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Colville

A nice day for Homegrown in Welly today.

Bouncing with the young things 🙂
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March 4, 2017 8:04am
- pdm
  
  Hope it holds for tomorrow. We are bringing a granddaughter through for a job interview.
  
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  March 4, 2017 8:57am
oldpark

Was wondering which is worse. A shortage of properties to rent,in Wellington,or a shortage of landlords prepared to buy into the rental market. Just been reading a story about the massive shortage of rental properties in Wellington. The solution,by a clown from the Liebour/Green Parties,called Twyford is for long term tenancies for tenants, IRD to purge so called capital gains,on speculators. Same pest Twyford called for anyone buying rental property with chinky names, had to be purged. Landlords have had enough,and stopped buying into a risky business. Especially being liable for methamphetamine infestation,and now responsible for tenant damage to a degree,if we accept a recent court ruling. Seems Liebour/Green Party are behind the shortage of rental properties,it is ratbags like Twyford,who want all rights for tenants,and none for all the “nasty” landlords who take all the investment risks,little wonder there is a massive shortage of rental properties to lease.
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March 4, 2017 8:17am
- Pateke
  
  Agree completely. We have sold our rental properties for exactly that reason. All went to first home buyers rather than rental investments. Investments! Anything but.
  
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  March 4, 2017 9:04am
- peterwn
  
  What the Left won’t say is they would like to see the whole rental market nationalised to take pesky private landlords right out of the equation. As if this would help completely – for example I knew someone who was complaining about the attitude of a manager of Council owned rentals.
  
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  March 4, 2017 9:12am
- Peter
  
  Ex-Wellington landlord here.
  
  Tenants don’t pay enough to achieve a decent return vs the risk. Legal conditions onerous on landlords. Better returns, and less stress, to be had elsewhere.
  
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  March 4, 2017 9:32am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  So – cultural marxists’ goal achieved.
  
  They’ve successfully turned the providers (ie pvt landlords) in to the enemy.
  
  The thing that has to be understood is that there are not any rational policy goals for all the Left’s attacks on private capital. Their interest is not in fixing the housing crisis at all – none of their “solutions” are feasible.
  
  This is part of a wider attempt to destroy capitalism in every tiny corner of society! Their tool for achieving this is to make the welfare system so unsustainable that it collapses into their endgame solution of a universal basic income.
  
  Every so often a cretinoid marxist (like Little) will slip up and mention their UBI holy grail it’ll surface from time to time in guises like the virtue-signalling “Living Wage”. But the only place where this moronic idea can float (and even then for a fleetingly short time) is in a post-capitalism world.
  
  Like the dude who told us “in the future fascists will call themselves anti-fascists” said “Capitalism isn’t a good system, it’s just that it’s so much better than all the others”.
  
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  March 4, 2017 10:29am
- RF
  
  A while ago Twit Twyford was told by Angry to pull his head in owing to stupid comments he was making that attracted media attention.
  
  My sources tell me he got a bollocking for grabbing headlines. You will remember he was being quoted virtually everyday.
  
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  March 4, 2017 12:39pm
sooty

How was your week Andy? I think you had a clanger. Shafted Annette as well. I think you are on the slippery downhill greasey slope. You will never be PM. If by chance it did come about that there was a cobbled up gathering of loons, the position of PM would go to Winston. He has more acceptability than you and may even have more seats. Labour will never be the same again. Jacinda has something you will never have an elected seat. You are just a scummy list mp with no balls and only a seat warmer!
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March 4, 2017 8:22am
- pdm
  
  There – got that off your chest Sooty.
  
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  March 4, 2017 9:01am
- Old.Mickey.Blue.Eyes
  
  To be clear, there is no vacancy for the position of labour party leader.
  
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  March 4, 2017 9:38am
  - Happychappy
    
    Andrew Little is very busy cleaning up all the gaffs he has made on social media. Mr Kirton has asked all Labour MPs to remove any embarrassment like photos when intoxicated so not to give other Parties the opportunity to use their stupidity against Labour. So maybe Andrew will be kept busy for a while is it might take a week or so for him to remove the hundreds of fuck ups he has produced.
    
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    March 4, 2017 11:36am
    - sooty
      
      Never ever get rid off them, they are retained on the internet for ever!
      
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      March 4, 2017 12:29pm
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    As I said the other day, yes there is.
    
    The issue is that the little one has not acknowledged that point yet and the current impasse suits those who want to be able to spend the fruits of their labour as they wish and not as some bloody socialist directs.
    
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    March 4, 2017 12:40pm
Happychappy

Is the penis lolly man getting practice on finance to take over sweet cheeks portfolio. Another of Andrew Littles Union Delegates that is trying to shed his dick head statement from the past and preaching the Labour leaders tax policy. Surely the cracks will start to open in the Labour ranks if the new blood are left to make statements on another MPs responsibility.
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March 4, 2017 8:22am
Nukuleka

In the bad old days of the Soviet Union and its communist allies in Eastern Europe the Olympics and sports in general were frequently rocked by the sight of female athletes with the physiques of men competing and winning medals in sports such as weightlifting and shot put. In 2017 it is now a matter of ‘human rights’ that men, presumably boosted by massive doses of hormones, are able to legitimately compete as women if the fancy takes them. The NZ Herald tells us that one such is Gavin Hubbard, known as Laurel, who has been selected to compete for NZ as a woman in the upcoming Australian International Weightlifting Competition. Not surprisingly Lauren has a considerable advantage over female rivals, including our Rio De Janiero Olympic rep Tracey Lambrechs.

Oh what a thorny path lies ahead of sport in the pursuit of ‘human rights’.
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March 4, 2017 8:23am
- Huevon
  
  Dick Hubbard’s son. It breaks your heart.
  
  Does he tuck or did he got for the Chop?
  
  Truly, we live in bizarro world.
  
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  March 4, 2017 8:53am
  - stephieboy
    
    Huevon ,
    
    “Truly, we live in bizarro world.”
    
    Another rich irony alert old cock !
    
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    March 4, 2017 9:15am
  - big bruv
    
    I dont mind at all if a bloke wants to wear a dress, same goes for a chick, if she wants to cut her hair short, walk like a bloke and talk like a bloke all power to her. However, do not expect me to, or demand that I must address a cock in a frock a female, or a chick in Doc Martins as a bloke.
    There are only two genders, can we please stop pretending there are more.
    
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    March 4, 2017 9:45am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    I’m a firm believer of Milo’s view about gender…. he said there are only three genders: male, female and retarded
    
    I can’t believe how discriminatory to the mentally handicapped your post is.
    
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    March 4, 2017 10:32am
- Chuck Bird
  
  What I do not understand if I have things right is a normal woman who happens have too high a testosterone level can be banned. Does anyone know if I am right?
  
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  March 4, 2017 9:08am
- Psycho Milt
  
  This is real facepalm stuff:
  
  “She competed for a long time as a man and her efforts were very strong. That strength has remained with her despite reduced testosterone.
  
  “That point is not recognised by the science and some of our competitors would say that’s not fair.”
  
  Well, yes, they will say it’s not fair, because, uh, duh-uh, it’s not fair. That’s why they set up separate competitions for men and women in the first place, Numbnuts! As a professional sports administrator you shouldn’t find that difficult to figure out.
  
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  March 4, 2017 9:30am
  - reid3
    
    Since PM its your team that’s responsible for the introduction of these policies through its non-stop adherence to and promotion of the feminist social engineering agenda – which includes all the ism crap it’s not just confined to wimmin’s rights feminism covers a whole swathe of initiatives – why do people like you and say, the guy from Bowally Road, people who are capable of and almost certainly do, see straight through it and can separate the genuine good bits from the crap designed specifically for evil engineering, not say anything at all about it from an insider’s perspective?
    
