General Debate 20 April 2018

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RalphT

Woo Hoo!
50 million trees not planted and sometime next week it will be 5,000 houses not built. It’s time to party and celebrate the success of this wonderful, united, government.
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April 20, 2018 8:01am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  ummm, absolutely and utterly amazing!
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:13am
- holysheet
  
  I perfected my time machine and couldn’t wait to try it out, so I set it for 50 years into the future, when I got there I couldn’t believe it it, flying cars, no illness, no wars or hunger, the world was finally at peace.
  Oh, and the 1 billion trees still haven’t been planted.
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:13am
  - hullkiwi
    
    What about poverdee? Had it been solved, or was that just another Taxcinda lie?
    
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    April 20, 2018 8:25am
    - starboard
      
      “more jacinda dust needed over here thanks, I saw a young Maori boy barefoot walking to school”
      
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      April 20, 2018 8:34am
      - pdm
        
        Starboard when I started school in the early 1950’s almost all of the boys went to school barefeet – maori and pakeha, summer and winter..
        
        Why – because they wanted to.
        
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        April 20, 2018 11:06am
    - fluffykiwi
      
      When they looked at the books it wasn’t as bad as they found, they are doing something about it to give truth to their statements.
      
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      April 20, 2018 8:37am
- hullkiwi
  
  As it is the season Shane.
  
  Whoo Hoo, show us our $1billion.
  
  Pork barrel waster!
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:22am
- Humble Capitalist
  
  Let’s not jump to conclusions without having a conversation about these aspirational targets
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:34am
- fluffykiwi
  
  At least they are not cutting down any of the existing trees to build any of the Kiwibuild houses, so is that a positive?
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:39am
KiWombat

Earlier today the clock ticked over to 50,000,000 trees – so we are half way through the first year of regional tree planting mania.

We’ve seen lots of stories and discussions, and multiple millions of dollars “invested” – but we are yet to see tree number one !

Time to put your money where your mouth is Shane – show us the trees – time to put up or shut up !
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April 20, 2018 8:01am
- holysheet
  
  YOUR MONEY, YOUR MONEY?
  fuck off, it’s our money you numbskull.
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:06am
- Humble Capitalist
  
  I’ve planted more new trees than this government in my lunch break
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:36am
  - Don the Kiwi
    
    Yes, in the last 3 months, I have planted 2 trees – not pine though, china doll trees, so that when they flower the birds will be attracted to the seeds – mainly rosella parrots.
    But I’m still well ahead of Shame Jones.
    
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    April 20, 2018 10:46am
- RF
  
  Shane has picked up a new word that he now slips into conversations. Dross.
  
  His tree planting is on hold whilst he seeks out new words.
  
  Priorities old chap….
  
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  April 20, 2018 9:35am
- simpleton1
  
  Myrtle Rust tree killer.
  “native species such as pōhutukawa, mānuka, rātā and kānuka, but also swamp maire and ramarama, as well as commercially-grown species such as eucalyptus.” and possibly more.
  
  Will they even get to a pace that will match the death and dying of the Myrtle Rust Tree slaughter?.
  Then there is the slaughter of kauri.
  
  So a first tree planted, has been lost by thousands of tree deaths.
  
  Trees are dying, while some are lying.
  
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  April 20, 2018 10:26am
  - gonzo
    
    I like your last sentence ?. Very Bob Dylan!
    
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    April 20, 2018 10:50am
Maxx

It appears this Governments attacks on the farming sector are going to be as bad for them as it has been for the Oil & Gas sector.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-country/news/article.cfm?c_id=16&objectid=12035744

Time for farmers to put together a political party to combat the nonsense! With 120,000 people directly employed in the sector and then all of those secondary but with an interest in the sector, the pool of potential voters is huge and at the least gives them a strong stage to push the good work that they are doing!
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April 20, 2018 8:03am
- Gravelroad
  
  Shaw is a patronising twat.
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:12am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Kimbos law sort of; Shaw is a twat would have done it!
    
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    April 20, 2018 8:15am
    - Gravelroad
      
      Having read the linked story provided by Maxx -especially the last para – I will keep with patronising thanks.
      
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      April 20, 2018 8:18am
    - Kimbo
      
      Thank you for helping Kimbo’s law achieve internet meme status. ?
      
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      April 20, 2018 8:53am
      - RF
        
        How about Kimbo’s oil.
        
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        April 20, 2018 12:19pm
      - Kimbo
        
        @ RF
        
        Thanks, but no. For Kimbo’s law to achieve internet meme status, the marketing campaign must remain focused, and eschew dissipation, dilution and confusion of the brand.
        
        Nonetheless, your suggestion has been noted, and if and when Kimbo’s law reaches the franchising stage, then we can contemplate diversification. ?
        
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        April 20, 2018 12:25pm
    - rangitoto
      
      How about utterly, absolutely, certainly a patronising twat.
      
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      April 20, 2018 9:57am
      - Kimbo
        
        Now, you do know, in the fine print of Kimbo’s law, that satirical and/or hyperbolic use of emphatic adverbs is an exception?
        
        Nonetheless I thank you too for helping Kimbo’s law achieve internet meme status. ?
        
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        April 20, 2018 12:23pm
    - itstricky
      
      Don’t think I agree that this is a occurence of Kimbo’s Law ™. Not all twats are patronising twats. So ‘patronising’ was being used in a descriptive sense, not an emphatic one.
      
      If it is, then Kimbo may need adjust the law for personal taste.
      
      rangitoto’s is though.
      
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      April 20, 2018 10:06am
  - Paulus
    
    But Shaw and his communist party hold the whip hand as they can bring down the COL anytime they want.
    They are a far greater danger to New Zealand than even Labour are.
    
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    April 20, 2018 1:37pm
- DifferentPerspective
  
  The Provincial Party
  or
  The Rural Party
  or
  NZ’s major export industry party
  or
  FTG party (Fuck the Greens)
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:17am
  - Maxx
    
    The Provincial Party or TPP
    
    The protestors wouldn’t even need to update their placards!
    
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    April 20, 2018 8:37am
  - Happychappy
    
    That amount of parties would give you a real choice for who you could vote for next election and save you from having to vote for the Messiah.
    
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    April 20, 2018 8:39am
    - DifferentPerspective
      
      Poor you! I didn’t do as you instructed and you are never going to get over not having got your own way.
      
      I take some small satisfaction from knowing that it burns you so much. 🙂
      
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      April 20, 2018 2:37pm
- Sideoiler
  
  ….Time for farmers to put together a political party to combat the nonsense!….
  
  It used to be called the National Party, I wonder what ever became of them?
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:29am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Yes, well that’s the million dollar question, isn’t it?
    National has distanced itself from rural/provincial – not just farmers.
    They have bought into the socialist/Green/elite urban rhetoric that land use for food, fibre and milk production (although not wine of course) is essentially bad on a commercial level for the environment.
    Our own provincial MP here said as much during the last election campaign. It was noted.
    
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    April 20, 2018 8:43am
  - Maxx
    
    Well, the proportion that the rural sector contributes to the rural sector has decreased from around 15% of GDP in 1960 to around 5% today so I can understand that the Nats have to have a more generalist approach.
    
    And a farmers party would poach a significant amount of Nats support but would give them a strong support partner and the ability to separate issues.
    
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    April 20, 2018 8:47am
- hullkiwi
  
  That is one attack. The other is Environment Minister Parker.
  
  Apparently, the CoL are saying the biggest threat to NZ agriculture is not urban sprawl, but the life style block. Their evidence Pukekohe. They are wanting councils to ban farmers breaking up and sub dividing their land.
  
  Do these dipsticks have a clue about what a lifestyle block is or how we use our land?
  
  For most farming families their land is their retirement planning, and then for the government to tell them how they can use their asset. There is a word for this, it is Communism.
  
  So, much for democracy!
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:38am
- VicParking
  
  The problem with a right leaning organisation or group starting a new political party is “where are the votes coming from?” Not from Labour and other than them the rest are fringe (5%+/-) except for National and that sort of defeats the purpose.
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:41am
  - hullkiwi
    
    They will come from National rural, but there is also an opportunity to annihilate NZF & pick up disaffected Labour votes in provincial NZ.
    
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    April 20, 2018 8:55am
  - waikatogirl
    
    The Common Sense Party. However much virtue signalling this CoL do, you cannot run a country on naivety and feelz.
    
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    April 20, 2018 9:43am
  - chuk
    
    Electoral vote to the new party and party vote National perhaps?
    
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    April 20, 2018 10:37am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  A provincial party could run two divisions, an electorate candidate only party and a party vote only party. Double their power.
  
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  April 20, 2018 10:58am
- pdm
  
  Farmers used to have a party – known as the National Party.
  
  It is now Labour Lite!!!
  
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  April 20, 2018 11:13am
- Piniwi
  
  Right Maxx a Country Party has a nice ring to it ad not as pretentious as NZF.
  
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  April 20, 2018 4:32pm
duggledog

Anybody still unsure about TVNZ’s direction, or complete and utter disconnect with / disdain for the public only need to switch on TV1 at seven pm weekdays

I’d say Hilary Barry and Anika Moa on Seven Sharp are about the shittest thing I’ve ever seen, and I have seen more shit than the Rosedale sewage treatment plant

TVNZ Modus Operandi –

Find the one person(s), completely at odds with NZ mainstream society and hire them. Controversial! = Viewers!

As if former Green Party candidate Hayley Holt wasn’t enough.

TVNZ has lost the plot. No wonder Curran wants to kill it.
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April 20, 2018 8:03am
- RalphT
  
  The one thing that might make me want to hang on to TVNZ is that Curran wants to kill it…
  
  However bad TVNZ is (and you can’t get much worse than Hilary and Anika), if the alternative is Radio NZ on screen I’ll take the devil I know.
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:15am
  - MrLovebucket
    
    Curren only wants to kill it because, while TV1 is left leaning, it doesn’t lean left enough for her.
    
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    April 20, 2018 9:04am
- Gravelroad
  
  Hilary Barry is embarrassing and cringe inducing.
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:15am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Can’t watch the cringeworthy duo on 7S. Dumbed down so much it is embarrassing. Changing the channel the other day and caught Haley Holt on TV1 Breakfast pulling a dramatic face over some very ordinary announcement. That was enough to remind me not to bother there either.
    
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    April 20, 2018 8:20am
  - lifesgood
    
    And Anika is just straight out trash covered in tramp stamps.
    
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    April 20, 2018 8:39am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  I have never watched Barry and Moa and never intend to.
  I’ve heard enough.
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:34am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  TV ratings secret?
  
  Just out of interest I went to see if I could see how Seven Sharp viewing figures compares for:
  – when Mike Hosking was there
  – after Mike left
  – when Moa joined
  
  But nothing, nada, nil, zip. At all!
  
  Isn’t it weird that there isn’t a way to find out how many of the public are viewing publicly funded TV? Of course I could do a frigging OIA and get the run around from the Minister for Secrecy’s office and I might find out eventually.
  
  But given other countries can just go help themselves online without having to buy OUR data from Nielsen’s – here’s what you can get in Britain!
  
  And once you decide what type of viewing figures you want, you can then refine your search down to just about any level of detail!
  
  I suspect the absence of any accessible information is because the numbers are now so low that it is a deliberate ploy to keep the generally hard-left TV personalities in their over-paid and under-performing jobs at our expense.
  
  The only info I could find on NZ TV viewership is for NZ On Air. But it appears to be only for the programming they fund. And looking at the paltry viewership – I’d say it’s long overdue for winding it down and saving well over $130 million wasted on giving pathetic media luvvies a living. Number 10 on their top viewing is garnering a massive 26,600 viewers – what a fucking joke.
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:51am
  - Harkman
    
    I tried to check the viewership as well and also found diddly-squat.
    
    I’m usually cooking when it comes on so it takes 5 minutes to get near a remote. But where the hell is newsboy? He works 6 weeks, then takes 3 weeks off.
    
    How did they choose Anika “I don’t like white people” Moa. Imagine if they got a white guy on who said something racist. Not a chance.
    
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    April 20, 2018 9:35am
    - Piniwi
      
      @Harkman It was for balance in this new age with a girl and dyke while most note the irony of it being called 7 Sharp fronted by two of the bluntest implements in the drawer. Or should that be two blunt implements in drawers?
      
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      April 20, 2018 9:43pm
- KKKKatee
  
  If you think Hilary Barry is shitty – take a look at her Twitter feed. And Anika Moa – she’s one scary as hell dyke that I can make out. Utterly crude. Seven Sharp has now turned into a very shitty programme and The Project is full of the coolest lefties you’re ever likely to see – their perception, not mine. So if I’m in charge of the remote (which I’m not when the husband is in he room) I catch up on recorded programmes. Otherwise, I’ll catch up on what’s been going on in this blog.
  
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  April 20, 2018 9:24am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Why aren’t you in charge of the TV remote when your husband is in the room, KKKK?
    Bedder get your own TV.
    
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    April 20, 2018 9:42am
    - KKKKatee
      
      It’s a man thing! Besides I can catch up
      on stuff on TV in demand and then there’s always this blog to peruse. It’s called matrimonial harmony. I just can’t stomach Seven Sharp or The Project. Outgrown them one could say.
      
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      April 20, 2018 11:23am
  - KevOB
    
    Don’t watch it.
    TVNZ programming is mostly rubbish and would go unmissed. NZ Truth and The Standard outdid it.
    
    Why are taxpayers paying for TVNZ drivel?
    
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    April 20, 2018 11:37am
- kowtow
  
  For 3 nights in a row they have pushed the Israel Folau beat up.
  
  He was set up by some prick asking the question and he simply gave his version of Christian doctrine in reply.
  
  Now he’s a target of the scummy media who want to keep the “controversy ” going.
  
  If the scum don’t like the answer , don’t ask the question.
  
  Any scum prepared to put the same question to some beardy high profile Mo sportsman?
  
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  April 20, 2018 9:42am
  - KKKKatee
    
    And Hilary says on Twitter – “If Israel, Maria and Brian are an ad for heaven I might opt for the other one”. It got 2090 Ikes, 308 retweets and 98 replies.
    One tweeter replies “Hilary, Izzy Folau only answered a question with what he has read in the Bible. He has never personally said he is anti gay people or anyone for that matter. He does not deserve all the hate he is getting”. Thank goodness for someone being able to sift the wheat from the chaff. The rest of the replies were all about bashing the crap out of Folau. Nice on Barry.
    
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    April 20, 2018 10:25am
  - GoVege
    
    But Jesus told his followers to “turn the other cheek”, Kimbo.
    Not that many of them actually follow his teachings….
    
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    April 20, 2018 10:42am
    - Politburo of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Aotearoa
      
      Indeed comrade GoVege!
      Dear Leader is most pleased with your efforts fighting intolerance and bigotry, let nothing sway you from the glorious truth and I will recommend you for reassignment to the Politburo – we need more single minded, unswerving comrades such as your self to keep the plebs in line.
      Carry on Comrade, carry on.
      
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      April 20, 2018 10:53am
      - GoVege
        
        I’m just another filthy capitalist like your sweet self, PDPRA… 🙂
        
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        April 20, 2018 5:55pm
    - Kimbo
      
      @ GoVege
      
      But Jesus told his followers to “turn the other cheek”, Kimbo.
      Not that many of them actually follow his teachings….
      
      But kowtow, to whom you replied, is not me.
      
      As I suggested before, yet more evidence you are careless and inattentive when reading and considering the words of others.
      
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      April 20, 2018 12:42pm
      - GoVege
        
        They both start with K don’t they?
        Stop making assumptions!
        
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        April 20, 2018 5:57pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Going by your efforts today, that’s about the best attempt at logic you’ve achieved thus far.
        
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        April 20, 2018 6:13pm
- alloytoo
  
  Not to spoil the hate-fest, but Hillary and Anika have both been rather snarky about Jacinda in the past couple of evenings.
  
  One would imagine she would be their darling, but apparently not.
  
  I of course only watch for the Tim Wilson segments and pumpkin smashing.
  
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  April 20, 2018 10:02am
waikatogirl

Meanwhile where are Shane and Winnie on the cancelling by Twitford of the promised Northland highway. More money for Auckland light-rail. That will fix the roading problems up north, eh Shane.

Useless. ?
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April 20, 2018 8:04am
- Tarquin North
  
  Winston first used to be quite popular up here. Now days they should be able to hold members get togethers in a phone box.
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:08am
  - lilman
    
    You wanted Winston,so dont moan.
    
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    April 20, 2018 8:53am
  - Paulus
    
    Winston is in London at the Foreign Ministers section of CHOGM – but has not met the Queen yet !
    
