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Left Right and Centre

First up – damn

Some children are not being fed properly in this country which is part of a poverty issue.

That’s a joke, innit ?

All I can say is that at a Winz office it’s one elephant after the other. One disgusting ugly obese times 5-10 gormless looking retard – like a factory chain. I don’t know why they bother with human size chairs – a two seater sofa per widearse makes more sense. They can’t fit on one bloody chair. You see the mothers – fat as anything – just stupidly bloated blimptards. I’d love to see those mothers try using a child’s school chair at a parent-teacher conference. You’d have to hope part of a leg was still there to pull it out.

It’s just so embarrassing – all of these cringefully obese people – why are they all so bloody fat ? All of them. You can see the enormous strain of just standing up – just to balance the lard – it’s looks like the floor might give way at any second – even the law of gravity would say ‘whoa mama – szhuuung !!’

I don’t get it – because what I see is that the lower the income, the fatter the people. How can kids be normal weight / overweight / obese size and yet starving at the same time ?
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January 2, 2015 8:09am
EAD

Thought provoking read from someone for whom the decision by the New Zealand State to go after motorists 1km over the speed limit was the straw that broke the camels back in his decision to leave NZ for good.

The author grew up in NZ and it is obvious he has a love for the place but is now alarmed at the multitude of laws, regulations and bureaucracy that govern this country and is is alarmed by Kiwis acceptance of this erosion of freedom. He observes how the nanny state welfare and ‘education’ system has turned a large portion of our young adults into helpless unskilled and unmotivated state dependents.

His message should be a warning siren for all New Zealanders as our ancient liberties are slowly being destroyed by a monolithic state:

https://www.dollarvigilante.com/blog/2014/12/18/over-the-limit-why-i-am-leaving-the-shire.html

Some excerpts:

“There is a marked antipathy against entrepreneurship, at least among the poor, as if profit is morally reprehensible. Free enterprise barely rates a mention, all you hear about is jobs jobs jobs… the country is rife with woolly headed socialism. Issues of personal freedoms barely make it into the public discourse, if at all.. The regulatory burden slowly increases over time, we are like the proverbial frogs in the saucepan of water.

And then there is this bizarre obsession with safety here. I have seen this obsession with safety grow until it is quite pathological. Small children now have to wear hi-visibility gear to leave the school grounds, also a wide brimmed hat, sunscreen, buddy system and extra supervision. Children are routinely dropped off and picked up rather than ‘risk’ the walk. This pathology is well illustrated by an anecdote from my Aunty. While at a school football game she noted that all the mothers would call their child in every 10 minutes for water or a snack as if they are going to perish of dehydration in half an hour. Some years back a law was introduced regulating the temperatures food must be served at in retail outlets, since then the pies have been too hot and the sandwiches too cold.

The guy who washes windows at the university is encumbered with two signs that say ‘warning tripping hazard’. He has to move and set these up again every five minutes as he moves along the side of the building.

My 250cc scooter costs $477 a year in motor registration, its compulsory to wear a helmet, and if you dare to even ride to the shop and back without one you will hear how you are setting a bad example. This is common here, for people to police themselves (or rather their neighbours!)

To become a property owner in NZ most people now will be in debt to the bank all their lives. The high price of property spills out into prices for everything making NZ one of the most expensive countries in the world. My house is illegal, strict building codes regulate even to the type of wood permitted to be used.”
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January 2, 2015 8:23am
mikenmild

So he’s going to Mexico? Hope the door doesn’t bang shut on his head on the way out, he might change his mind and stay. His move will raise the average IQ for both countries.
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January 2, 2015 8:29am
wiseowl

Yes EAD.Very interesting article on stuff about the clobbering machine killing off farming.

The same is happening to me.Over regulation,compliance,rules and never ending BS from government .MP’s are nothing but parrots for the bureaucrats.
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January 2, 2015 8:31am
mikenmild

LRC
What were you doing at the Winz office so often that you observe the clientele so closely?
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January 2, 2015 8:35am
EAD

@ Wiseowl,

perhaps the most gob-smacking example of the nanny-state in this country was the $40,000 fine on the farmers for not wearing helmets whilst riding quad bikes ON THEIR OWN FARMS.

If you’ve lived overseas, perhaps the most unbelievable thing about the NZ nanny-state is the need to get permits from councils for structural changes to the interior of your house or adding things such as sheds,bbqs etc.

One of the biggest disappointments of this National government has been that they have done didley squat to reform the stiffling RMA and health & safety culture that permeates in this country.

PS: Mikey – he is going to a conference in Mexico. Also if you’ve been to that part of Mexico along the South-West pacific coast, it is one of the most beautiful and free places in the world. Mexico gets a bad wrap in the press because of the drug cartel murders in the north of the country which scares many from visiting the whole country. Just as one wouldn’t walk the streets of South Auckland showing signs of wealth, stay clear of certain parts of Mexico and the rest of the country is one of the free-est in the world.
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January 2, 2015 8:39am
mikenmild

It’s reassuring to live in a country that takes resource management and safety issues seriously.
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January 2, 2015 8:41am
calendar girl

Keep it up, MM (8:29am). As a minor cog in the over-resourced, faceless bureaucracy that reinforces NZ’s nanny state mentality, you have a strong vested interest in seeing more and more wasteful regulation.

Taxpayers who earn their income in the productive and competitive sectors of the economy don’t deserve your contempt and cynical dismissal.
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January 2, 2015 9:00am
Manolo

Could she be stephieboy’s mom? http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/12/31/251726_clinton-and-2016-raise-other-questions.html?rh=1
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January 2, 2015 9:06am
Inandout

LRC: Obese people, the size of baby elephants, followed by tubby offspring are becoming the norm on any street in NZ. There is of course a very serious epidemic looming in the next decade or two when these tubbys’ organs start to break down, having been fed mainly on chemically laced and non nutritious food. Those of us who have attempted to eat a balanced diet will pray that we have health insurance, because the public hospital beds will be filled with these junk food depositories sucking on our valuable health funds. It has gone beyond a joking matter in this country that we have a health time bomb looming and it seems a pipe dream that any of the poorly fed will plant a garden, so keep up your health insurance premiums because you are going to need it.
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January 2, 2015 9:14am
All_on_Red

“l. Small children now have to wear hi-visibility gear to leave the school grounds”
Not true, but they encourage high vis gear when cycling- which is sensible. Who wants their child hit by a car? It’s not compulsory though.
” picked up rather than ‘risk’ the walk.”
Not true, the Walking School Bus is run by most schools where practically possible. At 8 years of age pupils can ride their bikes by themselves.
“mothers would call their child in every 10 minutes for water or a snack”
Not true. Although for younger teams the game is shortened. Touch is 15 minutes a half.
“, its compulsory to wear a helmet,”
Good, it costs a fortune in healthcare to look after accident victims who get head injuries- and their families.. We pay enough tax now. Hence the high Regn fee. User pays.
” strict building codes regulate even to the type of wood permitted to be used.”
Heard of leaky homes?