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    March 4, 2017 10:53am
  - Psycho Milt
    
    As someone who’s been referred to on blog comments threads more than once as a “transphobic douchebag,” I don’t think my views are necessarily representative of “my team.”
    
    However, the left are entirely correct in not wanting actual transphobic douchebags to get away with mocking, abusing, discriminating against and assaulting harmless people who have a mental problem.
    
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    March 4, 2017 11:48am
wiseowl

Nuku
It just should not be allowed to happen.
Like should compete against like.
They need a category of ‘transgender’ because there is no way someone who is identifying as something other than female should compete against females.
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March 4, 2017 8:31am
- holysheet
  
  Why stop at transgender?
  You cannot discriminate against all the other …..gender (fill in the blank ) sweet cheek types.
  
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  March 4, 2017 8:49am
- Huevon
  
  My guess is the organisers know that if they let this man compete they avoid a world of stress. Imagine every B grade celebrity, Dame Susan, the Lugenpress and every other leftist lunatic screaming blue murder if they excluded the guy.
  
  Best to run the competition and hope the guy gets the subtle message. The real women will recognise the real winners, anyway.
  
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  March 4, 2017 11:59am
  - wiseowl
    
    Just been talking to a mate who has a son at local high school in Hawkes Bay.
    They have appointed a FULL TIME staff member to deal with transgender, lesbian , gay students.
    
    How much is this pc bs going to cost the taxpayer now if this is repeated around the country?
    
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    March 4, 2017 2:05pm
krazykiwi

So I’ve been away for a while. Actually about 5 years at a guess. I got very busy with a new business, then flogging that business and going back to work in an evil corporate empire, and now back into a new business which is in a quiet phase. Family all grown up. Bike accidents. World travel. Over this period I’ve not even lurked around KB, so coming back it’s kinda new, and kinda the same.

I’m keen for some of the ‘ol timers to bring me up so speed. What’s new & cool & different? Who’s hot and who’s not?

Whatever happened to philu (…! eh???) What about sonic? Have the ‘rules’ changed here? Is DPF still a ‘lithe fit guy’?

@Reid, @virtualmark, @viking2, @Lucia, @dime, @nasska etc… chime in 🙂
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March 4, 2017 8:36am
- Awww C-mon
  
  To start with… your whole list is on the not side…
  
  The hot side, me and gabby baby !!
  
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  March 4, 2017 9:19am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Gabby is in the naughty corner for some well earned time out so that is a pleasure to anticipate and we have seen the rise of the head banging appologists in the form of stephiebots.
    
    How good is it? Visit the Stranded and Whale oil, rinse mind with bleach, come back here and realise that most play nice and that it is normal to have a view that differs from others and the liberal agenda that is subtly being introduced as ‘normal’
    
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    March 4, 2017 9:30am
    - Awww C-mon
      
      Thanks PG, Thought things had been quiet (sane), speaking of sanity, where is Dad at???
      
      I find myself reading the standard heaps at the moment, the mix of desperation and delusion is very entertaining
      
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      March 4, 2017 9:51am
- nasska
  
  Quite a bit has happened in five years krazykiwi. You have spent about 260 consecutive Sundays worshipping what doesn’t exist, commenters have come & gone, governments have been elected & our slimmed down, superfit DPF has become a daddy!
  
  PhilU & Redbaiter have departed (voluntarily) while others (eg Kea) are well on the way to leaving (involuntarily). PhilU’s replacement is a pro Muslim bore using the pseudonym ‘stephieboy’. As it’s an election year the Labour/Green trolls are climbing out of the woodwork.
  
  Stick around for a while this time. You’ll get the hang of it……it’s still informative & fun. 🙂
  
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  March 4, 2017 9:53am
  - Awww C-mon
    
    Hey Nasska
    
    You belong on the hot list…. ?♥️♥️♥️
    
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    March 4, 2017 9:56am
  - Liberty
    
    Now we have Trump apologist. enjoying a short term day in the sun.
    Winston’s apostles making the most of their opportunities before Winston walks across the lake to the sunset.
    
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    March 4, 2017 10:35am
Odakyu-sen

I read that “ethics is about equality” somewhere in one of this morning’s Herald’s inserts.
Immediately, alarm bells went off.
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March 4, 2017 8:37am
- stephieboy
  
  But the alarm bells turn off when it is ” ethics is about inequality. ” ?
  
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  March 4, 2017 9:32am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    My alarm bells off because you seem to have a belief that ethics is anything to do with equality or inequality.
    
    I suppose you believe that “toast is about ostriches” or maybe “Jacinda is about leadership” or “Islam is about peace”.
    
    The above examples are all related to ethics and equality in one simple regard – the pairs are all dissociated to a staggeringly large degree.
    
    But good on you for doing your little bit to help out Bill – if he scrapes above 21% this time – I’m sure he won’t even think of you (but I will). Ta
    
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    March 4, 2017 10:37am
    - Happychappy
      
      You should go work for Whale as like you most of the shit he posts is about Bill to.
      
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      March 4, 2017 11:40am
      - DifferentPerspective
        
        What an insightful post (not) Happychappy.
        
        Bill is a proven loser – it’s hard to argue against that.
        
        Added into the mix is that he is as charasmatic as a cardboard box.
        
        Layered on top of that – he’s a wet. In a world where wettism just doesn’t wash anymore (cf Brexit, Trump, Le Pen, Wilders etc).
        
        Further layered on top of that he’s now assembled a front bench that rivals Labour for it’s vaccuousness and left-ism.
        
        So Mr Bill Fanboi – my concerns are about the very real chance that the laziness and weakness of National’s political antennae creates a very real risk of the voters showing their extreme discontent by voting for anyone but Mr 21% and opening the door to the fascism of the Left. We only have to look to Australia to see what a few years of chaotic Leftism can do to a well-performing economy. It’ll take generations to fix the fiscal mess that Gillard and Rudd created.
        
        But good luck with the Ostrich approach! And well done for totally missing the point of my post 🙂
        
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        March 4, 2017 11:49am
duggledog

Sooty

Don’t you believe it.

The average kiwi sees enough of his or her free lollies down the drain and they will vote for the party that promises to bring them back.

Too many dependent on the state in one form or another. Ten thousand people to run the MSD?!

The John Key government was not a government of reform.
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March 4, 2017 8:37am
- pdm
  
  Which is a shame because in 2008 it was gifted a golden opportunity.
  
  It is to the countries detriment that it wasn’t taken.
  
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  March 4, 2017 9:07am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    All very worthy thoughts, but you forget that in order to maintain support at close to 50% the Govt. must keep appealing to a good chunk of those who are not particularly motivated.
    Sad but true.
    
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    March 4, 2017 9:30am
    - reid3
      
      No there was a giant excuse called the GFC which he could have used, but he didn’t.
      
      The source of his popularity was never doing anything the least controversial, which means he did absolutely nothing at all.
      
      Prebble once said he chose politics as a career because it was very hard. What he meant was that its easy to sell things people already want but its really hard to sell (and embed so they can’t be reversed by the opposition) things that are going to be good for the people but they don’t know it.
      
      And Key never even tried to do that, not once.
      
      And there is no excuse for that Cap’n.
      
      None whatsoever.
      
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      March 4, 2017 11:01am
    - niggly
      
      Well said Captain. Some people seem to “forget” we are in a MMP environment – it’s not FPP where the majority governing party can do whatever it wishes.
      
      So the same people forget that National (nor any Govt under MMP) did not obtain over 50% of the vote so are reliant on support parties (granted they have come close to 50% on a number of occasions, particularly the last election) and if these support parties do not share the same view on change then what can the majority governing party do.
      
