General Debate 24 August 2017

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PhilBest

Is a late GD posting, often one outcome of Wellington’s pathetically frequent gridlocked road system? Is Kokila stuck in a traffic jam every time someone has a nose-to-tail or has to change a tyre, on the side of the urban “highway”?
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August 24, 2017 11:03am
- Manolo
  
  No, the delay was because Kolila was drinking the third flat white of the morning in one of those swanky places in the capital. 😀
  
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  August 24, 2017 11:23am
- Lucia Maria
  
  It’s because no one thinks to email DPF when GD is missing, except for me. And this morning I was out and didn’t check in until just before 11am.
  
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  August 24, 2017 11:27am
  - GoVege
    
    Good girl.
    You saved our sanity.
    
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    August 24, 2017 12:20pm
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    Someone is always at fault, this time it is you 🙂
    
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    August 24, 2017 7:01pm
duggledog

Was talking to one of the low info non-contributors the other day. Stoked about getting even more from the Government, at the expense of all those Rich Pricks.

I said how confident are you Labour will actually do it though? Those politicians eh, they bullshit all the time bro, I said. I could see the conflict and hesitation plain as day

Look, Taxinda’s only saying she won’t decide what taxes to sting us with till after the General Election because

She knows she can’t. Not much. We’re already being taxed to the hilt.

Borrow more, tax more, sell assets. Those are the only choices and there ain’t no more scope, Labour knows it.

Taxinda’s keeping it vague in order to keep all the don’t-know-don’t-cares like the one I described above enthusiastic. They’re going to be sorely disappointed.

To me, it all fits.

Jacinda > Mormon > Amway > Labour
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August 24, 2017 11:03am
- GoVege
  
  But this is all the Nats’ fault!
  To get the desired result, one must provide the correct balance of incentives and disincentives.
  (Also known as carrot and stick approach.)
  It’s a bit like toddler-taming.
  If you give in to the screaming brat and reward it with goodies for bad behaviour. ..you will encourage bad behaviour.
  What we want is productive citizens and good parents.
  What we are doing is under-paying the hard workers, and rewarding the lazy bludgers who know by not bothering to use contraception, they will be paid to drag up more of the same.
  Can any Einsteins out there think of a solution, before the nation is sold off to the highest bidder?
  
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  August 24, 2017 11:23am
MT_Tinman

I bought a product called Spray and Walk Away Shower Cleaner.

I sprayed my shower and walked away.

Some time later I walked back.

Again I sprayed and walked away.

This time I walked back with a bloody great scrubbing brush.

I now have a clean shower cubicle.

Maybe the product name needs a slight tweak 🙂
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August 24, 2017 11:04am
- krazykiwi
  
  Yes, but you came back. You are suposed to walk away and stay away. The product made no provision for your foolish actions 🙂
  
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  August 24, 2017 11:11am
  - KevOB
    
    It has been known for the shower to get up and slowly walk away.
    
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    August 24, 2017 11:24am
  - Twinkletoes
    
    Try Mr. Muscle. Works a treat for me as long as one does it on a regular basis.
    
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    August 24, 2017 1:47pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Go talk to Penny Bright, she is an expert of ‘Spray and walk away’
  
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  August 24, 2017 7:03pm
PhilBest

The Herald hyperventilating this morning about “gender pay inequality” in Hollywood.

It just occurred to me for the first time, has anyone looked at gender pay inequality in the p*rn industry? Perhaps some expert SJW’s could look into this and make some calls for remedial policy?
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August 24, 2017 11:05am
- Lance
  
  Guarantee a pound to knob of goat dung that male fashion models are vastly underpaid compared to the top female models
  
  Nobody seems to be bitching about that.
  
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  August 24, 2017 11:22am
- MCos
  
  Just dawned on you you’re being short changed?
  
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  August 24, 2017 11:24am
  - mikenmild
    
    They pay him by length?
    
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    August 24, 2017 12:00pm
    - sooty
      
      Of 4×2?
      
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      August 24, 2017 12:34pm
    - Steve (North Shore)
      
      Yes Mike you get an uptick for that humour!
      
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      August 24, 2017 7:05pm
Huevon

RNZ this morning reported what Hillary Clinton *wanted* to say to Trump, but didn’t, during one of their debates (“back off you creep!”)

This is it. This is peak Trump Derangement Syndrome.
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August 24, 2017 11:08am
- PhilBest
  
  Hmmm, I don’t know, just when you call a peak, the Left does something even more insane….wait for a week at least, and see…
  
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  August 24, 2017 11:17am
- mikenmild
  
  She should probably have said “back off, creep” at the time, rather than whingeing about it now.
  It was creepy though. I wouldn’t expect Billy to try the same move in our debates.
  
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  August 24, 2017 11:43am
  - Dafixeruppa
    
    He thought that as she is a puppet, ~~he should insert his hand and~~ it should be his hand controlling her.
    
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    August 24, 2017 1:22pm
- Nosmo King
  
  She is no angel herself. The pot calling kettle black.
  
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  August 24, 2017 11:48am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Certainly no-one should question her level of experience in being in close proximity to a creep.
  
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  August 24, 2017 12:03pm
PhilBest

An excellent reading recommendation from a friend this morning:

http://thefederalist.com/2017/08/23/american-anarchy-parallels-chinas-cultural-revolution/

“How American Anarchy Parallels China’s Cultural Revolution”

“Both movements started on college campuses, with students who wanted to re-make history according to their own ideology…”

“…Both Movements Justify Violence on the Basis of Their Perceived Moral Authority…”

The author is someone I never heard of before, but sounds worth looking into further. She appears to be Chinese herself, and an expert on Chinese history. Even if the USA’s left “revolution” is not a harbinger to something bigger, the moral parallels drawn in the above item are spot on. Antifa are wannabe totalitarian slope-brows.
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August 24, 2017 11:11am
MrTips

Tracy Watkins suggests Jacinda may have a weakness and that she is not the bearer of the Golden Plates: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/96089391/ground-shifts-under-election-campaign

I think I need a lie down.
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August 24, 2017 11:11am
- Garbageman
  
  Well that is going to be awkward for Watkins when she runs Cindy’s bath, prepares her meal and tucks her up in bed tonight then isn’t it
  
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  August 24, 2017 1:06pm
- Camryn
  
  I wonder if this is in @jacindaardern's DJ set list? Lyrics are *exactly* my reaction to her style https://t.co/LtzcUXdRzp #sweetnothing— The Calidonian (@thecalidonian) August 24, 2017
  
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  August 24, 2017 1:45pm
  - Camryn
    
    To be clear… the above is linking to a tweet. Here are the lyrics in the song (below). I think they are a great fit to her “all talk, no plan” style. You can’t eat empathy or use it to keep warm… growing the economy is the first step for those who *really* care.
    
