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Kiwiladdy

Saw a post today of people setting up “safe walking support teams” on campus. I.e., people offering to walk with people that felt unsafe.

While a nice gesture it’s pretty embarrassing that people think they need this in the U.S.

I know it’s not nice to say but in this world of being sensitive (sometimes for the right reasons) eventually you just need a glass of concrete so you can harden the fuck up.

Have a nice day.
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November 16, 2016 8:05am
- cmm
  
  It’s not a nice gesture.
  
  It just reinforces the narrative that Trump has made everything dangerous. Meanwhile the opposite is true.
  
  These people are traumatised not because of any rational threat but because they’ve grown up with years of school teachers and now academia telling them that they they cannot cope without the nanny state.
  
  It’s like telling kids every night that there’s a monster under their bed and only you can keep them safe. Feeding this delusion is destructive.
  
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  November 16, 2016 8:10am
  - Padriv Ustoev
    
    Interestingly this kind of behavior is very similar to presentation of Munchhausen syndrome.
    
    It is where psychologically the sufferer gets his/her/zhe emotional satisfaction from being the center of attention of sympathy.
    
    For example the mother that poisons her kid so then she can take the kid to hospital and everyone oos and ahhas about what a hard time she is having.
    
    Or people who fake cancer to get attention.
    
    SO it feels like the progressive left is in a way suffering from a kind of communal Munchhausen syndrome where the only way they can get their emotional needs met is by playing the victim and having all the “victim” attention pointed at them.
    
    It’s a psychological disorder is what I’m proposing.
    
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    November 16, 2016 8:51am
    - cmm
      
      Yup, modern leftism is a disease.
      
      Where the fuck are the real lefties of my youth? Real feminists (“I am woman, hear me roar”), the anti-war mob (who kinda dried up when Obama and Clinton sowed mayhem through the middle east), real eco-warriors who could do stuff like actually plant trees.
      
      Instead we see all these concepts being hijacked and used to divide us, break down our culture and society and ultimately destroy us.
      
      Progressive it is not!
      
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      November 16, 2016 9:47am
  - jonar
    
    Are you sure it’s not a rational threat? Maybe you’re not up to date with what is actually happening in the states.
    
    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/us/police-investigate-attacks-on-muslim-students-at-universities.html
    
    The fliers depicting men in camouflage, wielding guns and an American flag, appeared in men’s restrooms throughout Texas State University: “Now that our man Trump is elected,” they said. “Time to organize tar and feather vigilante squads and go arrest and torture those deviant university leaders spouting off that diversity garbage.”
    
    At San Jose State University in California, a Muslim woman complained that she had been grabbed by her hijab and choked. The police are investigating.
    
    At Wellesley College in Massachusetts, alma mater of Hillary Clinton, two male students from nearby Babson College drove through campus in a pickup truck adorned with a large Trump flag, parked outside a meeting house for black students, and spat at a black female student, according to campus black student organizations.
    
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    November 16, 2016 10:26am
    - Ed Snack
      
      Given the existing record on such matters, these flyers were almost certainly produced by a Democrat organization or supporter in order to raise the outrage level.
      
      Like the Black Professor who vandalized her own car in front of witnesses and then tried to claim that facists had done it. Or maybe the Black Congressional Congress members who claimed that Tea Party demonstrators shouted racist slogans at them despite there being numerous videos and recordings available NONE of which picked up anything of the sort.
      
      Dollars to donuts that these are agents provocateurs actions or simply flat out lies told for effect.
      
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      November 16, 2016 12:01pm
    - cmm
      
      There has been so many proven cases of lefties causing mayhem and pretending to be Trump supporters etc that the default assumption is that it is just more of those.
      
      What is clear though is that the MSM is heavily biased and is only reporting stories that fit the narrative.
      
      Where’s the reporting on libtards harrassing the homelss Trump supporter lady? The numerous Trump supporters beaten up? The anti-Trump rioters smashing up cities?
      
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      November 16, 2016 1:00pm
- Lance
  
  The secretary in Psychology, a petite Asian lady, was bashed senseless in Albert Park one morning for no apparent reason on her way to the Uni.
  Nah, no need for security
  
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  November 16, 2016 8:13am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Albert Park is not “on campus.”
    
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    November 16, 2016 8:20am
    - peterwn
      
      It is as good as ‘on campus’. The various roads and pathways around universities used by students are also ‘off campus’, but have been subject to incidents in Wellington, Dunedin and no doubt many other tertiary institutions.
      
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      November 16, 2016 8:41am
  - Kiwiladdy
    
    And 285 people have died on roads.
    
    Living is risky. Walking through campus does not justify a level of risk warranting anyone to need bodyguards during the middle of the day.
    
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    November 16, 2016 8:20am
    - Colville
      
      living is not “risky. Its deadly.
      
      No one gets out alive.
      
      Have a great day 🙂
      
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      November 16, 2016 8:28am
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        The penalty for life is death.
        
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        November 16, 2016 8:32am
      - Jack5
        
        Odakyu-sen at 8.32: “The penalty for life is death.”
        
        Do we have the second line of a haiku of the day there, Kiwiblog sensei?
        
        Whoops, are there 7 or 8 syllables here?
        
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        November 16, 2016 11:15am
    - Biscuit
      
      Kiwiladdy, the other night I declined to sell the light of my life the Piccadilly property she needed to complete her ‘Monopoly’ set and I found that life in my living room can get pretty dicey too!
      
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      November 16, 2016 8:34am
  - Stars And Stripes
    
    Albert Park was seedy even back in my varsity days.
    Full of tramps, flashers, masturbators and homos bending each other in the toilets.
    Always gave it a miss and walked the longer way.
    
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    November 16, 2016 9:06am
    - KevinH
      
      Albert Park is a little gem in the centre of Aucklands concrete and class jungle with an array of flowering plants to admire, but not a lot has changed over the years, the ferals hang out there all day hitting on young Asians for money and cigarettes. It’s a disgrace, Auckland Council needs to give the bums heave ho so that people can enjoy the park without being molested by beggars.
      I imagine the young Asian lady who was assaulted there refused to give money to the bums and was attacked.
      
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      November 16, 2016 1:41pm
  - kowtow
    
    By who ? Was he/she caught ? Was the sentencing such to discourage anyone else from ever contemplating such disgusting behaviour. The left , by attacking proper sentencing over the last 50 years has made the public place a dangerous space.
    
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    November 16, 2016 9:13am
    - doggone7
      
      Lots of ‘proper’ things are attacked by the mindless use of the expression “the left.” And “leftist.”
      
      Is it fair to suggest it’s an indication of retardation?
      (This thought brought to mind by Rich Prick’s contribution.)
      
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      November 16, 2016 12:51pm
  - Padriv Ustoev
    
    And a massive brown homeless person was found dead in the exact same park.
    
    What now? What is the solution Lance?
    
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    November 16, 2016 9:14am
  - kowtow
    
    Where was Blessie Gotinkos’ and Jo Perts’ safe space?
    
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    November 16, 2016 9:46am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    I’ve been attacked twice in the last 6 years walking through parks for no apparent reason. Obviously I’m being targeted for my ethnicity and sex.
    
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    November 16, 2016 6:00pm
- itstricky
  
  Where? Who? Why? Link?
  
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  November 16, 2016 9:00am
  - starboard
    
    Look..its itsdrippy the brown appeaser , morning drippy.
    
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    November 16, 2016 9:28am
    - itstricky
      
      Going to give me a concrete example of a free pass, starboard, or just fob it off again?
      
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      November 16, 2016 12:55pm
      - starboard
        
        Do your own homework. Its there, geez all you have to do is google the right words and up it pops..how special you are, not so bright, but special..and we need to have open entry for maori in some subjects.
        Way you go…
        
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        November 16, 2016 1:42pm
      - itstricky
        
        Surely if it’s that easy, starboard, you could provide a link for everyone here.
        
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        November 16, 2016 5:52pm
      - itstricky
        
        Why are you keeping everyone waiting?
        
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        November 16, 2016 10:18pm
    - Gabby
      
      Look, it’s a starfish with chocolate hanging out its hole. Evening choccy.
      
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      November 16, 2016 5:55pm
      - starboard
        
        Hey Gabby…youre the result of 2 cousins who slept together. You know that don’t you, you web fingered freak.
        
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        November 16, 2016 6:22pm
- Rich Prick
  
  Leftist retardation seems to be a run-away chain reaction. They appear to need to out-do the preceding retard. It’s hilarious to watch.
  
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  November 16, 2016 9:45am
  - Gabby
    
    Nice of you to step in and outdo them. Still, you can afford to get a little man in to do your retardation if it gets tiresome.
    
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    November 16, 2016 5:57pm
Paulus

A wonderful revelation via the media – the woman Head of CD in the Beehive and the Ferguson woman’s programme this morning.

We now have four Frigates – I was not aware that the Canterbury a Multi Role (really supply ship) and the Wellington an Offshore Patrol ship are now Frigates.
That means that we have the Te’s Kaha and Mana have suddenly become a Frigate family.

Thank God, that will please Treasury to know that we do no longer have to consider replacements for the real Frigates.
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November 16, 2016 8:07am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  I understand the melons are mounting a protest at the USS Sampson being in Kiakoura (pronounced ki coo rah without the great emphasis as spoke proper like the blonde bimbo reporting brigade on location and gobby on red radio)
  
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  November 16, 2016 8:14am
  - Biscuit
    
    Exactly, Paulus…
    
    The melons would have moaned anyway. If the Sampson had stayed in Auckland for the 75th Anniversary celebrations as was originally planned, they’d have protested the ‘warmongering’. Now that that vessel has headed to Kaikoura instead, there’ll be moans that the Maui dolphins are in danger (if it goes via Taranaki) and that a whale or two might get frightened off the top of the South Island.
    
    Whilst Penny and her mates do their inane anti-US march down (or up? Who knows? Who CARES?) Queen St on the weekend, the US Navy (via one wee ship) are doing something positive…
    
    I really trust (but don’t expect) the News crews in Kaikoura ask locals which crowd they’d be giving their thanks to!
    
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    November 16, 2016 8:42am
- G152
  
  Obviously she has no need to actually go fact finding before opening her yap.
  These people we rely on in emergencies ???
  REALLY
  
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  November 16, 2016 8:36am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Sesame street (TV1 breakfast) continued to call them “Warships” more so the USS Sampson.
  I prefer “Defence Ships”
  
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  November 16, 2016 5:02pm
  - mikenmild
    
    What’s wrong with warships?
    ‘Defence ships’? PC gone made. Go to your safe space, Streve.
    
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    November 16, 2016 5:10pm
Lance

Quite disappointed in Paul Henry this morning. He had some vacuous peacenik woman on who was speaking utter crap, like the youngsters in the missile silo’s only have to turn 2 keys and the nuclear tipped missile rockets off somewhere and that we shouldn’t use a US warship to rescue stranded tourists as these ships ONLY KILL PEOPLE . He let her blather on uninterrupted during an extended tirade of drivel.
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November 16, 2016 8:09am
- cmm
  
  Stupid greenies kill more people than US warships.
  
  US warships have, perhaps, killed 1 or 2 million people.
  
  Greenies having DDT banned have killed at least ten times that.
  
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  November 16, 2016 8:13am
  - mikenmild
    
    Ahh, the DDT myth. Always popos up from time to time, no matter how many times it is refuted.
    
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    November 16, 2016 8:18am
    - Biscuit
      
      Isn’t it about time that that DDT Miss did something about her lisp?
      
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      November 16, 2016 8:44am
    - cmm
      
      I really detest the smug anti-DDT crowd who are willing to inflict the cruelty of malaria on faraway people.
      
      Millions of people die and suffer NEEDLESSLY because of sickening attitude of people like you.
      
      But, hey, they’re mostly in Africa so who gives a shit right?
      
      Malaria (just one of the malaria borne diseases) is a bastard. My brother got it only mildly and he suffers bouts now and then.
      
      DDT can be used in two major ways: agricultural (as it was in NZ) where tons and tons of the stuff were applied to kill grass grub. I’ll grant you that is probably not a nice thing for the environment (though the thinning-eggshells-kills-bald-eagles data is a bit dodgy).
      
