General Debate 26 April 2017

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holysheet

With this year being an election year, it is critical for the country’s well being that we get a continuation of a centre right government. In saying this, I have deep reservations about voting for National again. Much to my dismay, they have become a centre left govt by default. There have been more emails to elected members of govt from me this year than at any time in the past.

I am pissed off with them and will show my contempt at the next election unless they make some drastic changes to the way they are presenting themselves.
No more kowtowing to the racist native party.
No more letting weak decisions by officials go unpunished, how about and reversing those decisions that are made.
Stop all further immigration from moslem countries until they can assure us that the immigration department is doing its job in protecting us from shitheads who come here with no intention of even trying to assimilate into our way of life.
I can go on here for hours, but a cursory read through kiwiblog will give you an inkling of what is concerning me. Daily we read topics that are worthy of comment that National are not dealing with. To top it all off, just this morning we see National setting up a brand sparkling new social investment agency. FFS, what next?

I am fast coming to the conclusion that we might be better off biting the bullet and getting a liabore co-boat govt. It will achieve two things. It will rid National and its support, of a lot of deadwood like Smith, Woodhouse, Dunne and dare I say it the PM. We need someone with the balls to stand up to the factions that make up National at present. The second thing would be the destruction once and for all of the Winston First party. When he joins the co-boat parties in govt, it would lead to the destruction of the left of left govt in such a short time, that we would be having another election within a year.

National need to be put on notice that we will not blindly fear a left govt, like they are arrogantly assuming is the case. Give us your vote because the other side is worse, doesn’t work anymore.
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April 26, 2017 8:55am
- stephieboy
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Holysheet ,
  
  moving over to vote ACT and boost their 1.6% 2014 ?
  
  We should be very, very afraid .
  
  ( sarc naturally )
  
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  April 26, 2017 9:03am
- Huevon
  
  I largely agree. But Labour will go full retard on the Muslim question. They may cut immigration but dollars to donuts they will make a virtue signalling effort somehow.
  
  However, I will vote Labour if they embrace “blood and soil” to get elected, much like National too swallowed Helen’s “dead fish” to become Labour-lite and win.
  
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  April 26, 2017 9:25am
  - Jack5
    
    Here’s a chance for Immigration Minister Woodhouse to redeem his performance at least partly.
    
    He can establish whether the former secretary of the NZ Refugee Council, Kaileshan Thanabalasingham, who died with three other members of his family in an Auckland house fire last year, was the same as this person:
    
    Kaileshan Thanabalasingham, deported from Canada in 2006 as the reputed leader of a Tamil gang that killed several youths in the 1990s.
    
    The age range, the ethnicity are the same.
    
    If they were the same person, how did Immigration let Kaileshan Thanabalasingham into NZ?
    
    http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/322724/auckland-house-fire-claims-fourth-victim
    
    https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2016/12/random-impertinent-questions-32/#more-287829
    
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    April 26, 2017 11:49am
- oldpark
  
  Check the alternative. Lie-bour/Green Taleban supporters. Lest we forget the complete insult to our genuine war dead,at yesterdays Anzac services. Just a forerunner of what lies beneath and ahead. Completely sicko pathetic bunch of losers, running a country,should they get voted in in September.
  
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  April 26, 2017 9:26am
  - GoVege
    
    Is this true?
    Labour and the Greens support the Taliban?
    Evidence?
    
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    April 26, 2017 5:09pm
- Dave Mann
  
  God are you mad?
  
  I absolutely agree with your sentiment about National being too far left, but why would you vote for a party who you KNOW would go even FURTHER in that direction?
  
  I think you are wrong about NZ First. Almost everything Winston has ever said suggests that his politics are in line with ‘old National’ values…. but one problem is that NZ First is largely a one man band. With more support maybe NZ First would broaden their talent base.
  
  ACT…? (Fill in this blank.)
  
  Whatever… but it’s crazy to suggest voting for crypto communist ecofucks just because you want National to perform properly.
  
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  April 26, 2017 9:43am
  - holysheet
    
    How else do you get them to change direction other than not vote for them?
    Email replies show their contempt with your complaints about their inactions.
    
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    April 26, 2017 9:47am
    - Dave Mann
      
      You get them to change their direction by not voting for them, sure. But that doesn’t mean deliberately destroying your country, FFS!
      
      A protest is a protest, but there’s such a thing as going too far.
      
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      April 26, 2017 9:54am
      - Nukuleka
        
        Which is why a protest vote for NZ First may just be the only way to curb National’s leftie leanings in the knowledge that Winston will go with National and not the Labour/ Green coalition. Winston may be erratic and some of his MPs slightly off beam, but surely the same criticism could be made of any of the current party leaders and many MPs.
        
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        April 26, 2017 10:44am
  - GoVege
    
    The left stood up to the racist native party.
    It’s the right who are sucking up to the racist sexist natives big time.
    
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    April 26, 2017 1:12pm
- Scott
  
  Agree with much of the above. National has really abandoned their traditionally minded voters to go for the soft Labour voter instead.
  And so the March if the left continues – gay marriage, anti smacking, legalising prostitution and medical marijuana all part of the leftist platform and all allowed to stand after nine years of a so-called centre right government. As well as globalisation, mass immigration and lack of any real initiative to cut taxes and get the working class working.
  
  The problem is a lack of alternatives. The conservative party was a good idea but their leader damaged their credibility. I actually think NZ first may be worth a go? They appear to be the only alternative to all leftism all of the time.
  
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  April 26, 2017 10:54am
  - wiseowl
    
    A guy rang Leighton this morning with a new political party.
    Make NZ Great again.
    Spoke really well.
    
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    April 26, 2017 12:45pm
- Peter
  
  Immigration is the big issue. It’s the issue everywhere i.e. “we want control of our borders”
  
  This is National’s chance.
  
  We know we need immigration, but we need the right immigration. Most people don’t want dangerous people here, or people who take the piss.
  
  Deport the child abuser. Announce a policy that no residency is granted until after years of good behaviour. Follow Australia.
  
  The left will, on cue, go mental. They will protest. They’ll virtue signal. There will be great shows of pompous indignation. That guy who always writes dreary songs will write another dreary song. Great. It will remind middle New Zealanders how out of touch the left remain.
  
  You’ll also take the wind out of Peters sails, who will have no choice but to support it.
  
  Time to change gears, National. You’re cruising on empty and it shows. Cruising will not win as the mood, worldwide,is for marked change and you won’t escape it.
  
  Unless you change.
  
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  April 26, 2017 12:02pm
- KevinH
  
  Why don’t you form your own party Holysheet instead of yelling from the sidelines.
  
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  April 26, 2017 1:45pm
trout

Scaremongering in the 70’s:
https://www.aei.org/publication/18-spectacularly-wrong-predictions-made-around-the-time-of-first-earth-day-in-1970-expect-more-this-year/
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April 26, 2017 8:58am
- Disaster Area
  
  I guess that’s why they were called predictions.
  
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  April 26, 2017 9:04am
- stephieboy
  
  Re commission Meremere coal and others ?
  
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  April 26, 2017 9:05am
  - Inandout
    
    Coal is the future thanks to modern clean burning technology, and the US will be the leader in its use. Coal is abundant, cost effective and easily sourced. Wind and solar are too unreliable.
    
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    April 26, 2017 9:16am
    - stephieboy
      
      Inandout , China does not seem to think so as it makes a concerted push to invest , research and build solar power ,
      
      http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-solar-idUSKBN15J0G7
      
      The idea of clean burning coal is a bit of a myth,
      
      http://www.snopes.com/can-clean-coal-actually-reduce-carbon-emissions/
      
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      April 26, 2017 9:21am
      - Ed Snack
        
        And you believe the Chinese statistics ? In that case I have this bridge that I’m sure that you’ll want to buy…
        
        Actually, as far as I can tell from readily available info a limited amount of wind-power actually makes sense in NZ because of our power mix. Hydro is the best available compliment to wind as it typically can vary its output sufficiently fast to manage the variability of wind and water not used is saved for later use. The key is limiting the amount relative to the overall capacity and having sufficient base load for no-wind situations.
        