I agree that many of our regulations/ laws ( like the 101 kmph) are petty and overbearing but bullshit like that doesn’t help get it changed.
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January 2, 2015 9:16am
itstricky

It has gone beyond a joking matter in this country that we have a health time bomb looming and it seems a pipe dream that any of the poorly fed will plant a garden, so keep up your health insurance premiums because you are going to need it.

Watch out, WhaleOil is stealing your hospital bed as we speak.
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January 2, 2015 9:17am
kowtow

Over on the Wellington post ,meanybeany mentions 2015 being a year of anniversaries, including Magna Carta.From today’s UK DT;

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/11310696/Magna-Carta-an-idiots-guide-by-historian-Dan-Jones.html
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January 2, 2015 9:18am
Chicken Little

I too am heading off overseas, Cambodia in my case. Nanny state-ism, over taxation ( my last business here, transport based, had an effective tax rate of 72%), rules and regulations out the arse.

Why would I work hard to build a business only to have it red taped into something that would not be out of place at a BSDM convention?

Cambodia, while not perfect, at least has the freedom to do what you want, when you want.

A funny type of social experiment is carried out there on a daily basis. Generally the Police head home at 5pm and thats it, people have a few drinks and drive, socialise and the world doesn’t end. Thieves there are regularly beaten by the “mob” (read locals) before they are handed over to the Police.

There is NO welfare state, which in its most extreme form is a bad, but from an overall view is refreshing, families stay together and work together, people are entrepreneurial and just get on with it.

New Zealand to me these days is just a gray, bland, giant sheep pen. We all line up to be shorn until we bleed and then die quietly.

And, Mike, the door won’t bang on my head on the way out, I along with a number of my peers will take my capital and energy elsewhere. It may raise the IQ of NZ by doing so but you don’t have to be smart to be a sheep.
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January 2, 2015 9:20am
Reid

Edward Bernays was Sigmund Freud’s nephew and he founded the PR industry by using his uncle’s techniques to design propaganda that implanted concepts and ideas and values into the subconsciousness of the sheeple. All you have to do to avoid being played like a violin is to be aware that there is an attempt so to play you, but of course the very definition of a sheeple is that despite being told this they refuse to believe it.

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-30/edward-bernays-propaganda-theory-has-been-perfected

At the end of this there is a video like the one I posted yesterday, which has dozens of separate networks all using the same script. Except the one I posted yesterday had a different line in it. Same phenomena, different day. Coincidence? Of course it is.

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
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January 2, 2015 9:20am
jcuk

MikeM …. Socialism as its founders visualised was good …. the Kurow Group …. but sadly it is currently being taken to absurd extremes and is a block on reasonable progress or even holding our position in the world. I think it is a pity that the ridiculous attitudes of many here force you to take an untenible position.

It is quite reasonable to question the $40T fine and why the obese parents are in such a condition of ill-health and natural examples to their children to compound the problem.
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January 2, 2015 9:23am
stephieboy

EAD, does your frequent whinge about health and safety regs include those designed to protect us against food poisoning by ensuring food preparation when you visit resteraunts is safe and clean.?

Others regs that cover hospital hygiene and infection control safety , those that cover factory machinery , lift maintenance etc,etc safety ?

Reid, how an earth do those alleged propaganda techniques exempt the genuine sheeple articles like Zero Hedge and youself .?
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January 2, 2015 9:24am
Manolo

The faces of evil: http://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/teens-in-court-over-epsom-motel-murder/ar-BBhqcm8?ocid=mailsignoutmd

Two teenagers will appear in court charged with the murder of a man whose beaten body was found in an Auckland motel room.

Leonard Nattrass-Berquist and Beauen Wallace-Loretz, both 17, were sought by police over the violent motel room death of Auckland man Ihaiah Gillman-Harris on December 27.
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January 2, 2015 9:27am
jcuk

Let’s not forget that it is the capitalist industry that promotes for its profit all the junk food being consumed by the obese instead of them working in their garden to grow healthy food rather than drugs.
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January 2, 2015 9:32am
All_on_Red

“Watch out, WhaleOil is stealing your hospital bed as we speak.”
Gosh, is there anything Cameron Slater can’t do?
Have you seen the latest Blog Ratings?
http://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2015/01/monthly-blog-rankings/
That Dirty Politics has sure worked for him./ sarc
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January 2, 2015 9:36am
mikenmild

stephie
You forget that Reid has the Christian virtue of ‘discernment’ that allows him to determine what is really going on in the world.
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January 2, 2015 9:38am
hj

John Mauldin
Q3 GDP Jumps 5%; Ha! The Crap Behind the Numbers

I was raised on a farm and I’ve shoveled more than my share of manure. I didn’t like manure back then, and I like the brand of manure that comes out of Washington, DC, and Wall Street even less.

A stinky pile of economic manure came out of Washington, DC, last week and instead of the economic nirvana that it was touted to be, it was a smokescreen of half-truths and financial prestidigitation.
…….
Same with the good news Government shills put out here.