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    April 20, 2018 1:42pm
- holysheet
  
  Shane has got the short mechanic on call to lend him one of our choppers to get him home at any time. The rest of us have to suffer.
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:10am
- MCos
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  From what I understand National promised to build a four lane expressway with median barrier from Auckland clear through to Whangarei.
  This is clearly absurd and it should be no surprise to anyone that it’s been scrapped.
  There are two hazardous stretches of the road that need upgrading; the Dome Valley & the Brynderwyns and two bottlenecks at Warkworth & Wellsford.
  One would have thought improving those areas is going to cost megabucks to start with and take a long time due to availability of road building resources.
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:28am
  - waikatogirl
    
    So instead Twitford promises more passing lanes and slow vehicle bays on the existing north bound bottlenecks. In other words Phil, lots of roadwork delays but not much change. This won’t make a bean of a difference to the frustration of drivers and hence the road toll. ? ? ? ? ? ? ??? ?
    
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    April 20, 2018 8:37am
    - Piniwi
      
      While waikatogirl there has just been a triple fatality where an innocent couple were taken out by a feral driver crossing the centreline ON A BRIDGE. He died too so will only be called to answer to higher a power while we will hear what a lovely soul be was.
      
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      April 20, 2018 9:51pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Don’t talk shit MCos. What about all the fatal crashes that happen between the bottom of the Brynderwyns and Whangarei?
    This road would have been the economic saviour for Northland and Labour are killing it.
    What fucking planet are these idiots on?
    
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    April 20, 2018 8:38am
    - KevOB
      
      What about Poohbah’s responsibility as Minister of Fianance to prevent wasteful spending and damage to economic regional development?
      
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      April 20, 2018 11:44am
    - Piniwi
      
      Right CM so this major step towards helping Northland grow has been scrapped for a yet to be figured out diversion of funding yet to be determined will be spent in the regions. Judith Collins had Twyford on the ropes pressing him for some numbers and the best he could find was some perceived number of lives that will be saved. So far we have been told more about what they will not be doing than what they actually will do or even how much will be left after health gets a big boost in the budget.
      
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      April 20, 2018 10:00pm
  - Lance
    
    So you admit it MCos, Labour hate Northland-ers.
    There is no hope Whangarei will ever grow
    The holiday highway is gone by lunchtime.
    
    Nice
    
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    April 20, 2018 9:19am
    - itstricky
      
      S/he proposes that black spots be prioritised over growth and there’s no counter argument or rational discussion, just “that proves you hate Northlanders”?
      
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      April 20, 2018 10:01am
      - hullkiwi
        
        So do you want to explain why the government killed off extending the expressway to Whangarei on the deadliest piece of State Highway in the country, while preaching road safety?
        
        Please Don’t use the glib phrases of Twitford either, because despite meeting with Northland local council politicians last week, he demonstrated on RNZ yesterday that he is woefully ignorant on transport matters.
        
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        April 20, 2018 11:24am
  - hullkiwi
    
    By your ignorant comment, I take it you do not know SH1 between Warkworth & Whangarei very well, if at all?
    
    Your comment ranks alongside Twitford’s (yesterday on RNZ) with regards to being ignoant of what that highway needs. If you think I am exaggerating, drive the road and note:
    1. The condition of the highway Whangarei to Waipu (relative to traffic type & volume);
    2. The Brenderwyns (southern approach) & side to Kaiwaka;
    3. The road through Kaiwaka, plus the rail overbridge;
    4. The road through TeHana;
    5. The road through Wellsford;
    6. As for the Dome Valley – the need is for a complete new road – there are points that need complete realignment on the existing road. So, small projects as suggested will be poor value for money & a waste.
    
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    April 20, 2018 9:33am
    - MCos
      
      I drive through there on a regular basis. The last time at Easter when we were bogged down in traffic returning through Warkworth on the way back on the Sunday.
      Some of your points I noted in my comment above.
      I realize there are other places where there is the inconvenience of SH1 passing through some small towns. This happens with our main highways through the length and breadth of the country so suck it up.
      
      I wouldn’t have a clue whether ‘Labour hates Northland’, Lance, any more than you do. Hate Northland, that is.
      
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      April 20, 2018 10:04am
      - hullkiwi
        
        MCos, I repeat you seem somewhat ignorant of SH1 north of Auckland.
        
        In 2021, SH1 will go around Warkworth, although this will not solve all the issues on Warkworth (Hill St will be one an AT problem).
        
        The Dome Valley stretch of SH1 is problematic, it is the deadliest piece of State Highway in the country, what Twitford has suggested is akin to pissing in the wind. There are 2 stretches of this piece of road where there is nowhere to go (in one narrow section there is a hill that comes to the road on the east side & the river & rail line to the west). To spend the sums the government is suggesting in these places is a waste of money, will fix very little & is therefore poor value for money.
        By the way, I specialise in the transport sector & live in the area, so I know the roads in the north very well.
        
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        April 20, 2018 10:31am
      - MCos
        
        I didn’t say I agreed with Twyford, except that I don’t believe a two lanes each way all the way to Whangarei with a media barrier is a practical proposition.
        Do you?
        
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        April 20, 2018 11:14am
      - hullkiwi
        
        Given traffic volumes, yes a 4 lane expressway is warranted.
        
        Secondly, it was JAG(uar) who escalated road safety to top priority, the best way to reduce head on crashes is to have grade separated highways. As I have said, the current road is too narrow to achieve this in the most dangerous blackspots & you can hardly achieve that in the middle of Wellsford, TeHana & Kaiwaka.
        
        Reality is, JAG(uar) & her support/advisors have long wanted to kill off the RON’S & the expressways. This is their chance & they are using spurious reasoning with Twitford parroting any phrase he is given to repeat.
        
        Finally, do you think it is right that the people of Northland pay through the nose for Auckland to be blessed with transport projects that will provide dubious benefits? And do nothing to solve any of “The problems” that Auckland transport is suffering from?
        Because despite the rhetoric of Cindy & Twitford Auckland transport is not “a basket case!”
        
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        April 20, 2018 11:48am
- hullkiwi
  
  What do you mean they are getting $5mill for a roundabout (South of Whangarei) from SH1 & an upgraded road to the port.
  
  As the works will cost more than $5mill, the rest will come from the Regional Council.
  
  Meanwhile, Dome Valley will remain the deadliest piece of SH1 in the country.
  
  Thanks to all those morons who voted for the poisoned dwarf & his party in the north & gave us 5 parasitic NZF MPs in Northland. We will now pay through the nose for petrol, while money even more money will be squandered on vanity projects in Auckland.
  
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  April 20, 2018 9:08am
  - waikatogirl
    
    New round-about outside Shane’s house. Odd coincidence? Stuff everyone else.
    
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    April 20, 2018 10:13am
    - hullkiwi
      
      Quite. No pork barrel then?
      
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      April 20, 2018 10:33am
Andrei

Mark it down – Monday the 7th of May 2018.

Why spend the evening being abused by your favourite dominatrix when you can spend your hard earned money on this torment
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April 20, 2018 8:05am
- Dafixeruppa
  
  You need to mark things like this as NSFW… or at least not safe for reading over coffee. Vomit inducing material.???
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:11am
  - CHFR1
    
    Oh well we know where our PM will be on that night then, an audience with her hero.
    
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    April 20, 2018 8:24am
    - KKKKatee
      
      It’s my birthday! Oh no!
      
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      April 20, 2018 11:25am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Yup….Couldn’t resist looking and now wish I hadn’t, should’ve taken your warning.
    
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    April 20, 2018 8:55am
- KevOB
  
  Cancel her Visa and hold her on Ward Island.
  
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  April 20, 2018 11:50am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    With all the fowl gas…White Island
    
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    April 20, 2018 4:20pm
cas

Two random thoughts.
1 Has Labour put the price of petrol up stealthily already? My local station has the price for 91 suspiciously increased by 3 cents a litre in the past week.
2 Where does Nicky Hager earn his income from? Royalties from his books must be minimal.
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April 20, 2018 8:11am
- sooty
  
  Trust Fund.
  His parents worked. He don’t!
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:15am
- tf78
  
  Oil has reached about US$67/barrel, up from $50 so it was just a matter of time before it hit the pumps. You can look forward to higher prices again with the new fuel tax.
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:35am
- KiWombat
  
  I watch the price of diesel rather than petrol cas. Last November I bought diesel for .947cpl – right now I’m paying around $1-30. So within 6 months the price of diesel has risen about 30%.
  
  And no – I still have the new taxes to look forward to !
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:44am
  - cmm
    
    Bastard National under-charged on diesel leaving a massive shortfall that Labour is fixing up…. or something like that.
    
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    April 20, 2018 8:47am
    - hullkiwi
      
      Don’t you mean Energy Minister Woods is sitting on her hands, so that Robbo can collect even more in tax as the cost of fuel at the pump inflates faster than the rate of inflation.
      
      Geez, these people are economic wizards!
      
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      April 20, 2018 9:51am
      - RF
        
        Woods can be found at Z Service stations. Find the pie warmer and you will find her.
        
        She is just looking after our interests as well as stuffing her gob.
        
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        April 20, 2018 12:29pm
      - Piniwi
        
        But hullkiwi that sounds like an oxymoron Energy Minister Woods.
        
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        April 20, 2018 10:30pm
  - Piniwi
    
    But KiWombat you can expect more pain at the pump in the near future and going forward. Gone are the days when oil price/exchange rate was what determined the fuel pricing. Now there is the COL using excise as a cash cow while introducing region fuel taxes. While they would expect us to accept it is only in Auckland but the legislation leaves it open to other local bodies to it too. There will be few local bodies miss the chance of an additional cash stream like that with many also ready to line up their vanity projects suddenly being “affordable”.
    Watching the exchange rate closely as one does it is of some concern how much it has dropped in just one week as it rushes to match the previous “low” of late March.
    
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    April 20, 2018 10:28pm
- Prince
  
  Makes sense for Companies to price gouge now. Remember when Labour used to rail at the price of petrol being too high ? They’ve lost the high ground now with their tax increases – they are part of the problem not the solution, so the Companies can gouge safe in the knowledge the Govt wont utter a squeak.
  
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  April 20, 2018 12:34pm
- Paulus
  
  Lucky it is only three cents increase – it will be another 10c plus gst very shortly.
  And I bought a small economic euro engined car but will only go best economically on 98 oct at undeclared prices until you fill.
  About currently 15c above 91oct.
  
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  April 20, 2018 1:46pm
waikatogirl

Poppy Day collectors will be out today to raise funds for the RSA and return soldiers. This year the RSA want us to focus on “thinking about the wounds that you cannot see”.
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April 20, 2018 8:12am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  The RSA must have a new marketing manager to come up with “thinking about the wounds that you cannot see.”
  I would guess that a young woman, fresh out of university, came up with this line (rather than a focus group of retirees).
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:50am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    I will give anyway, as I do every year.
    
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    April 20, 2018 8:57am
  - waikatogirl
    
    We have come a long way since WW2, or even Vietnam in acceptance that war affects many soldiers in more ways than just physical wounds.
    
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    April 20, 2018 9:06am
  - Right of way is Way of Right
    
    The wounds you cannot see are real, they are talking about the mental illness that affects so many of the new generation of returning veterans.
    
    I’ve seen the results of this first hand.
    
    I’ll be donating today, and a significant amount!
    
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    April 20, 2018 9:56am
  - MCos
    
    My father went to WWII. He left on a troop ship before the end of 1939 and returned in late 1945, with Mum. His older brother died in the skies over France & he had two other brothers in uniform.
    When he came back his Mum had aged so much he walked right passed her on the railway station platform.
    Dad had a lot of mates who’d gone off to the war & come back again, but some of them were not the same anymore. I remember when I was a kid he would get a phone call in the evening and he’d take off to calm someone down. The only help a lot of those guys got was from a whiskey bottle.
    I remember one guy who was the father of a friend of mine. He could only drive about 30mph on the open road.
    Another guy we went to see one evening when I was a bit older told us about his time in a Japanese POW camp. That was pretty overwhelming for a teenager back then.
    These blokes (& my grandmother) had wounds you can’t see . . . . . . .
    
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    April 20, 2018 10:56am
    - Ed Snack
      
      I was lucky, my father was keen to enlist in early 43 when he was 18, but his father refused permission. He then enlisted in early 45 as soon as he was 20, and signed up for the Fleet Air Arm. Went straight off to the UK to train and arrived in late April 1945. Spent 3 months as an Ordinary Seaman in training and was sent home.
      
      Lucky because FAA crew had an 80%+ casualty rate. Some of his contemporaries who were allowed to sign up in 43 never came back, but he himself had no personal trauma’s as he was never close to action.
      
      Best memory he had was when his whole class was drafted as extras in a film on the Normandy landings. They were to act the part of the soldiers, and had to charge out of the mock landing craft set up on a beach, up the beach and over the dunes…..then double back round the back of the cameras out on a temporary jetty back into the landing craft and do it again, and again, and again. He always said that it was very noticeable how the first “soldiers” out of the landing craft in the film looked much fitter and more enthusiastic than the last – some of the last lot out could barely trot up the beach.
      
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      April 20, 2018 11:17am
    - hullkiwi
      
      MCos, a very good piece.
      
      My family’s tale is similar, but becomes more complex when I think about my father in law. My side of the family is the usual mix of Kiwis (dad’s side, although he was too young for WII, his cousins went & his dad and an uncle were WWI) & POMES (mum’s side in WWI including her father). However, an under age uncle of mother drowned at sea & another uncle died of war injuries in the 1920s.
      
      However, what is complicating for my family at this time of year (As it was in November when we were in the UK), is that my son’s maternal grandfather is Austrian/German & was conscripted to fight in 1943 at the age of 16 for the Austrian Army. Long story short, my father in law was left with both physical & mental injuries from the war (which have remained with him) & as with allied soldiers who returned from war, he just had to get on with his life. To this day in Germany & Austria there is very little recognition given to those who served their countries in WWI or WWII, but these men did return with the scars of war.
      Consequently, my father in law (& his family) have battled with his alcoholism for most of his adult life.
      
      The point is, I believe that while it is important that we remember what the allied youth of yesterday sacrificed and went through, it is important for us to remember that much has changed in 70 years and we should also remember that the youth of other countries made sacrifices irrespective of whether they supported the cause for which they were fighting or not.
      
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      April 20, 2018 1:01pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    I realize that shell shock, post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental illness are “the wounds you cannot see,” but I would like the RSA to be more clear and state something along the line of “mental injuries from war”.
    
    This “wounds you cannot see” does not link the “wounds” to the source (war).
    
    It’s like the RSA’s “lest we forget.” The only problem is that the younger generation have never known the thing that should not be forgotten.
    
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    April 20, 2018 11:52am
    - waikatogirl
      
      I believe it also covers those who returned from Nam with symptoms caused by Agent Orange exposure, including birth defects showing up in their children.
      
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      April 20, 2018 2:59pm
Paulus

I heard a croaky old woman hoping to be called President Clark in the new New Zealand Republic this morning.
She had obviously told Cindy that we must become a Republic soon, but the impression from London we are told from there is that there will be no Republic soon.
Why hasn’t Cindy done as she was told by Clark ?
There will be ructions when she gets back as it was understood she was going to tell the Queen whatever.
Is there any connection with the accepted fact that a new Treaty to be Waitangi TWO has been written by experts, and a group of Wellington geriatric lawyers, at Auckland Maori University especially for this purpose.
To become a Republic the existing farce will have to be nullified.
Will that mean that all settlements will have to be revisited in today’s Te Reo and English as translated by the experts ?
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April 20, 2018 8:12am
- Gravelroad
  
  Sheesh, you are being a bit harsh on Clark, aren’t you? Cindy always does as she is told by Clark.
  She even went fishing with him.
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:27am
  - waikatogirl
    
    That’s Clarke, not Clark. ?
    
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    April 20, 2018 8:49am
    - holysheet
      
      What? there is a difference?
      
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      April 20, 2018 8:53am
      - sooty
        
        One has whee? Bugger, they both have wheels.
        
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        April 20, 2018 9:07am
      - alloytoo
        
        One has a deeper voice?
        
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        April 20, 2018 10:08am
      - Crisplion
        
        @alloytoo
        
        Yes indeed – that would the the one who works for the UN.
        
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        April 20, 2018 2:25pm
- VicParking
  
  Jacinda has been given the task of giving the Toast to the commonwealth. If she ever raises the subject of a Republic again that video will be played over and over ad nauseam. The Queen is as not as stupid in her old age as is reported.
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:50am
  - Harkman
    
    The Queen knows we trust her more than this useless mob and besides Winnie wants a knighthood (actually a lordship).
    
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    April 20, 2018 9:39am
  - godruelf
    
    I guess given her current condition she will have to do a Clinton and not swallow.
    
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    April 20, 2018 11:36am
  - Justitia
    
    Will she address the Queen and her distinguished guests as “Comrades”? Let’s do this!
    
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    April 20, 2018 11:38am
    - Paulus
      
      Her Majesty is familiar with dealing with “young” women – she has had to put up with Prince Andrew’s Fergy and Charles’s Diana.
      Cindy is putty.
      
