General Debate 14 December 2016

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Captain Mainwaring

Labour lurches further left.
Laila Harre joins up.
Good luck with that.
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December 14, 2016 8:00am
- sparkhole
  
  You put your left foot in
  You take your right foot out
  You join the Labour party
  And you get them voted out
  
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  December 14, 2016 8:11am
  - stephen2d
    
    Brilliant! 😀
    
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    December 14, 2016 8:14am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Does she think people have forgotten her waka-jumping from being a Green Party staffer to leader of the Internet Party? Does she think people have forgotten Kim Dotcom and the “F**k John Key rally? Does she think people have forgotten the way Dotcom tried to buy the 2014 General Election? Does she think people have forgotten the Moment of Truth?
  
  Laila Harre is yesterday’s woman, but she is also a politician for sale to the highest bidder, as she displayed in 2014. Having said that, I hope Labour DOES choose her to be its candidate for Mt Albert, so voters can again hear the socialist dogma she spouts. She and Labour deserve one another.
  
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  December 14, 2016 8:16am
  - hmmokrightitis
    
    She sells fish these days.
    
    She should stick with that.
    
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    December 14, 2016 8:40am
    - RalphT
      
      The smell of her politics is worse than that of week-old fish
      
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      December 14, 2016 8:52am
  - James Stephenson
    
    I think Whale was suggesting she’s looking at replacing Silent T in New Lynn?
    
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    December 14, 2016 9:06am
  - alloytoo
    
    Strikes me as a politician looking for a trough.
    
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    December 14, 2016 9:55am
- Morrissey
  
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  The people unhappy about this will be the likes of Paul “Kill Them All!” Henry and Matthew Hooton, both of whom have been made to look foolish trying to debate with her. She’s much smarter than anyone National could ever hope to put up against her.
  
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  December 14, 2016 8:54am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Classy stuff Morrissey, when Henry’s mother hasn’t even been buried yet.
    
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    December 14, 2016 8:56am
    - Morrissey
      
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      What’s his mother got to do with this? She was fit and well two and a half years ago, as Laila keelhauled him over his complacency regarding the slaughter in Gaza. And I’m not blaming Olive for his racism or the unseemly way he harasses his female underlings on camera.
      
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      December 14, 2016 9:00am
      - Ed Snack
        
        Which slaughter are you talking about, the Palestinians slaughtering other Palestinians or the war crimes they commit trying to kill Israeli civilians and children in particular ?
        
        Either option suggests that you are a thoroughly nasty anti-Semite and a hater.
        
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        December 14, 2016 1:32pm
    - Gabby
      
      Smug stuff when Ponyboy’s just resigned.
      
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      December 14, 2016 1:39pm
  - Padriv Ustoev
    
    Yeah, she is so smart she joined the Internet party.
    
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    December 14, 2016 8:56am
    - DifferentPerspective
      
      But didn’t know who her internet provider was…..
      
      … dumber than a bag of hammers – she should fit right in with Labour’s current caucus.
      
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      December 14, 2016 9:07am
      - stigie
        
        This is so bloody funny, she is going to be the Dirty Harry of the Liarbore Party !~
        
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        December 14, 2016 10:03am
    - B.L.Zeebub
      
      Yep money talks and bullshit ~~walks~~ comes running.
      
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      December 14, 2016 9:44am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Lol!
    
    Morrissey, did you say that with a straight face?
    
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    December 14, 2016 8:57am
    - Morrissey
      
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      Watch Laila Harré speak, especially in debate against a right wing shill like Hooton or Henry. Then try to tell me that my assessment of her marked superiority is anything other than accurate.
      
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      December 14, 2016 9:02am
      - DifferentPerspective
        
        Not that you know nothing Morrissey … but Laila is so true to her political roots that she doesn’t have any problem going on a very expensive rich-prick skiing holiday with rich prick Matthew Hooten to Canada (good solid chardonnay socialist stuff).
        
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        December 14, 2016 9:11am
      - Morrissey
        
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        Karl Du Fresne, who wrote that piece, is a fool. I’ve posted an extensive analysis of his foolishness a couple of years ago; I’ll dig it up and post it here in the near future.
        
        Keep an eye out, fellas!
        
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        December 14, 2016 9:16am
  - stephen2d
    
    Smarter she is, so much that she hasn’t won any vote or a raffle ticket in over a decade!
    
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    December 14, 2016 9:09am
  - dime
    
    i prefer more humour from troll accounts.
    
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    December 14, 2016 9:21am
  - Swifty
    
    She may be smart but the Mana debacle demonstrated her foolishness and lack of both judgement and principles. She’s not to be trusted either – how many waka has she jumped from/to now?
    
    She’s not a fit person to be in our parliament – let alone her absolute failure to understand basic economics.
    
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    December 14, 2016 9:36am
    - Flash
      
      She reminds me of a would-be Hilary Clinton.
      
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      December 14, 2016 12:40pm
      - Swifty
        
        I wouldn’t have thought she is as dishonest nor as venal as Hilary, but then again I’ve never met her. 🙂
        
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        December 14, 2016 3:35pm
- Tommo67
  
  Laila and Andrew Little deserve each other…..
  
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  December 14, 2016 12:47pm
Stars And Stripes

Māori Party oppose placing at risk kids outside whānau
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/320342/maori-party-oppose-placing-at-risk-kids-outside-whanau.
“Māori Party co-leader Te Ururoa Flavell said that change would make lives for tamariki worse, and it was disappointing his party had to vote against the bill.
“A child loses that connection with family and whakapapa if they are placed outside of the cultural realm,” he said.
Green Party MP Marama Davidson went a step further during the debate on the legislation and told Parliament the bill was racist.
When we uphold that legislation, we are feeding the narrative that Māori do not love our children as much, and that we do not understand how to properly and safely care for our children.”

Great so it is now racist for the government to try and put a childs safety first when making decisions.
Well I suppose it is more comforting for a child to be abused or killed by relatives instead of a stranger.
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December 14, 2016 8:11am
- holysheet
  
  And that is the root of child abuse amongst the special people. On one hand they have the biggest amount of child abuse and yet they will do nothing about it. To make it worse, when anyone tries to help these abused children, they are called racist and once again the culture comes ahead of the child.
  
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  December 14, 2016 8:19am
- Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
  
  “Great so it is now racist for the government to try and put a childs safety first when making decisions.”
  
  Who cares anymore what Maoris do to their own kids? We have thrown billions at them over generations with no change in their behaviour.
  
  Whatever whites do it will never be good enough and they will be blamed for everything by Maori. That is what “bi/multiculturalism” means.
  
  Maoris are responsible for their sprogs, not me.
  
  I keep saying give the Maori nation its own bit of turf – port city Tauranga plus population ratio percentage of surrounding fertile land – The Maori Peoples Republic of Central Aoteroa.
  
  The Maoris can run it like every other Third World dump in the Pacific area that doesn’t have a white majority population.
  
  They will still blame us whites when their new Maori republic implodes with inter tribal ethnic cleansing.
  
  Always remember: Us whites dont need them but Maoris need us ( if they want to continue enjoying an OECD standard of living.)
  
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  December 14, 2016 9:02am
- GoVege
  
  What a childish comment from Marama D.
  Why does she reckon these tamariki are “at risk”?
  Probably because of the primitive sexism Maori will not acknowledge THEY are guilty of.
  Any woman coerced into producing umpteen kids to satisfy her culture’s backward beliefs is usually going to end up bashed and abused in front of her kids.
  And unable to care for them.
  Put the blame where it belongs Marama: with your 19th century mind-set.
  
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  December 14, 2016 10:19am
- GoVege
  
  And when is Te Ururoa Flavell ever going to step up and tell his fellow Maori men off for the shocking way many of them abuse Maori women and girls?
  Never, I expect.
  Although he does take time out to join in the mockery of one white guy brave enough to speak out.
  Good one, Te Ururoa.
  The suffering of Maori kids is something you could do something about…if you cared enough.
  
