General Debate 22 December 2017

Email
Facebook
Twitter
Comment363

Uncategorized
General Debate

Comments (363)

Login to comment or vote

Huevon

Could Jacinda please STFU.

Thank you. Merry Christmas too all.
65 3
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 8:01am
- Paulus
  
  Princess doesn’t know how to keep her mouth shut – keeps the flies away that way.
  
  Heard her pontificating about Jerusalem – was it not Bush, Clinton and Obama who said Jerusalem is the Capital of Israel – oh sorry Trump said it so that is different.
  There has not been any Arab peace in that area for 2000 plus years and it ain’t going to happen any time soon.
  Would have been better if we had abstained like Australia but no Big Gobby Commie Chick has to show her anti US teeth.
  What happens when our beef quota gets reduced – Trump’s fault ?
  The US is the largest funder of the UN and additionally spends $ billions around the world all sorts of largess mostly to those tinpot corrupt leaders who oppose him on this irrelevancy.
  Good to hear the US Ambassador’s speech on this.
  
  64 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 8:16am
  - KevOB
    
    The particular area is featured as a Jewish territory in the Bible–Mt Moriah.
    
    25 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 8:20am
    - ztev
      
      Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
      Its not specific where it is, you are referring to current beliefs that its located in Jerusalem
      
      3 44
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 8:46am
    - realityczech
      
      “The particular area is featured as a Jewish territory in the Bible”
      
      So your source is a religious fable written by Jews in an age of ignorance.
      
      Does it also mention the advanced civilisation living there for centuries before the Jewish tribal cult was invented ?
      
      Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and Palestine. I have no trouble with the move, but cut the crap.
      
      0 7
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 12:59pm
    - MH
      
      I will not cease from Mental Fight,
      Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand:
      Till we have built Jerusalem,
      In Englands green & pleasant Land.
      
      Are the poms wanting it as well ?
      
      3 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 2:28pm
  - VicParking
    
    I want to hear Winstons view on this vote. It seems to me that he has given his shrivelled up nuts to Jancinda. Her goal is complete both leaders of her COL partners have no balls.
    
    43 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 8:30am
    - Biscuit
      
      VicParking, 8.30am.
      
      Don’t be too harsh on Winston.
      
      He has bigger things on his mind.
      
      Checking the form for the Ellerslie Boxing Day races, eg…
      
      35 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 8:42am
      - holysheet
        
        Why would he do that?
        The drunken dwarf will have the inside knowledge from all the greatful owners now days.
        It’s payback time.
        
        24 1
        Report
        December 22, 2017 9:01am
      - CHFR1
        
        Holysheet from what I hear there are many in the racing industry who are beyond pissed at Winston. He may have a few friends still but not the level of support he used to have from the grassroots.
        
        23 1
        Report
        December 22, 2017 9:25am
      - Tauhei Notts
        
        Over the past week I have heard from three sources, one of which is not much good, that one must have sympathy for Winston. My old Mum got Altzheimers about five years before her death at age 89. It was so sad to see one whom one loved, particularly for her razor sharp mind, deteriorate. The word is that Winston is similarly deteriorating and he has my sympathy. It is unfair to mock people with that affliction.
        
        30 1
        Report
        December 22, 2017 9:27am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        TN, no one shouldn’t mock. But nor should he be helping lead our country if that is the case!
        
        21 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 9:56am
      - waikatogirl
        
        T Notts: “The word is that Winston is similarly deteriorating and he has my sympathy. It is unfair to mock people with that affliction”
        
        If Peters does have Altzheimers it is only going to end sadly for him. He should be quietly retired but that is a little difficult in that he is deputy PM. His mental deterioration must have been obvious for some time so I question those around him who didn’t stop him standing in the election. He is in a powerful public position and has not admitted to his illness, so being mocked is to be expected – it goes with holding elected public office.
        
        28 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 10:06am
    - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
      
      Which Winston? Oh you mean Labour’s lap dog Winston?
      
      9 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 10:55am
  - backster
    
    There goes any chance of a Trade Deal with the States and while the Commie Chic might want to claim the credit for socking it to the USA, her Foreign Affairs Adviser Winston is right behind her and keener on doing such a deal with Russia instead.
    
    32 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 8:37am
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    Laughably, the most hilarious thing is that the vapid Ardern tells Trump and the US that we won’t be bullied. Then goes to the UN and votes to bully the US and Trump.
    I guess socialism has always had hypocrisy as one of its main pillars.
    
    46 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 9:23am
    - kloyd0306
      
      Agreed. If it weren’t for double standards, the left would have none at all.
      
      16 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 10:53am
    - btb
      
      The irony is Trump is standing up to the biggest bullies of our time, like Soros, Clinton, the UN, the FBI, Paris agreement, all the muslims that want to kill the Jews in Israel, North Korea acting as Chinas proxy, um Isis gone. The list is long.
      
      0 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 23, 2017 5:25pm
  - Sofia
    
    For what it’s worth, why is anyone bothering, when the United Nations is so fucking dumb?
    
    New Zealand’s vote against United States decision to move its Embassy in Israel is meaningless.
    As was last year’s (anniversary on the 24th) New Zealand Resolution 2334 equally meaningless.
    
    Why?
    Because New Zealand took the already rejected and withdrawn Egyptian draft resolution (worded with assistance from the UK and approved by the Palestinians) and added 13 paragraph numbers to the Egyptian original and retabled it and, with the collusion of the US abstaining, passed it.
    
    New Zealand’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Gerard van Bohemen, reveals, in his 9 March 2017 address to the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs –
    That resolution was someone else’s resolution that we took over the line. If it was our resolution the language would have been different. We wouldn’t have put it quite that way, but we were comfortable with it …
    I went to bed feeling deflated. It was nice to have a resolution … It would have been nicer if it had been our one.”
    
    Gerard van Bohemen admits what has not been acknowledged (to my knowledge) anywhere else from US UN Representative Nikki Haley to Winston Peters.
    
    Resolution 2334 has been soundly criticised, from “… a very bad resolution: it is lawless, ahistorical, unprincipled, unfair and counterproductive” – Trevor Norwitz, to 24 international law experts who gathered recently in the Hague to condemn it. But they do not acknowledge its origin.
    
    I have not expressed an opinion either way as to the right or wrong of the resolution itself, but would certainly question the right of one man, Murray McCully, to formulate New Zealand’s foreign policy single handedly.
    
    I would just ask Ardern why sovereign state New Zealand took the already rejected and withdrawn draft of sovereign state Egypt and passed it off in the UNSC as our comment on sovereign state Israel’s position with the Palestinians?
    
    But at the same time, what is the point, if the United Nations Security Council so little examines documents to not attest that they are the same, except for New Zealand adding 13 paragraph numbers?
    
    [ Surely some UN minion could have bunged both documents – Egyptian draft, and NZ Resolution 2334 – into Pages (Mac) and checked the word count on each, and then looked at the actual wording ]
    
    15 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 9:32am
  - starboard
    
    I wish Gayford would teabag her so she cant speak.
    
    18 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 9:45am
    - big bruv
      
      He’s far too busy with other females it seems. It appears that our soy boy Gayford is quite the rooter.
      
      17 3
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 9:57am
- Inandout
  
  She was just gushing on ZB, almost tripping over her words with excitement.
  
  42 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 8:16am
  - RF
    
    Slobbering and salivating with a background noise of teeth smacking together.
    
    A year or more of her screwing around with our overseas friends will make the term.. reds under the bed .. true.
    
    Just what we need … communism by stealth.
    
    Time her father got a flea in the ear about his dysfunctional daughter.
    
    15 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 10:38am
- doggone7
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Would her shutting up achieve anything for you?
  
  Will you hate and malign her any less? Will irrational childish attacks and inane name calling on here be any less?
  
  Look on her saying anything as simply encouragement to engage in good healthy manic raving – doing her bit for the community if you will.
  
  3 41
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 8:53am
  - holysheet
    
    Are you taking the piss?
    Chompers is not paying for anything here. It’s all on “US” the long suffering taxpayer.
    
    39 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 9:03am
    - igm
      
      Crockery has never contributed a thing to NZ coffers, being a leech on taxpayers all her life; just like the rest of the mottley non-productive bludgers she is aligned with.
      
      23 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 9:40am
    - doggone7
      
      Taking the piss? She keeps many misery guts’ engaged in their community. That’s got to be a positive contribution to the society. If they weren’t spending their waking hours in festering hate about her they’d have to do something really difficult. Like getting a life.
      
      2 21
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 9:55am
      - Lance
        
        Snigger…. now don’t laugh at the funny man
        
        6 1
        Report
        December 22, 2017 10:56am
CrazyIvan

I see we voted in favour of the General Assembly resolution.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-42446027
18 0
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 8:07am
- Komata
  
  As the US Ambassador to the UN carefully and clearly spelt out, the US (correctly) will be noticing who voted for what in this instance.
  
  I see that NZ voted to censure the USA for doing something which is the USA’s ‘private’ business.
  
  Stupidity, thy name is Jacinda Adern; she simply cannot help herself, and this is not going to be in NZ’s favour in more ways than she can ever, ever know or even imagine…
  
  But hey, got to signal to all the other ‘Anti American’ states that you’re one of them don’t you? Reality and discretion don’t matter; ‘ideology’ is all.
  
  (And should the Americans at some future date decide that her passport is ‘unwelcome’ (as they are quite entitled to do), it will, of course, be entirely THEIR fault won’t it, never hers…)
  
  39 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 9:17am
  - flipper
    
    Late last evening Flipper posted the following on the Melbourne copy-cat SUV attack hat “never” occurred.
    
    As a preliminary comment, let it be noted that nations such as Australia, Canada and Mexico chose to abstain. But silly 4.6 Million NZ joined the panty waist chorus of condemnation of a decision that three previous US Presidents took, but failed to implement. The vast majority of the 128 nations voting “yes” are piddly arse (us included), while 35 nations abstained, 21 did not attend, and 9 (ni9ne) voted against.
    So NOT the overwhelming condemnation the left was predicting.
    
    So we really are dumb lock- knee jerks yet again.
    
    However take note of what I posted late last night
    and ponder whether our stance will have unintended adverse cosequences ….
    
    …… on Stuffs website (same page)
    “PM stands up to Trump”
    flipper
    That will be fun to watch.
    Right now the US of A contributes 22 % of the cost of all UN activities and. in addition, makes aid grants to many nations for development. The UN Gen Assemb vote is expected to pass by about 190 to four (4). The word that is being passed now from Washington is that if these knee jerk opposition positions do NOT stop then the automatic US 22 % will. It will in future be a fixed $ and auditable sum… and not a dollar more.
    S0 Peters/ Ardern/McCully/MFAT’s “principled” independent foreign policy will cost NZ a lot, lot, more – money that is needed for domestic projects.
    Those MFAT panty waists should be giving Peters and Ardern the facts… and the number 1 fact is that Trump/Pence/Tillerson will not pony up dollars (like Obama did) that add to their deficit. Those piddly arse nations ( 0h, about 150 of them) will have to pay up. Of course UN admin etc. spending will take a hit. What a pity !
    December 21, 2017 10:04pm
    
    Flipper was somewhat wrong on the final numbers, but there is no comfort in that for the idiots who worship Marx/Engels/Mao et al.
    
    24 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 9:59am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Passport unwelcome won’t happen to her, I’m pretty sure.
    
    I don’t like the resolution either, but there is one large segment of US citizens who might feel warm and fuzzy towards NZ now and give us some tourism: expect to bump into more Clinton voters at tourist spots.
    
    8 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 10:05am
    - Komata
      
      CL
      
      Re: ‘…Expect to bump into more Clinton voters at tourist spots’.
      
      True, and for many such supporters to settle here, then complain bitterly when they aren’t accorded the adoration that they believe they deserve for being ‘Liberal, Free-thinking Americans’ who have ‘deigned’ to settle in a ‘liddle country way down in the south pacific’ and upon-which they have bestowed their beneficence. They will also proceed to tell us poor ignorant Kiwi’s how great thing are back in the good ol USA, how we can correct our very evident national failings to make New Zild just like things were ‘back in the good ol USA’ before they left (because it was just SO good), and then become involved in the alternative lifestyle movement so-beloved of the Californian culture from which most of them come.
      
      Noticeably, they will NEVER revoke their US Citizenship!! In that regard such individuals become extremely defensive should such a suggestion dare to be made; evidently even amongst trendy ‘Democrats’, ‘liberalism’ is still subservient to patriotism
      
      It’s nothing new, just the latest wave of ‘Californian’ liberals to wash up onto our shores, and the process and reasons are almost so stereo-typed that they can be predicted without effort.
      
      It’s interesting (and sad), to watch, especially when the new-comers get up Kiwi noses by trying to ram their pious notions about ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ onto a society which practices a form of democracy and government about which they know little and care less, and which they (the ‘Americans’ see as manifestly inferior to their own). When Kiwi’s inevitably tell them to get stuffed (and we are actually very, very tolerant in that regard), such individuals find that they are increasingly- isolated as a result, yet simply do not see that they might actually be the cause the problem.
      
      Sounds a bit like HRC doesn’t it?
      
      8 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 10:46am
  - Wayne Mapp
    
    Nothing will happen to New Zealand, the reason being that the bulk of the EU also voted for the resolution. Which I must say rather surprised me. I thought most of them, but especially Germany, would have abstained.
    
    But because the majority of the EU voted for it, the issue will blow over, at least for us, the EU and for Japan.
    
    But not for the PLA. On top of the snub of VP Pence by Abbas, they also organised the resolution along with Turkey. I reckon the US will cut the PLA funding.
    
    Will Turkey step in to take up the funding slack? Maybe since their President has become very anti US (and Israel) since the attempted coup, which he believes was fostered by the US.
    
    This is likely to be the biggest outcome of this whole issue. A complete breakdown of Turkish US relations. It would not surprise me if Turkey gives notice to withdraw from NATO, even though that would be an extreme step.
    
    13 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 12:10pm
    - Harkman
      
      Wayne mate, the problem is that only 2/3 weeks ago US bent over backwards to appease Turkey and stop arming the Kurds. The Kurds did some 95% of the ground fighting against ISIS and for long stretches 100% of the fighting (including battalions of girls). If the west could have created another Israel in the middle east it would have changed everything. But no, the alliance with Turkey forbade it.
      
      3 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 5:06pm
      - KH
        
        Wrong Hartman. The government of Syria did most of the work crushing ISIS. Note the last few months – an epic battle advance across the huge desert to liberate Deir Ezzor – just one example. Look it up.
        
        0 0
        Report
        December 23, 2017 2:17am
Nukuleka

Well, predictably, the media has gone into spin mode regarding the attack in Melbourne. Is is not a terror attack (someone randomly mows down 19 people but it’s ok folks it’s not ‘terror’), the guy is an Aussie, he has a history of mental illness, of drugs, of minor infringements.

But we mustn’t mention the missing word, must we. We don’t want to be ideologically profiling, do we.

We all know he is a Muslim, just like all the other lone wolf, mentally ill blokes who have committed similar attacks in other parts of the world.