        Solar, significantly less useful in NZ due to climate and land restrictions. NZ also has an almost entirely “renewables” power generation setup anyway with Hydro and Geothermal. There are good security and economic reasons to have a small number of specific peaking stations available that use gas in a combined cycle setup, but not to have any significant reliance on such stations.
        
        If NZ really needs a significant boost in base load and won’t consider using more West Coast hydro (this is after Manapouri is integrated and the Cook Strait interconnector upgraded) then the only option is nuclear. The most suitable site was identified years ago, on the Poutu peninsular (Kaipara North head). Expensive but valuable and reliable, and fail-to-safe designs exist.
        
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        April 26, 2017 10:58am
    - MCos
      
      Got any other predictions, Inandout?
      
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      April 26, 2017 10:12am
      - Inandout
        
        Yep. I predict you will cry out for any form of electricity production if your house is suddenly without power.
        
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        April 26, 2017 12:00pm
      - Happychappy
        
        Ed Snack / You obviously have a lot of knowledge on this subject so what or will they build a power station that was talked about a few years ago suggesting the surf waves in the cook strait I think.I am not sure of my facts but maybe you might be able to enlighten me of how it will work if the story is right.
        
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        April 26, 2017 12:14pm
    - BeeSting
      
      You ARE WRONG on SOLAR
      have 4.5kw system Grid Connected
      
      3 years now
      
      They will last forever
      Some of the Japanese Panels have been going
      30 years now and still go well
      
      The Chinese GVT eventually shuts down
      dodgy operators
      
      RENESOLA do the waiters for other Manufacturers
      
      4 bedroom house 4 people
      3mth bill was under $100
      
      That is with a 6.2 cent FIT
      
      Once Batteries go down
      
      I will go Hybrid and then
      OFF GRID
      
      SOLAR one of the Best things I ever Did
      
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      April 27, 2017 12:27am
- cmm
  
  This scare mongering is incredibly irresponsible and destructive.
  
  In the 1970s I remember kids not expecting to reach their 30s because of an imminent WW3, or maybe freezing to death in the global cooling or starving to death before 2000. [Ok, granted that was in South Africa with conscription and all white males being sent to the army for 2 years. All of us knew of one or two ex-school mates who were killed in Angola].
  
  People saw Mad Max as an inevitable outcome within their lifespan; a documentary rather than fiction.
  
  Any wonder that people started ramping up personal debt and ignoring the future? Might as well max out your credit cards and get 30 year mortgages – you won’t have to pay them once the SHTF or you’re dead. Buy a boat, go on world cruises, become a professional hippy…. and if you’re wrong, well in many places the state will come sort out your mess for you.
  
  Why study and try to understand maths? You won’t need those in a post apocalyptic world or when you’ve been vapourised by a nuke.
  
  We still have this now. Many young kids raised on a diet of global warming have extreme depression and anxiety. Many don’t expect to get to be 30, let alone 90.
  
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  April 26, 2017 9:16am
  - KevOB
    
    Here in NZ we had the message too we would all be frozen out by 2000. The climate alarmists have just gone from freezer to oven. I have 3 kids under 16 and all have been indoctrinated in school to be worried about their futures. If they don’t comply with someones imposed agenda global warming will get them. We used to have bogeymen: what price community mental health?
    
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    April 26, 2017 9:43am
    - mara
      
      They tried indoctrinating my child too but I made sure to “unindoctrinate” her whenever the need arose. Her mental health is just fine and dandy. Not too sure about some of her friends though.
      
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      April 26, 2017 9:55am
    - cmm
      
      Yup, you can certainly see why people brought up like this would top themselves when someone trashes them on Facebook.
      
      Why put up with this misery if you’re going to die in a few years anyway?
      
      This constant fearmongering is incredibly harmful to society.
      
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      April 26, 2017 10:06am
    - MCos
      
      I remember the doom & gloom predicted if the Communists were to overrun South Vietnam.
      All manner of dominoes were going to fall . . . . . including us!
      
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      April 26, 2017 10:21am
      - cmm
        
        Thank goodness the commies tripped over themselves before they could completely infect us.
        
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        April 26, 2017 11:20am
      - stephieboy
        
        cmm, the Vietnamese communists were never going to engulf and enslave us .
        
        Before “the tripped over themselves “??
        
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        April 26, 2017 11:26am
      - cmm
        
        Stephie
        
        If you think that then you don’t understand communism.
        
        USSR was supporting Cuba so they could be militarily active in Angola in the 1970s.. 1991 (when the USSR collapsed).
        
        If that could happen in Angola then why could it not happen here?
        
        The distance from Cuba to Angola is 11,000 km. The distance from Vietnam to NZ is only 9,000 km.
        
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        April 26, 2017 12:47pm
      - Lance
        
        Just a point….
        If Vietnam hadn’t been such a high cost shit fight, would they still have run out of drive/ resources/ ideology so fast?
        I ask this because I have heard some commentators putting it forward ‘did the US really lose the Vietnam War?’
        Bit like was the battle of Jutland a cockup or was it highly strategic and obtained the desired outcome of keeping the German Navy in port permanently?
        
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        April 26, 2017 12:49pm
      - GoVege
        
        As was usual back then, the US backed the wrong side.
        Ho chi Minh admired America.
        
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        April 26, 2017 5:00pm
Rachael Membery

http://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/world/three-isis-fighters-mauled-to-death-by-wild-boars-in-iraq/ar-BBAmyVk?li=BBv6TfA&ocid=spartanntp
True or not, it makes a good story.
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April 26, 2017 9:01am
- RalphT
  
  Excellent; that’s three warriors that won’t be going to Paradise due to their contamination.
  
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  April 26, 2017 9:07am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  Bacon buttheads
  
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  April 26, 2017 9:43am
EAD

Interesting comment over on a European nationalist blog made by an Aucklander reflecting on the Globalist agenda over here:

Over the last month I’ve seen about 2 negroes a day. That never used to happen.

Some of you here would think that is negroless paradise, but I think it is a concerning increase.

Diversity in NZ came in waves:

1995-2005 – Chinese
2005-2015 – Indians
2015-2025 – ???

The NZ govt planned it this way. The discussion papers exist. They decided on Chinese immigrants to get the ball rolling because they keep their crime quiet and don’t annoy their neighbours.

Are we at the negro wave yet, or is this the decade of Arabs and various other North Africans first? I suspect that is the case, and that the true Negro wave is preserved for 2025-2035. After that, NZ will be one big happy family.

Prior to 1995 NZ was basically white with some Maoris (which we were starting to get along with very nicely), Helen Clark used to go on and on about our “Bicultural Nation”.

At 1995 she started mentioning “Multiculturalism”. It was a new thing. We thought she was just trying to make the old time Chinese fit in etc. 5 years later, I knew they were trying to destroy the white race. Now, over 20 years later, I still can’t convince anyone of that fact. Is the white race too stupid to understand this thing?

NZ has the Kalergi Plan too, just in case anyone from Europe thinks they can escape here. TPTB wouldn’t wan’t that. NZ might get too crowded!

They are building roads and bridges and tunnels like mad here lately because the traffic is absolutely insane now. A new motorway tunnel is opening soon, it is over 3 km long. It’s not opening yet because of water problems in it. It should have opened already. It will help a bit, but in about a year it will be full to.

I’d have to say in the most part I agree with the commentators observations.
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April 26, 2017 9:05am
- fernglas
  
  It would be interesting to know what the author means by “negroes”. Does s/he mean African Americans, Africans, and if so from which part, West Indians, British of West Indian or African descent, French nationals born of parents from the Cote d’Ivoire, Brazilians (of whom there are 30,000 here at any given time) of African heritage? Where were these Negroes seen? If it was Wellington, they could be from the many embassies; if Auckland they could be visiting hip-hop performers. If it was Queenstown they could be tourists.
  