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  December 14, 2016 10:29am
Manolo

Will Trump deliver?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-13/small-business-owners-optimism-skyrockets-following-trump-victory

The November reading of the National Federation of Independent Businesses’ small business optimism index jumped to 98.4 from 94.9 — its sharpest surge since 2009 — with all of the increase in sentiment coming after the U.S. elections held on Nov. 8.
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December 14, 2016 8:13am
oldpark

Listening to “bully boy” kneecapper Winston Peters issuing a veiled threat to our new Prime Minister. Refuse to expose innocent people, to the dangers of Pike River mine death trap,and we will not support you in the 2017 General Election ,should i be a kingmaker. Seems a vote for his party would infact be a vote for Me-Tu, from the commie “greens” and flip flop Angry Andy Little. Peters would become much more than a kingmaker, his threat,should his meglamaniac threat take shape, would plunge NZ into a virtual financial death dive.,causing so much hardship, for the NZs citizens,his title would be the man who didn’t know his arse from his elbow,or just plain old “Winston Nutbar”.
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December 14, 2016 8:16am
- Keeping Stock
  
  He sounded convincing for a couple of minutes; right until the time the words “cover-up” came from his mouth.
  
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  December 14, 2016 8:18am
  - Yvette
    
    If in fact there is evidence of the cause of the mine’s destruction in the ‘drift’ rather than behind the rock-fall in the heart of the mine, what credence would attach to that evidence by letting the first person in to be a politician?
    
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    December 14, 2016 8:48am
- Inandout
  
  You speak as though he is a Donald Trump, well according to the doomsayers. Time and again people underestimate Winston.
  
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  December 14, 2016 8:21am
  - stephieboy
    
    Inandout, a long, long time in politics and still on the opposition benches that proves what ?
    
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    December 14, 2016 9:16am
    - dime
      
      he can be just like the greens?
      
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      December 14, 2016 9:22am
    - Inandout
      
      National can’t just write off NZ First, and come next election they may have to ask for their assistance; such is MMP. Look at what powers the idiot Dunne had over John Key.
      
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      December 14, 2016 11:22am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Peters is the consummate Opposition politician Stephieboy. He opposes everything whoever is in Government tries, but is always short on alternatives.
      
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      December 14, 2016 1:20pm
- thedavincimode
  
  A stupid call by the drunken dwarf. He’s now openly aligned himself with andy twyford and the mad melons – all for some cheap publicity and bernie monk’s vote. He’s spent the entirety of his winston 1st life playing the part of the coy slut pre-election and now he’s effectively run his flag up.
  
  Further evidence that he’s completely fucked his shrunken brain with the demon piss.
  
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  December 14, 2016 8:24am
  - Paulus
    
    Am I not correct that the Miner’s Monk people, not all the families, are financing a Labour Party Public Relations Company to shout for them ?
    
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    December 14, 2016 8:58am
  - doggone7
    
    And the only power he has now is to get into a few people’s minds so that they end up … spending their time writing stuff like that about him.
    
    It might be minor but that’s got to be some sort of win.
    
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    December 14, 2016 9:54am
EAD

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/middle-east/87544770/thousands-flee-aleppo-onslaught-as-syrian-battle-reaches-climax

The MSM are cranking up the Russian bogeyman propaganda again.

This time it’s the pantomime villain Syrian government forces who reading the reports one would think have entered kindly “rebel” held areas (otherwise known as ISIS/Al Qaeda when the west “fights” them) with one purpose in mind – killing civilians in general and women and children in particular.

But I’m sure no civilians are being killed in the Battle of Mosul that the “West” is supporting.
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December 14, 2016 8:17am
- stephieboy
  
  EAD, Mosul and civilian casualties ? So far there appear to be few other than those used by ISIS as human shields .
  
  The reverse is the case at Alleppo with mounting evidence of Syrian soldiers going house to house murdering civilians ,
  
  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38301629
  
  Will non MSM like Zero Hedge and Infowars or Breitbart report this kind of thing ?
  
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  December 14, 2016 9:20am
  - EAD
    
    I understand Stephieboy:
    
    When in Aleppo/Mosul, the Syrian/Iraqi Army fight against Rebels/ISIS where the collateral damage is Woman & Children/Human Shields.
    
    You should get a job in the MSM with your verbal dexterity 🙂
    
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    December 14, 2016 9:47am
    - stephieboy
      
      EAD, the ISIS have a sordid reputation using civilians as human shields.
      
      https://www.rt.com/news/363632-isis-human-shields-mosul/
      
      Assad has a reputation of making those” disappear ” who oppose him ,
      
      https://www.amnesty.org/en/get-involved/take-action/detention-in-syria/
      
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      December 14, 2016 9:55am
Manolo

Communist Laila Harre could be an excellent intermediary between Angry Andy and the fat German crook. She has experience in dealing with him.
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December 14, 2016 8:17am
- Happychappy
  
  Have they advertised for a candidate with computer and hacking skills yet. Laila should should be able find someone to judge how good there expertise in this field is.
  
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  December 14, 2016 9:05am
Simon

The recounts are done. If the recounts were about integrity of the voting system they would have included States Clinton won. Instead a vile Green turd cynically took advantage of mentally ill Hillary supporters to defraud millions.

Such a low point to take advantage of the mentally ill like that. Sad!
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December 14, 2016 8:21am
- holysheet
  
  Who cares. A fool and his money are easily parted.
  
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  December 14, 2016 8:33am
Keeping Stock

It was a pleasure to see David Shearer so relaxed as he delivered his valedictory speech yesterday. It was a speech full of humour, delivered with warmth and humanity. What a shame his colleagues in Labour never allowed him to show those qualities when he was their leader.

That he is leaving Parliament to go and work in strife-torn South Sudan demonstrates just how toxic things have become in the dysfunctional New Zealand Labour Party. Most of the centrist MP’s are jumping ship (Goff, Shearer, Cosgrove), and Labour’s lurch to being even further left than the Greens continues.
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December 14, 2016 8:22am
- oldpark
  
  @Ks Dont forget Peters threat to join them.
  
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  December 14, 2016 8:31am
- Salacious Crumb
  
  The Labour Party will truly regret allowing members of his calibre slip away, especially in light of the news about Harre. A thoroughly decent man; I wish him well and hope he can make a difference in the Sudan.
  
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  December 14, 2016 8:36am
- stephieboy
  
  KS, I agree and don’t have much to add and he was simply wonderful on RNZ this morning. He leaves an enormous hole in the Labour Party in terms of leadership, sound policy ideas and solid integrity . Enormously poular in his electorate with both traditional Labour and even National supporters .
  
  A sad irony as he leaves Liala Harre arrives .
  
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  December 14, 2016 9:31am
- Ole Bill Mole
  
  so long…..and (no) thanks for all the fish…..
  
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  December 14, 2016 10:24am
- GoVege
  
  Shearer is a wonderful man but probably not suited to being head of a political party, that’s all.
  It’s not a matter of being “unappreciated “.
  
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  December 14, 2016 10:39am
  - Inandout
    
    He is not ‘wonderful’, just a decent kiwi like thousands of other kiwis, but who remain unsung. Shearer has earned bloody good money from us taxpayers and the (tax free) U N.
    
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    December 14, 2016 11:26am
Stars And Stripes

Work and Income is paying $2300 a week for a family waiting for social housing to stay in a motel.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/320319/$2300-a-week-for-family-to-stay-in-motel.
“She said Ms Murray had been repeatedly evicted due to her behaviour and, while she had a high-priority rating, there were a limited number of landlords willing to take a chance on her or properties that met her needs.”

These sort of bludgers deserve to be homeless through their own lack of self control and responsibility.
The poor old taxpayer just keeps on suffering.
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December 14, 2016 8:27am
- Lance
  
  Sounds like she is being rewarded for bad behaviour.
  Also.. how on earth does a motel cost $2300 a week, that’s $320 a day ?
  
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  December 14, 2016 8:36am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Maybe she’s got 10 kids and needs 3 units.
    
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    December 14, 2016 8:41am
  - rangitoto
    
    They charge a premium when there is likely to be damage.
    
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    December 14, 2016 12:14pm
- stephen2d
  
  You mean ” properties that meth her needs”?
  There, fixed it.
  
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  December 14, 2016 8:44am
- hmmokrightitis
  
  Funny, I wondered about that when I heard her bleating on NatRad last night with JC. Pity he didn’t bring out that part of her story.
  
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  December 14, 2016 8:45am
  - Ole Bill Mole
    
    that’s why I have stopped listening to RNZ
    
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    December 14, 2016 12:01pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  Did RNZ think to ask her about the nature of her behaviour, and why it was that landlords don’t want a bar of her?
  
