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Manolo

More Islamic terrorism: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/03/18/shots-reportedly-fired-near-major-tunisian-museum/
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March 19, 2015 8:02am
Chuck Bird

This woman should not have been a practising lawyer when she committed her latest offence. Why was she?

Davina Murray’s ‘significant ethical blindspot’
1:19 PM Wednesday Mar 18, 2015

Disgraced ex-lawyer Davina Murray had been reprimanded for her conduct three times in five years before being struck off in February, including for trying to falsely claim $67,500 from her deceased partner’s estate

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11419227
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March 19, 2015 8:03am
Pete George

Senior reporter at NZ Herald David Fisher has written about an Amnesty International poll on spying (NZ and global): Most Kiwis reject Govt spying – survey

Of course most people would prefer not to have all their communications monitored and stored.

But Fisher doesn’t disclose that the poll is being used in the launch of an anti-spying poll.

And he didn’t point out it made false claims about legislation in New Zealand on surveillance and oversight.

Amnesty International spy poll slanted to support anti-spying campaign
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March 19, 2015 8:04am
oldpark

A headline in the Australian owned Wellington Dom Post. The newspaper infested with cub reporters and anti John Key and the National Government. The defacto Liebour /Green Party mouthpiece. Doom-Post their wishful thinking knows no bounds, Their latest anti Israeli headline. “Netanyahu in Photo-finish”. Seems a victory for his Party by 30 to 24 is called a photo finish.
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March 19, 2015 8:10am
IGM

See the weasel of politics attempting to now leech off Auckland ratepayers. Do these left-wing no hopers have no consciences, so long as they can get to a trough funded by ratepayers/taxpayers/unionists? Another example of a leeching slug who is a failed socialist, no different to the bludgers at GWRC, where they even take them with form. If ratepayers only, had the vote, these scumbags and undesirables would not be elected.
Oldpark: These arseholes had Netanyahu dead and buried . . . they must be really pissed off.
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March 19, 2015 8:10am
stephieboy

C’mon DPF what about a thread devoted to this piece of shennanegins,?

National MP Shane Reti backtracks after bullying accusation

“Natonal’s campaign to win the Northland byelection with a roading campaign slid into the gravel yesterday after complaints by a Northland roading lobby group that National MP Shane Reti had tried to bully the group into toning down its demands….”

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11419458
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March 19, 2015 8:14am
Chuck Bird

Lee Suckling: Uncovering gay conversion camp (+video)
11:20 AM Wednesday Mar 18, 2015

However, in comments sections in recent columns about anti-LGBT vandalism and the importance of Gay Pride, I’ve discovered that this construct isn’t just coming from Christian extremists. It’s still coming from average Joes hiding behind keyboards. Their common argument? “Stop shoving gayness down our throats.”

So here’s a counter to this flawed, ignorant mentality. There’s no gay agenda being shoved down society’s throats.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=11419149

What utter crap. The bloody agenda is not only being shoved down our throats but our children’s and our grandchildren’s at schools – often by homosexual activists,
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March 19, 2015 8:15am
UglyTruth

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More Islamic terrorism: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/03/18/shots-reportedly-fired-near-major-tunisian-museum/

As usual the chief chickenshit is all to ready to blame Muslims for Western proxy terrorism.

The targeting historic Muslim possessions is a trademark of ISIS and of Davutoğlu’s Turkinsh administration, which supports ISIS and is linked to the US in relation to inciting religiously motivated violence.
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March 19, 2015 8:15am
Fletch

Netanyahu wins!

Netanyahu Soundly Defeats Chief Rival in Israeli Elections

TEL AVIV — After a bruising campaign focused on his failings, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel won a clear victory in Tuesday’s elections and seemed all but certain to form a new government and serve a fourth term, though he offended many voters and alienated allies in the process.

With 99.5 percent of the ballots counted, the YNet news site reported Wednesday morning that Mr. Netanyahu’s Likud Party had captured 29 or 30 of the 120 seats in Parliament, sweeping past his chief rival, the center-left Zionist Union alliance, which got 24 seats.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/03/18/world/middleeast/israel-election-netanyahu-herzog.html?_r=3&referrer=

Of course, the liberals aren’t happy. By all accounts, Obama was actively working against Netanyahu.

An organization known as “One Voice” has brought in what has been called a “five-man Obama team” to defeat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Included in that five-man team is Jeremy Bird, the national field director for Obama’s 2012 campaign…That group…will run the anti-Netanyahu effort out of offices taking up the ground floor of a Tel Aviv office building. The campaign, known as V-2015, is careful not to support a specific party, but is working to ensure Netanyahu does not win Israel’s March election. Because the effort is not supporting any specific candidate or party, Dr. Lerner said, foreign funds — meaning monies coming from outside Israel — raised by the campaign are not subject to that country’s campaign finance laws. Jersusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick…noted that Obama said he wouldn’t meet with Netanyahu during his upcoming visit citing the proximity to the Israeli elections. “And Obama, of course believes in protocol and propriety which is why he won’t get involved,” she wrote on Facebook. “No, he’s not getting involved at all. He’s just sending his 2012 field campaign manager to Israel to run a campaign to defeat Netanyahu. That’s all. No interference whatsoever.” News of the team’s arrival in Israel comes just days after the administration accused House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, of “breaking protocol” by inviting Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress.

http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-campaign-team-working-to-defeat-netanyahu-israeli-election
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March 19, 2015 8:24am
Lance

@UT
You forgot to blame the Israeli’s and the Lizard people overlords.
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March 19, 2015 8:25am
Doctor Who

UglyTruth. I can give you a free consultation this afternoon if you want help.
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March 19, 2015 8:26am
Griff

I’ve discovered that this construct isn’t just coming from Christian extremists. It’s still coming from ~~average Joes~~ repressed homos hiding behind keyboards.
fixed for ya chucky.
You and a few others seem to be totally focused on bum sex.
your obsession ain’t normal or healthy.
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March 19, 2015 8:26am
Doctor Who

@stephieboy
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11419458

Pipiwai Titoki Advocacy Group … Group spokeswoman Alex Wright … She said yesterday that he had been “bullying” in a subtle way.

