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Manolo

Will she keel over? 🙂
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/mystery-going-hillarys-eyes-philly-speech/
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September 21, 2016 8:04am
- Huevon
  
  It’s having trouble maintaining human form.
  
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  September 21, 2016 8:22am
  - Fox
    
    She’s in no state to be President.
    
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    September 21, 2016 9:38am
holysheet

With the latest terrorist attack in NY, I wondered why they never occur in Texas. I reckon it’s because they have the death penalty there and actually use it on a regular basis. All these terrorist scum should be put down like the rabid dogs they are.
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September 21, 2016 8:08am
- cha
  
  3/5/2015 – Garland, Texas.
  
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  September 21, 2016 8:15am
- RF
  
  The good ole boys in the Police are loaded for bear in Texas. You would have to have a death wish to try something stupid. The last terrorist down there learnt the hard way.
  
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  September 21, 2016 8:39am
kowtow

Wow, Austrians must be the happiest people in the world. They’re getting so much enrichment , so much diversity dividend , so much to celebrate.

A Bosnian on trial for car jihad (mentally ill of course) , a Syrian raping a Moroccan and an Afghan “refugee” on a benefit who can travel back to Afghanistan to set up a narcotics business! All this in a relatively small country.

http://www.thelocal.at/20160920/afghan-asylum-seeker-used-benefits-to-set-up-drugs-network
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September 21, 2016 8:09am
Happychappy

So Winston want Maori to support him as a MP for Northland but likes to play games with Maori when things do not suit him.
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September 21, 2016 8:10am
- Chuck Bird
  
  Happychappy, you do not know much about NZ politics. Winston also wants to get rid of the racist Maori seats.
  
  Not all Maori want special privilege.
  
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  September 21, 2016 8:17am
  - Happychappy
    
    Maori have the same rights as all others,and if they meet the criteria to win seat at a election so be it.My view is the it is over to the country to decide and when it is a main topic and has relevance before a election i will vote my preference then.
    
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    September 21, 2016 8:28am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Winston is being an arse Chuck. This sitting under extended hours was agreed to some time ago, and hundreds of people have made arrangements to travel to Wellington to attend an event which has enormous historical implications for their iwi. But Peters has packed a hissy-fit, and now withdrawn NZ First’s agreement for the extended hours sitting.
    
    Of course there will be some who hail Peters as a hero of the people. I don’t; he’s anything but. Winston Peters has become a cantankerous old man, whose xenophobia now frequently manifests as racism.
    
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    September 21, 2016 8:35am
    - wiseowl
      
      All those things from the deplorables.
      
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      September 21, 2016 8:46am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      I’m not in the habit of replying to myself, but Assistant Speaker Chester Borrows gives some context to Winston’s stance:
      
      This is another example of NZFirst’s left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. They constantly give assurances in the Business Committee via their Whip who then gets repeatedly overridden by others.
      
      I have sat through all Select Committee hearings on all these bills. There is nothing new that NZF representative Pita Paraone did not hear. Any new issue is manufactured.
      
      So Peters has thrown his Whip and NZF’s representative on the Maori Affairs Select Committee under the bus as well. At the same time, he has trampled all over the mana of five iwi:
      
      Three Taranaki iwi have blamed New Zealand First for “stonewalling” their treaty settlement.
      
      Ngaruahine, Te Atiawa and Taranaki were due to head to Wellington on Friday to hear the third and final reading of each of the iwi’s Historical Treaty Settlement Bills.
      
      The three iwi were advised by the Office of Treaty Settlements that due to a ‘technical matter’ raised by NZ First, it was uncertain whether the final readings of the iwis’ settlement bills alongside two other treaty bills could be heard this Friday as scheduled.
      
      Pou Whakarae or chair of Te Korowai o Ngāruahine Trust Will Edwards said they were beyond disappointed the third reading, which he said was a formality, couldn’t go ahead.
      
      “For Ngāruahine, Te Atiawa and Taranaki iwi there has been a great sense of anticipation with the scheduling of the final readings of our settlement bills but now, thanks to NZ First turning this into a political football, we’re left uncertain and anxious – it’s like rubbing salt into the wounds,” he said.
      
      Te Kotahitanga o Te Atiawa Chair Liana Poutu said they had five busloads of people scheduled to head down to Wellington for the reading, and many of them had taken time off work or lost pay to make the trip.
      
      “This potential delay is messing with people’s livelihoods, their ability to move forward and tantamount to a political party trampling on our mana,” she said.
      
      The move was also labelled as “unfair and mischievous” by Taranaki Iwi Trust Chair Tokatumoana Walden.
      
      The three iwi will not know until Thursday whether the reading will proceed on Friday as planned.
      
      http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/84483512/taranaki-iwi-will-have-to-wait-and-see-if-treaty-settlement-can-go-ahead-after-nz-first-stonewalls-it
      
      This is just another stunt from Peters, in a long line of stunts. He really is a contemptable man.
      
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      September 21, 2016 8:49am
      - ross411
        
        One treaty settlement for a tribe delayed, means the next one is delayed also. Not sure this isn’t a win for those who do not have the special DNA.
        
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        September 21, 2016 9:10am
oldpark

Was a surprise to read that a person, from joined at the hip Lie-bour/Green Party who is called Metira Turei or “ME-TU” to her friends,one of the highest paid benefiacries in NZ ,is believe it or not ,advocating for more money for benefiacries,no questions asked.Maybe her nil electoral seat Party ,should STFU ,when it comes to getting paid, for turning up to Parliaments debating chamber a few weeks a year.
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September 21, 2016 8:11am
- RF
  
  oldpark. The green obese one is a real shocker. Your typical snouts in a trough looking for more handouts for doing absolutely nothing. The greens do not have a mandate yet carry on as if they were elected by the majority.
  
  I was pleased to see Igor has moved on as he really did not achieve anything that benefited those in need.
  
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  September 21, 2016 8:50am
Manolo

This will outrage stephieboy:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3798023/Nicolas-Sarkozy-demands-migrants-live-like-French.html

Sarkozy has demanded that all immigrants residing in France must ‘live like the French’ and speak the language.

The former French president, who wants to return to the top job in 2017, declared war on Islamist terrorism and said women should ditch the ‘medieval’ burkini.
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September 21, 2016 8:18am
- stephieboy
  
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  Manolo, Sarkozy is playing politics competing with Marion Le Pen for votes
  
  As America , Canada , Australia and ourselves demonstrate assimilation works best when it comes gradually and naturally without help from a dress code or language Gestapo thanks .
  
  Now about” The Kenyan” ?
  
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  September 21, 2016 8:34am
  - All_on_Red
    
    Creep
    
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    September 21, 2016 8:53am
    - stephieboy
      
      Clown !
      
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      September 21, 2016 8:58am
      - All_on_Red
        
        Creep
        
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        September 21, 2016 8:58am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Everyone talks about “assimilation” like they do about “globalization” and “internationalization” and other long words ending in “-tion,” but does anyone know what these concepts mean to local populations and cultures when “-tion” policies are put into place by the State?
    