      DDT as used in Africa etc for mozzie control. The best way (ie. cheapest, most efficient and environmentally safest) is to spray DDT onto the internal walls of dwellings. The DDT acts mainly as a deterrent and also kills mozzies that contact it. One treatment like that lasts for a couple of months.
      
      We’re talking about a tiny amount used per house. We aren’t wholesale DDTing the wildlife or the people with crop dusters. There is no mechanism for the DDT to get into the foodchain.
      
      But no, someone might spill some and bird might lay an egg with a thin eggshell, so millions of people must die and suffer instead.
      
      Refute that!
      
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      November 16, 2016 10:01am
      - mikenmild
        
        Should you care to quote any source for that rant, then I’ll be happy to refute them, as has been done many times already on this blog.
        
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        November 16, 2016 11:06am
      - kiwiBuzz
        
        If you look at the world health organisation website you will find that it is stated that DDT is the safest and most effective way of dealing with malaria and other mosquito borne diseases.
        
        One estimate of the deaths consequent on the banning of DDT – against the advice of the world health organisation doctors – is as high as 100 million. Having just come back from four weeks in Nigeria, where malaria is endemic and one of our team had an attack while I was there, I find it easy to believe.
        
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        November 16, 2016 11:52am
      - mikenmild
        
        Sorry, I didn’t notice your reply earlier.
        You correctly note that the WHO endorses the use of DDT.
        But your estimate of deaths, due to the mythical worldwide ban, is nonsense.
        
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        November 16, 2016 5:12pm
- Zed
  
  I’d like to see her refusing boarding one of those killing machines if it was her along with her family that needed rescue.
  
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  November 16, 2016 8:17am
- Zed
  
  Henry should’ve simply asked her would she still refuse to board one of those killing machines had it been her family who needed help?
  
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  November 16, 2016 8:22am
- G152
  
  A retard allowed to rant on about her life long perversion of lying about nukes in the hands of the US, UK and Israel.
  
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  November 16, 2016 8:39am
- waikatogirl
  
  To be fair, PH did say the peacenik woman was hugely controversial, splitting the listeners into two camps, those who found her interesting and those who thought she was a complete nut case.
  
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  November 16, 2016 9:29am
- kowtow
  
  Hillary Barry on One was having fun with innuendo about having a ‘poke” around on the ships in Auckland and searching around in ‘nooks and crannies”. Silly girl ,No doubt if a man had made similar innuendo it would be misoginistic , sexist, something or other. I thought she left 3 to become a “serious” churnalist?
  
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  November 16, 2016 9:44am
  - holysheet
    
    Seriously, when did a cue reader become a journalist?
    
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    November 16, 2016 10:33am
  - Kimbo
    
    That, and fleeing Paul Henry as it was a continual strain enduring him talk about women’s “titties”.
    
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    November 16, 2016 11:01am
    - Morrissey
      
      Until her escape, she was a rather pathetic slave for Henry….
      https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-27052015/#comment-1021090
      
      Once she finishes with the autocue reading, she could well have a future in the role of slave/head-nodder filled so abjectly by Louise Upston and Maggie Barry….
      https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-16022016/#comment-1133850
      
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      November 16, 2016 12:35pm
  - Gabby
    
    I think you just have a dirty little mind.
    
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    November 16, 2016 5:53pm
- Kimbo
  
  Dr Helen Caldicott?
  
  Am old enough to remember her spinning through NZ in the mid 1980s warbling on about how the “official nuclear clock” was at three minutes to midnight. Apparently she said the same yesterday, and some idiot guest later in the programme commented it was…”scary”.
  
  To paraphrase mikenmild’s sarcasm ever-so slightly from yesterday: Yes, better we stick to objective assessments. Can you give me any examples of judgements that are not defined subjectively?
  
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  November 16, 2016 10:59am
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    She is FITH
    
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    November 16, 2016 5:19pm
- Fletch
  
  like the youngsters in the missile silo’s only have to turn 2 keys and the nuclear tipped missile rockets off somewhere
  
  Has she never seen the movie War Games with Matthew Brodderick? They removed the guys and replaced them with computers 😉
  
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  November 16, 2016 11:07am
calendar girl

President Obama couldn’t help himself in his first post-Election comments to reporters:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/us-election-2016/news/article.cfm?c_id=631&objectid=11748340

“He said norms such as “civility, tolerance, reason and facts” are “vital to a functioning democracy”.

He then said these norms will continue to be upheld “as long as I’m president”.

Stoking the fires of protesters (including some rioters) who have found it difficult to accept the clear result of the election. Unedifying.
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November 16, 2016 8:12am
- cmm
  
  This fucker is a deliberate race baiter: Travon Martin, Ferguson, etc etc etc. How can he look into the camera and say shit like this?
  
  But then he also said the premium increases due to Obamacare have nothing to do with him…. and besides, why do you care, your employer pays – not you. What gall.
  
  People (white & back) hired a mixed-race prez hoping that he’d help sort our racial divides. Instead racial issues have got worse in the last 8 years and would have got even worse still under Clinton.
  
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  November 16, 2016 8:17am
  - cmm
    
    Sorry I said fuck…. but… fuck!
    
    If someone set about purposefully trying to cause racial tension and make the position of back people worse then they could not do it more effectively than Obama.
    
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    November 16, 2016 10:04am
Happychappy

I wonder how pissed off Andrew Little,Sweet Cheek’s and the rest of the Labour MP’s are to hear that the NZ Government are rated the second best Government in the World for Governing their Country.I look forward to hearing what these hypocrites have to say on this good news
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November 16, 2016 8:13am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Wait for the promise from the ftard party with the promise of ‘let me take you away from all this brother’ as we take the first step towards a self imposed economic downturn
  
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  November 16, 2016 8:17am
- cmm
  
  Not Good Enough! Kiwis deserve better!
  
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  November 16, 2016 8:18am
EAD

I enjoyed the Savants latest article for his analysis on why Trump won the election.

It contrasts with the MSM attempts at explanation, who, after getting the narrative so dreadfully wrong before the election on what would happen and why, are now suddenly trying to convince us of a new narrative after the fact on why people voted for Trump. I just laugh when they try convince us that it was due to “hatred”, or “political correctness” of because people “weren’t informed enough” or because of people are now reading alternative media.

Well, they got the last bit right at least – as this excellent analysis by Savant (part of the alternative media), explains – it was something much deeper than that. It was people sick and tired of being pissed on and told by an out of touch political elite that it’s not raining.

It was a worry about not just the state of the nation, but what will become of America if it keeps on it’s current path.

The MSM has been kvetching post election that Trump needs to be a President for all Americans completely oblivious that there the reason they voted Trump is because previous ones have not been for All Americans:

http://irishsavant.blogspot.co.nz/2016/11/the-mysterious-average-trump-votes.html

excerpt:

Have you noticed how the media and related ‘experts’, having totally and utterly failed in their pre-election analysis, are now, after a short period of reflection, returning to explain to us why Trump won and to issue us with instructions for taking things forward. Silly me, I had assumed the first, last, and only thing they’d say would be: “Please, for the love of Christ, don’t ever listen to us again.” Naturally their post hoc attempts at rationalisation founder on their fundamental misunderstanding of what shaped the typical White male Trump voter.
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November 16, 2016 8:15am
wiseowl

In times of adversity.
When the cows are stuck on a grassy knoll, when the river is dammed and about to burst,when the roads are blocked with rubble and the rail twisted and going nowhere, people challenged, sleepless and distraught, just make sure you pronounce that bloody name proper or you will be fired.
Ky…………..
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November 16, 2016 8:17am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Living languages have the right to pronounce words as they see fit.
  (Have you heard the Japanese media pronouncing “McDonalds”?)
  
  The pronunciation of “Taupo” in English is “tau-po”; “taw-paw” is the Te Reo pronunciation.
  
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  November 16, 2016 8:46am
  - Biscuit
    
    Odakyu-sen, I was in San Francisco one December and we ordered takeaway Chinese…
    
    The bags that those takeaways came in were beautifully Chinese/Christmas-themed:
    ‘TIS THE SEASON TO BE JOLLY:
    FRA RA RA RA RA … RA RA RA RA!’
    
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    November 16, 2016 9:10am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      It is possible that they were Christian Chinese (and many South Koreans are as well).
      
      Certainly there is no differentiation between “R” and “L” in Japanese. For Japanese speakers it’s the linguistic version of Schrödinger’s cat.
      
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      November 16, 2016 9:27am
      - Biscuit
        
        Ah I didn’t source the origin of the owners, Odakyu-sen.
        
        I leave ANS – Asian Name Syndrome – to Phil Twyford!
        
        Mind, in Sausalito, the seaside town you run into after crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, there was a sushi restaurant delightfully named ‘Japantown’, lest it be confused somehow with the ‘Chinatown’ that is so prominent in SF City!
        
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        November 16, 2016 9:57am
  - kowtow
    
    Ody
    
    This is clearly a top down, Wellington bubble , directive thing.
    
    “Oh ah mah ru” is the Ministry of Truths’ directive while no real people and certainly no Omaruvians do.
    
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    November 16, 2016 10:05am
    - mikenmild
      
      It’s a bit precious for Maori people to claim to know that they are the ones who can correctly pronounce words in te reo.
      
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      November 16, 2016 10:13am
      - Kiwi Dave
        
        But these are Maori words being used in English, and different languages use different pronunciations, just as they use different grammar.
        
        I used to live in a place variously called Hong Kong, Heung Gang, or Xiang Gang, depending on which language the speaker was using. Now, I’m back in my home country, whose name is New Zealand, Niu Xilan, or Xin Xilan according to those same languages, which I hear used every day; or should that be Niu Tirani if you prefer the treaty – oops, of course I mean Te Tiriti.
        
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        November 16, 2016 3:24pm
  - waikatosinger
    
    So if it is taw-paw (two identical vowels) then why are the two vowels in Taupo spelled differently. I thought te reo was supposed to be phonetic. And if Tauranga is “toe-wrong-a” then why isn’t Taupo “toe-paw”. I think someone is just making this shit up to have a good laugh at TV news readers.
    
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    November 16, 2016 11:22am
    - mikenmild
      
      Taupo is “toe-poor”, I believe…
      
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      November 16, 2016 11:30am
      - Kimbo
        
        Sounds good.
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arDuWZyXN2M
        
        Piko, piko, piko, piko…
        
        But as you suggest, “tau” is a dipthong (two vowels combining to create a new sound)
        
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        November 16, 2016 11:37am
      - starboard
        
        No, its T-our-po, always has been, always will be.
        Like Kai-co- ra…its Kai cora, always has been, always will be.
        
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        November 16, 2016 6:31pm
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      Yeah it’s all utter bullshit. To pretend that there is a set way for a language to be for all-time is idiotic. Pronunciation is entirely arbitrary and does not impact the transfer more information (which is what language is for). Pronunciations change over time – particularly when the speakers are bilingual (as Maori quickly became). Just listen to the Indian version of English.
      
      Maori would have been transliterated to written form as accurately as possible in the 19th century, and would have had widely varying pronunciations (and some vocab) throughout the country, but the whole process of continually altering and tweaking the pronunciation goal posts (and now adding unnecessary inflections on written form in an effort to make it torturous to write) is just a little power game played by Maori, because their feelings of inferiority make the want to push the big kids around whenever they can (and we basically give no shits). We don’t have to play the game if we don’t want to.
      
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      November 16, 2016 6:20pm
  - Ed Snack
    
    Actually I’m not sure there is one pronunciation, there are/were most definitely accents and different pronunciations in the original population. The local one probably has precedence, but is a (for example) Ngai Tahu pronunciation of it wrong ?
    
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    November 16, 2016 12:28pm
DifferentPerspective

The DNC imitates NZ Labour into obscurity

Once again, the activist alt-Left is taking over a previously Centre Left party in the wake of massive electoral rejection.

Bernie, Micheal Moore et al are in full support of Congressman Ellison to replace the infinitely corrupt (but ~~black~~ African-American and female – so no foul) Donna “here are the debate questions” Brazille as DNC Chair.

So at a time when the snowflakes are crying “anti-semitism” about Bannon because his crazy ex-wife said something hateful about him during a nasty divorce (that never happens!) – the DNC show they’re not anti-semitic by making to install a muslim as DNC chair!