  Thought not…
  
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  December 14, 2016 8:58am
- dime
  
  house the kids. the scum parents go on the street.
  
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  December 14, 2016 9:23am
- lifesgood
  
  I can’t understand why the government doesn’t create American style trailer parks for the likes of her. Why on earth should she be costing us this amount EACH WEEK!!? She’s never going to change. Shove her in a trailer and leave her there.
  
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  December 14, 2016 11:58am
  - howitis
    
    Good idea.
    
    I must watch ‘Killer Joe’ again for some pointers on the lifestyle.
    Thomas Haden Church as Ansell. Baseball cap with ripped suit. Too good!
    
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    December 14, 2016 1:06pm
Happychappy

After thirty years Liala Harr’e has rejoined the Labour Party and hopes to be a candidate at the next Election. How could this woman even be concidered to be a candidate with the baggage she carry’s from leading The Dot Com Party that tried to influence the result of the last Election.If this woman is selected as a candidate at the next Election we will have dirty Politics with the Labour leaders authority that could allow the fat german to try and con NZ again.
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December 14, 2016 8:30am
B.L.Zeebub

So Labour have decide between Chardonnay Socialist Cindy or Champagne Communist Laila for Mt Eden ,dear o dear,which one will Helen anoint so Mt Eden knows who to vote for?
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December 14, 2016 8:30am
Biscuit

If Laila Harre is the answer, it must have been a (many expletives deleted) dumb question!
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December 14, 2016 8:34am
jcuk

Make a comment on The Standard which is contrary to general thinking and you get vile abuse and type casting …. no contra argument. Sad as a basically socialist to see that happen, definitely not government material I’m sorry to say.
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December 14, 2016 8:36am
- holysheet
  
  It’s all right jcuk, we know from your comments here that you are a leftie dumbass.
  May your time here slowly show you the error of your ways. Walk towards the light out of the dark tunnel you currently reside in.
  
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  December 14, 2016 8:48am
  - jcuk
    
    Sorry Holysheet but actually I am probably centre of the road and one of the founding members of ACT back in the nineties. Even nominated for the Council at one stage … local guy suggested I not stand but I was going o’seas at the time and let it stand.
    I believe that the solution for the future is a meld of left and right but I doubt if I will see it happen at my age though John Key seemed to be progressing towards that position.
    The answers here are more polite but typical of political blogs. I saw the light, bright and clear, over twenty years ago, not muddied by rightwing dogma 🙂
    
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    December 14, 2016 5:38pm
- Paulus
  
  The Standard is my daily laugh.
  It cheers me up regularly.
  
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  December 14, 2016 9:00am
- Paulus
  
  Have been banned from Whaleoil – don’t know why – or care. Pete’s pleasure.
  And the Standard for being contrary to their philosophy but still read for a good laugh.
  
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  December 14, 2016 1:52pm
  - Monique Watson
    
    Shit happens. I know right? Have been banned for several years now.
    
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    December 15, 2016 12:33am
Monique Watson

Oh fuck. I just googled Laila Harre and wish I hadn’t.
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December 14, 2016 8:43am
- Morrissey
  
  You definitely shouldn’t try to debate her, Monique. You’d make a fool of yourself.
  
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  December 14, 2016 10:15am
Morrissey

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Bennett comes to her first interview totally unprepared:
National has signed its death warrant with this appointment

As many feared, Paula “The Snitch” Bennett is going to be a P.R. disaster for poor Bill English’s deuxième régime….

Not too many Kiwis on social media are warming to the new deputy Prime Minister after she fronted up on TVNZ’s Breakfast programme this morning over the country’s alarming child poverty rates.

It was Paula Bennett’s chance to shine some light on how the government was considering the report, and monitoring child poverty throughout the country.

Instead, she came to the interview without reading and analysing beforehand any of the information handed down today in the Child Poverty Monitor 2016 report.

Ms Bennett’s interview did not go unnoticed by New Zealanders on Facebook. More than 140 comments were written on a 1 NEWS Facebook post about Ms Bennett’s interview – most saying they felt she wasn’t fit for the position.

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/seriously-paula-bennett-kiwis-slam-nzs-new-deputy-pm-over-lack-knowledge-child-poverty-report
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December 14, 2016 8:47am
- hmmokrightitis
  
  “Alarming child poverty” – Again, no. Its not alarming. By any standards, let alone international yes, there are some children who “live in reduced circumstances”, but poverty of any kind in NZ is not alarming, no matter how many times the MSM say it is to generate eyes on glass.
  
  And who knew that social media would be outraged. Who. Knew. 140 people, some saying shes unfit. I can guarantee I get at least 10 upticks for this comment alone saying that you’re unfit to comment here.
  
  Deal with it. The left think they will inherit the earth through social media. Aint happening.
  
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  December 14, 2016 9:02am
  - Morrissey
    
    “Its not alarming.”
    
    http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/175/315/PicardDoubleFacepalm-1.jpg
    
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    December 14, 2016 9:05am
    - Stars And Stripes
      
      The only thing I actually find alarming in New Zealand Morrissey is the complete lack of care and responsibility some parents take for their childrens welfare.
      Even more alarming is when confronted with this they will blame everything and everyone else except face up to the fact they are an abject failure and should never have been a parent in the first place.
      
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      December 14, 2016 9:11am
      - GoVege
        
        This is LEARNED behaviour, Stripes.
        Most of these hopeless parents belong to chauvinist cultures that brainwash their followers that you aren’t a “real” woman unless you have as many children as possible from as young an age as possible.
        Regardless of your ability as a parent.
        In fact, the DPB is there so that any single girl can keep dragging up kids courtesy of the taxpayers.
        
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        December 14, 2016 6:18pm
    - hmmokrightitis
      
      Wow you really got me with that photo Morrissey, I really didn’t see that coming! What can I say, your reasoned debate and clear enunciation of…well actually just meaningless adjectives is pure shit.
      
      Off you fuck.
      And EDIT to say: I asked for 10 upticks. Currently 18 after I stepped out for coffee for 30 minutes. Case for the plaintiff closes m’lud.
      
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      December 14, 2016 10:16am
      - Morrissey
        
        Oh, come ON, hmmokrightitis! I’m sure you are more than accustomed to people burying their heads in despair and disbelief at some of the bizarre statements you make.
        
        Love your take on child poverty. It’s almost as blackly humorous as the notorious Jacqueline Rowarth’s assertion about kids without shoes….
        
        https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-23092014/#comment-895173
        
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        December 14, 2016 10:26am
  - Inandout
    
    If this was a South Auckland refuse tip I would say we had poverty in NZ, but it’s not.
    
    http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/headlines/20150325/poverty.jpg
    
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    December 14, 2016 11:31am
- Keeping Stock
  
  You obviously don’t visit TVNZ’s FB page often Morrissey. It, and its opposite at Newshub are an outlet for the disenfranchised, the downtrodded and sufferers of Key Deragngement Syndrome to vent their frustrations.
  
  I wouldn’t read too much into it old bean. It’s about like saying that Bennett is a failure because commenters at The Standard said so. You get what I mean eh?
  
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  December 14, 2016 9:02am
- mandk
  
  “Not too many Kiwis on social media ..”
  
  There’s your problem, Morrissey. You live in a social media echo chamber, inhabited by a few noisy lefties, and you think you are hearing the voice of the average Kiwi.
  
  You’re not. Think: Red Peak
  
  It’s no better than listening to the voices in your head, if you have schizophrenia.
  
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  December 14, 2016 9:07am
  - Morrissey
    
    “You live in a social media environment”…
    
    Actually, I don’t. I have a Facebook account which I visit once every two months, maybe. I never use it to contact people, and I’m constantly being urged by the Facebook people to update my contacts list, whatever that means.
    
    I also have a Twitter account, which I’ve used about three times in as many years.
    
    Kiwiblog and The Standard are the Alpha and Omega of my social media life.
    
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    December 14, 2016 9:13am
    - mandk
      
      So why do you cite social media as your authority?
      
      Isn’t that actually worse than inhabiting social media? “See, I met this bloke at the pub and he told me that everyone on Facebook and Snapchat thinks John Keys only resigned because he was caught with his hand in the office coffee money jar. And he eats babies and shoots kittens with his rich mates.”
      