Subtle? Isn’t that called persuasion, in English?
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March 19, 2015 8:31am
UglyTruth

You forgot to blame the Israeli’s and the Lizard people overlords.

Nothing about them in the transcript.

Ahmet Davutoglu:
Yes, we will pass on to that okay take it and I am coming. You cannot say to the U.S. Secretary of State, “we need to take strong measures.”

http://survivaljoe.net/blog/leaked-turkey-planned-false-flag-to-attack-syria/
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March 19, 2015 8:33am
Doctor Who

Bum Sex?

“Are you sure you want this?” I asked. “When I’m done, you won’t be able to sit down for weeks.” She nodded.

“Okay,” I said, putting the three-piece lounge suite on eBay.
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March 19, 2015 8:35am
Fraggle

Even Bert and Ernie are being used by the anti anti-gay lobby…

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/bert-and-ernie-gay-wedding-cake-case-could-set-precedent-forcing-muslims-to-print-prophet-mohamed-cartoons-claims-human-rights-lawyer-10115637.html?origin=internalSearch

Why involve perfectly innocent muppets in the middle of all this? Oh wait, yeah… because nothing should get in the way of making sure no-one has their feelings hurt.

I find it offensive that Bert and Ernie be used in that way to promote that on a cake. Do I ring my lawyer? FFS.
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March 19, 2015 8:38am
Keeping Stock

Penny Bright made this allegation last night on yesterday’s General Debate:

publicwatchdog (3,765 comments) says:
March 18th, 2015 at 7:32 pm

So Kiwibloggers – there was never a planned Puhoi to WELLSFORD motorway.

That was just ‘made up’,and in my view, a blatant election lying ‘BRIBE’.

The planned motorway was from Puhoi to WARKWORTH.

There is 19 kms between WARKWORTH and WELLSFORD.

WARKWORTH is in the Rodney electorate (and comes within the Auckland ‘Supercity’).

WELLSFORD is in the Northland electorate.

Seems that Winston Peters is owed an apology?

In actual fact, it seems as though Ms Bright, self-appointed “anti-corruption and transparency watchdog” is the one who owes the apology. I provided a few examples of why last night, but here are some more:

From Red Alert, the Labour Party blog, October 2009:

Red Alert
Joyce out of step with Auckland
Posted by David Shearer on October 28th, 2009

John Banks recently wrote in the NZ Herald that Auckland needs an inner city underground railway loop. He joins fellow aspiring mayor, Len Brown, the chair of the ARC, Mike Lee and just about every smart thinking Aucklander in believing that Auckland needs this piece of infrastructure urgently.

So why is the National Party so out of step with the rest of Auckland? Stephen Joyce has instead prioritised roads; the most farcical being the new Puhoi to Wellsford motorway. This $2.3 billion folly will swallow up capital that could make the tunnel and electrification a reality. That stretch of road north of Auckland carries about the same number of vehicles as Sandringham Road. It’s full for only a handful of days a year when everyone tries to go north during the holidays – not even economically productive days. He’s planning to waste $100 million on a feasibility study

http://blog.labour.org.nz/2009/10/28/joyce-out-of-step-with-auckland/

From Interest.co.nz October 2011:

Meanwhile, Labour announced it would can the Puhoi to Wellsford ‘holiday highway’ in order to put NZ$1.2 billion toward an Auckland inner city rail link, if the Auckland City Council promised to pay the other NZ$1.2 billion required for the project.

“National’s spending of NZ$1.7 billion on a new gold-plated highway is fiscally irresponsible in these tough times,” Phil Goff told supporters in Auckland.

“Labour supports the so-called ‘Operation Lifesaver’ improvements to the existing Puhoi to Wellsford road rather than the gold-plated option,” he said.

http://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/56457/alexs-election-diary-winston-eyes-savings-tax-inflation-indexation-promises-tax-cuts-d

From Keeping Stock, July 2014 – Dover Samuels supports NZ First:

The words in the title line for this post are in quotation marks because they are indeed a quote. They’re a quote from former Labour MP and Minister Dover Samuels who will not be giving his party vote to Labour this year; the Herald reports:

Former Labour minister Dover Samuels says he won’t be voting for the party at the election.
He cited the party’s opposition to the Puhoi to Wellsford extension and Leader David Cunliffe’s “prima donna grandstanding” over the issue of sexual violence.
The former Maori Affairs Minister who now serves on the Northland Regional Council confirmed the Herald this morning he did not intend giving his party vote to Labour.
“Labour’s moved away from me, I’ve never moved away from Labour. I’m as staunch of the principles of Labour as I ever was, since the days of Mickey Savage.”
He indicated he would be voting for NZ First.
“Winston Peters has been somebody that certainly has been an advocate of the regions and I’m a regional councillor and I find that spokespersons for the Labour Party have really turned their backs on some of the initiatives that the Northland Council have been advocating.”
He pointed to Labour’s plan to indefinitely postpone the Puhoi to Wellsford extension which it derides as “the holiday highway”.
” I don’t know where they got that from but the Puhoi road is integral to Northland’s economic future.”