You couldn’t make this shit up!
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November 16, 2016 8:19am
- Gabby
  
  I guess they’ve probably lost your vote then.
  
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  November 16, 2016 5:49pm
Odakyu-sen

Let’s say that there are 1,000 tourists to be evacuated from Kaikoura. Does “tourists” include domestic travelers or only tourists from overseas?

Anyway, I wonder what they will do with all those vehicles (now unable to leave the district due to the road closures) that brought those tourists into Kaikoura?

I guess the town will grind to a halt. No tourism. No supplies. No water.

I wouldn’t want to be a hotelier with a large mortgage.
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November 16, 2016 8:24am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  The vehicles will be able to be driven out at the weekend via the inland road.
  
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  November 16, 2016 8:38am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Quick!
    
    Open a pop-up coffee shop in Waiau and make fortune this summer from the travelers.
    
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    November 16, 2016 8:51am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Labour will have a representative there counting the people who have been sleeping in the cars so they can be added to the homeless total
    
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    November 16, 2016 11:57am
- peterwn
  
  They would be non-residents, no one is trying to distinguish between NZ and overseas. The obvious thing to to is get them out of Kaikoura until supply lines, one road and basic infrastructure are got going. Then people can visit Kaikoura. Hopefully motels etc have business disruption insurance.
  
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  November 16, 2016 8:53am
- waikatogirl
  
  There was a woman from a Kaikoura boutique hotel who said they had over 200 cancellations since the earthquake struck.
  
  That’s why businesses need Income Interruption Insurance. Sad but necessary.
  
  Good luck to all the business owners in Kaikoura.
  
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  November 16, 2016 9:41am
- waikatosinger
  
  Once the aftershocks calm down they are likely to see a bunch of disaster tourists come to gawk at the landslides and broken buildings and marvel at the power of nature. And they’d probably even be prepared to drive out of their way down the inland route to do it. So things are not quite so dire for tourism as you might think. The whalewatch people could run trips down the coast to look at the landslips until the road work is complete. And if the clever people of Kaikoura are half as smart as I know them to be they’ll have an earthquake visitors center and museum open for business by Christmas. You might even say that being almost wiped off the map has really put them on the map.
  
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  November 16, 2016 2:39pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  You will pay the all costs for this quake via Tax.
  Who is paying the fuel bill for the Navy “Warships”?
  Or did we fill the tanks for free? They are not nuclear
  
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  November 16, 2016 5:27pm
wiseowl

Oda.
Send them back to Japan.
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November 16, 2016 8:29am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  I don’t think that too many of them would be Japanese.
  The Chinese ones have all been air-lifted out. Some of them from the UK are whining about it a lot. I thought the English were supposed to have “stiff upper lips,” but then that’s an ancient reference to the upper classes; not the budget-touring middle-classes, I suppose…
  
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  November 16, 2016 8:35am
  - Lance
    
    POMs whining…. I’m shocked
    
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    November 16, 2016 8:39am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Are POMs upper-class? (I wouldn’t think so. Why would they have wanted to leave the UK in the 1960s if they were successful in their own country?)
      
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      November 16, 2016 8:48am
      - holysheet
        
        Prisoner of mother england. POM for short. Came from the convict days of auz.
        
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        November 16, 2016 10:40am
      - waikatosinger
        
        I always thought poms came from pomegranates; rhyming slang for immigrants.
        
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        November 16, 2016 11:27am
  - Paulus
    
    As I understand the Chinese Embassy paid for the Helicopter airlift of the Chinese.
    
    Any decent w.w. traveller will have insurance, I hope, which would cover most of the eventualities of travel delay due to an Earthquake like this.
    
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    November 16, 2016 8:48am
    - waikatosinger
      
      Good on the Chinese for looking after their own people. If I were trapped in a disaster zone overseas I can only hope the NZ government would go the extra mile for me too.
      
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      November 16, 2016 11:28am
      - Steve (North Shore)
        
        Hey waikatosinger, you got a report caused by fat fingers, sorry about that chief
        
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        November 16, 2016 5:30pm
  - Albert_Ross
    
    As far as I’ve seen, though I haven’t seen everything, one British couple whined. I trust they are now feeling seriously embarrassed and ashamed of themselves. They and their suitcases were evacuated on the first day, despite not having taken out any insurance. Others are still there, and have reportedly behaved very much better, showing appreciation for the help they’ve received from people under tremendous strain themselves and volunteering to help when given the opportunity.
    
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    November 16, 2016 8:50am
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      I am a pom of sorts and they certainly embarrassed me, entitleitis not only comes in brown or dpb
      
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      November 16, 2016 12:00pm
wiseowl

The cars Oda.
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November 16, 2016 8:37am
Inandout

It takes all kinds as my old Grannie used to say.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/michelle-obama-ape-in-heels-racist-facebook-a7418181.html
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November 16, 2016 8:47am
- mikenmild
  
  Racist fuckwits gotta be racist fuckwits.
  Reminds me of dear old Redbaiter, who never seemed to be able to make his mind up as to whether Michelle Obama was a gorilla or a transvestite.
  
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  November 16, 2016 9:08am
  - Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
    
    You mean like the popular feminist hashtag #KILLALLWHITEMEN?
    
    Leftists are anti white racist fuckwits.
    
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    November 16, 2016 9:19am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    So you are back to being insulting to people who don’t agree with you now? I thought you were all for freedom of expression (oh that’s right only when it was hate speech directed to people you disagreed with).
    
    It’s good to see you are working through those 5 stages of grief about the sainted Hillary being tossed on the dung heap along with the divine Barry. So you were doing stage 1 (denial) last week, but you’re progressing into anger now with a return to insulting people who you don’t agree with like a good progressive.
    
    I am interested to see who stage 3 (bargaining) is going to be with (I wouldn’t put too much hope into the ‘electoral college ignoring their constitutional duty’ bullshit being pedalled by the hopelessly out of touch actocrats in Hollywood).
    
    I doubt however, that you’ll ever reach stage 5 where you accept you were wrong – you’d rather pursue the fiction about boogie men rather than accept that your world view might have been based on fairy tales.
    
    Still – keep it up with the insults. You are doing your bit to help National get a 4th term!
    
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    November 16, 2016 9:53am
    - mikenmild
      
      Oh, I’m all for freedom of expression. But if racist fuckwits want to call a black woman ‘an ape in high heels’, then don’t be too surprised if people point out that they are racist fuckwits.
      
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      November 16, 2016 10:40am
      - Ed Snack
        
        Sure, unacceptable, but so was Chimpy McHitler Bush, but didn’t see the same people complaining.
        
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        November 16, 2016 12:30pm
      - starboard
        
        mm’s losing it again..so many F words. Losing it big time..heh
        
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        November 16, 2016 6:12pm
Morrissey

When you see how easily intimidated are moral pipsqueaks like this fellow, you realize just how strong and resilient Colin Kaepernick is….

http://deadspin.com/mike-evans-has-already-caved-on-his-national-anthem-pro-1788997001
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November 16, 2016 8:51am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  /facepalm
  
  (because sometimes it’s clear some people are just a lost cause)
  
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  November 16, 2016 9:54am
  - tom hunter
    
    Now, now. I’m grateful that there are so many Lefties like Morrissey. Considering what’s at stake would you prefer to face intelligent, knowledgeable, self-aware ones?
    
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    November 16, 2016 9:59am
    - EAD
      
      @ Tom Hunter,
      
      You may have missed it as I couldn’t get back on KB until later in the evening but I replied to you on the Feminism thread:
      
      https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2016/11/general_debate_15_november_2016.html#comment-1819237
      
      Interested to hear your thoughts…
      
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      November 16, 2016 10:05am
      - mikenmild
        
        Still not willing to articulate how we might solve that ol’ Jewish problem?
        
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        November 16, 2016 10:09am
      - tom hunter
        
        EAD
        I read your response and my previous comment still stands. I’ve heard it all before – decades before from old Jew haters. I did not phrase it well but am well aware of the Jew hatred starting a thousand or more years back. I’m well aware of the argument about the Jews being expelled from many countries, the “usary” story (what – you hate interest payments on your investments?). Just in the case of England you should note that later WASP kings invited them back, not least to help raise money for wars the kings wanted to fight – though no doubt you know (((who))) was really whispering in their ears about fighting said wars.
        
        All this stuff has been argued and refuted billions of times, but given there are seven billion people on this planet there will always be weird outliers of belief in some craziness, and the story of Jewish control is a fave. You will never be convinced otherwise, any more than that sad, old fanatic I knew years ago, for whom everything revolved around the Jews.
        
        There are some people here that I’ll insult for fun, but I am not teasing you when I tell you that you are a very unintelligent, ignorant, foolish and potentially evil man who has been led astray by an emotional reaction to powerlessness. Again, with Jew-haters, something I’ve seen before.
        
        I might as well argue with Anarchist Morrissey about his intellectual hero, Chomsky. He pulls exactly the same debating stunt as you, stamping his foot and claiming that a failure to engage in argument is proof that his arguments are correct (and the associated claim that it proves that I’ve not read the Great Man’s works).
        
        Much better and easier for me to just ask you simple questions that might cause you to re-think your newly-discovered theories, but I’ll leave you with three thoughts.
        
        First, what does it say about the useless mental and moral abilities of hundreds of millions of White People that they’re so easily manipulated. Any race that hopeless deserves everything they get.
        
        Second, why can you not accept that a lot of the crap you rail against was developed by and promoted by …. White People? All the “isms” that you lay at the feet of the tiny Jewish cabal.
        
        Third, Jewish success continues in spite of tiny people like you. Just this week, Eric Greitens became the first Jewish GOP governor of Missouri. But what matters to me is that he is a former Rhodes Scholar and US Navy SEAL, with a Bronze Star and Purple Heart, which attests to both intellectual intelligence, street smarts, skill and courage. For some years he has also run a charitable group that helps veterans ease back into society, which speaks to his compassion and goodness. Three weeks ago a Jew named Theo Epstein capped a years-long plan to turn the Chicago Cubs from losers to winners. It’s the second time he’s done so, having previously managed the Boston Red Sox out of their curse. He’s Hall of Fame bound. Had an EAD type been appointed General Manager of the Cubs the team would have been filled with nothing but White People, irrespective of baseball skill, and we’d still be at the bottom of the table.
        
        When you achieve even 1/10 of that success, more people may take notice of your ravings. Until then you are merely a figure of fun – sad, grim fun it’s true, but still.
        
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        November 16, 2016 10:33am
      - Morrissey
        
        I see that, in the middle of a squabble with the Nazi enthusiast EAD, poor old Tom Hunter tries, in his endearingly inept manner, to pull a swifty. Trouble is, he’s not nearly clever enough to get away with it.
        
        I might as well argue with Anarchist Morrissey about his intellectual hero, Chomsky. He pulls exactly the same debating stunt as you, stamping his foot and claiming that a failure to engage in argument is proof that his arguments are correct
        
        No, I impute your failure to debate intelligently as proof of nothing more than that you are out of your depth. Your equating of me to a Neo-Nazi only underlines that evidence.
        
        … (and the associated claim that it proves that I’ve not read the Great Man’s works).
        
        You haven’t. You should.
        
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        November 16, 2016 10:45am
      - tom hunter
        
        No, I impute your failure to debate intelligently as proof of nothing more than that you are out of your depth.
        
        Nice to see you’re reading me, sweetie 😉 EAD will soon be back making the same argument – that I am “out of my depth” on all his jew-hating, Nazi ideas because I’ve not read all his special sources of course.
        
        Your equating of me to a Neo-Nazi only underlines that evidence.
        
        You’re either not very good at reading or employing the standard Chomskyian tactic of mis-reading what your opponent says: hint; like all his worshippers you’re not as smart as he is, certainly not enough to pull that stunt.
        
        I think it will be quite clear to most readers that I am equating not you with a neo-Nazi but one of your standard debate tatics with one of his – because they are exactly the same tactic.
        
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        November 16, 2016 10:57am
      - EAD
        
        Perhaps Tom Hunter, we’re not so easily manipulated – but the Christian ethos is to treat others as you’d like to be treated.
        
        Perhaps there are so many brainwashed goy such as yourself that are so scared of being called the magical hate words that you don’t dare look at what is right in front of your eyes.
        
