General Debate 8 April 2018

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duggledog

Regarding the appalling statistic of 11,000+ overstayers in New Zealand at any time –

A simple and far cheaper way of getting rid of these parasites without bothering Immigration officers:

Using the effective, age-old practice of Bounty Hunting, can I suggest publishing all the mugs and relevant details of all the overstayers on a Government website, which is then advertised as a source of tax-free income for those of an investigative or patriotic disposition.

Immigration must have this on file, plus unique information such as height, tattoos etc. so, load em up.

Green Category: Exceeds visa from 2 weeks to four months – $3,500 cash reward

Yellow Category: Exceeds visa from four months to twelve months – $7,000 cash reward

Red Category: Exceeds visa by over twelve months – $15,000 cash reward.

Remember, a lot of overstayers are employed, housed or shielded by other undesirables so a fine of $50,000 plus up to three years imprisonment and / or deportation if not a NZ citizen also applies.

Watch them get dobbed in – those extra cops we were promised can help with this for their first year. Indians would be the first to go. Tougher to get rid of the PIs but remember Tongans don’t like Samoans and vice versa.

Job done by Christmas.
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April 8, 2018 8:01am
- Chris R
  
  Interesting! Would the overstayers be tossed out as soon as they are apprehended or could they be press-ganged into a season or so picking apples, cleaning parks etc….before expulsion?
  
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  April 8, 2018 8:24am
  - ross411
    
    People don’t understand the appeal of a bit of the old slavery, do they Chris ;-P
    
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    April 8, 2018 8:48am
    - Chris R
      
      Slavery? Who said they’d be slaves? Oh I see you’re being sarcastic whereas I am being sincere as has duggledog.
      
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      April 8, 2018 8:57am
  - pdm
    
    A lot of them are probably picking fruit already.
    
    It is the `indigenous’, dole bludging white and brown New Zealand citizens who refuse to pick fruit.
    
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    April 8, 2018 9:45am
    - Piniwi
      
      But pdm as we say recently we are also seeing along with freedom camper are other who come with nothing to “live off the land” and healthy trash bins.
      Obviously far fewer are opting for fruit harvesting unlike back in the day when they just rocked up at the orchard gate. Industry is already up to 12000 legally imported pickers this year and needing more.
      
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      April 8, 2018 5:19pm
- MCos
  
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  Why stop there Johnny Citizen?
  Let’s make everyone on a temporary visa wear a distinguishing patch so anyone can stop them in the street and demand to see their passport.
  English could wear the cross of St George etc
  
  As far as I’m concerned you can shove your bounty system up your arse. I don’t want some greedy busybody stopping me in the street and questioning me about my wife’s right to live here on the off chance they’ve won the lotto.
  There’s a government department that chases overstayers & the number of offenders has dropped 50% in recent years. There are about 10,000 overstayers. If that’s too much for you complain to your MP or someone.
  
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  April 8, 2018 8:50am
  - VicParking
    
    Sarcasm Cos or has it gone over your pea brain container
    
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    April 8, 2018 9:23am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Labour will not like this idea – unless they get the voting details before deporting them
  
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  April 8, 2018 9:44am
- backster
  
  Wasn’t old Peters going to stop them coming in in the first place?..How come we never get regular immigration figures these days. Maybe the media have been bullied into keeping them suppressed.
  
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  April 8, 2018 11:39am
  - mikewasmild
    
    Check out Croaking Cassandra on DPF’s blog roll for comment on the timeliness of immigration statistics.
    
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    April 8, 2018 11:43am
KiWombat

It’s beginning to look as though MeTu had at least an iota of common decency about her – she was prepared to fall on her sword when her indiscretions became known to the wider electorate, although she did wait until it became more than just warm in the kitchen – but

Eugenie Sage met with either a man from the EPA or a woman from the Ministry for Environment – not sure which – she should have gone to Specsavers !

Clare Curran didn’t arrange a meeting, that was just an unfortunate misunderstanding –

– neither did she warn anybody away from attending a Parliamentary Select Committee – that was just an unfortunate misinterpretation –

WeeWinnie didn’t attempt to sue Bill English & Co – the media misinterpreted that as well

Cindy didn’t mean to say “A true mark of leadership is whether you front those mistakes:- the camera was inadvertently rolling at the time –

Ron Mark didn’t misuse military aircraft, they just happened to be misguidedly passing his back porch –

Labour didn’t supply booze to underage children, their caterer just made an unfortunate miscalculation –

JAG didn’t mean to be nasty about old white men – we just got all confused about her terminology –

Shane Jones was told his project feasibility study was a waste of money, but he unfortunately misread that and carried on regardless –

Jenny Marcroft didn’t attempt to bribe Mark Mitchell, Mitchell became confused and misunderstood what she said –

Cindy didn’t promise “no strikes on my watch” – that was just misreporting by TVNZ that should have been edited out –

Nobody put their hand down a kiddies pants, somebody was just brushing the ants off their tush – another unfortunate misunderstanding –

Twitford didn’t promise us 100,000 new homes – then have to re-define the term “year” – just an unfortunate miscalculation –

Shane Jones didn’t really promise 100,000,000 trees per year, this was an unfortunate misassessment, and in any case he couldn’t control the Autumn from hell –

Paul Eagle didn’t attempt to bribe his local panel beater into committing insurance fraud – the poor panel beater unfortunately suffers from mistaken belief syndrome –

This agglomeration of misunderstandings, false impressions, misreadings, miscalculations, mistaken beliefs, misinterpretations, fuck ups, errors and mix-ups is beginning to get somewhat tedious. The time has come for one or two heads to roll.

Cindy – lets do this !
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April 8, 2018 8:02am
- Tricati
  
  Yep – you couldn’t make this shit up
  
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  April 8, 2018 8:49am
  - KiWombat
    
    Too right Tric – Nicky Hager should be scribbling away furiously as we speak – he might eventually get a best seller !!
    
    Have noticed copies of his last books on bookstore disposal shelves for 50c poor bugger !
    
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    April 8, 2018 4:48pm
- Monty
  
  And what will be the scandal or mis-interpretation this week? All these issues will just roll on. Will the tax that isn’t a tax get more legs? Will Curren return from witless protection? Will Cindy show concerned face when the next cluster revelation is exposed? Will grant find something else to tax?
  
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  April 8, 2018 9:42am
  - sooty
    
    Cindy is going on a holiday junket in a few days. Will she provide witless protection to all her cabinet by takeing them all with her?
    
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    April 8, 2018 12:12pm
    - Piniwi
      
      Sorted sooty with only 3 more days of pain next week before the House again goes into recess until May.
      
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      April 8, 2018 5:25pm
  - KiWombat
    
    Yeah Monty – I forgot the no new taxes didn’t I ?
    
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    April 8, 2018 4:49pm
Chuck Bird

FYI

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Why the Green Party will be gone in a decade

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12027293
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April 8, 2018 8:05am
- sooty
  
  Different from NZF, which will be gone at the next election!
  
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  April 8, 2018 8:18am
  - MrLovebucket
    
    I fear that Labour will gift them a safe seat (Dunedin Sth?) at the next election to preserve them in parliament given they will struggle around the 2% mark from here on in.
    
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    April 8, 2018 8:21am
    - stephieboy
      
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      Much like the Nats gifting ACT Epsom who have never achieved the 5% threshold
      
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      April 8, 2018 8:29am
      - Lance
        
        That’s good old MMP for yah
        
        Mind you, it was evil, wicked and nasty when the Nats did it.
        
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        April 8, 2018 8:41am
      - gander
        
        So to stephieboy, history only began in 2005?
        
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        April 8, 2018 8:50am
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        As usual, stupidboy is spouting crap.
        ACT got over 7% in both 1999 and 2002.
        
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        April 8, 2018 8:52am
      - Simon
        
        Give soyboy a break. He waited nine longs years for his bosses to get back in and they are utter shit.
        