” The building industry is going through a period of expansion and says there’s an ever growing need for apprentices, but the demand far outweighs the supply. There are currently 9000 apprentices in training spread across the construction industry and associated trades. The Building and Construction Industry Training Organisation says a further 3000 are needed to fulfil the demand for qualified builders in the short term. BCITO Chief Executive Ruma Karaitiana says there is a constant stream of builders looking out for potential apprentices – in part fueled by a leap in residential building consent from 32,000 in the year to June 2011 to 44,000 in the latest June year.
From Nine To Noon on 15 Oct 2014″
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/20153482/building-industry-crying-out-for-apprentice-builders-and-associated-trades
He says it is Auckland driving the demand (I. e immigration – economic Coca Cola)
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January 2, 2015 9:40am
OneTrack

jcuk – the capitalist industry doesn’t press gang people to buy their products, and it hasn’t banned people from growing their own food. How can people afford to pay for fast food when they are living in “poverty”(tm)?
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January 2, 2015 9:42am
Scott

Just a heads up that David Garrett who often posts here has an excellent article about the pernicious effects of gangs to New Zealand today. Check out the latest Investigate magazine to read.
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January 2, 2015 9:44am
Reid

stephie
You forget that Reid has the Christian virtue of ‘discernment’ that allows him to determine what is really going on in the world.

mm I’ve already explained the distinction between Christian discernment and the general definition of discernment, and it’d be a bloody good thing if you’d stop pretending the two distinct things are in fact one and the same thing. I know you’re a lefty therefore you just help lying and slandering and dissembling in general, steeped in Dirty Politics as all of you are from the cradle, but the rest of us who do have ethics, shouldn’t have to be continually smeared by your own lack thereof. Interestingly there’s a phrase in the Bible which accurately describes your behaviour in this respect, in that what you’ve been doing is alleging your hallucination often then when it was explained you backed off it for a few weeks then a few days ago you started smearing again. The phrase is: [returning to it] like a dog to its own vomit. Accurate, isn’t it.
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January 2, 2015 9:50am
waikatogirl

Inandout: …these tubbys’ organs start to break down, having been fed mainly on chemically laced and non nutritious food. Those of us who have attempted to eat a balanced diet will pray that we have health insurance, because the public hospital beds will be filled with these junk food depositories sucking on our valuable health funds

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I’m with you on people who constantly stuff themselves with bad food.

The medical professions have woken up to checking triglyceride levels in the blood. That is the amount of fat in the blood, and you can’t hide what you eat from your blood levels.

Those people who will not help themselves and will be clogging our hospitals with self-inflicted diabetics, smoking related illnesses, etc need to go to the bottom of the list for help.
People say they are poor and can’t afford good food. Rubbish, there is plenty of good, cheap food but you have to cook it yourself.
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January 2, 2015 9:55am
All_on_Red

“Shawn Herles (6,784 comments) says:
January 1st, 2015 at 9:25 pm
“Well, with that one sentence EAD has revealed himself as a Nazi. At least he is now being honest.”

I thought you got a warning/strike for calling someone a Nazi?
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January 2, 2015 9:56am
hj

I watched half of “Hot Air” on Maori TV. The first think that got my attention was work commissioned by the Greenhouse Policy Coalition . An economist said “there was a time when consultancy (?) groups (like NZIER) were well respected, but in the 1990s they started getting paid for their work [NZIER migrants increase our incomes is at odds with Treasury Paper 14-10].
Clip of (“things can change”) Rodney Hide calling anthropomorphic climate change “a scam”.
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January 2, 2015 9:58am
minus

Left Right and Centre – How can kids be normal weight / overweight / obese size and yet starving at the same time ?

A partial answer is: wrong food choices.
Sugar-laden fat-filled food with no real nutrition is stored as fat while the child still needs proper nutrition / vitamins.
So eat more.

Plus Catch-22 details, like:
Sugary soda drinks raise blood sugar levels stimulating storage of the sugar they have just put in the blood stream
That they could be banned, implies diet soda is OK.
However diet soda, containing artificial sweeteners, can stimulate greater fat storage – not from the diet soda’s own contents – but from whatever else is available in the blood stream.
So you are fucked.

Unfortunately the “science” on food / nutrition is about as settled or helpful as that on global warming.
And WINZ “clients” probably do not keep up with either.
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January 2, 2015 9:58am
waikatogirl

Chicken little, all the best. Sorry to lose a self-supporting kiwi.
We own our own business and it is bloody hard work. The govt needs to reform the RMA and anything else to make it easier for businesses to survive. It takes a special person to start a business and be successful at it. I doubt most could handle it.

Nevermind sheep, it is that there are tooooo many riding on the backs of those working sheep. Life is not a free ride.
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January 2, 2015 10:05am
Fight Communism

HOLIDAY IN CAMBODIA

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So you been to school
For a year or two
And you know you've seen it all
In daddy's car
Thinkin' you'll go far
Back east your type don't crawl

Play ethnicky jazz
To parade your snazz
On your five grand stereo
Braggin' that you know
How the niggers feel cold
And the slums got so much soul

It's time to taste what you most fear
Right Guard will not help you here
Brace yourself, my dear:

It's a holiday in Cambodia
It's tough, kid, but it's life
It's a holiday in Cambodia
Don't forget to pack a wife

You're a star-belly sneech
You suck like a leach
You want everyone to act like you
Kiss ass while you bitch
So you can get rich
But your boss gets richer off you

Well you'll work harder
With a gun in your back
For a bowl of rice a day
Slave for soldiers
Till you starve
Then your head is skewered on a stake

Now you can go where people are one
Now you can go where they get things done
What you need, my son:.

Is a holiday in Cambodia
Where people dress in black
A holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll kiss ass or crack

Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot, [etc]

And it's a holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll do what you're told
A holiday in Cambodia
Where the slums got so much soul

http://youtu.be/-KTsXHXMkJA
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January 2, 2015 10:05am
kowtow

jcuk says “Let’s not forget that it is the capitalist industry that promotes for its profit all the junk food being consumed by the obese instead of them working in their garden to grow healthy food rather than drugs.”

M’lud ,my client was forced by Colonel Saunders to do it.He had no choice in the matter.
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January 2, 2015 10:08am
Fight Communism

Some children are not being fed properly in this country which is part of a poverty issue.

That’s a joke, innit ?

NO YOU ARE

Kill The Poor”

Efficiency and progress is ours once more
Now that we have the Neutron bomb
It’s nice and quick and clean and gets things done
Away with excess enemy
But no less value to property
No sense in war but perfect sense at home:

The sun beams down on a brand new day
No more welfare tax to pay
Unsightly slums gone up in flashing light
Jobless millions whisked away
At last we have more room to play
All systems go to kill the poor tonight

Gonna
Kill kill kill kill Kill the poor:Tonight

Behold the sparkle of champagne
The crime rate’s gone
Feel free again
O’ life’s a dream with you, Miss Lily White
Jane Fonda on the screen today
Convinced the liberals it’s okay
So let’s get dressed and dance away the night

While they:
Kill kill kill kill Kill the poor:Tonight

http://youtu.be/L8zhNb8ANe8
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January 2, 2015 10:12am
Hugh Pavletich

California’s high housing costs drive out poor, middle-income workers – LA Times

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-california-migration-20150101-story.html

“Rents are going up very rapidly, as well as housing prices,” said Hans Johnson, a migration expert who is a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. “The economy is booming, but how do you supply housing for the workers who aren’t commanding high incomes yet are still in demand?”