      So these people are asking the wrong questions. One of them is WTF happened to ACT (which lost the plot spectacularly towards the 2011 election and has been on a steep dive since) – they were meant to prop up National’s right flank!
      
      The other question to ask is, now that we have experienced 20 years of MMP, is it still the most appropriate voting system to have? Not only do we have truly minor parties wagging the dog’s tail, we now have a situation where minor parties can be perpetually in power (no matter whether National or Labour are the majority governing party). Is that how it should be? I don’t think that’s what most people envisaged when MMP was introduced.
      
      Anyway seeing that we are stuck with MMP if people want National to veer “more right” they need to stop splitting their vote by voting in these small parties or as a protest vote.
      
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      March 4, 2017 11:37am
      - niggly
        
        The same could be said of Labour too, but the difference is, for some reason they want to prop up their left flank by weakening their own brand and kowtow to the likes of the Greens!
        
        It’s almost like Labour have forgotten how to operate in a MMP environment (well to be fair to “Labour”, with the hard-left Alliance types now gutting the party moderates from within, is it any wonder they are terminally screwed)!
        
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        March 4, 2017 11:46am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Best opportunity to divest ourselves of wff, gone, never to be repeated until labour gain the treasury benches once again in 2036
    
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    March 4, 2017 9:33am
    - reid3
      
      and interest free student loans.
      
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      March 4, 2017 11:02am
- Ambergris
  
  I have been wondering recently how under MMP it’s possible to get a government of reform? The system does my head in and I am sad it’s where we ended up.
  
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  March 4, 2017 11:33am
Tom Barker

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I have been anticipating for some time that this site would offer a vigorous defence of Hitler and his policies. You must be very proud, Mr Farrar, to have created a vehicle for the expression of such views.
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March 4, 2017 8:44am
- mikenmild
  
  You’ve been reading EAD’s comments!
  DPF does a reasonable job in regulating comments. He has a comments policy and will look at complaints if enough people nark on the offender.
  Most mentions of Hitler, though, are still of the Godwin’s Law variety: “so and so or such and such (to which I object) is just like the Nazis”.
  
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  March 4, 2017 8:58am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    Well said.
    
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    March 4, 2017 10:38am
- Dave_1924
  
  You must be very proud of your attempt at a smear, associating DPF and his site in this manner with some pretty unsavoury shit Tom.
  
  Its a light touch site and some of the commentators are apologists for Hitler and his idiocy. That doesn’t mean DPF in anyway endorses those commentators. Don’t be an absolute dick
  
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  March 4, 2017 9:42am
- Nookin
  
  It is a vexed question, Tom. Does our host issue strike notices for offensive comments and delete them – enabling people to pretend that they do not exist – or does he allow them to be published so that people are aware of the extreme views that some people hold?
  
  There is also the issue of freedom of speech to be considered.
  
  My solution is relatively simple. I would publish the full name and email address of the commenter immediately after any post denying the Holocaust or supporting Hitler.
  
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  March 4, 2017 10:00am
  - Nev.
    
    Hitler was just a very naughty boy.
    
    Dr J Mengele, Argentina
    
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    March 4, 2017 10:21am
    - Kimbo
      
      ~~Argentina~~ Brazil
      
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      March 4, 2017 11:37am
  - fernglas
    
    Nookin
    
    What about people who deny climate change or support Trump?
    
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    March 4, 2017 10:55am
  - reid3
    
    So I’ve published my full name and address on here several times Nookin if you care to do some research. I’ve never denied the Holohoax but many people here have been so profoundly brainwashed they think I have, so how would that sit.
    
    In case you’re wondering, Holohoax is the word I use for the propaganda campaign used to exploit that event, it doesn’t refer to anything to do with the event itself.
    
    And while I’ve also explained that, many people, including I imagine you right now, are so profoundly brainwashed by the self-same propaganda, that you can’t, won’t and don’t accept that clear and present logical distinction as a distinction, and instead hallucinate that gasp – Weidies a – gasp – denier!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    mm does it all the time.
    
    If I gave a fuck about what other people think, I’d be quite concerned, especially since the Holohoax propaganda has now become so profoundly embedded in Western society it even affects employment prospects, so profoundly have the sheeple been soaked in the vicious propaganda kool-aid.
    
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    March 4, 2017 12:55pm
- Stars And Stripes
  
  Apart from a couple of people on here I would say your overall assertion is rubbish really.
  Anyway your point is what exactly?.
  Go to most left wing sites and you will see vigorous defences from some commentators of other blood thirsty thugs such as Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot ,Che Guevara, and company but as long as they are of your ideological bent I gather you are not objecting.
  
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  March 4, 2017 10:36am
  - Nev.
    
    Essentially what Nookin is suggesting is a pusch to identify and destroy those who have beliefs we dont agree with. Thats fine as long as we start with the left first, then we will worry about the very few people who actually think Hitler was a nice goy. While I dont agree with what Hitler did, he was a product of his times, a timeline that seems to be recurring.
    
    Nev.
    
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    March 4, 2017 12:19pm
- EAD
  
  I have been anticipating for some time that this site would offer a vigorous defence of Hitler and his policies.
  
  DAMN I wish I was blogging this morning in order to tear Tom Barker apart. Tom is a poor brainwashed chap who can’t permit himself or anyone to hear any contra view that the National Socialists are nothing but inhuman monstrous beasts that must be hated at every turn 🙂
  
  Why does he and Milkmaid and their cohort carry on like this – Because without Hitler as the pantomime villain, the Globalist agenda would have nothing to position itself against.
  
  https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2017/03/general_debate_3_march_2017.html#comment-1883660
  
  According to people like Tom, it’s as if National Socialism arose in a vacuum!
  
  The Germans are really too good – that’s why people conspire against them – they do it to protect themselves.”
  
  – JFK
  
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  March 4, 2017 9:41pm
kowtow

Every remark of Trump’s picked up and pilloried by the lying media and yet a contender for the French Presidency c an make this remark which passes the MSM quickly and quietly.

“As attacks mount around the election, one presidential front runner said France is seeing “a climate near civil war”.
Journalists accused of bias. Judges said to be taking orders from the president. The country in a state of “near civil war.”

And left wing political violence is out of control , directed at Le Pens’ followers.

Where’s the media on this?

http://www.thelocal.fr/20170228/france-near-civil-war-as-presidential-election-turns-ugly
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March 4, 2017 8:54am
- stephieboy
  
  kowtow,
  
  “Where’s the media on this?”
  
  MSM Reuters has covered the Violence here,
  
  http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-election-violence-idUSKBN1650UY
  
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  March 4, 2017 9:27am
Liberty

Stuff/Greens/forest and bird are into bed with each other. With an over dramatic article on swimmable rivers. Complaining that some ditch know one has ever heard of. Isn’t going to be monitored.
Have the inviro- fascist considered the practicality of monitoring every ditch in the country.
how many of the Great unwashed go swimming in theses ditches.
Maybe they should use soap. Or would that turn the ditch toxic in there unrealistic view point.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/90029903/swimmability-targets-under-fire-for-ignoring-smaller-rivers-where-families-swim
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March 4, 2017 9:02am
stephieboy

Great interview by Kim Hill with Carol Shand daughter of former National Party Cabinet Minister , the late Tom Shand . The interview draws out the rich vein of social liberalism within the party and that the Shand family exemplified which in many ways laid the foundation for the kind of liberal and progressive society we are to day. Women’s Rights , Abortion law reform, wage equality , Prison reform ( abolition of capital punsihment etc ) etc, etc

Well , worth a listen that , amongst among many things , pays homage to the liberal and progressive spirit with the National Party which is not often associated with .How wrong that assumption is.