    And it’s not enough
    To tell me that you care
    When, we both know the words are empty air
    You give me nothing
    
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    So I put my faith in something unknown
    I’m living on such sweet nothing
    But I’m tryin’ to hope with nothing to hold
    I’m living on such sweet nothing
    And it’s hard to learn
    And it’s hard to love
    When you’re giving me such sweet nothing
    
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    August 24, 2017 1:48pm
Inandout

The Left are completely insane in the US.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/96082576/espn-announcer-robert-lee-removed-from-virginia-football-game-due-to-name

What the hell have the US learning institutions instilled in these minds to make them so unhinged?
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August 24, 2017 11:16am
- PhilBest
  
  They gave people like Marcuse, Derrida, and Foucault tenure back in the 1960’s, and the Frankfurt School people even earlier than that – when they should have all been in jail for sedition. This problem has been a long time in the buildup.
  
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  August 24, 2017 11:19am
- Fletch
  
  Strangely enough, Bruce Lee’s younger brother is named Robert Lee. Since he isn’t as famous as his brother though, I doubt they’ll make a big deal of it.
  
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  August 24, 2017 12:17pm
Prince

Can someone point me to a summary of National’s tax cut plan to take effect next year, that Labour will cancel.
Labour has called it ‘giving millions of dollars to the rich’, which I am looking forward to, but I seem to recall the biggest % impact would be to low-medium incomes.
I don’t think National are giving enough attention to the impact to low-medium income NZ of Labour cancelling these tax cuts.
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August 24, 2017 11:22am
- chris
  
  It pisses me off that Labour call tax cuts giving people money, when in reality it’s taking less of people’s own money off them. And yes, I do understand why Labour frame it the way they do.
  
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  August 24, 2017 12:04pm
- howitis
  
  A MSM summary:-
  http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/92931693/Budget-2017-Family-income-and-tax-package-by-the-numbers
  
  or a bit more work required to dissect but more info and more precise on each point :-
  
  https://www.workandincome.govt.nz/about-work-and-income/news/2017/budget-changes.html#null
  
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  August 24, 2017 1:49pm
Manolo

Oh Canada:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-politics-trudeau-idUSKCN1B32CO

Canada fears a huge surge in asylum seekers crossing the border from the United States, putting political pressure on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ahead of a 2019 election, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

The number of migrants illegally entering Canada more than tripled in July and August, hitting nearly 7,000. Haitians, who face looming deportation from the United States when their temporary protected status expires in January 2018, accounted for much of the inflow.
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August 24, 2017 11:25am
- cmm
  
  It is really hard to call it illegal when all the cops do is say “What you’re doing is illegal” then helps them carry their luggage.
  
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  August 24, 2017 11:40am
- Nosmo King
  
  Didn’t Trudeau signal that he will welcome them with open arms not too long ago? Ask and he shall receive.
  
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  August 24, 2017 11:53am
Manolo

The warm embrace of the religion of peace:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/23/allah-las-gig-cancelled-in-rotterdam-due-to-terror-threat

Police in Rotterdam detained the driver of a van with Spanish licence plates and a number of gas tanks inside after a concert by the US rock band Allah-Las was cancelled following a terrorism warning.
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August 24, 2017 11:28am
Lance

It is middel NZ at perpetually get shat on from all sides.
National MIGHT have been going to SLIGHTLY reverse that.

Now Slave Labour want to undo that and fleece them even moreso, while insulting them for being asshole rich pricks.
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August 24, 2017 11:29am
Dave Mann

Frankly, as a right wing (but not necessarily National Party) political fella I’m getting worried about this election.

Has anybody else noticed that the NZ media haven’t actually mentioned the words ‘Bill English’ so far during this campaign?…. or, for that matter any of the other leading National Party people…?

It would be my worst living nightmare to wake up on Sunday 24th and find our country in the hands of a crypto communist like Jacinda Aden….. but that’s exactly what our media seem to be working for.
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August 24, 2017 11:29am
- Kimbo
  
  Is the nature of a political honeymoon, especially with one as “photogenic” as Jacinda. She is new and bright….while everyone knows what they are going to get with Bill English as he has been around for years. So she gets media coverage, almost all of it favourable for the moment. But a campaign is a tough grind, with plenty of scope for stuff ups by the shallow and inexperienced…which is also Jacinda. Just wait for the debates.
  
  Also, I think BE is much more relaxed compared to the try-hard who did stuff like “Fight for Life” back in 2002. He has taken advice and lessons from John Key. Everyone thought Dirty Politics was going to be a circuit-breaker in 2014 – but the public saw through it and the National vote held firm. Key has been gone some 9 months, and National is still tracking to get a similar result this year. At present the Jacinda effect is stealing votes from mainly the Greens, then NZ First.
  
  Have faith in 47% of your fellow-Kiwis!
  
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  August 24, 2017 12:08pm
  - Dave Mann
    
    Phew… That’s alright then…! 😀
    
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    August 24, 2017 12:18pm
    - Kimbo
      
      Wait to you see my counselling bill ?
      
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      August 24, 2017 12:33pm
      - Dafixeruppa
        
        Well you did give your two cents worth, sow with the new Labour tax, Water tax, breathing tax, shadow tax, increased income tax, because we can tax and just in case tax, that will be $7,650 please
        
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        August 24, 2017 1:09pm
- Shawn Herles
  
  “Has anybody else noticed that the NZ media haven’t actually mentioned the words ‘Bill English’ so far during this campaign?”
  