Darren Hayes is a native of Oxnard who worked for 15 years as a teacher in Orange and Ventura counties. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at California universities. He spent most of his life in California until moving to the Dallas area last year.

He and his wife lost their Oxnard home to foreclosure after the housing crash, and the options for a replacement home in California were sparse.

Hayes always pictured Texas as a land of larger-than-life belt buckles and oversized pickup trucks. But he kept hearing about the great quality of life from his brother-in-law, Pete Paule, an insurance professional who left Simi Valley for Texas in 2012.

It took one visit to persuade Hayes to follow suit. He quickly found a similar teaching job in an affluent school district north of Dallas in 2013, and for the first time in years a dream home appears within reach.

“If we stayed in California to buy a house, in my opinion we would have to settle,” said Hayes, 47. “Now we can be picky and choose the house we want.”

Hugh Pavletich
Co-author Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey
http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/ & http://info.scoop.co.nz/Hugh_Pavletich
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January 2, 2015 10:15am
wiseowl

All in Red.
Heard of cows? So to speak.

Buildings don’t leak because of the type of timber used.Stupid basic understanding.
Buildings leak because of bad design or poor workmanship.

InandOut.Food isn’t laced with chemicals any more. What is used is more like weasel piss.Fifty years ago the chemical protection was with very harsh chemicals but how many people died then.None.

Try looking in your kitchen for toxic products .
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January 2, 2015 10:16am
Inandout

‘The poor will always be with us’ can now be replaced with ‘the poor choosers will always be with us’. The first phrase was written in times of dire poverty, the second in times of dire parenting.
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January 2, 2015 10:21am
Fight Communism

Chicken Little if you are bored there is plenty of business ops being created in SYRIA

these chicks don’t pack it their purse don’t need your welfare

But they are a great example to woman and children the world over

NZ woman should take a lead from these people and take over and run NZ

http://youtu.be/4JrqfJ67GUM
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January 2, 2015 10:23am
Inandout

wiseowl: The jury is still out on food additives.

http://www.amazon.com/Consumers-Dictionary-Food-Additives-Edition/dp/0307408922

But it is the lack of balance with fresh vegetables and fruit that is a concern for some junk food addicts.
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January 2, 2015 10:25am
All_on_Red

Wiseowl
I am well aware of the design and construction of buildings contributing to causing untreated timber to rot but my comment was referring to EADs corespondent bleating about regs on timber type.
But carry on being picky if it makes you happy.
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January 2, 2015 10:29am
Reid

Big oil and bankers just can’t stop rigging – who’da thunk. Gee, do you think the brave and objective MSM will bother to say anything at all?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-30/rigging-triangle-exposed-jpmorgan-british-petroleum-bank-england-cartel-full-frontal
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January 2, 2015 10:53am
wat dabney

“Socialism as its founders visualised was good”

Well, it wasn’t.

It was (and is) a violence-based doctrine with the added issue of also being grossly inefficient, and with ones prospects and standard of living dictated solely by who one knew rather than how effectively one served others.

Plus, of course, it is the convenient political pretext for corrupt rent-seeking labour cartels to plunder the workers of the co-operative sector, in the form of the “Labour Party” (sic).
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January 2, 2015 10:58am
Jack5

Re Twat Dabney at 10.58:

… the convenient political pretext for corrupt rent-seeking labour cartels to plunder the workers of the co-operative sector…

In NZ, as in most Western countries today, co-operatives are co-operatives of businesses – eg Fonterra and Zespri, and in many less obvious cases such as groups for buying, insurance, supermarkets (Countdown) etc.
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January 2, 2015 11:07am
holysheet

steffie said
EAD, does your frequent whinge about health and safety regs include those designed to protect us against food poisoning by ensuring food preparation when you visit resteraunts is safe and clean.?

Back in the day I owned a food outlet. Whenever the local council health inspector paid a visit, he would not leave until he found something wrong. So after his first visit, I always left something obvious for him to find, like a bit of ripped lino under the fridge feet, or a broken piece of crockery under the bench. Not anything that would cause a major health hazard. He went away happy having found something to put in his report to show his bosses that he was doing a good job.

All bullshit
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January 2, 2015 11:11am
holysheet

Waikato girlie, wash your mouth, how can you be so cruel when you say this

“People say they are poor and can’t afford good food. Rubbish, there is plenty of good, cheap food but you have to cook it yourself.”

Didn’t you know these people are not expected to go for anything that helps themselves. That’s what the govment is for.
Cooking food is for dumass whiteys like you.
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January 2, 2015 11:19am
SGA

@Reid at 9:50am

mm- You forget that Reid has the Christian virtue of ‘discernment’ that allows him to determine what is really going on in the world.
mm I’ve already explained the distinction between Christian discernment and the general definition of discernment, and it’d be a bloody good thing if you’d stop pretending the two distinct things are in fact one and the same thing.

In your own words, “I’m a Christian blessed with discernment. Therefore I see Satanic machinations when others don’t.” And those machinations are what you believe to be really going on in the world, aren’t they? I don’t see where mm has misrepresented you.
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January 2, 2015 11:19am
Reid

We must ask what that oft-used buzzword “freedom” actually means in the modern West. For many, the ability to stream an inverted universe of pornography, or order off of Pizza Hut’s “subconscious menu” from their iPads – is enough assurance that they are still free, but the ever-expanding Leviathan state and the spread of vapid consumerism should give us all more than a moment’s pause. If freedom is reducible to a dazzling array of consumer options and self-gratification, why is that worth dying for? We must strive toward being higher than the perpetually consuming, soulless homo economicus.

In order to resist and confront the forces arrayed against him and to achieve a higher freedom, man must begin with repentance and spiritual reformation. His soul must be cleansed of sloth and apathy, as well as the other enslaving vices that leave him open to fear, manipulation, and despair; or as Ernst Jünger put it, one “must be free in order to become free.” The German adventurer further said that for the spiritually free man, “this world filled with oppression and oppressive agents,” will only “serve to make his freedom visible in all its splendor.”