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      April 20, 2018 1:50pm
      - GoVege
        
        She loved Diana and refused for years to meet that old slapper shagging her son.
        
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        April 20, 2018 6:04pm
- KevOB
  
  We will have to get it all back under compulsory re-possession orders.
  
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  April 20, 2018 11:54am
Andrei

For a change of pace and something entirely different on GD – an informative and important information piece for girls and their fathers
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April 20, 2018 8:13am
holysheet

US soldiers are flying to Afghanistan. Lieutenant:”For every pair of enemy’s ears I will pay you $100. For every bearded head I will pay you $200.” The plane has landed and the soldiers head out. Few minutes later they come back with bags full of chopped of ears and bearded heads. Lieutenant: “Are you guys fucking crazy? What the fuck did you guys do? We just landed in London to refuel the plane!!!”
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April 20, 2018 8:15am
oldpark

Spotted in London. Two of NZs self styled Dictators.
One for the ages Helen Clark. The present one called Peters. Both of them over there in London as minders for the Peters selected NZs PM known as “Commie Chic Comrade” Ardern who is hell bent on turning NZ into The Socialist Republic of the South Pacific.
What a facade or even a fiasco.
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April 20, 2018 8:16am
- softail 1450
  
  on a recent trip around the south island on m/cycles we stopped at cromwell to have a chat with the iconic claus who owns the bakery in the shopping centre.
  Imagine my surprise when i look over and see that little S A S mechanic Ron mark sitting there in his cowboy hat,cowboy boots,$400.00 jeans complete with rhinestones ,i said “man you got a great job” all i got as his response was a cheesy grin….We are being taken for fucking morons in this place, WTF are new zealand first doing for their over inflated wages and benefits ? sweet fuck all.
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:29am
  - holysheet
    
    Brings back memories of Tuku and his silk undies.
    
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    April 20, 2018 8:34am
    - cmm
      
      We wish for the Good Old Days when silk undies were considered an unacceptable rort.
      
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      April 20, 2018 8:45am
      - holysheet
        
        It is when the taxpayer pays for them.
        
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        April 20, 2018 8:54am
- KevOB
  
  What formal appointment does HC hold for trotting around the world at NZ expense? Whos’s paying and out of what vote item? Who authorised the expenditure on the relic?
  
  Shouldn’t HC be taking up knitting or charity visiting ? She’s had her turn knocking the body politic around.
  
  Do we now have a PM Emeritus?
  
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  April 20, 2018 11:57am
cmm

I think I have worked out what the Jacinda Factor is.

It certainly is not the normal stuff you would hope for: competence, leadership, vision etc.

Instead it would seem she (and Labour as a whole) are using the chick-flick (aka romantic comedy) playbook.

You know what I’m talking about. Slightly geeky character who is a complete mess, faces a few life challenges and eventually achieves a slightly normal life.

The mundane is repainted as success. This is not a superhero movie with huge problems (global financial crisis etc) that need to be overcome by massively competent people.

Basically Jacinda is Bridget Jones. It’s all the feelz. People root for Bridget Jones on a purely emotional level, not due to her being at all competent in anything she does.

If you stopped a Bridget Jones movie halfway through and asked people if they would vote for Bridget Jones or Superman, they’d probably give Bridget their support.

That’s all fine, except that chick-flicks are escapist fantasy. They should not be used as a basis for running a country.

Sidenote: Labour are something along the lines of Revenge of the Nerds meets Meatballs. A fantasy in which a bunch of losers that manage to defy the odds and overcome their problems. Heck, why not give them a go at running the country!
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April 20, 2018 8:28am
- Dave Mann
  
  @cmm: that was spot on! Well said!
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:50am
- MrLovebucket
  
  She is “novelty value” at best and just shows how little, a large chunk of the population care about politics.
  
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  April 20, 2018 9:09am
- Huevon
  
  How generous of New Zealand to afford Jacinda this opportunity to work through her identity issues.
  
  Our national security is the handsome guy who ignored her at school, who can’t believe his eyes when she walks into the prom…
  
  Our economic prosperity is the dark and mysterious foreigner she huddles with unexpectedly during a rainstorm…
  
  Our record of stable government is the cocky colleague who disagrees with her all the time that she bonds with while comically trapped in an elevator overnight…
  
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  April 20, 2018 9:20am
- KiWombat
  
  We’ve only got another month to wait cmm, then she’ll be out of here !
  
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  April 20, 2018 10:32am
  - cmm
    
    I think she was holding out for this European tour to make her débutante entry into international society.
    
    When she gets home she can get a doctor’s note and pull a sicky. She looks bloody awful, so it would be legit.
    
    And the cuddle-club will respond about how “brave” and “inspirational” she has been making sacrifices for all of us etc, when really all she has done is endanger herself and her child (apart from trying to screw up The Good Ship New Zealand) and should have rather left the job to someone more competent.
    
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    April 20, 2018 10:39am
- KevOB
  
  Wait till the Global Financial Crisis hits–it’s only when, not if.
  
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  April 20, 2018 12:01pm
CHFR1

Is it just me or do the media seem to be really trying to convince us our PM is someone of substance?? They seem to be praising her for things they used to say were just run of the mill photo ops when John Key had the role.
Long may this continue though as fimilarity tends to breed contempt and we need that in 3 years when they once again roll out the isn’t our PM wonderful spin to attract the lady voters.
Speaking of which I would like my female counterparts who want to vote for her because of lady bits to please just sit out the next election.
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April 20, 2018 8:29am
- Gravelroad
  
  Likewise the elderly men who voted for Winstone 1st last time to “teach National a lesson” and “keep the bastards honest”.
  And the elderly ladies who voted for that lovely Winstone with the “twinkly eyes, cheeky grin and lovely suits”.
  Give me strength.
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:49am
- Anne Glen Eden
  
  No. It’s not just you. It’s all a fairy-tale – Frozen, Cinderella, etc.
  
  That’s why the MSM really disgraced themselves with Merkel, wanting to know if Merkel ‘liked’ her – and Jacinda was crass enough to pass the question on – “Please, please say you like me!” . It’s all they’ve got.
  
  Note that when Mike Hosking asked her about clothes, it was all high dudgeon. Stuff reported, “When I asked Claire Regnault, a senior curator of New Zealand History and Culture at Te Papa, to be interviewed for this article, she told me her colleagues had advised against it. “In a world where journalism is under threat, do you really need to write a story on Jacinda Ardern’s clothes?” There has been refreshingly little written on the topic, and there’s an argument for keeping it that way.”
  
  Now the MSM are focused on whose clothes she’s wearing for ‘power dressing’ and her favourite designers, but when the gown is covered by a Maori feather cloak, I don’t think it will catch on – even if the awful colour was acceptable, clearly chosen to match the cloak
  
  Again, it’s all they’ve got. Marketing and spin. Image with no substance. Including that she’s pregnant (Gasp! Isn’t she clever?) And talks to lots of school children, all the time, across the world. With Trudeau. And a ‘breathless’, excited Khan (currently presiding over London violence having topped New York).
  
  They’re ‘babes in the wood’, getting to excitedly experience meeting all these serious, powerful people. And it really shows.
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:59am
  - KKKKatee
    
    But I did notice she’s trotted out a new pair of shoes on this trip. I have spotted her wearing those ghastly things with a thick strap which go around the ankle. Also think I spotted some new boots in France – or maybe they were just the new shoes. Whichever way you look at her – her choice of clothing is unremarkable. I think her colour choices are a wee bit on the dowdy side. For someone with her complexion and hair colour (and we know that her hair is dyed black to within an inch of its life) she would be well-suited to clear, brighter colours rather than the mustard which is a hard colour to wear. Oh well, I’m not her wardrobe mistress, but I could do a darn sight better than the current advice she’s getting.
    
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    April 20, 2018 9:36am
- RW Capitalist
  
  “convince us our PM is someone of substance?”
  She is a woman of substance….a substance scraped of the rocks, similar to diddimo.
  
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  April 20, 2018 9:03am
  - RalphT
    
    “She is a woman of substance….a substance scraped of the rocks, similar to diddimo”
    
    And the rest of the Cabinet are akin to the dog shit you scrape off your shoe.
    
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    April 20, 2018 9:13am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      Just throw them away, once you have that substance on your shoe, they are ruined.
      
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      April 20, 2018 9:26am
Inandout

Cindy meets the Queen, HM thinks thank God she is not another African dictator. Clarke almost curtsies but at the last moment bows, then later looks lovingly at the Queen’s goldfish.
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April 20, 2018 8:45am
- billmurray
  
  Clarke wore a tie and had shoes on.
  The goldfish took fright and subsequently died.
  
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  April 20, 2018 9:09am
  - rangitoto
    
    Brown shoes. A no no for an occasion like that.
    
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    April 20, 2018 10:40am
  - Piniwi
    
    But billmurry the poor young Commie Chick looked like a bag lady minus a trolley.
    
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    April 20, 2018 10:49pm
- MrLovebucket
  
  I “heard” that Clarke gave the Queen a sly wink and asked if she was up for a quick knee-trembler when his dizzy missus was busy looking out for a Womens Day photographer.
  
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  April 20, 2018 9:16am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Her Majesty jumped out of a helicopter into the London Olympic Games opening ceremony (2012) with James Bond.
    I don’t think Clarkie boy would match up to that.
    Seriously though, if Ms Ardern had a quarter of the intelligence, experience and knowledge that the Queen has, I would have some respect for her.
    But she hasn’t and never will have.
    
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    April 20, 2018 1:56pm
- KKKKatee
  
  Well be wore brown shoes with his blue suit. Now, that’s not the done thing my boy. And then I saw a photo of him with Ardern dressed to the nines – and I did love that feather cloak btw – and the BF is dressed up in the dinner suit etc. and he’s got his bloody hand in his pocket! What the hell is with you guys sticking your hand in your pocket – apart from the stress not he seam which eventually caves into the pressure of the constant hand in the pocket thing. I know this because my husband does it and then it becomes my responsibility to do a repair job!
  
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  April 20, 2018 9:40am
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    It’s called pocket billiards KKKKatee 😀
    
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    April 20, 2018 9:50am
- KevOB
  
  I’m looking forward to seeing Cindy’s pics of the cat under HM’s chair.
  Did the cat spray on Cindy’s new black shoe straps? The news seldom gives up the full picture.
  
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  April 20, 2018 12:06pm
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Geoff@NewsofNZ on Twitter has some amazing photos of Cindy. There is a great one with Teresa May up. They are worth seeing.
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April 20, 2018 8:46am
- billmurray
  
  I looked at them and am now off work with sickness.
  Bad advice.
  
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  April 20, 2018 9:11am
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  Where do you find that site?
  
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  April 20, 2018 10:37am
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    go to twitter.com and search for Geoff@News of NZ
    He calls a spade a spade and has no love for Cindy.
    
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    April 20, 2018 1:46pm
Brito

Well, time to head back to the Kibbutz and help the chosen few keep the heathen at bay.

I’ve read this blog with interest while I’ve been here.

Lots of blow hard drivel with no substance.

Hopefully you’ll develop a sense of purpose one day. I hope it doesn’t arrive when you’re surrounded and down to your last bullet.

Shalom.
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April 20, 2018 8:49am
- Dave Mann
  
  If that’s your way of saying goodbye then good riddance to you.
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:52am
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    Exactly – he clearly can’t appreciate insightful and edgy political and social commentary when it is staring him right in the face 😉
    
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    April 20, 2018 9:10am
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      He must appreciate it. After all, he’s seen fit to make 1,295 comments here himself.
      
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      April 20, 2018 10:08am
- Im Right
  
  Ahhh Brito, if you do not like this blog then I suggest you pop over to The Daily Blog or The Standard as it may be more of your political leanings and comments?, I suspect you will get a warm welcome mentioning you are on a Kibbutz in Israel, let them know where you are in your first post when in the blogs and you will have long term friends for sure …have fun 🙂
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:55am
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    Funny thing is that back in the day the kibbutz movement was once a darling of the left.
    
    Socialist ideals, common ownership, kids raised in kindies by strangers, secular, blah blah.
    
    But now the left have dropped them faster than a whore’s knickers and adopted the very conservative, private property owning , wimmin hating , goat fucking , homo killing ,Muslim Arabs as their darlings…..
    
    How queer!
    
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    April 20, 2018 12:39pm
- holysheet
  
  qalab wighek
  
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  April 20, 2018 9:02am
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    I had to translate it…. and I found that it matches my sentiment exactly 😀
    
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    April 20, 2018 9:16am
- UpandComer
  
  Lol it’s my fault guys.
  
  Well look man, it can’t all be critiquing nitwit Cindy’s fashion sense and intensifiers. The COL gets boring and dreary.
  
  Also need to have something more then just economics and Trump.
  
  Have to broaden the pallet.
  
  But here’s one for you – this is what caught my eye initially.
  
  Isi Leiber on Australia “There is a need to sit together and establish a way in which Australians can recapture that spirit of multiculturalism which I think we are all proud being part and parcel of”
  
  Lol part and parcel. Must be some more of that ‘Judeo-Islamic’ tradition – Sadiq Khan before Sadiq Khan.
  
  Isi Leiber of course if the former leader of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, who moved to Israel in 1999.
  
  Isi Leiber as a spokesperson for the non existent ‘Judeo-Christian’ tradition, loves to advocate multi-culturalism for Australia, and absolute ethno–nationalism, nationalism, and homogeneity for Israel.
  
  In 2012 he wrote an article praising the diversity in Australia:
  
  Now that he’s in Israel? “this is a country which was set up and created as a Jewish country for the jews”..”multiculturalism has no place in Israel”.
  
  Isi’s wife Naomi, president of Emunah, a Jewish woman’s organisation says “assimilation and inter-marriage” are the “greatest threats to world Jewry”.
  
  https://wordfromjerusalem.com/
  
  Here he is, kvetching away.
  
  I just want to play rugby and basketball and go to the beach. The only reason I have to think about culture at a macro level is because of people like Mr Liebler and the whole tradition and lineage of morbidly self-obsessed self-interested interference of those like him.
  
  When those boats re-start, in Australia very close to home under Australian Labour, it will be because of the Jewish groups in Australia. The Executive Council of Australian Jewry. The Boards of Deputies, and all the others.
  
  https://www.google.com.au/search?q=Crime+wave+in+Melbourne&oq=Crime+wave+in+Melbourne&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.2455j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
  
  This is the result. But the Isi Leibler’s don’t have to live near it. They don’t live in Auburn or Berala or Blacktown. They live in Mosman or Vaucluse or North Shore.
  
  http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-01/african-gang-crime-out-of-control-in-melbourne-minister-says/9296476
  
  There are headline like this everywhere. Melbourne is now the most dangerous state in Australia – not Northern Territory, unless you’re aborigine.
  
  It isn’t until you’ve been mugged by a vibrant that the full delicate taste of the rank hypocrisy of people like Mr Liebler really sticks in your throat.
  
  So, lol, clutch that Torah and keep telling yourself you’re part of a powerless snivelling oppressed minority.
  
  The Judeo-Christian heritage is dead. Israel can take money from witless evangelicals for a bit longer, but we’re going to start the necessary process, just like disentangling Maori from Labour, of disentangling Christianity from the ‘Judeo’.
  
  I hope you’re enjoying Israel.
  
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  April 20, 2018 10:23am
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    It does my head in actually. There is a massive Menorah for every single obscure Jewish ritual or minor feast-day event that sits in Martin Place, Sydney’s premier town square in the heart of the commercial city.
    
    But the same people, who are the same people supporting SAFE schools, say that any overt Christian symbology at large is a ‘breach of Australia’s secular character’ and a ‘micro-aggression’ and ‘ahistorical’ and ‘threatening’.
    
    Why do I say they support SAFE schools? After all, isn’t it a socially conservative ideology?
    
    http://www.jccv.org.au/news/1337/59/President-s-Report.html
    
    Because of this: the community council of Victoria publications.
    
    The premiere of Victoria – Labour’s Daniel Andrews, just casually gives these guys $200,000.00 to develop a community centre. Can you imagine Mr SAFE schools doing the same for a church? Why would he do this?
    
    The below is about as good a self-serving sophist expression of the diversity cult as you’ll find. Yes, that community has benefited greatly from the diversity. Other people have not benefited. But it gives an understanding of the mindset. It stems from the prophet Jeremiah, and expressions by their own intellectuals.
    http://www.jccv.org.au/uploads/news/id78/Multicultural%20Affairs%20policy%20submission%20(CW)%20181109.pdf
    
    http://www.jccv.org.au/news/1309/59/JCCV-Statement-on-Racist-Posters-At-Melbourne-Schools.html
    Those racist posters said ‘It’s okay to be white’. Clearly then, it isn’t okay. That was an abject lesson as to the true meaning of multi-culturalism. How ridiculous. Melbourne universities are a pure ferment of hatred towards anything possible that can be associated with ‘white’. Then they have the gall to talk about hate-speech saying ‘it’s okay’.
    
    http://www.jccv.org.au/news/1335/59/An-Historic-Moment—Muslim-Leaders-Learning-About-Jewish-Melbourne.html
    There were no Christian leaders at this event. More of that Judeo-Christian brotherhood in action.
    