  Never let the facts get in the way of a good prejudice.
  
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  April 26, 2017 9:14am
  - EAD
    
    @ Fernglass,
    
    what is your point here – it seems like you’re attacking a strawman?
    
    Do you expect the author to go up an enquire and ask each person their origins so they can post their observations on a blog?
    
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    April 26, 2017 2:39pm
- Disaster Area
  
  I grew up in an area of the UK that was almost exclusively white.
  When I first went to University and encountered people of different races and religions I was very nervous and wary of them. But then I worked with them and realised that they are, in fact, just people.
  
  Actually meeting and interacting with people different to yourself makes it very hard to maintain these prejudices.
  
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  April 26, 2017 9:28am
  - EAD
    
    Actually meeting and interacting with people different to yourself makes it very hard to maintain these prejudices
    
    I guess it is quite easy to maintain this view if you work in a White collar job and your encounters with ” diversity” is in small doses limited to those with an advanced education.
    
    Closer to home, trying telling the people of Melbourne or Sydney who have been witness to some shocking Negro violence that they’re “just like us”. If they were “just like us”, why, when Blacks move into a neighbourhood, do all of the Whites and East Asians flee?
    
    Try telling the people from Sweden (2nd highest incidence if rape in the world behind Lesotho) that these 3rd worlders are “just people”.
    
    There is no need to pretend that other cultures really are the “equal” if Western Civilisation. From Black violence in Australia & America, to Islamic terrorism, to rape in Sweden to knife crime in London, can’t you see what is right in front of you and what the real evidence tells you?
    
    As Dalrymple describes below – your entire thought process has been emasculated by Political Correctness.
    
    “Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
    
    — Theodore Dalrymple
    
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    April 26, 2017 2:33pm
    - Kimbo
      
      I doubt that Theodore Dalrymple, a former missionary-doctor in Africa, and whose mother was a refugee on account of Nazi racial policies would concur with your implied application of his critique of Political Correctness.
      
      But then you never did stump up with the place and time in which Churchill gave that alleged quote, did you?
      
      http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2017/04/bolgers_views.html
      
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      April 26, 2017 3:16pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Correction – (((Dalrymple))) was a doctor in Africa, but, as he is an atheist, not a missionary. But as his mother was part-Jewish, his assessment is that her life would have been very short if she had stayed under the yoke of National Socialism.
        
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        April 26, 2017 3:29pm
    - Disaster Area
      
      ‘I guess it is quite easy to maintain this view if you work in a White collar job and your encounters with ” diversity” is in small doses limited to those with an advanced education.’
      
      No, as a teacher I met young people and their parents, who were trying to get an education, advanced or otherwise.
      
      As for ‘real evidence’, I lived in a majority Asian (Indian/Pakistani) area in Sheffield for 5 years and then lived in a similar area of London for another 10. I taught in a school that had over 35 different native languages.
      
      The cultures, music, food and festivals that I experienced showed a damn sight more ‘civilisation’ than the white working class youth who spend all weekend binge drinking and fighting in the streets.
      
      My entire thought process has been shaped by the people I have met, not the racist books I can quote.
      
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      April 26, 2017 3:44pm
      - EAD
        
        As for ‘real evidence’, I lived in a majority Asian (Indian/Pakistani) area in Sheffield for 5 years and then lived in a similar area of London for another 10. I taught in a school that had over 35 different native languages.
        
        The cultures, music, food and festivals that I experienced showed a damn sight more ‘civilisation’ than the white working class youth who spend all weekend binge drinking and fighting in the streets.
        
        The Pakistani kids you taught didn’t go on to become those involved in the Sheffield child abuse epidemic now did they? Then again, you’re experience with “diversity” involves young school children rather than the full enrichment experience.
        
        As for the culture, music, foods and festivals….showing more “civilisation”.
        
        I assume your making a joke but perhaps you’re so cucked to actually believe such cr@p?
        
        Read Darymples quote above – you must be one of those “emasculated liars”. Have you been to India and Pakistan and seen for yourself the chaos of those countries and the cheapness of life? Do you really think the land of Shakespeare and Parliamentary democracy, civility, rule of law is less than countries where they still sh!t in the streets….
        
        Anyhow – away from your diversionary tactics so as to create a strawman and not address what I said…….
        
        What is your view on the observation I raised about the evolution of NZ’s immigration policy? I feel we are following Australia in that they had small amounts of Negro immigration to soften the public up before it got unleashed in larger numbers and look at the chaos over there.
        
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        April 26, 2017 10:14pm
      - Disaster Area
        
        EAD,
        I don’t know what has happened to you in your life to make you so angry and fearful of people who have different skin colours and religions to yourself. The ‘western’ culture of which you are so proud and seek to defend is itself formed by absorbing and adapting other cultures.
        
        If you are going to resort to ad hom attacks like ‘you must be one of those “emasculated liars” ‘ then it would seem that you aren’t interested in my experiences and views.
        
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        April 27, 2017 7:48am
fernglas

NZ has 1,860,000 houses with an average of three bedrooms. That is about 5.5 million bedrooms for 4.6 million people. Assuming that a third of those people are sharing a bedroom, then we have the need for about 3 million bedrooms; in other words we have 2.5 million spare bedrooms.

If rates were levied on the number of bedrooms in a house then if the bedrooms were being used, it would be user pays, as opposed to rates currently levied against a house rather than the occupants, which are not. And if the bedrooms were not fully occupied, there would be a financial incentive to trade down to the minimum number required, thus freeing up space. Housing crisis solved!!

My God; I’ve woken up as Gareth Morgan!!
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April 26, 2017 9:06am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Not hard to turn a bedroom into a study or a hobby room. Just take the beds out. There are ways around everything.
  
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  April 26, 2017 9:17am
- Disaster Area
  
  The problem with this idea is that it will hit the people who can most afford it.
  
  From what I understand is that there aren’t that many houses with only one or two bedrooms. Most kiwi houses have 3 or more, so where would everyone move when the kids have flown the nest?
  
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  April 26, 2017 9:30am
- ross411
  
  A lot of ifs. Why only if the bedrooms were being used?
  
  Why not the potential for the property to have bedrooms? Calculate the maximum number of bedrooms that could fit in the property, with one living room and a bathroom, and then tax away.
  
  In the end, anyone can come up with some arbitrary solution. And they all have problems.
  
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  April 26, 2017 9:44am
  - marcw
    
    Poll tax – each person pays rates, no matter what size of the house/rented or owner/camper van or tent/ car or street/ 1 or 10 per bedroom.
    
    But that’s not fair cry the lefties … rich pricks.
    
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    April 26, 2017 12:21pm
    - GazzaW
      
      Worked well for Maggie Thatcher ….. 😉
      
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      April 26, 2017 8:12pm
- KevOB
  
  We have ways of taxing.:
  Every room in a dwelling that is 4.5m² or greater in area and which does not contain a fixed stove with a minimum of 3 heating surfaces or oven of at least 0.35m³ capacity and a heating element of 2kw or greater or else has installed and functional a water closet, bath or a shower each of which cooking, or bathroom appliances or facilities are certified by the relevant local authority in which the dwelling or building is located to comply with all their regulations and the Building Code currently in force shall be deemed to be a bedroom unless it exceeds 18m² in area and each such bedroom shall be be subject to Bedroom Tax at the rate set out in Schedule BR1 provide that in respect of any such bedroom that if subsection JK9a(ii) applies to any such room that room will be deemed to not be a bedroom and thereby exempt from the provision of this section provided that the conditions of that subsection apply for a period of not less than 270 days in any year beginning on the first day of February in that year and provide also that the certificate to that effect as required under subsection JK9a(iii) is provided with the Return required under S 89 (10)(k5)(9)(iv) of the Bedroom Tax Administration (GM) Act 2018.
  