    Here’s are some: “dilution,” “modification,” maybe even to the point of “obliteration” …
    
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    September 21, 2016 8:55am
    - Hajji
      
      Defecation
      Urination
      Masturbation
      Menstruation
      Micturition
      
      Ewwwww!
      
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      September 21, 2016 9:15am
      - Kimbo
        
        Ironically, and based on his oracles and the exhaustive legislation he introduced to deal with them, all topic with which Mohammed and Allah were obsessed.
        
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        September 21, 2016 11:14am
  - waikatosinger
    
    OK – I’ll bite. What about “The Kenyan”.
    
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    September 21, 2016 9:04am
  - EAD
    
    @ Manolo,
    
    Did you read what (((Sarkzoy))) actually said?
    
    ‘If you want to become French, you speak French, you live like the French. We will no longer settle for integration that does not work, we will require assimilation,’ he said.
    
    ‘Once you become French, your ancestors are the Gauls. ‘I love France, I learned the history of France, I see myself as French’,’ is what you must say.
    
    What a load of PC doublespeak from this Jewish chameleon wanting to lead the French people down the road to destruction with his verbal trickery.
    
    What a scumbag Sarkozy is for reducing the French nation to nothing but a language and an easily malleable, impossible to define “way of life”. Can my Ancestors become Han if I learn Mandarin and eat dogs?
    
    Contrast this with Sarkozys ancestral homeland of Israel where only “people of the blood” are allowed to return.
    
    These Cultural Marxists have become such a joke with their “Norwegian stabber”, or “British gunmen”.
    
    Once you see their verbal dexterity for what it is, you’ve got no choice but to reject the “solutions” these snake oil salesmen offer.
    
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    September 21, 2016 9:36am
    - mikenmild
      
      I reckon you should do something about those Jews. They seem to be upsetting you quite often.
      
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      September 21, 2016 10:44am
    - GoVege
      
      He speaks french don’t he?
      
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      September 21, 2016 1:47pm
  - Ed Snack
    
    Funny, I get referred to as “European” or “English” (bastards !) even though I’m about 6th or 7th generation NZ born. What’s the issue about Obama being “Kenyan” in the same way, is he ashamed of his father and his father’s birthplace ?
    
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    September 21, 2016 9:56am
    - stephieboy
      
      Ed Snack , I remember very distinctly you arguing for the theory that the President was not born in the USA . Then Trump did a flip flop and stated that the President’s long form birth certificate was genuine .
      
      You must like the Arizona Sheriff be devastated !
      
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      September 21, 2016 10:11am
    - peterwn
      
      No, the key issue is a US presidential candidate must be born in the USA, this rules out USA citizens not born in USA (eg those with citizenship by patriality or naturalisation). The nonsense all started off when he admitted his original birth certificate was lost (which is not uncommon). Hence the Hawaii Health Department births register entry was critical for Obama’s legitimacy as President.
      
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      September 21, 2016 10:57am
    - mikenmild
      
      Yes, I’m sure Manolo calls Obama the ‘Kenyan’ out of genuine respect for his ethnic heritage and doesn’t intend to disparage him at all…
      
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      September 21, 2016 11:23am
      - Manolo
        
        Indeed. The Kenyan and I share the same skin complexion.
        I’d never use the term as a pejorative towards a fellow darkie.
        
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        September 21, 2016 11:24am
    - GoVege
      
      Obama was raised by 3 people of European descent.
      He hardly knew his Kenyan father.
      
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      September 21, 2016 1:45pm
kowtow

This guys ancestors never took to the long boats back in the day.

http://www.thelocal.no/20160920/norway-files-terror-recruitment-charges-for-first-time

Wow , that dividend is really getting around.
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September 21, 2016 8:19am
Stars And Stripes

Sat down and filled out my voting forms for the local body elections last night but the same problem cropped up on the more obscure ones like the health board elections as previous years.
I didn’t recognise any of the candidates and the voter guide was stuff all help.
So I was forced to go back to the tried and tested method of using personal prejudice to make my choices which is easy for me as my list of prejudices is long and varied.
Got rid of about three candidates for using Kia Ora or Aotearoa in their blurb, eliminated another women who had a moustache in her picture and finally struck off another couple who looked like they were on welfare.
Democracy in action as they say.
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September 21, 2016 8:23am
- jonar
  
  eliminated another women who had a moustache in her picture
  
  Paul, is it you?
  
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  September 21, 2016 8:53am
  - sooty
    
    I see that Harry Dynhoven in New Plymouth is talking about the living wage for next term.
    
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    September 21, 2016 9:02am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Same here S& S.
  
  So I thought I’d employ your voting method.
  None of our fine Gizzy ladies have moustaches, so they all got a tick.
  And that’s it….
  Voting sorted
  Ta
  
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  September 21, 2016 9:33am
- mikenmild
  
  There is usually a method for ranking the candidates. I start by putting anyone with typos in their bio at the bottom, along with anyone who says anything religious.
  Then it is usually a matter of ranking the platitudes to try and get anyone with anything original to say nearer the top of the list. At the top would be the one or two folks I actually have a positive opinion about.
  
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  September 21, 2016 11:26am
- olebillmole
  
  you only need to vote for the one/ones you know.
  
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  September 21, 2016 11:37am
Griff

A step towards a Predator free NZ .
Kiwi innovation a lethal weapon against rats.

A clever piece of Kiwi ingenuity has again proven itself a lethal weapon in New Zealand’s fight to rid itself of pest predators by 2050.

In a new study, led by Bay of Plenty Polytechnic researcher Chantal Lillas, 25 self-resetting A24 traps placed around Taneatua Forest attracted and killed 120 rats over 10 days last month.

By comparison, 25 of the Department of Conservation (DoC)’s standard single-action snap traps killed six rats, and one third of them were inoperative after the first night, either having caught rats or having been set off but not achieving a kill.

“The results for both traps were about the same after the first night, but then the A24 traps dominated every night following for the remainder of the trial,” Lillis said.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11713421

Website for the product
http://www.goodnature.co.nz/products/
They also do a possum trap.

DPF I hope you do not object to a link to a commercial product.
Many on here share my concern for our forests and bird life.
I have no commercial interest in or link to their business. I think this product is awesome piece of kiwi ingenuity far more effective than single set traps. I intend buying a set for my little piece of paradise .
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September 21, 2016 8:31am
- RF
  
  Where I live we are having a plague of field mice that live in the garden. Bought an expensive fancy trap that fires a rubber ring around the rodents neck and chokes it. Knocked off 2 and now it’s ignored. Bought a couple of cheap plastic easy set snap traps with peanut butter for bait and have taken out 10 mice so far. I have dogs so poison is out of the question.
  
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  September 21, 2016 9:00am
  - Hajji
    
    “I have dogs… ”
    Maybe a little pussy would help?
    
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    September 21, 2016 9:26am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Get a cat. There is a reason people keep a good ‘mouser’ around.
    