    The Islamic Council of Victoria is one of the most virulent anti-free speech institutions in the world.
    
    They’re the guys who Robert Spencer outlined, sued a muslim apostate (who survived multiple attempts on his life overseas) for quoting the Koran in support of statements that Islam is violent. When the poor bastard tried to quote the Koran in court, the Islamic Council of Australia said that in and of itself amounted to ‘Hate speech’ lol. Quoting what they say is hate-speech. Just like quoting what the others say is ‘anti-semitism’. Any affiliation with the council is, and of itself, inherently un-Australian. That argument was accepted by a Leftist judge by the way – the Islamic Council won.
    
    http://www.jccv.org.au/news/1348/59/Multicultural-and-Multifaith-Victoria-supports-our-fellow-Australians-of-African-descent.html
    This one is tremendous. “no community should be held responsible for the actions of a few” – right, so why did they put out a media release condemning every gentile as racist for two posters that said ‘it’s okay to be white’ in a university?
    
    It also says that the answer to the crime wave where apex gangs just home-invade as they like, isn’t to control borders or immigration, but instead to:
    “provide financial assistance for programs to integrate newcomers to Australia with effective education, job training and community support”. In other words, give gibs. Give these people as much gibs as humanly possible. If we give them lots and lots of gibs, as pre-emptive subjection to violence-backed censorship and violence, maybe they’ll stop mugging us in the streets, like I was.
    
    So yeah this is going to become more and more of an issue Britomart, because people are identifying the assumptions and philosophies underlying societal problems, and reconciling them with antecedents, and they really aren’t liking what they’re finding.
    
    Look at all of those groups listed in those publications. Dozens and dozens. Inter-faith dialogue and inter-sectionality is cancer. It just means do what we say, or else racist. Oh, and give us gibs, but you get none because you’re bad and evil as a young white male. Oh, and don’t think you’re getting a job in government or anything institutional. Because you’re surplus to our diversity requirements, in your own country.
    
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    April 20, 2018 12:19pm
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      a fricking novel at lunchtime,,,,
      
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      April 20, 2018 4:01pm
- Don the Kiwi
  
  Yeah, Piss off Brito – you were one who voted this lot in. Bon Voyage, and definitely not ‘Au Revoir’.
  
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  April 20, 2018 11:08am
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    Don you are a cock. I’ll leave my finals comment on your dribble and splutter.
    
    I am more right wing than left, more fascist than commie pinko, more Key than Arden…and for the record double tick to blue.
    
    So Don, fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
    
    And all the very best to those who are articulate and thoughtful.
    
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    April 20, 2018 3:24pm
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… UNITED KINGDOM … LABOUR HOUSING ANNOUNCEMENT …

Britain’s housing market is broken. Here’s how Labour will fix it | John Healey | Opinion | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/19/britain-housing-market-broken-labour-council-houses

… extract …

… We will transform the planning system with a new duty to deliver affordable homes, an English Sovereign Land Trust to make more land available more cheaply and an end to the “viability” loophole that lets commercial developers dodge their obligation to deliver affordable homes. And we will back councils, housing associations and community providers with the funding and flexibility to build big for their communities. … read more via hyperlink above …

… February 2018 report …

Labour plans to make landowners sell to state for fraction of value | Politics | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/feb/01/labour-plans-landowners-sell-state-fraction-value

… extract …

… The proposal has been drawn up by John Healey, the shadow housing secretary, and would see a Jeremy Corbyn-led government change the law so landowners would have to sell sites to the state at knockdown prices.

Landowners currently sell at a price that factors in the dramatic increase in value when planning consent is granted. It means a hectare of agricultural land worth around £20,000 can sell for closer to £2m if it is zoned for housing.

Labour believes this is slowing down housebuilding by dramatically increasing costs. It is planning a new English Sovereign Land Trust with powers to buy sites at closer to the lower price. … read more via hyperlink above …

John Healey (politician) – Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Healey_(politician)
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  A home truth for the Tories: fix the housing crisis or lose power for ever … The Spectator … h/t PH …
  
  https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/04/a-home-truth-for-the-tories-fix-the-housing-crisis-or-lose-power-for-ever/
  
  Much rot is spoken about how the young have it so bad. In fact, this generation is healthier, richer and better-educated than any before — as well as being better-behaved and more conscientious than their parents were. But the one area where they do struggle is in buying a house. The asset boom of recent years has disfigured the economy, sending property prices soaring and conferring vast wealth on pensioners while giving the young a mountain to climb. Home ownership rates stand at a 30-year low. And the proportion of 25- to 34-year-olds in private rented accommodation has almost doubled in the last ten years. … read more via hyperlink above …
  
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  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    Update … US Mortgage Rates …
    
    Housing affordability: Average US 30-year mortgage rate rose to 4.47% … USA Today
    
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/real-estate/2018/04/19/home-borrowing-costs-jump-30-year-mortgage-rate-up/532131002/
    
    WASHINGTON — Long-term U.S. mortgage rates climbed upward this week, slightly worsening affordability for homebuyers.
    
    Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday that the average rate on 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages rose to 4.47% from 4.42% last week. This benchmark rate averaged 3.97% a year ago. … read more via hyperlink above …
    
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    April 20, 2018 11:03am
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    That’s normal. Teach that to Labour.
    The interest rates will rise here too.
    Pity GR.
    
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    April 20, 2018 12:11pm
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      KevOB … Yep … the Tory Toss Pots are too stupid to learn anyhow.
      
      Here is what Allister Heath, then Deputy Editor of the UK (Tory) Telegraph had to say back October 2015 …
      
      The real ticking time bomb for the Tories is home ownership – Telegraph
      
      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/11917816/The-real-ticking-time-bomb-for-the-Tories-is-home-ownership.html
      
      The last New Zealand National – led governments shameful performance is outlined within the GONE GONE GOING section of http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org .
      
      There are massive medium / long term political consequences because of the centre – rights failures with housing issues … bearing in mind the politicians are of necessity just parrots for their supporters.
      
      Talk about dumb National Party supporters.
      
      The idiot comments generally here on Kiwiblog General Debate speak for themselves !
      
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      April 20, 2018 12:32pm
      - Garbageman
        
        “The idiot comments generally here on Kiwiblog General Debate speak for themselves !” as this notice does about every single one of your posts Hugh.
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        April 20, 2018 1:15pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        … and it was housing failure that deservedly put National on the Opposition benches late last year.
        
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        April 20, 2018 3:14pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Talk about dumb National Party supporters. The idiot comments generally here on Kiwiblog General Debate speak for themselves
        
        If you stopped masturbating while reading Kiwiblog, Hugh, everyone else would have a much better reading experience.
        
        This is DPF’s blog but you’re treating it as your own by posting comment after comment in response to yourself. I’ve seen a thread of up to 18 nested comments where you replied to yourself and no one else wanted to talk to you. Democracy rules – other people downvote your boring, repetitive, self-promoting comments into oblivion. So suck on that!
        
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        April 20, 2018 3:17pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        The political developments in the UK on housing issues are of interest to us here in NZ … or at least they should be !
        
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        April 20, 2018 3:55pm
      - stigie
        
        Amazing, you are the life of the fucking party !~
        
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        April 20, 2018 4:01pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Hugh:
        
        Your idea of a blog discussion is to copy-and-paste links. And more links (replying to yourself). And more links (replying to your replies to yourself). If someone asks you a question, you don’t answer the directly. Instead, you copy-and-paste more links.
        
        You don’t engage in discussion with anyone in your own words.
        
        If you changed your approach (which many people have advised you to do), and selected topics that are directly relevant to New Zealand, and stopped insulting your audience (eg “talk about dumb National Party supporters”), then you might get more traction and actually generate an interesting discussion.
        
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        April 20, 2018 4:15pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        A generation of mortgage slaves: Auckland’s house prices leave home owners mired in debt … Helen King … Stuff / Fairfax New Zealand
        
        https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/103205338/a-generation-of-mortgage-slaves-aucklands-house-prices-leave-home-owners-crippled-in-debt
        
        Auckland first-time home buyers are being set up for a lifetime of debt and could struggle to save for retirement or raise a family, a housing expert says.
        
        Home affordability campaigner Hugh Pavletich believes the true definition of affordable housing is three times a household’s income. But in Auckland the price boom has seen that figure soar to 8.2.
        
        Pavletich said this meant buyers were paying on average $552,300 more than was affordable, forcing them to pay higher deposits and mortgage. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
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        April 20, 2018 4:34pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Hugh:
        
        Home affordability campaigner Hugh Pavletich believes the true definition of affordable housing is three times a household’s income. But in Auckland the price boom has seen that figure soar to 8.2.
        
        I’ll ask you a question – and I’d appreciate an answer in your own words.
        
        I assume that you don’t agree with the following 2 propositions:
        
        1. The government should legislate for affordable housing (using your definition – 3 x household income). That clearly wouldn’t work as the same house would have a different price depending on household income.
        2. The government should regulate banks (no loans above 3 x household income). On current market trends, that’d exclude many people from the housing market.
        
        So what’s your solution?
        
        A market-based solution talks about freeing up supply (eg local government zoning restrictions) to accommodate demand. But the wheels of local government turn slowly, and I can’t see how we move from a ratio of 8.2 to 3 in the medium-term, let alone the short-term.
        
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        April 20, 2018 5:24pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Nostra … read my concluding comments within the article.
        
        Auckland is actually 8.8 times household earnings … not 8.2. refer Demographia Survey http://www.demographia.com .
        
        There are massive changes looming … to allow increasingly affordable supply.
        
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        April 20, 2018 5:43pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Hugh:
        
        You haven’t answered my question.
        
        You quoted 8.2. I quoted 8.2 back to you. Now you link to your Demographia publication to say it’s actually 8.8. Why did you quote from an article that said 8.2 without correcting it?
        
        You also say “There are massive changes looming … to allow increasingly affordable supply”.
        
        None of that answers my question: what, in your own words, is your solution to housing affordability?
        
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        April 20, 2018 5:57pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        I see a stupid twit (in addition to Hugh) is downticking me when I ask him a genuine question. Well go suck a lemon 🙂
        
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        April 20, 2018 6:12pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Nostra … first … the answer to your question can be found within the concluding comments of the Helen King / Stuff article.
        
        Second … the 8.2 times household earnings is simply an error. No big deal.
        
        From the Dem Survey numbers detached housing should be at or below 3.9 times household incomes; fringe new starter housing 2.5 times; apartments / townhouses 2.0 times and fringe manufactured housing packages about 1.5 times.
        
        I have covered the above multiples in some depth earlier on KB GD.
        
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        April 20, 2018 6:18pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Hugh:
        
        I’m genuinely trying to understand your position. You say: “The answer to your question can be found within the concluding comments of the Helen King / Stuff article”.
        
        The “concluding comments” are:
        
        Pavletich said the government’s Kiwibuild scheme and changes such as taking away urban boundaries would help with affordability. “Public opinion is driving a change and the government will need to address land supply and infrastructure financing if they are to make an impact,” he said.
        
        These comments are vague and don’t really take us anywhere. I appreciate that you probably had an interview, and the journalist has probably extracted a small fraction of what you discussed, which is why I’m asking you for more details.
        
        I think it’s useful to unpack “the government”. In your view, what specific land supply changes and infrastructure financing initiatives are required, and who should be responsible? For example, in relation to infrastructure financing, what specific financing structures do you think are required, and what’s the appropriate mix between public and private financing?
        
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        April 20, 2018 6:25pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        In short … adapt the Texas system to suit our local conditions.
        
        Check out in particular the Municipal Utility District (MUD) / bond financing information down the left column of my website http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org .
        
        The government is very much focused on these issues .
        
        Take particular note what Twyford and Jones said Monday …
        
        The Minister of Transport Phil Twyford says there is a “great deal of interest” from private capital providers when it comes to investing in New Zealand’s transport infrastructure – he is welcoming their interest | interest.co.nz
        
        https://www.interest.co.nz/business/93209/minister-transport-phil-twyford-says-there-%E2%80%9Cgreat-deal-interest%E2%80%9D-private-capital
        
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        April 20, 2018 8:24pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Hugh:
        
        The Minister of Transport Phil Twyford says there is a “great deal of interest” from private capital providers when it comes to investing in New Zealand’s transport infrastructure
        
        Yes, perhaps, but private capital providers require an acceptable return on their investment – and Phil Twyford doesn’t strike me as having an in-depth understanidng of public-private partnerships. And, besides, didn’t he send Shane Jones – Shane Jones! – to Australia last week to learn about public-private partnerships?
        
        But back to my question: what’s your solution for housing affordability?
        
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        April 20, 2018 9:20pm
Monique Watson

Asking the important questions of the day. Who’s got the thicker ankles? The Queen or Cinders?
It’s not the Queen. Bless her. She is so dignified and well dressed, compared. Cinders doesn’t travel well.
And check out how Gayford got landed on the hearth while Cinders took front and Centre. 🙂 Hilarious.
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  Is he wearing a black suit with brown shoes? I don’t think I have seen that before. Is it a new fashion?
  
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  April 20, 2018 9:01am
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    No it’s not ‘de rigueur’ to wear brown shoes with a black suit nor, indeed, with the blue suit he was wearing at the meet ‘n greet the Queen. And I noticed as well, he doesn’t do his tie very well and it was slightly skew-wiff at the collar. It should have dead set bang-on imo. I notice these things as my husband knows how to do his tie beautifully and always, always has it position perfectly.
    
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    April 20, 2018 10:03am
    - fernglas
      
      Times have changed.It used to be “no brown after sundown” on the shoe front, but these days anything goes. Blue suit and brown shoes are the new “de rigueur”
      
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      April 20, 2018 10:48am
    - Paulus
      
      Pity he did not do a minimum of one week with the Army – where he would be taught manners and how to dress.
      
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      April 20, 2018 1:57pm
- axeman
  
  Jacintarella’s Cankles have grown over recent weeks.
  
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  April 20, 2018 9:05am
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    And that’s precisely why women who have cankles – pregnant or not – should never wear shoes with ankle straps. This type of shoe should only be worn by ladies who possess lovely, thin, streamlined ankles such as I am fortunate to possess. In a nutshell, ankle strap shoes make an even fat ankle appear fatter.
    
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    April 20, 2018 10:05am
    - Don the Kiwi
      
      We need photographic evidence there KKKKatee. 😉
      
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      April 20, 2018 11:14am
      - KKKKatee
        
        Oh. Might have to stick my hands in my husband’s pockets to see what the fascination with the billiard balls are then ?
        
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        April 20, 2018 11:33am
    - KevOB
      
      Is Jacinda’s pregnancy showing in swollen ankles? She has no idea of what’s ahead.
      
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      April 20, 2018 12:18pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    As long as there are no other symptoms (headaches, swollen face..), then there’s nothing to worry about.
    
    Many preggie ladies get cankles.. as their body becomes a fluid-filled zeppelin.. all for the comfort and nutriment of the wee beastie within.
    
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    April 20, 2018 12:15pm
- stephieboy
  
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  Monique Watson,
  “dignified and dressed”? With a Gucci handbag and white gloves?
  
  Who actually cares apart from you?
  
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  April 20, 2018 9:30am
  - Monique Watson
    
    I don’t know why I bother the fuck to engage.
    Maybe to teach or inform or amuse.
    But if you’ve lived in the States as long as I have, you know presentation is paramount.
    There’s no running down the street in yer jandals.
    I hope Cinders did better than getting a Kiwi in Duty-free for the Queen.
    Hope she at least gets a baby blanket in return to cover the cankles on the trip home.
    
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    April 20, 2018 9:38am
  - cmm
    
    I don’t care what she wears.
    
    What’s far more alarming to me is a 7-month preggy woman that looks so gaunt. She looks more like a twigged out junky in rehab. Where’s the flush of health that normally heralds a new life? I find this particularly concerning in an elderly mother.
    
    And no, I am not a doctor, so what the hell do I know!
    
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    April 20, 2018 10:09am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Lesson in diplomacy
    How you dress, creates the first impression and tells the IMPORTANT person you have come to see, who’s time you are taking up, that you respect them and all that they stand for.
    Anything less says the opposite.
    The more important the person, the more this applies.
    
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    April 20, 2018 11:03am
    - GoVege
      
      And she dresses beautifully. …not that some bitter and twisted Nats have the decency to acknowledge how stunning our lovely PM is.
      
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      April 20, 2018 11:50am
      - cmm
        
        Vege, you can have my share.
        