  Both One and Three News have had a fair number articles about Bill, and Three just did a “Bill at home” puff piece, so yes, they are covering him. I don’t think the media overall are all that partisan, although there are exceptions to that with individuals. The bias in the NZ msm is deeper, or more subtle than that, and it’s more of a cultural liberal bias than a party one.
  
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  August 24, 2017 12:53pm
Nev.

Ewen MacDonald, alleged killer of Scott Guy wins Rugby Award.

You could say he slaughtered the opposition. No one else had a shot.

Nev.
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August 24, 2017 11:36am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Burned off the opposition, perhaps.
  
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  August 24, 2017 11:45am
- mikenmild
  
  Killed them…, wiped out the opposition…, dispatched them…, slaughtered them, etc, etc…
  
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  August 24, 2017 11:48am
  - Nev.
    
    After winning the award he went out to dinner to KFC with David Bain where they murdered a family pack.
    
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    August 24, 2017 12:05pm
    - double d
      
      That is funny!
      Snort!
      
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      August 24, 2017 8:29pm
oldpark

Heard Angry Andy Little’s replacement, say that as a concession to their voters there would not be a top tax rate of 36cents.
Using the so called Prefu as an excuse,to say the tax would not be in Lie-bours punitive tax plan. What Angry Andys replacement didn’t say,they had discovered that their clamped at the hip Lie-bour/Green running mates,had in fact a top rate and a bottom line of 40 cents tax rate.
Better to let the Greens take the hit,so they Lie-bour could work on many many other propo
sed taxes.For their naive voters ,all they had to do was vote them in,and all the new taxes would be revealed,and **** the consequences.
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August 24, 2017 11:38am
- GoVege
  
  For goodness sake..it’s only the bit OVER say 150,000 that attracts the higher rate.
  Anyone earning heaps over 150gs needs to share the wealth around a bit….
  
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  August 24, 2017 12:05pm
  - realityczech
    
    I agree Go Go. The right amount of socialism is what distinguishes us from countries where grinding poverty sits alongside exorbitant wealth. I know where I would rather live.
    
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    August 24, 2017 12:14pm
    - GoVege
      
      Glad we agree on something, my dear realityczech! 🙂
      
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      August 24, 2017 12:23pm
  - fluffykiwi
    
    But Mr Shaw (Greens) can’t afford a house on his $250,000 salary so he must be poor, why should he pay more tax. we must get our priorities right.
    
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    August 24, 2017 3:51pm
backster

In my fruitless attempt to reach Leighton through the hopeless IHeart website this morning I stumbled upon a montage of ME news items, Seven had accompanying photos of Taxinda and one had a photo of Bill but that was alongside Taxinda. Fair and balanced I think not.
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August 24, 2017 11:40am
- mikenmild
  
  ‘Fair and Balanced’
  Come on, they’re not Fox News…
  
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  August 24, 2017 12:01pm
  - Garbageman
    
    Mike i believe by the time you hit 40K comments you will have completed your transition into stephieboys alter ego gotta step it up a bit though throw around a few more alt-rights Infowars etc
    
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    August 24, 2017 1:14pm
    - realityczech
      
      “throw around a few more alt-rights Infowars etc”
      
      Don’t forget the [chuckle] “Nazis”
      
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      August 24, 2017 1:19pm
  - Shawn Herles
    
    Had they been Fox News then they would be fair and balanced, certainly by comparison to CNN, Wapo and the NYT.
    
    http://projectveritas.com/tag/american-pravda/
    
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    August 24, 2017 1:20pm
kowtow

There’s that diversity dividend thingy again.

“Eighteen men from two notorious crime gangs have been banned from entering areas of Birmingham following a landmark court ruling.

The action, which also prevents the men associating with each other or participating in music videos that promote gang-related violence, was taken against the men after a spate of firearms offences that brought terror to the streets of the city during the summer of 2015 and start of 2016.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/23/rival-gangs-banned-areas-birmingham-landmark-court-ruling/
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August 24, 2017 11:43am
- GoVege
  
  Birmingham has changed a lot since my gt grandma was born there 170 years ago.
  Nice to see these thugs getting identified by their online activities.
  How the he** do they get their hands on machine-guns?
  
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  August 24, 2017 12:18pm
Swifty

Grant Robertson – Our next Finance Minister?

As we count down the final month before the election I would hope NZers would factor experience and track record in their deliberations about the next Government.

Good grief, when I look back at the real heavy-hitters who have held this post in my lifetime; Muldoon, Douglas, Caygill, Richardson, Birch, English etc – at least three of whom have gone on to interntional financial consultancy work after leaving Parliament, such was their competence and value.

And who does Labout now offer up to us?

Grant Robertson: never been in government, never a minister, no finance background and some would say never had a real job!

And all this coincident with an aspiring PM who has: never been in government, never a minister, no finance background and some would say never had a real job!

How is it that Labour has sunk so low?
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August 24, 2017 11:45am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  “How is it that Labour has sunk so low?”
  
  How is it that the intelligence of the electorate has sunk so low that the’re within a whisker of getting into power.
  Then again, Chavez was democratically elected as well and how did that work out?
  
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  August 24, 2017 11:49am
  - GoVege
    
    Because we’re paying the ignorant to reproduce Cap’n?
    The rest of the population is restricted in the number of their offspring by the size of their bank balance.
    Those relying on the government have an unlimited budget.
    
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    August 24, 2017 12:56pm
  - Paulus
    
    Why do you assume that Grant Robertson will be Finance Minister in a Labour/NZ First Government.
    Angry only gave him the job to shut him up as he has now shown his incompetency.
    Surely some body else will do the job like the ex Dunedin Lawyer with a very dodgy commercial record David – can’t remember – Parker.
    Looking at the possible appendages to Taxinderella – who is there ?
    Of course I forgot Trevor the Duck – who could be better.
    I will enjoy watching her try and find some competency in her Party.
    Maybe the FOL finance man Rosenberg can take over, as the Unions will after the election – back to normal – they may put Andrew Little as Deputy as is their right.
    
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    August 24, 2017 1:55pm
- Dave Mann
  
  You might think that (as do I) but the big question is “how us it that these people are being talked up so much? “
  
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  August 24, 2017 11:53am
- Peter
  
  It is possible that Venezuela could happen here. There are enough people who believe there is such a thing as “free” stuff the government “gives” them.
  