Tune in and listen to Dr Carol Shand and her remarkable 40 year Medical career ,

http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday
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March 4, 2017 9:04am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Absolutely. It was really informative.
  
  (Horrors, I agree with stephieboy.)
  
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  March 4, 2017 10:40am
- Jack5
  
  Yes, agreed. This was a quite reasonable post for a Stephie.
  
  This, however, is Stephie X, with a much better grasp of English than Stephie Z, and only a few problems with punctuation marks.
  
  Different standard and style from the apprentice Stephie Z who was active in the first thread of the day. (However, I notice that later in this thread Stephie Z seems to be back on the job.)
  
  Stephie X talks of women’s rights and other liberal measures that, obviously, could be beneficially applied in Muslim countries. Interesting.
  
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  March 4, 2017 10:50am
  - mikenmild
    
    Didn’t stop him getting a host of downticks, of course.
    
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    March 4, 2017 11:16am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    I never considered that Stephie could be like a quark subatomic particle and come in three “flavors”:
    
    Stephie X
    Stephie Y
    Stephie Strange
    
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    March 4, 2017 1:47pm
Happychappy

You have to laugh at James Shaw and the Greens, they are worried about dirty politics resurfacing at this years Election after the Planet Key Result. With large donations being given to some Parties (just a hint National) they will be able pay for full page adds attacking the Greens and their policies. This coming from the Green’s that get Greenpeace and their splinter groups to do this exact practice against the National Government every day of the year yet it is okay for them but not for others. In one word Hypocrites.
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March 4, 2017 9:06am
- Komata
  
  HC
  
  And you are SURPRISED????
  
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  March 4, 2017 3:59pm
kowtow

The Swedish Establishment might believe in multiculturalism , but leading Muslims there don’t.

“The report suggests that the Muslim Brotherhood is secretly leading Islamists in building a parallel society in Sweden by infiltrating organizations and political parties in the country.”

http://www.thelocal.se/20170303/debate-rages-in-sweden-over-muslim-brotherhood-report
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March 4, 2017 9:15am
- stephieboy
  
  kowtow, so admirable your “impeccable and trustworthy ” sources.
  
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  March 4, 2017 9:18am
  - big bruv
    
    stephieboy
    
    Can you name one western city where a huge influx of Muslims has resulted in that city becoming a better and more peaceful place to live in?
    
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    March 4, 2017 10:04am
    - stephieboy
      
      Big Bruv, it is more a sudden large influx of refugees at one time and their religion is not the issue . Thats more in the mind of paranoid Islamaphobics such as yourself .
      
      Paris and London I kearn are still great places to vsit !
      
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      March 4, 2017 10:21am
      - big bruv
        
        stephieboy
        So the answer to the question I posed of you is that you cannot name a city that has benefited from large scale Muslim immigration by becoming a better and more peaceful place to live in.
        Given that, why is it that large scale Muslim immigration is always followed by violence and unrest?
        
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        March 4, 2017 10:27am
      - DifferentPerspective
        
        Paris and London have rapidly recently become great places to visit.
        
        Allbeit because so many tourists are now staying away because of the very real dangers of muslim terrorism – but every cloud has a silver lining – the queues for the Eiffel Tower are smaller than they’ve at any time since the war!
        
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        March 4, 2017 10:41am
      - Longknives
        
        Why are they building a freaking huge wall around the Eiffel Tower Stephieboy?
        
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        March 4, 2017 12:33pm
    - VicParking
      
      Mosul is to the West of Bagdad
      
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      March 4, 2017 10:46am
    - fernglas
      
      big bruv
      
      How about Granada, about 1000 years ago. And the same went for most of the Iberian peninsula.
      
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      March 4, 2017 10:56am
      - Dave_1924
        
        Nice of you to endorse large scale invasion…. thought you were against that type of thing….. the Moors became cultivated and cultural but they certainly weren’t when first crossing the strait into Spain
        
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        March 4, 2017 12:38pm
      - Kiwi Dave
        
        On December 30, 1066, a Muslim mob in Granada stormed the palace, crucified the Jewish vizier and massacred 1500 Jewish families. So, maybe not Granada about 1000 years ago.
        
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        March 4, 2017 2:21pm
    - kowtow
      
      Constantinople?
      
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      March 4, 2017 11:17am
- Old.Mickey.Blue.Eyes
  
  Weather it is the Muslim brotherhood or not, the birth rates of Muslim immigrants has been much higher than host countries for years/decades. The result over the next 10 – 15 years is that countries like France will actually become Muslim countries ie a majority of the population will identify as Muslim.
  
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  March 4, 2017 9:48am
Andrei

Apparently Putin “dissed” Barney ¹

(1) That would be George W’s scotch terrier for those not in the know
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March 4, 2017 9:21am
Peter

Why do Greenists think swimming in rivers, especially by children, should be encouraged? We have supervised public pools for a reason, one being that the alternatives present higher risk of drowning.
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March 4, 2017 9:58am
- Nev.
  
  They dont. Its about destroying the livelihood of nasty dairy farmers. Seriously when was the last time you saw a Green take a bath?
  
  Nev(er).
  
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  March 4, 2017 10:26am
  - big bruv
    
    Nev.
    
    Why do you think that dairy farmers have a right to pollute our rivers and lakes?
    
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    March 4, 2017 10:36am
    - Stars And Stripes
      
      It’s funny how dairy farmers keep bearing the brunt of these statements when the last two high profile cases of stock in waterways i.e. Sian Elias’s cattle in Canterbury and the recent Levin incident have involved beef cattle which is nothing to do with dairying but I suppose we all need a bogeyman.
      
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      March 4, 2017 11:09am
  - Peter
    
    I know, but no one in the media pulls them up on it, which would then expose their anti-capitalist attack, thus reframing the argument to one about costs/vs benefits.
    
    The Greens are framing it emotively and should be called on it, if we had a competent media, which we don’t.
    
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    March 4, 2017 11:50am
  - RF
    
    Soap dodgers unite
    
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    March 4, 2017 5:08pm
- mikenmild
  
  This is a classic Kiwiblog comment, and should be treasured by all.
  
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  March 4, 2017 11:20am
  - MCos
    
    Another day everyone will be complaining about kids being molly coddled in the playground
    
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    March 4, 2017 3:20pm
- cha
  
  Why do Greenists think swimming in rivers, especially by children, should be encouraged?
  
  Are you a paid up member of the wrap ém up in cotton wool club, Pete?.
  
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  March 4, 2017 12:46pm
big bruv

On another subject, I enjoy watching Sky News UK of a morning, and as such, it annoys me when every morning on the dot of 7am that channel changes to Sky News Australia.
I find the goings on in the UK and Europe to be far more interesting than what is happening in Australia. It’s always the same bloody things that happen in Australia anyway, bush fires, political infighting and a change of PM, the corruption of the Aussie Unions or a footballer (of any code) being charged with rape/gun crime/assault/drug possession.
I have emailed Sky NZ only to receive the usual piss weak corporate style reply claiming that it was not something they controlled, this of course is total bullshit. How bloody hard would it be to offer their subscribers a choice?
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March 4, 2017 10:02am
- ross411
  
  Why don’t you watch the Breakfast show on TV1?
  
  It won’t require all of your faculties, so when you find the compulsion (while watching this ridiculous garbage) coming, try to stop yourself googling how to make a hangman’s noose and looking for places to hang it.
  