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    September 21, 2016 9:27am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      A Jack Russell is the answer; no rats or mice and will love you just because it can and not ignore you between feeding times.
      
      Works best with a ball.
      
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      September 21, 2016 10:13am
    - Pharmachick
      
      We have a little stable (I mean **really little**) it is quite literally an upstairs hay barn and downstairs 2 full-horse sized stalls [no walk outs] then on the other side its totally weird… two 12′ X 12′ stalls for little animals. Its kind of funny actually… apparently our little, tiny wee stable was designed for “mini horses” and “mini donkeys”. Anyhow, since its not been a working barn for 10-12 years, and certainly not since we moved in ~3 years ago… MOGGIES were/are intergral. These are lovely working cats. They are not the same as our two “house cats” that live well. These cats love us in one way or the other, or at least they stay for the food… so we make sure they and are fed and happy and cared for… they exterminate vermin in the stable with extreme prejudice. They are useful, working animals on our small, working plot. And we love them. But we needed to earn he difference between the house pets and the working animals. Better since I grew up a bit rural and all respect to the Cockies right now saying “Duh”.
      
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      September 21, 2016 6:08pm
wiseowl

Was looking at one a few days ago Griff.
Plan to get one soon.very effective and won’t need to get my fingers crushed setting the Fenn.
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September 21, 2016 8:36am
Tarquin North

Page four of the horrid today is taken up by an opinion piece on real housewives of Auckland and how someone on this stage managed pile of trash called someone else a racist name. Clearly this means two things have happened. One, it’s that bad nobody watches it and two, the horrids slide into tabloid obscurity and eventually a womans mag is nearly complete. Lizzie is their only hope!
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September 21, 2016 8:42am
- calendar girl
  
  Someone in the “NZ Herald” editorial management team regards Lizzie Marvelley as worth paying to write a regular opinion piece. Says it all, really.
  
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  September 21, 2016 8:54am
  - dime
    
    is that the chick who sings the anthem? shes quite rootable
    
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    September 21, 2016 9:51am
    - sam green
      
      Trouble is – I imagine you aren’t.
      
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      September 21, 2016 11:41am
      - dime
        
        lucky for me im rich.
        
        judging by your left leaning snarky comments, i aimagine you arent.
        
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        September 21, 2016 12:09pm
      - sam green
        
        One giant leap for dime kind.
        
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        September 21, 2016 12:46pm
Lucia Maria

Awful story in today’s news of cat hater torturing someone’s pet:

Cat set on fire in Whanganui

Two-year-old Sparkles came home on the evening of August 13 with burns, a large cut, and a crushed paw, owner Tracey Bright said.

“When she lay down in her favourite spot she had a big cut, all her whiskers were gone. It was almost like she’d been shaved, all her fur was just sort of gone,” Bright said.

She rushed Sparkles to the vet, who told her the cat had been burned.

“We realised since then she had a crushed paw, so she’d been held down and squirted with the lighter fluid and lit.”

Talk of cats being pests (ala Gareth Morgan) just risks an increase of this sort of vigilante behaviour.
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September 21, 2016 8:44am
- Newbie
  
  Not nice for cats to be treated like that. But there is a simple solution. Perhaps cat owners should keep cats on their own property.
  
  Not only cats kill birdlife, but they use neighbouring property gardens as their toilets. It’s bad enough when they do it in the vege garden as cat poo can contain toxoplasmosis, which is a parasite. This can be harmful to humans.
  
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  September 21, 2016 9:01am
  - Lucia Maria
    
    So, you’d be quite happy with all cat owners creating massive wire enclosures around their yards, then? Because, short of just keeping cats indoors (another form of torture for cats), that’s what it would take for cat owners to keep their cats on their properties.
    
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    September 21, 2016 9:04am
    - Griff
      
      lucia
      I have thousands of skinks in my garden .
      Do you think your cat has a right to come on my property and hunt them?
      I will and do shoot any cat I see preying on my lizards.
      I do not see how as a cat owner you can object to me protecting my pets from yours .Cruelty should never be condoned. A .177 hollow point pellet at near the speed of sound is a very quick and mostly painless permanent deterrent to cats that hunt my fauna on my land .
      
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      September 21, 2016 9:16am
      - Lucia Maria
        
        Shooting pet cats will potentially get you in trouble with the law, Griff, if you are caught. Like this guy found out: No decision to lay charges after pet cat shot.
        
        With regards to shooting animals that accidentally stray onto other’s yards, I was impressed by one of the characters on Mad Men’s solution to this sort of dispute with her neighbour when he threatened to shoot her dog in an effort to protect his birds: Betty Draper vs the Pigeons
        
        If I was your neighbour and you shot my cat, I would make it my mission to lure all your skinks over to my side and kill them. You’d have to decide whether it were better to lose a few skinks to my cat or a lot to me.
        
        BTW, I have lots of skinks in my yard as well. They coexist with my cat. Like the birds do.
        
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        September 21, 2016 9:28am
      - Gabby
        
        They’re not your lizards, despite the family resemblance.
        
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        September 21, 2016 9:31am
      - Griff
        
        It will not lucia .
        It is legal to responsibly use a slug gun any where in this county.
        It is also perfectly legal to shoot a dog or cat on your land that is hunting illegally .
        The only issue will be if you use a method that is not capable of killing only wounding. My slug gun is powerful enough to kill cats, rabbits or possums so is legal for use in terminating them. I dont take pot shots. As any good hunter does I only pull the trigger if I am confident of a kill .
        
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        September 21, 2016 9:42am
      - Griff
        
        If I was your neighbour and you shot my cat, I would make it my mission to lure all your skinks over to my side and kill them. You’d have to decide whether it were better to lose a few skinks to my cat or a lot to me.
        
        If you did such a thing you would be liable for a fine of up to 100,00 dollars
        Native NZ lizards are fully protected.
        Your comment illustrate the problem with cat owners here.
        You will not take responsibility for containing your pet yet get offended when others do.
        
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        September 21, 2016 10:09am
      - Jack5
        
        Hell Griff, you’re not into this shape-shifting reptilian aliens bullshit are you?
        
        I hope you’re not suffering some sort of delusion that you’re providing a refuge for some important folk to return to at the weekends and relax as skinks?
        
        You don’t think that’s why Morgan’s so uptight about cats, too? Could he be ? Nah, surely not.
        
        We have the plot of a new sci-fi story: shape shifters and their war against Earth Cats.
        
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        September 21, 2016 12:58pm
      - Newbie
        
        Griff, (re 9.16am comment)
        I wouldn’t shoot cats, they are someone’s pet.
        Unless they were definitely strays. The cats, I mean, not the owners.
        
        Better to shoot them with a water pistol or scare them off (just make sure the neighbours don’t see you do this).
        
        I spread sheep pellets and blood and bone on my vege garden. That has some success. Otherwise, personally, I shouldn’t have to go out of my way and expense to keep cats off the garden.
        
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        September 21, 2016 9:21pm
    - ross411
      
      It’s either one way or the other for you, isn’t it? No in-between. And the one way has to be your way..
      