        Knowing the social ostricism and facing the hysteria that people have been programmed to react, it would be easier for to ignore the “Jewish Question” but to ignore the elephant in the room and I wouldn’t be being true to myself or to the people I care for the most.
        
        Take this piece of reading away and let me know your thoughts.
        
        http://nwioqeqkdf.blogspot.co.nz/2016/11/killing-private-kraut-hollywoods-good.html?m=0
        
        Another piece of advice – measure someone on how they treat others, rather than someones “material success”.
        
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        November 16, 2016 11:11am
      - tom hunter
        
        That’s an interesting point. How then do you treat Jews when you deal with them – assuming you deal with any in real life?
        
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        November 16, 2016 11:16am
      - mikenmild
        
        After so many comments from you on this issue, I think we can take it for granted that there is a ‘Jewish question’. How do we go about solving the question?
        
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        November 16, 2016 11:17am
      - tom hunter
        
        Perhaps there are so many brainwashed goy such as yourself that are so scared of being called the magical hate words…
        
        Or so scared of it that they hide behind a pseudonym. Come on EAD, step out from the shadows and verify with noted Jew, DPF, who you really are. Show us the courage of a White Man, a Real Man, rather than the moral cowardice of an intimidated cuck. Remember – the Jews only succeed because of gutless members of the White Race.
        
        Mind you, I’m sure Mossad won’t be charging your door down any time soon. 🙂
        
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        November 16, 2016 11:28am
    - Kimbo
      
      That’s an interesting point. How then do you treat Jews when you deal with them – assuming you deal with any in real life?
      
      In EAD’s case, maybe, like Henry Ford, who couldn’t understand at all why his public denouncements of “International Jewry” were taken personally by Jewish individuals with whom he sought to interact.
      
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      November 16, 2016 11:31am
      - Don the Kiwi
        
        ” but the Christian ethos is to treat others as you’d like to be treated.”
        
        EAD
        
        Perhaps you should know that the Christian ethos you quote, was inherited from the Hebrew – that is, Jews. 🙂
        
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        November 16, 2016 12:14pm
      - Kimbo
        
        No no! According to our resident scholar of religious antiquity, Griff, the sources of the New Testament are primarily pagan and Greek 😉
        
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        November 16, 2016 1:05pm
  - Morrissey
    
    Somebody, anybody!…
    
    https://i.imgflip.com/wqqj5.jpg
    
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    November 16, 2016 10:51am
Morrissey

International Criminal Court: US army
and CIA may be guilty of war crimes in Afghanistan

“Members of US armed forces appear to have subjected at least 61 detained persons to torture, cruel treatment, outrages upon personal dignity on the territory of Afghanistan between 1 May 2003 and 31 December 2014.”

This report is extremely conservative. These numbers are absurdly low. Also interesting to see that the focus is on the torturers and triggermen, but not on the politicians who sent them there and, even though they knew what was happening, did nothing to stop it.

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/nov/15/us-army-and-cia-may-be-guilty-of-war-crimes-afghanistan-says-icc
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November 16, 2016 9:08am
- Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
  
  LOL, from the newspaper that hires hacks like obese man hating feminist Lindy West.
  
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  November 16, 2016 9:26am
  - Morrissey
    
    What an incredibly brainless “response”.
    
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    November 16, 2016 10:05am
    - mikenmild
      
      Feeding the troll, Morrissey?
      
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      November 16, 2016 10:09am
      - Morrissey
        
        Not really, Mike, I was just drawing the attention of thoughtful readers, like yourself, to the quality of “argument” that the extreme right wing has to offer.
        
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        November 16, 2016 10:38am
      - mikenmild
        
        Wasted on Jazz Hands/Kea/Witness/Legio/Icarus…
        
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        November 16, 2016 10:42am
  - Gabby
    
    If she had jizzy hands she’d be your mum.
    
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    November 16, 2016 5:43pm
Jazz-Hands Mc Feels

This Leftist degenerate says the red poppy is a symbol of racism:

“For who are they commemorating? The dead of Sarajevo? Of Srebrenica? Of Aleppo? Nope. The television bumpkins only shed their crocodile tears for the dead of First and Second World Wars, who were (save for a colonial war or two) the last generation of Britons to get the chop before the new age of “we-bomb-you-die” technology ensured that their chaps – brown-eyed, for the most part, often Muslims, usually dark skinned – got blown to bits while our chaps flew safely home to the mess for breakfast.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/poppy-symbol-of-racism-never-worn-one-never-will-robert-fisk-remembrance-day-first-world-war-second-a7394976.html

We need to deport all Leftists as well as the Third Worlders they have let in, back to some African hellhole or equivalent.
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November 16, 2016 9:22am
- EAD
  
  Speaking of wars, you will appreciate this article Jazz Hands:
  
  http://nwioqeqkdf.blogspot.co.nz/2016/11/killing-private-kraut-hollywoods-good.html?m=0
  
  I will write a post on its subject matter in the next few days.
  
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  November 16, 2016 10:24am
- Padriv Ustoev
  
  Reverse immigration tsunami. West’s answer to the migrant crisis?
  
  I like it.
  
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  November 16, 2016 11:06am
dime

Loving the protests in the US.

Great to see Hillary & Obama doing fuck all.

It just reminds everyone what pieces of shit the left really are. Same with the hack media.

I heard a rumor the head of the DNC is going to be a muslim? BAHAHAHAHA

The Dems are going to go full retard/uk labour/nz labour.

Someone needs to take a snap shot of the economy the day the Don takes office. Then we can compare each year. Then, which will be hilarious, as their economy booms we can have lefty wimps here tell us how the US is worse off, his policies dont work etc.

Glorious times we live in.

Ya just had to push too far didnt ya lefties 😀 😀 😀
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November 16, 2016 9:36am
- mikenmild
  
  Which of Trump’s economic policies do you most admire? Which of them do you think might be implemented?
  
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  November 16, 2016 10:04am
  - holysheet
    
    Who cares, we won you lost. Suck it up loser.
    
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    November 16, 2016 10:43am
    - mikenmild
      
      That’s right, it doesn’t really matter if a politician changes anything, or does anything, so long as you can feel like a ‘winner’
      
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      November 16, 2016 10:44am
      - holysheet
        
        Better a winner than a looser.
        You are in good company with the liabores and melons. Only things they want to change are to take us back to the good old days of socialism.
        
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        November 16, 2016 10:51am
      - mikenmild
        
        Please feel free to name as many measures as you can that the National government has taken to combat socialism…
        
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        November 16, 2016 11:01am
      - SteveRemmington
        
        “Please feel free to name as many measures as you can that the National government has taken to combat socialism…”
        
        Election 2008, 2011, 2014…………….
        
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        November 16, 2016 11:18am
      - mikenmild
        
        You are doing the same as holysheet – mistaking an election victory for a change in policy.
        
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        November 16, 2016 11:22am
      - SteveRemmington
        
        You didn’t ask what policy Mike, you asked what measures.
        
        But no surprises…ask a question and also want to give the answer yourself….how very left of you.
        
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        November 16, 2016 11:26am
  - dime
    
    the one off 10% tax rate on the hundreds of billions US companies are keeping overseas. thats up there.
    
    i also like the tax rate dropping to 15% for companies.
    
    i like all of his tax reform actually.
    
    oh wait, youre still trying to run the smear that he has no policies. my bad.
    
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    November 16, 2016 12:16pm
    - mikenmild
      
      Radical indeed. And the resulting economic boom? Are we still waiting for that?
      How’s the catching up with Australia thing going?
      
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      November 16, 2016 12:32pm
      - dime
        
        huh? he got elected a few days ago. hes not actually president yet milky.
        
        i replied to
        
        “Which of Trump’s economic policies do you most admire?”
        
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        November 16, 2016 12:35pm
      - starboard
        
        wake up knob end and look around..nz inc. is pumping along nicely. You want to admit it but you cant because you are a lefty fool.
        
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        November 16, 2016 6:16pm
- fernglas
  
  I still don’t get why the “right” are crowing about Trump’s victory being a blow for the “left”. Trump wants to slow down immigration, peel back international trade obligations, piss in Russia’s pocket and get the American working man back into a job. Sounds a lot like the NZ left to me.
  
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  November 16, 2016 4:04pm
Steve (North Shore)

Maybe NZ should call in the Japanese to reopen the roads/rail in Christchurch/Kaikoura? If left to our resources it could take 30+ years.( Albany highway widening has taken 3 years so far)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/15/japan-fixes-vast-fukuoka-city-sinkhole-repaired-two-days
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November 16, 2016 9:37am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  You mean like the world-famous (world-famous in Japan) coastal Seisho Bypass?
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itj3JqmlXwI
  
  See 3:04
  
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  November 16, 2016 9:46am
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    Exactly. When I was in Anchorage Alaska a 4 land road on 5th ave was ripped up, resealed and roadmarked in 10 hours. The speed at which Fulton Hogan move at is pathetic
    
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    November 16, 2016 10:30am
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      That’s because they are a monopoly and a Mafia. With tentacles deep into the decision makers that matter.
      
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      November 16, 2016 11:16am
Hugh Pavletich

EDITORIAL: SERIOUS QUESTIONS AFTER WELLINGTON DOUBLE BLOWS … DOMINION POST

Why
the political & bureaucratic inertia de-risking New Zealands
urban areas ?

Editorial: Serious questions after Wellington’s double blow | Stuff.co.nz

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/editorials/86489680/editorial-serious-questions-after-wellingtons-double-blow

… concluding …

… Here is an urgent case for official investigation.

Meanwhile, many people are returning to work in the central business district. There is a real tension here between the natural desire to get business moving again, and the need for extreme caution.

We are all in the hands of the engineers in this. If they don’t do their work properly, we are at risk, as the terrible events this week have again reminded us.

Can we be sure that modern roads and modern forms of building are as safe as they should be?

– The Dominion Post

Latest breaking news NZ | Stuff.co.nz

http://www.stuff.co.nz/
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November 16, 2016 9:47am
Keeping Stock

A whole lot of leftie luvvies and snowflakes have descended on Auckland to protest the arrival of the USS Sampson.

But Mother Nature has rendered their trips as an exercise in futility:

A fleet of international warships is bypassing Auckland’s historic naval celebrations and heading for Kaikoura to assist with the earthquake response.

The fleet includes the first United States warship to visit New Zealand in 33 years.

The USS Sampson was due to enter Auckland Harbour today for the International Naval Review as part of celebrations for the 75th anniversary of the Royal New Zealand Navy.

The historic visit is the first since the Anzus rift in the 1980s sparked by New Zealand’s landmark anti-nuclear policy.

However Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee confirmed that New Zealand had accepted offers of help with the quake recovery from five nations attending the International Naval Review – the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan and Singapore.

“The USS Sampson, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, has departed from the Hauraki Gulf and is now on its way to Kaikoura, where it will deploy two MH60 helicopters to help as required. The US has also offered a P-3 Orion for surveillance flights,” Brownlee said.

The Australian Defence Force has diverted the HMAS Darwin from her planned participation review.

“The Darwin is expected to arrive off the Kaikoura coast on Wednesday evening and will deploy its Seahawk helicopter from offshore. Canada is sending its frigate the HMCS Vancouver.”

Brownlee said the New Zealand Navy had already sent HMNZS Canterbury and HMNZS Wellington to Kaikoura and would also send HMNZS Te Kaha and tanker ship, HMNZS Endeavour.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11748698

Ha! So much for all the protesters being able to go out and put on a show for the news cameras. And so much for Penny’s Peace March on Saturday. They’ll be all dressed up with nothing to protest about.

But isn’t it good that New Zealand now has such good relationships with our allies that they so willingly divert their ships to help out in North Canterbury?
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November 16, 2016 9:53am
- mikenmild
  
  Do you mean to imply that there was a time when these countries would not have offered us help after a natural disaster?
  
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  November 16, 2016 10:06am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    There are certainly times when an American offer to assist would have been declined mikenmild.
    
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    November 16, 2016 10:34am
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      Bullshit
      
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      November 16, 2016 10:43am
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        ..c-r-a-c-k-i-n-g….
        