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        April 8, 2018 9:11am
      - Harkman
        
        I’ve been under the weather for 4 days and in that time you’ve added another 200 troll posts.
        
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        April 8, 2018 9:44am
      - Wayne Mapp
        
        National didn’t gift the seat. Rodney Hide won it off National in 2005 in a knock down fight.
        
        Parties don’t “gift” seats they already hold. Other parties have to win the seat off them. They might then come to an arrangement with that other party, just as Labour did with Jim Anderton.
        
        So in my view there is a zero chance that Labour will “gift” a seat they already hold to the Greens or anyone else.
        
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        April 8, 2018 9:44am
      - KiWombat
        
        If you really want to do more research on mistakes Ralph just go and ask your parents !
        
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        April 8, 2018 11:42am
    - Inandout
      
      Dunedin is a cot case area, electing as Mayor a washed up TV reporter who oversaw a host of ‘missing’ council vehicles. Then the Mayor imported a gaggle of Muslims to breed at will. Labour will mine this idiocy because these are the types who vote for them.
      
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      April 8, 2018 8:45am
  - peterwn
    
    Hope springs eternal. Pollies have gone quiet on lowering the threshhold to 3% but it is going to rear its ugly head.
    
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    April 8, 2018 8:23am
    - stephieboy
      
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      peterwn , opportunity finally beckons for the alt right ?
      
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      April 8, 2018 8:30am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        Alt—right
        Sqwark
        
        Who woke up the galah?
        
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        April 8, 2018 8:49am
      - KiWombat
        
        I could eat a bowl of alphabet soup and crap out a smarter comeback than what Ralph has to offer !
        
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        April 8, 2018 11:44am
- Albert_Ross
  
  Small but telling point. To illustrate how green Labour is, she points to how they banned plastic microbeads.
  
  What they actually did was complete the action that National had already got under way to ban plastic microbeads. The hard work on that had been done by the previous Government.
  
  I wonder why this was not made clear in the article?
  
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  April 8, 2018 8:30am
- Chris R
  
  I am mixed minded about this. Who is to say that some of the many confused and stupid Labour MPs won’t move across to Greens in the future once they realise there is insufficient scope to further their rabid ambitions within Labour? On a different tack: How is it that Ms Du Plessis Allen has become the spokesperson on everything in NZ? Are our local spokespeople so inept that they’ve allowed a recent arrival to be their poster-child? Yes of course! I suppose Heather draws widely from her husband, from bumper-stickers and the glorious equities of her mother country to meld together her dribbling pieces.
  
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  April 8, 2018 8:32am
  - mikewasmild
    
    But DPF quotes her frequently, so she must be doing something right.
    
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    April 8, 2018 9:43am
  - Interested Party
    
    In her defence, one of her parents is a kiwi, and she came to NZ as a kid
    
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    April 8, 2018 12:22pm
  - tf78
    
    I am a reformist -What I find great about Heather is she generally runs the opposite position to Barry and she’s fearless with interviews – what’s not to like.
    
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    April 8, 2018 3:23pm
- Harkman
  
  This is wishful thinking. The Green Party is a hippy-commie religion and there is plenty of these idiots in NZ, with a disproportionate say. If we replace the Greens another Social Justice party will come along, like a grain of sand or a rain cloud, and replace them. I always suspected Labour and the Greens would merge and call themselves the Social Democrats.
  
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  April 8, 2018 9:49am
- itstricky
  
  25 ticks? I didn’t think you guys read the communist trash Herald?
  
  https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/02/herald_paywall_coming-2.html#comment-2145309
  
  https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/02/herald_paywall_coming-2.html#comment-2145366
  
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  April 8, 2018 10:14am
- niggly
  
  HDPA seems to be spot on the money when it comes to critiquing left-wing parties like Labour and the Greens.
  
  IIRC she was one of the (count them on the fingers of one hand – actually make that half a hand) handful of MSM journos that didn’t buy into Jacinda’s “star dust” BS last year? Her article last weekend about Labour’s abysmal floundering was spot-on.
  
  Perhaps she gets it from critiquing her husband’s blatantly left-wing shilling when at home discussing politics together (if so good on ya Bazza for being a tribal leftie)! 🙂
  
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  April 8, 2018 11:13am
holysheet

No joke today, nothing I can post on here can top the antics of this useless moronic clusterfuck of a govt.

Nah just kidding

My coworker Mohammed was looking depressed so I asked him what was wrong? “My wife’s going through “the change” and to be honest I’m just not finding her attractive any more.” “What, menopause ?”
“No, puberty.”
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April 8, 2018 8:06am
- stephieboy
  
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  holysheet , keep up the garble, garble. garble …
  
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  April 8, 2018 8:32am
  - Nostradamus
    
    Interesting fact:
    
    If you do this Google search: country:new zealand “small but ample breasts” the only hits are for Kiwiblog.
    
    You’re ~~famous~~ infamous Stephieboy!
    
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    April 8, 2018 8:35am
    - Swifty
      
      Whoever would have guessed that!
      
      Thanks Nosty.
      
      I suppose he can add that acolade to being the only one, at least to my knowledge, who has posted porn links to this blog.
      
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      April 8, 2018 8:41am
      - RalphT
        
        Sorry, Swifty, but I have the feeling that Nassa beat stephieboy to that record by about a year.
        
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        April 8, 2018 9:10am
      - Swifty
        
        If that is the case RalphT then I stand corrected.
        
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        April 8, 2018 10:22am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      You are forbidden from doing an underwear search.
      Maggles
      Слу́жба вне́шней разве́дки
      
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      April 8, 2018 8:49am
      - Nostradamus
        
        Maggy:
        
        You are forbidden from doing an underwear search.
        
        Now you tell me? 🙂
        
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        April 8, 2018 9:16am
      - Viking2
        
        You are forbidden from doing an underwear search.
        
        Not according to labour.
        Well at least young Labour.
        Waitapheta ring any bells?
        
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        April 8, 2018 9:23am
      - sooty
        
        Labour like to search your underwear while you are still wearing them!
        
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        April 8, 2018 12:18pm
    - rightoverlabour
      
      Just FFS don’t google ” assassination”…. The idiots at the standard will have a collective orgasm and the country will be reporting an earthquake…
      
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      April 8, 2018 10:53am
  - holysheet
    
    Thanks stooooopidboy. I always know I can rely on you to respond to my jokes.
    Didn’t you mean gobble gobble gobble. That’s more like the sound you would make you dumb turkey.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6Q6dRr3Pms
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ps5t5jYg3s
    
    turn you on stooopidboy?
    
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    April 8, 2018 8:46am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      I’m sure Paul Kelly’s female turkey impersonation sounded like “alt-right” “alt-right”
      
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      April 8, 2018 8:56am
    - KiWombat
      
      Ralph – your mum just called. On the way home can you stop in and get a loaf of bread, a bottle of milk and some condoms? She doesn’t want to make the same mistake twice !
      
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      April 8, 2018 11:46am
- Simon
  
  Its funny because its true.
  
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  April 8, 2018 9:12am
Manolo

Marie Antoinette pontificates:
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/381946-michelle-obama-my-husband-was-the-good-parent-compared-to-trump

The Obama administration “was like having the ‘good parent’ at home,” the former first lady said. “The responsible parent, the one who told you to eat your carrots and go to bed on time.”

“And now we have the other parent,” Obama added. “We thought it’d feel fun — maybe it feels fun for now because we can eat candy all day and stay up late and not follow the rules.”

During the wide-ranging discussion, Obama also offered praise for Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic nominee and the first woman to secure the nomination of a major U.S. political party.
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April 8, 2018 8:06am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Mama Obama thinks the American public want to be treated as chillins.
  
