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mikenmild

‘There is but only one team for me’
Don’t be coy…
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November 16, 2014 12:09pm
mikenmild

Sorry Reid, but it really isn’t necessary to master the details of anti-semitic NWO conspiracy theories to recognise such theories are complete twaddle.
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November 16, 2014 12:14pm
tom hunter

Since I’m the one who kicked off the discussion about ~~sexism~~, ~~mysogny~~, ~~feminism~~, Modern Two Minute Hatefests, I figure I should try and continue it without getting side-tracked into the peculiar obsessions of some commentators.

First up is the fact that if the Atlantic journalist wants to criticise a guy’s shirt then she has every right to do so. I happen to think she’s full of shit on this issue, but more on that in a moment.

The real problem here is not her criticism but the hatefest that exploded it from it and the reaction of the target. As I looked at that ESA scientist I remembered all the nerds who studied science. Bland, boring clothing, no face jewellery, no tats, and quiet: very, very quiet in almost all circumstances. No risqué jokes or insults. About the only difference from the classic movie nerd of the 1950 and 60’s was that ties, white shirts and pocket protectors had gone. I looked at the tats and the shirt and rolled my eyes.

But with a number of these scientists there was a change, sometimes gradual, sometimes sudden, as they rose through the ranks to the exalted levels of PhD. The clothes improved, even became slightly wild, jewellery appeared on various parts of the body – and tats. I looked at that guy in the interview and saw someone who’d emerged from the toilet bowl dunkings and wedgies of high-school to being OUT and PROUD and LOUD, etc, etc. I’ll bet he now thought of himself as an individual who stands on his own two feet and says what he thinks and stands by what he does.

Yet when he was confronted on just one small aspect of the life he had chosen he crumpled like a cheap suit. His head is back in the toilet bowl, his underwear is up around his shoulders and his lunch money is gone. Rose Eveleth has it. What a dreadful prospect for a middle-aged man, cowering in tears while covered with sheets of self-mortification.

In addition I’d be willing to bet that he holds all the correct opinions on abortion, gay marriage, social welfare, guns, wars, etc, etc. But none of that saved him in the end from being turned into Emanual Goldstein.

Then there’s the other side of the coin, the other woman as it were, Rose Eveleth and company. Here’s a link to an article by Ann Althouse, law professor at University of Wisconsin law school, 60’s survivor, Obama voter in 2008 but someone who has often sunk the knife deep into leftist and feminist circles. She defends Eveleth:

Some women noticed? Everyone noticed! It was an extremely showy shirt, and Taylor chose it for some reason. We were supposed to pretend we didn’t see it? It’s not as though the “some women” made something out of nothing. To blame the women for making this a topic is to impose a burden on us all to shut up about something obvious. If Taylor had wanted to keep everything focused on the achievements of the team he was on, he wouldn’t have picked that shirt. Why attack the women?

Well I saw the original interview and what I noticed were the tats on his arm, while the shirt said LOUD but I could not see any of the detail. It took a feminist to examine the still frames and get outraged on behalf of all those woman dissuaded from a STEM career by such blatant images. Althouse then comments on Eveleth's tweet:

How is that a shout of feminist outrage? It’s caustic humor. You know, the kind men used to like to say that women couldn’t do? It was Taylor who brought attention to himself, which messed up the moment of triumph for his teammates. When you wear a shirt like that, you’re asking for it… to use a phrase that has been used against women. And I know that in repurposing that old line, I’m putting Rose Eveleth in the place of the rapist, but she didn’t commit any crime against Taylor. She criticized him.

So does this mean that you’re asking for it is now back as a legitimate reason for criticism?

And that assumes that he was actually “sending a message”. Maybe he’s just a dorky scientist who thought that the shirt was cool because he’d like nothing better than a selfie with Seven of Nine.

It seems to me that it’s the man who crumpled in a flood of emotion. I think the women looked straight at the pictures and criticized them. That counts as handling. Taylor retreated. Whatever message he may have thought he was sending through his choice of shirt — and it’s undeniable that he intended to send a message — it wasn’t heard the way he wanted, and he expressed regret.
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Taylor went far to the extreme in his choice of clothing. He was asking to be read. His shirt screamed. But what did it say? Some women told the world what they thought it said, and he disowned that statement. Conversation over.

I don’t think he was sending a message at all, but he certainly did crumple, he did retreat and the conversation is certainly over for him. But for the rest of us ….?

Can he melt back into the team — the team that deserves the credit — or do you insist on appropriating him for the purpose of attacking feminism?

I doubt it since he’s useless. But I’m sure they’ll be some other poor, dumb bastard who will be “appropriated” out of the crowd for the purposes of advancing feminism. Presumably that’s okay as yet another double standard – like criticising what people wear because it “sends a message”. No one tell the folks at the next SlutWalk!

This was not just “criticism”, as in I don’t like your shirt. This was criticism with a “message”, and because it had a message it had to be argued that the original target was sending a message.:

This is the sort of casual misogyny that stops women from entering certain scientific fields. They see a guy like that on TV and they don’t feel welcome. They see a poster of greased up women in a colleague’s office and they know they aren’t respected. They hear comments about “bitches” while out at a bar with fellow science students, and they decide to change majors.