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        April 20, 2018 12:49pm
      - RW Capitalist
        
        The only words that you can put “stunning” in front of when referring to JA
        Stupid
        Dishonest
        Disingenuous
        Immature
        In fact I am stunned, that with so little brain function, she is still breathing.
        
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        April 20, 2018 4:26pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Me.
    
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    April 20, 2018 3:30pm
Hugh Pavletich

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… AUSTRALIAN BANKING ROYAL COMMISSION … UPDATE …

Commonwealth Bank charged fees to dead clients, royal commission hears | Australia news | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/apr/19/commonwealth-bank-charged-fees-to-dead-clients-royal-commission-hears

Some advisers charged the deceased for financial advice – in one case for a decade … read more via hyperlink above …

… Google search ‘Australia Banking Royal Commission’ …

https://www.google.co.nz/search?source=hp&ei=4xvYWvqxNoGV0gT19oXIDw&q=australia+banking+royal+commission&oq=australia+banking+royal+commission&gs_l=psy-ab.13..
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April 20, 2018 8:53am
- starboard
  
  Another boring day for you in the rest home Hugh? Poor old soul.
  
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  April 20, 2018 9:05am
  - stephieboy
    
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    starboard , a bit beyond your comprehension skills?
    
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    April 20, 2018 9:32am
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
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      We are all the royal commission now – MacroBusiness Australia
      
      https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/04/royal-commission-now/
      
      From Lyndsay David today:
      
      I guess we can all thank god that ASIC and APRA don’t regulate the aviation industry. Because if they did, there would be planes falling from the sky.
      
      The Banking Royal Commission is slowly shifting from becoming a serious one-off investigation into misconduct within the financial services sector to nothing short of a pork comedy.
      
      The key problem with this commission is that it is merely shedding light on what we already know. That there is systemic misconduct thriving within the financial services sector. All of which could have easily been thwarted by our regulators over the years. But no, the regulators, such as ASIC and APRA appear to be captured by the very institutions they regulate. This is 90% of the problem, but not even the Royal Commission wants to go near. … read more via hyperlink above …
      .
      .
      Google search … “Australia Banking Royal Commission’ …
      
      https://www.google.co.nz/search?source=hp&ei=nBPZWqrcNMn28AXRwbPYBA&q=australia+banking+royal+commission+&oq=australia+banking+royal+commission+&gs_l=psy-ab.12..
      
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      April 20, 2018 10:13am
      - KevOB
        
        Not relevant here in NZ.
        
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        April 20, 2018 12:21pm
Colinxy

The pathetic-ness of the “do not need” argument:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/103234937/nz-becoming-an-attractive-place-for-american-fast-food-but-do-we-need-it

As you can probably tell from the title there is a big “but” in the title. The content of the article isn’t much better, and there are plenty of comments in the comment section where people seem to agree with “do not need” argument.

How about if we let the market decide? If people want it, they will want it. If they don’t, if will fail.

On the other hand, the “do not need” argument is a slippery slope argument. What humans need, in the final analysis is very little. You don’t need that house, car, shoes etc. If you start down this path of banning things based on “need” there is almost no limit to what can be removed from your life, should “need” be the defining characteristic.

If an ascetic in charge, you’re utterly screwed. He will reduce everything down to his level of need.
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April 20, 2018 8:56am
stigie

Penny Bright says, “open the books”…..

“That’s it.

Plain, simple, transparent and accountable.”

Waste of time and public money, she will find something in the opened books so the debacle can continue !~
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April 20, 2018 8:57am
LisaGinNZ

Have you heard a volcano in Japan recently erupted?

details: “A volcano in southern Japan, Mount Io, erupted for the first time since 1768 on Thursday, spewing steam and ash 400 meters (1,300 feet) into the air.” from: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/04/19/japans-mount-io-erupts-for-the-first-time-in-250-years/
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video: https://players.brightcove.net/2540076170001/SJgGRDOODz_default/index.html?videoId=5746041990001

So naturally I awesome the NZ government will quickly find a way to increase TAXATION of NZ citizens because SURELY more evil CO2 gas (.04%) has entered the earth’s atmosphere and more TAXES is the way to FIX IT!

Oh, by the way .04% is the amount of CO2 in earth’s current atmosphere… didn’t you know?!

“400 ppm (parts per million) is the way it’s generally quoted, because that’s a more convenient number to say and write.

1% = 10 ppt (parts per thousand), and 1 ppt = 1000 ppm. Therefore 1% = 10,000 ppm.

So 400 ppm, the concentration of CO2, is 0.4 ppt or 0.04%. ” (from https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-percentage-of-CO2-in-the-atmosphere )

have a nice day….

let’s hope a toxic cloud from Japan doesn’t cover NZ and cause any cooling… because the answer to global cooling will again… be more taxes

#LabourStinks
#GreenStinks
#CO2isNotEvil
#AGWisAhugeMyth
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April 20, 2018 9:02am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  Some facts about CO2
  
  Glad you flagged that LisaGinNZ.
  
  Yes indeed the current level of the trace gas CO2 is at 400ppm – although in the past the geological record shows that it was as high as 7000-9000ppm.
  
  Yet we are supposed to believe that minute increases in a trace gas are going to trigger (funny how the Chicken Little AGW SJWs use that word) runaway global warming – when it didn’t in the past.
  
  Interestingly, if CO2 levels were to be reduced by much, life on Earth would end. At levels of below 150ppm – plants (the base of every food pyramid) would not be able to grow.
  
  So really the Greens, with their war on CO2 are a suicide cult that wants to end life on Earth.
  
  As CO2 levels have increased there has been an undeniable greening of the planet – how is it that the Greens want to oppose the greening of the world?
  
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  April 20, 2018 9:22am
  - Poppa
    
    The greens are not green actually, they are red.
    
    They just have green in the name to trick people
    
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    April 20, 2018 10:47am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Ye Gads,
  we exhale CO2 at around 38,000ppm (3.8%).
  
  I think we all need to hold our breaths.
  
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  April 20, 2018 9:35am
  - kowtow
    
    Big breaths……..
    
    Yeth, and I’m only thixteen!
    
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    April 20, 2018 6:39pm
  - Johnboy
    
    But if we did that we’d fart even more CO2 and heaps of CH4 as well Maggy!!!!!!
    You try to save the planet but shit just happens! 🙂
    
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    April 20, 2018 6:42pm
- stephieboy
  
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  How do we know more CO2 is causing warming?
  
  What the science says.
  
  An enhanced greenhouse effect from CO2 has been confirmed by multiple lines of empirical evidence.
  
  Climate Myth…
  
  Increasing CO2 has little to no effect
  
  “While major green house gas H2O substantially warms the Earth, minor green house gases such as CO2 have little effect…. The 6-fold increase in hydrocarbon use since 1940 has had no noticeable effect on atmospheric temperature … ” (Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide)..”
  
  https://www.skepticalscience.com/empirical-evidence-for-co2-enhanced-greenhouse-effect.htm
  
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  April 20, 2018 9:39am
  - Don the Kiwi
    
    Well done stephie — you’re learning, keep it up.
    
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    April 20, 2018 11:19am
    - stephieboy
      
      Don the Kiwi, that’s right the above is a climate denial myth.
      
      And remains one.
      
      At last your seeing sense.
      
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      April 20, 2018 12:15pm
  - alloytoo
    
    Imagine how much less it would be if the Green movement hadn’t targeted Nuclear power in the 80’s/90’s.
    
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    April 20, 2018 11:26am
  - All_on_Red
    
    From your link.
    ‘What they don’t agree on is by how much. This issue is called ‘climate sensitivity’, the amount the temperatures will increase if CO2 is doubled from pre-industrial levels. Climate models have predicted the least temperature rise would be on average 1.65°C (2.97°F) , but upper estimates vary a lot, averaging 5.2°C (9.36°F). Current best estimates are for a rise of around 3°C (5.4°F), with a likely maximum of 4.5°C (8.1°F’
    
    This statement is deceptive. The Working Group report in Assessment Review 5 from the IPCC in 2013 gave a range from 1.5 – 4.5C.
    “Equilibrium climate sensitivity is likely in the range 1.5°C to 4.5°C (high confidence), extremely unlikely less than 1°C (high confidence), and very unlikely greater than 6°C (medium confidence)”
    IPCC
    The science deniers at SKS lie by omission in not stating that in your link. They indicate 3-4.5C
    Current research shows ECS is actually at the lower end of the rangewith many Papers saying 1.2C.
    Of course you’re too dumb and gullible to understand that eh Denier.
    
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    April 20, 2018 12:32pm
lastmanstanding

I wonder how the MSM are getting on with lifting the supression order in the secret trial of he who cannot be named.

Or have the COL got the Judiciary firmly in their pockets.
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April 20, 2018 9:11am
- stephieboy
  
  firmly in their pockets?
  
  Nope ,
  
  http://stoppress.co.nz/news/name-suppression
  
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  April 20, 2018 9:46am
- KKKKatee
  
  Whale Oil went ballistic yesterday. Readers have been warned not to engage in innuendo, speculation etc. concerning a certain suppression order. One reader got banned for 12 months so in a nutshell, Whale Oil doesn’t want to be implicated in breaking a suppression order. So I’m wondering if the popcorn is about to blow the lid off the pot very, very, soon?
  
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  April 20, 2018 10:10am
  - Gravelroad
    
    No.
    
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    April 20, 2018 2:01pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Bet facebook and google have all the gossip (scraped from private messages), as well as all the diplomatic missions to NZ, anyone professionally involved with politics, the police, and probably a lot in the legal profession, all the media luvvies, as well as a vast pool of friends and family of same. So probably getting on for a few 10’s of thousands of people.
  
  Wot a joke.
  
  Didn’t Derryn Hinch do some trade in naming NZer’s who couldn’t be?
  
  Could be a fun little media business for a non-NZ based person and would eventually end the silliness of the unjustifiable name suppression game.
  
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  April 20, 2018 11:37am
DifferentPerspective

Australia showing up Jacinda – compassion for people under threat of genocide

So will Jacinda join in with our Australian neighbours and open NZ’s doors to the endangered South African farmers who are under daily threat of being murdered in their homes just because of their skin colour?

Of course she won’t! She wasn’t Manus Island rapists and criminals but she doesn’t want hard-working, productive white South Africans. What a racist she is!

This truly compassionate move by Australia just shows up the UN for a racist, hypocritical pile of shit that is long overdue for euthanising. The UN is still silent on condemning the genocide being perpetrated on SA farmers by the governing black African majority.
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April 20, 2018 9:16am
- starboard
  
  F. T. U.N
  
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  April 20, 2018 9:41am
- Morrissey
  
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  White farmers are as endangered as white cops in the U.S.
  
  Idiot.
  
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  April 20, 2018 9:46am
  - Garbageman
    
    Never picked a third rate stenographer would be so racist but then you do hang out at The Standard (when not banned) so i should have guessed their unfettered hatred of all things white would attract like minded people
    
    Idiot
    
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    April 20, 2018 12:41pm
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    Standard leftist response: When unable to deal with facts respond by ad hominem attacks.
    
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    April 20, 2018 2:42pm
    - Morrissey
      
      What “facts” are you referring to? That whites in South Africa are oppressed? Oh, I forgot, sorry: you’re a Trump supporter.
      
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      April 21, 2018 10:10am
- RW Capitalist
  
  United Nations, the biggest misnomer in 70 odd years
  
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  April 20, 2018 11:05am
Prince

I have to question our host’s count of Kiwibuild homes deficit.
The ubiquitous stories of the homeless have disappeared from our media this year, so clearly the problem of homelessness has been solved.
Admittedly many of those stories could be traced to prominent Lab/Green electorate functionaries, but the media didn’t seem to mind.

Also the child poverty crisis has been magicked away.

While on the subject, the sight of Andrew Little at Pike River yesterday was sickening. Is there any level that man will not stoop to ? Given he was in large part responsible, in his union role, for the mine being deemed safe to begin with, I hope he is kept awake at night by the knowledge of his part in that tragedy. That he now seeks to make political capital from it is contemptible, even for a politician.
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April 20, 2018 9:32am
- Anne Glen Eden
  
  I wouldn’t disagree with any of that.
  
  But entering Pike River is about the only thing I agree with in regard to the CoL.
  
  It should have been done at the time. It should have done many times since. It doesn’t matter what the various arguments are – it was never going to go away. It’s a festering sore in NZ’s history where the rescue of 29 men by willing professionals was forbidden, supposedly because of Health & Safety legislation (of all things); the decision made by Police with no expertise in either mines or rescue.
  
  If they have people willing to go into the mine, the sooner it’s carried out and over with, the better for everyone. The photo op, however, was gratuitous spin. Just do it.
  
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  April 20, 2018 9:55am
  - Im Right
    
    “where the rescue of 29 men by willing professionals was forbidden, supposedly because of Health & Safety legislation (of all things)”, this law was introduced by labour, basically it was ILLEGAL to enter the mine due to methane and deemed a health and safety risk. If Little and Winny want to enter the mine, as they have said they would do immediately if in office, then they will have to change the health and safety law to do so! (hoisted by their own petard and all that)
    
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    April 20, 2018 10:22am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      I would have thought the methane levels would have been at their lowest immediately after the mine explosion (due to combustion).
      If so, there would have been a brief window of opportunity for a rescue (or confirmation of cremation).
      
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      April 20, 2018 6:49pm
  - Scott
    
    Ann Glen Eden – I totally agree with you about Pike River. To me the whole rescue was botched. Why did they have no team ready to go in the case of an explosion? Why spend precious hours gathering together a team of experts that in their expertise decided to do nothing?
    
    But look the simple fact of the matter is that for the widows and family of these men this issue will not go away until their loved ones remains are retrieved and given a proper burial.
    
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    April 20, 2018 10:46am
    - Anne Glen Eden
      
      You’ve got that wrong Scott.
      
      Mines Rescue was there, considered it safe as experienced miners to go in immediately, were ready and desperate to go in, and argued for it.
      
      They were forbidden – by the Police, who knowing nothing about anything decided to consult with ‘experts’ around the world who weren’t there and couldn’t possibly give an informed opinion. They were covering their arse, preferring to guarantee the deaths of 29 men.
      
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      April 20, 2018 10:57am
      - GoVege
        
        But WHY we’re the Police given authority to stop them going in?
        They used to have safety experts on hand to deal with these situations.
        
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        April 20, 2018 11:44am
      - Scott
        
        Ann Glen Eden – thanks for the update on that. One of my abiding memories of the Pike River disaster was the police commanding officer who obviously had no idea and was the very definition of the “possum caught in the headlights”.
        
        The police should never have been put in charge of something they know nothing about. And the mining company should have been allowed to have mounted a rescue mission straightaway.
        
        That no rescue mission was mounted to me is disgraceful. And I shall add, because I know I have to add this every time, that if my son was in there I would have volunteered to have gone in.
        
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        April 20, 2018 12:06pm
      - Kimbo
        
        @ Scott
        
        You may be right that the police should not have been put in charge (if not, whom? The incompetent and/or legally compromised/conflicted mine company on whose watch the first explosion occurred?! And are you right that they ignored mine experts? Seems unlikely as they would have had to consult, and dangerous levels of methane were still present…hence the second explosion),
        
        …but it was the legal requirement, not an option, that they were in charge. So you are implying the law should be changed.
        
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        April 20, 2018 12:10pm
      - GoVege
        
        If one of my sons had been in there, they’d have had to cuff me to keep me out.
        
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        April 20, 2018 12:24pm
    - lifesgood
      
      Can’t agree with you, Scott. The families know where their loved ones are buried. They are simply playing the martyrdom card. The bodies have decayed by now and what purpose would it be serving to retrieve bones and dust. They have had endless ceremonies, an elaborate memorial has been placed near their tomb, they have had huge payouts. To be honest I am utterly sick of their bleating. Lots of people lose loved ones and never find them, think the malaysian airlines crash. At least the Pike River families know exactly where they are. The trouble is they are simple minded folk who have been aided and abetted for political purposes, because, you know, it was all John Key’s fault.
      
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      April 20, 2018 10:59am
      - Anne Glen Eden
        
        As I say, lifesgood, it’s a festering sore. Blaming the victims doesn’t help – and really, money? Of course they deserved compensation. But how much are your family members worth that you’d agree to let them die, alone, entombed underground?
        
        The difference between Pike River and Malaysian Airlines is that not only did ‘the authorities’ not deliberately ensure the deaths of the airline passengers; they spent countless millions trying to retrieve them – globally.
        
        It’s ‘the authorities’ who guaranteed the deaths of the Pike River miners (actually from beginning to end). It’s ‘the authorities’ who prevented the rescue. It’s ‘the authorities’ who prevent the retrieval.
        
        The other difference is that, in the case of Pike River, it is possible for people to get closure. So they should.
        
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        April 20, 2018 11:31am
      - Paulus
        
        Surely the Pike River PR is predicated on more money.
        Many wives do not want to go or do anything further – only the ones who have obviously spent the millions each that they have received – where ?
        