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  April 8, 2018 9:01am
- Simon
  
  Cheatin Obama
  
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  April 8, 2018 9:13am
Nostradamus

The Māori King likes taxpayer money but hates white MOFO concepts like “accountability” and “governance”.

Maori King’s trust lends $83k for travel

A trust responsible for managing the office of the Māori King being investigated by the Charities Service lent $83,000 for travel expenses of a company associated with one of its staff, documents reveal.

The Herald on Sunday also found the Ururangi Trust, funded $1.6 million annually by Tainui, has purchased five new or near-new luxury four-wheel drives over the past two years while at the same time rapidly increasing its borrowing from banks and finance companies.

Ururangi employs nine people full-time, but the bulk of its $860,846 salary bill is split between King Tūheitia Paki and the Trust’s executive manager, Rangi Whakaruru.

So what do we have?

– $83,000 related-party loan (with unusually low interest rate) for travel expenses
– 5 new or near-new luxury four-wheel drives
– increased borrowing from banks and finance companies (it’s unclear what the borrowed money was spent on – the luxury cars?).
– 2 people (Māori King and Trust’s executive manager) account for most of $860,846 salary bill.

And in more bad news: Maori King’s office admits to funding stomach stapling, but not who it was for

The Office of the Māori King has admitted to paying for weight-loss surgery from iwi monies, but refuse to reveal who the operation was for.

A Charities Services investigation into alleged misappropriation at the office of the Māori King was concentrating on a mysterious $46,000 invoice for weight-loss surgery, the Herald reported on Sunday. Speaking on Maori TV’s Kawekōrero, Peter Rogers, chairman of the Ururangi Trust which funds Kiingi Tuheitia’s office, denied any wrongdoing.

Peter Rogers can deny any wrongdoing if he likes. But the fact that the Charities Services investigation is ongoing and “concentrating on a mysterious $46,000 invoice for weight-loss surgery” suggests that this story may have a bit more distance to run…
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April 8, 2018 8:07am
- Swifty
  
  Meanwhile swathes of kids in his wider whanau run around in shitty housing and with runny noses…..
  
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  April 8, 2018 8:43am
  - KKKKatee
    
    Exactly. It’s always the fat cats at the top who get the cream. The Maori King is living the dream. Plenty of money, flash cars and anything he desires. Disgraceful behaviour and really giving the fingers to the poor people who somehow think he’s the bee’s knees. I think it’s called being a greedy bastard.
    I think his late mother would be rather appalled at his lack of humility.
    
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    April 8, 2018 9:11am
    - RF
      
      And that sums up my distaste for some aspects of Maori culture that indulges of back handlers and corruption whilst those in need miss out.
      
      Thankfully it only a minority but it gets the bad press.
      
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      April 8, 2018 10:36am
      - tf78
        
        The minority seem to be getting prime spots in the NZ Government and it’s not for their brains and good looks.
        
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        April 8, 2018 3:30pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    But that’s the gummints fault.
    The Māori King couldn’t give a rat’s arse about ‘his people’.
    
    I heard that Paki also runs a cash for appearances scheme. If you want him to turn up anywhere the koha better be substantial (and in cash, not kumera).
    
    Māori have Paki well measured though.
    That’s why his endorsement was the kiss of death for the Māori party in 2017.
    
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    April 8, 2018 9:11am
    - Nermal
      
      Let’s hope he gives the kiss of death to NZF, Greens or Labour next time
      
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      April 8, 2018 11:49am
  - mikewasmild
    
    I don’t think we can criticise him too much for following the habits of every other monarch in the world.
    Want a prince? People pay for palaces, parades, parties and princelings. The peasants are usually good for it. Ask Betty Windsor.
    
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    April 8, 2018 9:48am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      You are seriously comparing a barely literate Ngaruawahia truck driver to the Queen of New Zealand?
      Good grief.
      
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      April 8, 2018 10:13am
      - mikewasmild
        
        What is the main thing the Mahutas and the Windsors have in common? Inherited privilege.
        
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        April 8, 2018 10:30am
      - Lance
        
        The house of Windsor is worth billions to the UK economy in the form of tourism.
        Whereas the Maori king????
        
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        April 8, 2018 11:44am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        Mickey, the Paki family and the Windsor’s have very little in common and great points of difference.
        And the position of Māori King/Queen is not necessarily inherited either.
        
        Next.
        
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        April 8, 2018 7:44pm
    - burt
      
      They did it too…. pathetic.
      
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      April 8, 2018 10:26am
      - mikewasmild
        
        It is indeed pathetic that all royal families indulge their whims in such a disgraceful fashion.
        
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        April 8, 2018 10:31am
  - Nermal
    
    And one pair of worn out sneakers…
    
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    April 8, 2018 11:46am
- Harkman
  
  The Maori King is a treasonous movement, our media loves it because they too are treasonous.
  
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  April 8, 2018 9:52am
  - stephieboy
    
    Harkman who cares !
    
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    April 8, 2018 10:59am
    - KiWombat
      
      As an outsider – what do you think of the human race ?
      
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      April 8, 2018 11:48am
      - Harkman
        
        He’s only into goats ??
        
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        April 8, 2018 12:01pm
- thedavincimode
  
  Nostra, this comes as a big surprise to me.
  
  Don’t they like boating? They’ve got the 4wds and they’ve got both coasts, the Hauraki Gulf, Lake Taupo and the Rotorua Lakes all within a couple of hours drive.
  
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  April 8, 2018 10:23am
  - waikatogirl
    
    I believe Lakes Taupo and Rotorua are under Te Wharetoa tribe, not Tainui.
    
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    April 8, 2018 1:21pm
Paulus

I see that Catastrophe Cindy is off to France this week.
No wonder she is running away hoping that it was all a SNAFU dream and that it will all have gone by the time she gets back.
Curren is back in New Zealand too!
Is the drunken dwarf going too ?
I hopes she does not get confused with Mighty Macron’s wife.
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April 8, 2018 8:07am
- sooty
  
  Modern communication is a wonderful thing, you can call anyone, anywhere in the world at anytime! You can run, but you can not hide.
  Take some decent clothes and shoes, with you.
  You are meant to be our representive, not someone from the op shop.
  
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  April 8, 2018 8:25am
  - holysheet
    
    But but she is portraying the exact image she wants the world to see. Poverdy is rampant here didn’t you know. She wears these op shop clothes to show her solidarity with the poor. Communism runs deep in her veins.
    
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    April 8, 2018 8:52am
    - Viking2
      
      She should give MeTu a call. Now that was one “lady” who knew how to dress up.
      Certainly could give the socialists a lesson.
      
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      April 8, 2018 9:27am
      - KKKKatee
        
        Love her or loathe her, Me Tu did wear some very nice jackets. To date, the PM appears to wear 3 jackets – a pale pink one, a black one with a leather look collar and there’s another black one with bigger lapels. She wears them with everything. Nothing appears to be co-ordinated.
        
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        April 8, 2018 9:33am
      - sooty
        
        All on our dime and they complained about the silk underpants. ( them silk ones are like a teflon coating, the shit just slids off )
        
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        April 8, 2018 12:25pm
      - RF
        
        Don’t forget that off cut from scrap copper that the commie chick hangs around her neck and wears 24/7. I hear she sleeps in it to ward off evil spirits.
        
        It’s not working as lover boy is still hanging around.
        
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        April 8, 2018 4:05pm
    - KKKKatee
      
      There is almost a certainty that. she will wear those awful ankle boots at some stage during the trip. They are glued to her feet. I saw a picture of her looking very dour at a Union meeting and those boots appeared again. If I thought they were bad enough, there was a reasonably robust lady sitting next to her wearing a summer dress and wearing long boots. WTF is that all about ladies?
      
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      April 8, 2018 9:31am
      - milkmaid
        
        They are clearly of an astonishingly good quality, given that they have lasted for maybe hundreds of appearances now.
        