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      December 14, 2016 9:27am
      - Morrissey
        
        The damning evidence against Key comes not from Facebook or Snapchat but from one of New Zealand’s most respected journalists.
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGq7kuW6mjE
        
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        December 14, 2016 10:13am
      - Keeping Stock
        
        Morrissey – you’re getting confused mate. Nicky Hager is not “one of New Zealand’s most respected journalists”, but one of the most REVILED.
        
        Labour, the Greens and Internet Mana thought Hager’s carefully-planned book would be a game-changer for them last election. It was indeed a game-changer, but not in the way they had paid for. You see, most thinking New Zealanders could see that Dirty Politics was itself a fine example of dirty politics. I hope Hager writes another anti-National book this election, because he has already played that card once too often, and to do it again would guarantee a fourth-term National/Bill English-led government.
        
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        December 14, 2016 1:27pm
    - SteveRemmington
      
      “Actually, I don’t. I have a Facebook account which I visit once every two months, maybe”
      
      No friend requests huh. Sucks to be you 🙂
      
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      December 14, 2016 9:48am
      - Morrissey
        
        Oh, I have friend requests for Africa! That’s one of the things the Facebook administrators are always cautioning me against: I accept every single friend request. A great number of them, I note, seem to be from incredibly good looking young women.
        
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        December 14, 2016 10:09am
    - Garbageman
      
      Um I think you have facebook and your Russian dating site mixed up there Morrissey
      
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      December 14, 2016 11:12am
      - Morrissey
        
        Did somebody say “Russian brides”?!?!??
        
        https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bZgnx5KabfY/maxresdefault.jpg
        
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        December 14, 2016 2:41pm
- Random T Person
  
  We live in one of the most prosperous, peaceful nations on Earth. Despite that, and an incredibly generous welfare system, some people just can’t help themselves but to be toerags. That is their failing, not that of our society or the many fine upstanding TAX PAYING individuals who comprise it.
  
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  December 14, 2016 9:17am
Random T Person

Oh how I am laughing at Slater – daddy’s boy – now trying to besmirch the outstanding service delivered by John Key over 8 years. What an absolute tool. In between begging his ten regular commenters to subscribe and wailing and crying about the Bill and Paula show, and National’s rather smooth transition of power, even those few souls who comment there are increasingly getting annoyed. The entertainment is outstanding, I will give Slater that.
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December 14, 2016 8:52am
- Morrissey
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Slater was Key’s main dirty tricks agent. Any posturing now is nothing more than petty squabbling amongst reprobates.
  
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  December 14, 2016 8:56am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    /facepalm
    
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    December 14, 2016 9:13am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    “one of New Zealand’s most respected journalists.”
    
    Har bloody har.
    
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    December 14, 2016 1:16pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  Apparently Martyn Martin Bradbury has the Christmas begging bowl at at the Daily Blog as well. It sounds as though both are doing it tough.
  
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  December 14, 2016 9:16am
  - Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
    
    We should do a Marxist interpretation of the Christian Nativity story.
    
    We round up all the Kiwi Marxists like Bradbury and their families and starve them all to death in public over the Christmas break – exactly like the Marxists did to millions of their class enemies in the Ukraine earlier last century.
    
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    December 14, 2016 9:25am
    - stephieboy
      
      Jazz Hands McFeels , and what does the Christmas message got to do with a rabid alt right pagan such as yourself ?
      
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      December 14, 2016 9:34am
  - Random T Person
    
    Yes I had a bit of a laugh there, too, probably even more than at Slater because a) Bradbury isn’t as entertaining as Slater is and b) lefties are notoriously tight fisted, expecting everyone else to be generous.
    
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    December 14, 2016 9:32am
- Biscuit
  
  Agreed, Random…
  
  Poor ol’ Cam is fast becoming a parody of himself.
  
  ‘I was important once! And, if you send me $10 a week, I can be important again!’
  
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  December 14, 2016 9:41am
  - SteveRemmington
    
    If he just sorted his shit out he may do better. Less of the you can’t reign me in bullshit and more of the customer is always right attitude would help.
    
    Sadly while he is concentrating on fraticide, other people are filling the vacuum he left behind.
    
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    December 14, 2016 10:11am
- howitis
  
  The current nature of WOBH is brilliant entertainment. I confess I am drawn to it several times a day.
  It is like a train wreck but with no deaths just injury to pride.
  There is a fair bit of Wailing alright. Wailing over money. Wailing over John Key.
  Bawling over Baula – Bill and Paula.
  Next week ?? an exclusive ‘gnashing of teeth’. FYI wiki .. ‘gnashing of teeth’ .. this appears seven times in the New Testament as a description of the torments of the damned in Hell !
  
  The unemployed teacher wife has her teacher instructions on how to log in to give money – so she does not have to go and get a real job.
  Today they have some ‘exclusive’ on a forced plane landing – just like TV3 do their hyped up exclusives on a topic no-one else bothers to cover.
  
  Great entertainment I tell ya when there is nothing of consequence in NZ media.
  Hell, I am even starting to feel guilty I am not paying for this digital rag such as $18 for one movie entry 🙂
  
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  December 14, 2016 10:33am
  - Random T Person
    
    The feeling passes PDQ though, doesn’t it…
    
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    December 14, 2016 12:20pm
- VicParking
  
  His blog has gone downhill so fast in the last three months. Every second item is from him begging for money and every third Is running down Key. Its so sad to see him sliding in obscurity as in the past his articles were quite good.
  
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  December 14, 2016 1:12pm
BeeSting

While the Morons of the World truly put on a show like no other.

While they all lie and blatantly ignore the message and the teaching of Christ.

http://www.arabicbible.com/for-christians/162-syria/1827-the-significance-of-syria-in-the-bible-history-and-civilizations.html

The Pen is Mightier than the Sword

Spoken in Syria

The eight Beatitudes in Matthew 5:3–12 during the Sermon on the Mount.[4][5]
Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven. (Matthew 5:3)
Blessed are those who mourn: for they will be comforted. (5:4)
Blessed are the meek: for they will inherit the earth. (5:5)
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness: for they will be filled. (5:6)
Blessed are the merciful: for they will be shown mercy. (5:7)
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they will see God. (5:8)
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they will be called children of God. (5:9)
Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (5:10)

Merry Christmas
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December 14, 2016 8:54am
- Random T Person
  
  I saw Jesus in a piece of toast.
  
  Granted, it was on the internet and the image had been printed by a laser on the bread, but still.
  
  Merry Christmas to you too.
  
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  December 14, 2016 9:33am
- stephieboy
  
  Beesting , and how do those fine sentiments from Mathew 5: 3 -12 tally with the rabid rants you’ve put up of late ?
  
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  December 14, 2016 9:38am
Paulus

It’s nearly Christmas.

I Love new Air New Zealand’s in flight video.
I think it is great and will be liked by many.
Worth a look.
Not for Andy of course.
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December 14, 2016 8:54am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Rachel Hunter is still a fine looking woman; just sayin’.
  
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  December 14, 2016 1:30pm
Jazz-Hands Mc Feels

Progressives/Leftists hate White people.

#TheGreatErasure

“Shakespeare portrait at Univ. of Pennsylvania removed for image of black lesbian poet: Report”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/12/shakespeare-portrait-at-university-of-pennsylvania/
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December 14, 2016 9:11am
- Morrissey
  
  Fool, the Washington Times is a moonie newspaper. It’s as trustworthy as a degree from Trump U.
  
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  December 14, 2016 1:50pm
Jazz-Hands Mc Feels

Richard Spencer alt right leader says interesting things:

“Economically, Russia’s smaller than Italy. Geopolitically, it’s one of the few threats to Washington’s global order.”
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December 14, 2016 9:21am
- stephieboy
  
  JazzHands, a pity that Putin does not seem to act and feel like that ,
  
  http://europe.newsweek.com/how-putin-restoring-fallen-soviet-empire-501555?rm=eu
  
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  December 14, 2016 9:40am
  - All_on_Red
    
    How do you know how Putin feels?
    
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    December 14, 2016 9:41am
    - stephieboy
      
      this might give you some clues ,
      
      http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/713895/Vladimir-Putin-Russia-USSR-Soviet-Union
      
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      December 14, 2016 9:47am
      - All_on_Red
        
        Meh, that doesn’t describe how he feels but what policy he wants.
        Tell us Stephie, is he happy or sad?
        Really my point is- you talk a lot of shit.
        