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  August 24, 2017 12:04pm
- Prince
  
  Berl will do the lifting, Grant will be their spokesman.
  
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  August 24, 2017 12:06pm
- KevOB
  
  Labour: amateur.
  
  ☑️☑️
  
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  August 24, 2017 1:26pm
- fluffykiwi
  
  I blame it on this “diversity” thingy. We don’t actually care if people are qualified or not.
  Labour’s idea of balancing things is to make sure the LGBT etc gender diversity thing is balanced. Forget the actual monetary policy and the word “books.”
  
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  August 24, 2017 3:54pm
PhilBest

Ha – even Noam Chomsky says “Antifa is a major gift to the right”

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/noam-chomsky-antifa-is-a-major-gift-to-the-right/article/2631786

While the MSM even in NZ, is beating up on Trump for daring to condemn violence “on both sides”.
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August 24, 2017 11:48am
- realityczech
  
  I have a bit of time for Noam Chomsky. He gets stuck into both left and right, plus he can even be critical of [gasp] Jews/Israel being a Jew himself.
  
  He was harshly critical of the left’s darling Obama. Not that his views on that were widely published.
  
  The biggest asset for Trump have been the intolerant left and the hideously biased media. Noam is smart enough to know that.
  
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  August 24, 2017 3:56pm
cmm

Norfolk Islanders making a pitch to come under NZ’s wing.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/destinations/pacific-islands/96062898/should-we-adopt-norfolk-island-snapshot-of-the-isle-that-wants-to-be-part-of-nz

It seems these people are a bit like Cook Islanders: they want to cherry-pick between independence and being part of a bigger country. They want all the hand outs, but none of the obligations.
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August 24, 2017 11:53am
- mikenmild
  
  Did you see the doco about this earlier in the week?
  
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  August 24, 2017 12:02pm
- Brigitte
  
  Norfolk and chance of being Kiwis
  
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  August 24, 2017 12:24pm
john1234

Has anyone noticed that Jacindarella has hired Doctor J.W. Müller as her bodyguard?

http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/election/2017/08/jacinda-ardern-s-bodyguard-s-beard-amasses-fan-base.html
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August 24, 2017 12:04pm
- mikenmild
  
  Isn’t he hiding out on the Black Island any more?
  
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  August 24, 2017 12:08pm
john1234

Black Island is Labour’s secret HQ.
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August 24, 2017 12:10pm
- mikenmild
  
  Who is the gorilla?
  
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  August 24, 2017 12:22pm
  - john1234
    
    Hmmm, a feared beast that turns out to be somewhat harmless and sent to the zoo… Metiria?
    
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    August 24, 2017 12:31pm
- Brigitte
  
  Wasn’t there a printing press on the island? Maybe this explains the funding for their policies.
  
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  August 24, 2017 1:19pm
  - mikenmild
    
    Counterfeiting – ie, printing money.
    
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    August 24, 2017 2:23pm
MCos

In Thailand the long time correspondent for the BBC reported on a scam whereby a Thai woman colluded with a local lawyer to forge signatures of legal documents to steal property off her expat husband valued at more than two million dollars.
She went to prison.
The lawyer sued Head & the expat for making him look bad.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/23/bbc-journalist-jonathan-head-on-trial-in-thailand-over-unusual-defamation-case
Over there defamation is criminal not civil & a prison sentence may result.
Head is a high profile sort of guy and the case has now been dropped, but not for the other poor bugger.
Foreigners cannot buy land in Thailand so they can be easy prey to unscrupulous locals. I’m always reading about blokes who lose money their money when they give it to a local woman they’ve known for only a short time to buy a house. Chap goes away for a week, comes back to find the house sold and his wife scarpered back up country somewhere.
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August 24, 2017 12:11pm
Happychappy

Just imagine Grant Robertson and Winston Peters teaming together as part of the Tax group to bring their views on taxation for NZ’ers. If Labour are able to do a deal to form the next Government that is what you can look foward to. Robertson has already quoted that he will lead the tax group of four or five others and Peters will make sure he is there so after Prosser’s revelation on the power company’s yesterday and Labour’s quest for more money to forfill their promises nothing can be ruled out. Another story that might be worth thinking about also is Phil Goff and talking with Jacinta he was with her on back benches last night and you could guarantee he will also be suggest how to fix Aucklands woes and stressing to the Labour Leader by helping him may get her votes from what is known win Auckland you win Election.
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August 24, 2017 12:16pm
- mandk
  
  We had a non-partisan (i.e. Tsy, IRD, VUW) Tax Working Group that reported in 2010.
  
  The fundamental issues haven’t changed since then, so there’s no need for another.
  
  The fact that Labour are calling for one now suggests either that they haven’t a clue what to do, or that they plan to use it as a Trojan horse.
  
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  August 24, 2017 1:06pm
- Paulus
  
  Understand that Robertson is to be Chairman of this Tax group anyway.
  
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  August 24, 2017 1:57pm
Kabull

It shows how little Ardern & Robertson know about the taxation base in NZ when they both keep parroting the mantra that a CGT is necessary because its unfair when all those working for salaries/wages pay tax on every dollar but those who make capital gains dont. Get real. Yes, everybody pays under PAYE … but nearly half (I forget the exact proportion) of PAYE taxpayers actually pay no net tax when you factor in all the benefits etc the lower income can get.
So those who pay tax and dont get anything in return are complaining? Not that I know of – yet those who effectively dont pay any tax are screaming for more hits against the ‘rich pricks’.
Is this balanced policy??
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August 24, 2017 12:22pm
- mikenmild
  
  I imagine that a more balanced policy would tax income fairly, whether it was earned from capital gains, wages or anything else.
  
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  August 24, 2017 12:24pm
- Brigitte
  
  No the balanced policy will balance “how much do you earn” with “how much tax you need to pay”. Simples.
  
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  August 24, 2017 12:32pm
- KevOB
  
  The first test of a tax is: is it collectable? The second: is it fair? The third: is it affordable?
  