Jacinda, revoke the invitation to take the 150 mentally ill guys from Manus Island, will you please. We don’t want incidents like this here in NZ!
61 1
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 8:09am
- Longknives
  
  Both Stuff and the Herald are shrieking that it ‘Wasn’t Terrorism’.
  For fuck’s sake- A Muslim Guy had his mate in the car filming as they mowed down children on the Street.
  On what planet is that not Terrorism??
  
  71 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 8:18am
  - Padriv Ustoev
    
    I think the media coverage has been very unfair to the man who drove the car.
    If I mowed down 30 Infidels aroynd Christmas, I would want it to be reported as a terrorist act, not as me having a mental ilness.
    It is totaly discrediting him as the rightsious soldier of Jihad that he is
    
    63 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 8:24am
  - ztev
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    Not mate in the car, the driver was alone.
    The other person filming was just a bystander- that is very common at all accidents now
    
    4 48
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 8:48am
    - softail 1450
      
      FUCK OFF ZITT,,,,another ubergoogler…
      
      30 3
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 9:16am
  - waikatosinger
    
    The media gets away with this mental illness – lone wolf –
    workplace violence – bullshit because the bugger who did it is usually full of holes or in little bits and pieces. But this guy survived. He is going to be able to tell us why.
    
    3 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 5:38pm
- Scott
  
  Nukuleka-Unfortunately you are right on the money. What we know is that a man of Afghan descent who is an Australian citizen deliberately mowed down with his vehicle many pedestrians. Authorities say that he is a man with a history of mental illness and this is no way related to a terrorist attack.
  
  We are being lied to! The man is obviously a Muslim and obviously this is a terrorist attack. Did he suddenly become mentally ill and suddenly decide to use the very same tactic that Isis inspired fighters have used for the last 2 years now?
  
  The problem is political correctness and the desire to soft pedal Muslim terrorism. They just don’t want to admit that it is Muslims and that it is terrorism.
  
  If we allow more Muslims to come into New Zealand we will get this as well. And I can guarantee that our authorities will be just as soft and just as reluctant to take any action and just as reluctant to label it terrorism.
  
  The Australian government needs to look at this whole situation. They need to look at should they revoke this person’s citizenship and send him and his family back to Afghanistan? They need to look at the mosque he was going to and whether that was instrumental in his radicalisation? And if so they should shut down that mosque and deport its leaders.
  
  Australians need to harden up and stop this Muslim menace! And we need to harden up and stop it before it becomes a Muslim menace. Don’t bring in any more Muslims and we will not have any terrorist attacks like this in our country.
  
  58 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 8:20am
  - jp_1983
    
    Money is on he was a Tampa Refugee – OZ did take some of them in
    
    21 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 8:23am
    - Surely Knott
      
      Haha. Aussie papers now reporting that the melbour driver was t a refugee, and he was screaming Muslim rhetoric about Mistreatment of Muslims during the attack. The Herald’s top story instead is a businessman who is “shrewd” and made money – filler piece and not related to anything that happened today. But Capitalist businessmen making money = bad. Muslim refugee terrorist attack = bury it – report it as a mentally ill Australian,, and then bury it off the front page as quick as you can.
      
      5 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 2:44pm
  - JibberJabber
    
    What they are acknowledging is that Islam IS a mental illness.
    
    42 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 8:25am
    - VicParking
      
      But cutting your dick off and calling yourself a women is not???
      
      24 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 8:33am
      - jp_1983
        
        No it makes you a champion womens weightlifter
        
        39 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 8:50am
      - Flash
        
        TROLL ALERT!!!!
        
        1 10
        Report
        December 22, 2017 10:01am
      - ztev
        
        Using your university quals to work as a Treasury analyst doesnt make you a farmer either
        
        3 29
        Report
        December 22, 2017 10:19am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        VP, what’s your point? I don’t care if someone, with appropriate mental health help, decides to change their gender. (I’d rather not pay for it, but that’s a different issue). No skin off my nose.
        
        I do care if someone, mental or just motivated by promises of heaven, decides to plough people down with a car or van.
        
        6 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 10:59am
  - Kimbo
    
    Did he suddenly become mentally ill
    
    Um, they said he was receiving care for mental illness, so no.
    
    6 8
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 9:13am
    - ztev
      
      How many mentally ill in NZ have killed because ‘God told them to do it’
      Especially true for random attacks on people.
      
      2 23
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 10:21am
      - Kimbo
        
        Yep. Somehow I don’t think Scott will be advocating we ban, say, Chritianity as a result! Nasska? More so. ?
        
        3 6
        Report
        December 22, 2017 10:34am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Zitty, irrelevant. The people we let into our country need to be vetted to prevent that happening. We need to check and check again that people are highly skilled in the fields we need, are mentally stable and, whatever their religion, completely reject any violent instructions in their religious texts.
        
        10 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 11:20am
      - EAD_TWO
        
        Classical Liberal,
        
        you’re the guy that keeps posting hours after I post with some anecdote about how once you met a nice black/Asian/ whatever guy but have also come across white slobs.
        
        What’s your point exactly with these anecdotes – that racial bell curves overlap? Its hardly the most original observation now is it?
        
        Perhaps you’re 3rd year Victoria Uni bubble is yet to wear off – but do you think Blacks actually care about the the rule of law or Kant & Voltaire? You’re “classical liberalism” can only survive in the protections of a White majority country.
        
        Good luck out there on your own with you and your theories.
        
        4 6
        Report
        December 22, 2017 11:31am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Yawn. Again, Eedie: because it’s about ideology, not skin colour.
        
        And I don’t just talk about a few people I once met, but about many Asians and a few black people I know, work with, am friends with and respect.
        
        I’d agree that having a huge immigrant population with undemocratic, violent values would not be good for NZ. I don’t think that people’s melanin levels will tell you what their values are.
        
        5 1
        Report
        December 22, 2017 12:59pm
- Dave Stringer
  
  If someone is terrorised, it’s an act of terrorism. You don’t need to be a follower of Islam to be a terrorist, ask the people who cowered in shelters during WWII if Hitler was a terrorist.
  
  31 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 8:30am
  - ztev
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    In fact the nazis definitely referred to Allied bomber crews as ‘terrorfliegier’ as they were bombing civilian areas.
    
    4 36
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 8:52am
    - kowtow
      
      And Gerry didn’t ?
      
      13 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 10:05am
    - flipper
      
      zetev screwbrain = Goebbels
      
      12 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 10:44am
    - Pharmachick
      
      STOP. IT.
      
      The Nazis themselves had it coming to them. As did a complicit populace that “knew nothing” funny looking snow though… 🙁 and were “just following orders”.
      
      2 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 4:16pm
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Indeed Dave. Just ask the 18 people mowed down in Melbourne yesterday (including one New Zealander) if they were terrified.
    
    31 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 9:02am
    - ztev
      
      Seeing any accident can be very unsettling for anyone. Those in the vehicles are of course rightly having a terrible experience.
      
      Dont play with words, Terrorism is soley harming civilians for political purposes
      
      No political purpose , no terrorism, its then attempted murder
      
      0 29
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 10:10am
      - Rich Prick
        
        Typical leftie. Just change the definition and the feelz are better. But of course it doesn’t change the despicable act nor its victims, but ztev feels so much better about it. Which of course is the most important thing.
        
        22 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 10:20am
      - ztev
        
        Not changing …that IS the definition, allways has been
        
        0 21
        Report
        December 22, 2017 10:26am
      - Rich Prick
        
        OK then, two can play that game. Islam is a political ideology. Take that.
        
        20 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 10:31am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        Sophistry. This was terrorism by any reasonable measure. Pretending otherwise (‘lone-wolf’ ‘mental health issues’ ….) is political weaselry, it is exceptionally rare for other than Muslims (and all cultures have people with mental health and drug problems) to do such things.
        
        17 1
        Report
        December 22, 2017 10:42am
      - Ross12
        
        ztev
        Are you saying what happened in Melbourne was an accident?
        
        6 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 2:41pm
  - Albert_Ross
    
    No, you can’t have that as a definition of terrorism. Victims of rape, kidnap and home invasion are undoubtedly terrified, but that does not make those crimes acts of terrorism.
    
    Terrorism is “the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims”.
    
    Now this was undoubtedly “an unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians”, but it is not yet clear that it was “in pursuit of political aims”.
    
    Even if it was, we still have a choice as to whether it is a successful act of terrorism – ie, whether those political aims are achieved.
    
    I wonder whether it is possible that this attack and others like it were motivated by the desire to force us into abandoning the Western principles of tolerance, non-discrimination and freedom of thought, of speech and of conscience ?
    
    11 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 9:48am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      The political aims of terror are being achieved by islamists world-wide.
      
      Tolerance and non-discrimination are going: e.g. the Cologne mayor and Malmo Police telling women how to behave to keep safe from attackers. e.g. the Titusville ‘hate crime’ getting a man 15 years in prison – just for a piece of bacon left in a mosque.
      
      Freedom of thought and freedom of speech are going: e.g. Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller are no longer allowed into the UK. E.g. new German Network Enforcement Law, getting sites like Facebook to remove anything people whine might be ‘hate speech’, without any court checking if it even is ‘hate speech’ (bollocks though that concept is anyway).
      
      Wait, Albert Ross, sites like this will be watched, Comrade Taxinda will establish some of those lovely European ‘hate speech’ laws and there will be a knock on the door for some of us for daring to criticize the islamic ideology.
      
      I will state here, again, that the reason I criticize it is because I want every person, men, women, hetero, LGBT, non-believers and muslims to have *equal rights*. But islamists want a theocracy and sharia law, that does not allow equality of all people.
      
      Sure, there are many decent muslims who don’t want a theocracy. Nice, but at the unfortunate disadvantage of having a war lord as their prophet who did give some violent instructions. Just one example: sura 4:34: if you fear disobedience from your wife, beat her.
      
      The reason European governments and now, it seems, the Australian one are so hard on critics of islam is because they are shit scared of riots and ‘lone wolf’ attacks.
      
      Our classic tolerance of opinions and freedom of speech is going. Their way.
      
      16 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 10:54am
      - Albert_Ross
        
        Our classic tolerance of opinions and freedom of speech is going. Their way.
        
        Yes it is, and my point is that it is going their way with the enthusiastic support of too many Kiwibloggers.
        
        Kill all the Muslims! Throw them out! Don’t let them in! Don’t let them speak! They’re all terrorists!
        
        And then we’re surprised when some Muslims decide they don’t like us?
        
        1 12
        Report
        December 22, 2017 11:34am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        ‘Kill all’ – where has anyone said that, and how many upticks? You’ll have to prove that to me.
        
        ‘ Throw them out! Don’t let them in! Don’t let them speak!’:
        
        When a religion has a violent aspect, vetting needs to be really good.
        
        I don’t think anyone here wants to ban discussing violent religious texts. But what do you think of people actually promoting violent instructions?
        
        ‘All terrorists’ – I’ve never seen that here. You don’t have to be a terrorist to cause problems due to religious instructions that break local laws. Just look at the level of FGM in the UK. Those people aren’t ‘terrorists’.
        
        Don’t bother mentioning that bad stuff goes on in other communities too. That’s why immigrants need to be *better* that NZ crims.
        
        4 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 1:42pm
  - SGA
    
    Dave Stringer
    
    If someone is terrorised, it’s an act of terrorism.
    
    No, not necessarily (as noted above)-
    Oxford Online Dictionary
    The unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.
    Mirriam- Webster Online
    : the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion
    
    David Grey(Gray) terrorised a community without it being an act of terrorism, for example.
    
    4 3
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 10:27am
    - lifesgood
      
      Radio news reports are now stating that he told police muslims are not treated well in Australia and he was angry about it, i.e. definitive proof it was a terror attack by a muslim, so there, all you naysaying trolls!
      
      14 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 12:44pm
Jack5

A Christmas treat for the Ho’s and Joes at Red Radio – Radio NZ. Our seasonal thoughts are with the pakeha slaves and Maori interns at the RNZ pa, where the language is now fully macronised NZ Pidgin.

Our treat: Radio NZ staff can work out who gets paid more than others. Radio NZ’s 2016-2017 annual report at last has been released. (Annual reports of stock exchange listed companies and State owned companies list numbers of more highly paid staff in wage bands.)

The report shows that for the year ended June 30, 40 Radio NZ staff were paid $100,000 or more. Top salary of $430,000 was paid to one person, presumably chief executive Paul Thompson.

Here’s the list of top salaries:

$100,000 – $109,999 (staff on this band) 11
$110,000 – $119,999 (staff on this band) 7
$120,000 – $129,999 (staff on this band) 11
$130,000 – $139,999 (staff on this band) 1
$150,000 – $159,999 (staff on this band) 1
$160,000 – $169,999 (staff on this band) 1
$170,000 – $179,999 (staff on this band) 1
$180,000 – $189,999 (staff on this band) 0
$190,000 – $199,999 (staff on this band) 3
$200,000 – $209,999 (staff on this band) 1
$250,000 – $259,999 (staff on this band) 0
$260,000 – $269,999 (staff on this band) 1
$270,000 – $279,999 (staff on this band) 1
$400,000 – $409,999 (staff on this band) 0
$430,000 – $439,999 (staff on this band) 1

Radio NZ during the year received $35 million direct funding from the Crown. Staff will be working out identities of the other nine staff who were paid more than $160,000 for the year.

The annual report’s worth downloading (link below). The broadcaster’s Maorification strategy is laid out on page 48. It includes staff and management Maori language training, journalistic internships for Maori, broadcasting of bulletins from the Maori tribal radio network, and more Maori language, Maori culture, and Maori news on the Radio NZ web site.

What a coup was Labour Minister Wily Willie Jackson’s partnership deal between Radio NZ and the network of tribal radio stations. He has virtually negotiated a Maori takeover of Radio NZ. What was the National Coalition’s Minister of Broadcasting doing when this deal was forged? Wily Willie is Minister of Employment and Associate Minister of Maori Development in the Labour Coalition’s bloated Cabinet.

Under the Companies Act, annual reports have to be available to shareholders within five months of balance date. This deadline would have been November 30 in Radio NZ’s case. Could it possibly be that the late release was to slip it through in final days of the Parliamentary session and while other eyes were diverted to Christmas parties? Surely not.

Where to download the annual report:

https://www.radionz.co.nz/assets/cms_uploads/000/000/085/RNZ_Annual_report_2017.pdf
43 1
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 8:10am
- Jack5
  
  What was National doing letting Wily Willie Jackson con Radio New Zealand into a deal with the 21-station Maori tribal radio network, which he heads (or headed)? (The network also gets taxpayer funding.)
  
  Jackson’s coup followed his campaign against Radio NZ after it cancelled specific-Maori news broadcasts.
  
  Each station in the Maori network is run by local tribes, and belongs to Te Whakaruruhau o Te Reo Irirangi Māori – a federation that enables station collaborations and network operations. The network says:
  
  Our stations are committed to preserving and promoting Te Reo Maori, and engaging and entertaining audiences with content and stories from their rohe (tribal area) and Aotearoa (that’s New Zealand).
  
  The deal in which Wily Willie sewed up Radio NZ:
  
  https://www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_news/MTQ2MTI/Opinion/www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_news/MTQ2MTI/Opinion/Partnership-with-Radio-New-Zealand
  
  25 3
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 8:13am
  - Digmen1
    
    And I wonder who pays for those stations to eb on air?
    