Really? This is what 50 years of feminism has produced? Little flowers who have to be protected from dangerous images lest they make the wrong choices? Sounds positively Victorian. Where’s Pat Bartlett when you need her? By the same token has it failed to produce strong woman who can give criticism directly and take the rejoinders (“Well I don’t care what you think” would be the most polite) – but instead given the lead to the same old passive-agressive manipulators using high-school Valley Girl language (” toooootally” to get the guys to act they way they want – and men who burst into tears at the thought that they’ve screwed over the hopes and dreams of young girls by wearing a shirt with fantasy bimbos on it.

Maybe Neveleth and Taylor (the scientist) should get together. They’d make a great statement for feminism’s affect on both men and women.
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November 16, 2014 12:16pm
Pete George

when the Frankfurt School relocated itself to Berkeley in California and then feminism came out of that soon thereafter, was that a mere coincidence?
It could have been a coincidence Reid, as could many other things that happened around that time.

Charles Fourier, a Utopian Socialist and French philosopher, is credited with having coined the word “feminism” in 1837. The words “feminism” and “feminist” first appeared in France and the Netherlands in 1872, Great Britain in the 1890s, and the United States in 1910, and the Oxford English Dictionary lists 1894 as the year of the first appearance of “feminist” and 1895 for “feminism”.

When did the Frankfurt School move to Berkeley?
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November 16, 2014 12:18pm
freemark

“I do not loath NZ rugby. I loath the way it brings out the worst in us as a nation”
Don’t confuse the ranting, treasonous, hate filled, envy stricken, blind and just plain wrong you & a couple of others with “us” bwuv.
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November 16, 2014 12:18pm
Fletch

Tom Hunter @8:11am –

One of the best comments I’ve heard about shirt-gate is –

One of the scientists was wearing a shirt covered in sketches of of scantily clad women. Not actual photos of women, but sketched images of pin ups in skivvies. So this chick from The Atlantic does what “feminists” do when encountering the inane: she lost her damn mind.

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But seriously, “feminists” took a groundbreaking scientific advancement and managed to make it all about themselves and their own insecurities. I’m sure our foremothers are very proud. Give yourselves a pat on the back, ladies. Well done.

The blog post also mentions other things supposed “feminists” do that we are supposed to see as OK, including their slutwalks, dressing up as vaginas, begging Congress for birth control, wearing tampon earrings, etc.

http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/11/5-reasons-feminists-cant-complain-about-comet-scientists-shirt/
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November 16, 2014 12:18pm
big bruv

Bedwetter.

You are the one who knows all about having multiple screen names. How many did you have over at Whaleoil before you were hilariously exposed for signing on to give yourself up ticks?

That must have been hugely embarrassing. It was almost as embarrassing as being a birther, or somebody who thinks that Sarah (I can see Russia from my house) is anything other than a total moron.
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November 16, 2014 12:19pm
big bruv

freemark

Wearing your NZ national team rugby jersey today are you?
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November 16, 2014 12:22pm
Fletch

A well-known, high-class hotel in Britain is bought by a Muslim who has imposed Sharia law: therefore the hotel bar/restaurant will no longer serve anything alcoholic or any pork.

Welcome to Hotel Sharia: No more bacon or booze as trendy venue bought out by a Muslim multi-millionaire

An exclusive hotel has banned alcohol and pork after being taken over by a Middle Eastern businessman who wants to run it ‘in accordance with Sharia law’.

The strict Islamic policy was imposed without warning this week at London’s Bermondsey Square Hotel – where the bar and grill was previously run by Masterchef judge Gregg Wallace.

Staff said the new rules were swiftly implemented on Tuesday on the orders of the new Muslim owner, forcing waiters to tell disgruntled guests that much of the menu was no longer available.

Several fear for their jobs unless the hotel – previously voted the UK’s trendiest place to stay and where Gordon Ramsay once filmed a show – is marketed for a different clientele.

An IT consultant, who has been a regular at the hotel, said: ‘A group of us were meant to be meeting in the bar and they said: “We can’t serve alcohol any more.”

‘When I contacted the manager to ask why, he told me that the new owner wanted it to be a Sharia law hotel. Under Sharia law, you can’t make a profit from alcohol.’

The guest said he would no longer book the hotel in future, adding: ‘They’ve got to be careful. It’s been quiet and this is almost the death knell.’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2835406/Welcome-Hotel-Sharia-No-alcohol-English-breakfasts-trendy-venue-bought-Muslim-multi-millionaire.html
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November 16, 2014 12:23pm
Redbaiter

“In addition I’d be willing to bet that he holds all the correct opinions on abortion, gay marriage, social welfare, guns, wars, etc, etc. But none of that saved him in the end from being turned into Emanual Goldstein.”

Critical theory doing its usual work.

A white guy achieved something that made us all proud.

Therefore he had to be pulled down.

If he’d been any other skin colour, he could have worn a Mel Gibson T-shirt and got away with it.