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  March 4, 2017 10:49am
renderer

As someone who was bought up as a catholic, and educated in my early years by Catholic nuns, I find it sickening that a religion that forbids contraception and abortion and also espouses the sanctity of life, is involved in the death of babies and children born out of wedlock

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/03/mass-grave-of-babies-and-children-found-at-tuam-orphanage-in-ireland
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March 4, 2017 10:15am
- kowtow
  
  In what way was the church “involved in the death of babies and children born out of wedlock” ?
  
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  March 4, 2017 10:34am
  - renderer
    
    In 2014, the Archbishop of Dublin said that “if something happened in Tuam, it probably happened in other mother-and-baby homes around the country.” The commission is investigating 17 other church-run institutions.
    
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    March 4, 2017 10:43am
    - kowtow
      
      Doesn’t answer the question.
      In what way were they “involved” in the deaths?
      
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      March 4, 2017 11:08am
      - renderer
        
        There was a high mortality rate in this and other church run establishments. Some (but not all) infants died of malnutrition. Regardless of any fancy way of dressing the facts up to make them more palatable these infants died in the care of members of a religious order that was part of the catholic church.
        
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        March 4, 2017 11:27am
    - kowtow
      
      renderer @1127
      
      I’m not dressing anything up. Mortality rates were high everywhere.
      
      “In 1916, the death rate was 16.1 deaths per 1,000 people. By 2014, this had fallen to 6.3 deaths per 1,000. The biggest cause of death in 2016 ( that should be 1916)was tuberculosis (TB), which killed 6,471 people. In 2014, the same disease killed 25 people.”
      
      http://www.irishhealth.com/article.html?id=25248&ss=mortality
      
      BTW the gummint didn’t even start to really address the issues of Ireland’s poor health stats till the mid to late 40’s.
      There’s a very wide context to these statistics and it is too lazy , too easy and for many too bigotted to simply blame the nuns.
      
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      March 4, 2017 11:53am
      - renderer
        
        These establishments had mortality rates 3 to 5 times higher than everywhere else in Ireland. I would hasten to add that I have respect for the two orders of nuns I dealt with in my youth. Incidentally one order (Sisters of Mercy) ran a maternity home in the town I lived.
        
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        March 4, 2017 12:07pm
    - kowtow
      
      “These establishments had mortality rates 3 to 5 times higher than everywhere else in Ireland”
      
      Of course they did. It was to such places that the sick , poor and unwanted by the rest of society sought refuge and to which very little funding was given.
      
      I would be interested in the comparative death rates for similar institutions in say France , Holland or Sweden . That would be instructive.
      
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      March 4, 2017 12:23pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    They obviously didn’t report the deaths and subsequent “internments” of these young people who were in their care.
    
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    March 4, 2017 11:02am
    - kowtow
      
      They were all recorded.And reported.
      
      “Eventually I had the idea to contact the registry office in Galway. I remembered a law was enacted in 1932 to register every death in the country. My contact said give me a few weeks and I’ll let you know,” she recalled.’
      
      http://www.irishcentral.com/news/death-records-for-796-children-at-tuam-home-published-in-full
      
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      March 4, 2017 11:13am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Oh, I must have been confusing internment in a disused sewer with something untoward.
        http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/03/baby-remains-mass-grave-irish-orphanage-170303152505368.html
        
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        March 4, 2017 4:16pm
    - waikatogirl
      
      Isn’t that the story from the film “Philomena”.
      Dame Judy Dench as Philomena. Very sad it was too.
      Barbaric beliefs back then.
      
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      March 4, 2017 11:30am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Very interesting to read about this at the same time I was listening to the Dr Carol Shand interview.
  
  How quickly we forget how difficult it was for many women to access good reproductive care in this country.
  
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  March 4, 2017 11:00am
- Nukuleka
  
  What exactly are you saying here? Are you saying that the Catholic church should not have run orphanages? Are you implying that those running the orphanages were wilfully involved in the death of thse babies and children?
  
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  March 4, 2017 12:21pm
- Fletch
  
  Oh FFS, we went all through something like this in 2014 which turned out to not have much substance. I am betting there won’t be much to this one either (but will inflame the anti-Catholic bias)
  
  http://www.forbes.com/sites/eamonnfingleton/2014/06/09/that-story-about-irish-babies-in-a-septic-tank-is-a-media-hoax/
  
  http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/the-tuam-tank-another-myth-about-evil-ireland/15140
  
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  March 4, 2017 12:35pm
MCos

According to this Newshub article Allan Holland claims to be the spokesman for the European Students Association (AUESA).
http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2017/03/auckland-university-club-linked-to-alt-right-views-disbands.html?ref=RLrotator
He’s an interesting character. He stood for Auckland mayor as well as in some by elections.
http://www.nap.org.nz/category/auckland-mayoralty/
You will notice the use of the word ‘fuhrer’ in his propaganda. Apart from that he has some unusual ideas for sorting out Auckland!
There is also a piece about him in Spinoff back in October.
http://thespinoff.co.nz/auckland-2016/18-10-2016/that-obnoxious-drunk-driver-mayoral-candidate-hes-also-an-islamaphobic-antisemitic-trustafarian/
Maybe he’s just trying to hijack the association. Either way I suppose it could be argued they have a right to free speech, but equally they should be upfront about their true agenda.
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March 4, 2017 10:17am
kowtow

Tearful scenes at crash site.

” A trapped driver has been freed after a truck and trailer carrying onions rolled into a ditch on Attewell Rd in Pukekohe.”

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11811652
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March 4, 2017 10:39am
Stars And Stripes

Wellington Pride Parade to march on without Corrections
http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2017/03/wellington-pride-parade-to-march-on-without-corrections.html.
“Wellington’s Pride committee has refused the Department of Corrections’ application to be part of its parade on March 18, because of its treatment of transgender prisoners”.

Why are Corrections even grovelling around these zealots begging to be in their parade anyway?.
Just get on with the job you are paid to do and leave all the PC window dressing to someone else.
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March 4, 2017 10:53am
- Huevon
  
  Just different shades of degeneracy.
  
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  March 4, 2017 11:38am
- Nukuleka
  
  No self respecting homosexual man would want to be associated with this bunch of self-preening queers.
  
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  March 4, 2017 12:22pm
  - sam green
    
    As a gay man nukuleka, do you not think that the pride parade is a positive thing for your compatriots?
    
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    March 4, 2017 1:53pm
Rodney Randall

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/03/03/eight-convictions-asylum-seeker-gang-rape-case/

Animals.
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March 4, 2017 11:22am
Fletch

Here we go – Dick Hubbard’s son will join the weightlifting New Zealand team… competing as a woman against other women. I wonder if that gives new meaning to lifting terms “the snatch”, and “the clean and jerk”. 😉

I bet he does well against the other women.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11811451
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March 4, 2017 11:38am
- Inandout
  
  What exactly is in his muesli?
  
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  March 4, 2017 7:02pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Greenpeace admits it writes crap

http://business.financialpost.com/news/greenpeace-admits-its-attacks-on-forest-products-giant-were-non-verifiable-statements-of-subjective-opinion
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March 4, 2017 11:54am
Manolo

Here we go, Kimbo mate: “Doctor Riemann’s zeros” by Karl Sabbagh. A cracker of a book.
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March 4, 2017 11:59am
adaman

Anyone have video of Jacinda Ardern calling for world socialist revolution and dropping the “c” word….that is “comrade” on a couple of occasions during her speech as International Union of Socialist Youth president. I found a link to WhaleOil’s archives but they have the video listed as private. I remember seeing it several years back but cannot find anything on youtube, and like I said, the only link that I’ve seen has the videos on private.

What better way to show the public who and what they are voting for, now that she is deputy leader.

The left love smear campaigns, but we can use the plain old truth to educate voters as to the choice they have to make come election day.
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March 4, 2017 12:00pm
- wiseowl
  
  Could be made into a good advert during the election campaign.
  