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      September 21, 2016 9:19am
    - Albert_Ross
      
      all cat owners creating massive wire enclosures around their yards, then? Because, short of just keeping cats indoors (another form of torture for cats), that’s what it would take for cat owners to keep their cats on their properties.
      
      That’s your problem, nobody else’s.
      
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      September 21, 2016 12:38pm
      - Lucia Maria
        
        Some people might not like to look around their neighbourhoods and see giant enclosures everywhere, keeping the rat hunters from roaming freely. My bet is that there will be more birds in areas where there are more enclosures, as the rodent population will be lower there.
        
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        September 21, 2016 2:01pm
    - Newbie
      
      So you’re quite happy to allow cat poos to contaminate people’s vegies with toxoplasmosis and the consumer of the vegies to potentially become sick?
      
      As for wire enclosures, it can be done. While in Tasmania on holiday some years ago, I saw one such enclosure. Is there a way of posting a photo here?
      
      As for keeping cats indoors – according to the Listener article on cats a couple of weeks ago, keeping cats indoors is common in Japan and USA.
      
      Edit to add – this comment is for Lucia’s 9.04 am comment.
      
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      September 21, 2016 9:10pm
  - Lucia Maria
    
    Cats can also quite easily kill birds on my yard as well as yours.
    
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    September 21, 2016 9:18am
    - Albert_Ross
      
      And you’re comfortable with that?
      
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      September 21, 2016 12:38pm
      - Lucia Maria
        
        Totally. Birds cause a lot of damage in my yard, but the cat is hardly making a dent in their numbers.
        
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        September 21, 2016 1:28pm
- kowtow
  
  Fanganui has a feral problem and it ain’t the cats.
  
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  September 21, 2016 9:02am
- ross411
  
  Talk of cats being pests (ala Gareth Morgan) just risks an increase of this sort of vigilante behaviour.
  
  Talk about any contentious topic could be ruled as off-topic using the same poorly reasoned logic. And the damage cats can do, in the role of a pest, is not the same as the act of torture. Conflating the two is dishonest.
  
  Outrage politics should not rule what is and is not okay to discuss.
  
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  September 21, 2016 9:18am
  - Lucia Maria
    
    Just trying to balance things out, Ross411.
    
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    September 21, 2016 9:39am
- waikatogirl
  
  I’d like to set the cat torturor on fire. Not literally obviously, but Jesus, what sort of human being does that to a defenceless, loved pet.
  
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  September 21, 2016 9:32am
- Stars And Stripes
  
  The neighbours cat where I live was such a bloody nuisance it actually restricted what I could do in my own home.
  Every time I opened the windows it came inside, when I left my deck chairs outside it pissed on them and all my new flowers were routinely dug up.
  It’s acceptable for me to have to put up with this?
  I didn’t think so and took matters into my own hands whereby one day the cat disappeared.
  
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  September 21, 2016 9:57am
  - Lucia Maria
    
    Wow.
    
    There are so many other ways to discourage cats from visiting your yard, rather than just disappearing them.
    
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    September 21, 2016 10:34am
    - Stars And Stripes
      
      I spoke to the owner and he hated the cat as well as his daughter left it with him when she went to study at university so he didn’t care.
      Sprinkled pepper round the place, threw rocks at it, turned the hose on it all to no avail so took the last avenue open to me as I saw it.
      
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      September 21, 2016 10:51am
  - mikenmild
    
    Reminds me of bereal’s proud boasts about feeding anti-freeze to his neighbour’s cat.
    
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    September 21, 2016 10:48am
  - Gabby
    
    You could’ve just cleared away the mouse shit.
    
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    September 21, 2016 11:18am
- Lucia Maria
  
  Griff,
  
  If you did such a thing you would be liable for a fine of up to 100,00 dollars
  Native NZ lizards are fully protected.
  
  Are you saying you’ve never killed skinks by accident? You’re digging in the garden and you accidentally bury them. You’re mowing the lawn and get some that have strayed onto it. You’re weeding with a scraping type gardening tool and it chops them up.
  
  Your comment illustrate the problem with cat owners here.
  You will not take responsibility for containing your pet yet get offended when others do
  
  If I lived near you, I would take responsibility in protecting my cat by letting you know that I would engage in mutually assured destruction. You kill my cat, I kill your skinks. Accidentally, of course. While gardening, mowing etc..
  
  Your comments do go to show that cat owners really need to organise themselves and get better legal protection for their cats. There’s a bit of gap here.
  
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  September 21, 2016 10:44am
  - mikenmild
    
    That would be one way Griff could get you to mow his lawns for you.
    
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    September 21, 2016 10:49am
    - Griff
      
      Dont do lawns mike .
      I have done many times more than my fair share having had a business doing them long ago .
      My approach to lawns is roundup, mulch then plant with natives.
      
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      September 21, 2016 11:09am
      - starboard
        
        Poor old Griff, who wants to set up a little lifestyle block.. sans cats, ” Ill shoot it blah blah”…no one touches my lizards “..only a matter of time headlines will read ” Armed Offenders Squad called out to hermits lifestyle block, shots fired..currently negotiating with offender but last heard screaming ” ya wont take me and my lizards alive ” … I’ll have no stray pussy on my land , I tell yee “hic” ..heh..
        
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        September 21, 2016 12:58pm
      - mikenmild
        
        No stray cats around the bedsitter, starboard?
        
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        September 21, 2016 1:14pm
      - Jack5
        
        Griff, you ever get an inclination to open a local pub on your rural block, a name suggestion: the Skank and Skink.
        
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        September 21, 2016 1:16pm
      - starboard
        
        Its ok mm, we all know your next one will be ya first..your rubber bum and oil doesn’t count as real sex.
        
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        September 21, 2016 1:27pm
      - mikenmild
        
        I’m not sure about this ‘rubber bum and oil’ stuff. Could you explain how you use them? Are they something you use while looking at your gay porn videos?
        
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        September 21, 2016 2:53pm
  - Albert_Ross
    
    And your comments go to show that cat owners are utterly selfish, irresponsible and careless of the rights both of people and of New Zealand’s indigenous wildlife.
    
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    September 21, 2016 1:17pm
  - Griff
    
    Just for reference .
    My shooting of cats is not the same as shooting the neighbors cats in town suburbs.
    I could walk into my garden at the beach and climb over my blocks back fence about 25km later staying under a bush canopy the entire journey except for crossing one road state highway one .
    
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    September 21, 2016 2:32pm
Lucia Maria

This is funny!

NCEA debacle perfect opportunity for smug adults to demonstrate superiority to children
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September 21, 2016 9:13am
- ross411
  
  It’s a poor version of the same kind of thing that The Onion did back in 2001.
  
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  September 21, 2016 9:21am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  And now we find that there were two versions of the exam…
  http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/84486526/wellington-maths-teachers-meet-with-nzqa-over-horror-exam-asking-for-apology
  I found KB’s little exchange on the paper very funny…the paper was easy (if you held a Maths degree).
  