(Well, maybe not that far, but you get my point)
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November 16, 2014 12:24pm
mikenmild

‘begging Congress for birth control’
WTF? For shame…
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November 16, 2014 12:28pm
Fletch

Meanwhile, Muslims offered prayer to Allah in the Christian National Cathedral and the Imam for the Islamic Center of Central Jersey praised Islam’s Allah from the House floor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gA7mS77fhYQ

America is going downhill.
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November 16, 2014 12:29pm
Fletch

A blogger has found an interesting French dictionary circa 1939, which has an appendix showing the flags of the world. It even has a flag for “Palestine’ – and guess what it looks like? Yes, that is a Jewish ‘Star Of David’.

http://www.factualisrael.com/1939-palestinian-flag-look-like-surprised/
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November 16, 2014 12:34pm
Milburn35

On Q+A this morning Corin Dann was interviewing our PM on climate change. This subject had been raised by Obama at the G20 meeting. You would think on the line of questions that Dann was asking was the little old NZ was a large polluter and needed to do more to curb emissions. Dann completely ignored JK’s responses in that NZ’s emissions were only .14% of the worlds total and that no other country in the world included animal emissions. When will the Dann’s in this world and the Green Party understand that.14% makes no difference to climate change whatsoever. The failed Internet Party candidate Harre on the Q+A panel was as good as Dann in that the eyes of the world were on us to lead on climate change as we had on being nuclear free. More ridiculous nonsense. I don’t know why I bother to watch programmes such as Q+A as this sort of tripe is always dished up. Taxpayer funded of course, through NZ on Air.
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November 16, 2014 12:35pm
Redbaiter

Whaleoil’s Pete Belt writes the usual off putting sanctimonious one sided crap in explaining why Travis Poulson split from the blog. Unsurprisingly the majority of the commenters responding are lining up to kiss Belt’s useless arse. At the same time as Slater writes how he doesn’t want the place to become an echo chamber. FFS, Poulson quit becasue that’s what it is. Not that he’s anyone to be complaining. He was pretty heavy handed himself as a mod IMHO.

If Slater is fair go about not wanting an echo chamber he should allow Travis to post a response to Belt’s insipid obsequious shit.
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November 16, 2014 12:36pm
tom hunter

‘begging Congress for birth control’
WTF? For shame…

No, no mikenmild – begging Congress to pay for their birth control. Because even after 50 years the Pill, IUD’s and the rest are just so expensive, banned or otherwise beyond the reach of many 21st century women.

Still, the supreme example of feminist empowerment has to be Lena Dunham in 2012 saying that choosing a President should be like your “first time”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6G3nwhPuR4
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November 16, 2014 12:40pm
mikenmild

You think choosing a president is less important?
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November 16, 2014 12:43pm
tom hunter

I think you don’t want to talk about this 🙂
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November 16, 2014 12:44pm
mikenmild

You probably can’t guess what I really want to talk about.
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November 16, 2014 12:46pm
tom hunter

I’m sure I can’t, so why not end the mystery? Come on mm – what do you really want to talk about?
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November 16, 2014 12:48pm
mikenmild

The cricket, which I’m off to watch for a couple of hours.
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November 16, 2014 12:50pm
tom hunter

Oh!

Sigh! You’ll have to get someone else on to that – Keeping Stock perhaps – or even Big Bruv?
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November 16, 2014 12:52pm
dime

Pg – what’s going on at whale oil is hilarious. Pete has delusions of grandeur.

I like cam about 75% of the time. But let’s be honest, he’s pretty feral. worse than most of his readers. Maybe pete should moderate him?

I suspect for the first time in his life, Pete thinks he is a somebody..

They speak about having a higher qualify of advertiser now.. Does that mean wo won’t be taking cash for comments?
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November 16, 2014 12:53pm
Redbaiter

“I suspect for the first time in his life, Pete thinks he is a somebody..”

I’ve been keeping an eye on that thread about Travis leaving and Belt has been frantically deleting comments that are critical.

There are only 7 still standing right now out of about twice that number that have been posted.
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November 16, 2014 1:00pm
Shawn Herles

@ Reid,

“when the Frankfurt School relocated itself to Berkeley in California and then feminism came out of that soon thereafter, was that a mere coincidence?”

Feminism has been around since the 19th century, long before post-war cultural Marxism.

What you may be referring to is one particular form of feminism, which gets back to my point that some of these terms, including Marxism, are being thrown around without any serious intellectual discernment or care for historical and ideological accuracy.

But that aside Reid, and just between you and I, as I doubt most other people will be interested in this, but there are serious Biblical/Theological problems with conspiracy theories.

So, if you are as you claim open to looking at any evidence, try this:

http://cosmicparx.blogspot.co.nz/2013/05/satans-own-conspiracy-theory_4811.html
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November 16, 2014 1:08pm
Maureenw

In reply to Redbaiter .. Yes, my comment was deleted also. The only comments remaining are those that support the theme of the post.
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November 16, 2014 1:13pm
Inandout

Redbaiter: If WO were a live theatre show, the faithful commenters would be centre stage lining up to lick Pete’s sandals and tug at his hem; such is the craven moderator worship we see displayed on WO. His explanation for Travis departing has all the hallmarks of a Cunnliffe resignation speech, and we all know crude language is but a small part of Pete’s reason for ejecting commenters.
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November 16, 2014 1:17pm
freemark

“big bruv (14,055 comments) says:
November 16th, 2014 at 12:22 pm
freemark

Wearing your NZ national team rugby jersey today are you?”

