General Debate 26 January 2016

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Stars And Stripes

Maybe you are right Jack5 I don’t know but some of the biggest supporters of the reservation system in the USA is the Indians themselves so figure that one out.
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January 26, 2016 6:13pm
Steve (North Shore)

How long before DPF has to get rid of ‘Spray and Walk Away?’ She has broken so many of the rules and just continues to hijack GD.
There was once a Firefox addon that deleted her posts I think, but the downticking is working well – just don’t click to see – scroll down. And even better just ignore the troll.
Should be in a mental institution with no internet – just a suit
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January 26, 2016 6:19pm
David Garrett

Manolo: If Stephie Boy shared my point of view on just about anything I would be rather concerned…about where I had gone wrong.

Seriously though, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if someone in the Maori Party came out in sympathy for “poor Dolphy…another victim of colonization”

As a bit of an aside, I had a great chat the other day with a young tyre fitter, a former mob member, who recognized me as “that three strikers cunt”..At first I thought I was in for a beating, but he AGREED with the law! He had done 2.5 years as a first strike (I’m sure there were others before that) and had wised up and decided “fuck that…I’m not going back.” He has even tried to get the local cops to allow him to talk to young guys in this area who are at risk of going down the path he did.

What was most pleasing was when I asked him to tell me exactly how 3S works, he was spot on, and said all the boys in jail know about it. That may well explain why there is a significant drop in second strike offending over the past five years compared with the five years prior to 3S.

So that’s one guy reformed, another who couldn’t or didn’t want to, and checked himself out. All good, as the current vernacular has it.
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January 26, 2016 6:29pm
notrotsky

@ David Garrett – that must have been quite heartening !
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January 26, 2016 6:34pm
dirty harry

Talk to the hand stiffybot..’cos nobodys listening deadbeat
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January 26, 2016 6:41pm
Inandout

stephieboy: Islam is not a race you imbecile, no matter how much you cloud the issue. Leftist fellow travellers might have advised you otherwise, but it ain’t so.
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January 26, 2016 6:43pm
renderer

Penny in an interview with your mate Vinny he said that if people were not willing to answer the questions then the truth was not their objective. Ring any bells Penny. Also in the same interview you were really vague about how you paid off your house.

A few posts beneath the interview:

Kiore Ma 3 years ago
Penny Bright is a liar and bully, this all came about because she betrayed not only another woman but a fellow activist, all because that activist would not do Penny’s bidding in the time-frame that Penny wanted, Penny saw fit to include many people, including myself by sending us all blind copies of that woman’s personal details. It did not stop there, Penny also posted the woman’s details to kiwiblog. I would never, ever trust Penny Bright or work with her again.

Redstar309Z 3 years ago
No what i am saying is based on a year of observation.
She attempted to roll 28 members of the media team at occupy auckland.
Published personal information of these people.
She attempted to hijack and distract the general assembly towards and to be
a personal army for her 2011 political campaign against the wishes of the
general assembly.

Jennifer B 3 years ago
Update, Penny Bright attended a protest in solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza, she took no banner, held no sign acknowledging her support for those in Gaza who have endured horrific war crimes, but instead, marched up to a protestor and tried to serve her with a ‘Citizen’s Arrest’ for defamation. She is a narcissistic cow, a nark and a liar, and fool on you for believing her self-serving propaganda.

Good stuff Penny
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January 26, 2016 6:53pm
Gabby

So you reckon Ponyboy’s one of thim thar nar-sissies then do ya? He ticks a lotta those boxes.
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January 26, 2016 6:57pm
David Garrett

Notrotsky: Well, I shat myself at first I must admit! Pushing 60 is way too old to be taking on a 25 year old kick boxer..But what pleased me most was that he had the 3S scheme exactly right: “My next lag I wouldn’t have no chance of parole, and then if I done something again it would be the whole fuckin lot” I asked him what “the whole fuckin lot” meant, and he correctly answered that it would the full term for whatever strike offence he committed.