The Puhoi to Wellsford Road of National Significance is a no-brainer. The events of the last ten days have shown how vulnerable road access to Northland is. And the section of road between Puhoi and Wellsford is one of the worst sections of State Highway One in the North Island. A major upgrade is years overdue.

Labour and the Greens do themselves no favours with their “holiday highway” bleats, an obvious reference to John Key owning a beach house at Omaha. But for the people anywhere north of Puhoi, the road is their lifeline to New Zealand; especially those who are in the business of getting their products to customers.

Dover Samuels is going to give his Te Tai Tokerau electorate vote to Labour’s Kelvin Davis, who also supports the Puhoi to Wellsford RONS. So he should, especially if Labour has been sending out coded messages that voters should ensure MegaMana should be a part of the 51st Parliament. But instead of wasting his party vote on Winston First, we reckon Dover Samuels should give it to National; the only one of the major parties that already has a plan and a timeframe to build Puhoi to Wellsford. This will create jobs in the construction phase, and along with other roading initiatives announced a few weeks ago, greatly improve Northland’s roading network.

http://keepingstock.blogspot.co.nz/2014/07/labours-moved-away-from-me-ive-never.html

Those three links provide unassailable proof that Puhoi to Wellsford has been on the radar for six years, and that it’s not “made up” or a “blatant election lying ‘BRIBE’” as Ms Bright, the lily-white watchdog alleges. It is SHE who is playing games with the truth, and she ought to be ashamed of herself.

But wait, as they they say on the infomercials; there’s more. Tracey Martin is the NZ First deputy leader, and she lives a lot closer to Northland than Winston Peters does, or will. Here’s what Ms Martin had to say prior to the 2011 General Election:

She says that, in order to benefit from the Auckland Plan, Rodney needs multi-modal transport, including the Puhoi to Wellsford highway (a commitment backed by party leader Winston Peters) and a Northern Rail freight link, that should be extended to Marsden Point.

On projects such as Penlink, Tracey says she would follow the will of the majority.
“If I’m the local MP and we didn’t campaign on it, my party expects me to come back and find out the majority view of the people I represent.”

http://www.localmatters.co.nz/Features/General+Election+2011/The+Candidates/Tracey+Martin+-+NZ+First+Party.html

Check out the words in bold, and especially those in brackets; Ms Martin is stating clearly that Winston Peters supported Puhoi to Wellsford in 2011. How can it now be “made up” or a “blatant election lying ‘BRIBE’” as Ms Bright alleges? It’s simple; it can’t be, and it is Penny Bright who is telling lies.

And lastly, here’s what Tracey Martin, now deputy leader of NZ First said in her Maiden Speech on 8 February 2012; this link comes from NZ First’s own website:

So that is my job! To challenge, question, draw attention to issues, debate and propose alternatives.

Some times that might mean a challenge to individual members.

Such as the elected members for Helensville and Northland.

It might be a challenge to work with those community and elected local government representatives to address the high social deprivation scores of seven and eight in those electorates.

To implement solutions to the lack of alternative education, access to tertiary or trade education and high youth unemployment these communities suffer.

To help those business communities push forward and gain recognition as satellite and regeneration towns so they can encourage greater economic development and through that employment growth.

Or it might be to challenge the elected member for Rodney to remember his verbalised support for the projects of Penlink and the Puhoi to Wellsford Highway with full retention of access at Puhoi.

http://nzfirst.org.nz/speech/maiden-speech-tracey-martin

Penny Bright’s attempts to distort the truth do her no credit whatsoever. But that’s what happens when you jump into bed (politically speaking) with a venal, self-serving, economical-with-the-truth politician like Winston Peters; you get tarred with the same brush.

I won’t however hold my breath waiting for Ms Bright to apologise for her blatant lie; political hacks and zealots never apologise, even when they are caught bang to rights. Of course a REAL anti-corruption and transparency watchdog would, so where does that leave Penny?
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March 19, 2015 8:40am
peterwn

Chuck – And worse still this lawyer smuggling stuff to a prisoner (which was a gross breach of trust as an officer of the court) has imposed a continuing cost burden on taxpayers. Corrections has had to put more controls on lawyers visiting remand prisoners to discuss their pending trials which will boost Corrections and legal aid costs. In my opinion the profession has been far too lenient on itself with lawyers who have had repeated trust account issues being able to continue practicing.
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March 19, 2015 8:49am
Nookin

Well researched, KS.

Ms Bright will jump into bed with anyone so long as they share her dislike for John Key.
Her allegations that Coleman was engaging in blatant lies over the Community Health Office simply illustrate that she does not need much in the way of evidence or fact to engage in dirty politics. Her refusal to back down over that issue illustrates that apologies are things that everyone else must engage in but that she is above such a notion.
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March 19, 2015 8:56am
itstricky

See the weasel of politics attempting to now leech off Auckland…….. etc etc etc

Can someone translate for me? Google Translate doesn’t seem to recognise it.

Actually, on second thoughts, don’t worry.
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March 19, 2015 9:00am
Paulus

In spite of the Media both in Israel and everywhere else Netanyahu they failed, like in New Zealand to get rid of him the populace giving him and his party a good number of seats from which to form a coalition.

When will the media ever learn – are any of “them” listening in this country, or will they continue until they have destroyed this country replacing it by neo communist left wingers.
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March 19, 2015 9:01am
Keeping Stock

Quite so Nookin; she is brazenly supporting Peters, simply because Peters winning Northland may embarrass National and John Key, whom she clearly despises. Any objectivity she may have had, and any right to claim the moral high ground has gone out the window.