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  April 26, 2017 10:14am
  - Flash
    
    Sounds ok to me –
    
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    April 26, 2017 11:59am
    - KevOB
      
      There are problems, among them, is a gas stove included? Do gas stoves have “heating elements”? As a Tax Inspector I would have to say that a gas stove in a room would not qualify for that room to be exempted under the provisions above.
      
      Be careful what is wished for under revenue and social security laws. Concepts are free: their implementation can be murky, inequitable, ill considered, impractical and long lasting.
      
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      April 26, 2017 2:28pm
Paulus

Yesterday in Mt Maunganui at the ANZAC commemoration discussions appear to have been voiced that the ANZAC Day commemoration should include the local Maori Wars as well as the natural procession of why we commemorate this day.
It is more popular in the BOP than Waitangi so greater Maori influence can be brought to bear. Local NZME paper seems interested which means being supportive.
Maori already have more social and political influence with specific Council committees having to ratify Council decisions.
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April 26, 2017 9:12am
stephieboy

EAD, your Aucklander ( like you ) is a fabulist weaving utterly dishonest stories about Auckland.

The availability of relatively cheap Jap imports also has had a significant effect on the City’s gridlock .As well as lack of significant investment in public transport infrastructure over the generations.

I don’t think Aucklanders will buy into the blame it on the” negroes “etc garbage . I would say the city largely rejoices in the benefits of our diversity dividend that is changing the face of our city and country for the better .
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April 26, 2017 9:17am
- Rich Prick
  
  … the city largely rejoices in the benefits of our diversity dividend that is changing the face of our city and country for the better.
  
  There’s that nonsense term, “diversity dividend” again. It’s utterly meaningless. I doubt the young girls Sultan Ali Abdul Ali Akbari preyed upon would rejoice the so-called diversity dividend you claim to be changing everything for the better.
  
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  April 26, 2017 9:34am
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    Rich Prick , nor do the young girls l preyed on by Graeme Capil and more recently this fellow,
    
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    April 26, 2017 10:00am
    - stephieboy
      
      http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/77391710/One-of-New-Zealands-most-sadistic-sex-offenders-to-be-released
      
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      April 26, 2017 10:09am
      - Rich Prick
        
        I gather then, that immigrant sex offenders are part of your “diversity dividend”.
        
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        April 26, 2017 10:17am
      - stephieboy
        
        Rich Prick , immigrant sex offender(s) ??
        My links show that child molesting is not exclusive to them as you may fancifully and wishfully think .
        
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        April 26, 2017 11:22am
      - Rich Prick
        
        Oh dear Stephie, Graham Capill was born in West Africa and the delightful chap in your link was born in the Netherlands. We all know that these offenders are not exclusively immigrants, but it’s a bit silly to use immigrant examples to make that point.
        
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        April 26, 2017 11:38am
      - stephieboy
        
        Rich Prick , so you speciously and disingenuously tell us Graeme Capill born in West Africa and the other in the Netherlands as though these facts exculpates them ?
        
        Lets try Robert Burrett considered one of the nations most serious serial child sex offenders ,
        
        http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11621027
        
        Any hidden rationalisations and excuses ?
        
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        April 26, 2017 11:57am
      - Rich Prick
        
        Comprehension really isn’t your strong point.
        
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        April 26, 2017 12:11pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Comprehension really isn’t your strong point.
        
        With stephie that is a given. However, would you care to throw in another unnecessary adverb to also make them excessive? 😉
        
        But then, on closer inspection I note that at 9:34 you posted:
        
        It’s utterly meaningless
        
        …so I’m calling a breach of Kimbo’s law: “in blogworld the validity of an argument is in inverse proportion to the excessive and unnecessary use of adverbs”
        
        Then again, as you were talking about stephie, I may be able to make that as an exception.
        
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        April 26, 2017 12:21pm
      - Lance
        
        I am an equal opportunity advocate myself
        
        I think that ALL sex offenders should be sent one-way to Afghanistan upon their release.
        
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        April 26, 2017 12:57pm
    - holysheet
      
      stephieboy
      
      Rich Prick , nor do the young girls l preyed on
      Buggar me,stoooopidboy admits perving on young girls. Thats got to be a first.
      
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      April 26, 2017 10:55am
      - All_on_Red
        
        Stephie says
        “nor do the young girls l preyed on”
        Wow– that’s awful
        
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        April 26, 2017 11:54am
      - stephieboy
        
        holysheet and All on Wed , obviously a typo .Both learn to control your infantile giggling and sniggering !
        
        You’ve both lost the debate . End of story ( as if you were really ever capable )
        
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        April 26, 2017 12:08pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Nah, you let the mask slip eh Stephie.
        I think we all suspected you were like that but now it’s confirmed.
        You’re a disgrace.
        
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        April 26, 2017 12:26pm
      - holysheet
        
        If thats a typo please correct it as I cannot work out any word that could go there.
        
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        April 26, 2017 12:31pm
    - pentwig
      
      Again you admit to preying on young girls steffie.
      ” nor do the young girls l preyed on”.
      Sicko!!
      
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      April 26, 2017 8:09pm
      - mikenmild
        
        Is it true that ‘pentwig’ is a Middle English word for micro-penis?
        
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        April 26, 2017 8:23pm
- Manolo
  
  It did not take long for stephieboy to utter the wonderful phrase “diversity dividend”. Once a progressive…
  
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  April 27, 2017 12:39am
Chuck Bird

How much do we pay for this data? Surely, they could afford to separate fathers for mother’s live in boyfriend.

New Zealand Homicide: New police report delves into violent deaths

3:56 PM Tuesday Apr 25, 2017

Almost one in 10 homicide victims are killed by their parent or a parent’s live-in partner, a new report that delves into the circumstances surrounding murder and manslaughter cases has found.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11844856
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April 26, 2017 9:18am
- 4077th
  
  That “data” is easily skewed by cases such as Bain. Problem living in a low population country is the “per capita” percentages used. It’s not and never has been a correct way to represent statistics.
  
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  April 26, 2017 9:33am
- GoVege
  
  Most young children killed are bashed to death by their mum’s latest boyfriend.
  Raising young kids is damn hard work, but we have the useless leaders of our most abused kids mouthing the pathetic platitude that “every child is a gift from God”, to justify young girls pushing out babies on the benny.
  So long as the nation’s kids don’t have their biological fathers protecting them, (or supporting them), they are sitting ducks for any violent loser.
  
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  April 26, 2017 11:57am
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    GoVege, many time fathers have no option but to pay child support but are denied access and when they say their child is at risk they are not listened to.
    
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    April 26, 2017 12:46pm
    - GoVege
      
      I’m sure that’s true, Chuck.
      But it’s also true that a lot of children are put at risk because their fathers have abused their mothers to such an extent they have to leave them.
      Wouldn’t it be nice if two adults could treat each other nicely for their children’s sake?
      
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      April 26, 2017 10:34pm
ross411

Lol. So true. Stringer could take some lessons from this cartoonist.

The “Antifa” movement.
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April 26, 2017 9:27am
- cha
  
  Benny’s worried.
  
  https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-SL5qUXkAAy9xC.jpg
  
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  April 26, 2017 12:08pm
4077th

I wonder what Phil Twatford is going to do now the actual immigration statistics are available. I have a great deal contempt for the NZ Horrid but in this case the numbers don’t lie and are not skewed to furnish Twatford’s dog whistle.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11842859

UK, Germany, Australia, South Africa, USA Top 5. Perhaps some of those people have Chinese sounding names?
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April 26, 2017 9:30am
- Happychappy
  
  Better still how are Andrew and Winston going to spin this and especially after Little has criticized Australia,the UK and USA about their policy against NZ’s.
  