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  September 21, 2016 9:50am
  - Lucia Maria
    
    Maggy,
    
    Yeah, two versions… my son sat the (somewhat easier) Thursday one.
    
    A lot of adults have just forgotten what it is like to try and learn this stuff. I’m probably closer to it all as I’ve had to relearn maths over the last two years in order to have a chance of helping my boys with it. I don’t have a maths degree, though the idea of getting one sounds like fun to me (seriously!).
    
    It’s hard, hard work learning all this maths – and very confusing to the kids if it’s taught fast. Makes it harder for those that haven’t learned in depth how fractions work, as I discovered with my 15 year old when I was tutoring him in preparation for this exam (because he’s been relying on his calculator!). And that sort of fundamental skill testing is just not done in schools – a way of checking what skills the kids are weak in that act as an impediment to them learning what adults think they should be able to do.
    
    Also, the way curriculum is structured and tested for, Algebra is just another 4 credit assessment, even though it’s totally vital for higher level maths. Thereby relegating it to a cram over a couple of months before the exam, rather than a full year course.
    
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    September 21, 2016 10:14am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I was interested to read a Letter to the Ed in today’s NZ Herald. It was from David Hood ex -head of NZ Qualifications Authority….. he was a maths school teacher. He thought the exam was hard.
      NCEA Exams should be set at a level that allows the broadest range of students to demonstrate what they do know.
      (That was the philosophy for why NZ changed to NCEA).
      Level One exams should not just be a test for the few percent who are going on to be mathematicians.
      
      When I first went secondary school-teaching (at the age of 42) after having worked as a scientist, I’d forgotten the level of literacy and numeracy most 13-15 year-olds were at. It took a few months for me to realise that I had to modify my vocabulary and take students through maths examples slowly.
      I didn’t like teaching maths as I did not have enough background in various maths strategies to cope with explaining a topic in different ways.
      It is a skill that comes with advanced maths knowledge.
      
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      September 21, 2016 4:11pm
      - Left Right and Centre
        
        so *that’s* how Mags communicates so well with griff
        
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        September 22, 2016 4:54am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Took a modicum of effort to those who last looked at an algebra (or any other math paper) 43 years ago but gave it good lash
    
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    September 21, 2016 10:17am
  - stephieboy
    
    Maggy Wassilieff, for all its faults ( largely minor ) the NCEA is turning out University and other graduates of a high calibre including Doctors , Architects , Engineers etc.
    
    The local high schools in my area Mt Albert Grammar , Mt Roskill Grammar and Marist College is a testimony to this .
    
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    September 21, 2016 10:18am
    - Lucia Maria
      
      Stephieboy,
      
      That may be the case. However the point of teaching and testing ought to be so that it’s not just a process of eliminating kids that aren’t naturally good at a subject.
      
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      September 21, 2016 10:32am
    - Stars And Stripes
      
      Mt Roskill Grammar turns out other high calibre people too like camel jockeys, Islamic preachers, taxi drivers and Pak n Save workers.
      
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      September 21, 2016 10:39am
      - stephieboy
        
        Yawn ! Just continue to stay in South Auckland where you belong ,
        
        https://static2.stuff.co.nz/1261423892/196/3185196.jpg
        
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        September 21, 2016 11:25am
      - All_on_Red
        
        ‘Yawn ! Just continue to stay in South Auckland where you belong ,’
        
        Wow, what a bigot!
        
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        September 21, 2016 2:08pm
    - AgentBallSack
      
      What happened to you then stupidboy?
      
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      September 21, 2016 10:41am
    - Jack5
      
      There you go again, Stephie X.
      
      All the local “mounts” – Albert, Roskill …
      
      If the mountain won’t come to Muhammad then Muhammad must go to the mountain.
      
      It’s only a proverb, Stephie X – a piece of worldly advice, not a real-estate command.
      
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      September 21, 2016 1:08pm
      - AgentBallSack
        
        What? No Mt Eden, Mt Crawford…
        
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        September 21, 2016 2:18pm
    - Kiwi Dave
      
      The local high schools in my area Mt Albert Grammar , Mt Roskill Grammar and Marist College is a testimony to this .
      
      Perhaps you could enrol as an adult student to help you with your English, for example, subject-verb agreement, where to put spaces with punctuation marks.
      
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      September 21, 2016 8:18pm
EAD

La Resistance against the elites begins in France:

After 50 migrants were “re-homed” in the small village of Allex, in Rhone-Alpes, the situation became so explosive armed police have been stationed outside the refugees’ housing and the mayor called for a referendum on refugees to placate locals.

The village have launched a campaign to have the vote legally recognised by the government and an online pressure group has been formed to urge other towns, villages and cities across the country to hold their own referenda on housing migrants.

If successful they would bring France’s asylum system to its knees by making it virtually impossible for the government to redistribute recently arrived refugees.

Bon courage!

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/712564/migrant-crisis-French-villagers-Allex-Rhone-Alpes-referendum-refugees-Calais
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September 21, 2016 9:25am
Hugh Pavletich

HOW HOUSTON REGULATES LAND USE … NOLAN GRAY … MARKET URBANISM
h/t Tory Gattis
http://houstonstrategies.blogspot.co.nz/
&
http://opportunityurbanism.org/

http://marketurbanism.com/2016/09/19/how-houston-regulates-land-use/

By Nolan Gray

If you regularly read about cities, you might notice that Texas cities rarely seem to come up. We make cases for why Detroit is definitely coming back—just you wait! We come up with elaborate theories of how cities can become the next Silicon Valley. We spend hours coming up with a solution to New York City’s costumed panhandler problem. Yet the four urban behemoths of the Lone Star State—Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, and Austin—remain conspicuously absent from the conversation.

Boy, has that changed. … read more via hyperlink above …

WHAT’S NOT BEING SAID ABOUT MUDs … HOUSTON CHRONICLE

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Spillette-What-s-not-being-said-about-MUDs-9193711.php?t=26dd2deaf0

Municipal Utility Districts (MUDs) are a type of special district used in the Houston area, and elsewhere in Texas, to provide infrastructure while facilitating the smooth functioning of the housing market in response to market demand.
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September 21, 2016 10:19am
UrbanNeocolonialist

Interesting and detailed timeline summary of Clinton email investigation. Paints a pretty poor picture of all involved. Some of IT admins now pleading 5th and defying subpoenas. But to my view appears there is sufficient obfuscation and perhaps collusion? from FBI that nothing will stick pre-election.
http://www.thompsontimeline.com/the-hidden-smoking-gun-the-combetta-cover-up/
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September 21, 2016 10:45am
Manolo

The mind boggles:
http://www.infowars.com/sleep-well-hillary-trump-comments-on-hillarys-campaign-break/
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September 21, 2016 11:11am
Fletch

It seems like the I.T guy who wiped Hillary’s emails may have gone on Reddit beforehand to ask for help in stripping headers from emails for a “very VIP” person.