So once again Labour is proved wrong – according to them, if you haven’t completed high school you cannot possibly understand cause and effect, and you are even too stupid to respond to incentives and disincentives. Those of us in the real world always knew differently…

(Oh, if anyone thinks I am making this up, the Firestone Tyres place in Helensville is where you need to head…He’s the big part Maori guy with MMM tattooed on his neck)
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January 26, 2016 7:01pm
Shunda barunda

“Why are Kiwi men so obsessed with getting under-age girls drunk and raping them?”

Why are kiwi women known around the world as promiscuous and easy lays?
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January 26, 2016 7:10pm
stephieboy

Inandout , where did say it was ? But I did say that it is a religion exactly in the same way as Judaism can be described . In fact Islam like Christianity and Judaism can accurately be described as an Abrahamic religion .

Members of a religious faith can be just as much be stereo typed as a member of a race like American Indians , Africans and so on.
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January 26, 2016 7:15pm
notrotsky

Am at the town hall as a deep mole…….mostly geriatric grey rinse loons with a mix of smelly students. Joe Hawke, looking very old doing the wellcome will blog more as able.

Strange smell of cats pee in the audience – gawds sake another fecking waiata.
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January 26, 2016 7:16pm
notrotsky

Lots of beards…and that’s only on the women !
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January 26, 2016 7:18pm
notrotsky

some bint has being talking in Maori for the last 10 minutes – crowd starting to look bored…………and yes another fucking wait ……… I kid you not.
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January 26, 2016 7:19pm
UrbanNeocolonialist

Yoza; that Clint Rickard case highlight to me why this whole process of with holding evidence from juries is just fucked. So many miscarriages of justice (Peter Ellis et al) result from info being withheld that is highly pertinent yet falls technically foul of the frequently anti-justice rules of evidence. Why are jurists judged to be somehow magically more balanced and better at dealing with this info than ordinary citizens?

If evidence is tainted then it should be presented and explained why it is tainted, juries are all reasonably well educated and citizens tend to be less judgemental these days than the bad old days of the 19th century when they were less sophisticated. It would also massively streamline the justice system if there weren’t endless litigation and re-litigation of rulings related to evidence or various disclosures. Lawyers would loose out, but I doubt standards of justice would fall noticeably.
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January 26, 2016 7:20pm
notrotsky

This is high farce now some bird (moana of moahunter fame) has started singing some revival song trying to get the crowd clapping ….. feck if this is that state of the left in NZ it’s depressing and embarrassing.
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January 26, 2016 7:21pm
simpleton1

Just be careful about what cheese goes on a cracker.
Sing up loud,, sing up strong..for that old time religion.
Thanks notrotsky
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January 26, 2016 7:24pm
notrotsky

Moana speaking like some confused mum at a coffee group meeting after several glasses of wine ……loosing the will to live……smell of cats pee overpowering ….
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January 26, 2016 7:24pm
notrotsky

Fuck i don’t think I’ve seen so many fake whiteys posing as Maori since the last time I was in the Kore club in Wellington – the US speaker now up.
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January 26, 2016 7:27pm
dirty harry

Disperse the crowd notrotsky..throw some bars of soap around and wave bottles of handy andy about
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January 26, 2016 7:33pm
simpleton1

I hope you remember the kapa haka club days so your cover is not blown.
A full blown haka will break out at some point as a spontaneous outburst as an expression of challenge to the TTPP and show that they all a “band of brothers” in opposition to evil colonization and corporate globalism and …..and well whatever…
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January 26, 2016 7:33pm
Keeping Stock

@ David Garrett – have you noticed one thing in the wake of the death of Dolphy Kohu; the deafening silence of Labour’s Corrections spokesman, Kelvin Davis? Imagine the brouhaha if Mr Kohu had committed suicide in a Serco-run prison, rather than a Corrections Association-run establishment
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January 26, 2016 7:36pm
Keeping Stock