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        November 16, 2016 6:17pm
Stars And Stripes

Further to my post yesterday about the animal who killed Jo Pert.
This piece of trash is now going to occupy a bed in the nuthouse for god knows how many years at a massive cost to the taxpayer plus he has advanced renal failure and needs dialysis three times a week for the rest of his life at another massive cost to the taxpayer.
A decent humane society would realise there is no hope for this oxygen waster and execute him.
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November 16, 2016 10:03am
- Garbageman
  
  Yep couldn’t agree more at the very least the foetal alcohol syndrome looking scumbag should be deported, we need a detention island like the Aussies have for their filth
  
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  November 16, 2016 10:50am
  - holysheet
    
    yeh its called NZ. Home of the best filth in the south pacific.
    
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    November 16, 2016 10:54am
cas

Wow look at this. Now if only we could get the slips cleared as quickly.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2016/nov/15/japanese-workers-repair-road-48-hours-after-sinkhole-appears-video
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November 16, 2016 10:04am
waikatogirl

JK has this morning had a call from Donald Trump. JK missed Trump’s first attempt at contacting him on Monday while out flying over the earthquake damage.

As well as Trump checking in on the earthquake situation, they also spoke about trade issues.
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November 16, 2016 10:07am
- Ross12
  
  Since it hasn’t been reported we can assume Obama hasn’t called. A bit of difference in class.
  
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  November 16, 2016 12:41pm
  - Gabby
    
    Well, Obama sent a boat.
    
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    November 16, 2016 5:38pm
  - Biscuit
    
    Ross12, in Obama’s dence:
    
    1. His Secretary of State was actually in New Zealand at the time of the quakes
    2. He (Obama) is presently on his farewell tour of a few European countries
    and
    3. He’s effectively a ‘lame duck’ and, rather as Dubya did in the same circumstances 8 years ago, stayed shush in appreciation of that fact.
    
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    November 16, 2016 6:45pm
Manolo

Somre Greeks love Obama:’https://www.rt.com/news/367049-athens-police-obama-protest/
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November 16, 2016 10:24am
Manolo

The UN and the Frogs team up:
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/global-climate-change-action-unstoppable-despite-trump-u-102204797.html

France and the United Nations on Tuesday stepped up warnings to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump about the risks of quitting a 2015 global plan to combat climate change, saying a historic shift from fossil fuels is unstoppable.
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November 16, 2016 10:26am
Scott

Man I am so looking forward to the next 4 years! No longer will we have to listen to a US president drone on about climate change.
– Instead we will have a US president talking about winning wars and crushing Isis
– we will have a US president talking about economic growth
– we will have a US president talking about border security and actually meaning it.
– Muslim terrorism will be way down
– economic activity around the world will be way up
– the New Zealand mainstream media will continue to get everything wrong about everything.
– Trump will fulfil all of his promises and its going to be a beautiful thing 🙂
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November 16, 2016 10:39am
kowtow

Talking of the fleet visit etc , I’ve been on the website and while it says the UK are participating there is no indication of a ship being involved .

Please don’t tell me that the UK , the parent of our navy and once the mightiest naval power in the world doesn’t have a warship available for this anniversary.
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November 16, 2016 10:48am
- mikenmild
  
  I think only navies that have ships in the Pacific are coming.
  
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  November 16, 2016 10:59am
  - kowtow
    
    Thanks MM. Why would someone down tick that?
    
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    November 16, 2016 12:39pm
- Paulus Gnome
  
  We had one available for them when the argies had too much testersone running around their systems; was never to be in the front line but would free up a ship elsewhere (not to mention helping out to beat the Germans 2 nil away)
  
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  November 16, 2016 12:10pm
- Gabby
  
  Both their boats are busy right now.
  
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  November 16, 2016 5:36pm
All_on_Red

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/technology/google-will-ban-websites-that-host-fake-news-from-using-its-ad-service.html?_r=0
‘Over the last week, two of the world’s biggest internet companies have faced mounting criticism over how fake news on their sites may have influenced the presidential election’s outcome.’
‘On Monday, those companies responded by making it clear that they would not tolerate such misinformation by taking pointed aim at fake news sites’ revenue sources.’

Pretty bold move from Facebook and Google. Wonder how badly this will affect CNN’s bottom line- heh.
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November 16, 2016 10:52am
- holysheet
  
  Clinton Network News and Obamma will be in full retard mode. What do you expect from a looser that supports the rioting against Trump.
  
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  November 16, 2016 10:57am
- waikatosinger
  
  But who decides which news is fake? You trust Zuckerberg to do this?
  
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  November 16, 2016 11:44am
Viking2

A step in the right direction.

From Wednesday, November 30, a new user-friendly online tool will be available for the public to access police crime data.

Deputy Chief Executive for Strategy Mark Evans says the police have not been able to report crime in data in an easily accessible format online, until now.

“But as of November 30, we are launching a new, interactive tool that will provide the public with access to a range of easily accessible information about victims, offenders and crime trends.

“This will make it easier for people to access, analyse and understand data that Police holds about crime.”

Until now, the data has been available through the Statistics New Zealand (SNZ) website, but will now be migrated across to the police website, where it will be available from the end of the month.
– See more at: http://sunlive.co.nz/news/140512-public-to-access-police-crime-data.html#sthash.tow3omas.dpuf
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November 16, 2016 11:01am
Stars And Stripes

Dairy Prices Up Again In The Latest Auction
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/86505801/dairy-prices-rise-again-at-globaldairytrade- auction

Looks like farmers might be getting that new boat after all MM despite your antipathy towards them and good on them I say as they contribute a damn sight more to this country than all of the other bludgers on welfare and the like.
By the way did the Ministry of Women Affairs building suffer any structural damage?.
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November 16, 2016 11:03am
- holysheet
  
  Only in their mind, only in their mind.
  
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  November 16, 2016 11:36am
Manolo

This old and odd gangster couple:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3935800/Days-losing-election-Hillary-Bill-Clinton-sceaming-match-blame-flagging-campaign-ex-president-angry-threw-phone-roof-Arkansas-penthouse.html

In the waning days of the presidential campaign, Bill and Hillary Clinton had a knock-down, drag-out fight about her effort to blame FBI Director James Comey for her slump in the polls and looming danger of defeat.
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November 16, 2016 11:08am
OECD rank 22 kiwi

Isn’t it wonderful that Trump is President Elect?

Brexit and Trump.
2016 turned out to be the best of years.
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November 16, 2016 11:13am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Unless you happen to be David Bowie, or Leonard Cohen, or Leon Russell, or Prince…
  
  It hasn’t been that flash a year for Sir Colin Meads either, although he is still with us.
  
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  November 16, 2016 12:35pm
Fletch

As expected, it turns out that Hillary was cussing up a storm on election night and throwing stuff. That is why Podesta had to come out and speak. It took aides hours to calm her down. Thank goodness she didn’t get in. No one needs a woman with that temperament in charge.

Sources have told The American Spectator that on Tuesday night, after Hillary realized she had lost, she went into a rage. Secret Service officers told at least one source that she began yelling, screaming obscenities, and pounding furniture. She picked up objects and threw them at attendants and staff. She was in an uncontrollable rage. Her aides could not allow her to come out in public. It would take her hours to calm down. As has been reported for years, her violent temper got the best of her.

https://spectator.org/where-was-hillary/
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November 16, 2016 11:14am
- Morrissey
  
  No one needs a woman with that temperament in charge.
  
  TRANSLATION: No one needs a woman in charge.
  
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  November 16, 2016 11:34am
  - Fletch
    
    Morrisey, not necessarily. I’d feel quite safe with someone like Palin in charge.
    
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    November 16, 2016 11:49am
    - Morrissey
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blpe_sGnnP4
      
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      November 16, 2016 11:58am
    - RalphT
      
      Yes, I would be happy knowing that someone like Michael Palin was in charge of things…
      
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      November 16, 2016 12:12pm
  - rangitoto
    
    We definitely needed Margaret Thatcher in change of the UK at the time. Smashed the unions, smashed the Argies and smashed the Soviet Union. Awesome lady
    
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    November 16, 2016 12:02pm
    - Morrissey
      
      She also supported Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship in Iraq, Israel’s on-going atrocities in the Occupied Territories and its devastation of Lebanon, the United States’s reign of terror in Central and South America, Augusto Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship in Chile, Indonesia’s genocidal occupation of East Timor, the apartheid regime in South Africa, and the Khmer Rouge having a seat at the U.N.
      
      Lovely woman.
      
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      November 16, 2016 12:21pm
      - mikenmild
        
        Hey, no one gets it 100% correct…
        
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        November 16, 2016 12:35pm
      - Ed Snack
        
        That sounds like a misogynist talking to me…
        
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        November 16, 2016 12:41pm
      - rangitoto
        
        So you are all in support of Bush and Blair taking out Saddam. I wouldn’t have guessed that.
        
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        November 16, 2016 12:49pm
      - Stars And Stripes
        
        Thanks for bringing back those memories Morrissey of the good old days when savages were kept in their place.
        Only one you forgot I think was the heroic colonials in Africa.
        Mind you it’s worked out quite good for the powers you mention as they don’t need to kill the savages themselves anymore as the savages are doing a great job on their own.
        
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        November 16, 2016 12:58pm
      - Scott
        
        You should listen to yourself – boilerplate hard left propaganda.. That slot has already been filled Morrisey. We have enough hard leftists on this blog already to sink a ship
        
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        November 16, 2016 1:39pm
      - Morrissey
        
        One “Scott” seems more than usually bewildered when he describes the list of tyrants and atrocities supported by the late Margaret Thatcher as “boilerplate hard left propaganda.”
        
        Of course, those are facts. There is no dispute about any of them. Thatcher did indeed support Saddam Hussein, General Pinochet, General Suharto, and all the rest of those horrors I listed.
        
        Or should I not call genocide a “horror”? Is that propaganda?
        
        Over to you, Scott.
        
        https://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/60270127.jpg
        
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        November 16, 2016 7:52pm
  - dime
    
    sexism everywhere! and wacism! hahaha
    
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    November 16, 2016 12:18pm
  - Sideoiler
    
    TRANSLATION: No one needs a woman in charge.
    
    TRANSLATION: No one needs THAT woman in charge.
    FIFY.
    
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    November 16, 2016 2:42pm
- holysheet
  
  No one needs a woman with that temperament in charge.
  I blame it on the coming of the super moon.
  
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  November 16, 2016 11:43am
- Lance
  
  As nicely as it all fits the narrative of what some people want to think of Hillary, is there any real evidence for this, or just yet more hearsay?
  With prefixes like “apparently”and “inside sources say” etc it s hardly credible information. Someone could have at least ran a phone recording or something as more reliable evidence.
  
  I don’t like this from any side, Dems or Reps.
  I have seen and heard more bullshit during this campaign than I can poke a stick at. There must be the odd fact here and there but it’s hard to spot them anymore.
  It’s all propaganda and hearsay.
  
  Enough!
  
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  November 16, 2016 12:35pm
- Happychappy
  
  I wonder if Bill teased her by saying i have been President and it don’t look like you will be, you won’t be able to follow my Legacy
  
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  November 16, 2016 1:54pm
- Gabby
  
  Oh, sources is it?
  Bullshit more like.
  
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  November 16, 2016 5:31pm
DifferentPerspective

Anti-Trump Protesters are now causing real deaths – ambulance transferring patient has to drive an extra 45 minutes – patient dies!

Obama and Hillary could call upon the protesters to stop – but they’re not doing anything. This blood is on their hands.
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November 16, 2016 11:16am
- mikenmild
  
  Maybe Obama’s hoping the protests get worse so he can declare martial law and stay in office.
  
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  November 16, 2016 11:20am
Manolo

It is hardly credible that neither President Obama nor Hillary Clinton have asked their people to respect the election results and stop rioting.
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November 16, 2016 11:19am
- Morrissey
  
  The election result was more than likely fraudulent. As Greg Palast and many other analysts have revealed, there was yet again comprehensive disenfranchisement of black voters, especially in Ohio. There are hundreds of documented reports of Trump supporters harassing and intimidating black and Latino voters on their way to the polls.
  
  Clinton also won the popular vote by more than one million.
  
  These protests will only get stronger as Trump’s illegitimacy and incompetence are more and more exposed. And the business community is as worried about this clown as the rest of us….
  
  http://www.businessinsider.com.au/trump-obama-meeting-2016-11?r=US&IR=T
  
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  November 16, 2016 12:43pm
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    lol
    
    No mention of the 3 million illegal voters tossed the DNC tossed into the mix?
    