    1 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 7:37pm
- Huevon
  
  Ko my God a hoe!
  
  Ko huevon tene
  
  13 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 8:13am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Help me here.
    
    I translate Ko huevon tene ..
    huevon’s vagina.
    
    That can’t be what you meant, surely?
    
    10 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 9:45am
    - KevOB
      
      It look like pidgin Maori for I’m Huevon.
      
      11 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 10:03am
    - waikatogirl
      
      Maggy, Kind of proves the point that few to nobody understands the maori content on RNZ. ?
      
      16 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 10:17am
      - KH
        
        I love Radio New Zealand. On balance I wish they didn’t do the Maori stuff but not really a bother. Overall great radio that enhance the IQ of the country.
        
        0 0
        Report
        December 23, 2017 2:29am
    - Huevon
      
      Haha really? My knowledge of te reo is absorbed through listening to RNZ. I’m pretty sure that closes every morning with “Guyon Espiner’s vagina” as well.
      
      9 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 10:49am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        ok, I think the correct spelling is tenei, not
        tene.
        
        so… Ko Huevon tenei ?
        
        4 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 12:00pm
- Harkman
  
  It’s time to close this scam down.
  
  14 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 10:35am
- niggly
  
  What was the National Coalition’s Minister of Broadcasting doing when this deal was forged?
  
  Without looking it up I believe it is Melissa Lee. I’ve nothing against her personally but just because she had a tv producers background(?) doesn’t mean that made her a good Minister or now Opposition spokesperson. Never heard a thing from her over the years.
  
  FFS National, put someone in the broadcasting role that understands the politics of broadcasting (Radio NZ/TVNZ etc) and someone who has some actual ideas on how to build a decent public broadcasting service (for as long as it is taxpayer funded etc). Otherwise the pinkos at Radio NZ/TVNZ etc, will scheme and undermine National whilst it perceives they do nothing etc.
  
  National has someone who is an expert in this area, who has gravitas and who probably could come up with a vision and set the expectations for a neutral broadcasting service. But that person has been tasked to do feelz good environmental roles, what a wasted opportunity over the last 2 parliamentary terms!
  
  9 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 10:42am
- Classic Liberal
  
  Bloody hell, those eye-watering salaries you and I are paying!! That should be going into healthcare, roading, productive research etc…
  
  14 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 11:32am
JibberJabber

Swivel-Eyed Loon attempts to eat and run, blames John Key and gets awarded $750.
Tell us again how the legal system in this cuntry isn`t completely fucked.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/100080724/kent-boyd-gets-750-compo-after-seeking-30000-over-john-key-dinner-fiasco
40 0
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 8:20am
- Swifty
  
  Ol’ Kenty – comes from a good family but went down the drugs and petty crime route.
  
  He’s totally lost now.
  
  21 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 8:28am
- Classic Liberal
  
  The article has the main point missing: did or didn’t Key promise to pay?
  
  1 6
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 11:38am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    No, he didn’t.
    
    Kent Boyd misinterpreted Key’s response, that “Yeah, lots of people say that” meant he had agreed to pay.
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/99290791/man-sues-police-after-claiming-john-key-agreed-to-buy-him-dinner
    
    11 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 12:04pm
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Thanks, Maggie.
      
      3 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 1:47pm
Dave Stringer

So,
Today is the day to make sure your kids are really good over the weekend. It takes a bit of planning.
When a child starts acting up, tell them that if they don’t stop you’ll burn their Christmas presents. When one of them next acts up, take a present from under the tree and burn it (fireplace or BBQ,). Ask it they want any others burned.
For the effort to wrap an empty box, your weekend will be tranquil.

Merry Christmas
38 1
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 8:21am
- Lance
  
  That is deliciously twisted 🙂
  
  9 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 11:12am
  - MH
    
    there goes the tree…whoosh
    
    1 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 2:38pm
oldpark

Talk about the mouse that roarded. The mad dog ideologists Peters and “Commie Chic” Comrade Ardern ,have done it again.
They seem to like meddling in the affairs of Sovereign Nations.
Last month Ardern and Peters stuck their sticky beaks into the nation of Australia regarding illegal asylum boat people,and berating the Australians.
This time “Commie Chic” Comrade Ardern and dictator Peters have put the boot into the Americans.
They supported a biased UN remit against USA choice to put their Embassy in Jerusalem.
Talk about the law of unintended consequences. Not happy to at least abstain from voting like Canada and Australia. Our holier than thou mad dog Ideologists Peters and Ardern voted against it.
That decision will maybe suit a handful of Lie-bour/Green /Peters /CTU sycophants. It will play out in a negitave way affecting the whole nation of NZ. Thanks to the main culprit the self serving Peters for his selection of the present Commie PM,and associates.
40 1
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 8:22am
- Jack5
  
  Found a list of how countries voted at Al Jazeera.
  
  Samoa didn’t seem to vote at all, but Australia, Canada, Fiji were among those to abstain.
  
  Britain, though looking for a trade deal with the US as it leaves the EC, voted against rather than abstaining.
  
  http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/jerusalem-resolution-country-voted-171221180116873.html
  
  9 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 9:38am
Jack5

Lorde under pressure not to sing in Israel and says she’s considering all options.

The Lefties, even in NZ, are buzzing over Trump’s Jerusalem move.

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/21-12-2017/dear-lorde-heres-why-were-urging-you-not-to-play-israel/

AND

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11964485
19 0
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 8:25am
- Jack5
  
  Sorry! Didn’t notice that DPF had already started a thread on this topic.
  
  12 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 8:45am
- backster
  
  Maybe Peters and Aderne will compensate Lorde for giving up her concert in Tel Aviv.
  
  19 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 8:47am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Why not, it’s not Cindy and Winnie’s money, it is ours the taxpayers.
    
    The left love to spend other peoples money ?
    
    18 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 8:57am
wreck1080

Why on earth would the USA announce plans to attack N. Korea?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11964328
“US making plans for ‘bloody nose’ military attack on North Korea”

In my view, announcing plans like this means they are not intending on attacking at all. Just blowing hot air.

If they were truly going to attack, they would not warn the enemy first.
38 0
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 8:29am
- Tarquin North
  
  Being in the Herald means it’s probably wrong anyway.
  
  36 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 8:38am
  - Paulus
    
    Herald probably copied it from their parent the Washington Post.
    
    7 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 1:16pm
- VicParking
  
  I have failed to find any non “Fake News” networks in the USA running with this story. Once again “well-placed sources” are making up news. If the USA was planning anything it would be a state secret and any “Two former US officials/well-placed sources” would be risking treason charges.
  
  24 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 8:45am
- Scott
  
  Trump has said that if he is going to do something he won’t announce it in advance. He doesn’t want to let his adversaries know what he is doing. Which is good and an advance on the Obama administration that used to tell the enemy everything.
  
  Also it has just been announced that Trump is allowing the shipment of arms to Ukraine. This was blocked under the Obama administration. This is a very good development because it allows Ukraine to defend itself.
  
  Trump is reversing everything that Obama did on foreign policy and that in my opinion is a great thing.
  
  24 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 8:51am
Surely Knott

The Herald’s journalism has gone from dumb to dangerous. There was no mention of the iced up Afghan dude who has just driven through a melbourne crowd at all on the front page of the Herald. Instead a giant headline feature pic of a nuclear explosion, “United States preparing for strike on North Korea.” The US are getting ready to punch the North Koreans in the nose! By Daily Telegraph Uk Journo Ben Riley Smith. A speculative inflammatory piece based on some insider comments thaat they got the impression that “military action is very much an option they were considering seriously”. While it is a grave and delication situation in which their country is being threatened.. Obviously they are preparing thier options to ensure their safety.. Nothing in this article justifies the pic of the America preparing to strike headline -. And the Telegraph doesn’t have it on their front page as news either. Inflammatory dangerous journalism pushing a narrative. The americans are the bad ones – Look at the bunny NZ – Nothing to see here – No pics of the guy who just drove through a crowd and murdered australians. You might draw conclsuions we don’t want you to make.
33 1
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 8:39am
- Classic Liberal
  
  ‘from dumb to dangerous’ – absolutely, even locally. I know many NZ Korean immigrants who could be very scared by this.
  
  6 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 11:44am
Manolo

The UN, the pathetic UN:
http://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/The-Latest-Israel-s-PM-blasts-UN-as-house-of-12446721.php

Iran’s foreign minister is welcoming the U.N. General Assembly resolution rejecting the Trump administration’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, calling it a “global no” to intimidation by President Donald Trump.
28 1
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 8:42am
- backster
  
  So is New Zealand’s Foreign Minister.
  
  29 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 8:49am
- Morrissey
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  That’s what it is–a global no to a would-be global bully. The always spineless Canada and Australia (the Lackey Country) abstained—they’re spineless, but even they can’t be bullied into actually supporting something so outrageous and so blatantly in violation of international law.
  
  0 40
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 9:21am
  - flipper
    
    …Morrissey ?
    Shizenhausen !
    
    10 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 11:16am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Aw, Murkysay, for a moment I thought you might say “they’re spineless, but even they can’t be bullied into actually supporting that crappy UN resolution.”
    
    11 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 11:47am
billmurray

For what’s its worth it looks like the yanks may target the North Korean rocket sites.
If they do, lets all pray it doesn’t escalate.
Merry Christmas everyone.
11 1
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 8:42am
- VicParking
  
  Bill, get real FAKE NEWS from “Two FORMER US officials”
  
  16 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 8:47am
  - G152
    
    Which is why, I presume, they are former officials
    
    4 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 11:07am
billmurray

Vic, well it will not be current officials.
Have a good one.
0 3
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 8:52am
doggone7

This morning on RNZ Director of the Israel Institute of New Zealand David Cumin mentioned ‘balanced’ and ‘bullied’ quite a bit this morning.
1 8
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 8:56am
- Morrissey
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Another David Cumin nonsense outburst. The guy has NO shame…..
  
  https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-08102016/#comment-1241801
  
  “The so-called “friends of Israel”, who support Israel automatically and blindly: this has nothing to do with friendship. They are enemies of Israel—they corrupt us. The Jewish establishment in Australia kept saying to me: “Israel right or wrong.” Well, Israel is wrong and they need to stop supporting it. Continuous support by Western governments and by the Jewish establishment is anything BUT friendship.”
  
  —Israeli journalist GIDEON LEVY, who unlike David Cumin knows something about the situation in the Occupied Territories, and actually gives a damn.
  
  1 35
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 9:08am
Morrissey

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
National Party emergency caucus meeting, Sept. 10, 2005
Part 1 of 2

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

DOCTOR DON BRASH. Aging, decrepit, discredited liar who also happens to be leader of the National Party.
MICHELLE BOAG. Complete bitch. Formidably well organised, well read and merciless political backroom operator. Former chairperson of the National Party, given the boot after guiding it to record defeat in 2002.
MURRAY McCULLY. Fomer lover of Michelle Boag. National Party campaign “strategist”, therefore currently the most discredited and disrespected person in the southern hemisphere.
JUDITH (“ROSA”) COLLINS. A brutal, intimidating woman with the looks and personality of the James Bond villain, Rosa Klebs. Collins has replaced the lovely K****rine R*ch as the National Party’s “social welfare” spokeswoman. To many observers, this position sits oddly against her former role as a corporate lawyer for the casino industry.
K*****INE R*CH. The polar opposite to Collins. Blonde, curvy and gorgeous. Ignominiously tossed off National front bench because she was too “wet” .
SIMON POWER. Former National defence spokesman. Removed from position due to gross incompetence.
GEORGINA TE HEU HEU. Tall, aristocratic, a genuine example of Māori royalty. Ignominiously tossed off national front bench because she is Māori.
GERRY BROWNLEE. Enormously fat former woodwork teacher who somehow has ended up as deputy leader of the National Party. A walking, talking disaster, funny for about two minutes, painful and tiresome thereafter.
DR. LOCKWOOD SMITH. Notorious for his oft-stated willingness to act as an unquestioning lackey of the United States government. Former host of Australian children’s TV show Here’s Humphrey; Smith played the role of Humphrey. Later went on to front children’s quiz show W-3 in NZ, where he haughtily insisted the intermediate school contestants call him “Sir”.
BILL ENGLISH, Dr. NICK SMITH, TONY RYALL. Sworn enemies of the current National Party leadership. A slyly subversive, potentially destabilizing trio of troublemakers.
M________ BR**N. Political pollster.

NOTE: The names of a couple of people who participate in a sexual act in the course of this documentary have been surgically amended, for privacy’s sake.

——————————————-

SCENE: Saturday 10 September 2005, 9:25 a.m. The top suite at the James Cook Hotel, Wellington. The National Party’s former Welfare spokesperson MISS K*TH*R*N* R*CH sleeps, curled in the arms of her toyboy M_______ BR**N, the political pollster. While his “wet” Tory companion sleeps, BR**N watches the television show Agenda, while elegantly—some might say pretentiously and smugly—sipping from a tall glass of Pimms.

Suddenly, MISS R*CH awakes with a jolt. BR**N only just manages to avoid a spillage of Pimms.

MISS R*CH: [panting fearfully] Oh my GOD! Oh, M_________! I’m so worried….

To be continued…..
2 49
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 9:00am
- Huevon
  
  Hope you didn’t stay up all night writing that.
  
  16 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 9:06am
  - Morrissey
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    I wrote it in 2005. Took a while, yes. If you don’t work on your writing, you end up producing crap like Jeffrey Archer’s novels.
    
    1 36
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 9:13am
    - Viking2
      
      ah um.
      Did you read what you wrote?
      
      Apart from your own description it is almost certainly defamatory and has no place on DPF’s blog.
      
      11 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 10:35am
      - Morrissey
        
        What???!!? Apart from having zero sense of humour, you have no idea of fiction versus fact.
        
        0 15
        Report
        December 22, 2017 10:41am
- Rich Prick
  
  Loon.
  
  26 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 9:09am
  - Morrissey
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    Hey, John, I’m only the messenger. Perhaps you should have said something at the time other than smugly backing up Lockwood Smith—as we’ll see in Part 2.
    
    0 34
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 9:16am
    - Rich Prick
      
      Do those voices bother you at night?
      
      16 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 9:38am
      - Morrissey
        
        Do the anguished pleas of that waitress keep you up at night?
        
        0 25
        Report
        December 22, 2017 9:43am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Spare us Part 2 Morrissey. You’ve lost your grip on reality.
  
  26 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 9:15am
  - starboard
    
    His grip is firmly on his small codpiece.
    
    13 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 9:53am
    - Morrissey
      
      Oh hey! That’s a GOOD one!
      
      https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/glee/images/2/25/You-rock-38.gif/revision/latest?cb=20111103220434
      
      1 19
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 10:01am
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        Has there ever been a greater waste of space on Kiwiblog than the loon Morris Dancer?
        
        9 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 10:46am
    - G152
      
      There has -always- been something fishy about him. You may have nailed it
      
      3 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 11:09am
      - Morrissey
        
        starboard says “codpiece”, then G152 says “something fishy”.
        