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  March 4, 2017 2:16pm
- ex-golfer
  
  I’ve been looking for that too.
  From memory she was dressed in leather with fishnets and a suspender belt!
  Maybe it hasn’t survived the Labour party social media “purge” under instructions from HQ?
  
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  March 4, 2017 3:21pm
- Inandout
  
  Nothing ever disappears from the internet.
  
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  March 4, 2017 7:04pm
Stars And Stripes

Mayor proposes $25 fee for non-resident visitors to the themed Hamilton Gardens
http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/destinations/nz/90021234/mayor-proposes-fee-for-nonresident-visitors-to-the-themed-hamilton-gardens.

Some of you(Maggy W in particular) might remember a previous post where I recounted seeing a guy giving another bloke head in the Japanese Garden.
Well seems like the party is over as that quickie could cost a minimum of $25 soon.
Nothing is free these days.
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March 4, 2017 12:13pm
- Nev.
  
  Will they have Gestapo at the gate asking to see your residency permit or just target Asian looking people? Oh and is the Mayor a Labour Supporter
  
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  March 4, 2017 12:27pm
- waikatogirl
  
  The gardens are BEAUTIFUL, but $25 seems a little steep. There are bus loads of people visiting so, I’m guessing a smaller fee would help cover costs.
  
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  March 4, 2017 2:07pm
  - Komata
    
    So a $25 fee for non-residents!! Effectively they have just put anyone outside Hamilton off visiting and have also closed down the various (and numerous) organisations which hold events at The Pavillion. I am an invited exhibitor at one such event, live ‘out of town’ and won’t be paying $50-$75 to simply attend a 2-3 day event. It’s simply not worth it. What really makes things interesting is that many of the exhibitions are the sole annual find-raising for the organisations concerned and also are frequently ‘child-friendly’. NO parent / grandparent will put up $25 per person, in addition to the actual entry fee into the event itself (which can at times be also quite substantial). The policy would seem to be somewhat short-sighted.
    
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    March 4, 2017 4:16pm
    - sooty
      
      We went a couple of years ago and thought that they were very tired. Yes they might have been loverly in there day.
      
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      March 4, 2017 4:27pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I’m pretty sure that the Theme Gardens will go into a rapid decline if a steep entry fee is charged.
    
    After some years someone in the Council will finally click that the Theme Gardens are only being visited by the well-off… and not the hoi-polloi. They will demand to know why the Council is throwing money at something with low visitor numbers… cut-backs in staffing will be called for.
    
    Saw it happen with Zealandia…
    Lots of goodwill goes down the drain.
    
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    March 4, 2017 4:40pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Good Lord, am I expected to remember every sordid posting on KB?
  
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  March 4, 2017 3:09pm
Johnboy

Here we go again. PC Police/Devoids/Anonymous Murri deciding for us:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/news/90049077/locals-asked-to-have-their-say-on-what-sh1-in-kapiti-should-be-named

May I suggest “Zimmer Zoomer Highway”. 🙂
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March 4, 2017 12:24pm
- kowtow
  
  Kar Hi Wei.
  
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  March 4, 2017 12:38pm
- Kiwi Dave
  
  Roady McRoadface.
  
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  March 4, 2017 2:38pm
- Huevon
  
  The Russell Norman Expressway.
  
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  March 4, 2017 2:44pm
- krazykiwi
  
  The Kapiti Coast District Council has asked the community to come up with names for seven different sections … of the OLD SH1 road. Nothing wrong with that, although I suspect anything with a whiff of anglo-saxon heritage won’t make it past the first gate.
  
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  March 4, 2017 2:57pm
  - Johnboy
    
    Exactly kk…(If only your handle was krazykiwikrank) 🙂
    
    I’d like to know WHO these anonymous Iwi were….who appointed them….how many actual murri do they represent….what percentage of the Kapiti coast folk are they…….etc…etc ! 🙂
    
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    March 4, 2017 3:58pm
    - Komata
      
      JB
      
      You’ll never find out ‘Privacy Act’ and all that…
      
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      March 4, 2017 4:21pm
Manolo

The Russians doctored it, claims the ancient Pelosi:
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/nancy-pelosi-sergey-kislyak-meeting-235653
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March 4, 2017 12:39pm
- Fletch
  
  Also ignoring the fact that visitor logs of the White House during Barack Obama’s presidency reveal that Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak visited Obama or his operatives at least 22 times.
  
  http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/03/russian-ambassador-visited-obama-white-house-22-times/
  
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  March 4, 2017 12:55pm
  - cha
    
    But do the FBI have transcripts?.
    
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    March 4, 2017 1:11pm
Manolo

Resettlement is working well in Austria, isn’t it?
https://www.rt.com/news/379271-iraqis-gang-rape-austria/

Eight Iraqi asylum seekers have been sentenced by an Austrian court to between nine and thirteen years in jail for the brutal gang-rape of a 28-year-old German woman during New Year’s celebrations over a year ago.
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March 4, 2017 12:50pm
- Johnboy
  
  Easily solved Manolo. Just ban the cruel practice of Halal slaughter in all civilized European society and the chaps would just have to get back on their boats! 🙂
  
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  March 4, 2017 1:02pm
All_on_Red

#FakeNews narrative falls apart- again!
‘So what are the two meetings that Sessions had? The first came at a conference on “Global Partners in Diplomacy,” where Sessions was the keynote speaker. Sponsored by the U.S. State Department, The Heritage Foundation, and several other organizations, it was held in Cleveland during the Republican National Convention.

The conference was an educational program for ambassadors invited by the Obama State Department to observe the convention. The Obama State Department handled all of the coordination with ambassadors and their staff, of which there were about 100 at the conference.

Apparently, after Sessions finished speaking, a small group of ambassadors—including the Russian ambassador—approached the senator as he left the stage and thanked him for his remarks. That’s the first “meeting.” And it’s hardly an occasion—much less a venue—in when a conspiracy to “interfere” with the November election could be hatched.

Sessions also apparently met with the Russian ambassador in September. But on that occasion, Sessions was acting as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, not as a surrogate for the Trump campaign. That’s why the meeting was held in his Senate office. His DOJ spokesperson, Sarah Isgur Flores, says they discussed relations between the two countries – not the election.

There was nothing unusual about this: Sessions met with more than two dozen ambassadors during 2016, including the Ukrainian ambassador the day before the meeting with the Russian ambassador.

There is no reason for Attorney General Sessions to resign. The FBI has forwarded no investigation file regarding Russian campaign shenanigans to his office for review.’
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/03/02/get-real-democrats-there-is-no-good-reason-for-sessions-to-resign.html
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March 4, 2017 1:40pm
- stephieboy
  
  All on Red , not so fast sunshine :
  
  A timeline of Jeff Sessions and Michael Flynn’s talks with the Russian ambassador
  Donald Trump’s changing tune on Russia casts old talks in a new light.
  
  Jeff Sessions, already one of the most controversial and most influential members of Donald Trump’s Cabinet, now finds himself enmeshed in a major scandal. He twice stated — once under oath at his confirmation hearing, another time in answer to a written question from the Judiciary Committee’s ranking member — that he never discussed the 2016 campaign with officials from the Russian government.
  
  The truth is that he had at least two conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak — one at an event at the Republican National Committee and another at his office on the same day that Trump’s views of Russia were a major news story.
  
  The revelations have led to calls for his resignation over the issue of lying, and to calls for him to step aside in favor of an independent investigation of ties between Russia and Trumpworld figures on the grounds that he is now part of the investigation. Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was already forced to resign from the Trump administration after it came to light that he had lied to Vice President Mike Pence about his own conversations with Kislyak. And earlier, Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was forced to resign under a cloud of stories about payments he allegedly received from a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine.
  