@ Notrotsky – thanks for taking one for the team 😀
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January 26, 2016 7:37pm
renderer

I have listened to several “interviews” of Penny by dear old Vinnie. It would be fairer to call them the Penny Rant Show. It would appear that Penny has a bitch about most people she comes across. Suprisingly unless Penny is getting her way then the whole thing is wrong. She views with suspicion anyone who does not have a “proven track record”
However one big laugh was her statement that she was a professional protester and could organise a protest in an hour. Then she went on to say that she had organised a protest against the American Defense Secretary with herself an ONE other. Bloody priceless.
The woman is a bloody loon and should be locked up for her own saafety.
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January 26, 2016 7:41pm
Captain Mainwaring

Notrotsky, how full (or empty) is the hall?
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January 26, 2016 7:41pm
Captain Mainwaring

Sillyboy and Yodeler:
You two muppets are not exactly popular here, are you?
I wonder why?
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January 26, 2016 7:43pm
Salacious Crumb

So you reckon that Gabby is one of them thar retards? Ticks all the boxes and blows cousin dad by all accounts.
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January 26, 2016 7:43pm
notrotsky

he he ……the US speaker has completely lost the crowd…….. stench unbearable may have to start heaving some cakes of soap into the audience as per dirty harry’s suggestion… still she drones on zzzzzzzzz – think Jane Kelsey better dressed with a more annoying accent….
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January 26, 2016 7:44pm
Captain Mainwaring

Good to see you back David Garrett, and making just as much sense as ever.
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January 26, 2016 7:44pm
David Garrett

KS: No I hadn’t, but I agree…but then Kelvin is a politician in an electorate seat…he has no option but to play up to the electorate…at least to some degree.

I cannot speak for him of course, but I suspect that privately he and I are on the same page with this waste of space…exactly the kind of role model Kelvin DOESN’T want for the tamariki…
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January 26, 2016 7:44pm
Salacious Crumb

David Garrett,

Your comment re Davis being on the same page is a telling one. If true then that highlights the very issue; very few in Maoridom will confront the issue and call it like it is. There are of course a few exceptions but who better than the local Maori MP?
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January 26, 2016 7:48pm
cha

A day late but here’s to Robbie.

https://youtu.be/XdzP0rwXdm8
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January 26, 2016 7:54pm
waikatogirl

I hope notroksky hasn’t been discovered!
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January 26, 2016 7:56pm
simpleton1

I think opening a packet of stiltons will help keep his cover, and he could put it on his cracker when having refreshments for after.

I think we will owe notrosky something top shelf, to aid his recovery.

First I fear he will need a delousing.
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January 26, 2016 7:57pm
David Garrett

Salacious: I am not a Maori…So I don’t understand WHY they don’t call it like it is…

everyone here knows I am close with Northland Wahine who comments on here…she is a well educated feisty woman…and SHE doesn’t speak up in public against what she absolutely knows to be bullshit from some of her iwi …I have her on about it a lot…it’s a cultural thing that I just don’t get…a Maori version of blood is always thicker than water I guess…
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January 26, 2016 7:57pm
Salacious Crumb

David,

Well that is a shame. They need a few more Beth Heke moments: “you’re not going to hurt my babies anymore”
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January 26, 2016 8:03pm
renderer

You too can be there

http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2016/01/26/tppa-live-stream-exclusive-to-tdb-from-auckland-town-hall-at-7pm-tonight/
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January 26, 2016 8:04pm
Gabby

That’s fartin talk, Sebaceous Cumb! No cucumbers for you.
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January 26, 2016 8:08pm
waikatogirl

Gabby, thought you’d be down at the town hall with your people
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January 26, 2016 8:10pm
renderer

God almighty. They are taking up a bucket collection and have eft pos to pay for the hall
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January 26, 2016 8:15pm
Maggy Wassilieff

@Cha 7:54

For some odd reason I was reminded of the first verse of “What can a young lassie do wi’ an auld man?”