        I see what you did there, G152!
        
        https://i.imgflip.com/ihxw1.jpg
        
        0 1
        Report
        December 22, 2017 2:04pm
- stigie
  
  Can you do one on the Labour Party so we can compare morris dancer..?
  
  13 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 9:15am
  - Morrissey
    
    Sure can, stigie. We’ve got a magnum opus on the Clark-Simpson cabinet under production right now. Those people were every bit as nasty as the Nats.
    
    0 26
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 9:18am
- Harkman
  
  Hey, Morri I saw the little girl you call a leader last night on TV. Never have I seen someone lead a country look so scared. Blabbering on about an independent foreign policy. Good gosh she was utterly terrified. See look like a teenager who just pranged her parents car. Good luck.
  
  24 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 9:37am
  - Morrissey
    
    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    She might have been nervous as you say—after all, it’s not a minor thing to stand up to a blustering bully who’s been making threats. But she stood up to him, and didn’t just abstain, like our sad friends over in the Lackey Country.
    
    0 30
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 9:41am
    - starboard
      
      Shes a fool ,well out of her depth. I cringe everytime she opens that trapdoor of a mouth. She dont speak for me
      Fake PM.. not mine.
      
      26 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 9:56am
      - Morrissey
        
        What did she say that indicated she was “out of her depth”?
        
        0 26
        Report
        December 22, 2017 10:00am
      - Viking2
        
        If theAmerican Ambassador is reading please note that Jacinda does not speak for me and many others. 44% of us in fact. Cancel her visa by all means but please don’t take it out on the rest of us.
        
        13 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 10:38am
      - In Vino Veritas
        
        What did she say? Well, she said she wouldnt be bullied by Trump and the US. And promptly went and voted to try and bully Trump and the US.
        The most vacuous PM NZ has ever had? Without question.
        
        10 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 11:15am
- calendar girl
  
  Much of that diatribe at 9:00am is defamatory. But a loser like you would not be worth pursuing in the Courts, and the MPs involved would be unlikely to go after DPF for your indiscretions.
  
  4 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 11:01pm
Inandout

Please don’t continue this rubbish.
28 0
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 9:06am
Manolo

The Argentinian socialist, king of vacuousness and empty words but supreme seller of smoke, a very profitable business.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/21/pope-francis-condemns-cancer-of-cliques-in-christmas-message-to-staff

Pope Francis has rebuked Vatican colleagues in a Christmas message, denouncing the “cancer” of cliques and how bureaucrats can become corrupted by ambition and vanity.
17 0
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 9:22am
- MrTips
  
  LOL. The Guardian reports shit like that, but makes no comment on this: https://www.amazon.com/Dictator-Pope-Marcantonio-Colonna-ebook/dp/B077SP6SSR
  
  Now I’m Catholic, and it honestly grieves me to write this, but PF is accurately summed up by the book in the link. He is, imo, a politician first, Pope second. And he is not a socialist – he is a Peronist, that much is clear. And he is a dictator – a brutal one.
  
  And his “reform” is a crock. He has appointed criminal clergy back into top positions; he removed PWC from auditing the Vatican properly; he has dismantled the Vatican rules and processes for removing and prosecuting abusive clergy (that process was initiated and installed by Benedict XVI, whom everyone loved to hate); he has surrounded himself with weak, manipulable figures whom he can dismiss at will.
  
  PF is the “people’s Pope”. No he is not. What you get with him is NOT what it says on the box. And the secular world, like the Guardian, has been sucked in by it.
  
  9 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 11:04am
Nukuleka

Morrissey, ztev and stiffie (I won’t include Hugh inthis- I’ll be charitable for Christmas) are the three-headed hydra intent on being a wreckingball on Kiwiblog. They are set on destrying GD- and harming KB in general- by their trolling and wilfully perverse nonsense.

DPF, I think that you should look seriously at your hands-off style of moderation which, although very gentlemanly and fair, is the type of approach that leftie progressive loons take advantage of. We on the conservative side of things are far too generous and kind. The progressive left take advantage of this in their desire to obliterate us and our points of view. They want to silence us by shouting us down and ultimately loyal KBloggers may just withdraw and grant this toxic trio the victory that they seek.
35 7
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 9:25am
- Huevon
  
  Hear, hear.
  
  If a post has been hidden through down ticking more than, say, three times the author should be blocked.
  
  Ko huevon a hoe.
  
  19 5
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 9:30am
- Salacious Crumb
  
  Nukuleka – Given two of the 3 you mention were going down the same path of wanting to block the likes of EAD because they find his views at times offensive, I am inclined to diagree. Thats not how free speech should work.
  
  Argue your point if you care to with them; they have their agendas (especially one in particular) but this forum is way better than the likes of the Standard and Whaleoil for supporting dissenting viewpoints.
  
  17 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 9:34am
  - Viking2
    
    Agree. Report posts that are offensive like Morriseys today. Enough reports and he will get sin binned till he learns some decency.
    
    13 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 10:40am
- Morrissey
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  I do not abuse people, even you, unless I’ve been abused myself. I write carefully constructed, readable pieces on all manner of subjects, from sports to politics. Occasionally, I’ll even post up a bit of fun like that Caucus Meeting.
  
  David Farrar often goes on to liberal and leftist radio and television shows and speaks his mind candidly, without fear of being shut down. But sensitive souls like you can’t engage in that kind of serious debate, and you want him to forbid it on his own site. That you seem to expect David Farrar to support your campaign against free speech says a lot about how insightful, or not, you are.
  
  Most people here will give me a bollocking if they get annoyed with me. But few of them have tried to shut me down like you have.
  
  4 40
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 9:38am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I do not abuse people,…unless I’ve been abused myself.
    
    That is a lie.
    
    You accused me of lying about having read Chomsky.
    
    I know you apologised days later, but I had never made any abusive comments about you or anyone else.
    
    31 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 10:02am
    - calendar girl
      
      Good one, Maggie. I’ll bet that he didn’t expect to be called out quite so quickly for straight-out lying – especially by someone with your meticulous research capabilities.
      
      5 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 11:14pm
  - Victor Omega
    
    imo, You are abusive. In fact, I expect to be abused just for saying so.
    
    14 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 10:14am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    One uptick for Morry. I’ve been abused pretty robustly by some other people here, with whom I’ve agreed on other issues though. The abuse usually just makes me LOL.
    
    That’s the fun of being here: we get to speak our minds and can approach each topic on its merits.
    
    I think the current system is great, because it’s democratic. Enough downticks and your message is still there, but doesn’t have to be seen.
    
    10 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 11:58am
  - Paulus
    
    Be grateful this is not Whale Oil – you would have been banned for centuries.
    I am quite happy for you to crap here as free speech is still part of our democracy – although Claire Curren would see otherwise.
    
    11 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 1:21pm
    - Morrissey
      
      I have been banned at Whale Oil. Forever.
      
      7 2
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 1:59pm
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Poor Morry. I don’t bother with WO anymore, because I didn’t like the illiberal tone over there.
        
        You’re often a total pain. No doubt you think the same of me. Let’s drink to that and thank David: is this NZ’s only free speech blog?
        
        9 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 2:40pm
      - Morrissey
        
        No, Classic Liberal, I don’t think you’re a total pain. In fact, I don’t think anybody on this blog is a total pain. I often come into conflict with people here—hell, let’s face it, I engineer a lot of those conflicts—but I am continually surprised and delighted by my interlocutors, or adversaries, here: for instance, the alacrity with which many of them leapt to my defence this morning after one of our friends suggested I be cast into the wilderness.
        
        The bitterest fights I’ve ever been in have been over at The Standard. Here’s a typically fraught thread from a few years ago. Note how vicious and judgemental so many of these “liberals” became when I impugned the saintliness of their great hero Barack Obama….
        
        https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-27052013/#comment-638881
        
        2 1
        Report
        December 22, 2017 8:43pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Morrissey
        Didn’t you have a conversation earlier today with Victor about how rude it is to back link?
        Personally I dislike link whoring. Hugh does it a lot and it’s pretty disrespectful.
        
        5 1
        Report
        December 22, 2017 8:48pm
      - Morrissey
        
        No, Red, what I agreed not to do any more was to crosspost simultaneously, as I have been doing on here and on the Standard.
        
        Of course I need to reference things in order to illustrate my points. Do you want me to print out that exceptionally long argument here?
        
        Of course I need to provide links. The hyperlink is the glory of the internet, surely?
        
        1 3
        Report
        December 22, 2017 8:51pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Are you that narcissistic that you think we actually care about your arguments at the Standard?
        
        6 1
        Report
        December 22, 2017 9:15pm
- Surely Knott
  
  Sorry fellas. Have to disagree. I think Kiwiblog’s hands off moderation is excellent. The moderation is by down ticking and consensus. I don’t need to be protected from the opinions of Ztev and Morrissey . I consider their opinions to be a great reality check. Like the Standard – reading it was part of the process of realising how truly broken the thinking of the political left was . Ztev and co. should post. Kiwiblog should continue to truly be a contest of ideas and let them post. If their comes a day when they say something that causes me to rethink my position then I will happily uptick them. Until then it reinforces the position that the thinking on the left is seriously misguided.
  
  38 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 9:40am
  - Manolo
    
    Well said!
    
    18 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 9:41am
  - waikatogirl
    
    I agree Surely Knott, there is even room on KB for swivel-eyed loons… It is preferable to see what sort of idiots, morons and delusional fools inhabit this piece of paradise with the rest of us.
    
    Merry Christmas to one and all, including those we don’t agree with and find increasingly annoying.
    
    3 Cheers for KB and DPF for his tolerance! ?
    
    25 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 9:48am
    - Morrissey
      
      Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
      …there is even room on KB for swivel-eyed loons…
      
      Yes there is! Let’s hear it for these swivel-eyed loons…
      
      https://i1.wp.com/thestandard.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/david-garrett-act.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1
      
      https://thedailyblog.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Jordan_Williams-1.jpg
      
      https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/Christopher-Monckton.jpg
      
      0 35
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 9:59am
  - tom hunter
    
    The thing that I always laugh about is that Morrissey, ztev and similar creatures never seem to learn anything about their own side of the ideological fence. They’ll reflexively jerk off about the evil, intolerant Right that oppresses people’s rights, while never noticing that the Left is the one that has regularly banned and silenced them on forums like The Standard.
    
    Clueless morons. No wonder they’re the ones shot so soon after the Peoples Revolution wins – and that’s presuming that they’re not shams, eager to grab the rifles themselves, which is an extension of goodwill they probably don’t deserve.
    
    36 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 10:00am
    - ztev
      
      Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
      Just woken up from your deep sleep since the 1930s have you…peoples revolution ….. hahahaha
      
      0 34
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 10:04am
      - flipper
        
        …. zetev…
        Shizenhausen # 2 !
        
        7 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 11:24am
      - tom hunter
        
        ztev’s KB history on the latest People’s Revolution – in Venezuela. You will note that he – and a few other Lefties like him – always attack those criticising the Socialists in that nation, as well as diverting to other topics. To him this amounts to not defending the indefensible:
        
        Oh I never supported that [insert failed Socialist Revolution/ary]. No, I only attacked their critics.
        
        Another standard Leftist tactic. They think it’s clever and sophisticated, but actually it’s just sophistry – a particularly drab, shabby and low IQ sophistry at that.
        
        To paraphrase Orwell, the likes of ztev are objectively pro-“People’s Revolution”, in this case pro-Chavez/Maduro – and will be again when the next one pops up somewhere in the world.
        
        Idiots.
        
        15 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 11:45am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Indeed Tom. I am blocked on Twitter by Clare Curran, Minister for Open Government, and was formerly banned for life from Labour’s blog, Red Alert, ironically moderated by none other than Ms Curran.
      
      26 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 10:39am
      - Morrissey
        
        Hmmmm… Curran v. Stock… FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!
        
        Like this….
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpLdQ1HhjrQ
        
        0 2
        Report
        December 22, 2017 8:54pm
- lofty
  
  Nope, free speech is one of the remaining ever decreasing bastions we have.
  
  Besides I am in constant awe of the level of expert knowledge that ztev has on every subject imaginable, he/she is probably one of the finest bullshit artists I have ever come across, and I have seen a few.
  We are all big enough and ugly enough to see through the spin and general dross.
  Besides reading the comments always makes me smile.
  
  21 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 10:42am
  - Paulus
    
    I think ztev is not one person but a team of Labour paid creeps, which is why there is an answer to everything – one keep going in rely, the others look up Google.
    
    10 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 1:23pm
    - lofty
      
      Oh most likely Paulus, tag team commenting eh.
      
      Same as the stephieboy team.
      
      7 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 1:28pm
    - Happychappy
      
      I think ztev might be the same fella that went with Mike Williams to Australia to dig dirt on John Key. You have to be someone deep inside Labour to keep coming out with dirty washing to try and embarrass National.
      
      9 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 4:41pm
      - sam green
        
        Where is Jason Ede these days?
        
        1 2
        Report
        December 22, 2017 6:50pm
    - Digmen1
      
      Yes its a team effort.
      Just like some of the Nigerian scammers, pretending to be white or asian love prospects.
      
      4 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 7:33pm
- Awww C-mon
  
  Nah we can’t block them, what should be axed is this linking to comments they have made on other blogs.
  Rude, disrespectful and so fucking narcissistic it’s embarrassing to see.
  
  9 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 1:46pm
artemisia

That looks like a rookie mistake by MBIE for the Americas Cup cost benefit analysis. Haven’t read the CBA but it is common to include every possible benefit. Costs, not so much.

If the NZ Initiative had not looked ….

Of course there will be a detailed and robust post implentation review. Yeah right.
10 1
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 9:25am
- ztev
  
  MBIE used an external contractor- no surprises there as they spend up yuge on them- for the Report.
  
  What they should do is ask for part refund of the fee…..
  
  2 18
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 10:02am
Jack5

The persecution continues of former British soldiers.

In the next war, let the Leftists do all of the fighting. Who would put their lives on the line for a country whose justice system treats them like this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5203461/Dying-veteran-shot-IRA-suspect-lose-legal-battle.html
13 0
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 9:29am
Harkman

So last night on One News, I can’t recall seeing anything on Trump’s tax cuts victory, but they had plenty on the virtuous UN reprimanding the evil Donald Trump for declaring Jerusalem, where Israel has its Parliament building, as it’s capital. According to the clip, how dare he threaten to cut funding for the centre of global socialism. When Trumpy crossed his arms in the cabinet room and said he’ll save a lot of money next year and I saw Nikki Haley’s taking names tweet, I laughed so hard.
30 0
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 9:29am
- Morrissey
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  You sneer at the word “virtuous” as if it’s a bad thing.
  
  0 35
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 9:45am
  - Harkman
    
    Chavez, Castro, Morales, China, Russia, Mugabe, and the Jew & gay hating Arabs are not “virtuous.” The UN is run by these fools and unelected internationalists who have no regard for sovereignty. Shut the thing down.
    
    20 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 10:44am
    - Morrissey
      
      Mugabe is a bad guy, no question, and I don’t care for the Russian and Chinese governments. Castro was a pretty rough guy, too, but he had to lead a country suffering unceasing terror and a ruthless blockade for fifty years. I can understand people having reservations about all of them.
      