  A big part of what makes these stories hard to follow is that the context has shifted massively since Election Day. During the campaign, Trump campaigned on an openly pro-Russian policy agenda and spoke constantly of WikiLeaks as central to his campaign message. Under the circumstances, it’s not clear why Trumpworld figures would regard discussions with Russian officials or Russia-linked figures as problematic. Looking at the problematic Kislyak contacts in the broader context of what else was going on in the world makes it clear why skeptics aren’t going to just take Sessions’s word for it that these discussions had nothing to do with the campaign ….”
  
  http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/3/14792942/sessions-flynn-kislyak-timeline
  
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  March 4, 2017 3:02pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Here’s an interview with a Professor of Law from George Washington University who states no charge of perjury will be made. I think he knows better than you.
    http://video.foxnews.com/v/5347248139001/?playlist_id=930909812001#sp=show-clips
    
    So, as usual, the Left start with some accusations and over the course of a couple of days they get proven to be rubbish.
    #TDS is just rampant. It’s pretty funny to watch!
    
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    March 4, 2017 5:03pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    I detail both meetings- one arranged by Obama officials(!) and the other with Sessions doing his job. There is no evidence Sessions discussed the campaign. If so, produce it!!!!
    There is no evidence full stop that Trump is Pro Russia. In fact his appointees like Mattis have shown to be the opposite.
    It’s all conjecture designed to smear by desperate losers. As I said the other day, scrabbling at straws.Sad!
    Poor widdle snowflakes are all Butthurt cause Hillary, Podesta and the DNC et al got exposed as liars and they lost. Lol
    
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    March 4, 2017 5:10pm
    - reid3
      
      And why shouldn’t he be pro-Russia anyway, is the never posed let alone never answered question.
      
      Ukraine is a US regime change sheeple, using Western media fake news to pretend otherwise. Just like Syria. Duh.
      
      Don’t you silly ole sheeple know anything at all?
      
      I’m beginning to think the English language doesn’t have a strong enough vocabulary to describe your dumbereranity with sufficient force to reflect factual reality sheeple, that’s how terrifically bad it’s getting here.
      
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      March 4, 2017 8:13pm
  - reid3
    
    stupidboy you really do need to co0ordinate with your other chimps lest DARPA be exposed.
    
    “sunshine” is not a word oft-used in the experiment to establish if a thousand “enhanced” chimps can produce Shakespeare, indeed the whole tenor of your post is utterly atypical of the previous attempts.
    
    You haven’t ordered Russian wurzenflugels, have you? That would be the only thing that explains the sudden, dramatic jump in IQ.
    
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    March 4, 2017 6:32pm
- reid3
  
  Sessions is entertaining exposing the Deep State pedos AoR, just like Flynn was.
  
  That’s why he’s the next target.
  
  https://empireexposed.blogspot.co.nz/2017/02/reasons-why-michael-flynn-was-fatality.html
  
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  March 4, 2017 6:27pm
Hugh Pavletich

THE GRUMPY LANDLORD CLASS OF CHRISTCHURCH …DID THEY EVER GIVE A FIG FOR TENANTS ?

Christchurch housing paradox – the downside of a building boom (?) … Michael Wright … The Press

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/property/90012513/christchurchs-housing-paradox–the-downside-of-a-building-boom

… comment on thread …

Bush Telegraph

Just a moment! I recall he Government (Nick Smith) and Demogaphia,blaming Councils for creating chronic unaffordability – demand and supply and all that. Now it seems, at least in Christchurch, planning has increased supply, prices are dropping, affordability is increasing – where is the problem for the first time house buyer?
… ticks … +30

Christchurch bucks trend in Demographia housing affordability survey | The National Business Review

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/property/90012513/christchurchs-housing-paradox–the-downside-of-a-building-boom

How to make housing affordable? Political parties draw battlelines | Stuff.co.nz

http://i.stuff.co.nz/business/money/89189951/political-parties-draw-battlelines-on-housing-affordability
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March 4, 2017 1:50pm
- Komata
  
  Caps, Hugh?? Again!
  
  And you were doing so well….
  
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  March 4, 2017 4:24pm
- reid3
  
  Just in case you don’t think your contributions are appreciated Hugh, they are and always have been, from me.
  
  Swimming upstream ain’t fun, but it’s worthwhile, ain’t it.
  
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  March 4, 2017 6:36pm
Chuck Bird

Second was a great result for Cameron Brown. He will continue to win in his age group for a long time if he keeps competing.
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March 4, 2017 3:49pm
- Nookin
  
  Not sure why you got a down tick for that Chuck. Cam just keeps on keeping on. I tried to follow the live feed but they were obviously having technical problems so there was no way of following developements.
  Sounds like Bozzone went out a bit hard on the bike. He didn’t look too flash at the finish.
  Two ile be nice to see Allan and Currie head to head but don’t see that happening. Allan has pinned his colours to the Challenge mast and if Currie sticks with coast to coast and IM he won’t cope with Challenge in between. Be nice to see him have a go, tho.
  
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  March 4, 2017 7:46pm
starboard

Perigo talks sense as usual

http://www.nzcpr.com/devoy-vs-voltaire/
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March 4, 2017 5:57pm
- reid3
  
  What astounds me is not how the evil implement their plans but how people who should know better say nothing about it when they do.
  
  -Reid3 March 4, 2017
  
  Good spotting starboard.
  
  Glad someone’s paying attention.
  
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  March 4, 2017 6:46pm
  - starboard
    
    I maybe in Thailand Reid..but I’m still onto them..ain’t this internet thingie fab.
    
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    March 4, 2017 7:49pm
- Johnboy
  
  I think it’s just a sad reflection on the intellect of New Zealand’s so called leaders that firstly we have such an office as Race Relations Conciliator and secondly that we appoint someone to it who’s only ability was that she once could hit a ball well.
  
  Hopefully once her tenure is over we shall replace her with someone who once could kick a ball well. 🙂
  
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  March 4, 2017 7:45pm
  - nasska
    
    Chris Laidlaw must be looking for a new sinecure soon.
    
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    March 4, 2017 7:50pm
    - Johnboy
      
      Is it true then nasska that he’s just keeping the seat warm ( Like Dmitry Medvedev) till Fran stages a comeback?
      Nothing would surprise me where these socialists are concerned. 🙂
      
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      March 4, 2017 7:58pm
  - starboard
    
    The mad cow is gone this year. Close the place down. Burn it.
    
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    March 4, 2017 7:51pm
  - reid3
    
    Maybe if we appoint someone who hits politicians well we might, finally, start putting runs on the board.
    
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    March 4, 2017 8:01pm
    - Johnboy
      
      I hope you’re not really nominating Josie Butler to replace Devoid reid3???? 🙂
      
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      March 4, 2017 8:08pm
      - reid3
        
        I don’t care what they call themselves JB, as long as they smack em round quite a bit before accepting their heartfelt apology and their promise to never, ever do it again, ever. Lest “x” returns to do it all over again, should they reverse themselves in any little way whatsoever.
        
        I trust that’s entirely reasonable. But if not, I’m not sure how much I care…
        
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        March 4, 2017 8:17pm
    - starboard
      
      nah, close it , we dont need it..so 70’s.
      
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      March 4, 2017 8:42pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Reid:
      
      someone who hits politicians well
      
      You’re not referring to Trevor Mallard by any chance?
      
      The prosecution relates to the parliamentary bust-up in which the Cabinet Minister threw a punch at National MP Tau Henare in October after comments about his personal life.
      
      Mr Mallard later apologised and Mr Henare said he would not take the matter further.
      