The great Russian thinker Nicolas Berdyaev, who himself openly defied the murderous Bolsheviks who overran his homeland, taught that the “victory over slavery is a spiritual act,” and that “social and spiritual liberation ought to go hand in hand.” Repentance and spiritual resistance are the first, and most important, steps in confronting the powers of our age.

http://21stcenturywire.com/2014/12/31/transcending-the-soul-hackers/
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January 2, 2015 11:24am
Redbaiter

It’s been a good month to be a communist—strike up The Internationale!

Cuba, an island prison ruined by years of Leninist economics and brutalized by Soviet police-state tactics, has in many ways reached the end of its rope. Pro-democracy protestors are regularly seen—and quickly jailed—in Havana and elsewhere. After the Soviet Union collapsed, Cuba found another source of state funding in Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela, to the tune of $5 billion annually. Since Chavez’ death, Cuban military “advisors” have helped Nicolás Maduro resist a growing pro-democracy movement in Venezuela. Maduro’s regime has imprisoned opposition leaders and murdered protestors in the streets. Cuba’s aim has been to maintain a lucrative arrangement, but falling petrol prices and growing political instability in Venezuela have upset Cuba’s economic outlook.

Given these realities, many have hoped that the Brothers Castro would finally lose control (or die) and the Communist Party-state would finally collapse. Time was not on the side of Raúl Castro, but then he received a bailout—from the United States.

http://linkis.com/thehill.com/blogs/co/wI880
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January 2, 2015 11:25am
Redbaiter

Good too see the word COMMUNIST becoming more frequently used, even if the change is gradual.

Pisses me off the way so many people are too frightened to use it.

The left cannot ridicule you readers, they are puffed up liars and thieves. Call them what they truly are and just smile at their attempts to make you ashamed of yourself.

If the left are attempting to ridicule you, its certain you are speaking truth.
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January 2, 2015 11:28am
stephieboy

Redbaiter, “communist ” for you is a term of abuse that you hurl at others who simply think differently to you.

Abuse that is largely born out of fear and hate , not reasoned or rational thinking.
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January 2, 2015 11:41am
Manolo

I would not apply the term “communist” to you, stephieboy. You are simply an enfeebled socialist, the result of years of public (mis)education.
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January 2, 2015 11:46am
stephieboy

holy sheet , interesting to see that the actions of a council officer meant more to you than your apparent dirtiness and uncleanliness e,g not bothering to wash your hands after wiping your bottom ?
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January 2, 2015 11:47am
Redbaiter

Stephie unwittingly provides and excellent example of the left’s real purpose is in it’s campaign against what it calls “abuse”.

The idea behind this invidious attack on freedom of expression has always been to stifle the truth about who the far left are and what they wish to do.

Painted as a campaign against profanity, it is designed to slowly morph into a means to shut down all criticism of socialism and its promoters and propagandists.

Charges of “abuse” on this forum are about 99% invalid.
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January 2, 2015 11:48am
stephieboy

Manolo, good grief.! Happy New Year and you shall we say you in turn a non white Fascist whimp.?

PS Do update us with your honourary White certification.

Redbaiter , and you the paragon and advocate of the open society ?

Your naturally joking !
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January 2, 2015 11:50am
EAD

@ AOR

Health & Safety legislation is just another low-level form of marxism as it:

– destroys private businesses by forcing up costs
– makes people question the free market as “everything is so expensive”
– gives jobsworths in the State sector like milkmild more boxes to tick
– gives the State more domain over our private lives. It conditions people to obey the state and authority
– destroys a risk taking culture which is the lifeblood of capitalism – the freedom to take risks and succeed or fail

With regards to the timber mandated by building codes – this is one of the biggest lies told to the NZ public. It masks the real cause of leaky homes (poor workmanship) and maintains the cartel of our building industry suppliers supply products at inflated prices.

One of the justifications for these building codes is “NZ has some of the harshest weather in the world”. This is probably the biggest lie of the lot. Along with the likes of Great Britain, we have some of the most mild weather in the world being half way between the equator and poles and benefiting from coastal breezes which means we don’t get the extreme continental highs and lows of much of the world.
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January 2, 2015 11:54am
publicwatchdog

Good moaning Kiwibloggers – hope you all had a Happy New Year to start 2015!

I have checked through both the Local Government Commission’s ‘Draft Proposal for Reorganisation of Local Government in Wellington – Volume 1 Public Report: Summary document December 2014′ and their Volume 2 Technical report: Evaluation of the options and the draft proposal’.

In my view – the following summary is extremely misleading:

http://www.nbr.co.nz/…/4184558DA%20-%20Draft-Proposal-Wellington-Vol..

The current system of local government

2.11 Together the councils of Wellington Region have:

• financial assets valued at $563 million (30 June 2013)

• investment in physical assets valued at $12.8 billion (30 June 2013)

• debt totalling $785 million (30 June 2013)

• forecast debt totalling $1,336 million (by 30 June 2022)

• eight mayors, ninety-six councillors (including the regional council chair), and 57 community board members

• full-time equivalent staff totalling 3,256 (April 2014)

• 321 plans currently produced under the Resource Management Act 1991, Local Government Act 2002, Land Transport Management Act and Reserves Act.

2.12 Together the councils of Wellington Region pay:

• elected member remuneration (including mayors/chair) of $5.3 million per annum (2012/13)

• chief executive officer remuneration of $2.6 million per annum (2012/13)

• audit fees for the audit of the 2012-13 annual reports of $1.36 million

• audit fees for the audit of the 2012-22 long-term plans of $0.863 million.

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What about Council Controlled Organisations (CCOs) in the Wellington region?

CCOs are NOT ‘local authorities’.

Where is the ‘devilish detail’ pertaining to CCOs?

How much do the CEOs of CCOs, and their unelected Boards cost citizens and ratepayers?

How much do the CCO Executive staff, and ‘non-executive’ staff / temps / consultants / contractors cost?

How much do the buildings which house the CCOs and their staff cost?

How many ‘Statement of Intents’ (SOIs)

What about monies spent on goods and services provided by private sector consultants and contractors throughout the Wellington region?

How many private sector contracts are there now, providing Council services throughout the Wellington region?

How much money is being spent on ‘contract management’ by Councils throughout the Wellington region?

Where is THAT ‘devilish detail’ provided by the Local Government Commission ‘Draft Proposal’?