  CGT in most forms don’t easily meet those tests. We once had stamp duty where a tax was imposed based on the value of the property being transferred in the document. If the stamp was was not fixed or the document stamped as having the duty paid it was not available for Court use.
  A simple tax but the assessment of value was not. How do you value shares in commercial entities not traded on a stock exchange? This is expert work with even more experts with contrary opinions. Not to mention lawyers seeing opportunities.
  
  Most former taxes have been abandoned in favour of cash based income taxes and GST which is a close cousin.
  
  Don’t mess up what works.
  
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  August 24, 2017 1:47pm
- Paulus
  
  What about Kiwisaver ? – this will be subject to CGT as well.
  
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  August 24, 2017 1:59pm
- fluffykiwi
  
  Where in all this clamour for more tax is the word “incentive to do well and work hard” mentioned.
  All I see is those who don’t work hard will get handouts and those who save and are frugal and work hard will pay more.
  Something not right there.
  
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  August 24, 2017 3:58pm
realityczech

“The Cooling World”: From Newsweek, April 28, 1975.

The cooling world

There are ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production — with serious political implications for just about every nation on Earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only 10 years from now.

The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it.

A survey completed last year by Dr. Murray Mitchell of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reveals a drop of half a degree in average ground temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere between 1945 and 1968. According to George Kukla of Columbia University, satellite photos indicated a sudden, large increase in Northern Hemisphere snow cover in the winter of 1971-72. And a study released last month by two NOAA scientists notes that the amount of sunshine reaching the ground in the continental U.S. diminished by 1.3% between 1964 and 1972.
To the layman, the relatively small changes in temperature and sunshine can be highly misleading. Reid Bryson of the University of Wisconsin points out that the Earth’s average temperature during the great Ice Ages was only about seven degrees lower than during its warmest eras — and that the present decline has taken the planet about a sixth of the way toward the Ice Age average.

Others regard the cooling as a reversion to the “little ice age” conditions that brought bitter winters to much of Europe and northern America between 1600 and 1900 — years when the Thames used to freeze so solidly that Londoners roasted oxen on the ice and when iceboats sailed the Hudson River almost as far south as New York City.

Just what causes the onset of major and minor ice ages remains a mystery. “Our knowledge of the mechanisms of climatic change is at least as fragmentary as our data,” concedes the National Academy of Sciences report.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/apr/02/20060402-112828-5298r/

🙂 🙂 🙂
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August 24, 2017 12:24pm
Fletch

Watch as an Antifa protestor gets a police ‘bean bag’ to the ‘nads..

https://twitter.com/SonOfAGun911/status/900211699646640128/video/1
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August 24, 2017 12:31pm
- Gruffydd
  
  shite it is amazing how quick they all zero into the latest target.
  Anyone would think they are being fed lines to parrot.
  
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  August 24, 2017 12:49pm
- mandk
  
  Good shot, sir!
  
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  August 24, 2017 1:10pm
realityczech

Why were they not using real bullets ?

The attacker was a terrorist clearly dressed for combat. There could have been a bomb in his back pack. These people have carried out mass killings of police in recent times.

Personally I think it is too dangerous for civilian police and these situations require a military response. Anti Trumpers are a domestic terrorist threat.
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August 24, 2017 12:57pm
- mikenmild
  
  Neutron bombs?
  
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  August 24, 2017 2:25pm
  - realityczech
    
    I must say milky I might have misjudged you. That is the second day in a row you have come up with a pragmatic and workable solution 🙂
    
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    August 24, 2017 2:26pm
krazykiwi

Ardern:

Thanks to Kate Sheppard and the suffrage movement, an old man with a neatly trimmed beard signed a piece of paper in 1893 giving New Zealand women the right to vote.

What a cynical woman. Her belittling comment is what we can expect if she’s not shown the door. Robert Stout, John Ballance, John Hall and other men championed this cause, helping NZ be the first country in the world to grant the vote to women. I’m proud of that, but not proud of this non-leader’s words.
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August 24, 2017 1:05pm
- realityczech
  
  Giving women the vote was a failed social experiment that has resulted in the crippling of intelligent public discourse in favour of appealing to subjective emotional based concepts. We now see emotions attached to ideas with such terms as “hate speech” and things banned on the basis of someone claiming to be “offended”.
  
  The entire PC intolerant edifice we endure is the direct result of giving women the vote. Funny thing is women are less happy than they have ever been with an epidemic of depression and dissatisfaction. It is not working.
  
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  August 24, 2017 1:13pm
  - Brigitte
    
    Perhaps the problem is that the intellectual level rose too much for some males including yourself. Based on your climate change utterings, your science knowledge isn’t too flash. Wouldn’t be surprised if other parts of your education are deficient as well.
    
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    August 24, 2017 1:24pm
    - realityczech
      
      A typically bitchy and emotion based comment from a woman that fails to address the substantive point.
      
      The “level” being a narcissistic focus on your feelings.
      
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      August 24, 2017 1:31pm
      - Shawn Herles
        
        “that fails to address the substantive point.”
        
        You didn’t make a substantive point.
        
        PC, aka cultural Marxism, was the invention of mostly male academics. It flowed into the broader culture from universities. It was not a result of giving women the vote.
        
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        August 24, 2017 1:41pm
    - mandk
      
      “Wouldn’t be surprised if other parts of your education are deficient as well.”
      
      They are. realityczech/kea hasn’t even a basic grasp of embryology.
      
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      August 24, 2017 2:13pm
    - realityczech
      
      “Heterosexual women are too emotional to vote. Women, for the better parts of their days, live in a fantasy world and whichever candidate makes them ‘feel’ good at the current moment will get the vote. Whomever can get the most hand claps in a crowded arena is enough to take the straight woman vote. It is very little about the politics.”
      
      “Women shouldn’t be allowed to vote because it would ruin a perfectly working system. Also they belong at home taking care of kids as well as cooking and cleaning while the men are out working, fighting in the war, and bringing money to support the family. Women shouldn’t have been given the vote from the start because they could consult with their husband on who to vote for and the husband could go vote on behalf of the family.”
      