    Oh that wouldn’t fit your particular view of the world would it?
    
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    November 16, 2016 12:56pm
Morrissey

Donald Trump Doesn’t Like This Any More Than You Do
by Ashley Feinberg, Deadspin, Friday 11.11.16

Donald Trump does not want to be the president.

Donald Trump likes going to rallies. He likes hearing people scream his name in ecstasy while calling for the imprisonment and death of his enemies. He likes going on TV. He likes hearing about how high the ratings were after he goes on TV. He likes grabbing women by the pussy and moving on them “like a bitch.”

What Donald Trump does not like, however, is keeping his promises, sitting still for more than five minutes at a time, or doing any kind of work whatsoever, tedious or otherwise. It’s probably why so many of his business ventures were spectacular, blistering failures over the years.

But unfortunately for Donald Trump and everyone else in the world save Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump is about to be the president. And as miserable as it is for us, there is one small, saving grace amidst the despair: Donald Trump looks like he wants to die.

Yesterday, Trump made his way to the White House for his first meeting with Obama as President-elect. As many noted, in the photos of their meeting in the Oval Office, Trump looks absolutely terrified. As well he should be—this is a man who has absolutely no business running anything, much less the United States. And apparently, he knows it. …..

……

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/donald-trump-doesnt-like-this-any-more-than-you-do-1788862854
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November 16, 2016 11:30am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  The link between Morris dancing and left wing lunacy is now clearly proven.
  
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  November 16, 2016 2:55pm
Jack5

The peacenik protest being promoted in General Debate yesterday by an Auckland rates defaulter turned violent.

The protesters don’t have the tolerance to let the majority pay a small tribute to the navies of the country and its allies and the men and women who have served in them.

Pacifists proclaim they eschew war, but they seem to enjoy provoking the establishment into violence.
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November 16, 2016 11:34am
- Komata
  
  Unfortunately this doesn’t surprise me, but more details would be appreciated.
  
  Thank you.
  
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  November 16, 2016 4:21pm
Manolo

Planning the next steps:
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/democrats-soros-trump-231313

George Soros and other rich liberals who spent tens of millions of dollars trying to elect Hillary Clinton are gathering in Washington for a three-day, closed door meeting to retool the big-money left to fight back against Donald Trump.
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November 16, 2016 11:39am
Manolo

The left-wing Guardian is close to a nervous breakdown:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/15/donald-trump-transition-team-disarray-adviser-purge
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November 16, 2016 11:50am
- Fletch
  
  Yeh, I’ve seen some of their articles coming through my feed. They are nearly hysterical. They have learned nothing at all.
  
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  November 16, 2016 12:20pm
dime

check your priviege people!

https://www.buzzfeed.com/regajha/how-privileged-are-you?utm_term=.sw1JPX6PXD#.goA37JD7Jz

Dime did it..

“You’re not privileged at all. You grew up with an intersectional, complicated identity, and life never let you forget it. You’ve had your fair share of struggles, and you’ve worked hard to overcome them. We do not live in an ideal world and you had to learn that the hard way. It is not your responsibility to educate those with more advantages than you, but if you decide you want to, go ahead and send them this quiz. Hopefully it will help.”

BAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA
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November 16, 2016 12:26pm
- Colville
  
  Dime LOL. I got the same!
  
  I figured they said that because they are too precious to call me a nasty c*nt! 🙂
  
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  November 16, 2016 12:48pm
  - dime
    
    im taking it! officially a snowflake hahaha
    
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    November 16, 2016 1:16pm
dime

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/11/15/hillary-clinton-screaming-obscenities-and-throwing-objects-in-election-night-meltdown/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

lmao
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November 16, 2016 12:34pm
Fletch

Paul Joseph Watson again, on morons reacting to Trump’s win.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXpi3F0E5ro
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November 16, 2016 12:38pm
Ross12

The Chinese know how to do things on a large scale.

Alibaba Holds Record Breaking Singles Day

November 11th marks Alibaba’s annual “Singles’ Day” ecommerce spending spree, which has become the world’s largest online shopping day. In 2015, Alibaba accumulated US$14.3 billion in sales. This year they topped that by reaching US$17.73 billion and generating over 65 million packages. During Singles’ Day, Alibaba broadcasts a running total of sales down to the second through social media. Although the total sales figure tallied at midnight November 11th is amazing. What is truly mind blowing is that in the first 20 seconds of sales, consumers racked up US$14.6 million in purchases.
However, there were some glitches with the Alipay
payment system in the first few hours. The volume of shoppers hunched over their devices waiting for
“Singles’ Day” to kick off at midnight were just too
many for the system to handle. However, it was
rectified in short order. (Source: USCHPA)
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November 16, 2016 12:55pm
Fletch

Twenty-three short snapshots of why real people voted for Trump.

I voted for Donald Trump because he will deport illegal immigrants more than Clinton. As a legal immigrant who had to wait 13 years for an immigration visa approval and pass two health screens and an English language proficiency exam prior to entering the United States, I consider it an insult to to cater to criminals who disobeyed immigration laws and cut in front of all law-abiding immigration applicants waiting patiently to be approved

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My entire family — five Muslim immigrants from Turkey — voted for Donald Trump in Florida because of the Democratic Party’s pandering to Islamism. As people who have actually experienced Islamism in its purest form, back in Turkey, we supported the candidate who promised to help us fight that issue, regardless of any of his other policies. For us, the people of the Middle East, this election was just too important to hand over to someone such as Hillary Clinton.

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I am a gay millennial woman and I voted for Donald Trump because I oppose the political correctness movement, which has become a fascist ideology of silence and ignorance. After months of going back and forth, I decided to listen to him directly and not through minced and filtered quotes from the mainstream media.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/opinions/trump-supporters-why-vote/?utm_term=.3f983c44a740
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November 16, 2016 1:11pm
kowtow

Peace protest turns violent. There’s no way the police should allow a lawful meeting to be disrupted by this unlawful behaviour. Every last one of these soap dodgers should be arrested and charged.

A protest turned violent this morning when peace activists blocked a defence industry conference in central Auckland.

The protesters formed a human blockade at the annual New Zealand Defence Industry Association Forum at the ANZ Viaduct Events Centre in an attempt to stop hundreds of delegates attending.”

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11748962

And they’re not peace activists. They are far left agitators.
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November 16, 2016 1:40pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Hundreds of delegates need to grow some balls and respond to the 80 fuckwits who protested. I guess the Police stopped them and protected the rent a mob
  
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  November 16, 2016 5:35pm
sooty

Was Penny at todays protest? Has anyone have pictures of her crying when arrested?
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November 16, 2016 1:58pm
- Biscuit
  
  I caught a full backal view of some bint in a Penny-style red hat, Sooty…
  
  Any self-appointed Public Watchdog worth her salt would have trade-marked that outfit by now!
  
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  November 16, 2016 6:41pm
Manolo

Go away, Obama. Just disappear.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/11/15/fight-looms-between-fired-up-obama-and-trump-over-reg-roll-back.html

A “fired up” President Obama vowed Monday that Donald Trump will find it’s not so “easy” to roll back his myriad regulatory policies, previewing a long fight ahead between his allies and majority Republicans taking control next year.
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November 16, 2016 1:58pm
- Ross12
  
  Obama running scared. He did same himself
  ( reversing executive orders) when came to power after the 2008 election.
  
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  November 16, 2016 2:30pm
- thedavincimode
  
  Just channel Wile E. Coyote whenever obama says anything now Manolo. Any of those images involving a cliff. Getting him to actually vacate the White House will be the sliding down the cliff face with the claw marks number.
  
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  November 16, 2016 2:33pm
Newbie

“Brian Tamaki blames gays, murderers and sinners for earthquakes”
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=1174921

What a fool.
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November 16, 2016 2:40pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Some of his deluded believers (funders) will actually believe this.
  
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  November 16, 2016 2:56pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  I don’t know…
  He is following the playbook that some of the more extreme churches use in the US.
  It is the “done thing” to blame natural disasters upon “unnatural acts.”
  
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  November 16, 2016 3:25pm
  - nasska
    
    Just another in a long list of delusions promoted by the friends of the Sky Fairy.
    
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    November 16, 2016 4:20pm
- kowtow
  
  Yes , real fools. It’s Trumps’ fault.
  
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  November 16, 2016 3:48pm
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    Fuck off. It is John Key’s fault, he had a phone call from Trump to confirm it
    
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    November 16, 2016 5:38pm
- rangitoto
  
  Must have been a lot of sinning going on in Kaikoura or maybe Jehova has a poor aim.
  
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  November 16, 2016 3:48pm
- doggone7
  
  Fool? Definitely not. It’s powerful and clever advertising.
  It will rake in more money from the followers, attract a few more followers and give him a bigger flasher holiday overseas next year and flasher vehicles to drive/ride when he’s here.
  He’s no fool. In my opinion he’s a low down scumbag preying not praying.
  
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  November 16, 2016 3:59pm
- Biscuit
  
  So this ‘God’ that Tamaki prays to can move in his mysterious ways (and we aren’t meant to quibble because this is all part of his ‘plan’ on keeping two steps back) on things like infant deaths but he can be venial enough to target specific sector groups?
  
  Not the sort of ‘loving caring’ deity I’d want to spend 5 minutes with, let alone eternity…
  
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  November 16, 2016 6:39pm
  - sooty
    
    Photo in the herald had the bishop with the twice thru the blckberry look hairdo.
    
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    November 16, 2016 9:03pm
    - doggone7
      
      Ah, there’s the Hosking connection right off!
      
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      November 17, 2016 12:09am
Fletch

Rioters take to the streets in Greece to protest Obama’s visit and demand he leave.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/732682/Barack-Obama-Greece-Athens-riot-protest-Alexis-Tsipras-politics-economy-European-Union
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November 16, 2016 2:43pm
- kowtow
  
  Odd bunch , the far left in Greece. They welcome illegal Muslims who are their traditional enemies but don’t like it when a wealthy African who’s parents were Commies like themselves ,makes a short visit!
  
  Beware of Greeks who don’t want you to bear gifts.
  
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  November 16, 2016 3:44pm
Jack5

What was in the Superannuation Fund managers’ minds when they bought into NZ Post – unless they were pressured by Bill English, of course?

Popped into a post shop today. Slow-moving queue to the door, as Melanesians, Filipinos, and other Asians sent money and/or parcels home.

This business is highly labour intensive and low margin. As long as NZ Post has this service weighing down profit from its courier business, the organisation must be, at best, a mediocre investment for the Super. Fund.
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November 16, 2016 3:04pm
- thedavincimode
  
  Those bloody Jews are the worst though. Making the queues even bigger because they want to squirrel their money away at the adjacent Kiwibank counter. Have you thought of a protest with a placard?
  
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  November 16, 2016 4:36pm
  - Jack5
    
    Being sarcastic, thedavincimode, doesn’t mean you can give vent to your anti-semitism.
    
    I was reporting on the queue that I saw in the post shop today. It was nearly all foreign folk with boxes or handing over stacks of cash at the counter.
    
    Do PC rules mean we are not allowed to state what we see? If so you know which part of your liberal person you can shove those rules.
    
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    November 16, 2016 5:12pm
    - mikenmild
      
      Did you check passports to make sure they were really foreign?
      Some of those non-white people have actually been born here.
      
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      November 16, 2016 5:15pm
      - Jack5
        
        Re PC at 5.15…
        
        Milky, don’t make such weasel comments. The Post Shop was full of obvious foreigners making sizeable financial transactions and/or posting boxes of goods.
        
        My point was that this labour-heavy, margin-light business was a lousy one for the Superannuation Fund to buy into. You have obviously never stood in long queue behind people making such slow transactions.
        
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        November 16, 2016 5:23pm
      - mikenmild
        
        My point, again: how could you tell they were ‘foreigners’? Did you do the Labour Party surname check?
        
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        November 16, 2016 5:26pm
      - Jack5
        
        Re Milky 5.26…
        
        What is this smarmy, “My point again”…. Are you some sort of failed school teacher?
        
        To you PC dimwits, Milky, are all people indistinguishable from each other in appearance? PC heaven?
        