What can a young lassie, what shall a young lassie,
What can a young lassie do wi’ an auld man?
Bad luck on the penny that tempted my minnie
To sell her puir Jenny for siller an’ lan’.
Bad luck on the penny that tempted my minnie
To sell her puir Jenny for siller an’ lan’!

(Burns, of course, you bloody Sassenachs)
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January 26, 2016 8:23pm
notrotsky

Sorry folks – sprung…gone down the road having a beer…. what I saw of the meeting was a laughable waffle fest and Te reo lesson.

I think the fact that the university isn’t back yet meant that the levels of stench and parasitic infection were lower than they could have been.

Feck the left really are a bunch of sanctimonious deluded boring tossers.
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January 26, 2016 8:24pm
alex Masterley

notrotsky
Thanks for taking one for the team. and the updates. I did confess to thinking about dressing down and attending the meeting. I am glad to see the audience lived down to my expectations.
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January 26, 2016 8:30pm
nasska

Thanks are due notrotsky. You have suffered so that others didn’t have to.

I would recommend that you burn your clothing & immerse yourself in a solution of bathwater & Jeyes Fluid immediately. 🙂
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January 26, 2016 8:32pm
Northland Wahine

You’re probably right about blood, David… As you know, my own brother has had and continues to have many brushes with the law. I know him to be an absolute shit head when it suits him. I also know the charming, generous and loving brother that he can be.

Maybe we just don’t to forget the happy, athletic, intelligent boy that once was. Only this weekend I attended the wedding of a cousin who was destined to a life of imprisonment. But he met a good strong woman and his life is changed…

And many of us do speak up. In our own way. But we’re not spokespeople for all Maori. All we are, are voices of opinion.
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January 26, 2016 8:37pm
Captain Mainwaring

“Ponyboy”.
Fuck, I can’t stop laughing. That is soooooooooooo funny. And we’ve never heard it before.
Keep it up Gobby, you fecking loser.
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January 26, 2016 8:39pm
Viking2

Barak Obama and David Cameron are shown a time machine which can see 100 years into the future.

They both decide to test it by asking a question each.

Barak goes first.

?What will the USA be like in 100 years? time??

The machine whirs and beeps and goes into action and gives him a printout, he reads it out ?The country is in good hands under the new President, crime is non-existent, there is no conflict, the economy is healthy. There are no worries?

David thinks ?It?s not bad this time machine, I?ll have a bit of that? so he asks: ?What will England be like in 100 years? time??

The machine whirs and beeps and goes into action, and he gets a printout.

But he just stares at it.

Come on David? says Barak, ?What does it say?

David replies,

?Buggered if I know! It?s not in English!?
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January 26, 2016 8:53pm
Fletch

The Civilian, in a video, asks why the TV news is so braindead. Talks to Bill Ralston and Lindsey Perigo on the subject. (Lindsey reckons all the women reporters on TV now talk into their noses and “quack”).

http://watchme.co.nz/the-civilian/season-1/episode-5/
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January 26, 2016 8:54pm
lofty

Just thinking about the “glow sticks” at the anti everything rally.

I call them glowsticks because I just want to snap them in two and shake the shit out of them until the light comes on..Sigh…
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January 26, 2016 8:58pm
mikenmild

What a scumbag:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/76280499/presidential-hopeful-ted-cruz-claims-australian-rapes-spiked-after-gun-laws-introduced
There doesn’t appear to be any lie this particular sociopath would shy away from.
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January 26, 2016 9:02pm
simpleton1

Town Hall costs
Raised $5ooo,
Need another $ 5000
Sounds like hall cost is $ 11,000 as said by Jane kelsey
and some how there were sponsors, no mention exactly how they fit in,,
I think PSA somehow is also sponsor.
Maybe they are guarantor? to city council,, as some would say in my opinion
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January 26, 2016 9:07pm
Viking2