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/09/19/clinton-tech-suspected-of-asking-reddit-users-for-help-stripping-very-vip-name-from-emails/

There was a whole thread about it on Reddit which has since been removed. As one user writes –

he got doxed and he’s futilely trying to cover his tracks and delete everything right now, there’s 100% confirmation it’s him and there’s pictures of family, his house, etc floating around
dude got completely exposed and it’s best not to let it unravel here willingly because reddit could use it as an excuse to shut down this sub like others

https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/53hcjg/why_did_the_post_about_hillarys_tech_guy_paul/
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September 21, 2016 11:25am
Manolo

CNBC is in panic mode:
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/09/19/why-trump-gets-away-with-huge-lies-and-clinton-gets-trashed-for-little-fibs-commentary.html
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September 21, 2016 11:25am
- stephieboy
  
  Manolo, but it’s true . Let me repeat – Trump gets away with huge lies and Clinton gets trashed for little fibs !
  
  Now you and other Trumpists repeat those dozens of times so it settles into all your grey ooze !
  
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  September 21, 2016 1:34pm
Stars And Stripes

Cafe offers up reo fix with Kapu Kōrero
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/313825/the-cafe-offering-a-reo-fix-along-with-its-coffee
“An initiative to take te reo Māori out of the classroom and into the wider world comes with a caffeine fix in New Plymouth”.

Oh how nice as now Andrew Judd will have somewhere to get coffee and be in a safe space at the same time.
Strike the Green Door Café off my list.
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September 21, 2016 11:45am
- mikenmild
  
  Go somewhere else to get your trim soy latte, will you?
  
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  September 21, 2016 12:00pm
  - Stars And Stripes
    
    Never really been in to them myself MM as a lot of poofters seem to drink those things.
    Have to support the local farmers in my area as well so only full cream milk for me and none of this soy shit.
    
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    September 21, 2016 12:18pm
    - mikenmild
      
      Support the farmers? Wouldn’t want them to go without a new boat this year?
      http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/84488486/fonterra-lifts-farmgate-forecast-by-50c-to-525
      
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      September 21, 2016 12:57pm
      - Stars And Stripes
        
        Come on MM I realise farmers are not big Labour Party supporters and were not at the forefront of the push for gay rights but you should not hold that against them.
        They do a decent days work and deserve the spoils of that.
        
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        September 21, 2016 1:04pm
    - sam green
      
      “Poofters”. What quaint language.
      
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      September 21, 2016 5:20pm
    - sam green
      
      I am assuming you mean gay people – I could be wrong. Curious though – have you done a survey on gay soy latte drinking? How many gay people did you ask? Or was it anecdotal evidence from your wide array of gay friends? Feel free to post a graph of your findings.
      
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      September 21, 2016 5:28pm
      - dirty harry
        
        You seem to go all feral when it comes to defending homosexuals sam. Are you one ?
        
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        September 21, 2016 5:54pm
      - sam green
        
        “Feral” – nearly as quaint as “poofter”.
        
        I was merely asking a question – why the passionate response? Are you one perchance?
        
        dirty harry – is that like a “dirty sanchez”?
        
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        September 21, 2016 6:10pm
      - Stars And Stripes
        
        Sorry I missed the press release saying you had been appointed the official KB word police.
        If poofter is a bit to quaint for you please advise an alternative that is acceptable.
        
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        September 21, 2016 6:16pm
      - sam green
        
        Why don’t you just say “I think trim soy lattes are silly – I like a full cream flat white myself”. There ya go. Fixed your bigotry for ya.
        
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        September 21, 2016 6:22pm
      - Stars And Stripes
        
        You use the term bigotry like it’s a bad thing?.
        
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        September 21, 2016 6:28pm
      - sam green
        
        You’re a fungi to be with.
        
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        September 21, 2016 6:33pm
      - Stars And Stripes
        
        You really should consider a career in comedy.
        I am sure when your sidekick holds up the laugh sign the couple of people in the audience will oblige.
        
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        September 21, 2016 6:46pm
      - sam green
        
        As long as you’re there …….. with your sign and all …. oh and dirty sanchez – all will be well.
        
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        September 21, 2016 6:58pm
      - sam green
        
        No – but seriously …..
        
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        September 21, 2016 7:00pm
Manolo

Unmasking and dismantling the Messiah:
https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/09/levin-expertly-dismantles-obamas-embarassing-un-speech-point-by-painful-point

The president gave another speech in which he trashed the United States, blamed America for the world’s problems, attacked capitalism, blasted Israel, and pushed a globalist agenda.

“He’s an embarrassment.”
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September 21, 2016 12:13pm
- stephieboy
  
  Manolo , trashed and blamed the US ? What did he say exactly ?
  
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  September 21, 2016 1:36pm
  - Gabby
    
    “We opened relations with Cuba”
    
    That really gave Cruzzie the droop.
    
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    September 21, 2016 6:22pm
  - Gabby
    
    “We see too many governments muzzling journalists, and quashing dissent, and censoring the flow of information”
    
    See, he even had a crack at himself. Unless he meant Ponyboy and his greasers.
    
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    September 21, 2016 6:24pm
  - Gabby
    
    “We must reject any forms of fundamentalism, or racism, or a belief in ethnic superiority that makes our traditional identities irreconcilable with modernity.”
    
    Maybe the Handy One thought that was a dig at Israel.
    
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    September 21, 2016 6:31pm
Fletch

A polar expedition (unofficially nicknamed Ship Of Fools II) heading to the Arctic to raise awareness of climate change and to show how the ice has been melting has just escaped by the skin of its teeth after nearly being frozen in.

The southern NWP route is now closed at the NE exit, with northern Prince Regent Sound blocked by 9/10 ice in freeze up mode. Exactly where they barely made it through after hours of probing on 9/12. Northabout made it through NWP with just two days to spare. Had they taken the planned 2 days resupplying in Barrow rather than 1, and the planned one day call at Cambridge Bay (meeting up with Polar Bound), they would not have made it out and would have had to turn around and overwinter at Cambridge Bay. It was that close.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/09/20/ship-fools-ii-expedition-escapes-arctic-freeze-nick-time/
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September 21, 2016 12:15pm
- Brigitte
  
  I’d take that quote with a huge dollop of salt if the linked article is anything to go by. They talk of this years arctic minimum (2nd lowest) and compare it to the particularly low 2012 as if everything is wonderful. It’s the same modus operandi as used after the 1998 El Nino (which worked for 4-5 years with ground temps whereupon they moved to the RSS satellite which helpfully excludes the arctic region).
  
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  September 21, 2016 12:46pm
- stephieboy
  
  Fletch , it didn’t stop luxury liner navigating the NW passage in 32 days ,
  
  http://finance.yahoo.com/news/mission-accomplished-crystal-serenity-completes-170600654.html
  
  It took Roald Amundsen 3 years 1906 – 9.
  
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  September 21, 2016 1:40pm
Don the Kiwi

Stephen Boyle will be mortified in his sympathy for Crooked Hillary.

http://www.infowars.com/good-one-crowd-laughs-when-florida-dem-calls-hillary-honest-during-debate/
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September 21, 2016 12:28pm
- stephieboy
  
  Don the Kiwi , has Infowars now become the staple for Trumpists like you ?
  