(Where was that ‘devilish detail’ provided in any of the preceding reports, including those provided by a number of ‘consultants’?)

How can citizens and ratepayers make informed submissions on this ‘Draft Proposal’ – when they – in my considered opinion, have not been given ALL the relevant and pertinent FACTS?

Seriously?

Penny Bright
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January 2, 2015 11:57am
srylands

Remember what we all agreed – IGNORE HER.
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January 2, 2015 12:01pm
waikatogirl

Holy, don’t call me girlie. I have disdain for that term after my primary teacher called me that when I was 8 years old. Didn’t appreciate it then and still don’t. 🙂
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January 2, 2015 12:02pm
Griff

Redbaiter I presume your use of Communist towards all who dont share in your deluded fascination with the more insane fringe of the republican party will allow latitude for us to call you a totally confused authoritarian wingnut. .
Meant in the nicest possible way of course.
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January 2, 2015 12:03pm
stephieboy

EAD , oh dear another who personal hygiene is a very private affair and who would think nothing of preparing and selling filled bread rolls and not bothering to wipe hands after a visit to the lav or flies pooing on the salads etc .

Another who would be quite happy selling an unsuspecting customer a hidden shoddy leaky house workmanship.

A main reason we have building codes is to ensure the basic safety and fairness to the unsuspecting customer. Nothing to do the weather I suspect.

Also to protect against shoddy clowns like you.Never suspected a failed CT re like you would be sucked into such libertarian drivel. But then thinking about not surprising really.
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January 2, 2015 12:07pm
Redbaiter

Always amuses me that Grief constantly calls others “wingnuts” when he’s a self confessed retard himself.
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January 2, 2015 12:07pm
waikatogirl

Reid, I think being a sloth from time to time is wonderful ! People who are like the energizer bunny don’t know what they are missing. Rest and sleep for the body is as necessary as exercise. I embrace it these days, nice when you can get time 🙂
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January 2, 2015 12:08pm
stephieboy

Redbaiter , did you pay that much needed vist to the Doctor I suggested just prior to Chrustmas ?
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January 2, 2015 12:10pm
Fletch

EAD @8.23am, sad to say I think the same thing is happening all over the world. I don’t know if it is possible to escape it.

Off topic a bit, but I’m just starting to read A Queer Thing Happened To America: And what a long, strange trip it’s been by Michael Brown.

It’s very disturbing. The whole education system in the U.S from kindergarten to grade school, to high school, to university has been infiltrated by this gay, bisexual, transgender crap. Kids are being brainwashed at school by relentless propaganda, and parents have no say in it: they can’t withdraw their kids from classes, their permission is not needed for their kids to be taught this crap. It’s everywhere.
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January 2, 2015 12:13pm
publicwatchdog

Crikey Kiwibloggers!

You’ll LOVE this 🙂

(Ok – a LOT of you won’t – particularly those Kiwibloggers who decided never to comment on my posts again …. 😉

https://www.facebook.com/ian.wishart.543?fref=nf&pnref=story

Ian Wishart
21 hrs ·

One person who didn’t make the Honours list, but arguably should do, is Penny Bright.

We may not always see politically eye to eye, but I have tremendous respect for Ms Bright’s sense of integrity and dedication to keeping all sides of the political spectrum honest.

I have seen Penny stand up to the Left on issues of public accountability, and have often seen her tackling the Right.

Our political system needs the Brights of this world.
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My response:
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Thank you for the compliment Ian – much appreciated – but for the public record – I’m not interested in being on the ‘Honours List’!

http://www.honours.govt.nz/honours/nominations

Under our NZ Honours system, nominations have to be approved by the Prime Minister and a Cabinet Committee.

If the Prime Minister and Cabinet Committee were prepared to recommend my nomination to be on their Honours List – then arguably I wouldn’t deserve to be there!

Happy New Year folks!

2015 is going to be a DOOZY ……

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Kind regards

Penny Bright
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January 2, 2015 12:15pm
waikatogirl

Re: health department checking businesses. Holy, sure you were doing your best. A bit of broken crockery etc sounds pretty tame, but I am happy to have food outlets checked for cleanliness and hygiene.

Who wants to eat fly infested food, or worse. Wouldn’t eat it at home, don’t expect to pay for it when I pick up my Indian takeaway or fish n chips.
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January 2, 2015 12:16pm
Griff

Actually redbaiter.
You are the one who styles himself of the opposite of progressive.
thus
You are the retardist .
A proud retard if there ever was one.
Has a nice ring dont you think retard as a political movement?
Redbaiters retarded authoritarian confused wingnut party.
Could even pick up a few vote from Colon Grags confused socialist conservatives.
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January 2, 2015 12:18pm
publicwatchdog

Oh Srylands – you are SO funny!

srylands (472 comments) says:
January 2nd, 2015 at 12:01 pm
Remember what we all agreed – IGNORE HER.

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What sort of ‘Libertarian collectivism’ is THIS?

Are ‘Libertarians’ into intellectually ‘ganging up’ on those who hold political opinions different to themselves?

hmmm…. that doesn’t sound quite right ….

So are you the self-appointed ‘Union delegate’ of this Kiwiblog ‘Libertarian collective’ Srylands – who are apparently SO ill-disciplined that they need you to remind them of what to say (and what to think?)

Or maybe you’re not really ‘Libertarians’?

Maybe you just don’t really believe in ‘freedom of expression’ or ‘General Debate’?

But you still read what I posted Srylands?

GOOD ON YOU!

Well done – you wild ‘free thinker’ – you!

(Just can’t help yourself – eh? 🙂

Kind regards

Penny Bright
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January 2, 2015 12:22pm
Redbaiter

Kids are being brainwashed at school by relentless propaganda, and parents have no say in it: they can’t withdraw their kids from classes, their permission is not needed for their kids to be taught this crap. It’s everywhere.

Right, but its not new. Been happening for at least four or five decades, and has increased in intensity as the left’s hold over the education system has strengthened.

Its the main reason for the cultural divide among old and young. The principles and way of life that our previous generations held to, and that allowed them to build what was once one of the greatest little countries in the world, have not been passed on to upcoming generations as government schools have assumed the role of the parent.