      “I am a woman (aged 30), and I have to agree that we (women) are too emotional and not rational or logical enough to have the right to vote. Most women are intelligent but we allow our emotions to take over and we don’t often think straight. I have never voted because we should not have the right to vote. Men are often naturally more level headed, rational and logical and understand politics better that women do.”
      
      “Democracy itself is not a Biblical form of civil government and historically has generally declined into totalitarianism. Giving women the vote will only accelerate this process. God did not give to women the role of government except in the home and then subordinate to the husband. It does not at all bother me that the majority of people think differently. Truth is never determined by numbers. The Word of God is the rule. History will show the full story of what will become of our modern democracies. They are already crumbling and individual liberties are being curtailed more and more. Totalitarianism is already on the rise in western democracies.”
      
      http://www.viralnova.com/should-women-vote/
      
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      August 24, 2017 2:24pm
      - Lucia Maria
        
        Most women are intelligent but we allow our emotions to take over and we don’t often think straight.
        
        Sounds like a woman with ADHD extrapolating herself out to all women.
        
        She is the antithesis of someone like myself, who is generally as cool as a cucumber.
        
        She sounds more like yourself who seems to fly off the handle to certain trigger words. Such as troll.
        
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        August 24, 2017 4:51pm
      - realityczech
        
        Yes but you have autism dear.
        
        The problem is your lack of normal emotions. You are special.
        
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        August 24, 2017 8:04pm
      - Lucia Maria
        
        Would make life simpler for you, wouldn’t it, if I was autistic. Well, I’m not. I just don’t let blog trolls rile me up.
        
        And the woman you’ve quoted is an idiot, but not in any way representative of all women.
        
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        August 24, 2017 10:25pm
      - realityczech
        
        Yes I know your smart with numbers and stuff. Everything in it’s place. It’s safer that way. We must have order mustn’t we…
        
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        August 24, 2017 10:36pm
- Fletch
  
  an old man with a neatly trimmed beard signed a piece of paper in 1893
  
  So what she is saying is that it was old, white men who gave women the right to vote…
  
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  August 24, 2017 1:27pm
  - KevOB
    
    Should us old white men with beards, large families, capable daughters, a half dozen great grandchildren and who established institutions of state reconsider?
    
    My 15 yr old delightful daughter can see right through Jacinda. Her siblings spot the lack of substance too.
    
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    August 24, 2017 2:01pm
- mikenmild
  
  The old white bearded man, Seddon, was himself opposed to women’s suffrage, but stuffed up when he thought it would be defeated in the Legislative Council.
  
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  August 24, 2017 2:26pm
  - realityczech
    
    Good boy milky. You might get a charity root for pointing that out.
    
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    August 24, 2017 2:32pm
    - mikenmild
      
      I really don’t find you attractive, though.
      
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      August 24, 2017 2:39pm
      - realityczech
        
        How about an old white bearded man ?
        
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        August 24, 2017 2:44pm
      - Fletch
        
        Santa?
        
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        August 24, 2017 4:31pm
- fluffykiwi
  
  So what happens if all men decide they are actually women as per this gender equality and the right to choose who and what you are. (Thinking the weightlifter who was a man and now lifts as a woman) I mean anything is possible.
  We are all the same sex, solves the equal pay problem, becomes on merit.
  
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  August 24, 2017 4:00pm
Dafixeruppa

Thank you all for helping me with strike through.
I can now show my support for ~~Labour, National, NZFirst, Greens, Top, ACT~~ a party showing honesty integrity and decency along with a ~~high~~ reasonable level of intelligence
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August 24, 2017 1:24pm
Fletch

In Boston, 40,000 protestors turned up to fight the white supremacists who weren’t there. As Brendan O’Neill put it in a Facebook post – “There were no white supremacists. No Nazis. No neo-fascists, nothing. And yet 40,000 people turned up to scream at them, even though they were not there.”

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/08/21/free-speech-rally-minus-free-speech/vymrZBl1NLtz04oW2IBpKK/story.html
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August 24, 2017 1:36pm
- Inandout
  
  That Soros must spend millions on his dial-a-demos. They can’t all be self employed, shift workers or unemployed.
  
  Not one Muslim group in the southern poverty ‘hate groups’.
  
  https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map
  
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  August 24, 2017 4:34pm
starboard

Grant Robertson, liarbor ‘finance’ person wants to borrow 2 billion to pay back debt. Excuse me?
How does that work?
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August 24, 2017 1:52pm
- mandk
  
  I’m no expert in debt management, but it sounds like it could possibly make sense.
  
  Perhaps its like transferring your credit card debt to a new provider to get an interest-free or low-interest period.
  
  To get the maximum benefit from that, you need to be disciplined about reducing the debt. But I suspect most people who do it simply accumulate more debt.
  
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  August 24, 2017 2:08pm
  - mikenmild
    
    Perhaps the government could oblige wealthy citizens to make forced loans, like the Stuart kings.
    
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    August 24, 2017 2:31pm
- Prince
  
  Its a Labour/NZ First Coalition Policy trial.
  a) Labour borrow and invest in Energy Shares.
  b) NZ First announce they are nationalising at market prices.
  c) Share price soars and Labour sells.
  d) NZ First deny they ever said that, blame the media.
  
  Only victims are rich pricks so essentially no harm done.
  
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  August 24, 2017 2:31pm
- KevOB
  
  May I explain, please…
  
  Once upon a time in the land of Lilliput there was Grunter a Finance Minister with a ~~brain the size of pea~~ pea for a brain.
  “Money is cheap”, he said. “I can borrow some and pay back detestable debt.”
  He duly got 5,000,000 shackels and repaid part of the loans. The lender was generous and lived in a computer far far away. They weren’t “foreign”, just different. They also financed bridges like the one joining Brooklyn and Central Park in Wellington.
  
  Now hiding in the oil fields were Arabs who thought it was unfair that oils prices should take a hit because Gentle Julie-Anne and her consort Shoreditch didn’t like them. Those two though it better to die than let the people suffer the sun’s pouting and cutting heat. Warmth was for softies. Price adjustment were demanded and so there was another Oil Shock.
  