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        December 14, 2016 9:51am
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Red , I guess you pay the price of crawling up Trump’s arse .
        
        Is Putin’s intentions for e.g Ukraine and Baltic Republics purely benevolent ?
        
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        December 14, 2016 10:00am
      - All_on_Red
        
        Of course your head is firmly up your own arse, eh Creepyone.
        
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        December 14, 2016 1:54pm
Manolo

It could’ve been written by our resident Obama fan. Slobbering over:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/obama-legacy/the-first-family.html

Through a collection of deeply reported stories, videos, photographs, documents and graphics, experience Barack Obama’s historic time in office: as the first black president, as commander in chief, as a domestic and foreign policymaker, and as a husband and father.
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December 14, 2016 9:24am
- Jazz-Hands Mc Feels
  
  Obummer’s disastrous legacy will be erased by the Trumpenreich.
  
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  December 14, 2016 9:29am
  - stephieboy
    
    Jazzhnads Mc Feels,
    
    Trumpenreich ? You’re serious ?
    
    https://pics.onsizzle.com/wakey-wake-mother-fuckers-tru-tru-wakey-wakey-welcome-to-6235594.png
    
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    December 14, 2016 9:45am
- howitis
  
  He was only half black.
  This meant he could blame his failings on the white side.
  Par for the course these days.
  
  I imagine his black half slept well while his white half lay awake at night racked with white guilt 🙂
  
  Half Black Lives Matter.
  
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  December 14, 2016 9:39pm
Ross12

Tom “die MSM die” Hunter will love this. Really interesting developments in “interactive” news TV being tested in 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVFiMbA7pA0
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December 14, 2016 9:48am
- stephieboy
  
  Ross12 , Trumpist alt media will do just fine if they for once report the facts and not Infowars type conspiracy nonsense ,
  
  http://www.infowars.com/video-heres-the-proof-that-hillary-clinton-is-a-mass-murderer/
  
  Hopefully Bill Still will also stay clear of that kind of garbage !
  
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  December 14, 2016 10:17am
  - Ross12
    
    stephieboy
    
    My post was more about the direction technology could take news reporting, which would include all sides of political debate.
    But if you want to get hung up on all this alt right , alt left , fake news rubbish keep on going.
    
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    December 14, 2016 12:16pm
Nostradamus

It seems that Auckland Council still hasn’t taken enforcement action against Penny:

Mayor Phil Goff has granted me speaking rights at tomorrow’s Auckland Council Governing Body meeting.

(WHEN : Thursday 15 December 2016.
TIME: 9.30am
WHERE: Auckland Town Hall Reception Lounge Level 2
(Open to the public – support welcome

My subject matter is as follows:

~~The High Court decision that stated: “Ms Bright, like other ratepayers, has an obligation to pay the rates that have been validly assessed as payable by her”.~~

Penny Bright
‘Anti-privatisation / anti-corruption Public Watchdog’

The High Court:
– (on 11 July 2016) dismissed Penny’s appeal from the District Court judgment against her for $34,182.56 in unpaid rates and accrued penalties up to January 2015 – we’ll need to whack another 2 years’ worth on top to bring that up to December 2016.
– (on 7 September 2016) made a costs order against Penny for $7,080.00.

The High Court also noted that “Ms Bright has not made an application for postponement of rates in accordance with the procedure provided by the Council”. Five months has now passed. If Penny still hasn’t applied for rates postponement, then Auckland Council really should take enforcement action, particularly as a High Court judge has confirmed that “Ms Bright … has an obligation to pay the rates”.
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December 14, 2016 10:01am
- ross411
  
  To be fair, keeping her hanging on there out in the public as a lone wingnut refusing to pay rates, makes anyone else who also refuses to pay rates look wingnutty for joining her.
  
  It could be considered an enforcement action that encourages others to pay their rates, not to make her pay hers that quickly.
  
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  December 14, 2016 10:18am
- stigie
  
  “The High Court also noted that “Ms Bright has not made an application for postponement”
  
  Fuck me, the bludger has had rates postponement now for 9 years. Where is the justice for the other Auckland rate payers..?
  
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  December 14, 2016 10:28am
mandk

Apologies Morrissey, I accidentally pressed the report button when I read what you wrote earlier about respected journalists.

But leaving that aside, and the fact that “respected journalists” is an oxymoron (they are actually the least respected occupation in NZ), I was gobsmacked to see that you were referring to Nicky Hager.

You’re having a laugh, aren’t you?
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December 14, 2016 10:40am
Southern Raider

Seriously fucks me off that the Herald and co are running headlines about “Kiwi bosses” exploiting migrant workers when these bosses are predominantly other migrants.

This risks foreign media picking these stories up and ruining NZs reputation as a far and inclusive place to live and use of term Kiwis suggests those born here.

They should be called what they are and deported
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December 14, 2016 10:49am
Manolo

The WaPo goes paranoid:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/13/rex-tillerson-pick-russian-puppet/

If you were to read the mainstream media, you’d think Rex Tillerson, the CEO of ExxonMobil and President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state, were a puppet of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“Rex Tillerson’s Russia problem,” The Washington Post wrote in headline above the fold on Tuesday.
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December 14, 2016 11:11am
- Rich Prick
  
  I can understand the Washington Post being upset. Tillerson simply isn’t qualified for the job. He’s not corrupt enough.
  
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  December 14, 2016 11:24am
  - stephieboy
    
    Rich Prick . you , of course , can assure us that alt right media is totally free from corruption or other blemishes ?
    
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/16/media-bias-against-donald-trump-lies
    
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    December 14, 2016 11:33am
    - Rich Prick
      
      I’m not required to do anything. And for fuck’s sake, punctuation does not belong in the wilderness between words.
      
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      December 14, 2016 11:52am
    - Andrei
      
      One of the greatest things about Donald Trump’s victory is watching the meltdown among the people who think they are the elites
      
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      December 14, 2016 11:55am
      - stephieboy
        
        Andrei , and Putin’s Russia is not without its own elites ?
        
        http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/12097557/Russias-elite-remain-vulnerable-to-Putins-whim-warns-ousted-ally.html
        
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        December 14, 2016 12:00pm
- Jack5
  
  Amazon magnate Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post.
  
  Maybe he’s positioning himself for talks to get an Amazon toehold in Russia.
  
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  December 14, 2016 11:43am
- tom hunter
  
  Funny how eight years ago all the problems the USA had with Russia could be laid at the feet of GW Bush and his “cowboy” diplomacy. Supposedly GW’s antics had “frightened” Putin into responding as he had.
  
  A good dose of Smart Power, led by uber-diplomat Hillary Clinton and backed by the smooth talking worshipper of the UN and endless diplomacy, Barack Obama, would calm the waters and lead to good things in partnership with the Russians. Not to mention Obama’s 2012 words to Medvedev to pass on the information that after the election Obama could be more “flexible” in meeting Russian demands.
  
  But now that’s it’s all turned to shit and there’s no GW to blame the focus can be placed on Trump and company, as well as the Russians this time.
  
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  December 14, 2016 1:13pm
- Morrissey
  
  You’ve just quoted a Moonie newspaper. Idiot.
  
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  December 14, 2016 1:48pm
  - Awww C-mon
    
    pot – kettle
    
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    December 14, 2016 4:00pm
- Lucia Maria
  
  So funny that the Washington Times doesn’t consider itself part of the mainstream media. It’s always that other media outlet, the ones we disagree with.
  
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  December 14, 2016 2:39pm
  - Morrissey
    
    The Washington Times is owned by the Unification Church—the Moonies. I’m sad to have to say that I am not a bit surprised to see so many Kiwibloggers quoting it as if it’s a reliable or respectable paper.
    
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    December 14, 2016 2:48pm
Manolo

Will the Russians be responsible for Mamma Merkel’s fall?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-13/merkel-s-party-says-putin-would-like-to-see-her-fall-in-2017

German voters would hand a victory to Russian President Vladimir Putin if they ousted Chancellor Angela Merkel in next year’s election, a leader of her party said.

A defeat of Angela Merkel would be quite a success for Putin” and German policy makers need to be on guard against any attempt to “manipulate elections,” Grosse-Broemer told reporters in Berlin.
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December 14, 2016 11:22am
- Jack5
  
  Will either Bill English or the Labour-Greens be blaming Putin after next year’s NZ election?
  
