edmund said.

– © Fairfax NZ News
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November 7, 2013 12:47pm
Fletch

iMP, I don’t think she cited his gayness because of his being gay. It’s more to show that what he is and says aren’t necessarily true. He is not a truthful person. Obama’s being gay has been discussed before by people from his previous Church in interviews; how the Rev Jeremiah Wright match-made people who were gay with members of the opposite sex to give them this respectability. He called it living on the “down low”.

The Down Low Club at Trinity “doesn’t have meetings, and it isn’t like the Rotary Club,” a source identified for this article as “Carolyn” explained to a WND investigator in Chicago.

“It was more that Wright served as a matchmaker,” said Carolyn, a 20-year member of Trinity who has played a role in church administration and knows the Obamas personally.

“He kept his eye on the young guys coming up in Trinity,” she said, “and if he spotted someone that acted or looked gay, then Wright would give them kind of a guidance counselor-type direction on how to keep down low – how to do the things they wanted to do, but then also getting married and looking ‘respectable’ – being part of black society.”

To Trinity insiders, the Down Low Club was simply known as “the program.”

“That’s what Wright did for Obama,” she claimed. “He connected Obama in the community, and he helped Obama hide his homosexuality.”

“That’s the terminology. At Trinity, you’re urged to ‘get with the program,’” explained a male beneficiary of the Down Low Club. “What that means is it’s OK to go ahead and have sex with men, just as long as you ‘get with the program’ and marry a woman, somebody no straight guy would want to marry.”

The wife, the Down Low Club member explained, is “your ‘beard,’ your cover – so you can look like you’re living a straight life, even though you’re not.”

The male source was a “computer consultant” who claims not to know “scratch” about computers. But “getting with the program” at Trinity meant he could keep living a “gay” life and receive lots of computer consulting work thrown his way by Trinity, as long as he was willing to marry an unattractive woman who otherwise might have ended up a lonely spinster with no means to provide for living.

[…]

As WND reported last month, a prominent member of Chicago’s homosexual community claims Obama’s participation in the “gay” bar and bathhouse scene was so well known that many who were aware of his lifestyle were shocked when he ran for president and finally won the White House.

In April, WND reported a federal judge dismissed a libel case against Larry Sinclair, a homosexual who claimed Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign had paid to rig a polygraph test regarding Sinclair’s sensational charge that he had sex and used cocaine twice with Obama while Obama was an Illinois state senator. Sinclair tells his story in “Barack Obama & Larry Sinclair: Cocaine, Sex, Lies & Murder.”

Etc etc.

http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/trinity-church-members-reveal-obama-shocker/
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November 7, 2013 12:51pm
iMP

Oh Dear, Court has ruled against Obama and limits the reach of Govt on morals. A historic decision taht will reverberate.

http://conzervative.wordpress.com/2013/11/07/god-1-obama-nil-court-limits-govt-reach-in-moral-arena/

Those Executive Orders are having less and less order.
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November 7, 2013 1:06pm
Samuel Smith

Bye bye New York Charter schools:

http://www.newsweek.com/mayor-de-blasio-fate-charter-schools-limbo-1919
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November 7, 2013 1:17pm
Yvette

The Australian government, after massive debates in and out of parliament, decided that cigarettes should be sold in plain packets, marked only with shocking health warnings. The decision was validated by the Australian supreme court. But, using a trade agreement Australia struck with Hong Kong, the tobacco company Philip Morris has asked an offshore tribunal to award it a vast sum in compensation for the loss of what it calls its intellectual property …

We are in the dark about a treaty that would let corporations subvert our laws, rights and national sovereignty.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership – TPP?
No, it’s the TTIP –
The purpose of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is to remove the regulatory differences between the US and European nations.
A different treaty but the same bad shit.
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November 7, 2013 1:28pm
kowtow

How much do we know about Barrack Obama ?

here’sEzra Levant on the topic.

http://ezralevant.com/2012/05/baracks-backstory.html
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November 7, 2013 1:50pm
Manolo

Not only lecherous and lubricious, but profligate: http://news.msn.co.nz/nationalnews/8751520/mayor-wants-2-5pc-rates-rise-for-auckland
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November 7, 2013 2:08pm
Longknives

So ‘Jizzy Len’ the Masturbating Mayor wants to hike our rates even further??
God I fucking hate that creep…
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November 7, 2013 2:10pm
Swifty

Phil (Hamnida, Samuel Smith etc)

It wasn’t long ago that you were saying on Whoar how little you missed Kiwiblog etc…

Couldn’t stay away….eh? You just have to come here and spread your bile and without ever engaging as a normal participant, don’t you?

You’re so obvious.