Bruv
The physical shirt I’m wearing is not important – although I wish I had one like that dude who landed the drone on the Alien Reconnaissance Solarsystem Evaluator.
Any shirt is a NZ shirt atm – we are consistently & increasingly punching well above our weight in pretty much every field of sporting, economic, environmental & (it pains me greatly to use the word, but “fair”) National endeavour these days – the AB’s have been a consistent part of that. All these factors are rendering impotent & crippling the further Left in NZ – the AB’s as consistently victorious yet highly civilised Warriors are also good male role models to many in NZ who otherwise may have none.

But you are obviously a Saffer, Pom or Aussie along with the other personal blows you have endured around our national game,
and probably don’t even understand the concept of world beaters.
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November 16, 2014 1:19pm
Sofia

Further to Penny’s post this morning at 10:16
three paragraphs which were not available or were omitted –

Bright, a controversial figure in Auckland, has refused to pay rates since 2006 in a spat with local authorities over their refusal to be transparent over the contracts they have with the private sector. Auckland Council has promised to start publishing these on its website after Bright pointed out that Auckland Transport, an Auckland Council controlled organisation, was already publishing such a list.

The council said: “Auckland Council recognises Penny Bright has an interest in transparency issues, but this is about her not paying her fair share of rates.”

“The council goes out of its way to assist many Aucklanders to meet their rates obligations. Last year, 20,051 Auckland ratepayers qualified for a rates rebate and we also agreed to 337 rates payments being postponed. Ms Bright has not taken up any of our offers to work with her on a suitable repayment plan.”
– Stuff
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/63215766/Campaigner-challenges-rates-penalties
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November 16, 2014 1:27pm
Redbaiter

“In reply to Redbaiter .. Yes, my comment was deleted also. The only comments remaining are those that support the theme of the post.”

At the same time as Slater posts there saying “it won;t (sic) become an echo chamber” when that very thread demonstrates that’s exactly what it is.
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November 16, 2014 1:31pm
wikiriwhis business

“Has anyone here been commenting at Whale Oil and not been banned?”

Actually, Whale has always tolerated me for some reason.

Just gets sarcastic with me but lets me post.

Although his paranoia may have doubled since the death threats and changed his world view somewhat
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November 16, 2014 1:33pm
minus

So Auckland Council promises to in future list details of contract work, but denies Bright’s rates protest influenced them – rather it was Bright’s comparison with another Council organisation, Auckland Transport, which influenced them …

The council said: “Auckland Council recognises Penny Bright has an interest in transparency issues, but this is about her not paying her fair share of rates.”

I guess they will now continue to assist Bright to meet her full rates obligations.
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November 16, 2014 1:38pm
freemark

To be fair to Slater & by association the WO blog… there has been a (sometimes partly justified) but highly sustained attack by the Left & their MSMouth organs.. Like obviously many here Cam has a couple of mental health issues (he has the balls to admit it) and defence is sometimes the best form of attack.
Still pretty much the best investigative (if sometimes misguided) journalism in NZ, especially considering the resources.
Bloody good Mininova cartoons, Maps of the Day etc too.
I think I commented about 5 times over 5 years..the 6th didn’t make it through Pete so I remain purely a reader anyway. Prentice is frightened of my logic too so I’ll just occasionally inflict my wit & charm here…:)
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November 16, 2014 1:43pm
Shawn Herles

“Auckland Council recognises Penny Bright has an interest in transparency issues,”

Rubbish. Penny has an interest in self-promotion. Just ask the people in Occupy who effectively banned her and want nothing to do with her because she tried to high jack the whole thing for her own issues and self-aggrandizement. And she has caused similar problems with other groups.

The AC are being wimps.
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November 16, 2014 1:46pm
big bruv

Freemark

From your comments it seems that you find it inconceivable how anybody born and bred in NZ can ever be against the NZ rugby team. Well sorry to burst your bubble but I am indeed 100% Nil Zild.

Oh, and your parting comment about world beaters is still giving me a good laugh. I take it you do know that rugby is at best a minor sport and that the NZ team are not “world beaters”. If that were the case they would have been good enough to win a RWC away from these shores.

Rugby does not matter Freemark. A confident, mature nation would accept that we love the game and it matters not that others don’t. The problem here is that we insist on telling so many lies about the game and the “importance” of the NZ team.
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November 16, 2014 1:56pm
cha

Kim Kardashian’s new line of purses.
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November 16, 2014 2:07pm
Zapper

Big Bruv

Congratulations, your analysis proved my estimate of your rugby knowledge was correct.

As for professional sports teams having sponsors, ban them all! In fact, let’s stop paying players too. And then you can whinge some more.
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November 16, 2014 2:09pm
freemark

See Bwuv, you’re full of shit. It is your fantasy only that anyone & everyone tells lies about the game and the importance. But you’ve exposed yourself so often & comprehensively as a Troll that it’s more fool me to dream that you have the intellect or integrity to debate it.
Enjoy your impotent rage while most of us just acknowledge a job well done by a hard working & good bunch of guys..
One of the great pleasures of being just an average AB supporter is seeing you exposed so often as a bitter & twisted loser.. just one of those Sunday things…
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November 16, 2014 2:16pm
flipper

Of course tiddly winks matter more to bigot blouse than a real man’s game.