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  September 21, 2016 1:42pm
- Manolo
  
  The woman Clinton is as honest as our Winston Peters, or as his husband Bill is chaste.
  
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  September 21, 2016 1:52pm
  - Jack5
    
    Good old Manolo is first with the news:
    
    … as honest as our Winston Peters, or as his husband Bill …
    
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    September 21, 2016 5:39pm
  - GoVege
    
    Chaste…or chased?
    
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    September 21, 2016 11:38pm
- All_on_Red
  
  That was quite a telling clip- thanks Don. Of course, no doubt you will have some creepy jerk try to slag it off because it was on info wars, ignoring that the clip has been shown on many sites.
  Isn’t it funny when there is no rebuttal but just a moronic smearing of where the clip was linked and that’s the extent of their argument. Pathetic really.
  
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  September 21, 2016 2:03pm
Manolo

The plot thickens and the littany of lies from the Clinton gangsters continues:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/09/20/clinton-email-wiper-appears-to-have-asked-online-how-to-hide-vip-info.html

Archived comments unearthed by citizen-detectives on Reddit indicate that Paul Combetta — the tech specialist who deleted Hillary Clinton’s emails from her server — may have sought advice on the website for how to hide a certain “VIP’s” email address.
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September 21, 2016 12:29pm
- Fletch
  
  Also check out – https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/09/19/discovery-2014-reddit-archive-platte-river-networks-paul-combetta-oh-shit-guy-requesting-tech-help-to-strip-vips-emails/
  
  http://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/politics/paul-stonetear-combetta-timeline-thread-happening-con-3/65498638/
  
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  September 21, 2016 12:55pm
  - stephieboy
    
    The conservative tree house that gave us this garbage ,
    
    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2012/03/01/sheriff-arpaio-obamas-birth-cirtificate-a-forgery-not-worth-the-paper-it-was-written-on/
    
    Now repudiated by Donald Trump .
    
    Otherwise, your link is full of the usual coulds. maybes , possibilities !
    
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    September 21, 2016 1:50pm
    - Fletch
      
      Doesn’t matter what other stories they reported on. You can see by the evidence, that it is the same guy – Hillary’s email guy, ‘Stonetear’. There’s even a photo with him. They’ve pretty much proved it beyond doubt. His Etsy account also has the same name and email address.
      
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      September 21, 2016 2:00pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  This is a pretty interesting development. Combetta/Stonetear was granted immunity by the FBI to cooperate, but is now pleading the 5th – implying that he either lied to FBI or did not divulge everything he should have.
  
  He is in spectacularly deep shit – on one side long jail sentences, and on the other possibly people gunning for him (literally). Here is a video of him deleting his posts from reddit after he was doxed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x6EbPZGeWU
  
  Depending on who offers him the best deal (keeping him alive/out of jail/paid for jail time?) he could roll on the Clinton camp, though possible her lawyers could be used as next layer of patsies.
  
  Was Clinton cancelling her appearances today a consequence of this?
  
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  September 21, 2016 4:23pm
Jack5

Is Chinese pork coming into New Zealand?

Chinese pigs are consuming 19,600 tonnes of antibiotics a year, according to Bloomberg.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-09-19/china-s-five-star-pig-pens-are-latest-weapon-in-the-superbug-war
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September 21, 2016 1:37pm
- Stars And Stripes
  
  Well at least Lucia Maria will be happy that they seem to be decreasing their reliance on eating cats and dogs as a staple.
  
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  September 21, 2016 1:43pm
Manolo

The faster this incompetent goes home, the better:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-swan-song-global-stage-final-un-speech-081337116–politics.html
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September 21, 2016 1:54pm
Jack5

Stephen Franks makes a stand on the N-word.

http://www.stephenfranks.co.nz/poo-and-bum/
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September 21, 2016 2:13pm
- itstricky
  
  Load of poo. Nigger has a very specific slur associated with a particular history. Motherfucker has become a general swear word. You can’t compare them. Nigger is not something that was “outlawed” recently, it’s not part of Stephen’s imagined enemy’s remit, it was out of the picture well before then.
  
  He himself should just stop being outraged and accept that some phrases are just not cool.
  
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  September 21, 2016 6:22pm
  - dirty harry
    
    Get over yourself sticky, n word is still used often around the place, I use it, my neighbour uses it
    ( Govt employee ) sticks and stones and all that. Stop being so precious.
    
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    September 21, 2016 6:50pm
    - Gabby
      
      What you and your neighbour call each other is up to you, and no doubt accurate.
      
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      September 21, 2016 7:45pm
      - dirty harry
        
        shut up giblet, the adults are talking
        
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        September 21, 2016 8:30pm
  - sam green
    
    Pretty much on the nail It’s tricky.
    “Everyone I know uses it” tells us a lot about who you know dirty sanchez.
    
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    September 21, 2016 6:52pm
    - dirty harry
      
      Well excuse me all over the place sam. I imagine your shit doesnt stink and you go to church every sunday ?
      
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      September 21, 2016 7:23pm
      - sam green
        
        Oh dirty sanchez – don’t be all sulky – my poo was a bit odorous this morning and I don’t attend churchy things as a general rule.
        
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        September 21, 2016 7:45pm
  - nasska
    
    …..”accept that some phrases are just not cool”….
    
    I couldn’t agree more. In fact, as soon as I can go a month without hearing whites described as ‘honkies’ or ‘crackers’ I’ll wipe the words ‘niggers’ & ‘coons’ from my vocabulary.
    
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    September 21, 2016 6:54pm
    - sam green
      
      Cheese with those crackers nasska?
      
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      September 21, 2016 7:02pm
      - dirty harry
        
        Coon cheese maybe ? It is a brand of cheese you know. How offensive.
        
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        September 21, 2016 7:24pm
      - sam green
        
        Oh dirty sanchez – what a wit you are.
        
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        September 21, 2016 7:38pm
    - dad4justice
      
      Hillbilly – do the coons think the white honky is crackers?
      
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      September 21, 2016 7:04pm
      - nasska
        
        The term apparently comes from the southern USA & refers to the white slave driver because he would “crack” the whip.
        
        Exactly what that word means to a South Auckland gang prospect who has never heard the phrase “here’s your payslip” escapes me.
        
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        September 21, 2016 7:15pm
    - sam green
      
      “Hillbilly” – Is that you nasska?
      
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      September 21, 2016 7:09pm
      - nasska
        
        So it seems sam. Baity coined it to provide contrast with his urbane, cosmopolitan, man about town persona. 🙂
        
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        September 21, 2016 7:21pm
      - stigie
        
        Of course ole Reddy was never the one to hold back Sam !~
        
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        September 21, 2016 7:43pm
  - tom hunter
    
    … and accept that some phrases are just not cool.
    
    Except when it’s Denzel Washington. Then it’s cool.
    
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    September 21, 2016 7:52pm
- Gabby
  
  Ratface Franks is a c word.
  