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  December 14, 2016 11:40am
  - stephieboy
    
    jack5 , why would Putin be bothered with our elections unless of course a sympathetic Trumpist leader or party were contesting ?
    
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    December 14, 2016 11:49am
    - All_on_Red
      
      Given how Putin continues to makes fools of Obama and Clinton it defies logic for him to want someone as unpredictable as Trump as President. Far better to have someone as useless as Hillary to keep fucking over.
      Assange has said the Russians had nothing to do with the hacking
      
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      December 14, 2016 4:28pm
Jack5

Bill Gates seems to be on board the Trump political ship.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4030010/Trump-new-JFK-says-Bill-Gates-Microsoft-boss-says-new-president-unite-country-innovation-pair-meet.html
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December 14, 2016 11:22am
- stephieboy
  
  Jack 5 , President Obama also had a warm cordial relationship with Bill Gates ,especially on the alternative energies front .
  
  Here Bill Gates and his wife receiving one of the Highest award that can be bestowed by a President – The Presidential medal of freedom .
  
  http://fortune.com/2016/11/17/president-obama-bill-melinda-gates/
  
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  December 14, 2016 11:55am
  - Morrissey
    
    Bill Gates needs to pay his taxes. And instead of bestowing spurious honors on the likes of Gates, Obama should be doing some real work—like apologizing to Edward Snowden and Julian Assange, releasing Chelsea Manning from her political prison sentence, indicting the cops who have murdered hundreds of black citizens this year, much of the hits being captured on film, then there’s the drone assassination program….
    
    What the F*CK is he even talking to Bill Bates for, again?
    
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    December 14, 2016 2:25pm
Johnboy

Say what you like about JK’s rule (as Gould has) but at least he was never seen in $1700 leather pants! 🙂
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December 14, 2016 11:43am
- Nostradamus
  
  Johnboy:
  
  He wasn’t seen in a pair of $89 underpants either!
  
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  December 14, 2016 12:36pm
Manolo

Darwin Awards Honorable Mention to this two stoned members of the Green Party:
Paul Stiller, 47, and his wife Bonnie were bored just driving around at 2 A.M.so they lit a quarter stick of dynamite to toss out the window to see what would happen.

Apparently they failed to notice that the window was closed.
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December 14, 2016 11:51am
- stephieboy
  
  Manolo , despite these alleged hi jinks the commie Greens can still command 12% voter support .
  
  The alt-right zero zilch !
  
  What’s going on there ?
  
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  December 14, 2016 12:05pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Manolo:
  
  This Darwin Award seems topical:
  
  September 1999 saw conflict in Jerusalem of an unusual nature, or so the Darwin Awards claim. Israel’s government switched from daylight savings time a year early to accommodate pre-sunrise prayers, while the Palestinian Authority refused to live on “Zionist time”.
  
  A group of Palestinians attempted to synchronise the detonation of two car bombs in the city. But the timers had been set on Palestinian time while the drivers were running on Israeli time. The bombs exploded an hour early, killing both.
  
  Another reason to ban daylight saving!
  
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  December 14, 2016 1:14pm
  - Morrissey
    
    The Darwin Award for 2014 goes to beleaguered ACT cult leader Jamie “Lock Up His Daughters” Whyte, who dreamed up a brilliant scheme to get his posse some respect: he positioned ACT as the party of incest and bestiality.
    
    http://www.ibtimes.com.au/incest-marrriage-new-zealand-act-leader-jamie-whyte-stands-his-incest-comments-1333614
    
    The Darwin Award for 2015 goes to one Cameron Fat Fuk Slater, who moronically challenged a professional athlete to a boxing match. Fat fool hit the deck in eight seconds. Newshub reported the debacle like this:
    
    Former Black Cap Jesse Ryder has eviscerated Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater in a matter of seconds for a KO win at the Super Eight fight card in Christchurch.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUdYgBhF9-w
    
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    December 14, 2016 1:59pm
Andrei

People fill the streets of Aleppo to celebrate its liberation
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December 14, 2016 12:34pm
- thedavincimode
  
  The ones Putin missed?
  
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  December 14, 2016 1:18pm
  - Reid
    
    Apparently there are ten morons and counting, who still hallucinate Assad is a baddie and so are the Russians.
    
    How extraordinary.
    
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    December 14, 2016 6:14pm
    - Lucia Maria
      
      Quite a few are familiar with history and who typically cannot be trusted and who can.
      
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      December 14, 2016 6:46pm
      - Reid
        
        Well, I am anyway, Lucia. Not sure about you though. Your record doesn’t stack up very well.
        
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        December 14, 2016 6:58pm
      - Lucia Maria
        
        Says the guy who won’t study the Holocaust but happily throws Holohoax around.
        
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        December 14, 2016 7:34pm
    - Reid
      
      I’ve explained many times Lucia most recently last weekend, I use that label to refer to the propaganda phenomena surrounding that event, not the event itself. It’s not rocket science, yet you fail to grasp this elementary point. How extraordinary.
      
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      December 14, 2016 7:43pm
      - Lucia Maria
        
        Yes, yes Reid. You’re not interested in the history of the event, which is weird, because I would have thought that given your lack of success in convincing most people (except for EAD) of your POV, that you might have broadened your reading a little by giving yourself an anchor into reality.
        
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        December 14, 2016 8:21pm
    - SPC
      
      Means and ends. Turn the city into rubble to recapture the territory.
      
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      December 14, 2016 8:58pm
starboard

Craig Foss stepping down according to Stuff…
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December 14, 2016 1:19pm
- thedavincimode
  
  Well, he got that seat back and then … er … well, nothing really.
  
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  December 14, 2016 1:22pm
  - Viking2
    
    Foss has worked a lot in the SMB area. and been seen doing that.
    
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    December 14, 2016 2:34pm
- PhilP
  
  Just heard a Labour man on radio say that their Woman candidate from 2014 will win Tukituki off National in 2017 but that will mean one less LIST MP for them.
  
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  December 14, 2016 1:42pm
starboard

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/87551682/iconic-maori-singer-bunny-walters-dies

Shame, kinda liked his old music. RIP matey.
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December 14, 2016 1:22pm
- thedavincimode
  
  wot a ferkin’ lame arse downtick.
  
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  December 14, 2016 1:29pm
  - stigie
    
    All i can say is the downticker sniffs panties !~
    
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    December 14, 2016 1:38pm
- Brigitte
  
  I think his best known song was Brandy (a ‘cover’ of Mandy by Barry Manilow): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfCT1vIqjlM
  
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  December 14, 2016 1:59pm
  - Swifty
    
    Brigitte, the other way around I believe. Bunny recorded ‘Brandy’ in 72 and Manilow ‘Mandy’ in 74. That’s as I remember it anyway.
    
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    December 14, 2016 2:12pm
    - Brigitte
      
      Yes, you are correct – my mistake (and I haven’t even been drinking). I think the backing vocals on Brandy are the Yandell Sisters.
      
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      December 14, 2016 2:32pm
Johnboy

He was almost as iconic as Billy! 🙂
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December 14, 2016 1:34pm
Happychappy

Between the three opposition Leaders they asked four questions to the Prime Minister and were given a lesson and completely outclassed by the new Prime Minister In question time today.
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December 14, 2016 3:05pm
Fletch

Tucker Carlson has yet another liberal professor on who reckons the Russians stole the election, but can’t say how.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmshoGr0dTw

It’s easy to see, when questioned directly, these people are full of shit. Making claims they can’t back up.
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December 14, 2016 3:05pm
- Rich Prick
  
  That’s the problem, liberals live by feelings about things. Ask for evidence and they can’t provide it, or they offer their feelings as facts.
  
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  December 14, 2016 3:28pm
- All_on_Red
  
  I see the guy was just reduced to the tactic of constantly talking to avoid answering the specific question- lol
  Wa wa wa- it’s funny to watch all the meltdowns.
  
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  December 14, 2016 4:22pm
- Lucia Maria
  
  Fletch, it pains me to do this to you…
  
  However, you are not engaging the material at the standard I would expect of a thinking person.
  
  The interviewer is hung up on a phrase the professor admits was hyperbole. When the professor explains a number of times what he meant, ie hyperbole, what that hyperbole meant, how the Russians influenced the elections, what they expected to happen and how surprised they must have been that doing stuff to hurt Hillary seems to have tilted the election in favour of Trump, etc .. and that’s what I got from just listening to half of it.
  