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        April 20, 2018 2:03pm
      - holysheet
        
        It’s because most of them are catholic. Bodies must be buried with all the full crap that goes with it.
        
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        April 20, 2018 2:47pm
- KKKKatee
  
  Nope. Winter’s upon us and the PM brought that subject up in a speech she delivered in London. Not sure if anyone was listening to the nitty gritty though as the PM thinks she’s still President of the IUSY and it’s very hard to understand the message she’s trying to get across. In other words, it’s all platitudes blah, blah, blah….
  
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  April 20, 2018 10:13am
- marcw
  
  That would have to be the actual definition of “empty gesture” – walking 30 meters into a 2 km mine tunnel with two freaks dressed in mine rescue equipment to prove what? That the workers who built the seal at that point were acting recklessly? There is less substance in this stunt than in the entire Harwood’s Hole.
  
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  April 20, 2018 10:49am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Andrew Little….circus clown and ring master.
  This little side show achieved nothing and he said no more than National has been saying for years,
  “experts say that it’s too dangerous” we actually heard from them.
  The families and labour etc have said and supported, “we have experts that say it is safe” at every election (funnily enough), but no such expert came forward and MSM and everyone else, refused to ask them to put up or shut up. Because that would be “insensitive”
  
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  April 20, 2018 11:23am
  - Paulus
    
    Andy is setting up his PR face before the Labour Party Annual meeting where the rules will be changed again and he can lead the Union Party.
    
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    April 20, 2018 2:05pm
starboard

Does Cindy fart jacinda dust or does it just come in a glass bottle?
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April 20, 2018 9:34am
- stephieboy
  
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  unlike you, I understand her farts are not wet, stinky and sloppy like yours!
  
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  April 20, 2018 9:40am
  - lifesgood
    
    stephie, you are disgusting. Just get lost.
    
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    April 20, 2018 9:42am
  - Garbageman
    
    Nah thats her front bum you are thinking of there stoopidboy
    
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    April 20, 2018 12:48pm
lifesgood

Good grief! Have you seen the outfit Cindy wore to the fancy dinner in London? Karitane yellow dress, with a belt, to make sure everyone knew she was pregnant, and a feather cloak. Is she now trying to claim the title of first maori PM? Are the maori going to get up in arms about a pakeha stealing their culture? I’m darn sure if she even had a 100th maori blood we would have heard about it.
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April 20, 2018 9:41am
- sooty
  
  Picked that colour so when the baby fouls it don’t show!
  
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  April 20, 2018 12:43pm
- Dave Mann
  
  I don’t like her and I despise her party and the asshole dwarf who put her in the job…. but you’ve got to admit that she has a certain pizazz. Unlike anyone in the National ‘opposition’.
  
  Otter international leaders are unlikely to appreciate the harm that she’s doing back home. They’ll just be laughing good naturedly along with this weird goofy woman who is ‘way out and kinda kool’.
  
  Meanwhile… back in the real world, what’s coming next?
  
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  April 20, 2018 12:44pm
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LORDS OF THE DANCE
No. 1: Rodney “The Rort” Hide

http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/0605/bd0ebc1e64cf1a740e13.jpeg

Lords of the Dance is curated by Morrissey Breen, for Daisycutter Sports Inc.
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- Morrissey
  
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  Five supporters of corrupt politicians have registered their presence so far this morning.
  
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  April 20, 2018 10:02am
  - Garbageman
    
    Awww poor old Hugh P MK11 is upset no-one gives a rats what he thinks or writes how devastating for your bloated ego that must be
    
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    April 20, 2018 12:53pm
    - Morrissey
      
      “no-one gives a rats”
      
      ?!!???
      
      43 votes cast show that a lot of people do indeed give a “rats” about what this writer, i.e., moi, thinks and writes. Of course that doesn’t mean they’ll always (or in some sad cases ever) agree with this writer, but it certainly shows they sit up and take note. No one has uttered a word of defence for that corrupt POS Hide, of course, but then how could anyone defend either his dancing or his dishonesty?
      
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      April 21, 2018 10:08am
kowtow

Evil stalks the streets of Berlin , again .

Thanks Angela.

‘But the experiment went wrong when he and a companion were set upon in the affluent neighbourhood of Prenzlauer Berg and whipped with a belt by three men who shouted “Yahudi”, the Arabic word for Jew. ‘

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/19/victim-berlin-anti-semitic-attack-israeli-arab-wanted-see-like/
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April 20, 2018 9:46am
- KKKKatee
  
  Coming to a neighbourhood in NZ somewhere if the PM gets her way.
  
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  April 20, 2018 10:15am
- UpandComer
  
  But what can you say, at this point. The people getting whipped as Yahudi are the ones advocating for the immigration. How do you feel sorry for people getting what they want? It would be like feeling sorry for a man getting whipped in a BDSM session he paid for.
  
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  April 20, 2018 11:36am
- Piniwi
  
  But kowtow some problems are still being unearthed from Nazis era. A 500lb British bomb has just been found so there has been a massive evacuation in the kill area of this device.
  
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  April 20, 2018 11:10pm
starboard

Righto trendsetters, I’m off back to Bangkok, winters too cold here for these old bones. Keep the bastards honest.
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April 20, 2018 9:47am
- kowtow
  
  Any honest bastards in Bangkok?
  
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  April 20, 2018 10:15am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Yup they’re call hookers, at least when you pay them, you get to do the fucking.
    Here we pay the money and the govt. fucks us.
    
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    April 20, 2018 11:09am
    - MCos
      
      Some advice I read in a guidebook.
      Do the fucking and then you pay the money.
      
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      April 20, 2018 12:47pm
      - Monique Watson
        
        Squeeze the wallet to make sure you get paid. It’s found in the left hand side pocket of the beefcake escorting the hooker.
        
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        April 20, 2018 3:32pm
- stigie
  
  Good luck starboard but keep up the pills and ointment though !~
  
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  April 20, 2018 10:30am
  - Swifty
    
    And your wire brush and Dettol!
    
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    April 20, 2018 12:48pm
- stephieboy
  
  Don’t forget a visit to your local STD clinic.
  
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  April 20, 2018 12:50pm
  - stigie
    
    I suppose you’re quite safe having goats Stiffy..?
    
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    April 20, 2018 1:59pm
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Why is Mallard in town?
    
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    April 20, 2018 4:30pm
cmm

The Digital Minister, the person who is supposed to give us mere mortals leadership through the intricacies of the digital minefield, can’t even manage her Facebook page!

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12036242

I wonder if her explanation for how the internet works is as good as Sen Ted Stevens “Series of tubes” metaphore?
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April 20, 2018 9:50am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Curran said it was”frightening to think someone is impersonating you online and CERT NZ is there to help people sort out issues and feel safe again online”.
  
  Personally I find it infinitely more frightening that Clare Curran is impersonating a competent Minister of the Crown in real life 😀
  
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  April 20, 2018 10:00am
RF

I heard Marcus Lush last night talking about the seating arrangements for the royal dinner.

He was saying that Cindy was positioned well away from the main table and down the back.

Maybe close to the kitchen so she could give the staff a hand if they get busy.
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April 20, 2018 9:55am
- KKKKatee
  
  It’s good to know one’s place. So I take it that she is ranked rather low in the scheme of things in the Commonwealth. She could relax about her table manners or lack of one should say. She was stressing about that prior to leaving. Actually, it’s very interesting observing how people use their knife and fork. It shows their class imo.
  
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  April 20, 2018 10:17am
  - lifesgood
    
    True that!
    
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    April 20, 2018 10:22am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Diplomatically, these things say alot.
    The closer to the important people you are, the better regarded you are and respected.
    Notice that Helen Clarke was quite often removed in a similar way, not quite as far.
    John Key however was, most times, front and centre.
    
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    April 20, 2018 11:14am
    - Paulus
      
      Has Calamity Cindy been invited for a weekend with her Majesty in Scotland yet ?
      
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      April 20, 2018 2:08pm
  - GoVege
    
    Oh definitely class is all about how you handle your knife and fork, KKKKKatee.
    And how you dress and accessorize.
    Nothing to do with how you treat people…
    
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    April 20, 2018 11:19am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Thank goodness for that.
      
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      April 20, 2018 6:21pm
- cmm
  
  “Maybe close to the kitchen so she could give the staff a hand if they get busy.”
  
  Naah they were serving on plates, not wrapped in paper.
  
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  April 20, 2018 10:31am
- rangitoto
  
  I wonder if the Queen will invite Cindy to Balmoral?
  
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  April 20, 2018 10:55am
- RW Capitalist
  
  At the kiddies table with Justin?
  
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  April 20, 2018 11:11am
- Poppa
  
  Geez you are brave listening to Marcus Lush. What a twat
  
  I used to listen to some talkback a number of years ago but now it seems that the IQ level of the hosts & callers has fallen to record depths
  
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  April 20, 2018 1:16pm
  - RF
    
    Poppa.
    
    My bad.
    
    My poor wife turned on his station when I was supping a bed time whisky to keep the demons
    away…..
    
    I listened for several minutes, digested the above information and then hit the off switch. He is a disturbed individual.
    
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    April 20, 2018 4:25pm
Chuck Bird

It is okay when Muslims stone homosexuals according to the homosexual activist CEO of Qantas.

Brendan McNeill: Christians should be able to express a scriptural view

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=12035610
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April 20, 2018 10:05am
- Kimbo
  
  And just as Louisa Wall and here on Kiwiblog GoVege demonstrate their confusion by labelling Israel Folau’s offensive-to-some/many tweet “hate speech”,
  
  …so Brendan McNeill demonstrates, when he pleads there should be no calls for a potential consumer or sponsor boycott in response to that tweet, that he doesn’t understand “free speech”.
  
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  April 20, 2018 10:30am
  - GoVege
    
    It was “hateful” enough to get Sir Michael Jones to set him right.
    
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    April 20, 2018 11:11am
    - Kimbo
      
      …and now you are putting words into Michael Jones’ mouth. He didn’t call what Folau said “hate speech”. Instead, while he stated Folau was a “good guy” (hardly any he description of one you think engages in hate speech)
      
      …he implied Folau’s tweet lacked “love and grace”.
      
      http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12035808
      
      And Michael Jones was speaking primarily in his capacity as one charged with doing what is best for NZ Rugby. Not as a guardian against hate speech, real or imagined.
      
      But, even if you paid close attention to what the Ice Man did and didn’t say – and given your admitted readiness to assume, and be careless when remembering and considering the words of others, that is unlikely –
      
      … as you’ve implied failing to speak or write “without love and grace” is the sole defining criterion for hate speech, yet again you demonstrate you fail to understand what both hate speech and free speech are.
      
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      April 20, 2018 11:24am
      - GoVege
        
        Rubbish (again) Kimbo!
        I never claimed that MJ called what Israel said was “hate speech”.
        I said “he set him right”.
        Which he did in a very nice and loving way.
        
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        April 20, 2018 12:56pm
      - Kimbo
        
        It was “hateful” enough to get Sir Michael Jones to set him right
        
        What did GoVege say/imply?
        What did GoVege mean?
        So what?
        
        Let’s follow the thread of the conversation in which you were engaged, but, not for the first time, you have now lost track of:
        
        Kimbo:
        
        And just as …GoVege demonstrate(s)…confusion by labelling Israel Folau’s offensive-to-some/many tweet “hate speech”
        
        GoVege (and note the use of quotation marks, linking “hate speech” to Michael Jones’ purported direct intent):
        
        It was “hateful” enough to get Sir Michael Jones to set him right.
        
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        April 20, 2018 1:01pm
      - GoVege
        
        What’s the opposite of “love”, my clever wee wordsmith? 🙂
        
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        April 20, 2018 1:57pm
      - Kimbo
        
        What’s the opposite of “love”, my clever wee wordsmith? ?
        
        Sure, your invitation to shoot fish in a barrel – and you’ve given me a lot of practice the last two days – is accepted:
        
        You assume (and as pointed out, you have a weakness for that), in your rhetorical question that there is only one opposite of love. “Indifference” will also suffice as the opposite of love in some contexts. And “indifference” is not “hate”.
        
        You also assume (see how this is a habit of yours?) in your rhetorical question that Jones implied that because he thought Folau’s statements were “without love”, that he meant that it was in fact the opposite. Again, another non sequitur…sorry, gotta keep it simple for you, another logical non sequential. Just because something is absent, does not mean its mirror opposite is present. For example, the opposite of black is white, but just because you describe something as non-black, doesn’t automatically mean it is white.
        
        Hence, if you say that something someone said/tweeted lacks love, it does not automatically imply or mean that it is hateful. Indeed, in context, and as mentioned before, as Jones described Folau as a good guy, we have good reason to surmise Jones did not consider what was tweeted hateful.
        
        Hence, Jones intent was not to “set him right” on the matter of hate speech.
        
        Now, got any more fish to shoot? I can do this all day? And as I’ve eschewed using the term “moron”, and stuck to only debating the (il)logic of your arguments today, is there a reason you are engaging in sarcastic name-calling such as “clever wee wordsmith”, which you previously said you don’t do. Bang! And there goes another fish…
        
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        April 20, 2018 3:18pm
      - Kimbo
        
        It was “hateful” enough to get Sir Michael Jones to set him right.
        
        …Rubbish (again) Kimbo!
        I never claimed that MJ called what Israel said was “hate speech”.
        I said “he set him right”.
        Which he did in a very nice and loving way.
        
        …What’s the opposite of “love”, my clever wee wordsmith? ?
        
        Plus you are now engaging in equivocation (calling two different things by the same name).
        
        On the one hand you say that you have not put the words/meaning/intent “hate speech” into Sir Michael’s Jones’ statements
        
        …yet on the other, here you are saying that Jones’ words/meaning intent was “to set (Folau) right” on the matter of hate speech.
        
        Yet as both are mutually exclusive, they both can’t be right.
        
        Bang! Got another fish in that perpetually-supplied barrel of yours?
        
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        April 20, 2018 3:52pm
- itstricky
  
  It is okay when Muslims stone homosexuals according to the homosexual activist CEO of Qantas.
  
  That’s a bit of a stretch, isn’t it? Brendan and yourself are extrapolating a singular belief of a religion out to the beliefs of a country out to the beliefs of a company that was founded in that country. Seems like a long hop.
  
  Personally, I’m interested to hear what our esteemed Christian KB crowd think of extremist Muslim pronouncements of their God’s will and way. I mean, after all, they’re “just quoting the Koran”, aren’t they?
  
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  April 20, 2018 10:45am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    The openly homosexual chief executive of Qantas, Alan Joyce, was deeply offended by Folau’s tweet, and threatened to withdraw the airline’s sponsorship of Rugby Australia should the offence be repeated. However, Joyce’s sensitivities did not prevent him from consummating a commercial relationship between Qantas and Emirates, an airline owned by an Islamic country that imprisons homosexuals.
    
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=12035610
    
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    April 20, 2018 11:23am
    - Kimbo
      
      Not sure of your point, Chuck, nor Brendan McNeill’s. If it is that free speech like Alan Joyce’s threats of commercial action against Folau’s free speech must be reasonable, fair and consistent
      
      …then that too would demonstrate McNeill still, and also you misunderstand free speech.
      
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      April 20, 2018 11:29am
      - Chuck Bird
        
        I am not saying Joyce must be must be reasonable, fair and consistent. I am saying if he is not he is a hypocrite. I do not think he will read my comment or change his view if he did.
        
        However, by pointing out his inconsistency others my change their view of him and Folau.
        
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        April 20, 2018 11:58am
      - Kimbo
        
        @ Chuck Bird
        
        Ok. Thanks. So McNeill’s op ed is a spring board for you, and the issue of “free speech” vs “hate speech” isn’t you concern (that’s not a criticism of you, btw, just an observation).
        
        So, to clarify:
        
        What do you think “others” think of Joyce and Folau now?
        
        What would you like “others” to think of Joyce and Folau if they did “change” those views?
        
        Would it maybe be that Folau and Joyce are both, in their own way…morons?
        
        If so, may free speech long continue as one of its primary benefits is identifying morons whose opinions and/or methods are best avoided, ignored or contradicted. ?
        
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        April 20, 2018 12:04pm
      - Chuck Bird
        
        I would hope some others would see Joyce as a homosexual activist.
        
        On a related issue I wonder who asked the question. It could have been a troll as Hosking suggested. It also could have been someone from another team of code.
        
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        April 20, 2018 1:10pm
      - Kimbo
        
        @ Chuck Bird
        
        I would hope some others would see Joyce as a homosexual activist.
        
        Kinda in the same way Folau is a…Christian activist, or, Kiwiblogger Scott is too when he calls for the recriminalisation of homosexuality? And (I’m not being flippant here)…so what? Activists of various shades, ideologies and/or religions…engage in activism?
        