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  September 21, 2016 7:46pm
  - sam green
    
    Carrot?
    
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    September 21, 2016 8:06pm
Manolo

A good article. It reads as well if you replace Corbyn with Little.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/09/want-to-know-whats-happened-to-labour-study-parasites/
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September 21, 2016 3:35pm
Manolo

Too late for Mamma Merkel: the damage is already done.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/19/merkel-signals-she-may-back-down-from-open-door-refugee-policy-a/

Angela Merkel on Monday signalled for the first time that she was prepared to change her controversial refugee policy in the wake of heavy losses to the resurgent far-Right in regional elections.
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September 21, 2016 3:44pm
EAD

I see that the Mexican president has told American Trump supporters that mixing and immigration is the future, but look at his family, apparently all the Mexican elites look like this:

http://www.dailystormer.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/869197.jpg

Trump is right once again. Mexico is exporting its trash to the US. Not many “Mexican Americans” look like his handsome family.
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September 21, 2016 6:15pm
- Griff
  
  Many years ago I worked in a hire company.
  Our receptionist was one of the most hideous ugly beasts I have ever had the misfortune to lay eyes on .
  She had been a street kid and signed into the nz army at about eighteen .
  lovely woman with a sexy voice. We used to crack up at the customers who would rush up to the office expecting a fair maiden and be confronted with 18stone of ugly covered in boob tats .
  Looks are nothing to do with personality or achievement
  
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  September 21, 2016 6:28pm
  - sam green
    
    Really hope that’s not Maggy or Lucia you hired. Or any of the other fair maidens who post here.
    
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    September 21, 2016 6:50pm
    - Griff
      
      I have it on good authority* that both are stunning if somewhat aged examples of the female race.
      
      *JB
      Though he does have some weird thing going about species boundarys.
      
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      September 21, 2016 7:03pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      People don’t hire me… I hire them.
      
      How are you placed Sam?
      
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      September 21, 2016 7:19pm
      - nasska
        
        Stocktake the cutlery before & after! 🙂
        
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        September 21, 2016 7:29pm
      - sam green
        
        I’m placed in a compromising position at present Maggy.
        
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        September 21, 2016 7:41pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I have vacancies in a number of positions – compromising or otherwise.
        I supply uniforms and head gear.
        http://logoonline.mtvnimages.com/uri/mgid:uma:image:logotv.com:10688227?quality=0.8&format=jpg&height=495&width=660
        
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        September 21, 2016 7:50pm
      - sam green
        
        Oh la la
        
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        September 21, 2016 7:55pm
RF

What’s JK going to do if Crooked Hillary gets to be president. Currently he plays Golf with Obama so what’s Clintons pleasure. I just cannot see JK swapping cooking recipes with her.

Now Trump is a different story as he plays golf and actually owns golf courses.
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September 21, 2016 6:38pm
- Gabby
  
  Could you see Ponyboy fondling her locks?
  
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  September 21, 2016 7:43pm
Manolo

JK will start flattering the crook Clinton, the same thing he is doing nowadays with comrade Hulun.
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September 21, 2016 7:29pm
- stigie
  
  Hulun must be missing her dear husband The Professor Peter Davis..?
  
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  September 21, 2016 7:46pm
  - Reid
    
    Yes he’s probably not allowed a US visa to visit her, for some reason no-one knows about….
    
    Thank fuck for the media eh?
    
    Fearless truth tellers extraordinaire they be.
    
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    September 21, 2016 7:55pm
    - stigie
      
      “Yes he’s probably not allowed a US visa to visit her, for some reason no-one knows about….”
      
      Dad’s fairly knowledgeable Reid..?
      
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      September 21, 2016 8:02pm
    - dad4justice
      
      The twisted media are like the despicable politicians as the creeps hide the truth from the public peasants.
      
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      September 21, 2016 8:03pm
      - Reid
        
        Yes they are mate.
        
        Knowing what’s going on isn’t rocket science.
        
        So some of them must know it because their utter and total overall corruption is not fully explainable via lefty ideological idiocy/fanaticism.
        
        Therefore what the more intelligent of them are doing is deliberate deception, using the authority of their media organisations to spread it. And taking in huge money to do it.
        
        Scum, aren’t they.
        
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        September 21, 2016 8:15pm
mikenmild

Nothing at all suspicious about this football game:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/world-game/84515112/german-goalkeeper-marco-kwiotek-arrested-after-conceding-43-goals-in-game
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September 21, 2016 7:59pm
- stigie
  
  Over 25000 comments, it was just 24000 the other day so it seems. You are blowing everyone away with your sheer dedication Milky !~
  
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  September 21, 2016 8:14pm
  - Jack5
    
    You can multiply that by at least four, Stigie. Only a person’s first post in a thread seems to count.
    
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    September 21, 2016 9:15pm
Morrissey

“One day I’ll snap and I’ll punch him in the face”….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihReeJg08ns
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September 21, 2016 8:27pm
Captain Mainwaring

That Singapore 777 departing back to Canberra could be heard right across the harbour. Had so much throttle on I swear he thought he could get it all the way to Singapore non-stop.
Would actually need about 1000 metres of extra runway for that, not 355.
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September 21, 2016 8:56pm
Reid

More ammo for Soros’ BLM.

https://www.rt.com/usa/360087-keith-lamont-scott-death/

In the last line they name the officer.

Rather irresponsible. Imagine if your name’s beside his in the phonebook, with Soros’ mobs blood up.
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September 21, 2016 9:15pm
RF

Poor old tired crooked Rip van winkle Hillary. She needs plenty of rest prior to the debate……

Jeez.
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September 21, 2016 9:38pm
Manolo

The scum riot:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3800712/The-Battle-Calais-Police-use-tear-gas-repel-300-migrants-try-storm-road-leading-French-port.html
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September 22, 2016 6:41am
Left Right and Centre

Marama Fox on Back Benches
Man alive – that’s some tough hate-watching. Eventually gave up – flick to start of Late Late Show.
1% of the vote, 30-40% of their airtime ?
Leftists – 70-80% of airtime on the finale ?

I learnt that ‘institutional racism’ is why so many brown fellas are locked up. And pulled over more.

There’s a mysterious 14% gender pay gap apparently. Wow – they got hold of everyone’s bank statements and ran the data – well done.

Shouting indignantly in a disgusted tone – I’m convinced. I am now on their side. Sue Wells was doing this on red radio panel. She got owned by someone called Jonathan Krebs. Let’s see – hmmm – lawyer vs career local govt knob. Yah yah.

Watched Nigel Latta Hard Shit – Paula Bennett – I love her sexy kiwi accent eh. ‘Unusshhhuwooool’. MAKE IT STOP !!!!!
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September 22, 2016 6:44am
Manolo

The big crook is spending big bucks:
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/e80b356a03204fff8b260618cb458017/clinton-campaign-raced-through-50-million-last-month
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September 22, 2016 7:03am
Manolo

Bill Clinton would be proud:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/anthony-weiner-allegedly-sexted-15-year-old-girl-report-article-1.2800788
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