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  April 26, 2017 9:41am
- BassilFawlty
  
  You’re at it early today !
  
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  April 26, 2017 9:50am
  - 4077th
    
    Probably because GD was up later than usual today. The extra day off has left me with more outrage to share than normal 🙂
    
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    April 26, 2017 10:44am
- All_on_Red
  
  https://croakingcassandra.com/2017/04/26/questionable-herald-analysis/
  
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  April 26, 2017 9:50am
  - 4077th
    
    So the Horrid finally stops blowing the dog whistle and frames the statistics to fit National’s narrative? Not sure that is what is going on here. Michael’s blog seems to have a familiar tone throughout in that, he is anti immigration and fixated on Labour’s fiscal policy. It does make for some interesting reading but everybody, including myself, has their own take on how the statistics are tabled but the consolidated numbers do not lie. You can cherry pick the data that supports the views of Twatford, Winston and Little if that is the barrow you wish to push. Michael seems to have a particular type of barrow he wishes to push.
    
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    April 26, 2017 11:02am
    - All_on_Red
      
      The number of Student Visa’s issued to China and India is huge. It’s a well worn path to Residency.
      
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      April 26, 2017 12:23pm
      - 4077th
        
        That’s a fair comment AoR but is an assumption. I don’t see any data for the conversion rate of those starting on a student visa and remaining as citizens. My assumption would be a small percentage of those would remain. Even if larger, It could only benefit our economy to have locally educated, tertiary qualified people entering the workforce. The converse is, “skilled migrants” entering the country that cannot cross credit their skills without further education ending up driving a taxi or working in a restaurant. I would suggest the latter is more prevalent.
        
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        April 26, 2017 1:20pm
      - Jack5
        
        4077th writes at 11.02:
        
        My assumption would be a small percentage of those would remain.
        
        4077th: Your head’s in the sand with Woodhouse’s. The effects of the immigration flood are visible everywhere.
        
        If National stays in denial on immigration, it’s toast by the end of the year.
        
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        April 26, 2017 2:00pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Official Data would be nice. From data I’ve seen of property purchases there’s a lot of young Chinese buying. They get Residency. The family then comes over. They buy more property.
        The parents might still work in China but plan to retire here. Meanwhile the Grandparents come- clean air, good food, free health care.
        
        ‘Student visas granted, by country, 2015/16
        China 25,931’
        
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        April 26, 2017 2:03pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  It’s all the Youngs and Lees that cause Twyford problems…
  
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  April 26, 2017 10:07am
Keeping Stock

“Those who deny the Holocaust are an accomplice to this horrible evil, and we will never be silent. We just won’t. We will never, ever be silent in the face of evil again,” Trump said.

“Denying the Holocaust is only one of many forms of dangerous anti-Semitism that continues around the world,” he said.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-vows-fight-anti-semitism-forceful-speech-holocaust/story?id=47006104

Oh dear. I guess EAD is no longer so enamoured with President Donald Trump this morning.

That was a stinging rebuke to rebuke to those who reject the overwhelming evidence that the Holocaust actually happened.
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April 26, 2017 10:14am
- ztev
  
  Expect Trump to do a commeration of the Great Sioux War of 1876 ( included battle at Little Big Horn) ??
  
  War and extermination of American Indians was all right when the ‘evil’ was the US.
  
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  April 26, 2017 11:50am
- Rachael Membery
  
  His daughter converted to Judaism to marry her husband according to this.
  http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/91912044/Ivanka-Trump-jeered-after-defending-father-at-womens-panel-discussion-in-Germany
  
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  April 26, 2017 1:07pm
  - Paulus
    
    So did Chelsea Clinton.
    Soon to be a Congresswoman with Clinton Foundation and Soros (Husband’s Uncle) money.
    
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    April 26, 2017 1:46pm
Michael

4077
That data may be skewed but not by cases such as the Bain killings where the eldest son was the most likely perpetrator.
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April 26, 2017 10:29am
Happychappy

Wow NZ Government spied on Japan in 2007 and Geoffrey Palmer denies knowing anything about the claim made in whistle-blower Snowden release of data. If this had been released showing the National Government was in charge when this data about whaling had come to light because they had spied it would be front page news from every media outlet in NZ.
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April 26, 2017 10:41am
- ztev
  
  Palmer just says that he cant talk about anything to do with intelligence- partly confirming they did get secret intel from the japanese.
  
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  April 26, 2017 11:52am
  - Paulus
    
    You mean Palmer had no intelligence – I agree
    
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    April 26, 2017 1:47pm
    - Kimbo
      
      Not quite right. He has lots of intelligence, perhaps too much, hence he is not very smart when it comes to practical problems caused by the vagaries of human nature. For example, he thinks that no matter what the problem, a well-drafted law can solve it. Very dumb…
      
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      April 26, 2017 1:50pm
    - howitis
      
      He has always pushed around a wheelbarrow of smarmy wherever he goes.
      
      I attended some law lectures as he had a reputation at Vic.
      He is such a tough guy belittling 18 year old first year law students in front of their peers.
      
      When Allah was making his batch ready for earth it was 1 part flour; 1 part intelligence; 4 parts ‘nasty’.
      
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      April 26, 2017 2:46pm
Jack5

Is the haka being done to death, reduced to a cliche?

At Ypres, at a World War 1 commemorative ceremony, NZ participation is dominated by a haka.

The NZ Army may be heavily Maori now, but Maori played a quite minor role in the NZ Army in World War 1.

The haka is performed so frequently now, from primary school up, it can induce the response of: “Not again.”

If the NZ Army wants to project Maori-ness, there must be a subtle alternative. The haka is losing impact from over-performance.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/91915403/kiwi-troops-perform-haka-to-australian-soldiers-in-ypres
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April 26, 2017 11:15am
- Kimbo
  
  The haka is performed so frequently now, from primary school up, it can induce the response of: “Not again.”
  
  Maybe cultural cringe on your part, Jack5. You could argue the same about the Scots and the bagpipes, or Sikhs and the Dastaar (turban) in military displays.
  
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  April 26, 2017 12:02pm
- MCos
  
  English rugby writers have been saying that for as long as I can remember.
  
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  April 26, 2017 12:37pm
  - Kimbo
    
    Maybe my memory (or wasting my youth reading old rugby books) goes back a bit further than yours. In 1973 Wallace Reyburn (admittedly a Kiwi-born and educated Brit-domiciled journalist) criticised the 1972-73 All Blacks for not performing the haka on their 34 game tour…with the exception of before the memorable Barbarians encounter. Haka styles have changed since then!
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htCTWZqCMhQ
    
    Segue – it is one of the tragedies of his career that Sid Going, who nearly always outplayed Gareth Edwards in their head-to-head encounters played about the worst game of his life that day. Part of the reason was a badly injured ankle he went into the game with, that was re-injured early in the match. And part of the reason he was picked: no one else could lead the haka – although Te Aute old boy Kent Lambert, judging by his stance among the sad uncoordinated honkies on the day looks like he could have done a good job! 😉
    
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    April 26, 2017 12:46pm
    - MCos
      
      I don’t remember that although I went to one of the games!!
      
      Those writers have always been predicting the imminent demise of the ABs too.
      Losers.
      We have a flag nobody cares for & an anthem hardly anyone knows the words to, but for a good many people the Haka comes the closest to symbolizing our country. Certainly does for foreigners, many of whom can’t get enough of it.
      
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      April 26, 2017 12:50pm
      - Kimbo
        
        I don’t remember that although I went to one of the games!!
        
        Which one? All Blacks (Joe Karam and Keith Murdoch!) vs Wales aka “The unbeatable and best Welsh team of all time loses to the worst All Blacks ever”? Wouldn’t have wanted to be a Kiwi in Cardiff afterwards. Just ask Keith Murdoch! 😉
        
        Llanelli match would have been better, even though we lost
        
        Oh the beer flowed at Stradey, piped down from Felinfoel,
        And the hands that held the glasses high were strong from steel and coal,
        the air was filled with singing and I heard a grown man cry,
        Not because we’d won but because the pubs ran dry.
        