The demented fool, is a disgrace to New Zealand manhood (if it is male (?) and was born here), and it will continue to argue that black is white. But the official stats show bigot up for the fool it is (with no apologies for the ad hominem, because we have had more than enough of its crap):

All Blacks Stats
Test Record by Nation (to November 9.2014)
P W D L For Against Percentage (of Wins)
Argentina
20 19 1 – 816 260 95.00
Australia
152 104 7 41 3066 2103 68.42
British & Irish Lions
38 29 3 6 634 345 76.32
Canada
5 5 – – 313 54 100.00
England
40 32 1 7 969 560 80.00
Fiji
5 5 – – 364 50 100.00
France
55 42 1 12 1345 713 76.36
Ireland
28 27 1 – 812 310 96.43
Italy
12 12 – – 686 118 100.00
Japan
3 3 – – 282 30 100.00
Pacific Islanders
1 1 – – 41 26 100.00
Portugal
1 1 – – 108 13 100.00
Romania
2 2 – – 99 14 100.00
Samoa
5 5 – – 308 56 100.00
Scotland
29 27 2 – 876 316 93.10
South Africa
89 51 3 35 1718 1392 57.30
Tonga
4 4 – – 279 26 100.00
USA
3 3 – – 171 15 100.00
Wales
29 26 – 3 882 291 89.66
World XV
3 2 – 1 94 69 66.67
Totals 524 400 19 105 13863 6761 76.34
update….
16.11.2014 525 401 19 105 13887 6777 76.38%
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November 16, 2014 2:23pm
stephieboy

Fletch (6,457 comments) says:
November 16th, 2014 at 12:29 pm

Another one who wants to see not only all NZ’s but the US’s Muslims deported.??
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November 16, 2014 2:28pm
MT_Tinman

Freemark Your 13:19 comment makes it appear that you think the globetrotting franchise represent NZ, the use of “we” in your comments that you are part of that franchise.

I know the first is far from the truth and suspect the second also.

BB, you made a comment about the globetrotting franchise not being prepared to change their uniform; Please expand. As far as I know it is the home team in rugby that changes strip to avoid a clash – that bloody silly rule dating back to the days when television was in black and white.
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November 16, 2014 2:28pm
MT_Tinman

The glaringly obvious question raised here is who the hell is Cameron Slater to be telling anyone how to do politics in NZ?

Brought to us by the fellow who has been telling us how politics should be done in NZ for ten long and tedious years.
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November 16, 2014 2:32pm
jaba

imagine this if you can .. if the left had won the election, David Cunliffe would have been in China and Australia as our PM and the the co-deputy prime ministers, Norman and Turei would be in charge .. shudder, boy we dodged a bullet there.
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November 16, 2014 2:36pm
freemark

“MT_Tinman (3,232 comments) says:
November 16th, 2014 at 2:28 pm
Freemark Your 13:19 comment makes it appear that you think the globetrotting franchise represent NZ, the use of “we” in your comments that you are part of that franchise.

I know the first is far from the truth and suspect the second also.”

If by the “globetrotting franchise” you mean the All Blacks, and don’t think they represent NZ you are as thick and Troll-like as BB..
If you think I’m trying to claim them as us or we outside the fact that I’m a fairly normal NZ’er (albeit 6th generation both sides) you are just being a dickhead.
FFS, gotta love the way small dicked idiots compensate by trying to tear down those who enjoy more success than them..
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November 16, 2014 2:44pm
SGA

big bruv at 1:56 pm

Rugby does not matter Freemark. A confident, mature nation would accept that we love the game and it matters not that others don’t.

No, it doesn’t matter that others don’t. On the other hand – Sunday morning – rugby game in action – how long before big bruv launches an anti-All Black rant on Kiwiblog – 8:27am, there she blows. Same old, same old.
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November 16, 2014 2:48pm
cha

America is going downhill.

Oh noe’s, Patti Smith’s playing the Vatican too!.

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http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/patti-smith-to-play-vatican-christmas-concert-20141114
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November 16, 2014 2:59pm
big bruv

flipper

“The demented fool, is a disgrace to New Zealand manhood”

So flipper. You like the idea of Rugby being a game for big tough men?, you like the idea of one man grabbing another by the crotch?, you like the idea of men jumping all over each other?

It might be you who is the bigger threat to NZ manhood.
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November 16, 2014 2:59pm
Inandout

Fletch at 12.33: I wonder if the owner of this Sharia Hotel gets his henchmen to shop locally?

‘TERRIFIED shoppers in a British supermarket were forced to kneel on the floor as machete-wielding robbers threatened to BEHEAD them in an apparent Islamic State-style attack’.
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November 16, 2014 3:07pm
EAD

Interesting comments above. What most fail to appreciate about the new world order is that is it is not Country vs. Country, it’s literally a battle of ideas of Freedom and Liberty vs. Authoritarianism. I’ve seen too many articles like the beldow that think the NWO is about countries. WRONG. it’s about who should rule whom.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/12/brics-america-china-reshape-new-world-order
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November 16, 2014 3:08pm
mikenmild

BB was obviously unable to appreciate this morning’s game for what it was: a good contest between Scotland and a second-string AB XV.