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        November 16, 2016 5:30pm
      - mikenmild
        
        You’re the one complaining that the PostShop was overrun with brown people.
        
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        November 16, 2016 5:34pm
      - thedavincimode
        
        Ah, so that’s what you were saying? Your point was slightly obscured by the inference that you were put out at being inconvenienced by a bunch of slitty -eyed polly wolly types.
        
        So, removing that inadvertent inference, your concern is that because you and a number of other people, some of whom may have been visitors to this country having regard to the nature of the transactions they entered into at the counter, were prepared to wait in a long queue at considerable inconvenience to all no doubt, is suggestive that the Post Shop was not delivering a service that provided any value to those people prepared to queue for it.
        
        A somewhat counter-intuitive outcome I would have thought but interesting nevertheless. Have you taken the time to assess the financial impact of this queue and others like it on the Super fund investment?
        
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        November 16, 2016 5:36pm
      - mikenmild
        
        DVM – does this mean we are past Jack’s racist nonsense and can now deal with his slightly more cogent argument that NZ Post is failing because they have too many customers?
        
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        November 16, 2016 5:45pm
      - thedavincimode
        
        That seems to be the point milky. Either that or that they should increase staff numbers at the counter so the volume of activity he witnessed could be processed more quickly but at greater cost, thereby increasing the Super Fund’s return. The latter possibility being, once again, somewhat counter-intuitive.
        
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        November 16, 2016 5:53pm
      - Jack5
        
        Re thedavincitoad at 5.36…
        
        Thedavincitoad comments, ” … a bunch of slitty -eyed polly wolly type..” are racist and offensive, and racist and offensive regardless of whether they are made under the guise of accusing someone-else of racism.
        
        Thedavincitoad’s following further comment is an example of the poverty of leftist thinking – no conception of the unattractiveness of high-labour, low margin business:
        
        Have you taken the time to assess the financial impact of this queue and others like it on the Super fund investment …
        
        I presume the repetition in thedavincitoad posts of “counter-intuitive” is a 14-year-old’s level of punning. Weak, very weak.
        
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        November 16, 2016 5:56pm
      - thedavincimode
        
        Stop it Jack 5, you’re making it too easy.
        
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        November 16, 2016 6:00pm
      - mikenmild
        
        What an arse-hat. Just by seeing the PostShop was a bit busy, you were able to conclude it is a failing business. Next up, Apple is in trouble for selling too many phones.
        FWIW, the Super Fund has investment criteria. But do feel free to offer them your expert investment guidance.
        So far as I can tell, the government has shoved NZ Post off to the super fund so that it doesn’t have to make any decisions about its future for itself.
        
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        November 16, 2016 6:01pm
      - thedavincimode
        
        Actually no Jack5. I must confess that the pun was completely unintended but now that you mention it, I think it works pretty well. But not you it seems.
        
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        November 16, 2016 6:02pm
    - Jack5
      
      I find it interesting that PC leftists like to impute anti-Jewish feelings to those they disagree with. At the same time these PC leftists mostly have no time at all for Israel. You wonder whether they would be happy to see all non-Arab Israelis destroyed.
      
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      November 16, 2016 5:17pm
      - mikenmild
        
        You still don’t get DVM’s joke, do you?
        
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        November 16, 2016 5:22pm
      - thedavincimode
        
        Seriously milky, did you think he would?
        
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        November 16, 2016 5:25pm
      - Jack5
        
        Re Milky at 5.22…
        
        What joke? There was a separate, and extremely short queue for Kiwibank.
        
        DVM’s nasty side smack at Jewish people was no joke, IMHO.
        
        As a matter of interest, have you ever been in a Post Shop, Milky?
        
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        November 16, 2016 5:26pm
      - mikenmild
        
        I go into the PostShop at least twice a week. I have yet to observe it being overrun by foreigners, but I haven’t checked passports or taken DNA samples.
        
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        November 16, 2016 5:28pm
      - Jack5
        
        Re Milky at 5.28 …
        
        I probably use a Post Shop once a month, and at times more frequently.
        
        This is the first time I’ve had to wait behind a queue of foreigners transmitting money and posting parcels.
        
        Regardless, post shops are, from a financial point of view, labour intensive and low margin, and a lousy investment for the Super Fund.
        
        You don’t see any foreigners in your suburb. Leafy suburb is it, Milky, or can’t you see much detail through pebble glasses?
        
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        November 16, 2016 5:35pm
      - mikenmild
        
        I can’t tell if a customer is a foreigner. Can you tell me how to recognise one in a queue?
        
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        November 16, 2016 5:44pm
      - Stars And Stripes
        
        Yes MM, the ones from third world countries will have a WINZ form in their hand.
        
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        November 16, 2016 5:52pm
      - mikenmild
        
        I’ve never seen a Winz form in a PostShop. Don’t you go to Winz to see about your benefit? I don’t think NZ Post will be able to help you with that.
        
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        November 16, 2016 6:03pm
      - thedavincimode
        
        I’m struggling to see how your queue threatened the destruction of Israel Jack55 (I can call you that since it seems we’re into name-calling).
        
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        November 16, 2016 6:11pm
      - Stars And Stripes
        
        Ok seems a bit complicated for you that one MM.
        Try the smell test it’s a lot simpler.
        Third world requires 5 metres clearance minimum.
        
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        November 16, 2016 6:11pm
      - pentwig
        
        Now you are being a total fuckwit milky.
        Using the typical leftie trick of twisting what I actually said to fit your stupidity just exposes your lack of intelligence. Sad.
        
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        November 16, 2016 9:49pm
    - RF
      
      The last time I was in a post shop I was standing at the counter about to be served when an ignorant oaf pushed in front to be served. His excuse was that he had to post an urgent package to Shaun Fitzpatrick.
      
      The oaf was none other than a former AB, Grahame Thorne.
      
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      November 16, 2016 7:02pm
      - pentwig
        
        mikenmild
        
        I can’t tell if a customer is a foreigner. Can you tell me how to recognise one in a queue?
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        How thick are you?
        They dress different.
        They speak different.
        They do not understand the customs of the country they have been given the privilge to live in.
        
        Milky you are as thick as daffy sometimes.
        
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        November 16, 2016 8:59pm
      - mikenmild
        
        Did you mean to say:
        “They dress differently“?
        “They speak differently“?
        Is English your first language?
        Should we have special queues for people who speak and dress like you?
        
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        November 16, 2016 9:17pm
      - pentwig
        
        Good grief milky.
        Is English your first language?
        
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        November 16, 2016 10:23pm
Jack5

Is New Zealand heartland for wimps?

Phillip John Smith, imprisoned for murdering the father of the boy he molested but best known for his escape to Brazil, is suing the Government for confiscating the wig he wore when he escaped.

And, Teina Pora is seeking inflation compensation added to the $2.5 million he received from the Government for wrongful imprisonment. Compare this with the pittance (if anything) NZ prisoners of war received for their incarceration.

As a young car thief, Teina Pora seems to have been fingered by an aunt (wrongly) for the murder of Susan Burdett, and then (falsely) admitted or was trapped into admitting that he was responsible. The $2.5m was a generous payment to such a scrubber, who had he not been sent to prison, likely would have ended up there because of his criminal life style. Given that unhealthy criminal life, he may very well not have lived as long as he did in prison.
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- mikenmild
  
  You really think false imprisonment by one’s own government should be compensated at the same rate as a prisoner of war?
  How did you come to that remarkable comparison?
  
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  November 16, 2016 3:47pm
  - Jack5
    
    So, Milky, you don’t think sufficient compensation for saving a man from the probability of a miserable low-life is $2.5 million cash plus two decades of free board and health care?
    
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    November 16, 2016 5:06pm
    - mikenmild
      
      I don’t know how much compensation Pora should receive. I was just asking where your POW comparison came from, before you plucked it from your arse, of course.
      
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      November 16, 2016 5:18pm
      - Reid
        
        The difference is one’s a born scumbag almost certainly destined to commit further scumbaggery, whereas the other is someone who sacrificed themselves so we could live. And was tortured because of it.
        
        I’m not surprised you can’t the diff mm, lefties never can, for evidently their ego’s are so fragile they constantly need to affirm to themselves they’re “good people” by “caring so very, very much” for the “poor widdle VICTIMS.”
        
        Losers, bastards and heroes is the game you people evidently never stop playing inside your heads. Evidently, it’s what makes a lefty tick.
        
        Thus, with all those conflicting emotions: love (of yourself if you’re not a “good person”), empathy (for the poor widdle victim), rage (for the bastards who oppwess them!!!!!!(Grrrrr)), etc; with all of that knocking around in your subconscience, then whammo, along comes the hated war, empire games at their worst. And naturally, you’re all incapable of understanding human conflict and its dynamics, because like girls, all of you lefties shy away from such things. Pathetic girlies like Hagar dips his/her toe into stuff you can find anywhere on the interweb and you lefties hallucinate, don’t you, in your girlish way, that Nicky is so, so erudite, in the ruthless machinations of the “dark side.” But seriously, as I say, freely available on the interweb, without the breathless spin. Every single bit of it.
        
        But that’s who you lefties regard as a “war hero,” isn’t it.
        
        Sad really, you’re all so, so lost.
        
        Whatever can be done.
        
        Fuck I’m glad I’m not you, mm.
        
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        November 16, 2016 6:01pm
      - mikenmild
        
        Um, I was just asking how he came about with this interesting idea that compensation for wrongful imprisonment should be somehow proportional to compensation (what compensation) for POWs.
        I seem to recall that prisoners of Japan did receive some sort of compensation. I don’t think that was the case for POWs in Italy or Germany. They still got paid, of course.
        So, I’m really not sure what you are raving about.
        Was it something to do with the idea that Pora should not be compensated because he is a scumbag?
        
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        November 16, 2016 6:14pm
  - starboard
    
    You’re such a dick mm. A real dick. Dickhead. How embarrassing being you.
    
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    November 16, 2016 8:30pm
- thedavincimode
  
  Good point. We should probably also cease medical treatment of anyone 75 or over; after all, they are going to die shortly anyway.
  
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  November 16, 2016 4:32pm
  - Jack5
    
    Thedavincimode: WTF has your 4.32 comment got to do with cash payouts and claims to guilty criminals and to criminals punished for crimes they didn’t commit?
    
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    November 16, 2016 5:08pm
    - mikenmild
      
      He’s just having a laugh at your expense. Feel free to ask again if you can’t yet work it out.
      
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      November 16, 2016 5:19pm
Jack5

Milky, you’re not on a retainer from the Labour Party to linger on Kiwiblog all day making Leftist posts, are you??????
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November 16, 2016 5:40pm
- mikenmild
  
  No, I’m not. What an absurd suggestion.
  Anyway, shouldn’t you be out checking that foreigners aren’t clogging up local businesses, or owning too many dairies or something?
  
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  November 16, 2016 5:56pm
  - Jack5
    
    Hell, Milky, you are starting to sound like Dame Devoid?
    
    You’re not, are you? Where do you get the time your Dameship?
    Twenty-six thousand posts, and many more than that if you were to count all posts in each thread.
    
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    November 16, 2016 6:02pm
    - mikenmild
      
      They aren’t ‘posts’, they are comments. I think the comment count should be accurate.
      Anyway, the quality of your 10,000 comments is what counts, in’it?
      
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      November 16, 2016 6:07pm
      - pentwig
        
        For fucks sake.
        Your 26108 posts are not worth the time to read let alone give them any credence.
        Banned from the stranded I guess and red alert when they could afford to run it.
        You even have balls as a self confessed socialist to apply sarcasism, deride your critics and actually abuse those who do not agree with you when you post on a conservsative blog.
        Go figure!!
        
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        November 16, 2016 10:01pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  He is employed by the “swamp” side of the state sector employees.
  Hey Mike, I hit the report thing earlier by mistake, that is twice tonight. Sorry about that chief
  
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  November 16, 2016 6:04pm
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    I don’t think it matters, as DPF has a threshold, so multiple reports are needed before a comment gets reviewed.
    What is the ‘swamp side’? Is it the Department of Conservation?
    
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    November 16, 2016 6:09pm
    - Steve (North Shore)
      
      Clever boy, but the swamp is where you work – just like the Washington SWAMP that the Don is going to dispose of
      
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      November 16, 2016 6:30pm
- thedavincimode
  
  JackB52, don’t be silly; they don’t have any money.
  