        Unless she replaces them with identical new ones, since they suit her so well and everything … ? 😉
        
        As for the summer dress and long boots – I have no answer for that.
        
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        April 8, 2018 11:56am
      - sooty
        
        I thought they nailed horse shoes on?
        
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        April 8, 2018 12:27pm
      - Longknives
        
        Those boots put the absolute shits up me…
        
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        April 8, 2018 5:02pm
      - Longknives
        
        Look I know she is struggling (being her first job and all)
        But Christ- Have we ever had a worse-dressed Prime Minister?
        Every PM I remember in my lifetime wore a sharp suit (if a bloke) or looked like they were going to work (If a lady- Yeah Helen Clark I know….)
        The People’s Princess could at least make a bloody effort..
        
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        April 8, 2018 5:06pm
    - Humble Capitalist
      
      Don’t you mean op shop clothes and a $2 million dollar house to show solidarity with the poor.
      
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      April 8, 2018 2:36pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    I wondered if she has a promotion contract with Allbirds.
    
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    April 8, 2018 10:14am
- KKKKatee
  
  More importantly, is the BF going to accompany her on this trip?
  
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  April 8, 2018 9:12am
  - VicParking
    
    Maybe his secret bail conditions dont allow overseas travel.
    
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    April 8, 2018 9:33am
    - Paulus
      
      He has a Diplomatic Passport now.
      So he can go wherever he is needed under no scrutiny.
      
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      April 8, 2018 11:27am
      - fluffykiwi
        
        Do all MP’s partners get diplomatic passports of right. Can someone show the regulation relating to this.
        
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        April 8, 2018 12:42pm
- RF
  
  Jethro may have to stay behind to attend to his many relationships that he boasts about on You Tube.
  
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  April 8, 2018 9:14am
  - KKKKatee
    
    With he rumours swirling on this blog, I can’t help but wonder if it’s something else that may prevent him from travelling. If that’s the case, it will be interesting to see the spin from the LP on the subject.
    
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    April 8, 2018 9:28am
  - Viking2
    
    Well if the person concerned had been properly judged in open court then that person would be banned from travel.
    
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    April 8, 2018 9:28am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      The travel problems might be circumvented if the criminal were travelling on a diplomatic passport?
      
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      April 8, 2018 10:16am
      - KiWombat
        
        I don’t think consorts are entitled to green passports, they have to be a diplomat. Fishermen don’t qualify !
        
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        April 8, 2018 11:52am
      - sooty
        
        Otherwise all MPs could get one for their mistress or toyboy!
        
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        April 8, 2018 12:31pm
    - fluffykiwi
      
      Shouldn’t they be in jail?
      
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      April 8, 2018 12:15pm
      - KiWombat
        
        His time will come – but probably not – home detention most likely, then he can mind the child !
        
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        April 8, 2018 1:57pm
    - lifesgood
      
      Word gets round, shit sticks. It’ll be no more than either of them deserve when it’s out but, man, it sickens me this special treatment by the court and judge and it all hushed up. I am sure one of the many hundreds and hundreds of women he claims to have had relationships with will eventually spill the beans on him. Sweet revenge.
      
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      April 8, 2018 5:26pm
- wombatge
  
  she can experience Poverdy on a grand scale whilst she is there. She will fit in just fine clothing wise, on the streets of gay Parieeeeee?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_L_aa4GI2A
  Maybe she can do a backhaul on the jet with Moroccan refugee’s looking for a new home.
  Is the physician travelling and have they installed a birthing suite on board?
  Flying in third Trimester starts to press alarm bells, must be getting close to this.
  How many tons of carbon will this trip produce?
  Jacinda could join these two Ladies for a coffee and throw her weight behind the cause.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um-kFzRLxx4
  No she, will be in a 5 star at a few grand a night, no need to mix with the comrades.
  Macron will teach her a big lesson on taxes, France is nearly taxed out of existence.
  
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  April 8, 2018 10:13am
  - wombatge
    
    OH I Forgot Winston, there is the perfect conference for him to consider in April.
    https://en.convention.parisinfo.com/paris-show-exhibition/166949/Annual-Meeting-of-the-European-Association-for-the-Study-of-the-Liver
    How convenient.
    
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    April 8, 2018 10:16am
Keeping Stock

Golriz Ghahraman is doing another “look at me, poor me” act:

Joining Newshub Nation for an ‘ask me anything’ segment this week, she said Twitter has changed in recent years.

“Twitter used to be such a nice, leftie, liberal political bubble,” she said.

“Now it’s Trump-land. I get the misogyny, I get the ‘you’re young, too young’, then I get the ‘immigrants shouldn’t even be allowed into politics’.

http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/shows/2018/04/green-mp-golriz-ghahraman-harassed-by-racist-twitter-trolls.html

First things first; I do not condone racist attacks or threats on social media. I’ve been on the receiving end of a couple of pile-ons, and it’s unpleasant to say the least.

However for Ghahraman to claim that Twitter was (or should be) a “nice, leftie, liberal political bubble” is ridiculous. Part of the reason why I am on Twitter is because it reflects all sorts of worldviews. It’s also an excellent source of breaking news stories.

Ghahraman’s comment indicates just how isolated she wants to be. She blocks anyone who disagrees with her worldview, but unfortunately when your party is ALREADY significantly a minority, you’re already isolated from mainstream public opinion.

Golriz Ghahraman actively seeks publicity. She still doesn’t understand that there are lots of people out there who have severe misgivings over her manipulation of the war crimes story last year. This latest rant to Newshub is designed for nothing more than to shore up her victim mentality. She clearly needs to get out more.
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- Salacious Crumb
  
  She displays a complete absence of self awareness. Classic portrayal of a narcissistic personality.
  
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  April 8, 2018 8:20am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    Or more accurately:
    
    “She displays a complete absence of self-awareness. Just like every other delusional libtard on the planet!”
    
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    April 8, 2018 8:57am
- Nostradamus
  
  Keeping Stock:
  
  an ‘ask me anything’ segment
  
  This seems like a missed opportunity for Golriz Ghahraman to make a guest appearance on Kiwiblog and answer some difficult questions!
  
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  April 8, 2018 8:21am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Hell will freeze over first!
    
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    April 8, 2018 8:24am
- stephieboy
  
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  keeping Stock,
  “I’ve been on the receiving end of a couple of pile-ons, and it’s unpleasant to say the least.”
  
  Tantalising! Some examples, please?
  
  This kind of Tweet ? ,
  
  https://twitter.com/emmyrossum/status/797958368593903616/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.teenvogue.com%2Fstory%2Femmy-rossum-anti-semitic-tweets-trump-supporters
  
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  April 8, 2018 8:35am
  - Simon
    
    Soyboy is still waiting for Clinton’s ground game to kick in. Vox told him its the best ground game in the history of the world.
    
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    April 8, 2018 9:19am
  - VicParking
    
    Morning Stephie, if you dont want to be on the ‘end of pile-ons’ dont fall exhausted under the backside of your Goat. ??
    
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    April 8, 2018 9:36am
    - KiWombat
      
      You can always tell when Ralph’s dropped in – the toilet hasn’t been flushed and the goat’s pregnant !
      
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      April 8, 2018 11:55am
- KKKKatee
  
  Ghahraman is a chronic liar. She is damaged goods and has no ounce of credibility left. We don’t need people like her in politics. She’s the Green’s show pony and actively seeks publicity about how good she thinks she is. Overall, she has damaged the Greens.
  
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  April 8, 2018 9:26am
  - Viking2
    
    Actually the problem lies with their “leader”.
    Like Cindy he is a weak leader. But then the Greens really don’t have a leader as such.
    
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    April 8, 2018 9:31am
    - VicParking
      
      Maybe he had the wrong Male role model as a child?
      