One of Whaleoil’s Rules of Politics is this – When you wrestle with a pig, two things happen; you both get dirty, and the pig enjoys it. In this instance, Winston Peters is the pig, and he doesn’t care who he gets down and dirty with; it’s all just a game to him. Whilst part of me is surprised that Penny Bright has allowed herself to be used by Peters, given his lengthy dodgy past, I guess the bottom line is that she is so desperate to discredit John Key, she’s prepared to scrape the political barrel.

I have no doubt Penny Bright has stood up for some useful causes in the past, and as an Auckland business ratepayer I support her attempts to get greater transparency, if not her methods of doing it (withholding rates for seven-plus years). But her credibility today is shot to pieces, and she only has herself (and Winston Peters) to blame.
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March 19, 2015 9:04am
jcuk

Oh DEAR!! BooHoo ….somebody on radio hoping to rant and rage against the government instead had to rant and rage because nobody would speak to him and answer his silly pointed questions …. then eventually when the Police spokesman did come on air he tried to make his point despite the evidence that it was manufacturing problem rather than an attack on the safety of the dear babes.
Now it is getting cold in the morning I am tempted to stay sleeping rather than turn on the radio.
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March 19, 2015 9:05am
IGM

itstinky: The weasel of politics is known to everyone, with the exception of losers supporting him, and his gutless agendas. He would be the most sickly and pathetic greaser Labour’s line-up; as bad, if not worse, than Cunliffe.Seems even Union Andy (another pacifist gutless loser) wants rid of him.
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March 19, 2015 9:13am
IGM

How many taxpayers’ dollars has the Islamist President of US wasted trying to derail Netanyahu’s re-election campaign? He has, once again, shown what a danger to the Western world he is . . . surely he can be removed early.
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March 19, 2015 9:26am
kowtow

fraggle

One of the queer ironies about that Northern Ireland cake story is that in NI so called same sex marriage is illegal. The cake shop refused (on conscience grounds ) to endorse a call to illegality and yet were then threatened with a prosecution, for upholding the law!

Human rights legislation in the UK is a disaster. It has primarily endorsed the rights of dangerous criminals to reside there and ignores the wishes and rights of the people.
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March 19, 2015 9:31am
kowtow

I reckon her being a tangata something or other meant the legal profession felt bound to go easy for longer . Article the Fourth.
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March 19, 2015 9:35am
Chuck Bird

@peterwn

Thanks for your interest.

I am in the process of making a complaint about a opposing lawyer for misleading the Court as well as not treating me as a self-represented litigant with respect and courtesy as required under the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act (Lawyers: Conduct and Client Care) Rules 2008.

I will let you knew how I do. So far I have been successful with the NZLS, the DC and the HC.

What need to change is judicial accountability. No one should be on $300 to $400k with no accountability. Judges are expected to administer the law without fear, favour or prejudice. Those who do not should be held to account.
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March 19, 2015 9:44am
minto57

Kiwi loggers as usual are in denial as Nationals disastrous campaign lurches from one cock up to the next.
instead discussing what advances would benefit Northland,we see a steady stream of vilification and smear against Winstone Peters which only goes to demonstrate how frightened commentators are.
Which in turn reinforces the resolve of those who want to put the boot in
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March 19, 2015 9:46am
Kimbo

@ Chuck Bird

Particularly appalling was

The second, which the tribunal called a “very serious matter”, came after Murray acted for her then partner in a domestic-related matter.

When the relationship ended she then communicated directly with her former partner’s wife, disclosing confidential information. She was censured and fined $5000.

After that same partner committed suicide, she invoiced his estate for $67,500 in legal fees, despite numerous emails and communications showing she was acting for him at no cost.

She was fined $10,000 and ordered to cancel the fee.

The tribunal noted the “tragic circumstances of this man’s death” were relied on by Murray as a mitigating circumstance in her defence of the smuggling charge.
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March 19, 2015 9:50am
Keeping Stock

@ minto57 – if Winston Peters or those who are supporting him tell blatant lies whilst making that same allegation about others, do not expect fair-minded people to sit by and let it happen. The media seems completely uninterested in holding Peters and his supporters to account for their blatant untruths; thank goodness for the blogosphere.
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March 19, 2015 9:52am
minto57

Blatant lies
See you are doing it already
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March 19, 2015 9:55am
Old.Mickey.Blue.Eyes

Chuck Bird (5,092 comments) says:
March 19th, 2015 at 8:15 am
Lee Suckling: Uncovering gay conversion camp (+video)
11:20 AM Wednesday Mar 18, 2015

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What I find most interesting is that the GAY front wants to share their lifestyle choice with all of us, and make it seem a normal choice. HOWEVER, when high profile gay men (Dolce & Gabbanna) express their opinion that the traditional family model (Mother & Father) is the only family model that is valid & that IVF babies are synthetic…..all hell breaks loose, High Profile poof Elton John calls for worldwide boycott, and gets other celebs on board spouting all sorts of negative stuff against D&G personally……Double standard maybe ? Hypocrite maybe ? YES – especially when Elton is seen with a D&G bag less than 24 hours after calling for their execution (ISIS unlikely to heed direction from Elton) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2999023/Elton-John-seen-LA-holding-Dolce-Gabbana-shopping-bag.html
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March 19, 2015 10:00am
Keeping Stock

@ minto57 – see my 8.40am post above. It is the latter-day Winston Peters supporter Penny Bright who first used that phrase last night when she said this:

publicwatchdog (3,765 comments) says:
March 18th, 2015 at 7:32 pm

So Kiwibloggers – there was never a planned Puhoi to WELLSFORD motorway.