  About then Invercargill was wiped off the map as Gore became the South Island’s Rangitoto. “Oops” said Cindy, “That’s just too much. I just can’t spray and walk away.”
  She called for Grunter who was on retreat in Whangamomona to think through the problem. “Sss..ol..ved” he said: we will get some More”.
  “What?”
  “Mon..ee.”
  “I’ll ring my mates in Samoa. Should get the Chinese contacts there to lend some ~~dough~~ moolah. A cow in close hearing fainted.
  
  “Last time you repay to soon. You want more: $20 million. We add only 1 –>2 percent for fixed five years. More later. That make only 7 percent. Doesn’t pay to repay too soon–not trustworthy. We don’t need money, you do. Good Loan. New Seal Land should be beary happy. Help support beach mining.”
  
  Grunter was pleased but Cindy was not. “Why do we pay seven percent now and only three before? Don’t they care I’m an International Socialist like them? Bl..dy capitalists.”
  
  “We’ll just have to sign” said Cindy.
  
  “Bugger” said Grunter.
  
  “We all have wishes” said Cindy.
  
  The next day Mt Hobson exploded in a rainbow coloured display of fireworks in jubliation at the news and the Auckland farmers was no more.
  
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  August 24, 2017 3:19pm
Manolo

The racists do not like him:
http://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/m%C4%81ori-party-want-hosking-dumped-as-debate-moderator/ar-AAqChuR?li=BBqdmGR&ocid=mailsignout

The Māori Party is calling for TVNZ’s Mike Hosking to be removed as the moderator of the election debates, after his comments about the Māori roll.
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August 24, 2017 2:16pm
- Brigitte
  
  A fair way of doing these debates would be as follows:
  
  – same time allocated to speak to each candidate
  – everyone in a separate sound proof room
  – same question answered in turn by candidates
  – only one mic live at any point
  – if you run out of time before all questions asked then bad luck (you need to manage your answering time another words)
  
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  August 24, 2017 2:33pm
  - realityczech
    
    Sounds like something a woman would dream up. Everyone must play nicely. Its about feelings after all.
    
    Have you seen a parliamentary debate dear ?
    
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    August 24, 2017 2:35pm
    - mikenmild
      
      They should not only be allowed to interject; they should be provided with weapons as well.
      
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      August 24, 2017 2:37pm
      - realityczech
        
        milky you are really starting to pull your shit together 🙂
        
        In many other countries violent confrontations are normal in debates.
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxua_2zZ0No
        
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        August 24, 2017 2:40pm
    - Lance
      
      But who likes it when some shithead (usually a Labourite) talks continuously over another candidate when it’s not their turn, a miracle how they can go on so long without drawing another breath.
      
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      August 24, 2017 4:42pm
- RF
  
  Yep… it’s same old Tuku Morgan, the man who claims that $80.00 silk boxer shorts increases his mana.
  
  He reminds me of a blood sucking leech I discovered hanging onto my leg up at Cooktown, northern Queensland.
  
  I am sure Mike can sort him out.
  
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  August 24, 2017 3:24pm
- Lance
  
  So Mike made a mistake … horrors….
  
  And I therefore assume no other potential moderator has ever made a mistake?
  
  If this is not the case then one might be forgiven thinking certain parties are full of shit
  
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  August 24, 2017 4:45pm
Longknives

Oh the Humanity!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/96113059/police-scotland-in-sexism-row-over-facebook-post-of-female-officers
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August 24, 2017 2:54pm
- realityczech
  
  Oh my God !!!!
  
  I nearly vomited with offendedness.
  
  [The level of my outrage and offendedness proves I am morally superior to ordinary people.]
  
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  August 24, 2017 3:24pm
  - Longknives
    
    It’s great eh Realityczech?
    Even the Cops in the photo weren’t offended- Just some SJW-type crusaders desperately trying to find offence in everything…
    
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    August 24, 2017 5:08pm
    - realityczech
      
      It’s okay I was offended on their behalf. They are just too OPPRESSED !!!! to stand up against the PATRIARCHY and SEXIST MAN PIGS !!!!
      
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      August 24, 2017 6:46pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    offendedness????
    
    You are not stephieboy are you?
    
    He liked mangling our mother tongue.
    
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    August 24, 2017 8:18pm
    - realityczech
      
      I pulled it out of my arse. Clever eh ? 🙂
      
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      August 24, 2017 8:20pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Then you are definitely not stephieboy.
        
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        August 24, 2017 8:25pm
- krazykiwi
  
  A police force has found itself at the centre of a sexism storm after posting a picture of female officers with the caption “more than just pretty faces“.
  
  Herald headline: More than a pretty face: The place of young women in NZ politics
  
  So the police can’t say this, but the rabid lefists media can. Got it.
  
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  August 24, 2017 8:24pm
Dafixeruppa

Just because I can…
What’s the difference between a Tramp and an MP?
One sits about on a bench all day, usually falling asleep, enjoys long liquid lunches and contributes nothing to society… The other is a tramp
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August 24, 2017 2:58pm
stigie

Now, where is Dad these days so i can tell him again that a vote for Winston is a vote for a Labour government !~

2 ticks blue Dad.
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August 24, 2017 5:05pm
sooty

Darwin was trying that day.
Low lifes hold up the z service station in Hawera. Pinched shit and did a runer.
Trouble was they forgot to fuel up and got arrested when they run out of petrol.
Talk about thick as a brick!
How dum can you be!
They should have pinched a car with more petrol in the tank, or do you think that they were that dum that they used their own car!
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August 24, 2017 5:07pm
- Brigitte
  
  About the same as the guy in Florida who stole a car then parked up to watch the eclipse….
  
  http://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/article168544337.html
  
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  August 24, 2017 5:39pm
EAD_TWO

It’s great to see the Alt Right in America doing dome real life meme-ing, here’s a flyer left for the new intake at Arizona State University that tries to offer some resistance to 4 years of full blown Marxist indoctrination they’re about to face.

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/21b978216702e34f841ee945d46c4fb98f882a65f943417d11f56ff982a310c2.jpg
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August 24, 2017 6:30pm
EAD_TWO

On the back of the frenzied pulling down of Confederate Statues in the USA, the Ghanaian Jew, Afua Hirsch, has published an article saying that the British People should have their statute of Lord Nelson bought down from Nelsons column in Traflagar Square: (I kid you not!)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/22/toppling-statues-nelsons-column-should-be-next-slavery

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. – George Orwell

Well that and mass immigration but that wicked idea was before Orwells time….
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August 24, 2017 6:36pm
- realityczech
  
  Lord Nelson was a famous Nazi.
  