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      April 8, 2018 9:38am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      They’ll have 2 co-leaders at 11am, today.
      
      https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/decision-day-green-party-new-co-leader-announced
      
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      April 8, 2018 9:41am
    - Paulus
      
      They do now – Davidson new Joint Leader of the Greens.
      Great news for New Zealand.
      A female uncontrolled Maori Activist.
      
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      April 8, 2018 1:37pm
  - Harkman
    
    “Ghahraman is a chronic liar.”
    
    Yes the Little Iranian Liar™
    
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    April 8, 2018 9:54am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Anyone who represents people committing genocide is a low-life in my book. She is a lying nobody
  
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  April 8, 2018 10:19am
  - burt
    
    She holds governments to account by defending rapists and murderers. What a fake.
    
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    April 8, 2018 11:19am
- milkmaid
  
  For a 37 year old supposed lawyer to want to be in a “nice, leftie, liberal political bubble” speaks volumes about her.
  
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  April 8, 2018 12:08pm
Rodney Randall

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/04/germany-cops-say-munster-vehicular-attack-driver-had-psychological-problems-no-links-to-terror-orgs

No idea who person is but instantly know they have psychological issues, and possibly searching for explosives.
‘German’ ‘National’?

Newstalk ZB categorically ruled out terrorist attack this morning on news bulletin?

They would have been better off describing the events as an act of love.
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April 8, 2018 8:26am
- Rodney Randall
  
  “When authorities say that he is a “middle-aged German man,” they’re semaphoring that he is not a Muslim. When the establishment media gives the nationality of an unnamed attacker and it’s a traditionally non-Muslim country, we are meant to understand that the attacker is non-Muslim, although interestingly enough, the establishment media also does just the opposite, referring to Muslims, including jihadis, by nationalities they have adopted or pretended to adopt, or their location, despite the fact that jihadis have nothing but disdain for the nation-states of the Infidels, even when they settle in them. Smail Ayad, who murdered two people while screaming “Allahu akbar,” is described as a “Frenchman,” and the BBC recently referred to a Muslim rape gang as “Oxford men.”
  
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  April 8, 2018 8:32am
  - stephieboy
    
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    Rodney Randall , you appear to have a decided preference over assumptions, speculation and guesswork over facts and evidence .
    
    Why?
    
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    April 8, 2018 8:40am
    - Rodney Randall
      
      Have a great session at St Albans Ralph. I know you will be praying for my transgressions.
      
      Popping down to the Yoga Pantry afterwards for a perve?
      
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      April 8, 2018 8:53am
    - kevn
      
      go back to sleep septicboy
      
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      April 8, 2018 9:27am
      - stigie
        
        Can’t, the 2 goats are keeping it up !~
        
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        April 8, 2018 9:37am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      You Stephieboy have a perversion for other Kiwibloggers’ personal details.
      For you facts=fetish
      
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      April 8, 2018 9:44am
      - stephieboy
        
        Shaun the Sheep, speculation and guesswork versus facts and evidence ??
        
        No way like the alt-right way, eh !
        
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        April 8, 2018 9:48am
      - stigie
        
        And……..
        
        http://www.brandedgirls.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cute-muslim-girls-with-round-face.jpg
        
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        April 8, 2018 9:51am
      - KiWombat
        
        Those penis enlargement pills must have worked Ralph, you’re an even bigger dick than you were last week !
        
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        April 8, 2018 11:59am
Komata

RR

…And ‘Peace’ (of course).
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April 8, 2018 8:32am
- Rodney Randall
  
  It has been reported by the Heavenly Times, that peace beams were radiating magnificently out of the van as it plowed through the diners.
  
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  April 8, 2018 8:36am
DifferentPerspective

More Green nonsense about plastic

So supermarkets are not far from indulging in an orgy of ~~profit-taking~~ virtue-signalling by stopping supplying plastic bags to shoppers.

The rationale because they want to save the planet from plastic pollution.

Unfortunately research shows that the plastic that is polluting the planet ISN’T coming from New World in NZ!

Up to 95% of the plastic pollution in the sea comes from just 10 rivers. Just 10! And these rivers aren’t anywhere near NZ.

Surprise, surprise the rivers are all in shithole countries that don’t have any waste management laws at all (funny that).

Once again, we’re all going to be fucked over for a lie.
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April 8, 2018 8:37am
- stephieboy
  
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  DP , so this has to be good for planet earth and time to encourage us to pollute our rivers and oceans?
  
  http://apeuk.org/royal-mess-oceans/
  
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  April 8, 2018 8:45am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    You know you are on the losing side of the argument when you are citing Prince Charles as your hero.
    
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    April 8, 2018 8:59am
    - holysheet
      
      In honour of the opening of the Commonwealth Games, the Australian Govt is naming the new bridge across Brisbane River after a prominent member of the royal family, It will henceforth be known as the Adulterous Wife-Murdering Hag-Shagging Cretinous Hypocritical Moronic Politics-Meddling Inbred Jug-Eared German Parasite Bridge
      
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      April 8, 2018 9:04am
      - stephieboy
        
        holy sheet , not related to the current US President?
        
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        April 8, 2018 9:54am
      - RF
        
        He has raised his sights somewhat as originally he only wanted to be a Tampax inside Camilla Parker Bowles.
        
        Welcome to the heir to the throne…..
        
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        April 8, 2018 11:14am
    - stephieboy
      
      DP , and more so if you have Christopher Monckton and James Delingpole!
      
      LOL
      
      Lord Moncton , the caricature English Peer ,
      
      https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Christopher_Monckton
      
      James Delingp[ole .
      
      https://www.desmogblog.com/james-delingpole
      
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      April 8, 2018 9:49am
      - Harkman
        
        Al Gore’s power bill?
        
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        April 8, 2018 9:56am
      - KiWombat
        
        Ralph, you must have been born on a highway – that’s where most accidents happen !
        
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        April 8, 2018 12:01pm
Manolo

Paedophiles of the world, unite!
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2018-04-07/vatican-arrests-former-diplomat-over-child-pornography

The Vatican said on Saturday its police had arrested a monsignor who worked as a diplomat at its embassy in Washington and is suspected of possessing child pornography in the United States and Canada.

A statement identified the accused as Msgr. Carlo Alberto Capella and said he was arrested earlier on Saturday in the Vatican after a warrant was issued by the Holy See’s chief magistrate at the end of an investigation.
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April 8, 2018 8:44am
Inandout

Trump has installed 250 military people at the wall construction site, and in other areas. This wonderful news will give stephie constipation.
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April 8, 2018 8:52am
- Viking2
  
  Nah, the opposite I would think.
  Diarrhea comes to mind.
  
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  April 8, 2018 9:34am
- stephieboy
  
  Inandout, otherwise known as a political stunt for a 1900 mile border.
  
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  April 8, 2018 9:37am
  - KiWombat
    
    Out of 100,000 sperm, you were the result of the fastest – oi vey !
    
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    April 8, 2018 12:03pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    SB, you’re selecting your facts unwisely.
    What did you think the response would be when a caravan of 1000 people from Honduras arrived at the US border? They’re not there to play peepo.
    
    Trump has been very consistent about illegal border crossings. Wall or no wall those queue jumpers will not enter the US.
    
    The political stunt is pushing Trump to see how he’ll react. He’s mobilised his military to protect his country’s border.
    
    Next!
    
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    April 8, 2018 5:17pm
Inandout

A Munich van driver ploughed into pedestrians and was a German citizen; I must also add he was a nutter; aren’t they always?

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/muenster-attack-several-dead-after-car-drives-into-crowd-in-germany-a3808266.html

He will definitely be a left hand drive far right driver.
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April 8, 2018 9:13am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  Coulter’s rule:
  
  “The harder the MSM try to avoid saying terrorists were of muslim country of origin, the more likely it is they are!”
  