Jeremy Thrush deservedly named man of the match BTW.
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November 16, 2014 3:17pm
big bruv

mikenmild

Was the game billed as Scotland v NZ B?

I can just imagine it, had the result gone the way it should have with an unbiased ref the arrogance of NZ rugby fans would have been there for all to see and be violently sick over.

Did Dane Coles manage to kick anybody today?
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November 16, 2014 3:43pm
mikenmild

Why don’t you watch for yourself instead of imagining what you might have seen?
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November 16, 2014 3:51pm
Shawn Herles

“Interesting comments above. What most fail to appreciate about the new world order is that is it is not Country vs. Country, it’s literally a battle of ideas of Freedom and Liberty vs. Authoritarianism.”

It’s neither as there is no NWO.

Nor is the issue about freedom vs authority. Thus is a false dichotomy, as no society can have one without the other.
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November 16, 2014 3:54pm
big bruv

mike

I did watch the game. Although calling it a game would infer that it was a fair contest when clearly that was not the case.

What we witnessed was a ‘game’ between fifteen brave Scots and sixteen NZ players, one of who played the game with a whistle in his mouth.
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November 16, 2014 3:59pm
Shawn Herles

A strong society, a strong nation, just like a strong family, needs both liberty and authority.
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November 16, 2014 4:04pm
thedavincimode

bb, you are a tragic case.

I thought M. Poirot did a good job. Fancy there being a referee who refs the offside line and, shock horror, refs the scrums properly, including binding and the feed 😯 I imagine he’ll get told off for that.
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November 16, 2014 4:06pm
mikenmild

BB
It’s a pretty well known fact that refereeing bias is generally a function of home advantage. Do you even know who the referee was?
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November 16, 2014 4:07pm
thedavincimode

… not to mention a soothing ale of a Sunday Shawn.

Goodness, is that the time?
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November 16, 2014 4:07pm
thedavincimode

milky

How’s it hangin’ ? You’ve been missing in action.
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November 16, 2014 4:09pm
hj

Dame Fish
http://pundit.co.nz/content/silence-of-the-lambs-freedom-of-speech-in-new-zealand-0#comment-40258
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November 16, 2014 4:21pm
mikenmild

’tis indeed beer time DVM. Did you miss me?
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November 16, 2014 4:31pm
Manolo

The Dark Ages Pom-style: http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/535864/Up-to-50-Tory-MPs-tear-up-BBC-licence-fee

Tory MPs will this week demand the £145 TV licence fee be replaced with an opt-in subscription.
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November 16, 2014 4:41pm
Fisiani

posted for posterity here before it gets expunged again from The Standard

Having been banned from one thread for having the temerity to write so called obsequious flattery aka sycophancy I wonder if the same intolerance of dissent applies on the Open Mike.
I opined that the reason the Centre-Right was in the ascendancy was because it was correct and the Left are fundamentally wrong. There is no need to invoke the biased MSM or some other bogeyman for electile failure. That merely assumes that The Left is the norm and that voters are not intelligent enough to know what is best for them. What arrogant piffle. The Left as we know it today was strong in the 20th century and arose from the writings of such as Karl Marx whose ideas were formed in the 19th Century. I believe that in the 21st Century the essential failure of the Left to deliver in the last 100 years means that it will inevitably fade. The Labour vote has fallen in each of the last three elections. Was that the fault of Helen Clark, Phil Goff or David Cunliffe? No, just the tide going out on discredited Socialism. A Centrist government like we have now is happy to extend free medical care to children. Maintain interest free student loans. After each of the last three elections the assumption of the Left is that there will be a swing back as there was in the 20th century. 25% is not the lowest tide mark. It can and probably will go lower. In the 19th century in the UK the Liberal party was powerful, but not now.
I am not trying to be provocative, merely giving an opinion. I apologise if such an opinion is so threatening that it needs to be censored and hidden.
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November 16, 2014 4:47pm
Manolo

@Fisiani: Did you offend the delicate and effeminate Lynn Prentice?
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November 16, 2014 4:52pm
mikenmild

Good comment Fisiani. Wrong-headed, but fairly made. Why do you bother to post at the Standard?
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November 16, 2014 4:52pm
nasska

https://www.dropbox.com/s/7u8bz617imm08i2/Socialism%202.jpg?dl=0
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November 16, 2014 6:54pm
Griff

Flip-phones are making a comeback. No, really
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=11359493&ref=rss
I went from a galaxy back to a simple flip phone months ago.
I use other implements to access the net and had enough with the short battery life and unwieldy size of modern smart phones.
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November 16, 2014 7:17pm
mikenmild

Just been thinking of getting a smartphone. Maybe I shouldn’t bother- all I do is call and text.
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November 16, 2014 7:26pm
marleybob

Shawn Herles (5,583 comments) says:
November 16th, 2014 at 1:46 pm
“Auckland Council recognises Penny Bright has an interest in transparency issues,”

Funny enough, she is doing what some of you Jafa’s only talk about.
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November 16, 2014 7:31pm
Viking2

Interestingly Auckland Council charges a 10% penalty on rates unpaid after one year, and it appears a further 10% six-monthly after that.
It is unclear if a second year’s unpaid rates are just added to the total or would be first treated 10% penalty after one year then that amount also 10% six-monthly from there on.
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Rotorua invoices rates each 3 months and if you are late charges 10%.
Auckland at years end , Tauranga 6 monthly and charges if you are late.