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  August 24, 2017 6:47pm
  - mikenmild
    
    No, but a fornicator. Shawn should probably endorse stoning him. Instead, he wants to worship his graven image.
    
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    August 24, 2017 6:55pm
    - realityczech
      
      Probably a Trump supporter though. A fornicating one at that.
      
      The lack of diversity in his leadership has not gone unnoticed by me either. Where were the black disabled transgender single parents in his command structure ?
      
      Tear down his hateful image ! [To show how tolerant we are]
      
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      August 24, 2017 7:02pm
    - Longknives
      
      I find it fascinating that Lord Nelson was pickled in a cask of Brandy on the return journey home- And legend has it the crew drank from this cask…
      
      *History is bloody awesome! Shame the Left are desperately trying to erase it..
      
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      August 24, 2017 7:47pm
      - Jack5
        
        The admiral’s body was supposed to have been preserved in rum, which I guess is why, until the rum tot tradition ended in the Commonwealth navies, the rum was often known as “Nelson’s blood”.
        
        Here’s an explanation of the return of Nelson’s body from Trafalgar, with the link at the bottom:
        
        Despite preserving the body in near perfect condition through not only the long return voyage but also a week long storm labelled “The Storm of the Century”, the ship’s surgeon was greatly criticised for his choice of preserving spirit when common practice dictated using rum (despite no differing effects between spirits). The barrel in which rested Admiral Nelson needed to be topped up more than once on the return journey due to the body’s natural absorption of the liquid.
        
        The link:
        http://www.drinkingcup.net/1805-battle-of-trafalgar-sees-nelson-embalmed-in-brandy/
        
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        August 24, 2017 10:05pm
  - EAD_TWO
    
    Hirsch uses the the 2nd most famous trigger word “White Supremacist” to describe Lord Nelson, although, as always, fails to explain what’s she actually means by the term:
    
    The people so energetically defending statues of Britain’s white supremacists remain entirely unconcerned about righting this persistent wrong.
    
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    August 24, 2017 6:57pm
    - realityczech
      
      White people need to be less culturally proud. You never see Maori, Japanese, Chinese or Indians celebrating their culture or history. Only YT does that. Nasty hateful YT. Yuk !
      
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      August 24, 2017 7:04pm
      - GoVege
        
        An interesting point RC.
        Perhaps YT don’t celebrate their culture because it is continually evolving….not stuck in the middle ages.
        
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        August 24, 2017 11:46pm
Rodney Randall

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/96104475/would-you-like-a-selfie-with-that-policy-discussion–bill-english-pulls-crowds-in-christchurch

There is something quite sinister about Adam’s and Wagner’s grins as Bill pours the brown stuff over everyones heads re the “multi purpose’ stadium.

FUCK YOUR BREAD AND CIRCUSES NATIONAL!!!

SERIOUSLY…GO FUCK YOURSELVES

9 YEARS OF KICKING THE FUCKING CAN.
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August 24, 2017 7:52pm
- mikenmild
  
  Calm down, Kea. It’s an election – do you expect restraint.
  How do you decide when to move from realityczech to Rodney Randall, btw?
  
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  August 24, 2017 7:55pm
  - Rodney Randall
    
    YOU EVIL FUCKING BASTARDS.
    
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    August 24, 2017 7:58pm
    - realityczech
      
      Rodney calm down. Maybe a drink would help ?
      
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      August 24, 2017 8:01pm
- realityczech
  
  “FUCK YOUR BREAD AND CIRCUSES NATION”
  
  Two ticks Green for this one 🙂
  
  You will have to stand in line for the bread though.
  
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  August 24, 2017 7:59pm
Rodney Randall

https://pics.me.me/give-them-bread-and-circuses-and-they-will-never-revolt-13760321.png
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August 24, 2017 9:52pm
Rodney Randall

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f9/8d/11/f98d1123be7738c5bdd998b690aa68cb–panem-coffee-quotes.jpg
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August 24, 2017 9:53pm
- realityczech
  
  Rodney it’s a school night. And clean the spoof out of the caps lock key. Its sticking again. You will go blind if you don’t stop it and mum cant keep buying you new keyboards.
  
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  August 24, 2017 10:31pm
Jack5

They must have been great circuses, though RR.

First the gladiators, then the harness racing to end all harness racing: the chariots. I always thought there were just two factions behind the teams – the Blues and the Greens, who jointly revolted against the emperor in 532. The best drivers were sports stars.

Wikipedia says the most famous driver of all was:

Gaius Appuleius Diocles, who won 1,462 out of 4,257 races. When Diocles retired at the age of 42 after a 24-year career his winnings reportedly totalled 35,863,120 sesterces ($US 15 billion), making him the highest paid sports star in history.
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August 24, 2017 10:18pm
- rangitoto
  
  Sports hooligans aren’t what they used to be:
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nika_riots
  
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  August 25, 2017 1:42am
Jack5

The keas are very restless tonight. It’ll be the Moon – or lack of it.

I don’t know what the Moon view’s like up north tonight, but in Christchurch it’s waxing crescent. Next full moon is in just under a fortnight.

Do you think the parrots fret when they can see the dark out the window.

Put the towel back over the cage.
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August 24, 2017 10:23pm
- realityczech
  
  Are you down Hagley Park with dad again ?
  
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  August 24, 2017 10:27pm
Jack5

I think dad’s fled the country because he heard Helen Clark was going to be President of the Republic of Aotearoa. His head will go on a pike.
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August 24, 2017 10:28pm
Jack5

C’mon, be good keas, and hop back in the cage, so we can put you to bye-byes for the night.
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August 24, 2017 10:31pm
Rodney Randall

https://progressivecynic.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/orwellfootball.jpg
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August 24, 2017 10:39pm
Manolo

First were the Russians. What’s next?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/08/23/amid-mounting-concerns-presidents-mental-health-more-complicated-than-citing-narcissism-erraticism/490096001/
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