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        April 26, 2017 12:54pm
      - MCos
        
        We went to a London game – Home Counties or some such name.
        I remember on the train on the way back some disreputable long haired youth pulled out a tap, filled it with weed, lit up and passed it round the carriage.
        Might have been on way back from a concert, come to think of it.
        What fun!
        Don’t get that on the Onehunga line.
        
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        April 26, 2017 1:22pm
Happychappy

Andrew Little suggesting he is the miracle man already if he become the Prime Minister at the elections in September. Then to top all this off someone must have told him that Labor in Australia will win the next election there as he is suggesting that a beer with Bill Shortland and they would sort the Citizen situation out for NZ’s living in Australia and has even promised these NZ Families living there he will sort it if he becomes Prime Minister. How can you promise to slash immigration by tens of thousand that want to come to NZ and then go to Australia and tell them how to run their immigration policy in Australia.
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April 26, 2017 11:56am
ztev

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
Just read the absurdity of some of the comments from new Minister Tim Macindoe:

“Macindoe said Customs is an area he has been interested in for a long time.” WTF?

Associate Minister of Transport ? That too is something he was ‘very interested in’

His previous background ? Deputy Principal of St Peters Cambridge and an education bureaucrat

he only got the promotions as he was Chief Whip ( something very suited from his role as a deputy headmaster) AND IT WAS ‘HIS TURN’

he knows his career will never be much higher than this as hes ‘not a catholic college headmaster’
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April 26, 2017 12:07pm
- ex-golfer
  
  Trevor Mallards chosen career?
  Teaching, then a career politician.
  What’s your point again?
  
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  April 26, 2017 12:50pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  He also has a Law Degree
  
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  April 26, 2017 1:12pm
- 4077th
  
  And Jacindarella? What life experience does she bring to the job of “deputy leader” of the opposition? Bugger all..actually!
  
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  April 26, 2017 1:24pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  No ztev; absurdity is someone like Phil Twyford suggesting people were Chinese, just because they had surnames like Lee and Young.
  
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  April 26, 2017 1:52pm
  - ztev
    
    You missed the point. hes obviously highly qualified, much more so than Ms Kaye for a role in education.
    Its was his absurd words about how he was ‘interested in customs’
    
    But being a grey headed white male what chance does he have against a younger bottle blond who was unremarkable in her previous minor portfolios ( Minister for Yoof!) and was in parliament for the same time
    
    Its a man ban national style, which those former beehive apparatchiks have precedence
    
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    April 26, 2017 6:00pm
    - ex-golfer
      
      Oh I see – you were being so clever in your absurd attack on a Minister being interested in his portfolios (something I would have thought is quite important) that your incredibly subtle dig at Nikki Kaye was disguised completely.
      
      Given Nikki Kaye was Minister responsible for the steady reduction in ACC levies that hardworking taxpayers of New Zealand pay I would suggest she has been quite effective. The fact she is young and blonde is beside the point and irrelevant.
      
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      April 26, 2017 6:19pm
    - Manolo
      
      One can almost see the bile flow. Poor ztev.
      
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      April 27, 2017 12:42am
Hugh Pavletich

HOUSING: There is no effective advocacy in California … here’s whats happening …

California … The epicentre of the 2007 Global Financial Crisis … that bought the world to its knees …

Spring housing: Strongest sellers market ever … CNBC
… with videos …
… h/t JG …

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/24/spring-housing-strongest-sellers-market-ever.html

• Even as more homes come on the market for this popular sales season, they’re flying off fast.

• Home prices have now surpassed their last peak, and at the entry level, where demand is highest, sellers are in the driver’s seat. … view & read more via hyperlink above …

… Of necessity … mortgage lending must mirror the Median Multiple of specific markets (check Demographia Surveys) …

… 2007 in California they were lending up to 11 times annual household incomes before it blew to bits … as Herb Greenberg of MarketWatch reported at the time …

Straight Talk on the Mortgage Mess from an Insider – Herb Greenberg – MarketWatch

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/greenberg/2007/12/straight-talk-on-the-mortgage-mess-from-an-insider/

Even before this mortgage mess started, one person who kept emailing me over and over saying that this is going to get real bad. He kept saying this was beyond sub-prime, beyond low FICO scores, beyond Alt-A and beyond the imagination of most pundits, politicians and the press. When I asked him why somebody from inside the industry would be so emphatically sounding the siren, he said, “Someobody’s got to warn people.” … read more via hyperlink above …

… There has been NO effective grounded structural advocacy to emerge YET in California … in contrast … check out the evolutionary political progress in New Zealand …

Performance Urban Planning.org | Hugh Pavletich

http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/
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- Hugh Pavletich
  
  … What happened in Australia following the 23 January 2017 release of this year’s Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey …
  
  Deluge of affordability data forces government’s hand | The New Daily
  
  http://thenewdaily.com.au/money/property/2017/02/02/housing-affordability/
  
  … and what the former Australian Federal Liberal Party Leader John Hewson has to say …
  
  The risk is greater than the GFC if we can’t fix the housing crisis … Melbourne The Age
  
  http://www.theage.com.au/comment/the-risk-is-greater-than-the-gfc-if-we-cant-fix-the-housing-crisis-20170309-guu4sf.html
  
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  April 26, 2017 12:26pm
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    Why housing supply matters – MacroBusiness Australia
    
    https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2017/04/housing-supply-matters/#comment-2857209
    
    By Leith van Onselen
    
    For years I have argued that Australia should look to Texas to solve Australian housing supply.
    
    This view was based primarily on the fact that Texas has been able to achieve stable and affordable housing in the face of extreme population growth (see next chart). … read more via hyperlink above …
    
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    April 26, 2017 3:14pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Looks like even the downtickers don’t bother any more Hugh.
      Give it up old chap.
      
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      April 26, 2017 4:39pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Capt Mainwaring …Whether its ‘popular’ or not at Kiwiblog is beside the point.
        
        Public opinion polls tell an entirely different story of course !
        
        Further information via http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org .
        
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        April 26, 2017 8:47pm
All_on_Red

The Diversity Dividend eh
‘Migrant crime “increased disproportionately” in Germany in 2016, according to a report the Interior Ministry released Monday.
The number of migrant criminal suspects increased by 52.7 percent from 2015 to 2016. Migrants account for 8.6 percent of all crime suspects in Germany, up from 5.7 percent in 2015.
Politically or ideologically motivated crimes by foreigners went up by 66.5 percent, with 3,372 cases throughout the year.
“There is nothing there to sugarcoat,” Federal Minister of the Interior Thomas de Maiziere said of the statistics, according to Deutsche Welle.”
‘The overall crime statistics saw a significant rise in two categories: murder and manslaughter, and rape and sexual assault.’
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April 26, 2017 12:29pm
- Disaster Area
  
  So to put it another way, 9 out of 10 crime suspects in Germany are Germans?
  
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  April 26, 2017 3:49pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    The population of Germany is roughly 81 million. There have been about 1.6 million migrants in the last two years yet those migrants are committing almost 10% of the crime.
    If you think your point has any meaning then fuck you are thick.
    And you’re a School teacher too, a whinging pommie school teacher at that.
    God help our children.
    – still butt hurt after the other day huh. This won’t help ?
    
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    April 26, 2017 4:00pm
    - Disaster Area
      
      So you didn’t see my reply to your post?
      Most of what you said was easily countered – especially where you quoted an April Fool’s joke.
      
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      April 26, 2017 4:49pm
cmm

We should take away civilians’ guns because only the police need guns

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/91913208/one-dead-one-hospitalised-one-arrested-in-shooting-incident-in-invercargill

Oops!
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April 26, 2017 12:37pm
- howitis
  
  So today the cops release the fact that one in three murders of women are by their partners.
  