That was just ‘made up’,and in my view, a blatant election lying ‘BRIBE’.

I’m throwing it back at Peters and Ms Bright, having provided conclusive proof of the untruth of Bright’s claim on Peters’ behalf that “there was never a planned Puhoi to WELLSFORD motorway”. If Penny Bright continues to spin, lie and otherwise defend Peters, I will continue to expose her spin and lies. She calls herself an “anti-corruption and transparency watchdog” when in truth she is nothing but a political hack who will stoop to anything to damage the Government and the Prime Minister.
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March 19, 2015 10:01am
kowtow

Orwells’ Britain.

They’ve got him ,he’s pleaded guilty to the substance of the charges but it has to be pushed further and harder as it’s racially motivated!

Bailing him until a further hearing on July 23, District Judge James Hatton added: ‘You have pleaded guilty to some matters but not guilty to the racially-aggravated criminal damage. There will have to be a trial.’

No mistake these laws are about silencing dissent.Thought crimes are real in modern diverse ,multicultural Britain.And look at what they use as and how they get their proof.Very dangerous.
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March 19, 2015 10:08am
stephieboy

Ugly Truth,

“The targeting historic Muslim possessions is a trademark of ISIS and of Davutoğlu’s Turkinsh administration, which supports ISIS and is linked to the US in relation to inciting religiously motivated violence.”

Now the evidence and facts to back up your assertions apart from Global Research and RT etc polemic and rhetoric ?

The CIA /ISIS connection debunked ,

https://www.metabunk.org/threads/claim-isis-created-and-supported-by-the-cia.5429/
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March 19, 2015 10:18am
kowtow

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3000799/Father-two-plastered-stickers-supermarket-chicken-claiming-Halal-barbaric-funds-terrorism-says-animal-rights-activist-not-racist.html

Sorry the link got missed out.
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March 19, 2015 10:20am
Fraggle

Thanks kowtow. What is Halal? Serious question.
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March 19, 2015 10:23am
Tauhei Notts

World Cup update;
The South African effort last night has pushed NZ back to clear fourth favourite at $6.20.
Cf India @ $5.70
I so hope those punters have got it wrong.
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March 19, 2015 10:34am
kowtow

fraggle

Halal is meat killed in the Muslim manner and I believe with a prayer to Allah. There’s a lot of it going on here too.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2603360/Horror-halal-slaughterhouse-Shocking-undercover-film-shows-needless-suffering-livestock-butchered-without-stunned-first.html

Very controversial . I don’t expect our media to pick up on it , even though there’s lot’s of it happening here too. Bad for the economy and “race” relations.
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March 19, 2015 10:38am
stigie

Good stuff Keeping Stock, keep up the good work. These parasites need to be exposed for their lies !~
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March 19, 2015 10:39am
Fraggle

Thanks again! “Halal is meat killed in the Muslim manner”

So not actually “racist” that Edwards is protesting against the Halal manner of killing then, is it?

and even if he had browsed patriotagainstislam, still does not on it’s own infer actual racism as such.
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March 19, 2015 10:46am
stephieboy

kowtow,

actually Halal killing has been going on in many of our freezing works for yonks . It started at Southdown way back when the Mutton and lamb trade to Iran picked up significantly I believe in the the late 1980’s
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March 19, 2015 10:49am
IGM

Manawatu Standard maligning fools being coerced into giving money to a pseudo Christian church . . . real headline investigative stuff. Now let us hear about the Mosque there, the one that Zaoui was involved with . . . is that in the too hard basket or against editorial policy?
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March 19, 2015 10:49am
kowtow

IGM

Any investigative journalism into anything Islamic here in Aotearoa ,formerly New Zealand would be considered by journalists to be “racist” and in any event would be contrary to their progressive creed that we are a happy, coexisting , multicultural society that for some strange reason has had to cancel passports and change our surveillance laws , because a relatively large minority among a relatively small minority of the population want to engage in genocide .

Since when have “kiwis” been keen on genocide? Multiculturalism, dontcha just love it?
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March 19, 2015 11:09am
Ed Snack

If you want to know, with minor exceptions ALL stock killed in commercial works in NZ are killed in a halal approved manner. Now, that manner is ritually unclean for some, but it would be “racist” to imply that would it not ? Some religions you see, are privileged.
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March 19, 2015 11:13am
kowtow

Ed,

We don’t stun ’em first?
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March 19, 2015 11:18am
Changeiscoming

Quite correct Fraggle – It is not racist. You can be a Muslim and be from any ethinicity. But because the aveage Liberal has a very low IQ they can’t make the distinction.
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March 19, 2015 11:23am
Jack5

Ed Snack is right in that most NZ meat works first electrically stun animals to be killed then bleed them to death in halal fashion. However, one small works rejects this.

This from the The Encyclopedia of NZ (Te Ara)

Muslim halal butchers process lambs at a New Zealand freezing works. Sheep slaughtered for Islamic countries must be killed with their necks and stomachs facing the holy city of Mecca. The arrow painted on the floor at the first butcher’s feet points in the direction of Mecca. The sheep on the slaughter chain are moving in the other direction.

And a small meat plant (in one of the heartlands of animal supply for the industry) that refuses to take part in halal slaughter (in Stuff 14 Nov 2009):

A Southland meatworks is buying lambs from Christian farmers, promising that they will not be killed in accordance with Islamic rules.

Ricky Larsen, manager of Invercargill’s Blue Sky Meats, said the company was the only meatworks in New Zealand deliberately rejecting halal processing.