  And speaking of being questioned directly and not being able to respond, here’s something for you: some comments with questions (one, two) from yesterday you didn’t see or chose to ignore.
  
  And did you read the article I recommended? Here it is again: Trump Declares War on the Intelligence Community. The most ironic paragraph from that article, especially given how you’ve been banging on about Hillary’s emails was this:
  
  Team Trump seems to have a short-term memory problem, since we all just witnessed Hillary Clinton’s undoing in EmailGate, which helped drag her campaign down to defeat. Once word got out about her mishandling of classified information, which the Democratic nominee tried to blame on everyone but herself—including the spooks—the outraged IC retaliated by leaking just how bad EmailGate really was. I know, because I broke a lot of those stories right here.
  
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  December 14, 2016 6:19pm
minto57

When is immigration going to do its job instead of allowing corruption to fester. If they are foreign born they should stripped of their passport /residency as they are of poor character

Fing arseholes!
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December 14, 2016 3:08pm
SPC

The Brazil Senate has passed a change to the constitution (had a ¾ majority) to limit government spending increases to within the past years inflation amount.

An attempt to make dissuade the poor from voting for better education, housing and health services – because no government would apparently be able to deliver without a ¾ majority to change the constitution first. Thailand has done something similar, but more targeted, making government subsidies to rice farmers illegal.

Of course given this is Brazil and inflation is what it is – imagine the impact of a left wing government that wanted even higher inflation so it could spend more – how would they campaign to the effect they could get around the constraint in this way?
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December 14, 2016 3:20pm
Fletch

According to my Facebook feed, Jacinda Adern is running for Mt Albert….

https://www.facebook.com/jacindaardern/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED&fref=nf
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December 14, 2016 4:38pm
- Awww C-mon
  
  It’s gotta be on!
  
  For me, the Nats have to through the kitchen sink at this, even if it’s unwinnable as by-elections seem to be to make the Marquess squirm under some heat, put some strain on the relationships within Labour and empty out their bank account.
  
  Foot on the throat and lean hard!!!
  
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  December 14, 2016 5:58pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Andrew Little on Jacinda Ardern’s expression of interest:
    
    Labour leader Andrew Little said he supports Ardern’s bid and expects a “long queue” of candidates “because there was last time we had a selection required in Mt Albert”. “We are constantly talent scouting, we have a growing black book and I think it will be an interesting exercise when we announce a candidate for Auckland Central too.”
    
    When you google “black book” and “meaning” the first hit that comes up:
    
    black book
    noun: black book; plural noun: black books
    a book containing a list of secret contacts, or of the names of people liable to be punished.
    “he lists his sexual conquests in his little black book”
    
    Someone should ask Andrew Little to tell us more about his “black book” – I could do with a laugh!
    
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    December 14, 2016 6:26pm
rightoverlabour

Stuff, being dickheads again. http://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2016/12/unbelievably-racist-headlines-stuff/#more-286281

Something sensible from WO for a change.
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December 14, 2016 4:47pm
rightoverlabour

And brilliant stuff from Breitbart….

The left must HATE Milo – Intelligent, erudite and Catholic, Gay (with Black Boyfriends), Trump supporter, Anti Feminist, Global Warming Skeptic. If you have not yet, look at his youtube clips.

http://www.breitbart.com/milo/2016/12/13/milo-black-lives-matter-last-socially-acceptable-hate-group/
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December 14, 2016 4:55pm
rightoverlabour

People often ask why so many people have emmigrated from South Africa. This may give you an idea….

https://zwnews.com/2016/12/08/news-from-mzansi-today/
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December 14, 2016 5:35pm
Nostradamus

Yesterday Nasska told us:

Once again Masterton has led the world of fashion.

Apparently pyjamas and onesies have become glamorous streetwear in Masterton – at least for a certain demographic.

But when it comes to leading the world of fashion, they’re w-a-y out there in South Auckland:

A child-sized mannequin dressed in a red t-shirt stands at the front of a clothing store in the Mangere Town Centre emblazoned with the words “My mum can smash anyone”.

There is another, too, which reads, “My dad can smash anyone”. It’s available in purple as well and the t-shirts are a size four – child size.

The old saying comes to mind: pick on someone your own size!
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December 14, 2016 6:15pm
- nasska
  
  …..”pick on someone your own size”…..
  
  Tough advice to follow in South Auckland where a flyweight would be about 22 stone.
  
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  December 14, 2016 6:38pm
Odakyu-sen

I tried Steinlager’s Tokyo Dry for the first time today. It reminds me of Steinlager Pure, but with a more intense carbonation and longer lingering fizz on the tongue.
Has anyone got any links to a review?
It’s not bad, but it’s very different from Asahi Superdry.
I need to try it back-to-back with Pure and Superdry.
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December 14, 2016 6:26pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  I’m rather partial to Asahi Odakyu-sen. Our favourite restaurant in Whanganui is a Japanese one, and the Asahi is always chilled to perfection.
  
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  December 14, 2016 6:42pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    If you ever go to the Tokyo area, two beer gardens I can recommend are: 1) the Hikawa Maru (an old permanently anchored passenger vessel) in Yokohama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikawa_Maru-class_ocean_liner
    and 2) the Kirin Yokoyamam Beer Village http://www.yokohamajapan.com/things-to-do/kirin-yokohama-beer-village/
    
    I remember drinking beer at the Village one sultry summer evening at twilight, and seeing the little bats fly above looking for bugs. The humidity and heat of the Kanto summer make the beer taste divine.
    
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    December 14, 2016 6:50pm
    - Keeping Stock
      
      We’re hoping to be in Japan for the 2019 RWC.
      
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      December 14, 2016 7:48pm
- Reid
  
  You should give Peroni a try. It’s not the same as Asahi but it’s up there.
  
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  December 14, 2016 6:44pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    I like Peroni very mcuh!
    
    (Opps. Too much Tokyo Dry….)
    
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    December 14, 2016 6:51pm
Keeping Stock

DPF was tweeting earlier that a Green resignation/retirement or two is imminent. Could Metiria be about to get a real job?
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December 14, 2016 6:40pm
- Reid
  
  Would you give her one?
  
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  December 14, 2016 6:44pm
  - rangitoto
    
    Could you rephrase that please.
    
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    December 14, 2016 7:31pm
  - thedavincimode
    
    ewww 🙁
    
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    December 14, 2016 7:55pm
- nasska
  
  ….”Could Metiria be about to get a real job?”….
  
  Get real. What could she do?
  
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  December 14, 2016 6:47pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Restaurant reviewer? (The wine and cheese scene has been crying out for a replacement since Jonathan Hunt departed NZ.)
    
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    December 14, 2016 7:02pm
    - Reid
      
      She could be an organiser for whatever is the name of that stupid role-play game she plays, attracting nerds worldwide to her “castle.”
      
      Lucy Lawless could be a big draw there, and Material’s got the pull.
      
      Considering how many other completely mental enterprises actually get off the ground and even moderately succeed, I don’t think she has a chance. Plus I think her and Lucy would probably have a falling out which could result in the castle ~~being~~ burnt down. But you never know, d’ya.
      
      I wish her well. I think the more encouraging we are, the more it may actually happen. It’s like The Secret, only real.
      
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      December 14, 2016 7:11pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Just for you Reid…
        
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        December 14, 2016 7:20pm
      - stigie
        
        She could teach people to speak Maori, i hear she’s very good at it..?//
        
        Nostra could prove me wrong and put a video up !~
        
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        December 14, 2016 7:49pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Stigie:
        
        I feel you would be a more focused student, and achieve better Te Reo proficiency, under Catherine Delahunty as your private tutor!
        
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        December 14, 2016 8:06pm
      - stigie
        
        Inspiring thanks Nostra, fucking inspiring..?
        
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        December 14, 2016 8:14pm
- Happychappy
  
  She can’t be helping the green cause by her insistence to do a very poor job of speaking Maori in Question Time.
  
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  December 14, 2016 7:10pm
  - Reid
    
    No but she tried HC. Apparently, that’s the point.
    
    Maybe what we as a nation ought to do, is become so inspired by her brave example that every single one of us begins speaking our version of Te Reo to every single Maori we met anywhere anytime, which they have to appreciate because: “we’re trying.”
    