Creep….eh?
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November 7, 2013 2:13pm
wikiriwhis business

Local people “local iwi, were not consulted by the Government before the oil exploration licence was granted.” for drilling off the coast of raglan. No resource consent was granted for drilling as resource consent requires input from local people and iwi (under the act). The National government have totally ignored the countries laws in granting these permits. “Four Maori organisations objected, but their submissions were ignored.” by National. This is most likely because John Key and National are not paying off a debt they (not the country) owe these companies for helping to keep them in power. “Anadarko was held jointly liable with BP for the Gulf of Mexico blow out in 2010 which spilled an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil during 87 days after an explosion that killed 11. ”

This is your National/ACT government for you not only do they do want the people do not want them to do (asset sales, welfare reform) they ongoing the people and break NZ law by not going through proper consultation for their projects they are doing as a favor to overseas oil companies. National has always considered themselves above the law, ACT does not even believe the have to follow electoral law during elections. I wonder how much the ‘decision makers’ on these permits are pocketing to bypass the proper legal permitting process?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/9371056/Flotilla-taking-on-Texas-oil-giant?cid=edm%3Astuff%3Adailyheadlines

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November 7, 2013 3:43pm
Colville

Ok so I own a couple of Nikon rifle scopes.
One went bung unexpecedly (I didnt smash it)
So I find out I need to send it to USA as that is where I brought it from as its half NZ price so i post it away.
Nikon says I needed to supply a EXPORT license when I sent it to them and they cannot accept it until I supply this.
The fact that they have my scope and have opened it to get my letter and email addy is irrelevant I suppose.
So I ring customs and they point me at MFAT so I find a general link and email. Withing minutes I have a reply with a form, fill it out and bang it back, within a hour I have my license. I am SHOCKED ! 🙂
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November 7, 2013 3:50pm
jcuk

OneTrack (1,062) Says:

November 7th, 2013 at 10:20 am
jcuk – “I think it is disgusting as I put up with an inferior service … copper broad band …. at the same price as the superior version.”

So get the “superior” fibre version then

You and the two who plus click are smart arsed idiots …. fibre is nowhere near me and anyway I don’t want the expense … it seems to be a National con game to get fibre around the country at my expense.
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November 7, 2013 4:48pm
goldnkiwi

Is Christmas, with or without trimmings a right?

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November 7, 2013 5:10pm
wiseowl

Lens move to pay a ‘living wage’ is reprehensible.
Who the hell is in charge in this country?
The Government should send him a message about this de facto minimum wage because if they don’t it will spread like wildfire and cripple businesses.
It’s not for the Mayor of Dorkland to impose further financial pressure on the rest of the country.
He should reduce the pay of all those earning over $100,000 pa.They are public servants for gods sake!
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November 7, 2013 5:27pm
ChrisM

With regards to Arafat. The news reports say there is Polonium 210 found. That material has a half life of 138 days. As it is 8 years since he died, That means it has been about 23 half lives. The maths indicate now that the quantities present no would only be 1 ten -millionth of what they were at the time of his death. If it only takes a milligram to kill someone, so it would be so tiny what was now present. Could they really detect that small a quantity or was it spiked recently? The people who did the analysis put very big caveats on it all, especially the chain of custody.
Even if it was the Israelis that did it, how did they kill only him? Why didn’t any others of his staff get affected? The only way would have for them to have used one of Arafat’s personal staff. Rather than Israel, easier to look at who benefitted the most (Occam’s razor). I’m certain any of them could get Polonium from disaffected Russians.
Better to leave it all out there for the tin hat brigade and conspiracy buffs.
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November 7, 2013 5:55pm
Viking2

So how do you tell when your dog has been involved in a sexual scandal???

very clever.

http://screencast.com/t/j30mKnRPmF
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November 7, 2013 6:56pm
Viking2

A Husband frantically calls hotel management from his hotel room,
“I have an emergency!!……Please come quickly to room 507!!…. I’m having an argument with my wife and she says she will jump out the window of your hotel”..
The manager responded, “Sir that’s a personal matter!.
Husband: “Listen you idiot, …..the bloody window won’t open!….. That’s a maintenance matter !”
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November 7, 2013 6:57pm
nasska

Murphy showed up at Mass one Sunday and the priest almost fell down when he saw him. He’d never been to church in his life.

After Mass, the priest caught up with him and said “Murphy, I am so glad ya decided to come to Mass. What made ya come?” Murphy said “I got to be honest with you Father, a while back, I misplaced me hat and I really, really love that hat. I know that McGlynn had a hat just like mine and I knew he came to church every Sunday. I also knew that he had to take off his hat during Mass and figured he would leave it in the back of church. So, I was going to leave after Communion and steal McGlynn’s hat!”

The priest said “Well, Murphy, I notice that ya didn’t steal McGlynn’s hat. What changed your mind?” Murphy replied “Well, after I heard your sermon on the Ten Commandments I decided that I didn’t need to steal McGlynn’s hat after all”.

With a tear in his eye the priest gave Murphy a big smile and said “After I talked about ‘Thou Shalt Not Steal’ ya decided you would rather do without your hat than burn in hell, eh?” Murphy slowly shook his head. “No, Father, after ya talked about ‘Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery’ I remembered where I left me hat!”
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November 7, 2013 8:00pm
stigie

Campbell is bringing to us over the next few days/weeks some very good things that is happening
with educating our kids in the schools.
I am finding it hard to believe, just stunned and fucking speechless.
All this guy has done up till now has run down the education ministry and the minister.
About time for some good news.
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