About a quarter of its daily 4400 lambs came from farmers not wanting a halal kill, he said. The farmers believed their stock were as Christian as they were. ..

…Mr Larsen’s non-halal process simply electrocutes the sheep. He said the works had no trouble attracting enough custom and, although it could sell to the Middle East, it had ready markets elsewhere.
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March 19, 2015 11:32am
Keeping Stock

@ Tauhei Notts – now might be a good time to get a lazy tenner on the Black Caps at better than six to one. There is still a lot to happen in this World Cup, and I would not completely rule out Pakistan causing an upset tomorrow night against Australia. Likewise, the match in Wellington on Saturday (and I am SO looking forward to being there!) could go either way if Gayle or Samuels gets runs. I am confident though that the Black Caps will win their way through to a semi-final against South Africa which should be a fantastic match.

On the other side of the draw, everything points to an India vs Australia semi-final, which should be another fantastic game. The two sides who make next weekend’s final in Melbourne will have done so in merit.
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March 19, 2015 11:32am
EAD

A must read on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – the great critic of Soviet Totalitarianism and one of the best minds to ever walk the planet:

http://irishsavant.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/the-incredible-disappearing-man.html
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March 19, 2015 11:39am
minto57

@stigie
Another running dog,your language betrays you
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March 19, 2015 11:48am
Odakyu-sen

Changeiscoming

Didn’t you know?

A “racist” is any white person who is winning an argument with a “liberal.”

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March 19, 2015 11:49am
stigie

@ minto57
You to might be exposed for what you really are !~
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March 19, 2015 11:53am
kowtow

All is not kosher in the meat trade.

http://www.nzfoi.org/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2013/08/NEW-ZEALANDS-BAN-ON-KOSHER-SLAUGHTERING.pdf
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March 19, 2015 12:01pm
stephieboy

EAD,

This interview with Alexander Solzhenitsyn about his book “200 Years Together “demonstrates nothing of the kind but more the attempts by anti semites ,whether on the Jew hating blog Irish Savant or Stormfront etc , to quote mine and distort what he actually said in his book.

The interviews concludes by quoting him thus ,

“Russian Jew. Jew. Russian. How much blood has been spilled, how many tears shed over this; what untold suffering there has been, and at the same time how much joy in spiritual and cultural growth. There were, and there still are, many Jews who bore this brunt – being a Russian Jew and Russian at the same time. Two loves, two passions, two struggles – isn’t this too much for one heart?”

I suspect that Irish savant etc have only read slanted sections to confirm their own biases and prejudices

http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/ChukovskayaSolzhenitsyn.php?/articles/ChukovskayaSolzhenitsyn.htm
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March 19, 2015 12:08pm
Viking2

The best way to deal with a bully is to kick his arse.

Well unless you are a school teacher.

Teens stood down from school after attack on gang member

Seven teenagers who attacked a gang member who went to their school allegedly looking for a fight, took the “law into their own hands”, the school principal says.

The incident, which occurred at Trident High School in Whakatane on Monday, attracted a crowd of onlookers as the man was kicked and punched, the Whakatane Beacon reported.

The 22-year-old victim was arrested for breaching his bail conditions and was trespassed from the school, while two others were trespassed in an effort to calm the situation.

The year 11, 12 and 13 students involved have been stood down and would attend a disciplinary meeting on Friday involving school staff and police youth aid officers.

Principal Philip Gurney said the man, a member of the Crips gang, had come to the school allegedly intent on assaulting a year 10 student he believed had verbally bullied his sister.

“He was very abusive of the school and stood in the middle of the area and shouted abuse at everyone;
more at http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/67441821/teens-stood-down-from-school-after-attack-on-gang-member
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March 19, 2015 12:24pm
Hutty

Penny, the NBR is calling you out to provide some evidence in regards to your “long phone message” to them. Surely you cannot take this lying down? I await the drama to unfold eagerly….

http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/act-candidate-trashes-potential-rivals-right-auckland-mayoralty-sl-p-170266?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NBR%2520Heads%2520Up
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March 19, 2015 12:32pm
Tauhei Notts

Keeping Stock.
I hope you have a wonderful day at the Cake Tin on Saturday.
I’ll be watching the end of the Pakistan game in a Gold Coast bar. An upset like Pakistan could result in an upset tum for me, come Saturday morning.
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March 19, 2015 12:37pm
Komata

Hutty

Sadly, the NBR article is locked and available to NBR subscribers only. Perhaps you can precis it for us? Thanks though, for trying to bring it to our attention.

Notably, Ms Bright is conspicuous by her absence in response to your post (this is, of course, nothing new).
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March 19, 2015 12:59pm
Griff

because the aveage Liberal has a very low IQ they can’t make the distinction

A “racist” is any white person who is winning an argument with a “liberal.”

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http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/disclosure_statement
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I self identify as a classical liberal, which the Institute for Liberal Values of New Zealand succinctly summarises as a belief in individual rights, limited government, private property, free markets, tolerance, and reason.

Do Racism, Conservatism, and Low I.Q. Go Hand in Hand?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/201003/why-liberals-are-more-intelligent-conservatives
http://reason.com/archives/2014/06/13/are-conservatives-dumber-than-liberals
http://www.americanscientist.org/science/pub/study-are-liberals-smarter-than—conservatives

Why yes many studies conclude conservatives are considerably thicker than liberals .
In fact one could almost say retardists are measurably retarded.
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March 19, 2015 1:03pm
minto57

A plebiscite participant ;{)
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March 19, 2015 1:15pm
Keeping Stock

@ Komata – I thought Penny might have responded to my 8.40am post by now. Perhaps the reality of how badly she has fallen has struck home, but I somehow doubt it.
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March 19, 2015 1:21pm
Odakyu-sen

Sorry Griff,

But I feel a quote by Churchill trying to get out…
‘cuse me…

“If a man is not a socialist by the time he is 20, he has no heart. If he is not a conservative by the time he is 40, he has no brain.”