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  November 16, 2016 6:15pm
Keeping Stock

Lizzie for Labour in Rotorua? She’s denying it, of course, but where’s there’s smoke there’s bound to be fire…

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=11749283

I wonder if anyone’s asked Jacinda what she thinks…
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November 16, 2016 5:49pm
- thedavincimode
  
  Yikes KS! What’s happened to the weather boy? Got the pricker (so to speak)?
  
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  November 16, 2016 6:16pm
  - Keeping Stock
    
    No; he’s standing against Te Ururoa Flavell in Waiariki.
    
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    November 16, 2016 6:34pm
    - thedavincimode
      
      Perhaps you could re-phrase that.
      
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      November 16, 2016 6:37pm
- Manolo
  
  Given her insatiable appetite for publicity, I wonder if she is a NZ version of the loathsome Kardashians or Gareth Morgan’s love child?
  
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  November 16, 2016 6:44pm
Inandout

Dizzie as an MP? God help us.
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November 16, 2016 6:04pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  No no no, it is good for her to be a list MP.
  More fuckwits the better. Bit like DNC paying dipshits to protest
  
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  November 16, 2016 6:10pm
Manolo

Discredited forever:
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nb-staff/2016/11/15/mrcyougov-poll-most-voters-saw-rejected-news-media-bias

The Media Research Center (MRC) announces the findings of a new post-election poll on what actual voters thought about the media’s influence on the 2016 presidential race.
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November 16, 2016 6:40pm
RF

What’s the skinny on the current AB captain Kieran Read.

Is he getting the arse from the ABs ?

I have previously posted he should stick to selling houses as I believe he should not be captain let alone be in the team.
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November 16, 2016 7:12pm
- mikenmild
  
  And a better choice for No 8 would be?
  
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  November 16, 2016 7:20pm
  - RF
    
    BB will know
    
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    November 16, 2016 7:30pm
  - Jack5
    
    Still on Kiwiblog watch Milky? Don’t you stop for a meal? Just nibble while still at the keyboard?
    
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    November 16, 2016 7:31pm
    - mikenmild
      
      You should pop around and see it live. 184 Gracefield Road.
      
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      November 16, 2016 7:38pm
      - nasska
        
        Business a bit slack Mike? You should try offering a happy hour on Wednesday nights. 🙂
        
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        November 16, 2016 7:56pm
      - Jack5
        
        No way would a brothel manager have time to collect Kiwiblog down-ticks for a hobby.
        
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        November 16, 2016 8:00pm
      - starboard
        
        what a dull life you lead little man mm..dull.
        
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        November 16, 2016 8:28pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Nasska:
        
        You should try offering a happy hour on Wednesday nights
        
        Happy hour is over-rated. Just ask two-minute Len!
        
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        November 16, 2016 8:31pm
      - nasska
        
        It would be hardly worth taking his trousers off for Nostra! 🙂
        
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        November 16, 2016 8:46pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Nasska:
        
        I think Len Brown would agree with you:
        
        She says she and Brown were having sex in the Ngati Whatua Room at the Auckland Town Hall when a security guard burst in through the door.
        “It was horrific. I had no clothes on and Len had his pants down around his ankles. The security guy was clearly embarrassed and made some apologetic noises before closing the door and leaving.
        
        As you say: “hardly worth taking his trousers off for”!
        
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        November 16, 2016 9:01pm
Morrissey

“DO YOU THINK it comes under the category of hate speech?”
A brazen Mike Hosking criticizes someone else for misusing a public platform.
Seven Sharp, TV1, Wednesday 16 November 2016, 7:00 p.m.

Bishop Brian Tamaki has shot his ignorant mouth off yet again, this time preaching that the Canterbury earthquake of 2011, which killed 185 people, was a result of Christchurch’s sinfulness. [1] The mayor at the time was Bob Parker, who is now Sir Bob Parker. He is understandably angry. Less understandable is his choice to talk to Mike Hosking, especially when it concerns the misuse and abuse of a public platform.

Less than a month ago, Hosking was the subject of an official complaint by Canterbury University professor Bronwyn Hayward for precisely what Hosking was criticizing Brian Tamaki for this evening. Professor Hayward filed an official complaint about Hosking’s ignorant, smug and incendiary comments about Māori, excoriating his “use of a privileged platform to air prejudicial and ignorant opinions.” [2] As repulsive and ridiculous as Brian Tamaki is, Mike “Contra” Hosking is the last person in the world to be admonishing anyone about anything.

The following is a rush transcript, an impression. No doubt complete transcripts will soon be available….

MIKE “CONTRA” HOSKING: Do you think he believes it?

SIR BOB PARKER: It’s absolutely disgusting. For this man to be saying this. I’m told it’s out of context…

MIKE “CONTRA” HOSKING: [with deadly gravitas] DO YOU THINK it comes under the category of hate speech?

SIR BOB PARKER: It’s absolutely disgusting. For this man to be saying this. I’m told it’s out of context. …. You can’t blame a person for holding a view. But I had a look at Leviticus today, and I think he’s a hypocrite.

MIKE “CONTRA” HOSKING: The whole world is full of weird and wonderful people and I’m wary about giving him a platform.

[1] https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/watch-its-utterly-disgusting-former-christchurch-mayor-bob-parker-demands-apology-brian-tamaki-over-outrageous-comments

[2] http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/201821524/controversial-comments-cleared-but-condemned
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November 16, 2016 7:40pm
- Gabby
  
  I can’t see Horeskin yielding his platform for anyone.
  
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  November 16, 2016 8:00pm
  - Morrissey
    
    He’s too valuable a commodity to the government. Not because he says anything offensive or even interesting, but simply because he fills that vital primetime spot which might have gone to a real journalist. His complete lack of a sense of irony is almost hilarious.
    
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    November 16, 2016 8:27pm
    - Stars And Stripes
      
      By real journalist you mean left wing I gather.
      
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      November 16, 2016 8:32pm
      - thedavincimode
        
        Is there another kind?
        
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        November 16, 2016 8:34pm
      - Morrissey
        
        No I mean someone intelligent who actually cares about telling stories truthfully. That rules out Mike Hosking, of course.
        
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        November 16, 2016 8:35pm
      - Stars And Stripes
        
        Give us some examples of these real journalists Morrissey currently in the profession?.
        
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        November 16, 2016 8:39pm
    - rangitoto
      
      Hosking is ok for a pinko but if they should replace him with Cam Slater to get a balanced view.
      
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      November 16, 2016 10:17pm
- thedavincimode
  
  zzzzz. executive summary please. if it’s that the odd little metro person is a bit odd; got it.
  
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  November 16, 2016 8:34pm
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    Oddness is okay. Rancid hypocrisy—Mike “Contra” Hosking criticizing someone, anyone, for abusing a public platform, for pity’s sake!—is not okay.
    
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    November 16, 2016 8:38pm
    - thedavincimode
      
      Well Morrie, it’s rank hypocrisy. But I thought you were OK with that stuff.
      
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      November 16, 2016 9:46pm
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        ?????
        
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        November 17, 2016 7:04am
sooty

Ztrev. or Trevor Mallard got bum f@&ked tod going thru the electronical operated bollards meant to stop bombers. His car was sitting on one and it wrecked the underside of his car. Theres a picture of him in the DOM.
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November 16, 2016 8:54pm
- thedavincimode
  
  That’s a pity. Was he sitting in it at the time?
  
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  November 16, 2016 9:39pm
Jack5

Do any of your regular followers of Kiwiblog have any idea what motivates our Mikenmild, a.k.a. Milky?

With 26,000 plus posts magnified at least fivefold because only one count is taken for all posts by a poster in one thread, he has made about 125,000 posts. Given (conservatively) he averages, say 3.5 to 4 down ticks per post, Milky has accumulated 437,500 to 500,000 down ticks.

Half a million down ticks! What can motivate a person to put his head above the blog wall to be pummelled like this, day after day?
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November 16, 2016 8:56pm
- mikenmild
  
  With 26,000 plus posts magnified at least fivefold because only one count is taken for all posts by a poster in one thread
  
  You sure about that?
  You really think you have posted 50,000 comments?
  
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  November 16, 2016 9:06pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Mikenmild:
    
    This might be a good time to tell Jack5 that you comment under two Kiwiblog aliases – which, on his 5:1 metric, means you’ve actually chalked up 175,000 comments. I hope he takes the news well!
    
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    November 16, 2016 9:18pm
    - mikenmild
      
      Oh yes, I am also big bruv, longknives, tom hunter, Nostradamus, Dad for Justice, All on Red and pentwig. The rest are all nasska’s sock puppets.
      
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      November 16, 2016 9:23pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Now whatever happened to “Master of slow reveal”. I was planning on starting with 2 and slowly building up to 8!
        
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        November 16, 2016 9:25pm
      - Stars And Stripes
        
        Come on MM you don’t fool me.Its obvious you and EAD are one and the same.?
        
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        November 16, 2016 9:38pm
      - thedavincimode
        
        Truly a man for all seasoning.
        
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        November 16, 2016 9:40pm
      - pentwig
        
        You really are having a bad night milky.
        Skype a conference with lprent and mickey. That should boost you up.
        
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        November 16, 2016 10:18pm
    - Jack5
      
      Thank you Nostradamus (9.18 post)…
      
      Yeah! I did briefly suspect Milky was suffering from dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality disorder), but then thought nah! Milky’s just a hyper-Leftist. Now I see I was originally right.
      
      Dissociative identity disorder symptoms include mood swings, insomnia and sleep walking, panic attacks, susceptibility to alcohol and drug abuse, compulsions and rituals, hallucinations and out-of-body experiences.
      
      Down-tick addiction fits the diagnosis.
      
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      November 16, 2016 10:24pm
      - Jack5
        
        Hickery, dickery, tick
        Milky’s head is thick
        A million posts
        A million roasts
        Milky chases down ticks
        
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        November 16, 2016 10:35pm
- thedavincimode
  
  You first Jack5.1
  
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  November 16, 2016 9:41pm
tom hunter

Winners and losers….

deadrightkev:
DPF
You forgot Paul Ryan. He will be a sure loser for his disloyalty to Trump.
I would not want to go to sleep on a lifeboat with that slime ball on board.

All aboard the slimeball express, Speaker Ryan unanimously re-elected Speaker-Elect for the 115th Congress.

Between that and Priebus it looks like the GOPe is doing better than expected in Trump World. 🙂
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November 16, 2016 9:50pm
BeeSting

https://wall.alphacoders.com/tags.php?tid=14669

Russell Crowe For President
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November 16, 2016 11:15pm
BeeSting

Auckland used to have these bummer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W-class_Melbourne_tram

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams_in_Melbourne
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November 16, 2016 11:20pm
BeeSting

Biak
Island in Papua New Guinea

Taranaki
Mountain and Region in NZ

These are names of Nuclear Tests at Maralinga
South Australia both these places
are roughly the same distance from Marlinga

These tests were Tower of Balloon Tests

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_nuclear_tests_at_Maralinga

NZ and Aus have had their Chernobyl
the poms were using the people of NZ and Aus
as Guinea pigs as the tested to see how far Nuclear Fall out travels

Have a nice Day

Tadje? Why Tadje
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November 16, 2016 11:30pm
BeeSting

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1017875.shtml

China’s first aircraft carrier the Liaoning now ‘combat ready’
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November 16, 2016 11:32pm
Manolo

A wowser licks his wounds:
http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/tim-kaine-check-trump
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November 17, 2016 6:15am
Viking2

A funny story. Poor old Trev he just can’t keep out of trouble.

Labour MP Trevor Mallard is the latest victim of notorious electronic bollards at Parliament which are regularly catching out innocent drivers.

Mallard’s Ford Mondeo station wagon was struck by the rising bollards this evening and remains wedged on the roadway.

“I waited until the lights were green, so it was totally down,” he said.

“And as I was leaving, one of them came up and is jammed under the car. I can’t get it off.”

You are colour blind Trev. Can’t tell the difference between RED and GREEN.

Like all the rest of us. ? ?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/national/news/video.cfm?c_id=1503075&gal_cid=1503075&gallery_id=167998
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