        On a related issue I wonder who asked the question. It could have been a troll as Hosking suggested. It also could have been someone from another team of code.
        
        I believe it was a journalist, looking for a story. As they usually are when they ask celebrities and sports stars questions, especially leading ones.
        
        And that’s something of which Folau is well aware, and has received considerable media training commensurate with his considerable income. Hence, when it suits him, Folau chooses to avoid questions such as “do you think your Wallaby Michael Cheika is a dickhead?”
        
        So I’m not buying the line of Brendan McNeill that Folau is some sort of martyr or victim in this. He should have been well aware of the potential criticism, contempts and ridicule (which are not the same as persecution!) and financial penalties for potentially harming Rugby Australia’s commercial interests when he tweeted.
        
        Free speech is not without potential consequences. And again, as those consequences take place in the court of public opinion, they don’t have to be reasonable, fair, consistent or proportionate.
        
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        April 20, 2018 1:27pm
      - GoVege
        
        “Not sure..” Kimbo?
        I DON’T believe it! 🙂
        
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        April 20, 2018 2:04pm
      - Kimbo
        
        @ GoVege
        
        “Not sure..” Kimbo?
        I DON’T believe it! ?
        
        In the absence of sufficient clarification from Chuck, and because I do not claim to be a reader of minds and motives without good reason, I prefer not to assume. As I’ve pointed out a number of times, you’ve already got that logical fallacy well and truly covered. Never heard of the advice: when you assume you make an ASS out of U and ME?
        
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        April 20, 2018 3:26pm
cas

The other thing to add to hits to rural areas is that banks ( Aussie owned) are closing branches or cutting hours of service. They expect people to do internet banking but have not checked to see if a) people have access to computers and b) if there is internet coverage or cellphone coverage in an area.

i suppose Shane ‘ Champion of the Regions’ will read this and have a go at the banks next to try and redeem himself
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April 20, 2018 10:10am
lifesgood

Sooooo! The COL has so far managed to piss off all car drivers, all people involved in the oil and gas industry, all the people of Northland, all farmers, oh, fuck it, all tax payers. What have I left off the list?
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April 20, 2018 10:21am
- Piniwi
  
  Perhaps lifesgood pensioners might be on that list since they lost their tax cut?
  
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  April 20, 2018 11:18pm
big bruv

Israel Folau might well be a very simple minded god botherer but that should not deny him the same rights as the scum from the left.
When you think about this a bit it is clear that Folau is doing exactly the same type of thing that the Marvelly sheila and that Mau sheila do. Folau is virtue signalling. He is signalling his virtue to his fellow deluded followers of the sky fairy.
If it is acceptable, and, indeed fashionable for the left to virtue signal then it should be just as acceptable and fashionable for other groups to do the same thing.
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April 20, 2018 10:50am
- MCos
  
  Are you suggesting the Folaus said what they did because they are ‘very simple minded’?
  
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  April 20, 2018 1:23pm
big bruv

Question. Does anybody know why Gayford is travelling overseas on a diplomatic passport instead of his own?
Seems a bit weird really.
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April 20, 2018 10:51am
- rangitoto
  
  You aren’t allowed to ask that question on whaleoil.
  
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  April 20, 2018 10:58am
  - Kimbo
    
    You aren’t allowed to ask it here either. DPF has labelled the rumour without foundation, and has threatened strikes if it persists. As big bruv well knows as the threat by the he blog’s gaffer was addressed directly to him. Unlike AgentBallSack, if big bruv is suspended, no one else here would lament his absence. But best not to allow big bruv to drag others into the cooler with him. And I for one hold miss our discussions on the positive abiding legacy of Martin Luther, and whether Koine Greek is…ancient. ?
    
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    April 20, 2018 11:48am
    - Nookin
      
      Dad would miss BB. The fire in Dad’s belly flares when BB is around.
      Sometimes I think BB misses Dad when Dad is otherwise engaged. He gets ever so grumpy.
      
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      April 20, 2018 1:13pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Stockholm Syndrome? ?
        
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        April 20, 2018 1:44pm
- SGA
  
  @big bruv
  I think I know what underlies your question, but I have no idea what is normal protocol on such trips for partners of PMs and suchlike. There might be long-standing pragmatic reasons. Anyone know for sure?
  
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  April 20, 2018 11:06am
  - SGA
    
    From what I just read, it looks like diplomats’ families share their immunity. Makes sense, although open to abuse. Same might apply to visiting dignitaries and their families.
    
    Under article 37 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, this immunity extends to family members under the following situations:
    1. The members of the family of a diplomatic agent forming part of his household shall, if they are not nationals of the receiving State, enjoy the privileges and immunities specified in articles 29 to 36.
    
    That might explain it, bb.
    
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    April 20, 2018 11:15am
  - RalphT
    
    For a diplomat being posted overseas the protection applies not just to the person being posted but to their family, even though they are not the people working at the Embassy. If not, a foreign government while unable to touch the diplomat could hassle their family. I assume that PMs and Ministers travelling overseas are accorded the same kind of protection and it makes sense to apply that coverage to their partner.
    
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    April 20, 2018 11:16am
    - milkmaid
      
      Yes, I understand Peter Davis was using one when he had to make a quick, unscheduled trip one time.
      
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      April 20, 2018 11:57am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Convenient to skip the immigration queues.
  
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  April 20, 2018 11:18am
- KevOB
  
  I would expect that and I’m no expert on diplomatic protocol. Gayford is recognised here as the PM’s “partner” and it would simplify other travel formalities.
  
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  April 20, 2018 12:33pm
  - RF
    
    In some media circles he is given the status of Husband.
    
    Whatever rocks your boat…….
    
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    April 20, 2018 3:31pm
- MCos
  
  Sounds like you’re on a fishing trip.
  
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  April 20, 2018 1:26pm
Jack5

A Christchurch murder gives evidence of New Zealand’s poor border controls and slow to act Immigration Department.

African, in NZ on false passport, murders woman while awaiting deportation. Why aren’t people awaiting deportation locked up?

If NZ wants all these alleged benefits of diversity, it needs to get the policing right.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12036270
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April 20, 2018 11:25am
- Jack5
  
  Meanwhile, Britain is noticing the NZ Immigration Department’s treatment of Mark Middleton, who came to NZ from Britain as a child 56 years ago, faces deportation.
  
  The case is featured in the Guardian. The link is below. Will this help young NZ’ers get working permits in Britain? Sadiq Khan, Jacinderella’s Lefty Mate, won’t have any say on that issue.
  
  Middleton’s step-daughter, Karla Cardno, 13, was kidnapped, raped, tortured and buried alive by the sub-human Paul Dally, who remains in prison. If any New Zealander deserved to be hanged, it’s Dally.
  
  On the face of it, a New Zealander (56 years here – since he was an infant) and a close relative of a victim of a murderer is persecuted, and a foreign would-be murderer was left at large.
  
  Dally repeatedly is turned down for release from prison by the Parole Board, but will he stay in jail under dip-stick Little’s plans to free prisoners?
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/17/endless-nightmare-british-stepfather-of-murdered-new-zealand-girl-could-be-deported
  
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  April 20, 2018 11:41am
  - Jack5
    
    To call Little a dip-stick is too kind.
    
    The PR photographs of him and relatives of victims entering the portal (the tunnel entrance) of the Pike River mine show what a PR, tax-sucking trick the body recovery deal is.
    
    The miners’ remains won’t be recovered. Those families of miners who don’t want the mine touched will likely be relieved at that.
    
    A few of the millions promised would have built a moving monument in Greymouth to all the region’s miners who have died underground.
    
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    April 20, 2018 11:55am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      And the prick Little is the same prick Little who deemed the mine to be safe when he was in charge of the union representing the miners working there.
      Is there a word that means the same as ‘hypocrite x 1000?’
      
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      April 20, 2018 12:11pm
      - sooty
        
        Deemed safe enough as well to go an poke his nose in 30m yesterday.
        
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        April 20, 2018 12:35pm
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Or to fund initiatives for jobs for former miners, since mining is dying.
      
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      April 20, 2018 7:04pm
  - GoVege
    
    Come on, we all know the judges just HATE it when bereaved family members offer to do their job for them.
    Next thing they could be on the dole instead of pulling in several hundred g’s for some pretty cr*p decisions.
    
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    April 20, 2018 12:40pm
- GoVege
  
  F’ng incredible this psycho was allowed to roam free.
  My European brother-in-law who wouldn’t hurt a fly was locked up in Mt Eden for 6 weeks before he was deported.
  Course he was white….and married to a 2nd generation Kiwi.
  That must explain it….
  
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  April 20, 2018 12:31pm
- Chuck Bird
  
  “Why aren’t people awaiting deportation locked up?”
  
  You have answered that yourself – Mark Middleton.
  
  If has to be done on a case by case basis. They got both wrong in this case.
  
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  April 20, 2018 1:55pm
GoVege

Notice another sadistic slaughterer of defenceless women who honed his butchery skills on “lesser species”.
Just like some sadist in Oz on CI recently.
The cops figured Raymond someone had murdered a mother found in a river, because she had been slaughtered in exactly the same manner the perp butchered sheep in his job at the abattoir.
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April 20, 2018 12:36pm
- Kimbo
  
  Notice another sadistic slaughterer of defenceless women who honed his butchery skills on “lesser species”.
  Just like some sadist in Oz on CI recently.
  
  Non sequitur (google it).
  
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  April 20, 2018 12:37pm
  - GoVege
    
    So what’s illogical about my second statement, my pedantic friend?
    You know all so I’m sure you can explain it in everyday English. 🙂
    
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    April 20, 2018 12:45pm
    - Kimbo
      
      Your whole sense (I’m using the term loosely and with considerable charity in your case) unit (hence I quoted it all, not just the second statement) that implied butchering animals leads to butchering humans, is (in English) logically non-sequential.
      
      But interesting to see you consider logic “pedantic”. Others have noted that about your posts.
      
      So, just to clarify, as any language other than English seems to drag you beyond your comprehension capacity (again I’m using the term loosely and charitably in your case), I take it you don’t use other forms of speech derived from Latin such as “e.g.,”, “etc.,”, “i.e..,”…?
      
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      April 20, 2018 12:50pm
      - GoVege
        
        Thank you for explaining, my patronising pedant.
        Actually it is indeed logical that butchering animals can lead to butchering humans.
        It is well documented that most serial killers practised on animals before moving on to humans.
        Not so well documented (probably so as not to upset meat-eaters), is that many murderers and serial killers were previously employed as slaughtermen (or women, in the psycho Australian Katherine Knight’s case.)
        Google it, and you’ll find out yourself how a career in killing animals desensitizes people and leads to violent behaviour and even murder.
        
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        April 20, 2018 1:38pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Correlation is not causation. Hence, whether you label it pedantic or not, your assertion is both umpire ally dubious, and therefore logically non sequential.
        
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        April 20, 2018 1:49pm
      - GoVege
        
        BTW Kimbo, it might surprise you to know I got an “A” for SC English, and currently proof read business letters as part of my job.
        The reason I don’t bother with all those silly little nit-pickin’ words you refer to, is because of a revelation I received some years ago whilst reading a book by Steven Pinker.
        He believes that common lingo/ pidgin English/whatever still counts and should be acceptable.
        To do otherwise is to exclude those people lacking as advanced an education or just plain aptitude for language as other people (e.g. pedants).
        So long as you get your message across, that’s all that really matters.
        
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        April 20, 2018 2:16pm
      - Kimbo
        
        To do otherwise is to exclude those people lacking as advanced an education or just plain aptitude for language as other people (e.g. pedants).
        
        But that can’t apply to you because you wrote just before then:
        
        BTW Kimbo, it might surprise you to know I got an “A” for SC English, and currently proof read business letters as part of my job.
        
        So that’s yet another ~~non sequitur~~ logical non sequential. I hope someone is keeping a tally of these fish in a barrel I’m slaughtering because I fear I may soon incur the wrath of Greenpeace.
        
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        April 20, 2018 3:33pm
      - GoVege
        
        How long ago did you retire, Kimbo?
        You’re obviously missing your job at the school.
        Go back and promise not to make the kids feel dumb and I’m sure they’ll take you back.
        Now your homework :
        How many assumptions?
        ” ” non-sequiturs?
        ” ” WTF in the above?
        
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        April 20, 2018 6:28pm
      - Kimbo
        
        So to confirm, I’ve given you the benefit of the doubt, refrained from personal abuse, stuck solely to critiquing logically your views as you insisted you do
        
        ..and you are now out of any logical comeback (again, that phrase is loose, and I’m being charitable as you had precious little in anything today with which I took issue)
        
        …and as a defensive mechanism you now resort to personal attacks.
        
        Thanks for the fish in a barrel.
        
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        April 20, 2018 7:25pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Kimbo: this forum is called “General Debate”, not “General Insults”.
        People who cannot debate the merits of an argument and resort to insulting the intelligence or any other attribute of the other person, are probably not capable of debate, or are afraid of where rational discussion might lead.
        
        …You use a lot of emotive language: “interrogate”, “sanctimonious “, “passive-aggressive”, “guilt-laden” (besides the oft-repeated “moron”).
        It sounds like I may have stirred up a lot of emotions in you.
        I haven’t done it deliberately.
        
        …Kimbo: I only call people insulting names like “moron” when I’m really angry, so I have to assume that either you’re just very rude, or I’m making you angry.
        It has to be one or the other surely.
        
        https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/04/general_debate_19_april_2018.html
        
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        April 20, 2018 7:32pm
      - Kimbo
        
        You had my number yesterday with “rude” GoVege. Indeed, I had clarified earlier that I don’t think that you deserve the usual courtesies of polite discourse given your wilful lack of sense on nearly any subject on which you opine. However, in your case, and going by your psychological projections, I’m calling you as “angry”.
        
        Fish in a barrel…
        
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        April 20, 2018 7:38pm
      - GoVege
        
        You say you have “refrained from personal abuse “?
        You called me a moron at least 20 times last night!
        (Though I concede that compared to quite a few KB’ers, that is mild.)
        So how did I “personally abuse” you?
        By suggesting you might be a retired schoolteacher who is a little frustrated at no longer being able to expound on “non-sequiturs” and the like?
        You are not alone, my friend!
        I have two close friends who have master’s degrees in history and have NEVER really got to use them because there isn’t the demand.
        Your knowledge of English grammar is very admirable, but not many people know or actually care what a correlation or a non-sequitur is.
        And I believe you can have an intelligent and logical discussion without using them.
        I know a few big words too but I avoid using them unless I’m sure the other person understands them.
        Are you going to comment on what Steven Pinker said about accepting others’ less than perfect English because the real purpose of a conversation is to get your message across?
        
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        April 20, 2018 8:10pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Haven’t called you “moron” today.
        
        And I disagree with Pinker. As was clear when I asked it you avoid using etc., i.e.,, e.g., all Latin phrases like non sequitur. A short technical term can also enhance understanding as it unisex’s fewer words. Such as quid pro quo instead of “I will do something for you because you did something for me. Isn’t that hard.
        
        And yes, people do care what a correlation and a consequential are, although in your case, as avoiding a logical discussion seems your primary gift, I can see why you assume (yet again) and project onto others.
        
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        April 20, 2018 9:21pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Also the name of a comic strip, so it ain’t that hard to learn the meaning, even if you only look at the pictures.
        
        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_Sequitur_(comic_strip)
        
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        April 20, 2018 9:38pm
- cmm
  
  Of course animals are “lesser species”. Even you agree, but you may not realise it.
  
  If the woman had been killed by a lion, you would not be applying the same level of morality. You would not call the lion a sadist or a perp. Nor would you add the emotive phrases: defenceless woman, mother, etc.
  
  You are holding this man to a higher standard than you would a lion. Therefore, by that very action you are agreeing that a lion is a lesser specie.
  
  I have killed many animals. Heck, I might even go kill some this week end now that you make me think of it. I very much doubt I’ll ever commit a murder. Well over 50 years into the game I have not done so yet.
  
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  April 20, 2018 1:07pm
  - GoVege
    
    I’ll have to take your word for that, cmm. 🙂
    Of course I wouldn’t call a lion a sadist or perp.
    Lions are carnivores, they don’t have much choice other than to eat other animals.
    I agree they don’t have the same ability to reason (yet, anyway) as we apes do, but there are cases of female lions choosing to adopt baby animals of other species rather than eat them, so it seems some do.
    BTW, I commend you for killing your food yourself, rather than expecting them to wait in line for the executioner.
    I trust you do it as kindly and humanely as possible.
    
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    April 20, 2018 1:53pm
    - cmm
      
      If you don’t like lions, then let’s go with chimps.
      
      Chimps, like some of our brothers and sisters, are omnivorous and are also cannibals.
      
      Would you hold chimps to the same standard?
      
      If not then they are a lesser specie.
      
      And I mainly kill lesser species because they are vermin. They are vermin because they are lesser species and compete with us. I do sometimes eat them too.
      