…Ah, that feels better.

Liberal, classic liberal, conservative, liberal conservative, the list goes on.
Where the hell is Captain Nomenclature when you really need him?
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March 19, 2015 1:21pm
SPC

KS, it is a Puhoi to Warkworth project that has been signalled and funded to start soon, the Warkworth to Wellsford component is a later stage and has as yet no start date.
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March 19, 2015 1:23pm
Griff

I find it annoying when someone comes to a liberal blog and insults liberals due to not knowing the meaning of the words they misuse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal
Liberalism is a political philosophy or worldview founded on ideas of liberty and equality. The former principle is stressed in classical liberalism while the latter is more evident in social liberalism.[1] Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally they support ideas such as democratic elections, civil rights, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, free trade, and private property.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism
Conservatism as a political and social philosophy promotes retaining traditional social institutions in the context of the culture and civilization. Some conservatives seek to preserve things as they are, emphasizing stability and continuity, while others, called reactionaries, oppose modernism and seek a return to “the way things were”.
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March 19, 2015 1:37pm
Hutty

Apologies, forgot about the paywall…

“Auckland militant Penny Bright has put her hand up for a third mayoral campaign even as she fights the council through the courts over unpaid rates.

She is unlikely to get anywhere near winning but Ms Bright has never been shy at taking the council to court and generally being an ignored thorn in its side.

Ms Bright says her platform is transparency, which is why she is refusing to pay her rates, and abolishing the council-controlled organisations as they have been the mechanism for the corportised takeover of the Auckland region.

In a long phone message to NBR, she says billions of dollars of ratepayers’ money should not be going to big business, property developers, investors, speculators and financial interests. NBR awaits with interest her evidence the council is putting money into the hands of business interests.

Ms Bright polled fourth in the last mayoral race, much better than 13 other candidates but far behind Len Brown at 164,000 votes and John Palino at 108,000 and nearly 2000 votes behind Stephen Berry who came in third.”
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March 19, 2015 1:46pm
kowtow

Auckland militant Penny Bright…

Hardly a militant.Activist more apt surely.
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March 19, 2015 2:09pm
kowtow

Talking of misusing words

“In fact one could almost say retardists are measurably retarded.”
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March 19, 2015 2:10pm
Keeping Stock

SPC said

KS, it is a Puhoi to Warkworth project that has been signalled and funded to start soon, the Warkworth to Wellsford component is a later stage and has as yet no start date.

Quite right SPC; Warkworth to Wellsford is yet to be consented, and there is as yet no timetable for its construction. But that’s not what Penny Bright said. Her comment last night was unequivocal:

So Kiwibloggers – there was never a planned Puhoi to WELLSFORD motorway.

That was just ‘made up’,and in my view, a blatant election lying ‘BRIBE’.

Ms Bright is, of course, totally wrong. Puhoi to Wellsford was first flagged as part of the RONS programme in 2009. Since then, Labour and the Greens have attacked it as the “holiday highway”. But according to Tracey Martin, her leader backed the Puhoi to Wellsford RONS as far back as prior to the 2011 General Election. How could he have possibly have done that had the road suddenly appeared as “a blatant election lying ‘BRIBE’” in March 2015?

Penny Bright is absolutely off the mark when she states “there was never a planned Puhoi to WELLSFORD motorway.”, because clearly there WAS a plan, and worse for Ms Bright’s credibility, the man she is running interference for actually supported the plan!
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March 19, 2015 2:55pm
Nostradamus

Len Brown has recently shown an interest in beautifying the Auckland landscape by funding phallic art sculptures.

I wonder if he thinks this is suitable mastubation material?
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March 19, 2015 5:20pm
cricko

Why are they being so tough on this poor woman ?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11419974

She will be devastated being granted name suppression and having to complete diversion.

This is so unfair.

After all this is New Zealand.

Surely she should have received a large cash grant and an award.
Of course…….
In any other jurisdiction on earth she would have gone to jail for a long time if found guilty of paying to have her husband badly beaten and maimed.
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March 19, 2015 5:30pm
Rachael Membery

Degrees of suppression orders? A heavy suppression order

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11419961
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March 19, 2015 5:41pm
Reid

I suspect that Irish savant etc have only read slanted sections to confirm their own biases and prejudices

Whereas of course stephie, that would never happen with you, would it. Why that’s simply unpossible. Isn’t it. Never in a million trillion quintillion years would little ole you ever do that, would you.

etc.
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March 19, 2015 5:51pm
nasska

You’re not far off the mark cricko.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/aj2clgua0xlpl63/Feminism%203.jpg?dl=0
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March 19, 2015 6:20pm
wreck1080

Genesis shares have their 1st birthday in April. Account for price growth, dividends, and the bonus offer that kicks in on the first birthday the 1yr return will be around 70%.

If only all investments were so good.
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March 19, 2015 6:22pm
Manolo

The face of an ISIS savage in the article below: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/11481633/Islamic-State-blamed-for-Tunisia-attack-after-killing-of-Libyan-cell-leader.html
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March 19, 2015 6:36pm
doggone7

Rachael Membery @ 5:41 pm

A higher degree would be one not identifying gender. A higher degree would preclude the detail about prominence. A higher degree would not reveal the person’s country.
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March 19, 2015 6:41pm
Changeiscoming

Good on ya griff – doing the old bait and switch routine again. Classical stuff right out of the religions of human caused climate change and evolutionism. Taking the word “liberal” and deliberately using a different meaning from what the author/speaker meant.