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  April 8, 2018 9:15am
  - stephieboy
    
    DP, the same Ann Coulter ?,
    
    “Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation’s moral decay.” -Ann Coulter on American fans of World Cup soccer
    
    Sigh !
    
    https://www.thoughtco.com/ann-coulter-quotes-2734315
    
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    April 8, 2018 9:40am
    - DifferentPerspective
      
      Oh look! A squirrel!
      
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      April 8, 2018 9:51am
      - mikewasmild
        
        No, it’s as true as everything else she says. It’s pretty indisputable that interest in association football correlates well with moral degeneracy.
        
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        April 8, 2018 10:34am
      - DifferentPerspective
        
        It’s still a squirrel milky.
        
        Using your logic, I could prove beyond any reasonable doubt that your personal hero Obama was a complete idiot:
        
        On the campaign trail, Obama shouted out at an Oregon event “I’ve now been in 57 states — I think one left to go.”
        
        Completely unsuitable to be President, if you don’t know how many states are in the country you want to lead. Right?
        
        I can play this game all day long, it only shows that I can use Google and it doesn’t disprove Coulter’s Law. It also doesn’t detract from the fact that you are both just “squirrel pointing”.
        
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        April 8, 2018 11:51am
      - mikewasmild
        
        You forgot his main crime: wearing a tan suit while presidenting.
        
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        April 8, 2018 12:30pm
- wombatge
  
  It could be a Moroccan that has German citizenship.
  If it turns out , the murderer is not Moroccan, this is going to break a record run of mow down perps from this country of origin.
  Moroccan youth in Europe are like what the Sudanese youth are to Melbourne, but just on an incredibly massive scale. Sudanese in Melbourne just basically run around bashing people, the Moroccans in Europe have adopted the kill at all costs method.
  
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  April 8, 2018 9:44am
Doubledimp

Am moving in with my partner end of the month, she lives near a train station so a little noisy at nights. But when we went for an evening walk last week, and saw the new builds going up on the edge of an industrial zone, I asked what they were for. We reckon they are state houses, approx 400m from her place. I have now ordered 2 x UV marker pens for all my “snatchables” in the house and registered everything with a serial number on the police database. Pessimistic or realistic?
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April 8, 2018 9:15am
- KKKKatee
  
  Realistic.
  
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  April 8, 2018 9:22am
- Viking2
  
  Judging by the thieving going on not enough. Put in a monitored alarm and grills on your windows.
  
  Get an Alsatian with police training.
  
  Lock up you car in a garage at home, get an escort(no not one of them), to walk you to the station,(one with a gun.).
  
  BUT, they might still get you. Especially if they come from Africa. Ask any Saffa.
  
  Those things will help and are coming
  
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  April 8, 2018 9:39am
  - VicParking
    
    Get a screwdriver
    
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    April 8, 2018 11:35am
- stephieboy
  
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  Pessimistic or realistic ?
  
  Dumb and Paranoid
  
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  April 8, 2018 9:42am
  - Nostradamus
    
    Stephieboy:
    
    Do you have a medical certificate to cover your absence from St Albans today? You’re rostered on to be a “sidesperson” next week. That sounds like fun!
    
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    April 8, 2018 9:50am
    - holysheet
      
      Nosty, I didn’t think you cared that much. Isn’t it fun that we can follow stooopidboy/Ralph in his church activities at St Albans. Do you think they know about his antics here on KB.
      
      Stephieboy on 3 December 2015:
      
      Jack 5, recently i was at St Luke’s shopping mall and I saw a Muslim lady dressed in traditional apparel accompanied by her two beautiful young daughters dressed in modern western tight jeans and blouses , revealing lovely supple body proportions , including small but ample breasts .
      
      stephieboy
      Yesterday I was at the Robert Harris cafe St Lukes Megacentre , Mt Albert enjoying a cappuccino. I noticed next door three Muslim women enjoying their lattes with their children . Two of these honeypots .were wearing their Nijabs with stylish jeans and blouses . The other in more typical kiwi informal attire?
      Thumb up 7 Thumb down 36REPLY REPORTAUGUST 21, 2016 8:51AM’
      
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      April 8, 2018 10:20am
    - mikewasmild
      
      Doxxing again?
      
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      April 8, 2018 10:37am
      - stephieboy
        
        All about Doxxing,
        
        https://html.com/blog/doxing/
        
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        April 8, 2018 10:45am
      - All_on_Red
        
        It’s not doxxing if the Commentator outs themselves.
        So far Stephie has told us he does readings and attends St Albans Church and what his actual name is.
        
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        April 8, 2018 12:59pm
    - KiWombat
      
      Do you still love nature Ralph, even despite what it did to you ?
      
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      April 8, 2018 12:05pm
    - RF
      
      How old is Stephieboy?
      
      I see a 50 + year old has been arrested for murder of a female in Merivale. That’s near St. Albans.
      
      A rather up market area for a murder. Goats are banned.
      
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      April 8, 2018 4:15pm
      - holysheet
        
        looking at his facebook photo (before it was mysteriously removed), I would say he was late 50’s. A creepy looking guy.
        
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        April 8, 2018 5:12pm
KKKKatee

I got a call from a TVNZ polling group. They asked several questions. Who I voted for, who I gave my party vote to, how did I rate the PM’s performance, what age bracket was I in, how people lived in the household, how many income earners lived in the house hold and what our income was. I replied to the age question that it was none of their business and, also, told them our income was private and none of TVNZ’s business. I took the opportunity to tell this guy exactly what I thought of the PM. It felt good. The call was recorded. So they can go back through that and, hopefully, get the message that Ardern is a lying piece of work.
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April 8, 2018 9:18am
- Gravelroad
  
  I wouldn’t give those details to a cold-call poll either KKKK.
  It reminds me of the questions in the recent census relating to your job/occupation which then went to ask the name of your employer.
  What was that all about? What business is that of a government department?- unless it is something to do with the IRD, I suppose.
  
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  April 8, 2018 9:27am
  - holysheet
    
    What census. I and another million or so didn’t bother to take part. With most govt departments now able to access this info from each other, why do we still need a census?
    
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    April 8, 2018 9:42am
    - geoff3012
      
      Bugger….fat finger
      
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      April 8, 2018 10:10am
- Inandout
  
  Oh KKK, I would have had a ball giving these people all the wrong details.
  
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  April 8, 2018 9:35am
- stephieboy
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  KKKKatee
  
  I have this feeling you made it all up just to vent your anger and frustration on KB etc
  
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  April 8, 2018 9:45am
  - KiWombat
    
    Why don’t you slip into something more comfortable – like a coma ?
    
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    April 8, 2018 12:07pm
- Harkman
  
  You should have told them you voted for Trump, just to mess with their heads.
  
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  April 8, 2018 9:58am
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    You’re not the only one that does so. I also tell them I support the 2nd. Molon Labe. Most of them are too bloody dumb to know the meaning
    
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    April 8, 2018 10:39am
    - mikewasmild
      
      And when the caller has finished the conversation, he or she turns to a colleague to announce another addition to the moron score for the day. At least you keep the call centre operators amused – laughing at you.
      
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      April 8, 2018 10:50am
- Paulus
  
  You will be marked down as “Don’t Know” and be moderated to the final result with the answers they want.
  
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  April 8, 2018 1:43pm
Andrei

Христос воскресе!
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April 8, 2018 9:20am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Live service from Christ the Saviour
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz0aoae2HDc
  
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  April 8, 2018 9:33am
- stephieboy
  
  Andrei , where is the Julian Calendar in the gospels?
  
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  April 8, 2018 9:56am
  - Andrei
    
    Stephieboy where is the Gregorian calendar in the Gospels?
    
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    April 8, 2018 10:00am
    - stephieboy
      
      Andrei , the Gregorian Calendar was introduced to make the Calender more accurate in determining holy days and festivals etc among many other things.
      
      I guess at the end of the day does it matter ?
      