      But what’s your beef with Chavez and Morales? They were democratically elected and immensely popular with their people—not with the democracy-hating bully to their north, however.
      
      0 24
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 11:07am
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        Christ, what an idiot.
        
        25 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 11:12am
      - tom hunter
        
        Pinochet was a pretty rough guy, too, BUT he had to lead a country suffering unceasing communist terror supported by a democracy hating, bullying communist superpower…. 🙂
        
        Shooting communists = bad and evil.
        Shooting anti-communists = pure and joyful fun.
        
        Especially when the gunsmoke gets in the nostrils, as Che loved to relate.
        
        The real point here is that the Far Left never learn from their mistakes. Critics who pointed out in 1980 that Mugabe was simply another murderous, hard-line communist thug with the usual poverty-creating Socialist ideas, were dismissed with a wave of the hand and he was extolled as a Man Of The People who had Fought For Justice and whose ideas on land and economic reform would bring Peace, Justice and Prosperity and yada, yada, yada.
        
        And barely had all these idiots glumly concluded that Zimbabwe was a murderous, oppressive, poverty-stricken sham than Hugo Chavez popped up – and away the Left went again in support of their next hero, complete with the same excuses heard of Mugabe, one of which was that he was “popularly elected”.
        
        This is why claims about how the Far Left (and more than a few so-called Centrist Socialists) have learned from history and know better than to trust such thugs and their ideas, or the systems that give them power, can be dismissed as lies or brain-dead ignorance.
        
        BTW, the “ruthless blockade” of Cuba never extended even to Western Europe, let alone the rest of the world, where they laughingly thumbed their noses at the US and waved Cuban cigars in their face. The problem was – and is – that the cigars were about all the useless communist economy had left to sell.
        
        Well that and primitively trained doctors the regime could charge loads for, while paying them peanuts.
        
        Oh – and basically what Mainwaring said.
        
        9 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 12:30pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Responses like that do nothing for your reputation, Cap’n. Still, it saves you from engaging in anything as unseemly as thinking and arguing, I guess.
        
        0 13
        Report
        December 22, 2017 2:10pm
      - Lance
        
        The reply from Morrissey is so completely fucked up I wonder if it is parody?
        
        9 1
        Report
        December 22, 2017 4:04pm
  - Classic Liberal
    
    “You sneer at the word “virtuous” as if it’s a bad thing.” when it’s just posturing, I do sneer.
    
    9 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 12:28pm
    - Morrissey
      
      You think the whole world—other than a couple of rogue states, a couple of fascist Central American states, and some miniscule Pacific Island slave states—is “posturing”? Really?
      
      Was the whole world—except for the U.S. and Israel—posturing when it condemned South Africa?
      
      1 8
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 2:09pm
      - Lance
        
        Well there certianly was a shit load of hypocrisy going on. Hell, I even opposed apartheid but some of the nations pointing fingers treated large numbers of people like shit but somehow that was ok.
        A better approach would have been to protest against apartheid and the other murderous regimes that infest the bulk of Africa.
        Like Israel = naughty, Arab nations = righteous, I call utter bullshit on that.
        
        5 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 4:09pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Like Israel = naughty, Arab nations = righteous, I call utter bullshit on that.
        
        What? The Arab nations—Saudi Arabia and its minions in the U.A.E. and Egypt—are “righteous”? They’re the most fanatical, murderous despots in the world. Like Israel, they’re armed and supported by the United States and its vassals like Britain and Australia.
        
        The problem is not that Israel is “naughty”, the problem is—I’ll let one of the most respected journalists in Israel explain….
        
        “Israel has three regimes. First, there is the “liberal democracy” which is the privilege of its Jewish citizens, but there are many threats to this. The second regime is aimed at the Palestinians—the “Israeli Arabs” who comprise 20 per cent of the population, and who have formal civil rights; they are deeply discriminated against in every way. The third regime is very different from any “liberal” posturing—this is Israel’s dark heart, the regime in the Occupied Territories. This is one of the most brutal tyrannies on Earth today, no less than that.”
        
        —-Gideon Levy speaking in Auckland, 3 December 2017
        
        0 5
        Report
        December 22, 2017 9:04pm
- flipper
  
  … Absolutely..
  TVs one or three… the “news” outlets that shut down on Friday last. Nothing has happened tis week.
  
  Just as reminder that the US has until now contributed 22 % of all UN costs.
  
  That is now likely to be scrubbed and be replaced by a $ sum, on a case by case basis, once the $ amount gets through the US budget process.
  
  Of course buck tooth Toothfairy, dyke Simpson and drunken Peters can always pony up our increased share to satisfy the cocktail panty waists.
  
  Those idiots speak only for themselves.
  
  12 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 11:37am
Jack5

Once it was Bible prophecies that fired up doomsters. Now it’s global warming. The warning of “the end is nigh” has become the “heat will be high”.

Forecast that each year a million “migrants” from Africa and the Middle East will pour into Europe by the year 2100, say Global Warming folk.

Maybe some of Kiwiblog’s school age readers will still be alive to check.

If the forecast should prove correct, Europe will likely be run by authoritarians with strong armies keeping foreigners away.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/21/devastating-climate-change-could-see-one-million-migrants-a-year-entering-eu-by-2100
11 0
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 9:48am
tom hunter

I can’t recall seeing anything on Trump’s tax cuts victory,….

Caught a snippet of RNZ while driving and they had a clip from …. drum roll…. Bernie Sanders, talking about the tax bill. What amused me was that this was the second time in as many days that they had used Bernie as the go-to audio clip on the subject.

Admittedly going to Democrats like Pelosi might have been embarrassing as she basically had a melt-down, but I know there were Democrat Senators and members of Congress who made cogent criticisms of the bill, who could have been used instead. But no: it’s RNZ National, so the choice was Bernie lets-honeymoon-in-the-USSR Sanders. Tells you everything you need to know about RNZ’s staff.
20 0
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 9:51am
- ztev
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Sanders isnt a Democrat
  
  0 31
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 10:00am
  - tom hunter
    
    Funny – I could have sworn he ran as a Democrat Party nominee for President.
    
    Oh, I know he’s proudly said he’s a Socialist and “independent”, but he caucused with the Democrats for years and when he had a shot at real power he threw his “principles” overboard in a heartbeat and joined the machine he could never build.
    
    Still, since he’s now “not a Democrat” he’ll have no complaints about being stiffed by backroom politics in the Democrat primary. Shouldn’t have been there in the first place. 🙂
    
    24 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 10:04am
  - cmm
    
    “Sanders isnt a Democrat”
    
    You’re correct that he wasn’t treated as one by the Democratic party.
    
    They completely screwed him over for Hillary.
    
    12 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 10:20am
  - flipper
    
    Ohhh… so he has now jumped the bullshit waka back to independent stance has he shizenhausen ???
    
    3 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 11:41am
Keeping Stock

There was a major blow-up on Twitter last night over the actions of a member of Jacinda Ardern’s Cabinet pretty clearly breaching the Cabinet Manual.

Clare Curran tweeted suggesting that the Police had bowed to political pressure in deciding not to prosecute Todd Barclay. Curran’s tweet read thus:

Who instructed Baird not to recommend prosecution?

This is a massive error of judgment by Curran. Remember the furore when Maurice Williamson was alleged to have intervened in a police investigation? He was sacked, for what was described at the time as an error of judgment.

Curran’s gaffe however is even worse; she has effectively accused the Police of being politically influenced in an active investigation, which as Whaleoil notes in the post below, could be re-opened at any time. WO also has the relevant passage from the Cabinet Manual, which makes it absolutely clear that a Minister does “not comment or involve themselves in the investigation of an offence or the decision as to whether a person should be prosecuted”.

https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2017/12/clare-curran-breached-rules-cabinet-manual/#more-353639

This is the first real test of Jacinda Ardern’s leadership. She has promised a new era of open and transparent government. If she is serious about that, she must sack the Minister for Open Government today.
43 0
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 10:02am
- Rich Prick
  
  Who would have thought that the Minister for Open Government would engage in such devious and backhanded behaviour? I know they’ve all still got their training wheels on, but really?
  
  31 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 10:27am
  - Paulus
    
    This is an early lesson when Labour/Greens/Peters politician interfere with the Judicial role in New Zealand.
    It has been practice forever that Politicians stay away from the Judiciary even if they do not like a judgement.
    If I criticised a Judge openly I could be in serious trouble.
    But Curren has a big mouth like her bosses.
    
    13 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 1:30pm
- Politburo of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Aotearoa
  
  Don’t worry Comrade Keeping, the tweet will be expunged and you’ll have forgotten all about this by the time Parliament resumes.
  
  #IDidntDoItYouDidntSeeMeDoItYouCantProveAnything
  #RelentlessRewritingOfHerstory
  #LetsDeleteThis
  
  29 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 10:28am
- jp_1983
  
  She is protected so nothing will happen over this. (Sadly)
  
  16 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 10:29am
  - stigie
    
    You all know it’s different when the sordid left do it..?
    
    18 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 10:42am
    - Politburo of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Aotearoa
      
      Is that not what I said???
      
      9 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 11:18am
- doggone7
  
  “Who instructed Baird not to recommend prosecution?” Did someone instruct Baird? Some state legal beagle ?
  
  4 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 11:13am
- Keeping Stock
  
  It’s interesting that none of Labour’s usual stooges have sprung to Curran’s defence. Perhaps she is going to be hung out to dry after all.
  
  7 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 5:35pm
waripori

I have been a bit confused as to why Trump would decide to recognise Jerusalem as capital of Israel. It seemed strange that Trump as the great deal maker would give away the big bargaining chip for use with Israel if he was serious about negotiating any sort of Israeli Palestine agreement and middle east peace.

It had to be for domestic reasons and something to do with the evangelical vote.
This explains why
https://www.vox.com/2017/12/12/16761540/trump-israel-jerusalem-embassy-evangelical-christians

Millions of american evangelicals are looking towards the end of days. They saw the foundation of the state of Israel as presaging that and Jerusalem is an important component. It is a bit like those mad ISIS buggers looking to fight the great battle with the forces of Rome.

I’m not suggesting Trump believes any of this but he has no moral compass and is just looking to firm up his right wing christian base. The rest of the world can get stuffed.
0 14
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 10:19am
- cmm
  
  “I have been a bit confused as to why Trump would decide to recognise Jerusalem as capital of Israel. ”
  
  Perhaps because that is what the Israelis chose?
  
  Trump is not the first to recognise this. So did Obama, Clinton and Bush, but the lefties only go full retard about stuff Trump does.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLfK6Ib6cXI
  
  23 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 10:32am
  - All_on_Red
    
    “If the movement of an American Embassy that was signaled more than 20 years ago is enough to scuttle peace talks, then maybe the basis for peace doesn’t yet exist,” the Wall Street Journal editorial board poignantly observed.
    
    13 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 11:47am
tom hunter

Two contrasts in MSM journalists.

First up is Ross Douthat, one of the “right-wingers” allowed a kennel at the New York Times, A War Trump Won. Douthat admits that he expected Trump’s Foreign Policy to be a “Trumpian Disaster”, but that it has not turned out that way:

the Trump administration’s approach to the Middle East has been moderately successful, and indeed close to what I would have hoped for from a normal Republican president following a realist-internationalist course.

He also notes that Trump has been given no credit for the victory against ISIS:

Its defeat was begun under Obama, and the hardest fighting has been done by Iraqis — but this was an American war too, and we succeeded without massive infusions of ground troops, without accidentally getting into a war with Russia, and without inspiring a huge wave of terrorism in the West.

Douthat thinks this is largely due to journalists like him who can’t let go of their preconceptions, but also because the war turned out as niether US Left or Right expected:

the defeat of the Islamic State didn’t happen the way many foreign policy hawks envisioned, because it didn’t require also going to war with Bashar al-Assad or creating a new Syrian opposition army. At the same time, it happened more easily than intervention skeptics feared — so there isn’t a pundit chorus, right or left, ready to claim vindication in the victory.

So kudos to Douthat for not being an idiot. He still thinks little of Trump but will give credit where credit is due – although I note he does not dig into other interviews that have been conducted with US and Iraqi military who talked of Trump changing the ROE’s to actually allowing real fighting and victories to happen – instead of having a JAG peering over your shoulder on every trigger pull.

Next up is the opposite case: Jennifer Rubin, the “right-winger” at the WaPo. Her approach gets dismantled in this National Review piece which simply points out the endless 180’s she’s done on issues, simply because of Trump. Rarely have I seen a reporter so dismembered:

The illustrations are endless. In two years, Rubin has gone from arguing that the “ludicrous,” “absurd” Iran deal “has to go” — and, indeed, that John Kasich was a fool for contending otherwise – to praising those who believe it must remain in place as “reasonable” “experts,” and predicting that even to decertify would put “American credibility” at “risk.” In 2015, she wrote that “if you examine the Iran deal in any detail, you will be horrified as to what is in there.” In 2017, she characterizes this position as the “emotional” “temper tantrum” of an “unhinged president.”

Trump Derangement Syndrome in a nutshell, all the quoted words have links in themselves but it’s worth reading the whole piece.
11 0
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 10:25am
- Harkman
  
  Bang on Tom, Jennifer Rubin hates Trump, there was a show on Bloomberg called “With All Due Respect” and she was always on saying “there is no chance Trump can win” etc. She bags Trump all day, everyday, I actually thought she worked for MSNBC.
  
  13 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 11:00am
Morrissey

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
National Party emergency caucus meeting, Sept. 10, 2005
Part 2 of 2

SCENE: The pollster M_________ BR**N is in the top suite of the James Cook Hotel, Wellington, with the National Party’s recently deposed Welfare spokesperson MISS K*TH*R*N* R*CH. It’s 9:25 a.m. and MISS R*CH has awoken with a jolt…..

MISS R*CH: [panting fearfully] Oh my GOD! Oh, M_________! I’m so worried….

BR**N: [busses her then laughs reassuringly] Don’t worry, my dear. Your husband’s in Dunedin. And even if he did turn up here at the James Cook Hotel, I’ve got my batman Scr**ge keeping a look out. He’s armed and he’s ornery.

MISS R*CH: No, no — not that. I’ve just had this horrifying dream. I was on this — this jumbo jet… and it was utterly OUT OF CONTROL and heading inexorably for DISASTER, and everybody on it realized that too — but it was too late, though, because it was TOO LATE to change the captain, and the co-captain was a FAT FOOL who nobody believed in, and everybody on board realized the captain was too old and had no idea and he was a blithering, hopeless liar and… and people up and down the country were just LAUGHING at us, and everyone was so grim and unhappy, especially that awful butch cow Judith Collins….

BR**N: [gathers MISS R*CH in closely] Sssssshhhh, don’t worry, my dear. Let moi interpr—

MISS R*CH: No need to interpret it, M__________. I know perfectly well what it means: the National Party is doomed. Doomed like New Orleans. [She gives BR**N her well-rehearsed “helpless yet sultry” look] That means I’m doomed, too. Do you like doomed, wet women, M_________?

BR**N: [with well-rehearsed tone of deep sincerity] I ADORE doomed, wet women. [Growls roughly] Especially from the National party. Come ‘ere….