For the record I strongly believe in liberty, freedom, small government and personal responsibility but I aint no liberal!!
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March 19, 2015 7:50pm
Rachael Membery

doggone7 (957 comments) says:

March 19th, 2015 at 6:41 pm

Yes, this one seems extraordinary too.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/crime/news/article.cfm?c_id=30&objectid=11419974

It would be hard to work out what one could discuss and it which point to take.
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March 19, 2015 8:00pm
EAD

@ Change is coming

Good on you for calling Grief out on this disinformation tactic – there are several on this blog who do this all the time.

Sorry chaps, we’ve seen it all before on the MSM. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me
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March 19, 2015 8:07pm
Viking2

Women’s Revenge
“Cash, check or charge?” I asked, after folding items the woman wished to purchase.
As she fumbled for her wallet I noticed a remote control for a television set in her purse.
“So, do you always carry your TV remote?” I asked.
“No,” she replied, ” but my husband refused to come shopping with me, and I figured this was the most evil thing I could do to him legally.”
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March 19, 2015 8:18pm
SPC

wreck, I am actually disappointed in my decision to invest in the Genesis float. Because of the anticipation and subsequent over-subscription for the Genesis shares, the price of the Meridian shares fell to $1. Over the next year Meridian has doubled in price to $2. A 100% return. In hindsight it was obvious that Meridian shares had become undervalued and if there was a National victory that stock would return a large CG.
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March 19, 2015 8:19pm
Griff

Taking the word “liberal” and deliberately using a different meaning from what the author/speaker meant.

The word liberal means as posted you are the one who misused the word.
Probably because you use it in the American idiom,
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Liberal
We are not America.
The national party was original called the liberal party.
I am a liberal as is DPF the National party and New Zealand society.

For the record I strongly believe in liberty, freedom, small government and personal responsibility but I aint no liberal!!

For a conservative freedom means freedom to do as I, the church or our ancestors say….
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March 19, 2015 8:23pm
Viking2

When a girl gets a vibrator, it’s seen as a bit of naughty fun.

BUT…when a guy orders a 240-volt Binford FuckMaster Pro 5000 blowup latex doll With 6-speed pu…lsating vagina, elasticized anus with non-drip semen collection tray,together with optimal built -inrealistic orgasm scream surround sound system, he’s called a pervert!!
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March 19, 2015 8:24pm
SPC

Change is coming, and many people who strongly believe in liberty, freedom, small government and personal responsibility say that they ARE liberal. They include griff and the blog host.

They are not ashamed to be called liberal just because many “social” liberals are lefties and some of the other liberals are also not right wing, but see themselves as neither left or right.
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March 19, 2015 8:27pm
dad4justice

“I am a liberal as is DPF the National party and New Zealand society.”

Grip don’t talk more utter shit. Since when you became know all of what “society” thinks you plodder.
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March 19, 2015 8:30pm
Viking2

Putting Lipstick on a Pig.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/aYu_bHu6sUc?feature=player_embedded
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March 19, 2015 8:33pm
nasska

Why do conservatives call liberals “commies”, even though communists are conservatives themselves? To push this question a little farther down the road surely Islamic jihadists are the most religiously conservative people on the planet.
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March 19, 2015 8:40pm
SGA

@nasska
When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.’
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March 19, 2015 8:45pm
SPC

Religious conservatives are cultural conservatives, as such adherents of patriarchy – thus they confuse feminism with a progressive assault on their control humanity, rather than a mere challenge to a vested self interest – male chauvinism.
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March 19, 2015 8:45pm
nasska

SPC

Despite the noise they generate, true conservatives are fairly thin on the ground in NZ probably because of the egalitarian leanings of the forefathers of many of us. Then they face the problem of being unable to agree about which side of the postage stamp to lick.

Fortunately, as we witness daily on these forums,most of the miserable bastards spend so much time on the turps that they are incapable of reproducing themselves. 🙂
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March 19, 2015 8:54pm
Manolo

@Addled Griff: that explains why Labour lite has also lost the plot.
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March 19, 2015 8:55pm
SPC

nasska, I suspect the recovering alcoholics are the most dangerous of them amongst us. AA is the fertile ground upon which dry drunk DADS and GRANDADS create havoc … .
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March 19, 2015 8:58pm
Left Right and Centre

Seems a victory for his Party by 30 to 24 is called a photo finish.

Maybe one of those 19th century early tripod cameras that took all day to take a photo ?
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March 19, 2015 8:59pm
nasska

Settle down SPC! I’m a dry alkie (14yrs) & I’m really a cuddly Teddy Bear type. 🙂
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March 19, 2015 9:00pm
dad4justice

How many votes did the conservatives get last election nasscock? Have a gin you might grow a brain-cell back again.
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March 19, 2015 9:01pm
nasska

Couldn’t be arsed looking it up Dad but I clearly remember they totalled less than 4% of the votes cast.

That’s why the retards who claim the right to dictate the morals of all wasted their votes.

Shit, I enjoyed typing that. Keep asking me.! 🙂
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March 19, 2015 9:05pm
Nostradamus

Nasska:

nasscock

You don’t seem to be feeling the love from D4J tonight?
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March 19, 2015 9:08pm
dad4justice

So the 4% conservatives are right wing then this a left wing blog? That’s right eh nasscock. Have another gin dry drunk.

Nostra = trap door crawl back into your nest.
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