  Just to back this up they have one of their own top his missus.
  
  http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/91913208/Off-duty-policeman-the-suspect-after-Invercargill-shooting-left-wife-dead-lover-injured
  
  CMM: a more specific headline. a follow on.
  
  While only one in ten murders involve a firearm (one in four use knives or similar so 2.5 times the frequency ) this cop used a firearm to up the stats.
  
  Ok, and the cops want to disarm the population and only allow cops to have them.
  Not a good look.
  
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  April 26, 2017 3:03pm
  - sooty
    
    I would hope he did not use a police issue handgun!
    
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    April 26, 2017 5:59pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      He didn’t.
      
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      April 26, 2017 8:53pm
Longknives

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/yassmin-abdelmagied-triggers-anger-with-anzac-day-facebook-post/news-story/40123cfe7b0d7fb93ed7536aaf9f7824

This piece of ##%% who is sneering at Anzac Day is the same woman who claims Islam is ‘The most Feminist Religion’!
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April 26, 2017 1:10pm
Manolo

Con-men and crooks:
http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/25/al-gores-new-group-demands-15-trillion-to-fight-global-warming/
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April 26, 2017 3:52pm
- All_on_Red
  
  Yeah, but they don’t do it for the money. Surely not.
  
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  April 26, 2017 4:04pm
David Garrett

I have just obtained more information on the Afghani sex offender, Sultan [apparently a name not a title] Ali Abdul Ali Akbari…and it is dynamite.

Firstly, as I suspected, the victims of his SECOND incidence of sexual offending were children who were closely related to him. That alone should have ensured that he was deported quick smart following his release on parole on 21 February 2017. But what has subsequently occurred makes the decision not to deport him simply inexplicable, and heads surely MUST roll,

Following his release, Akbari has been convicted yet again for harrassing women in shopping malls. But that’s not all: of far greater concern is what the Parole Board describes as:

“…concerns in relation to Akbari’s behaviour with young children and women …at the Westwave swimming complex in Henderson”

He has not been charged over this “misbehaviour” but was given a pre-charge warning. At the very least, he has breached his original parole conditions which preclude him from associating with young girls unless accompanied by another adult over the age of 20 who had previously been approved by his probation officer.

Quite obviously, if he was given a pre charge warning for his behaviour at the swimming complex, he must have been “associating” with the complainants. How else could a complaint arise?

As a result of this “misbehaviour”, Akbari has had his parole conditions varied to include, inter alia, GPS monitoring and other conditions. These extra conditions are contained in a revised Parole Board decision dated 16 March, just over a month ago.

The bigger point is of course that the Immigration Department MUST have known of his subsequent misbehaviour, the conviction for harrassment, and the consequent variation to the parole conditions when they granted him a reprieve from deportation. If they did NOT know about it, he has clearly now put himself in line for immediate deportation: In addition to breaching parole, he has been convicted and sentenced to community work with regard to the harrassment of women at the shopping malls.

Why was his parole not revoked after the incidents at the swimming pool and the conviction for harrassing women at the shopping malls? WHY is this man still here??
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April 26, 2017 4:14pm
- nasska
  
  Thanks DG. A miracle may yet occur & someone higher up the Justice system food chain experiences a Damascus moment.
  
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  April 26, 2017 4:28pm
  - Kimbo
    
    You and your choice of (religiously-inspired) metaphors! Almost Freudian 😉
    
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    April 26, 2017 4:37pm
    - nasska
      
      If I have to suffer the anguish of a world saturated with religious rubbish I might as well make use of their metaphors.
      
      That way promotion of the supernatural isn’t a complete waste of resources.
      
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      April 26, 2017 4:43pm
  - David Garrett
    
    Nasska: To extend religious metaphors, God knows what is going on at Immigration New Zealand…I find it outrageous that this prick is still here…it is quite clear that he simply cannot control himself around women and girls. Further sexual offending is an absolute certainty.
    
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    April 26, 2017 4:58pm
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Why does he need to go to pools at all, other than for his depravity?
      
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      April 26, 2017 7:32pm
      - David Garrett
        
        You know the answer Rachael…he goes there because that’s where he gets to see scantily clad women and girls…which are all, to his eyes no doubt, harlots who deserve whatever he might do to them…Which is the problem when you let Muslims in here…
        
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        April 26, 2017 9:24pm
- rangitoto
  
  Yeah but that’s raaacist, or colonial oppression, or Trump’s fault. Get with the SJW programme.
  
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  April 26, 2017 4:37pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  Shouldn’t a pre charge warning be the very first thing, not able to be applied after time served etc?
  It should also not matter if he was a Sultan but I was interested, what he is is insulting.
  
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  April 26, 2017 5:10pm
Fletch

Yet again – a judge has stopped an order by Trump that federal funding can be withheld from States who do not comply with federal law which allows for the deportation of illegal immigrants. Watch as Tucker interviews an official from California who double talks his way through the interview and won’t answer Carlson on where in the constitution it says that illegals have a right to be in the country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCTUqflWtG8
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April 26, 2017 4:17pm
- cha
  
  won’t answer Carlson on where in the constitution it says that illegals have a right to be in the country.
  
  Of course he didn’t answer. Carlson’s stupid fucking question wasn’t relevant to the court’s reason for blocking the EO.
  
  The Constitution vests the spending power in Congress, not the President, so the Order cannot constitutionally place new conditions on federal funds.
  
  http://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000015b-a6d5-de92-a17b-aed55e780001
  
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  April 26, 2017 4:41pm
  - Disaster Area
    
    Damn those pesky Judges and their knowledge of the Law.
    
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    April 26, 2017 4:51pm
    - rangitoto
      
      One wonders about the quality of lawyers in the DOJ then
      
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      April 26, 2017 5:12pm
      - cha
        
        And the age of whoever wrote the White House response.
        
        https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-T1ng8WsAEq_zV.jpg
        
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        April 26, 2017 5:15pm
  - Ross12
    
    Did Congress vote to give the Obama administration the power to give sanctuary cities the Federal funding ?
    Also some heads need to roll in the DOJ for not advising Trump the EO was a waste of time.( I’m assuming the DOJ has some input into these EOs)
    
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    April 26, 2017 5:00pm
  - Fletch
    
    Yet Obama did the same thing – threatening to withhold federal funds from states that did not comply with his “trans” bathroom bill wishes.
    
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    April 26, 2017 5:03pm
    - ztev
      
      And 12 states sued to block that EO from obama…..
      
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      April 26, 2017 5:48pm
      - Fletch
        
        I do not believe a judge stopped it though.
        
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        April 26, 2017 6:17pm
      - Disaster Area
        
        Would it be that Trump wants to stop funds USING unconstitutional means whereas Obama wanted to stop funds BECAUSE of unconstitutional actions?
        
        Happy to be corrected.
        
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        April 26, 2017 6:40pm
Fletch

Tucker rakes congressman Eric Swalwell over the coals re: the new information that the Obama administration released known arms smugglers back to Iran during the Iranian nuclear deal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z88dCqlgnsc
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April 26, 2017 4:32pm
cmm

Huge handwringing over a caring mum who doesn’t go overboard on childproofing:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/home-property/91919545/kiwi-mum-talks-up-a-media-storm-about-not-childproofing-her-home

Naked toddler found tricycling in the road in Hamilton. Parents only contact the cops hours later. Hardly a mention:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/91931710/plea-to-identify-naked-child-found-cycling-alone-on-hamilton-street

I’m not sure I understand why the kid was reunited with his parents.
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April 26, 2017 5:06pm
Viking2

So a 48 year old rapes a 15 year old. Step dad rightly gets angry and give the rapist a bunch of fives and the police (knowing the circumstances) charge the Step Father with assaulting the rapist.
Any Judge worth their manhood would dismiss the case with no conviction. But they won’t and the police who seem unable to actually arrest real crims
will cause more cost and grief for the family.