Wonder what the Law actually is?
Anyone know?
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November 16, 2014 8:34pm
AgentBallSack

Big Bruv seems emasculated unless rugby is the subject….kind of like a murderer with no handy victims
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November 16, 2014 8:35pm
Steve (North Shore)

Strange that some commenters want to start a flame war between Kiwiblog and WhaleOil.
Sure there may have been a disagreement between moderators, so is that reason to attack the blog just because you got told to fuck off?

Dissent in the ranks at Whale Oil, plus strange things happening. Whale Watch.

Has anyone here been commenting at Whale Oil and not been banned?

via the mother Teresa who must be the biggest sook here and link whores to his pathetic blog.

Hey suckholer Pete George, I am not banned from WhaleOil. I stand my ground against Pete Belt. I also have a 1 year permit to stay there.
Concrete pills for you pal
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November 16, 2014 8:46pm
RF

I have had to put up with the bat shit crazy ramblings of the Labour Party trying to decide who will take their party to another massive failure in 2017. The current lot are a bunch of Tossers and whoever is chosen will ensure many years of a National govt. Thinking outside the square they should keep the current pretender to the throne Mrs. King in the chair. it will not make any difference but she is at least able to string more that 6 words together.
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November 16, 2014 8:48pm
Zapper

I don’t think anyone is starting a flame war between the blogs, just commenting on the shambles at Whale. I used to visit regularly, and like all blogs, the quality of the comments is a big drawcard. Whaleoil spent the weeks after the election abusing the most popular PM in my lifetime (apparently due to his relationship with Judith Collins who made some serious errors of judgement) and then it seemed all commenters were banned for trivial offences by some nutjob who makes posts about how proud he is of those commenters who do what they’re told. So my daily visits are down to about monthly and those are just to see what trainwreck is currently in progress.

Cactus Kate wrote a post a few years ago about how concerned she was about Cameron Slater’s mental health. Reading that blog recently, either we should all be concerned again, or it’s been taken over by this Pete idiot.

What was done to Whale Oil in the illegal hacking attack was a disgrace. But it seems like it worked.
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November 16, 2014 8:54pm
Viking2

Seems that councils can set rate deadlines when ever it suits them. They can also add penalties to them so if you are in Auckland you only pay if the full amount is not paid at years end, in Tauranga each 6 months and Rotorua each 3 months.

Looks to me like Rotorua behave like the Banks and make more from overcharges than from the rates.

Have to have a we look at this.
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November 16, 2014 8:55pm
publicwatchdog

Seems that the underpinning legislation covering GST is (unsurprisingly) the GST Act 1985 – the relevant section 14 (3) (b)?

What do other Kiwibloggers think?

Penny Bright
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November 16, 2014 8:59pm
nasska

https://www.dropbox.com/s/38kdtz5sl0xwd6z/Cuckoo%205.jpg?dl=0
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November 16, 2014 9:02pm
RF

In support of BB I see granny Carter is on his last legs. Time to put the old horse out to pasture. Reminds me of an old porno stud who is unable to perform inspite of prolonged forplay. In this case the forplay is the mumblings of Hansen who has a preoccupation for dunnies.
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November 16, 2014 9:10pm
Nookin

You want a legal opinion, Penelope, go pay for one. I am not sure that many here have an appetite to subsidise your ongoing freeloading by providing gratis legal advice.
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November 16, 2014 9:12pm
publicwatchdog

Hi Viking – rates penalties are covered by the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002 s.57.

I’m recommending as many citizens and ratepayers do their own ‘due diligence’ – print off s.45 and s.46 of the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002 for yourselves, and check your own Rates Assessment and Rates Invoices for statutory compliance.

If you come under the Auckland Council – I think you’ll be as horrified as I was with the lack of mandatory information which is NOT provided, particularly regarding rates ‘activities’ – ie where rates monies are being spent

Back in Auckland City Council days – we at least got a ‘pie chart’ (albeit missing the ingredients which made up the pie).

With Auckland Council we now get one little sentence:

“The rates you pay help fund new projects and pay for services that benefit you and the region.”

Seriously – THAT’S IT!

Would YOU accept a bill from your mechanic or plumber that didn’t give you a proper breakdown of the components upon which their charges were based?

So – how come its ok for Auckland Council to so blatantly break the law?

Who else is trying to hold them accountable?

A bit of backup would be appreciated Kiwibloggers!

Cheers

Penny Bright
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November 16, 2014 9:26pm
Nookin

You never cease to amaze Penny. You come here for the express purpose of aggravating everyone here, you express your contempt for kiwibloggers almost daily, go on about “gumming” and frequently express delight that you have maged to piss people off. And here you are complaining at the lack of support. Dont hold your breath.
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November 16, 2014 9:35pm
publicwatchdog

Is that right Nookin?