    Just imagine how complicated that would be for the policy analysts, the bureaucrats, the lefties and the politicians to come up with a solution to this bedevilling “crisis.” Just imagine how many briefings, committee meetings, endless endless drafts and re-drafts just to deal with us trying to be kind.
    
    Meanwhile, Maori in the street are becoming shall we say unhappy with all this undue attention not to mention Te Reo is being unbearably mangled in their eyes so they decide, using their warrior gene, to withdraw their support from the Greens and take utu on them, in due course.
    
    So what do you say? Shall we do it?
    
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    December 14, 2016 7:22pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Metiria Turei returns with a surprise after a four-week sabbatical
      
      If you were left wondering last year where Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei was for four weeks, all has been revealed. The 45-year-old made her speaking debut in the House on Tuesday in te reo Maori. It wasn’t a flawless delivery, but it was testament to her hard work in learning her language during her special leave – and being confident enough to use it.
      
      Did this “special leave” affect her entitlement to a taxpayer-funded salary?
      
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      December 14, 2016 7:29pm
      - Reid
        
        So I would expect the Nats to tear her a new one for this. Why does the taxpayer need to fund a “sabbatical” to do this? Why can’t she take Te Reo in her own time with her own money, like everyone else?
        
        They wouldn’t have under Key. Controversial, you see. Can’t have that. Won’t have that. Didn’t have that.
        
        Will they under English?
        
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        December 14, 2016 7:39pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Reid:
        
        There’s an even more disturbing revelation in that article:
        
        She said she took time off to commit to learning because it was hard to learn new things in her job.
        
        Now that’s seriously a WTF moment right there?
        
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        December 14, 2016 7:58pm
      - Keeping Stock
        
        Reid – that story is dated February 2016. And the Nats didn’t need to tear her a new one; she did it to herself.
        
        Mind you, Hekia Parata got her a beauty a few weeks ago. Turei read her scripted Te Reo Maori question haltingly; Parata answered in Te Reo Maori with fluency, barely browsing at her notes. And when Turei complained that Parata hadn’t answered the question, Parata replied that indeed she had, in Te Reo Maori!
        
        https://youtu.be/29MzOW8cKLw
        
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        December 14, 2016 7:59pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        I do hope Metiria Turei didn’t record this cringeworthy video while she was on “special leave” from Parliament. My goodness – this video (particularly at the 1:20 mark) has to be seen to be believed!
        
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        December 14, 2016 8:15pm
    - nasska
      
      ….”So what do you say? Shall we do it?”….
      
      Yes! Definitely yes!
      
      I reckon that if I was Maori I’d probably be driven to extremes of homicidal rage listening to condescending wankers mangling my language.
      
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      December 14, 2016 7:53pm
      - Reid
        
        Wouldn’t it be awful.
        
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        December 14, 2016 8:16pm
Reid

The Saudi opposition rump SNC group quickly claimed that the war would go on, with no one in the UN demanding sanctions on those countries supporting terrorism in Syria. Our work as journalists is not done until they are booed in shame, wherever they show their faces…

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/12/13/aleppo-freed-biggest-us-defeat-since-vietnam/
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December 14, 2016 7:04pm
Fletch

The media going on about Trump not attending his intelligence briefings. Well, Obama only attended 42% of ALL his.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2775047/Report-White-House-intelligence-gap-Obama-skipping-FOUR-seven-daily-briefings.html

He even missed the security briefing the day after the Benghazi attack, because he had better things to do – like fly off to Vegas to fundraise for the upcoming election.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/obama-did-not-ask-for-an-intel-brief-the-day-after-the-benghazi-attack/article/2003059
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December 14, 2016 7:17pm
- Reid
  
  It’s a concern he’s incurious at this early stage ain’t it.
  
  He said they were repetitious which surprises me, I’d have thought they had more than enough material globally to keep him interested. Speculating but maybe Obama’s put some limitations on it. OTOH not speculating, maybe the press are just lying and exaggerating as they always do with him, which won’t be changing until they go out of business.
  
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  December 14, 2016 7:29pm
- Lucia Maria
  
  So, is Obama likely to have attended more than Trump ever will and that is a good thing or a bad thing. I’m not sure what you are saying here.
  
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  December 14, 2016 7:44pm
RF

Just seen the Air NZ safety video. Crap !!!!!!!

Very confusing to passengers interested in aircraft passenger safety but ok if you are interested in NZ has-beens who are trying to regain their lost youth.

Even Hosking looked embarrassed.

Lord of Rings video was miles ahead.
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December 14, 2016 7:31pm
- itstricky
  
  interested in NZ has-beens
  
  I’ve heard Hosking called many things but ‘has-been’ isn’t one of them. Maybe it is about that time, he is a bit stale…
  
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  December 14, 2016 9:01pm
RF

Watching the final stages of parliament with Ron Mark mouthing off at the Govt. What a nasty POS.

Looking at Mark & Peters they should rename NZ First as the Pigmy Party.
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December 14, 2016 7:42pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  Shouldn’t that be Pig Me Party. Both seem to love supping from the trough.
  
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  December 14, 2016 9:21pm
Reid

“I’ve come to realize that the biggest problem anywhere in the world, is that people’s perceptions of reality are compulsively filtered through the screening mesh of what they want and do not want to be true.” -Travis Walton
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December 14, 2016 8:11pm
- SPC
  
  Sounds like a complaint that people are allowed to think for themselves, or that others hold a differing opinion to himself as to what the truth is.
  
  Sure people do that through their prejudices, but so do powers that be or powers that would be whom would like to control what the (common) people believe.
  
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  December 14, 2016 9:38pm
nasska

From a Yank blog site:

I am truly perplexed that so many people are against mosques being built. I think it should be the goal of every Western Society to be tolerant regardless of their religious beliefs. Thus mosques should be allowed, in an effort to promote tolerance.

That is why I also propose that two nightclubs be opened next door to the mosque, thereby promoting tolerance from within the mosque. We could call one of the clubs, which would be gay, “The Turban Cowboy “, and the other a topless bar called “You Mecca Me Hot.”

Next door should be a butcher shop that specializes in pork, and adjacent to that an open-pit barbecue pork restaurant, called “Iraq o’ Ribs.”

Across the street there could be a lingerie store called “Victoria Keeps Nothing Secret “, with sexy mannequins in the window modeling the goods.

Next door to the lingerie shop there would be room for an adult sex toy shop, “Koranal Knowledge “, its name in flashing neon lights, and on the other side an off-licence called “Morehammered.”

All of this would encourage Muslims to demonstrate the tolerance they demand of us, so their mosque issue would not be a problem for others.
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December 14, 2016 8:26pm
- Manolo
  
  I reckon the suggested approach could be tried in Mt Roskill.
  
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  December 14, 2016 9:34pm
SPC

Criminalising lack of display of patriotism, in requiring a display of patriotism.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-38298821

The legal requirement of standing for the anthem reminds one of the call (music) to worship in Babylon mentioned in the bible.
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December 14, 2016 9:10pm
Jack5

The feministas take the stake of the Massey University chancellor over his remarks about women veterinarians.

I think he questioned the economic return on training them because, due to the fact that they want to be mums, too, the country gets less work-years out of them than it does from male vets.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11767019

I’ll get in first, apologise, and do my punishment :

We must not question femininist doctrine.
We must not question femininist doctrine.
We must not question femininist doctrine.
We must not question femininist doctrine.
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December 14, 2016 10:27pm
Jack5

Re the Massey feministas (my 10.27 post) …

Sorry for my thick typing fingers, or for an over-enthusiastic spell checker in my word processor, but I meant to say:

The feministas take the ~~stake~~ scalp of the Massey University chancellor over his remarks about women veterinarians.
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December 14, 2016 10:37pm
Manolo

The mole is at risk: the knives are out.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/12/huma-abedin-life-after-clinton
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December 15, 2016 6:16am
Manolo

A true shyster:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/12/14/stein-spent-nearly-1-million-recount-funds-on-consultants-staff-admin-expenses.html

Stein, who pushed for recounts in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, raised $7.3 million for the efforts and said that “every dollar” went towards costs associated with the recount efforts. The group, which claimed costs associated with the recounts hit $7.4 million, upped their fundraising goal four times since first calling for recounts.

According to a breakdown of expenses contained on the fund’s website, Stein paid nearly $1 million on consultants and staff.
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