This particular Sunday sermon… ‘Dear Lord,’ the minister began, with arms extended toward heaven and a rapturous look on his upturned face. ‘Without you, we are but dust….’ He would have continued but at that moment my very obedient daughter who was listening leaned over to me and asked quite audibly in her shrill little four year old girl voice, ‘Mom, what is butt dust?’
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January 26, 2016 9:09pm
notrotsky

Fecks sake ..from what i saw they should’ve paid the audience to attend……it was a smelly load of old wank.
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January 26, 2016 9:09pm
Viking2

Statistics just released from the UK Top Medical Team, reveal that men between 60 and 80 years of age will, on average, make love two or three times per week (and a small number a lot more), whereas Japanese men in exactly the same age group, will only make ‘whoopee’ once or twice a year – if they are lucky.

This has come as very upsetting news to me and most of my mates, as none of us had any idea we were Japanese.
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January 26, 2016 9:13pm
Viking2

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=829_1360099797
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January 26, 2016 9:17pm
waikatogirl

very good Viking2, just read that out to my hubby and he and I had a good giggle. 🙂
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January 26, 2016 9:17pm
Viking2

Australia Day Lamb 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i15OPuFvmA&feature=em-hot
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January 26, 2016 9:31pm
cha

There doesn’t appear to be any lie this particular sociopath would shy away from.

The man’s a natural born liar.

You know who one of those millions of Americans is who’s lost their healthcare because of Obamacare? That would be me. –

Sen. Ted Cruz, who failed to sign up for 2016 health insurance

[UPDATE: It turns out that Cruz actually is insured and always was, as his campaign disclosed late Friday. This makes his remark about his losing his coverage because of the Affordable Care Act look even more like pure political spin. Read on, and see more below.]

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-ted-cruz-blames-naturally-obamacare-20160121-column.html
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January 26, 2016 9:38pm
simpleton1

mikenmild (18,793 comments) says:
January 26th, 2016 at 9:02 pm
What a scumbag:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/76280499/presidential-hopeful-ted-cruz-claims-australian-rapes-spiked-after-gun-laws-introduced
There doesn’t appear to be any lie this particular sociopath would shy away from.

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Ted Cruz actual words “went up significantly” as per inside the article and the words of this Australian government publication, though as you can see I leave the rest of the quote so you can also take interpretation and provisional etc etc.

http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/current%20series/tandi/341-360/tandi359.html
If homicide is the yardstick by which the level of violence in society is measured, then the belief that violence is increasing in Australia cannot be substantiated. The significant increase, in recorded assault and sexual assault potentially contradicts this view, but without supporting evidence from other sources of information, such an interpretation can only remain provisional. Further research will need to examine how much of the increase in recorded violent crime against children relates to current or past events. Further refinement of crime data sources to improve their comparability, and longer-term assessment of crime patterns, may also offset future problems in interpreting and understanding trends.&lt

Also the emotive use of the word “spiking” and then your use of the word “sociopath” could be considered reflective of your thoughts.
As we consider Australia has a different culture of guns, particularly as related to hand guns, compared to the USA. Though I do wonder about all that panel of experts and exactly what was claimed to be researched for that article.
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January 26, 2016 9:48pm
renderer

Q: Have you heard about McDonald’s new Labour Party Value Meal?
A: Order anything you like and the guy behind you has to pay for it.
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January 26, 2016 9:49pm
nasska

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ntdddykb5df5ms7/Gun%20free.jpg?dl=0&preview=Gun+free.jpg
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January 26, 2016 9:56pm
RF

What a breath of fresh air not having to put up with the rabid ramblings of the resident psychopath. Not a whiff of cats pee to assault my nostrils.
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January 26, 2016 10:10pm
Sponge

I assume the delousing crew are now hard at work at the Auckland Town Hall. I do hope the council got a deposit and guarantee from one of the anti progress morons for the costs involved.