You may recall that my UNPAID efforts that helped get a Local Government and Environment Select Committee Inquiry into the rort of Metrowater ‘charitable payments’ didn’t cost citizens and ratepayers of Auckland City Council one CENT?

But they stopped this planned $320 MILLION rort?

Weren’t aware of this pro bono work that I provided gratis Nookin?

Try doing some ‘due diligence’ yourself and consider giving a bit of credit where it’s due?

As would a decent human being?

Kind regards

Penny Bright
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November 16, 2014 9:39pm
Nookin

If you thought that the council was failing in its duty to provide information, why did you not go to court for a declaration, like any decent person would do?
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November 16, 2014 9:42pm
publicwatchdog

Nookin – you silly old thing – Kiwiblog is like talkback radio.

There are a LOT more readers / listeners than there are commenters / callers.

Seems that a lot more Kiwibloggers are now starting to pay a bit more attention to the FACTS that I’m raising?

And the political issues I’m raising have got to be more interesting to discerning THINKING Kiwibloggers than some of your BORING boy bike shed crap?

(Meant of course in a caring way 😉

Penny Bright
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November 16, 2014 9:49pm
publicwatchdog

Nookin -going to Court is not the only avenue.

But as a purported lawyer – that’s probably your preferred option?

Penny Bright
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November 16, 2014 9:54pm
Sponge

” pro bono work that I provided gratis”

Shit Penny, the ratepayers could pay you for your work if they value it :). Post your bank account details and lets see the money start flowing…
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November 16, 2014 9:59pm
stigie

BE a decent person Penny and not use those services if you are not paying for them !~
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November 16, 2014 10:00pm
Nookin

Oh dear Penny. I seem to have pricked your ego. Now you revert to “nasty”. Typical, really. Meant in an “i am not even remotely surprised way”, of course.
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November 16, 2014 10:00pm
Nookin

Sponge, her bank account is usually on her website. What is missing is a detailed breakdown where the money goes. We do not even know if this is her housekeeping account or a special trust account. There seems to be a lack of …. What was that word she uses? Transparency — that’s the word.
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November 16, 2014 10:05pm
publicwatchdog

So Nookin – you’re not worried about transparency when it comes to billion$ of Auckland rates monies?

You never cease to amaze me Nookin.

It seems that you can dish it – but you can’t take it?

Poor wee diddums ….

Penny Bright
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November 16, 2014 10:23pm
Say Goodbye to Hollywood

I see Cam over at Whale Oil is determined not to turn WO into an echo chamber. Well, that is exactly what you are doing. Your blog is becoming boring and you mate Pete is not helping the situation.
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November 16, 2014 10:24pm
Nookin

Penny, auckland is not the be all and end all of existence and few people outside Auckland are fixated on how it asses its rates or provides its services. The fact that you express astonishment that others have no interest in tilting at the same windmills as you says more about you than them.
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November 17, 2014 3:41am
waitakereman

say goodbye to hollywood(god i love that song)yr 100% right which is such a shame…
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November 17, 2014 6:43am
big bruv

“A bit of backup would be appreciated Kiwibloggers!”

You’re kidding right?

You want help from rate payers when all you have done for the past seven years is bludge off the rest of us.

Pay your rates Penny and then you might get a decent hearing. Until then you are nothing more than a parasite.
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November 17, 2014 8:13am
publicwatchdog

The real parasites Big Bore are the corporate robber barons who are bleeding Auckland citizens and ratepayers dry with their non-transparent corporate welfare.

Are you one of them, or working for them Mr Anonymous?

Is that why YOU don’t put your name to your posts – because you don’t want folks to be able to ‘follow the dollar’?

This equally applies to other anonymous Kiwibloggers – like YOU Nookin.

Penny Bright
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November 17, 2014 8:33am
Nookin

Get a life, Penny.

I have been using my pseudonym since 2008 — long before any of these issues were ever raised by you on Kiwiblog. I appreciate, however, that you are not even remotely concerned about facts if they do not suit your jaundiced and prejudiced world view.
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November 17, 2014 8:46am
deadrightkev

“As for the report that is the subject of Slater’s smears, I found it incoherent rubbish. If Craig is due any criticism it seems he is a bit prone to hiring the wrong people.”

That is true of Colin in his political life but I think he needs big credit for investing such a lot of his own money and getting big investors, and a new party to 4% after just three years. He is inexperienced and will makes mistakes but he is no fool or a dodgy politician as Slater repeatedly spews out.

Craig is thick skinned and will keep going as long as he is breathing. He will outlast the media and Slaters hate blog. They will lick his arse before long.

Craig may well be wise to get a lot more specific media training in some facets of his delivery presentation but he has come a long, long way since the first time I heard him speak. He is genuine and you don’t want to turn him into a sock puppet like the rest.

Slater likes to kick anyone when they are easy targets but does front face to face and check both sides of the story before letting rip with slander? Not in my experience.

To me that makes him gutless and that type of journalism is just as bad as the repeaters spewing out the progressive crap in the media.

Before I too was banned for anti National party comments I told him months ago his blog would die if he kept banning people for strong but opinionated comments. He told me to run along. If the Hager emails haven’t woken him up to the reality of life going forward then he must be thick as well. Moderator Pete Belt is a lightweight with no political nous.
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