They have been replaced with the principles of Marxist/ socialism, and its a recipe for decline and degeneration. You don’t need me to provide examples of why this is true.
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January 2, 2015 12:26pm
stephieboy

From TM this morning , Great New Year Tidings for Manolo, Fletch, Rebaiter , kowtow , Harriet etc,

Pope Francis is increasingly driving a wedge between conservatives and the Catholic Church. 

The magnetic pope has sparked new enthusiasm around the world for the church and has flexed his political muscles internationally, most recently by helping to engineer a new relationship between the United States and Cuba.  
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But Francis’s agenda, which also includes calls to address income inequality and limit climate change, is putting him at odds with Republicans, including GOP Catholics in the United States. 
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Since his papal inauguration in March 2013, the pontiff has publicly made policy remarks about income inequality and the environment that many American Catholics weren’t used to hearing coming from the Vatican, and not just from the pulpit.

“Inequality is the root of social evil,” Francis tweeted in March, after months earlier slamming “trickle-down” economics as a “crude and naïve” theory.

Next year, as part of a speech he’ll give to the United Nations General Assembly, Francis will issue an edict urging the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics to do what they can to fight climate change. 

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/228289-pope-franc
is-splits-with-gop
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January 2, 2015 12:27pm
srylands

“EAD, does your frequent whinge about health and safety regs include those designed to protect us against food poisoning by ensuring food preparation when you visit resteraunts is safe and clean.?”

What evidence can you provide that such regulations are cost effective? You seem to be stuck with this mindset that every problem (whether real or imaginary) is one for the government to fix.

Businesses that sell food – anywhere in the world – do not set out to poison their customers – for obvious reasons.

If all food hygiene regs were abolished tomorrow, we would simply see more customer reviews warning people off poorly run establishments. In a place as small as NZ, outlet owners who poisoned people would not stay in business very long. For the very small number that caused real harm, simply rely on litigation.

I don’t want the Government protecting me from dodgy fish curry. At all.
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January 2, 2015 12:27pm
holysheet

Waikato girlie and stiffyboy you both miss the point.

The inspector wasn’t going to leave until he found something to put in his report.
It’s the mentality of creeps like him that I object to. It’s a common mentality held by most in public service and those who have never done a decent days work off their own back.

There are those that do and the rest teach everyone else how to do what they themselves cannot do.
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January 2, 2015 12:27pm
stephieboy

Holy sheet , I still actually suspect that your negativity towards compliance was born more out of the officer’s insistence that your food preparation and kitchen observed basic hygiene and cleanliness requirements which you would otherwise might be happy to overlook .
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January 2, 2015 12:34pm
srylands

“Holy sheet , I still actually suspect that your negativity toward compliance was born more out of the ifficers his insistence that your food preparation and kitchen observed basic hygiene and cleanliness requirements which you would otherwise might be happy yo overlook .”

Genuine question – Have you ever run a business?
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January 2, 2015 12:40pm
minus

Lie ?

The Auckland Council experience and overseas examples strongly suggest that there should be a reasonable expectation of efficiency savings from the creation of a combined Wellington Council.
http://www.gw.govt.nz/assets/About-GW-the-region/Regional-Governance/Local-Government-Commission-Application/FinalApplication.PDF

How does “the Auckland Council experience” tell Wellingtonians anything, when a review of Auckland Council CCOs is not expected to be completed until July this year?

CCO review underway
Auckland Council is undertaking a review of the seven council-controlled organisations (CCOs) which were established during amalgamation in 2010.
… The review is expected to take approximately 15 months, with an aim of completion by July 2015.
http://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/EN/AboutCouncil/representativesbodies/CCO/Pages/ccoreviewunderway.aspx
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January 2, 2015 12:41pm
Redbaiter

Genuine question – Have you ever run a business?

He’s going to have a go at it once he works out how to tie his shoelaces.
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January 2, 2015 12:43pm
Reid

Editorial: NZ economy is in a good place and thriving

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=11380999

Brought to you by the very same morons who were blindsided by the GFC, 1987 and 1921.

When will they ever learn? I’m picking: never.
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January 2, 2015 12:45pm
G152

“Holy sheet , I still actually suspect that your negativity toward compliance was born more out of the ifficers his insistence that your food preparation and kitchen observed basic hygiene and cleanliness requirements which you would otherwise might be happy yo overlook .”

Genuine question – Have you ever run a business?

I rather suspect not.
Nowadays its the paper pushers/certificate writers who over rule common sense
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January 2, 2015 12:48pm
Shawn Herles

@ All_on_Red,

Your post at 9:16 in response to EADS bullshit fantasies just made my day!

Brilliant! 🙂
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January 2, 2015 12:48pm
Redbaiter

Posting content free endorsements of other comments is a breach of accepted forum protocol.
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January 2, 2015 12:50pm
dime

Dime has been laughing over the last couple of days as he reads kiwiblog.

The resident lefties and a few new ones who just cant get enough of new government laws designed to “protect them”.

I guess its consistent with the ideology of the left – its a victim ideology.

If they arent victims themselves (98%) they go through life scared, expecting to become a victim. It seems to be all they see. “why isnt anyone helping these people????” “why isnt there a law to stop that hilarious 20 year old diving 30 feet into a swimming pool and killing himself?” wah wah wah

The scary thing is, they look to the fucking government to protect them LMAO

Who has killed more people than governments???

Its like runing to Freddy Krueger when you scrape your knee and need a hug.

I guess the saddest thing about these lefties is their complete lack of faith in normal people. Like everyone is out to get them.

The world must be a scawy place for them.
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January 2, 2015 12:54pm
kowtow

What can one say?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2893811/Branded-racists-bigots-homophobes-age-THREE-thousands-children-blacklisted-schools-using-innocuous-playground-taunts.html
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January 2, 2015 12:55pm
stephieboy

sylands, ever run a business .? Irrelevant and no but I like to have peace of mind when dining out such as at a local newly opened Thai rsteraunt last night.

That it meets basic local hygiene and food safety compliances .

Evidently holy sheet, EAD and you feel it’s sound business practice that it doesn’t ?
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January 2, 2015 12:59pm
dime

Has anyone read “Petes” latest 1500 word love letter to Slater @ WO?

It basically reads like this:

“As I quietly stand next to my idols bed, watching him sleep, I cant help but think that almost ten years ago, a fairly unknown guy called Cameron Slater was spiraling down. Financially. Emotionally. Pretty much everything he had touched had come to nothing.

it goes on and on..

wedged in there i think i saw “I sometimes wonder what it would be like to blow him, to gently cup his whale sized balls”

“Whaleoil 1.0 is head and shoulders above anyone else. ”

“Cameron once made the Godfather an offer he couldnt refuse”

“Cameron can slam a revolving door”

You get the idea.