      But Wellington accountant Graham McCready launched a private prosecution after police rejected an initial complaint, deeming he was not an interested party in the fracas.
      
      I’m not sure if “threw a punch” qualifies as “hits politicians well” (your suggested criterion, Reid), but Mallard at least has form and shows potential!
      
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      March 4, 2017 9:39pm
Nostradamus

Referendum Council expenses do not ‘cut the mustard’, Coalition senator says

A Federal Coalition senator has attacked his Government’s own Referendum Council, saying it has squandered taxpayers’ money on a “$3,000-a-page” discussion paper and a lacklustre website.

The council is tasked with devising a question to recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution and give advice about the timing of a vote.

But it was yesterday revealed the Referendum Council’s online presence is costing upwards of $1.5 million. Last night the council had a website, a Facebook page with 240 likes, and a Twitter account followed by 359 people.

Some of the costs are eye-watering:

– $30,000 for a 20-page community discussion paper containing details of the constitution, recognition and proposals for change.
– $525,000 for 8 internal meetings (including flights and accommodation).
– $5.7 million for 16 forums with Indigenous people and organisations across Australia.
– $160,000 for a meeting in Broome (a remote Western Australia town) that only 34 people attended.

Oink oink!
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March 4, 2017 6:51pm
- nasska
  
  A bureaucrats motto:
  
  “Have trough…..will travel”.
  
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  March 4, 2017 7:25pm
  - sooty
    
    Thats Hones motto!
    
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    March 4, 2017 8:33pm
Longknives

So if I start shrieking and wailing that I ‘Identify’ as a woman I can go to the Olympics and win a Gold Medal??
The World has gone fucking crazy…
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March 4, 2017 8:22pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I hope so Longknives.
  Get practising now!
  We need your Gold
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUY0OWPRRNM
  
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  March 4, 2017 8:37pm
Manolo

The con-man and seller of smoke has gone Green:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/francis-praised-by-population-controller-at-vatican-workshop-for-urging-us

“Pope Francis has urged us to have fewer children to make the world more sustainable,” a panelist at a Vatican-run workshop on “how to save the natural world” claimed on Thursday.
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March 4, 2017 8:35pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  The panelist who said that is the world famous botanist Peter Raven…. Father of 4 children.
  He spent time in NZ in the 1970s carrying out taxonomic work on our willowherbs
  ( Epilobium)
  At one time he was the highest paid botanist in the World.
  
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  March 4, 2017 8:54pm
  - Manolo
    
    The progressive Argentinian Pope and his paedophile crew seem to have lost the plot.
    
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    March 4, 2017 9:05pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Maggy:
    
    At one time he was the highest paid botanist in the World
    
    Just for Nasska’s benefit, is a post-retirement career in botany likely to pay the bills and leave a bit left over for discretionary spending?
    
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    March 4, 2017 9:35pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I’ve never met a destitute botanist (once they have entered the work force)…. main problem is that they seem to live for far too long…
      http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-21/102yo-researcher-told-to-leave-his-edith-cowan-university-job/7769422
      
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      March 4, 2017 9:48pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Maggy:
        
        At 102, David Goodall is Australia’s oldest working scientist.
        
        Wow!
        
        That reminds me, next time GoVege pops in for a visit, I must ask her about the life expectancy of a lifelong meat-eater. She may also have suggestions about what Dr Goodall could eat to ensure he’s still writing science papers at the ripe ~~old~~ young age of 150!
        
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        March 4, 2017 10:11pm
- reid3
  
  Yes. Perhaps Lucia can explain how the Pope expects us to have less contraception and less children and how this brings us closer to God’s plan on “saving the natural world” given that, while God cares deeply about the Earth and all that’s in it, he also cares much more deeply about us than he does about silly old plants, etc.
  
  But then again, with this around, maybe you conclude people are the problem, after all…
  
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  March 4, 2017 10:20pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Reid:
    
    From Manolo’s link:
    
    The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that “every action which, whether in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible is intrinsically evil” since it destroys the unitive and procreative integrity of the marital act.
    
    I hope the Catholic Church hasn’t set its sights on any Kiwibloggers. A certain person, who has self-declared an interest in observing nubile girls at shopping malls, possibly with associated masturbation tendencies, comes to mind!
    
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    March 4, 2017 10:29pm
    - reid3
      
      Yes, the weekly daytime crowd hasn’t really traversed the latter tendencies Nosty but they probably should.
      
      Imagine how many taxpayer dollars would be wasted if DARPA’s experiment took a sudden turn and instead of typing, all the monkeys started an en-mass tossing competition.
      
      Some might say (based on the material bought forth) that already happens several times daily, but of course, I couldn’t possibly comment.
      
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      March 4, 2017 10:45pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Reid:
        
        all the monkeys started an en-mass tossing competition
        
        Pass the mind bleach please!
        
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        March 4, 2017 10:48pm
  - Manolo
    
    The Pope and his corrupt Catholic church are utterly discredited. Just another gang of perverts.
    
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    March 5, 2017 7:44am
    - stephieboy
      
      Manolo , the Pontiff and his Church more candidates for you’re mad holy crusade banning certain religions .?
      
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      March 5, 2017 8:54am
reid3

JB and nasska since you’re both here tonight you might appreciate this.

Story of life at Westpoint, roommate with some of the top generals of the recent wars, tells it like it is.

http://www.redredsea.net/westpointhagopian/indexpage.html
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- stephieboy
  
  reid , the author Joseph Mercola is what Psychiatrists would term a nut ,
  
  http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Joseph_Mercola
  
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  March 5, 2017 10:00am
Manolo

No, it cannot be allowed, say the intolerant Left:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MARCH_4_TRUMP?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-03-04-11-17-34

Supporters of President Donald Trump plan to convene at Trump Tower, the Washington Monument and scores of other places around the country in marches to show their pride in his presidency.
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- stephieboy
  
  Amending the constitution-Congress can make laws outlawing and banning any left wing political ideas etc ?
  
  “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. ( except those of left wing persuasion , ideology, thought or assembly )”
  
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  March 5, 2017 8:59am
  - reid3
    
    For a minute I thought those Russian wurzrnflugels had finally fixed it stephie but from the above its apparent while your diction and grammar have taken a leap forward the content still leaves everything to be desired.
    
    If the best military scientists in DARPA, China and Russia are out of ideas as to how to make the experiment a success, perhaps its time to give up and pull the plug.
    
    I’m sure those of us who have to read you won’t mind a bit.
    
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    March 5, 2017 9:32am
Manolo

What is going on?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3009405/donald-trump-barack-obama-wires-tapped-trump-tower-election/
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- reid3
  
  Assuming that’s not a rhetorical question, What’s always been going on Manolo. Haven’t you been paying attention?
  
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  March 5, 2017 9:33am
- Komata
  
  Manolo
  
  Situation normal; the former president (Obama) has left various ‘tripwires’ lying around to impede his replacement (Mr Trump), and one such item has been found. The finder has (correctly) voiced his annoyance at this discovery, and, in response, Obama’s willing media slaves have rushed to that individual’s defence. Mr. Obama (who is, of course, whiter than any driven snow) has added his ‘pennyworth just for effect.
  
  BTW, shortly afterwards a fire occurred at Trump Towers in New York; the place where the ‘bugging’ apparently occurred. Coincidence? Not sure yet, but I DO know of a bridge that is for sale should you be interested, with a free Tui thrown in for good measure…
  
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  March 5, 2017 9:51am
  - stephieboy
    
    Komata and Manolo ,another Obama conspiracy in the making. Of course all that is needed is actual evidence not alleged coincidences.
    
    Trump in panic and deflection mode as another appointee faces almost a certain resignation.
    
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