      BTW what Calendar does the Russian government & business etc use
      
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      April 8, 2018 10:32am
GazzaW

Has anyone else given up on watching the Commonwealth Games coverage on TV One which would be more accurately described as the ANZ Bank programme interspersed with Commonwealth Games breaks? This is doubtless the type of coverage that we will have to suffer now that TV One has the rights to Rugby World Cup with ad breaks all the way through the games.

For those cheering on the demise of Sky TV be careful what you wish for. For all their perceived faults nobody does sport quite like Sky.
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April 8, 2018 9:33am
- burt
  
  My thoughts exactly.
  
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  April 8, 2018 9:34am
- holysheet
  
  What commonwealth games? I am so over all this shit. Thanks to Netflix and youtube, who actually watches tv1,2 or 3?
  
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  April 8, 2018 9:45am
- VicParking
  
  Agreed. The plan is get people excited and then hit them with an ANZ advert. Having missed the best bits they will go to the on-line version to see the adverts all over again. Walked past a ANZ bank on Friday. Big queues inside, new bankers? NO just not enough counter staff.
  
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  April 8, 2018 9:46am
  - KiWombat
    
    AdBlocker time !
    
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    April 8, 2018 12:09pm
- slightlyrighty
  
  All these wowsers wanting Free to Air sports obviously have no idea that THIS IS HOW IT IS PAID FOR!!!
  
  No sport is broadcast for free, someone has to pay for it, and advertising is how corporations pay for us to watch sport.
  
  But then these are the same people who thing Winston Peters is working for them….
  
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  April 8, 2018 9:49am
  - stigie
    
    “But then these are the same people who think Winston Peters is working for them”
    
    Yes, and a lot of these people won’t appear on here to tell us why they voted for the venal shambolic Peters !~
    
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    April 8, 2018 9:59am
    - holysheet
      
      Didn’t you get the memo. It was supposed to keep national honest.
      Chucky, god bless him, is the only moron who has openly admitted he was stupid enough to vote for the drunken dwarf.
      
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      April 8, 2018 12:01pm
      - stigie
        
        And Dad, he’s somewhat frightened to appear back here the poor sod !~
        
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        April 8, 2018 12:36pm
  - marcw
    
    Everyone understands advertising is needed to pay for the broadcasts SR – hell, we can even benefit from advertising as it is informative too. But … it only works when it is done properly, and one of the rules of doing it properly is DON”T PISS OFF YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE.
    
    TVNZ only knows the lazy way of advertising – relentless, obnoxious, repetitive, intrusive, and not in the least bit interested in their viewer, just who is paying the bills.
    
    They sit back and wonder why their audience is smaller than they expected, and diminishing, then will follow up with a gab-fest to excuse their incompetence. And we will pay for that too.
    
    Then they will say oh well, our taxpayer owners will just have to make do with a smaller return this year. Let’s give all our narcissistic plonkers a big pay rise and get ready to fuck the viewers again next time .. the Rugby World Cup, can’t wait.
    
    PS. Sky seem to operate like this too, and charge viewers extra for the privilege.
    
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    April 8, 2018 10:59am
    - rightoverlabour
      
      I don’t watch TV. Period. So I don’t see advertising other than the occasional Russian Bride, and even they seem to have disappeared. Bugger. The Common Wealth Games are a non event as far as I am concerned. Bunch of Ragheads vs a bunch of Africans with a few token Whites chucked in. Olympics at least has a good selection of athletes.
      
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      April 8, 2018 1:11pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  So far I’ve never missed missing them.
  
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  April 8, 2018 10:25am
- Longknives
  
  ANZ is the bank that is big time into the Gay and Lesbian scene (Remember their Gay ATMs?)
  They are also introducing ‘Gender Neutral’ uniforms because men dressing as men and women dressing as women is just soo last century (or something) ..
  
  Just wait for their hysteria when Hubbard wins his Gold Medal- Tears streaming down his face and his mascara running..They are going to go into raptures! ‘The Greatest moment in New Zealand Sporting History’ etc etc!
  
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  April 8, 2018 1:28pm
- Dave Mann
  
  I don’t watch much TV (maybe an hour every couple of days) and I never watch the ‘news’. Everything I watch is pre-recorded and I’m pretty selective.
  
  Last night though, we were at somebody’s house and they had the TV on showing some androgynes racing around on bicycles, interrupted randomly by weightlifting with no sense of continuity and the woman having orgasms in between kept telling us to go online (or to some other channel) if we wanted to see anything of substance.
  
  The most crazy thing about the evening was the incessant monotonous droning of the ads. Breakfast cereal, hifi blah blah – all seemingly voiced by the same person with the same cast standing there stupidly grinning at the camera. Guys in feminine pastel colours mincing around with moronic startled expressions on their faces about how great the product was.
  
  I admit I’m leading a sheltered life… but it works for me, and I won’t be watching live TV again on a hurry 😀
  
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  April 8, 2018 3:34pm
brett68

If Genter gets picked as co-leader the chances of the Greens been able to do a deal with National have become significantly higher.

Not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.
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April 8, 2018 9:51am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  They picked the communist Maori, so can now abandon any pretence of being a proper environmental party.
  
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  April 8, 2018 11:41am
  - GazzaW
    
    Bridges will try and capitalise on this for sure. There are a significant number of Green Party members who want nothing to do with Davidson.
    
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    April 8, 2018 12:08pm
  - slightlyrighty
    
    110 votes to 34……I think the fact that JAG was well thought of by some in the Nats may have counted against her.
    
    The best strategy for the Nats going forward would now appear to be to let Vernon Tava run as their candidate in Northcote.
    
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    April 8, 2018 12:12pm
    - Keeping Stock
      
      I concur slightlyrighty. Tava is intelligent and articulate, was way too moderate for the Green Party hierarchy, and would in my opinion be a good fit in National’s Blue-Green wing.
      
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      April 8, 2018 12:54pm
    - mikewasmild
      
      The Nats don’t ‘let’ people run as their candidate. Such decisions are taken solely by the local party members.
      
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      April 8, 2018 12:58pm
Viking2

But if you are, be honest with it, and be bold with it. In other words, don’t slap drivers of cars with taxes and say it’s for roads when it isn’t. Don’t dress it up as something it’s not.

This isn’t an argument about whether public transport is good, or whether public transport is an answer, or even if the money they have planned to spend on public transport is even going to achieve anything tangible. It’s about not being straight up and down about your goals, ideas and ideals.

If you want to promote public transport, get the users of public transport to pay for it. Get the cyclists to pay for the bike lanes, the bus riders to pay for the bus lanes, and the train riders to pay for the tracks.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=12026375
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April 8, 2018 9:52am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  The Socialists are not going to put up with that nonsense, they want to open your and my wallets. They are freeloaders and always will be
  
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  April 8, 2018 10:50am
  - mikewasmild
    
    Which socialists, Labour or National?
    
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    April 8, 2018 12:59pm
stephieboy

V2 , Trucking firms and car owners shouldn’t contribute for high way and roads etc upkeep and maintenance?
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April 8, 2018 9:59am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9t_KDGqOmE
  
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  April 8, 2018 10:51am
- Viking2
  
  What the F**K are u on today?
  
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  April 8, 2018 11:52am
  - holysheet
    
    Sorry V2 but it’s correct to ask stoooopidboy what the fuck are you on EVERY day.
    
    Nobody can be this stupid every day can they?
    Mrs Holy reckons stooopidboy is a bot that has escaped the artificial intelligence research lab. Even they could not make any sense of his gibberish, so let him go quietly into the streets of Mt Roskill.
    
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    April 8, 2018 12:09pm
- KiWombat
  
  If you had one more brain cell it would be lonely !
  
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  April 8, 2018 12:12pm
Harkman

This new government has magic powers. They made me so angry they gave me a nasty cold/infection.

I been bursting to get this off my chest:

How the hell will 70km solve our reading problems.

How will light rail in Auckland solve people being killed on highways.