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      April 20, 2018 7:02pm
      - GoVege
        
        I hate chimps!
        Vicious bast*rds who’ll rip you to pieces without a second thought.
        I keep away from all carnivores and even some herbivores when they’re having a bad day.
        Naturally our first loyalty should be to our own species, though it doesn’t necessarily mean that other species are all lower than us.
        We’ve gotta eat and I realize that most men love eating meat.
        Even one of my favourite authors Steven Pinker made me very cross by referring to “meat hunger”.
        If you were raised from birth to be vegetarian I’m sure you would never experience “meat hunger”.
        (Meat revulsion would be more like it.)
        I’m not one of these fanatics overseas who reckon animals should be accorded “rights”, etc.
        I just don’t think any sentient being should be dragged from its mum to be killed at a few days old, or have to stand in line to be killed.
        If we’re such a superior species, shouldn’t we act like it and try our best to prevent suffering to individuals whose only fault was to be born into another animal species?
        That said, the meat industry in western nations is infinitely superior to that in non-western countries, where they sink as low as to torture and kill man’s best friend and other companion animals.
        And the fact is, thanks to human ignorance and particularly unmitigated male chauvinism in “developing countries”, we are running out of room to raise animals to eat.
        
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        April 20, 2018 7:51pm
stephieboy

This is sensational!

As well as a great hit with the Queen and other international dignitaries our PM has unsurprisingly made Times list of the worlds’ 100 most influential people,

“A designation of individuals whose time, in our estimation, is now”, Time said.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12036134

Do carefully note how absolutely relaxed and at home our PM is with her majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Surely all this a great moment of shared rejoicing.

Please be standing for the Queen’s anthem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN9EC3Gy6Nk&list=RDtN9EC3Gy6Nk&t=26
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April 20, 2018 12:43pm
- rangitoto
  
  Gosh. She’s just like Trump.
  
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  April 20, 2018 3:33pm
- Nostradamus
  
  That’s a change from the Top 50 Islamic Hits that you usually play at home. Your musical taste is eclectic!
  
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  April 20, 2018 3:36pm
- Jack5
  
  Stephie X, Jacinderella will no doubt appear on the cover of the Sydney-based South Pacific edition of Time.
  
  Most of our politicians do. Then the PR’s spread the bull about our PM being on the cover of Time.
  
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  April 20, 2018 3:47pm
- Viking2
  
  Do you think the Queen could put her up for a year or three as a permanent border?
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:16pm
  - mikewasmild
    
    Well, she seemed to put up with John Key for a stay at Balmoral, so I guess anything’s possible.
    
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    April 20, 2018 8:21pm
Captain Mainwaring

So Angry Little must have issued instructions to the judges already.
This prick should have been locked up for 10 years.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/103255749/killer-driver-sentenced-to-home-detention
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April 20, 2018 1:02pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  And Angry wants to relax the bail rules. This killer driver was on bail for Meth charges and absconed from his bail address. Driving a stolen ute (what sort of arsehole is his father to be riding with him?)
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/103259986/crash-kills-married-couple-and-20-year-old-man-near-thames
  
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  April 20, 2018 1:15pm
  - GoVege
    
    Why the hell wasn’t this young crim given an ankle bracelet?
    Is there a shortage of them or something?
    
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    April 20, 2018 2:23pm
Monique Watson

Cohen is off to court. And always fly aisle. And if it goes to the wall in the air, you better hope the pilot is capable of banking down the Bird onto the tarmac on a 41 degree angle.

That’s just almost unheard of. And it’s unheard of commercially. She didn’t need to drop it into the Hudson, but to take it down on that angle!
We got a heroine here.
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April 20, 2018 1:05pm
- cmm
  
  There was no point in dropping it in the Hudson.
  The Hudson crash was due to the plane losing all power at take off after swallowing a flock of birds. No height, gravity, even getting a neat splash in the Hudson was a challenge.
  
  In this case the plane was still flying (powered and everything), though it was certainly one for the books.
  
  Thanks for the travel tip. Being quite tall, I try to fly aisle anyway as I can then unroll my legs properly. Sleep is a bit harder as the trolly-dollies seem to play a game called “how many shins can we ding before someone swears at us”.
  
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  April 20, 2018 1:35pm
  - Monique Watson
    
    That’s when you dump your half-assed half-warmed cup of coffee on the trolly-dollies and then demand a G&T. It’s alright as long as it stays in the air. No matter the time of day. And if the window blows out, forget the oxygen masks, grab onto the tray table and don’t let your head go out the window.
    
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    April 20, 2018 1:58pm
    - cmm
      
      Thank you Monique.
      
      I have files away the G&T trick for the next time I fly. I will practice it with the family so I’m proficient.
      
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      April 20, 2018 7:06pm
Manolo

On AGW:
https://www.spectator.com.au/2018/04/illusion-of-knowledge-warming-the-planet/

In this the 30th anniversary year of the IPCC, we should look back and remember the original sin with which it was born and how that has condemned us to dishonesty in science, ignorance-based policies and social division on a global scale.
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April 20, 2018 1:30pm
- All_on_Red
  
  AR5 (2013) is a distinct improvement over previous IPCC reports.
  They’ve acknowledged uncertainty about aspects of the ‘science’ and also provided observational data to clear up a few things.
  Extreme weather events being one. Covered in Chapter 2, what the IPCC state is a bit different to some of the alarmist claims being made.
  It’s so bad one could say that people like Shaw et al are the science deniers.
  Some of the claims made even just a decade ago now look completely ridiculous.
  
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  April 20, 2018 3:10pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Ha, 2 downticks from a couple is science deniers
    Meanwhile in the US the first half of April was third coldest in the past 110 years in the US, and the coldest since 1975. The three warmest first fifteen days of April occurred in 1910, 1930 and 1925, when about 80% of days were over 60 degrees.
    
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    April 20, 2018 7:40pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Congratulations Mr Faafoi.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/355605/minister-intervenes-to-stop-mark-middleton-deportation
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April 20, 2018 3:11pm
- RalphT
  
  Well Maggy, I guess that with 75 committees to advise them it was likely that at some stage they would get something right.
  
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  April 20, 2018 3:40pm
- GazzaW
  
  ……..and hopefully a good Ministerial kick in the slats for those petty Immigration Dept bureaucrats responsible for the disgraceful action. Was Mark Middleton just lowhanging fruit?
  
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  April 20, 2018 3:52pm
  - Justitia
    
    There is something quite rotten in the state of the Immigration Service. They acted like the Gestapo against Middleton while allowing an illegal muslim immigrant to roam at large and kill a sex worker. They need a thorough cleanout from the top down.
    
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    April 20, 2018 5:00pm
gorse

Can we get a petition going to undo the ban on oil and gas exploration? Maybe if it got 100,000 signatures and was presented on the steps of Parliament to Simon Bridges it would have great impact on Adern.
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April 20, 2018 3:32pm
- stigie
  
  A bigger impact would be to deliver those 100,000 signatures on the Parliament steps on a Massey Ferguson 28. People will sit up and take notice !~
  
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  April 20, 2018 4:34pm
GazzaW

I have just returned from dealings with our much maligned health system left in such terrible disarray after nine years of mismanagement under Tony Ryall and Jonathan Coleman.

For a total cost of just $43 I received a very comprehensive blood test last week, a full health check today along with flu and shingles shots. Another $20 covered my medication for three months.

‘Dr’ Clarke can take none of the credit for our very fine GP system and grassroots medical care.
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April 20, 2018 4:03pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  To support GazzaW’s comments I’ve had several minor issues attended to under the public health system over the past couple of years and cannot fault them.
  They usually say ‘we’ll attend to you within four months’ and invariably you’re under the knife within half of that.
  I worry about ongoing issues though as this crowd steadily takes us back to the dark days of Klarkula’s regime.
  
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  April 20, 2018 7:57pm
dave_c_

So, tell me what’s with this crap creeping into television broadcasting.
Blah de blah de da in aotearoa
Blah de blah blah in aotearoa.
Slippery slope, I surmise we are being softened up to accept a name change in the forseeable future !
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April 20, 2018 4:38pm
Anne Glen Eden

I haven’t been keeping up.

Recent communication from the Conservative Party (new branding coming – I wonder what that will be).

“We have not been active with Press Releases over the last couple of months. We want to focus on building the new brand rather than strengthening the old, and that has taken a little longer than we had hoped to establish. We did release one yesterday which can be seen on our website here.

http://www.conservativeparty.org.nz/index.php/2018/04/19/israel-folau-a-hero-not-a-villain/

We are tired of the media’s bias and bigotry in its comment on so many issues. True journalism seems a thing of the past.

Our new website with a very fresh, clean and vibrant look is developing well and almost ready to launch. Of course we will not do that until launch day, but that, and an updated facebook page, will help bring in a whole new season and opportunity for conservative New Zealanders. We are very encouraged by the current political climate which has many people looking for a party like ours. We just need to get noticed for a start! And this is what we are working hard on for June 5.”

I can’t imagine the MSM are going to cooperate with their desire for publicity, considering the ‘broken ranks’ around Israel Folau.
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April 20, 2018 4:57pm
Nostradamus

Hans Asperger ‘actively cooperated with Nazi child euthanasia program’, study finds

Hans Asperger’s name may become “mud” and be scrapped from the medical lexicon following new evidence he was an active Nazi collaborator, an autism history expert says.

A new study, published in the journal of Molecular Autism this week by medical historian Herwig Czech, was the result of eight years of research and drew on previously unseen documents, including Asperger’s personnel files and the clinical assessments he wrote on his patients. It concluded that while Asperger was never a member of the Nazi Party, he “actively cooperated with the child ‘euthanasia’ program”.

So those who’ve been diagnosed with Aspergers will now be diagnosed as having what?

Steve Silberman, an American writer and expert in the history of the autism spectrum disorder, said the latest revelations added to a growing body of research looking at Asperger’s time during the war. … Mr Silberman said the “bible of psychiatry” in the US — the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — had already removed the term “Asperger syndrome” and replaced it with a broader definition around autism spectrum disorder.

I think this has broader implications. If we review history and decide that someone was a bad person, and that something named after that bad person should be called something else, where does historical revisionism start and end?
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April 20, 2018 5:32pm
- Johnboy
  
  Quite so old chap. We regularly hear of disparaging stuff regarding “Muldoonism” but never hear anything bad about “Langism”!
  Who was the fatarse, useless prick I hear you all ask? 🙂
  
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  April 20, 2018 6:29pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Who was the fatarse, useless prick I hear you all ask?
    
    Is this a pub quiz question? Is the answer Jonathan Hunt?
    
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    April 20, 2018 6:32pm
    - Johnboy
      
      First name David. Second name rhymes with “Flange” but personality/morals rhymes with “Hunt”….close but no cigar Nostra! 🙂
      
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      April 20, 2018 6:38pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Johnboy:
        
        If you ask us to identify a “fatarse, useless prick”, and you’re referring to the Labour Party, then there are multiple correct answers. It’s not a fair pub quiz question old chap!
        
        Edit: at least one fatarse, useless prick has identified himself or herself in response to this comment!
        
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        April 20, 2018 7:00pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        At least two humourless fatarse useless pricks read Kiwiblog! How many can I bring out into the light tonight? 🙂
        
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        April 20, 2018 7:26pm
Nostradamus

Update on Penny Bright

$14,122 donated
207 generous donors

She has 6 hours and 20 minutes to raise a further $6,878.
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April 20, 2018 5:41pm
- Johnboy
  
  What a bugger. I gave my last spare $5 to purchase a poppy! Sorry Penny. 🙂
  
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  April 20, 2018 5:57pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Johnboy:
    
    Is your accommodation offer still on the table?
    
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    April 20, 2018 6:02pm
    - Johnboy
      
      I’ll run that question past my pigs if the time comes for a serious decision old chap! 🙂
      
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      April 20, 2018 6:05pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Johnboy:
        
        I’m saddened to read of her plight. There will always be room in my cowshed for her and I’m certain my pigs will welcome her various cat’s at dinner time. ?
        
        March 24, 2018 4:28pm
        
        Everything seemed fine last month. Have things become more complicated since then?
        
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        April 20, 2018 6:09pm
      - Johnboy
        
        My cow’s have all succumbed to Mycoplasma bovis and my pigs have eaten both mine and the neighbours cats but apart from that Nostra everything’s tickity boo! 🙂
        
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        April 20, 2018 6:19pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        No cows, the pigs are hungry, and you sent Flossie to the meetworks last year. It sounds like you need a flatmate to help you through the hard times, old chap?
        
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        April 20, 2018 6:30pm
      - Johnboy
        
        If she brought say ten cat’s Nostra I’m almost certain the pigs and I could accomodate her! 🙂
        
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        April 20, 2018 6:33pm
      - stigie
        
        You never did say why you got rid of Blossom JB, you just said you packed her off down the road.
        Question is, wasn’t she putting out..?
        
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        April 20, 2018 6:55pm
      - Johnboy
        
        I have a sensitive nose stigie. I couldn’t stand the smell of her fly-strike. 🙂
        
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        April 20, 2018 6:59pm
      - sooty
        
        14,500 at 8.15. She’ coming up short.
        
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        April 20, 2018 9:22pm
- Viking2
  
  Seems that Penny is not so well. On the telly tonight. May have Ovarian Cancer.
  
  Don’t wish that on her.
  
  Her methods may be unusual but her goal remains a good idea.
  Looking at the Aussie banking shambles one could see the same here with councils.
  Tauranga is rapidly becoming a mess.
  
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  April 20, 2018 7:53pm
- GoVege
  
  I don’t believe it!
  This silly woman is the author of her own situation.
  She should either get a reverse mortgage to pay back her rates or use the money left over from the sale of her home to buy a unit.
  And when she does, let’s hope she does something useful to get attention from here on.
  
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  April 20, 2018 8:16pm
  - sooty
    
    Can councils ban her from owning property again?
    
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    April 20, 2018 9:17pm
All_on_Red

Heh, this aged well, not.
@Comey (James Comey)
Special Agent Andrew McCabe stood tall over the last 8 months, when small people were trying to tear down an institution we all depend on. He served with distinction for two decades. I wish Andy well. I also wish continued strength for the rest of the FBI. America needs you.
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April 20, 2018 7:44pm
Viking2

Todays topic 30 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky3I1geZ-TQ
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April 20, 2018 7:49pm
publicwatchdog

Penny Bright UPDATE!
(Friday 20 April 2018 8.43pm)

Ok folks!

Got till midnight tonight to raise $21,000.

Have now raised $14,518.

HUGE thanks to those who’ve helped.

Just $6482 to go!

That’s 324 x $20

Thanks for your support 🙂

Help ‘Anti-corruption whistle-blower’ Penny Bright save her home! – Givealittle

https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/help-anti-corruption-whistle-blower-penny-bright
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April 20, 2018 9:18pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Penny:
  
  Hopefully you’ve read the Kiwiblog messages of goodwill today and yesterday in relation to your personal health.
  
  You had a meeting with Auckland Council today, right? What was the outcome? And has Mr McCready entered into a financial arrangement with you in relation to this $150,000 tender offer?
  
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  April 20, 2018 9:25pm
  - Swifty
    
    Only gone up $150 in the last hour – still just under $6.5k to get in less than two hours….
    
    Hell, this is just like the Telethons we had as kids! 🙂
    
    “Thank you very much for your kind donations, thank you very much, thank you very, very, very, very much….”
    
    Will she make it? It’s looking grim!
    
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    April 20, 2018 10:06pm
  - Swifty
    
    Hang on, there’s been some late betting….
    
    $14, 943 received as at 10.09pm!
    
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    April 20, 2018 10:09pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Thanks to Swifty, we have live-blog commentary, and the excitement factor is off the scale! Will a white knight in shining armour come to the rescue at the 11th hour?
      
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      April 20, 2018 10:20pm
      - stigie
        
        Im picking Johnboy is going to make a late entry Nostra..?
        Don’t count out DG as well !~
        
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        April 20, 2018 10:53pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Stigie:
        
        Givealittle does permit conditional offers so anything’s possible!
        
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        April 20, 2018 11:23pm
      - KiWombat
        
        “Telethon” is over
        
        It’s all over red rover !
        
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        April 21, 2018 12:05am
      - Swifty
        
        It seems not Nosty!
        
        The pledges maxed out at $15,120 – the last donation being about 11:00 last night – the last $6,oo0 just proved a bridge too far!
        
        No white knight and no tidal-wave of support unfortunately.
        
        Where does this leave Penny? How will she escape this curly predicament now?
        
        Is this the end for our fearless crusader?
        
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        April 21, 2018 7:02am
    - Swifty
      
      “You don’t know how nice it’s all seeeeeeamed, it’s been much better than we’ve DREEEEEEEEAMED…..”
      
      Thank you very much!
      
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      April 21, 2018 6:51am

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