I keep hearing that they have learnt a lot since the Louise/ Shipton case.
Clearly that ain’t so.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/91922603/stepfather-accused-of-bashing-the-man-who-raped-his-15yearold-stepdaughter
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April 26, 2017 5:57pm
- mikenmild
  
  Any Judge worth their manhood
  
  Must have been a girl judge, huh?
  
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  April 26, 2017 7:02pm
  - starboard
    
    no wonder you have no friends
    
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    April 26, 2017 7:25pm
    - mikenmild
      
      Kia ora, starboard. Kei te pehea koe?
      
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      April 26, 2017 7:30pm
      - dad4justice
        
        Do you speak to your mother Norma like that?
        
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        April 26, 2017 7:31pm
      - mikenmild
        
        You must have me confused with someone you met at Hagley Park.
        
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        April 26, 2017 7:33pm
      - stigie
        
        He does more than speak to his mother Dad !~
        
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        April 26, 2017 7:51pm
      - mikenmild
        
        You said you would tell anyone about those threesomes, stigie.
        
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        April 26, 2017 7:53pm
      - starboard
        
        she also continually farts in the sack stigie.
        
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        April 26, 2017 7:58pm
      - stigie
        
        As long as she can take her teeth out Starboard..?
        
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        April 26, 2017 8:14pm
      - starboard
        
        she aint got any mate
        
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        April 26, 2017 8:16pm
    - itstricky
      
      Why aren’t you hanging out with your 1000s of friends on the beaches of Ko Samui, instead of bothering to comment here?
      
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      April 26, 2017 7:34pm
      - mikenmild
        
        You don’t really think he is anywhere other than a Woolston bed-sit, do you?
        
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        April 26, 2017 7:36pm
      - starboard
        
        Phuket you fucktard..how many times need you be told
        
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        April 26, 2017 7:44pm
      - itstricky
        
        Maybe the other side of the city, then?
        
        http://phuketthai.co.nz
        
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        April 26, 2017 7:44pm
      - mikenmild
        
        Main courses at Phuket Thai look a little too high for our pensioner friend. More likely to be having the $8.90 (before 5.30pm) roast of the day at the Woolston Club.
        
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        April 26, 2017 7:49pm
      - dad4justice
        
        Where do you and your mother Norma dine mikeymoon?
        
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        April 26, 2017 7:50pm
      - mikenmild
        
        Speaking of the moon, D4J, had you thought about a course of cognitive-based therapy? I understand some of the self-help guides are also colouring books, to make it a bit easier.
        
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        April 26, 2017 7:55pm
      - stigie
        
        Milky’s mum is quite good looking..?
        
        https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT4dRX5VbmUeq_KTNN97krf-lv_YOg3nsNfioLpQAlVPDL6VDlZSQ
        
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        April 26, 2017 7:56pm
      - dad4justice
        
        Talking about therapy mikeymoon I thought you might need some having bypassed the millionth downtick mark or are you that moronic you don’t understand?
        
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        April 26, 2017 7:59pm
      - nasska
        
        Recently heard about a bloke, like Starboard, who went to Thailand & came so close to sleeping with a lady boy. He reckoned she looked like a girl, talked like a girl, even walked like a girl.
        
        It wasn’t until she reversed the car perfectly into the car space that he thought, “hang on a second”.
        
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        April 26, 2017 8:34pm
- GoVege
  
  The judges are always tough on vigilantes…
  They might make them redundant.
  
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  April 26, 2017 11:26pm
David Garrett

Viking: to give the full picture, the rapist has received a prison sentence…While every father of daughters obviously sympathizes with this guy, I suppose we can’t have vigilante justice…It will be interesting to see what the sentence for the father is…Given Akbari the Afghani only got community service for harrassing women AFTER being released on parole, one would think it shouldn’t be more than that…
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April 26, 2017 6:45pm
- cmm
  
  Not quite DG.
  
  At the time he got smacked, the rapist was still denying the charge and he was still walking the streets – perhaps looking out for his next bit of fluff. You can somewhat forgive the bugger for losing it a bit.
  
  If he’d punched this bloke AFTER going through the court system or while he was under arrest that’s a different matter.
  
  Any more than picking up a bit of litter or teaching boxing down at the gym is OTT.
  
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  April 26, 2017 6:56pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    And that is the sort of step father that you want around your children!!!
    
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    April 26, 2017 7:36pm
Jack5

Speaking of violence, should we have been sitting up and taking notice when the TVNZ show Seven Sharp tonight highlighted a primary-school kid’s use of a sleeper hold on a bully?

Isn’t this the hold that has been known to cause, or is suspected of causing, deaths of people being taken into custody by adults supposedly trained in the hold’s use and dangers?

State TV is broadcasting the sleeper hold as a way little kids can tackle bullies? WTF does TVNZ’s Jack Lame think he’s doing?

The anti-bullying campaign has jumped on the social-justice-warrior PR bandwagon of claiming New Zealand is “one of the worst in the world” or the “worst in the world” for this behaviour.

These SJW claims range in on reprehensible behaviours, then gain the attention of the media and State money-bag holders by hyping up the problem.

You soon hear, read, and see claims like: “NZ has one of the worst X problems in the world” or “one of the worst X problems in the developed world”.

But how are we going to protect our kids and grandkids from primary school vigilantes using sleeper/blood-choke holds? Especially when it seems to be being promoted by SJW do-gooders.
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April 26, 2017 8:55pm
rightoverlabour

This guy is lucky it was not my daughter, and I would probably be facing a manslaughter charge. Rapists should be executed. Now the step father has to go through shit because our justice system is so pro criminal.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/91922603/stepfather-accused-of-bashing-the-man-who-raped-his-15yearold-stepdaughter
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April 26, 2017 9:15pm
- Sponge
  
  While I sympathise with what you say, and also would likely have killed the prick had I been in the same situation, he had not been convicted at that point. I agree with harsh penalties for rapists, however, there are many false complaints laid so the death penalty is more that I would be comfortable with.
  
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  April 26, 2017 10:03pm
mikenmild

So what’s the news from TrumpWorld?
Tax cuts not going to happen?
No Obamacare repeal?
No funding for the wall?
North Korea bit of a head-scratcher?
Ivanka paying her Chinese worker $1 per day for 60-hour weeks?

That’s a lot of ‘fake news’.
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April 26, 2017 9:22pm
Jack5

Henry Cooke, Fairfax journalism ~~cadet,~~ ~~apprentice,~~ ~~learner,~~ ~~new chum,~~ intern is just the sort of person who will rise in the sinking traditional news media.

He’s got the right sort of Leftist, social-justice-warrior views. Age will mellow Henry. In the meantime, we’re going to hear more from Cook(i)e. TVNZ and Radio NZ will fight Fairfucked Media for his services.

Footnote: If Henry’s no longer an intern but a Fairfax staffer, good for him.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/91944627/a-brief-glossary-of-terms-politicians-use-in-the-immigration-debate
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April 26, 2017 9:25pm
Manolo

Judicial activism:
http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/04/25/trump-sanctuary-city-law-blocked-judge-san-francisco-obama-donor-william-orrick

Federal Judge William Orrick III, who on Tuesday blocked President Trump’s order to withhold federal funds from sanctuary cities, reportedly bundled hundreds of thousands of dollars for President Barack Obama.

Orrick, of the Northern District of California, issued an injunction against the Trump administration after the city of San Francisco and county of Santa Clara sued over the president’s plan to withhold federal funds from municipalities that harbor illegal immigrants.
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April 27, 2017 12:02am
Manolo

The modern and tolerant religion of peace:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4443890/Chechnya-attempting-eliminate-gay-community.html
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  And, naturally, the homophobic Russian government denies this is happening.
  
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