[We draw a discreet veil over proceedings for eight steamy minutes.]

MISS R*CH: [shrieking] Oh God, it’s nine thirty-eight! The emergency shadow caucus meeting starts at ten sharp! That uber-bitch Michelle Boag is coming to give us all a rark up! [bestows a long, lascivious kiss on BR**N] Gotta fly! I’m late.

—————————————–

10:05 a.m. The Brethren’s Churchill Road Gospel Hall in Crofton Downs. The National Party caucus is in session. The former chairwoman of the party, MICHELLE BOAG, is reading the riot act. Demoralised politicians with sour, defeated expressions listen in gloomy silence. At first glance, everyone appears shell-shocked. However, closer inspection shows that several members are rather more sanguine. Deposed leader BILL ENGLISH actually seems to be enjoying it somewhat. To the anger of many, and the amusement of some, he is ostentatiously reading Nicky Hager’s explosive book The Hollow Men. BOAG bores on relentlessly…

BOAG: …. and in all fairness the less we hear of Don Brash over the next seven days the better.

BILL ENGLISH: You chose ‘im!
BOAG: [grimly ignoring the disaffected former leader] And we will be hearing no more at all from our former “strategist” — if that’s the right word for what he’s been up to over the last fortnight. [she glares at MURRAY McCULLY like a basilisk] From now on, I and seven friends, who will remain anonymous, will be directing this campaign. For the last week of the campaign we need to stop shooting ourselves in the foot and remind people of our CORE PRINCIPLES. I sometimes wonder whether anybody remembers what the National Party STANDS for any more.

DR LOCKWOOD SMITH: [excitedly waving hand in the air] Ooh! I know, I
know!

BOAG: [nervously] Ye-e-e-e-e-e-e-esss, Lockwood?

DR LOCKWOOD SMITH: Never pay in cash, Never tell the truth, and Never play by the rules!

BOAG: [closes eyes in despair, buries face in hands] Give me str-r-r-r-r-r-r-rength!

DON BRASH: No, no, no, no, no, no, no! That’s not right, Lockwood! Eeeeeeehhhhhh….

JOHN KEY: [cool, smiling, unfazed] Actually, that IS the National Party philosophy.

SIMON POWER: And it’s a darned fine philosophy too.

DON BRASH: Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no……

TONY RYALL: [in disgust] The right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing.

BILL ENGLISH: [shaking his head] These right wing ideologues are tearing this party apart! IT’S A FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP!!

JOHN KEY: [cool, smiling, unfazed] We stand for… ooooohhhhh… taking the tax off petrol.

RYALL: Eh? You said the opposite two weeks ago!

ROGER SOWRY: It’s ANOTHER flip-flop!

BROWNLEE: [with boyish excitement] Right, that’s enough thinking! Let’s go GET Helen Clark with our new flip-flop policy!

BOAG: [tartly, between clenched teeth] Shut up and sit down, you fatuous, footling fathead.

BROWNLEE: [aggressively] You can’t call me fatuous! That’s size-ist!

DON BRASH: Eeeeeeeehhhh, Gerry, when Michele calls you “fatuous”, it does not mean you are fat, it means you are foolish.

BROWNLEE: [cheerfully] Oh! Well, that’s all right, then!

DISAFFECTED CAUCUS MEMBER: Shut up and sit down, Brash! Michelle’s in
charge, not you!

DOCTOR DON BRASH: Oh no, no, no, no, no, no. Eeeeeeeehhhhhh…..

BOAG: [doggedly ignoring the mounting turmoil] Now we also need an attack strategy to get at Margaret Wilson, and —

SIMON POWER: We could base our strategy on the fact she’s got a wooden leg!

BOAG: Yes! For once, a bright idea! Now let’s brainstor—-

[BOAG is interrupted mid-sentence by the late arrival of the deposed shadow welfare spokesperson.]

MISS R*CH: Sorry I’m late.

BOAG: [acerbically] Sit down quickly at the back of the room, next to Tony Ryall and Nick Smith, and that Maori woman.

DAVID CARTER: Siberia!

CAUCUS: Ha ha ha ha ha!

BOAG: Stop that! This is a party in crisis! The time for levity is after we win the election!

RYALL: Ha! THAT’ll be the day! [imitating Fraser from Dad’s Army] We’re DOOMED! We’re all DOOOOO-O-O-O-OOOMED!

CAUCUS: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! ….I’d rather have Captain Mainwaring in charge than Don Brash! …. We’re TOAST, let’s face it, fellas! … Don’t PANIC!!!! … Ha ha ha ha ha!

DOCTOR DON BRASH: Oh no no no no no no no no no. That’s not funny.

CAUCUS: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

BOAG: Stop this nonsense NOW! We need to FOCUS!

DOCTOR DON BRASH: Eeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhh….

[The room descends into uproar. After the laughter has roiled around the room for an extended period, the hubbub eventually dies down. K*TH*R*N* R*CH moves toward the back of the now silent room. Unfortunately, this necessitates moving past her successor, the bulldog-like JUDITH COLLINS…]

COLLINS: [sotto voce, acidly] Being “grilled” by a “pole-ster”, were we?

MISS R*CH: [sotto voce, sweetly] You weren’t. I was.

[COLLINS glowers, her face turning a deep, angry shade of purple as MISS R*CH moves on to take her seat in “Siberia” next to GEORGINA TE HEU HEU, MURRAY McCULLY, TONY RYALL and NICK SMITH.]

McCULLY: K*th*rin*, I’m free tonight and for the rest of the week, if you need any help with your “poling”….

http://morrisseybreen.blogspot.co.nz/2017/12/national-party-emergency-caucus-meeting.html
1 40
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 10:30am
- Inandout
  
  What a waste of KB space your diatribe is.
  
  22 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 10:39am
  - Morrissey
    
    The only diatribe in there is by one Michelle Boag. Perhaps you should have read it before you commented.
    
    1 29
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 10:44am
    - flipper
      
      You get all that crap from W O H B did you?
      Notwithstanding their sometimes crazy views, I doubt that WOHB would waste time putting together such load of shizenhausen deposits.
      
      7 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 11:51am
  - stigie
    
    Can’t see what’s funny, can you..?
    
    9 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 10:45am
    - G152
      
      Well, he did write more than 5 lines.
      Unless its a
      LIEBOR PARTY REPRINT
      
      8 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 11:17am
  - GazzaW
    
    Thanks for the ancient history lecture.
    
    3 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 12:55pm
- Komata
  
  Umm Morressey (@1030 am), while congratulating you on putting in a lot of effort, and imagination into the piece, and since I have evidently missed something in what you have written, I have to ask: What was the point?
  
  Thanks.
  
  18 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 10:49am
  - Morrissey
    
    I was just having a laugh, Komata. It’s Christmas after all.
    
    I think our friends here will be a bit more receptive when I post up some stuff about Helen Clark’s shenanigans.
    
    0 24
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 10:56am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      So defaming people and being nasty about physical characteristics is just “having a laugh” to you, eh Morrissey?
      
      You really are a sad person. The best Christmas present you could give readers here is to take up a job with lots of sex and travel.
      
      17 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 11:43am
      - flipper
        
        Thailand for him Keeping ?
        
        6 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 11:52am
      - Morrissey
        
        Thanks, Keeping Stock. That’s a brilliant idea!
        
        2 4
        Report
        December 22, 2017 1:33pm
    - Politburo of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Aotearoa
      
      Thou shalt not cast aspersions regarding the wind beneath Dear Leaders wings.
      
      Back to work, pleb.
      
      11 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 11:46am
  - Paulus
    
    I must have missed reading it – I saw the name of the writer and moved on – fairly my usual practice avoiding these creeps.
    
    2 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 1:33pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Morris Dancer’s poor parents have a lot to answer for.
  
  12 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 10:55am
  - Morrissey
    
    OMG, Cap’n—I might have to put dear old pater into the Deadbeat Dads series.
    
    0 13
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 11:01am
- Rich Prick
  
  Were you urgently adjusting yourself as you typed that?
  
  7 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 10:57am
- lifesgood
  
  You know what Morrissey? You are a f***ing idiot.
  
  12 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 12:52pm
- GazzaW
  
  Thanks for the ancient history lecture.
  
  5 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 12:54pm
- Awww C-mon
  
  I don’t know if I should ask for some of your drugs or just suggest you do your bit of climate change and stop emitting CO2
  
  6 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 1:55pm
- softail 1450
  
  moronissey ,FFS give it a rest ,what don’t you understand about “nobody reads your crap”.
  that last instalment proves beyond any doubt that you have come off your medication again.
  remember what happened last time, does men in white coats prick your memory ?
  we will send someone around to confiscate your mouth pointer soon ,how will you operate the keyboard then ? merry Xmas .
  
  9 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 2:29pm
  - Morrissey
    
    moronissey ,FFS give it a rest ,what don’t you understand about “nobody reads your crap”.
    
    Ooooh, I think you know that, as the detailed (if exasperated) critiques show, people DO read my posts. Do you mean to say they offend some people, especially those who would defend the likes of Don Brash and Judith “Rosa” Collins? Then say so.
    
    0 6
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 4:43pm
Inandout

Leighton’s show is being skewered by Andrew the Flake. Music stations beckon.
12 0
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 10:42am
- kloyd0306
  
  Hijacked, more like.
  
  And to think that by this time next year ultra-wet Kerri McIvor will force us to switch to Coast FM.
  
  14 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 11:08am
Swifty

Asshole.

Some of us are on small phones and have to scroll through this crap.

If you have to post this juvenile shit – just link to your own shitty blog.

Get a life you egg.
26 1
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 10:42am
- Swifty
  
  Meant for Morrisey.
  
  16 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 10:45am
  - Morrissey
    
    This is for you, Swifty. (Sorry about taking up all that bandwidth. I’ll bear your advice in mind)…
    
    http://www.grabointernational.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/85637-Big-Hug-Bear.jpg
    
    1 22
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 10:59am
- doggone7
  
  Have faith on your small phone. This is the place to be for juvenile shit, nastiness and crap!
  
  1 12
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 11:30am
Stars And Stripes

Spate of 600 missing drain covers a likely factor in south Auckland teen’s death
https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/manukau-courier/100025578/call-for-more-checking-of-drain-covers-following-teens-death
“Auckland Council needs to be more proactive about missing storm drain covers after the death a south Auckland teen in June, according to a local MP.
Violet Tupou, 17, who is believed to have been autistic, was found dead in a road catchpit on Royalpark Place in Favona, Mangere, south Auckland.
Mangere MP, Labour’s Aupito William Sio, said one death due to a missing drain cover was one too many”.

Yep get the violin out as it’s all the councils fault of course.
The only people to blame for this death William Sio are your scummy constituents who steal everything that is not nailed down and vandalise any public facilities in the area.
Maybe if some of them were more civilized instead of acting like primitives then this would not have happened.
27 0
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 10:45am
- Nermal
  
  We were having trouble with blocked catchpits in the Whangarei suburb of Otangarei. The good folk were lifting the grates and dumping dead tvs and household rubbish into them.
  
  5 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 6:59pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  Scrap metal dealers must know that they are not legitimate scrap.
  
  1 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 9:10pm
tom hunter

Had to chuckle at this classic piece of Left-wing kneejerk racism from a Huffington Post contributor:

What a shocker… there’s ONE black person there and sure enough they have him standing right next to the mic like a manipulated prop. Way to go @SenatorTimScott. #trump #taxscambill

— Andy Ostroy (@AndyOstroy) December 20, 2017

Scott decided to tackle the subject directly:

✔
@SenatorTimScott
Uh probably because I helped write the bill for the past year, have multiple provisions included, got multiple Senators on board over the last week and have worked on tax reform my entire time in Congress. But if you’d rather just see my skin color, pls feel free. https://twitter.com/andyostroy/status/943575916424450049 …
10:23 AM – Dec 21, 2017

Remember: in the eyes of the US Left, you’re not a real Black if you support the GOP – just like you’re not a real woman if you support the GOP. And of course, as with many things American, this thinking is replicated here in NZ with groups such Maori and National.

I look forward to reading year-end “think-pieces” by MSM folks, where they will decry the “divisiveness” in today’s GOP controlled America.
18 0
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 10:47am
Poppa

So a quick tale before I head off into the sunset

I know of a certain Winston First MP who voted for National

If that doesn’t confirm he had already picked Labour prior to the election, nothing will. He really is a charlatan
17 0
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 10:52am
big bruv

How come the line up of bludgers outside city mission in Auckland are nearly all brown and morbidly obese?
Instead of another hand out these ferals would be better off with a bloody good portion of personal responsibility.
Excluding the genuine few mentally ill, who I have heartfelt sympathy for the rest are nothing more than parasites.
32 1
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 11:00am
- Rich Prick
  
  And I imagine half of them arrived from Hamilton in a convoy of Toyota Enima’s and Bongo vans.
  
  28 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 11:12am
- softail 1450
  
  B B, what they should be handing out to them is gym memberships, fricking fat bastards ….bludging users of the system with zero pride or responsibility.
  
  12 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 2:34pm
GazzaW

The Dow closed up again overnight and is just a good trading day away from cracking the 25000 mark. A far cry from the doom merchants’ prediction of a 25% fall from 18000 where the Dow stood at the time of the Republican victory.
7 0
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 11:45am
Brito

Am I imagining things or has that arsehole who tried to kill all of those Aussies dropped off the media net? It’s not on Stuff, Herald or BBC.

What the fuck!!!!???
16 1
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 12:15pm
- realityczech
  
  Brittle its not Muslims who control the media 🙂
  
  1 8
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 12:55pm
  - Classic Liberal
    
    RC, heard of the Charlie Hebdo attack? And remember how few media dared publish the cartoons? Fear of islamists certainly influences the media.
    
    10 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 1:51pm
    - realityczech
      
      Yes and I condemn that too, but nothing like the ADL and other powerful Jewish groups. Just look how they have influenced you and other low information bottom feeders on here.
      
      0 5
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 5:28pm
- softail 1450
  
  Brito ,it’s the standard response when a nutter Muslim tries to murder as many westerners as he can , “it’s not their fault”.
  
  6 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 5:37pm
Rodney Randall

http://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/news/flinders-st-driver-missed-medical-appointment-on-day-of-attack/news-story/88c69a4ab6aff5fb7f7fbf6b269e4dac

The driver, named by the Herald Sun as Saeed Noori, 32, has been revealed as having a history of mental illness and drug use, and was on a mental health plan.

Speaking on Friday morning, Victoria Police acting chief commissioner Shane Patton said the man had a medical appointment booked on Thursday.
“He is on a mental health plan and he was due for an appointment yesterday, which he missed,” Mr Patton said in an interview on Channel 9’s Today.
“During that preliminary interview with investigators who are looking at this matter, he spoke about dreams, he spoke about voices, but he also did attribute some of his actions to the poor treatment of Muslims.”

So he was a mentally deranged Muslim exacting revenge on the kaffir.

Just your typical Jihadi nutbar. Probably fuelled up on hate from the local mosque or online hate preaching Iman.
24 0
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 12:28pm
- simpleton1
  
  “he spoke about dreams, he spoke about voices, but he also did attribute some of his actions to the poor treatment of Muslims .
  