Can anyone enlighten me as to the earth shattering revelations made at this event?
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January 26, 2016 10:15pm
Maggy Wassilieff

@Sponge

Pete george has provided a precis of the live streaming

http://yournz.org/2016/01/26/tppa-meeting-live-blog/

I preferred notrotsky’s account.
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January 26, 2016 10:33pm
Inandout

An intelligent Labour caller to radio tonight said he was was going to take a sick day to show his employer that he is against the TPP. So he loses a sick day, is dishonest, and gains nothing (except maybe a day in the pub). This whole TPP protest has become maniacal.
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January 26, 2016 10:40pm
Yoza

Harriet (7,007 comments) says:
January 26th, 2016 at 5:54 pm

“….Why are Kiwi men so obsessed with getting under-age girls drunk and raping them?….”

You sound like a feminist with that definition of ‘kiwi men’.

“….Why are a large proportion of those young males who are fatherless…..inclined to get young girls drunk……and who are also mostly fatherless……..”

Key put forward $2 million for a ‘rape culture’ study. The jails are full of the fatherless sons. And the hospital A&E and DPB queues full of the fatherless daughters. Total waste of money.

Gulag1917 (1,540 comments) says:
January 26th, 2016 at 5:57 pm

Rape culture in the NZ police. Three policemen accused of sexual crimes does not constitute a culture.

thedavincimode (7,815 comments) says:
January 26th, 2016 at 6:05 pm

Why are Kiwi men a minority of trailer trash deadbeat deadshit losers so obsessed with getting under-age girls drunk and raping them?

That’s a very good question Yoza. What’s the reason in your view?

UrbanNeocolonialist (669 comments) says:
January 26th, 2016 at 7:20 pm

Yoza; that Clint Rickard case highlight to me why this whole process of with holding evidence from juries is just fucked. …

The point I was attempting to make with the post about ‘Roast Busters’ and ‘the police rape culture’ was we cannot hold an entire group responsible for the reprehensible behaviour of a few within their midst. If you accept that New Zealand males generally are disgusted by the antics of the ‘Roast Busters’ and the New Zealand police do not condone what happened to Louise Nicholas, then it must follow that the sexual abuse of women carried out by some Muslim men is not condoned by all Muslims.

… and then there is this.

Shunda barunda (3,639 comments) says:
January 26th, 2016 at 7:10 pm

“Why are Kiwi men so obsessed with getting under-age girls drunk and raping them?”

Why are kiwi women known around the world as promiscuous and easy lays?

I think this is your imagination getting away on you, Shunda, do you feel intimidated by Kiwi women?
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January 27, 2016 12:34am
mikenmild

Perhaps he just wanted to get a reputation as a rape apologist.
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January 27, 2016 7:05am
Manolo

Another invasion: http://www.krgv.com/story/31053253/thousands-of-cuban-refugees-crossing-the-border

At least 7,000 Cuban refugees are expected to come to the border in the next coming days.

The activity at the Hidalgo International Bridge continues. For 40 years, Jose Angel Rodriguez has made his living driving a cab. He said he’s seeing more Cubans crossing the port of entry. “They get here every night, in the morning, and at night they get here. They go to Laredo, too,” Rodriguez said.
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January 27, 2016 7:08am
Manolo

Appeasing the prudish bastard:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/italy-covers-roman-nude-statues-iran-president-hassan-rouhani/

The Romans have censored themselves to make visiting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani feel more comfortable during his historic stop in Italy.

Rouhani – the first Iranian leader to visit Europe in almost 20 years – met Tuesday with Pope Francis at the Vatican, but another stop on his agenda was the famed Capitoline Museum, where classic Italian nude sculptures were covered with plain white boards to avoid offending the Muslim president.

Italian news agency ANSA said the nudes were covered out of respect for Rouhani. Nonetheless, the move wasn’t going over well with many Italians on social media, some of whom lambasted it as “absurd,” and “embarrassing, servile behaviour.”
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January 27, 2016 7:16am