God knows why slater keeps that asshole around.
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January 2, 2015 1:00pm
waikatogirl

Holysht, you are a sensitive wee flower! I said I wasn’t referring to you, just referred to your broken crockery, hardly fly blown food. But I am guessing you were just going for a bite. :).

Fully justified comments to SB though, carry on…
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January 2, 2015 1:03pm
dime

“That it meets basic local hygiene and food safety compliances .”

why is it law that they have to be government compliances?

how much do these comliances cost?

what if there was a cheaper way? maybe The Association of Resurants.. a non profit who can do compliances at half the cost?

I guess we cant trust people to regulate themselves. its far too scawy.

But, at least this way, with so many regulatory costs, it makes it harder for people to start businesses. better if they remain poor and struggling and we protect those who already have money.
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January 2, 2015 1:03pm
Redbaiter

You get the idea.

Pete “Sycophant’ Belt’s attempt to generate employment longevity.
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January 2, 2015 1:09pm
dime

stephieboy – you said this:

“PS Do update us with your honourary White certification.”

wtf does that mean?

someone who isnt white, but also isnt fromthe far left is some sorta race traitor?
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January 2, 2015 1:12pm
Shawn Herles

AOR

I thought you got a warning/strike for calling someone a Nazi?

Depends on whether the claim is reasonable or not. In this case my claim was based on this statement:

EAD (1,509 comments) says:
January 1st, 2015 at 4:01 pm

And if you don’t think there is some kind of “conspiratorial” element to it, whether it be Jewish or Marxist originated (or perhaps they are one and the same), why is “multiculturalism” only being forced upon White, Christian, Capitalist societies

Now, as far as I’m concerned, anyone who promotes the idea that there is a Jewish conspiracy to wipe out the white race is dreaming of swastika’s and concentration camps.

The Right does not need this kind of stupidity. We already have to fight a biased media. Idiots like EAD are not doing the Right any favors when they post that kind of crap, especially on a blog as popular as KB.

That said, I’m happy to ignore EAD from now on. I’m tired of flame wars, and tired of spending time on this kind of extremist crap. It’s boring and unworthy of attention.
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January 2, 2015 1:13pm
Reid

http://journal-neo.org/2014/12/31/something-strange-about-isis/

You don’t say.

How do ISIS fighters get into Iraq and Syria? Through which countries are they transiting?
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January 2, 2015 1:15pm
holysheet

Stiffyboy
you must be a moron not to notice the fact the inspector was failing to find anything wrong with the premises he was inspecting.
I just made it easier for him to do his job correctly as fast as possible. I wanted him out of my way to let me get on with trying to make enough money to keep 4 staff and myself in a job. This is something you will never understand as you have never worked for yourself and run a business.
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January 2, 2015 1:15pm
Redbaiter

The Right does not need this kind of stupidity.

What the “right” does not need is fake Cherokees preaching Marxist clap trap re-writes of history or preaching pretentious self important left wingers who call up the “Nazi” smear at the drop of a hat.

Two comments today and both of them spiteful attacks on EAD.
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January 2, 2015 1:16pm
kowtow

“Next year, as part of a speech he’ll give to the United Nations General Assembly, Francis will issue an edict urging the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics to do what they can to fight climate change. ”

When the Argie starts travelling around the world on a donkey,including to the Phillipines ,to preach global warming,then I might be convinced he’s doing his bit to fight climate change.

In the meantime I think the Jesuit should stick to matters of faith and recall the words of his Master, Render unto Caesar…..
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January 2, 2015 1:16pm
Shawn Herles

Reid, did you end up watching ‘The Interview’?

Given the amount of controversy it has stirred up, I’m curious as to whether it’s any good or not.
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January 2, 2015 1:21pm
Griff

I dont think they can connect all the dots in a rational pattern Shawn.
Nazism gets lost among the big green lizard men, UN , New World Order, Illuminati , cultural Marxists, general bogymen, evil scientists, jews and towel wearing Arabs.
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January 2, 2015 1:23pm
minus

In the meantime I think the Jesuit should stick to matters of faith and recall the words of his Master, Render unto Caesar…

Depends how much you are convinced Man is responsible for global warming, and God is not.
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January 2, 2015 1:28pm
EAD

Redbaiter

I’m not to worried about Shawn Herles calling me a Nazi (despite his proclamations that he always wins the debate) as it is a classic example of Godwins law whereby the Left/Statists when losing an argument, will always resort to calling their opponents a Nazi.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

Like all 6,000+ of his comments in 2014, nearly 1/3 more than the next person, Shawn Herles and his faux outrage is best ignored.
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January 2, 2015 1:29pm
Shawn Herles

it is a classic example of Godwins law whereby the Left/Statists when losing an argument, will always resort to calling their opponents a Nazi.

Well EAD, the onus is on you to explain your comment. I never call anyone a Nazi unless that person provides at least some evidence that this might be true.

You did claim that there is or might be a Jewish conspiracy to destroy the white race, did you not?

What would you call that ideology?
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January 2, 2015 1:34pm
Shawn Herles

The Ironies of Oil: Obama once ridiculed cheap energy, which is now saving him from himself.

Almost everything Obama tried for six years in an effort to rev the economy — from near-zero interest rates and $1 trillion annual budget deficits to Obamacare and vast increases in entitlements — has failed. His foreign-policy stances of resets and leading from behind led to chaos and emboldened enemies.

Yet the United States economy is slowly recovering with cheap energy. Consumers have more money. Industries are returning to U.S. soil.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/395584/ironies-oil-victor-davis-hanson
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January 2, 2015 1:38pm
Shawn Herles

I guess EAD is having a wee bit of trouble coming up with an excuse for his claim of a Jewish conspiracy to destroy the white race. 🙂
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January 2, 2015 1:47pm
stephieboy

Holy sheet, all I know is that I like my dining out food to be prepared and cooked as safely and hygentucally as possible .

You do not inspire confidence in that respect, your business experience notwithstanding .

Shawn Herles , talking about Jewish cabals and conspiracies can only lead one, unmiistaenly, to the conclusion that behind it all lurks usually a fear and hatred of Jews .

Period .!
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