  That would focus him in the fog of mental problems and drugs, “What would Mohammad do?”
  
  “I have been made victorious with terror ” Bukhari (4.52.220)
  http://www.exmuslim.org/i-have-been-made-victorious-by-terror.html
  With “The “context”, ten “remarkable” facts” [islamic sources]
  
  16 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 12:47pm
- VicParking
  
  Just a terrorist.
  
  15 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 12:57pm
- GoVege
  
  Islam IS a “mental illness”…which is why we shouldn’t be letting Muslims into the West, especially the males.
  I’m sure most of them get very upset about how they are not allowed to bash or murder their wives here.
  Wasn’t the guy who did the Sydney attack last year being investigated for murdering his wife…and allowed out on bail at the time!
  
  13 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 1:15pm
Rodney Randall

Terrorist: a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

Execute him
7 0
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 12:43pm
- simpleton1
  
  It is not considered terror as it is not linked to a modern day group, like “Boko haram”, “ISIS”, “Al nusra”, “Al qaeda”, etc.
  We are blinded by the willful ignorance of today’s bureaucracy/elite to 1400 years of history of supremacist Mohammad’s followers.
  
  Does a memorial garden /seat/plaque etc. assuage the public?
  LEST WE FORGET
  
  7 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 12:50pm
  - softail 1450
    
    to be fair ,,,,did your mum pick your username.?
    
    0 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 5:45pm
- realityczech
  
  In Israel terrorist become hero’s and Prime Ministers
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_David_Hotel_bombing
  
  I gather that is different though…. because reasons ?
  
  0 10
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 12:53pm
  - Rodney Randall
    
    Terrorists are terrorists.
    
    I’ll leave the monumental task of wading back through history to you czech. Maybe go back another 1400 years.
    
    10 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 1:04pm
    - realityczech
      
      “Terrorists are terrorists.”
      
      That was my point. The Jews used terrorism to achieve their goals. Now they use people like you to spread hate and do their dirty work.
      
      The reality is no Muslim country is attacking the West but we have destroyed many Muslim countries.
      
      You are cowardly scum if you think this minor traffic crash is comparable to what we have done to the terrorists country. A country that did not attack us.
      
      0 11
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 1:08pm
      - Rodney Randall
        
        With respect Czech I will have to disagree with your comment “minor traffic crash”
        
        This was an act of terrorism. I can agree with you that there are varying degrees of terrorism perpetrated theoughout history on all sides.
        
        I imagine it would be difficult to keep a straight face if one was a policeman informing next of kin that their family member had been involved in a minor traffic crash.
        
        9 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 1:16pm
      - Lance
        
        A MINOR TRAFFIC CRASH !!!!!!!
        
        What a cock
        
        Yep, jumped the shark with that one
        
        6 1
        Report
        December 22, 2017 4:19pm
      - Brito
        
        You don’t live under a bridge and frighten little goats do you? You’re starting to behave like a comment feeling troll.
        
        Too desperate!
        
        We’ve had this discussion. You’re better than that!
        
        6 1
        Report
        December 22, 2017 4:49pm
      - realityczech
        
        Rodney Randall, Okay Obama dropped over 26, ooo bombs on Muslim civilians in 2016 to please the Jews.
        
        How about next year we drop that many bombs on Israel and they can crash a car into some Muslim in return ?
        
        0 5
        Report
        December 22, 2017 5:31pm
- Rodney Randall
  
  Of course have a trial first resplendent with human rights lawyers wailing away at the humanity of the situation. Wouldn’t want to deny him his right to a fair trial. Golly G could defend him as she has a massive heart for these darlings. She could get a selfie b4 he is led away for the lethal injection for committing terrorist act on Australian soil.
  
  3 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 12:54pm
simpleton1

“Everyone present was terrified”
1st the 4wd… Then?

Was another vechicle going to be coming through?
Was a bomb going to go off in a vehicle? or a bombers vest?
Was a knife slasher, stabber going to run amok?
Was some one going to be coming out firing a gun?

The off duty police man is a hero, in immediately coming forward, to apprehend the driver.

With drugs, mental un-wellness, and worried by the mistreatment of muslims, shows that ideology of islam also has a major influence, in the fog of drugs and mental dualism in the infidel’s world. Dar al-Harb ‘House of War’
8 0
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 1:02pm
starboard

Have steffybot/s signed off?
Half day friday?
Maybe he/they are all down at Starbucks St Lukes circle jerking each other under the coffee table while they perv at nubile muslim teenage girls.
Happy Holidays then.
12 0
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 1:10pm
- Morrissey
  
  Did someone say “nubile muslim teenage girls”?!!??!?!?
  
  https://www.odt.co.nz/sites/default/files/styles/odt_landscape_medium_4_3/public/story/2017/06/1sjoneshjeralr.jpg?itok=KZTkHiLM
  
  2 11
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 1:56pm
Morrissey

weka, kicking ass and taking names over at The Standard….

https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-22-12-2017/#comment-1429312
0 17
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 1:53pm
- Rodney Randall
  
  Morrisey: Just had a quick look at the Standard.
  
  Moderators flexing muscles here and there. Cautions etc etc.
  
  I see it is your spiritual home.
  
  No thanks.
  
  13 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 2:09pm
  - Morrissey
    
    I’ve suffered many times from that muscle-flexing over there, Rodney.
    
    The first time was a real monkey shit fight, if ever there was one. I made the foolish mistake of having a go at the virago “Queen of Thorns” on a thread she was administering. As I discovered, that’s a cardinal sin at The Standard….
    
    https://thestandard.org.nz/david-shearer-isnt-jesus-no-sht-sherlock/#comment-571526
    
    My friend Kiki tried to stick up for me, and she received short shrift…
    
    https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-10012013/#comment-571893
    
    https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-11022017/#comment-1298324
    
    1 17
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 2:29pm
- starboard
  
  The strandard..hahahaha!
  Haunt of the rejects, weirdos,
  loons, fruit loops, nutbars, unknown genders etc etc etc.
  
  Well, starboard signing off for now..flying out to Bangkok tonight on Thai Air.
  Merry Xmas to most of you?
  
  22 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 2:21pm
- Victor Omega
  
  Backlinkimg from here to the standard is bad form. You’re probably paid to do it to boost their SEO at DPF’s expense. Don’t know why he allows it, tbh. Serves no valuable purpose.
  
  12 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 2:24pm
  - Morrissey
    
    Works both ways, my friend. I post links to KiwiBlog when I’m on the Standard.
    
    I’m getting paid by the Standard, am I? Why yes, Victor, I’m part of that vast liberal conspiracy out there, organising everything from posting on blogs to voting at the U.N.
    
    Your paranoid view of the world is hilarious.
    
    1 13
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 2:42pm
    - Victor Omega
      
      Relax man, you don’t have to come out swinging every time someone challenges you.
      Buying backlinks isn’t part of a conspiracy, it is actually a well known way to boost SEO (unless google finds out). My point is based on the frequency and number of backlinks you post here, the value-add on the standard side of the ledger must be adding up.
      It provides so little of value to KB readers and most of them it seems (as you can see from the other comments) dont care.
      Btw, it also hurts DPF’s SEO when you post the same thing to more than 1 blog. The new rank algorithm is strongly weighted in favour of uniqueness, so it’s pretty well known that you try to avoid having the same text appear anywhere other than your site. For example, wholesalers tell distributors and retailers not to copy product descriptions word for word or it affects everyone. I thought you’d know all this stuff.
      IMO (reiterated), if I was DPF I’d have these in my TOS (no backlinks to other blogs, and no cross-posting) in order to align better with the new search algorithms. In the absence of that, I think it’s bad form to do it anyway, that’s all.
      
      13 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 3:16pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Thanks, Victor, your explanation was clear and concise. I had no idea about how that affected the reader figures, etc. In future, I’ll post uniquely to KiwiBlog or The Standard without cross-posting.
        
        My apologies to the wonderful Mr Farrar.
        
        8 1
        Report
        December 22, 2017 4:37pm
Jack5

The email rorts are flooding in during the Christmas shopping season. Time for extra caution and time for special care to avoid clicking on email reply links that take you to trap sites.

Today I received a bogus email, with the word “Paypal” emblazoned in the corner and alerting me to a transaction for “HK$1,017 to EBAY HONG KONG INC LIMITED” (the capitals are the crooks’) and if I wanted to cancel it, then click on the bait-trap link.

Smart trickery by this fraudster: if you want to avoid being pinged for almost 200 NZ dollars click on the reply link.

The crooks often make at least one error that is a danger signal – in addition to the fraudulent reply address. Here they have used both “Inc” and “Ltd,” which don’t go together in titles of companies in countries with a British legal tradition, such as Hong Kong. For us, it’s either “Inc” or “Ltd”, but not both.
11 0
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 2:16pm
- Lance
  
  Not to mention phone calls from Microsoft support, IRD, Spark etc.
  I used to just just call them thieving scum and hang up but now it’s more fun to say “just send me a note to my email”, surprise surprise, they don’t know my email address. It can be fun listening to them tying themselves in knots trying to explain that. Time / patience dependent of course.
  
  9 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 4:28pm
- Digmen1
  
  It really is time that the worlds ISP’s got together and found the source of those emails and reported them to the police.
  They prey on vulnerable people
  And waste our time checking or deleting them
  
  3 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 7:25pm
Longknives

The Friday before Christmas- That means it’s our Annual Kiwiblog Christmas Party!

I’ll be there- Drinking beer and talking cricket averages with Kimbo (Still desperately trying to impress him enough to crack his Quiz Team)
Hugh Pavletich will also be there- Standing by himself at the Bar desperately looking for someone to bore with his latest update on House prices.
Morissey and Ztev will turn up already drunk from The Standard piss-up, Stumbling around the room looking to fight with everyone..
Go Vege, Yep she will be there- Drinking a spirulina cocktail and endlessly lecturing everyone on the benefits of Vegan Finger Food…
Big Bruv,RF,Flipper and Colville will be talking Rugby in the corner (which quickly escalates into a Pro Wrestling style brawl).
Monique will get drunk, swear at everyone and take her clothes off.
Stephieboy won’t come- As the Kiwiblog Girls are too old for him.
Realityczech- Well he turns up already shitfaced and kicks the Christmas Tree over yelling something about Jews..
It’s turning into a cracker of a night until Penny turns up waving Mistletoe and making a beeline for David Garrett and his luxurious moustache. This terrifies most of us and we make our excuses and leave- Sadly missing our Gracious host DPF making his grand entrance in D4J’s Glider, dressed as Santa and with presents for all.
*And Dime who had arranged some ‘Adult Entertainment’ for later…

Anyone I missed?
25 1
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 2:38pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  ROFL!
  
  8 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 2:50pm
- stigie
  
  Geez Longknives, how did you forget Nasska and Johnboy..?
  They are worthy of some scripture ole chap !~
  
  14 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 2:51pm
  - Longknives
    
    I forgot about Nasska- Primarily because I’d be avoiding his jokes all night.
    As for Johnboy- Well he probably sneaks off to the Toilets with Lucia Maria…
    
    8 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 5:57pm
- dime
  
  sounds about right!
  
  12 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 4:24pm
- Awww C-mon
  
  that’s gold Longknives.
  
  Jason Johns would be there too but he will be shagging his cousin in the local…
  
  Nostradamus will be there dropping bombs and reminding us all of what we said in 2005
  
  Starboard has said farewell after driving his Vette to the airport to fly back to bangkok, which is code for Evette (MM’s mum) is at his place for a little cock.
  
  MM ? Griff ? Actually, who gives a fuck where they are??
  
  8 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 7:08pm
- Komata
  
  Longknives Re ‘Anyone I’ve missed’? Well, and only cos you asked, there
  are Maggy, Northland Wahine and Waikato girl for starters, and no doubt Starboard would have turned up if he wasn’t already on his way to Bangkok. Had you sent me an invite, I mght have even put in an appearance and would probably have spent time discussing ‘things military’ with Starboard, or with Shauna discussing ‘mining’, Pike River and the ‘Coast…Had Griff appeared he would no doubt have been lecturing us about climate change while floating on the ceiling. Perhaps that’s why he didn’t get an invite?? So many names: so few invitations to the greatest party we never attended (Well, you DID ask…) Perhaps next year…..
  
  5 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 8:55pm
Huevon

An inconclusive election result in Catalonia after the Spanish central government removed secessionists and called for a vote.

https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/12/21/inenglish/1513880840_020831.html

Plus, looks like Jacinda is about to get knocked off the fashion pages by new Catalan leader Inés Arrimadas.
10 0
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 3:13pm
- Inandout
  
  Brains and beauty, a combination Cindy doesn’t possess.
  
  10 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 3:18pm
MH

special vote from Hooray Metiria to come.
3 0
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 3:17pm
Manolo

Obama’s number 1 fan steps aside:
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/21/eric-schmidt-is-stepping-down-as-the-executive-chairman-of-alphabet.html
5 0
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 4:22pm
Rachael Membery

Too old already? Was youth ‘adjacent’ just a few months, or was that an ‘age’ ago.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/100107515/jacinda-ardern-refuses-to-sing-mariah-carey-christmas-song-on-the-edge
8 0
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 5:04pm
nasska

Good news for any of you with a “P” habit.

No more sleeps until Xmas.
15 0
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 5:29pm
- stigie
  
  Bwahahahaha thats gold !!
  
  5 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 8:02pm
realityczech

And the gutless zionist cowards complain about a minor car crash…

Bombs dropped on Muslims last year.

https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_medium/public/thumbnails/image/2017/01/19/10/bombs-obama.png
0 13
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 5:39pm
- Brito
  
  Actually I think you’ll find that the great majority of complainers aren’t Zionist cowards. They’re just ordinary folk trying to live a life and go about their daily activities.
  
  I know…cowardly Zionists are dropping bombs on Muslims going about their business…but two things.
  
  1. Stop trying to kill me.
  2. Stop attacking my gentile friends.
  
  We can all inhabit the same space, breathe the same air and get on with it.
  
  14 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 5:46pm
  - realityczech
    
    Brittle, yes we agree on that. I am not anti Jew/Muslim/Christian – other than the fact I am an atheist. I simply want you lot to stop the killing. And like it or not, our team is doing most of the killing.
    
    Edit: I have no problem with self defense. But none of the countries under attack attacked the USA.
    
    0 10
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 5:52pm
    - Rodney Randall
      
      “minor traffic crash” – czech
      
      Statement of the year.
      
      10 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 6:06pm
      - realityczech
        
        More accurate than your absurd propaganda and lies about who is being attacked you gutless creep.
        
        https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_medium/public/thumbnails/image/2017/01/19/10/bombs-obama.png
        
        0 10
        Report
        December 22, 2017 6:10pm
    - Rachael Membery
      
      No, the world expects the USA to be their policeman.
      
      1 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 11:38pm
- Lance
  
  you are in serious need of those meds realityczech, you are starting to shriek hysterically.
  
  11 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 6:36pm
Pharmachick

Hi all,

my apologies for the 2X post, but I accidentally sent this to yesterday’s GD:

Just wanted to comment on this:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11964676

I feel terrible for this young girl. It was a prank, and a funny one at that. Even the boy that was injured and his Dad didn’t want charges. But the [female] principal of the boys school was, apparently on the warpath.

Kids are kids and teenagers are teenagers. It actually surprised me in this day and age that several girls did this. Thats on them and their license to be themselves.

I’m so tired of the PC bullshit. I’m so sorry this ended up in court. Clearly I am an “old”

Young lady, if you’re reading this: you are a strong, independent young woman, capable of anything. I am sure this court case is stressing you out right now, pleas look forward to your future which will be very bright! I say this based on nothing more than having taught THOUSANDS of university students, and understanding just how far spunk, willingness-to-try, and downright cleverness will get you.
15 1
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 6:50pm
- realityczech
  
  The bitter old man hater was angry that males might have enjoyed perving at attractive women and was willing to have criminal proceedings against the young girls to get revenge.
  
  Lousy photo btw.
  
  12 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 6:55pm
  - SPLOOGE
    
    The full video can be seen at davidgarret.co.nz/videos
    
    1 17
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 7:02pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Doubt it was done to provide a ‘perv’, why can’t it have been for their own validation and the males were just there.
    
    Good on the father.
    
    It might surprise some men but women do not need male validation!!! Sometimes you are just peripheral and a lucky recipient of a f… it female moment. 😉
    
    2 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 23, 2017 12:16am
nasska

….”But the [female] principal of the boys school was, apparently on the warpath.”…..

Humourless bitch!
12 1
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 7:03pm
SPLOOGE

It was clearly a case of ”tits ouut for the lads”
And the gash on the lad’s leg is probably the only gash he’s gonna see after agreeing to co-operate with the police.
1 17
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 7:07pm
- nasska
  
  If there’s any justice left in this world he’ll die a virgin.
  
  7 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 7:11pm
  - SPLOOGE
    
    The repeated assaults by then Prime Minister John Key on young women went unpunished and yet this young woman has an accident and gets charged.
    There is no justice in this world.
    
    0 23
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 7:15pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  For goodness sake he just didn’t get out of the way fast enough. I am sure he thought that it was all worth it, as no permanent injury.
  The police do not need his co-operation to lay a charge.
  The Principal probably has to make a stand, you know health and safety, she has now done her bit and it is up to the powers that be to mete out what should (with luck) be something cautionary.
  He will be able to dine out on that story for years and scars always make a man look more interesting.
  
  1 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 23, 2017 12:23am
RF

If I was the commie chic I would be very worried that so many people have an intense dislike for her. A new incoming Govt usually gets a free ride as punters evaluate their new policies.

In addition a new PM usually breaths through their nose for the first 6 months. During this time they plan their policies.

I just cannot believe that in a few months this bunch of clowns has virtually pissed all of Nationals surplus against the wall.

I lay the blame at feet of the stupid bitch who is intent on turning us into another communist
state.

FFS with her and the drunken dwarf at the helm we are in deep shit. Our former allies will not want to know us.
17 0
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 7:20pm
- SPLOOGE
  
  Ohhh get over yourself. Your side lost because they burnt all their bridges and have no friends.
  You bitter and twisted fuck..
  Bahahaaaa.
  I love the pain you guys have…..Sucks to lose.
  ahhh. And ‘diddums’
  
  0 23
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 7:23pm
  - Happychappy
    
    Go and crawl back under the rock you came from cockroach no one cares what fuckwits like you have to say.
    
    18 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 7:41pm
    - SPLOOGE
      
      You do.
      You love me, you adore me you want me naked beside you.
      
      0 19
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 7:56pm
      - Awww C-mon
        
        Freak show
        
        11 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 8:01pm
      - stigie
        
        Oh gawd, Splurge wants to be loved by a bloke !~
        
        9 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 8:08pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Watch out Stigie – Splooge is coming out of the closest!
        
        9 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 8:14pm
      - stigie
        
        This is one time i am not taking one for the team Nostra ole chap..?
        
        10 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 8:18pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Sore winners are so much sadder than sore losers. Guess what, most people that supported National, from my observations, do not feel like they lost.
    
    5 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 23, 2017 12:25am
- SPLOOGE
  
  Don’t forget that the previous Labour Govt delivered 8 straight surpluses AND paid of the debt that the previous National Govt burdened on us whilst the Key Govt promptly ran 8 deficits in a row while maintaining we had a rock star economy.
  Fuck me dead. There’s none as blind as they who will not see.
  Ohhh and our PRIME MINISTER is still Jacinda Ardern.
  
  0 24
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 7:36pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Labour still had debt when they left and frankly there’s no comparison in terms of skill levels between Labour today and that of Clarks Government.
    Watching the current Lot is highly amusing. I’m enjoying it very much.
    I doubt they will do much damage. They’re far too incompetent!!!
    LOL
    
    12 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 7:58pm
    - SPLOOGE
      
      Well you would say that wouldn’t you.
      The way I see it is a time for balance and fairness is needed and if she wants a fairer society then I’m all for it.
      The nasty and spiteful politics that people have endured for the last nine years had to stop. Increasing inequality, rising violence, poverty and jail numbers are what National managed while in power.
      Enough of that.
      We have a government now that is socially responsible and not prepared to cower to big business.
      So yeah. Eat shit.
      
      2 17
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 8:05pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Well, that’s a nice citation free litany of lies.
        Quite the ignorant moron aren’t you.
        Oh, and not short of nasty comments yourself huh.
        As I said, it’s funny to watch.judging by your screaming I think you know they’re hopeless too!
        So funny.
        
        11 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 8:14pm
      - Happychappy
        
        You have a Government that is out of its depth looking after bludgers like you. We had idiots like you creating hate when National were the Government and fuckwit like you sturring up the blogs, no one asked you to come and post your spew so fuck off to the hole you crawled from.
        
        13 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 8:16pm
      - SPLOOGE
        
        The odour of pain and despair is palpable.
        I feel not your hurt but revel in your misery.
        
        1 18
        Report
        December 22, 2017 8:31pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Ha, you want to think that, but are in complete denial and shock that none of us actually feel that way.
        As I said. I’m enjoying it.
        One. Fuck up.After. Another.
        How’s Clare Curran going?
        Bwhahahahahahahahahahah
        
        15 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 8:35pm
      - SPLOOGE
        
        Ohh dear me.
        
        ”Ha, you want to think that, but are in complete denial and shock that none of us actually feel that way.
        As I said. I’m enjoying it.
        One. Fuck up.After. Another.
        How’s Clare Curran going?
        Bwhahahahahahahahahahah”
        
        What incoherent waffle.
        Put the bottle down and be thought the fool etc etc…
        
        1 17
        Report
        December 22, 2017 8:52pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Oh, haven’t you heard the latest about Curran breaching Cabinet Rules – twice.
        Dear oh dear.
        She should be made to resign but it’s Labour of course.
        No standards and Ardern is weak.
        
        13 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 9:11pm
      - SPLOOGE
        
        No All in Red I haven’t heard that.
        All I’m hearing is the squealing of a little weasel, the sort of sniveling little twerp that would have experienced the ‘bog wash’ at school, the underwear thief, the creep.
        
        0 16
        Report
        December 22, 2017 9:27pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Triggered!
        Getting to you are we. And all we are doing is telling you how it is.
        What’s tomorrow’s disaster going to be for Labour?
        So funny.
        Keep coming back Splooge. We all enjoy laughing at you.
        
        12 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 9:30pm
      - SPLOOGE
        
        Ahhh. The ‘triggered’ accusation.
        What’s next, accusations of paedophilia?
        You’re already scraping the bottom of the barrel lad.
        Just how low can you go?
        
        0 15
        Report
        December 22, 2017 9:33pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        All I’m hearing is the squealing of a little weasel, the sort of sniveling little twerp that would have experienced the ‘bog wash’ at school, the underwear thief, the creep’
        
        The nasty and spiteful politics that people have endured for the last nine years had to stop. ‘
        
        Well. That post hasn’t aged well.
        Poor triggered hypocrite snowflake
        Lol.
        
        10 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 9:37pm
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Wed , the 23rd September yielded a result not to you’re liking .Need it degenerate into your twisted bitterness ?
        
        Speaking of litany of lies as you well know your master is a supremo in that regards . Again shall we go through them one at time .
        
        He claimed the opposed the war in Iraq 2003 . False
        The same with the bombing of Libya 2011 False
        
        Now you carry on It should be so easy peasy .
        
        Or…… ?
        
        0 14
        Report
        December 22, 2017 9:42pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Oh my gosh.
        Splooge says the magic words ‘creep’ ‘underwear thief’ and ‘Paedophilia’ and look who arrives!
        
        12 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 9:47pm
      - stephieboy
        
        https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b5/45/85/b5458542bc6c5a6a994949ae9a3b3ae5.jpg
        
        0 9
        Report
        December 22, 2017 10:03pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Here you go mate.
        Maybe try and make a fresh start in the New Year and get some help
        https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-stop-being-a-pervert
        
        7 0
        Report
        December 22, 2017 10:08pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Go and see your Doctor as matter of urgency !
        
        0 12
        Report
        December 22, 2017 10:18pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Predatory conductor…
http://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2125410/opera-singers-and-musician-say-famed-conductor-charles-dutoit

and another
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/03/arts/music/james-levine-met-opera.html
6 0
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 7:29pm
realityczech

Vatican and Pope celebrate child rapist with full honours.

“Survivors of child sexual assault in Boston, who were first betrayed by Law’s cover-up of sex crimes and then doubly betrayed by his subsequent promotion to Rome, were those most hurt. No words can convey the pain these survivors and their loved ones suffered. Every single Catholic should ask Pope Francis and the Vatican why. Why Law’s life was so celebrated when Boston’s clergy sex abuse survivors suffered so greatly? Why was Law promoted when Boston’s Catholic children were sexually abused, ignored, and pushed aside time and time again?”

http://uproxx.com/news/cardinal-bernard-law-vatican-funeral/
3 4
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 7:29pm
- nasska
  
  ….”Why Law’s life was so celebrated when Boston’s clergy sex abuse survivors suffered so greatly?”…..
  
  You are confused. You think that the purpose of the Catholic Church is to act as an intercessor between God & his flock.
  
  Whereas its prime function is to provide prepubescent & teenage sex organs for abuse by the clergy.
  
  9 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 7:41pm
  - realityczech
    
    Yes and to think we have cult members right here on KB defending their atrocities.
    
    2 3
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 7:44pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      That’s coz they are old..
      
      doncha know that the young folk are the hope of the Church and 2018 will be wondafill?
      http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-22/catholic-church-writes-off-2017/9283172
      
      5 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 9:57pm
  - GoVege
    
    And teach women their “place”, like most religions….
    
    2 4
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 10:58pm
SPLOOGE

I for one here would like to wish our PRIME MINISTER Jacinda Ardern a happy holidays and may she have a restful time. Golly gosh, she needs it.
And to Simon English, the double dipper from Dipton and a loser who still managed to lose another election despite after doubling his previous party vote…..rub on the lotion.

Cheers guys.
0 18
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 8:56pm
- stigie
  
  “..rub on the lotion. ”
  
  Yep, coming out of the closet alright !~
  
  10 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 9:03pm
  - nasska
    
    He’s obviously a townie stigie. Were he had the good fortune to experience a rural upbringing he would come out of the closet clutching a jar of mutton fat.
    
    None of this poofy “lotion”. 🙂
    
    8 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 22, 2017 9:13pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      I think the “poofy” part is already established, Nasska?
      
      8 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      December 22, 2017 9:21pm
      - stigie
        
        If you own an Audi, mutton fat is out of the question. Only this sweet smelling lotion for the poofs !~
        
        8 1
        Report
        December 22, 2017 9:29pm
      - SPLOOGE
        
        Ohh. I’ll choose a shoulder of mutton slow cooked over a leg of lamb any day.
        
        1 9
        Report
        December 22, 2017 9:41pm
- Harkman
  
  Who’s “Simon English?”
  
  5 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 22, 2017 9:49pm
  - SPLOOGE
    
    Simon William English…that bloke who loses elections for the National party. You might know him as the Double dipper from Dipton.
    
    1 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    December 23, 2017 10:01am
- Digmen1
  
  You mean a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and Golly Golriz she’s going to need it.
  
  6 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 23, 2017 12:27am
Nookin

Sad to see Ken Catchpole pass on.
2 1
Log in to Reply
Report
December 22, 2017 10:33pm
Monique Watson

Russia is in on the Bloody Nose Operation. It’s Game On. And the Black Guards have been deployed.
1 0
Log in to Reply
Report
December 23, 2017 12:18am
Manolo

Stop complaining and go back to Mexico, you hack!
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/latino/kathleen-krumhansl/2017/12/20/jorge-ramos-says-hes-now-having-worst-time-his-life-us
1 0
Log in to Reply
Report
December 23, 2017 6:56am
- realityczech
  
  The dirty animal Obama deported more spics than any other president in history. He patrolled the boarder with attack dogs, drones and armed patrols. Thousands of spics died including entire families.
  
  “The US Border Patrol agency has engineered the death and disappearance of tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants by using the desert wilderness as a “weapon”, according to an advocacy group.”
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/07/report-us-border-patrol-desert-weapon-immigrants-mexico
  
  3 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  December 23, 2017 7:23am

Add a Comment Cancel reply

Login to comment or vote

« The nasty BDS crowd target Lorde

Supreme Court rules against Wellington Airport »

Donations

You can now donate to Kiwiblog

Exclusive content from DPF on Patreon

Become a Patron!

Never miss a post

Email Address

Join 37.4K other subscribers

Highlights

Health Target 5 – elective treatments
Health Target 4 – Specialist appointments
Health Target 3 – Emergency Dept Waiting Times
Health Target 2 – Immunisations

Links

D-day for the government
No Right Turn
15 YEARS AGO: Now a more bigoted state
Not PC
Upheaval in the House after haka holds up vote on Treaty Principles Bill – and one Maori Party “no” vote was not counted
Point of Order
Daily review 14/11/2024
The Standard
TDB Daily Reading List 14th November 2024 – Best NZ Left, Independent and Progressive Politics opinion daily reading list
The Daily Blog
A NEW DEGREE COURSE FOR MASSEY
No Punches Pulled (Bob Jones)
Word of the day
Hompaddock
Greenpeace And The Green Party Would Never Tell You This About Penguins.
No Minister
A Day of Reckoning
NZCPR
Trump’s victory: Golden age or fiscal reckoning?
Utopia
“Trans & Pregnant” – Biology trumps gender ideology
Bob McCoskrie's McBlog
Media Link: “A View from Afar” on the US elections.
Kiwipolitico
This will not end well
Offsetting Behaviour
Top 14 Predictions for Round 10
Stats Chat
Pretty (il)legal
Croaking Cassandra
Tory Whanau may have to sell Wellington mayoralty to make ends meet
The Civilian
The Accidental Engagement
Imperator Fish
Legal Beagle: Election '23: The Special Votes
Public Address
Making this movie might have been a mistake
Liam Hehir
Why I am retiring from political blogging
Kiwi FireWalker
Angie Warren-Clark: Meet the Newbies
Dan Moskovitz