How will cycle lanes stop car crashes on motorways.

These morons think $20m for cycleways in Taranaki will compensate for a billion dollar industry.
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April 8, 2018 10:04am
- stephieboy
  
  Harkman , the initiative is mainly for this kind of thing ,
  
  https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/22870/auckland-congestion
  
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  April 8, 2018 10:27am
  - KiWombat
    
    If I throw a stick – will you go away ?
    
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    April 8, 2018 12:13pm
- Harkman
  
  “roading problems” sorry (bloody Android did this)
  
  The other one I missed was this government wants to stop irrigation schemes. These schemes insulate the economy from droughts. Droughts have caused virtually all NZ recessions over the last 50 years. One would think that those worried about rising sea levels would want to stop this water running out to sea.
  
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  April 8, 2018 12:13pm
- tf78
  
  Harkman, the trouble is morons don’t think.
  
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  April 8, 2018 3:54pm
wreck1080

And another truck crash….
https://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/102917818/one-person-dead-two-injured-in-crash-near-timaru
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April 8, 2018 10:23am
EAD_TWO

Two killed, dozens injured as van drives into crowd in Munster.

Police say driver shot himself after crash, but authorities say there’s no apparent Islamist motive; local media claims driver is a German who had psychological issues

https://www.timesofisrael.com/several-reported-killed-as-car-drives-into-crowd-in-germanys-munster/

“Van” just randomly drives into people. Van. No one drove that van. It was the van that done it.

EDIT – BREAKING NEWS: The van was driven by an assault rifle. A white nationalist assault rifle.
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April 8, 2018 10:28am
- stephieboy
  
  EAD TWO , confirmed by this source ,
  
  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/germany-van-crash-attack-munster-terrorism-psychological-problems-latest-a8294141.html
  
  BTW I wonder why you chose Times of Israel?
  
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  April 8, 2018 10:38am
  - EAD_TWO
    
    Because I scan the Times of Israel on a daily basis.
    
    Why do you ask?
    
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    April 8, 2018 10:53am
    - Kimbo
      
      Fair enough, EAD. Adolf Eichmann was so dedicated to the cause of “studying his enemy”, he learned Hebrew. 🙁
      
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      April 8, 2018 10:57am
      - EAD_TWO
        
        @ Kimbo,
        
        I highly recommend Maurice Samuels bestseller”You Gentiles” or reading the utterances of Israels “spiritual leader” and “conscience of a nation”, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef to hear what Jews think of Gentiles.
        
        Why listen to “Nazis” like me when you can hear it straight from the horses mouth?
        
        You Gentiles:
        https://www.amazon.com/You-Gentiles-Maurice-Samuel/dp/B006568Q6I
        
        How Gentiles are cattle who exist solely to serve Jews:
        https://www.jta.org/2010/10/18/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/sephardi-leader-yosef-non-jews-exist-to-serve-jews
        
        Rabbi Ovadia Yosefs funeral – the largest in Jewish history:
        https://www.timesofisrael.com/jerusalem-closes-down-for-rabbi-ovadia-yosefs-funeral/
        
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        April 8, 2018 11:07am
      - Kimbo
        
        Sure, EAD. Just as long as (for once) you answer me a straight question: So, if say Hitler, Stalin, Obama, much less ~~John Key~~, sorry, I’ll adopt your premise for the sake of argument, ((((John Key)))), Jacinda Ardern, Winston Peters or ((((Malcolm Turnbull)))) don’t speak for all, many or even most of their own goy/nation, let alone all of them
        
        …how come an obscure author and rabbi, neither of whom were ever elected to any broad representative office, much less wielded any significant cultural political or economic power, and as a result most Jews throughout the world have likely never heard of them,
        
        …get elevated to the status of infallible, let alone reliable authorities over all things relating to alleged pan-Jewish attitudes and actions in a predominantly Gentile world?
        
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        April 8, 2018 11:17am
      - mikewasmild
        
        Why did you refer to yourself as a “Nazi”? Is that not your ideology of choice? Are you suddenly ashamed of being a modern national socialist?
        
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        April 8, 2018 11:30am
      - EAD_TWO
        
        A Best-selling Author & a Rabbi accorded a State funeral which was the largest in Israel’s history…Very obscure there Kimbo….. Perhaps you could do a “guest post” on just how obscure they are?
        
        Or how about a post on the “obscure” Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi (in whose honour the Charlemagne prize is awarded) and his book “practical idealism”.
        
        I know, I know – how about a post on an obscure figure called “Jesus” and hand his battles with the money changers ?
        
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        April 8, 2018 11:38am
      - Kimbo
        
        @ EAD
        
        ….so, to clarify, no proof that most Jews worldwide have ever even heard of Maurice Samuel, Rabbi Yovadia Yosef (starter for 10: whom was accorded the largest state funeral in the UK, the USA, Australia, New Zealand or wherever, and what proportion of their current inhabitants could even name them?)
        
        …or (obscure google search!) Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi (and I know I’m going to regret asking, but wtf is the “Charlemagne prize”?! ?)
        
        …and yet again you dodged a straight question because it falsifies your suspect premise. Which is why I’ll flush your reading recommendations, because, yet again your intellectual dishonesty forfeits the privilege to a hearing.
        
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        April 8, 2018 12:24pm
- Rodney Randall
  
  “Police say driver shot himself after crash, but authorities say there’s no apparent Islamist motive; local media claims driver is a German who had psychological issues”
  
  See one news tonite.
  
  Officials are not ruling it out either.
  
  They have admitted that this could well be an Islamic motivated attack.
  
  It also occured on a street not designed for vehicles
  
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  April 8, 2018 6:38pm
Hugh Pavletich

‘The Property Boom Is Officially Over … ‘ Martin North of Digital Financial Analytics …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ihFdqe8ebc

Within the above Mr North states that we are likely to see a substantial fall in Banks’ lending multiples … generally from north of 5.0 times to less than 4.0 times annual household incomes.

Earlier ABC reports graphically suggest these lending multiple changes will be based on REAL incomes not FICTIONAL ones.

In case you had not viewed these earlier ABC reports …

Early March: ABC’s The Business does liar loans – MacroBusiness Australia

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/03/abcs-business-irresponsible-mortgage-lending/

ABC The Business 29 Mar 2018 On Mortgage Brokers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrY3NUhYrXA
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I had touched on the matter of lending multiples earlier …

Lessons from the 2007 Irish housing crash … the severe costs of multiple stretch …

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/02/nab-tightens-loan-income-limits/#comment-3052010
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Access yesterday’s extensive posts …

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/04/weekend-reading-7-8-april-2018/#comment-3082716
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April 8, 2018 10:33am
- Nostradamus
  
  Hugh:
  
  Access yesterday’s extensive posts
  
  Are you telling us you’re yesterday’s news? Now I could agree with that!
  
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  April 8, 2018 10:53am
  - stigie
    
    No one read Hugh’s yesterdays news Nostra..?
    
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    April 8, 2018 11:02am
    - Nostradamus
      
      Stigie:
      
      I don’t think anyone reads Hugh’s news on any day of the week. No wonder he has to reply to his own comments here and at Macrobusiness Australia!
      
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      April 8, 2018 11:40am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/03/macro-afternoon-393/#comment-3079568 …
        
        WHY BUILDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS A NONSENSE ISSUE …
        
        … WATCH THESE THREE IMPORTANT SHORT VIDEOS …
        
        … NOTE IN PARTICULAR HOW BILL LEVITT (NEW HOUSING) AND MALCOM McLEAN (CONTAINERIZATION) TALKED STRAIGHT. THEY DIDN’T WAFFLE …
        
        Bill and Alfred Levitt figured out how to supply new housing at or below $10,000 after World War 11 … when access to low cost products was extremely difficult and often impossible …
        
        This Man Is the Father of Modern American Suburbia | Smithsonian
        
        https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/smithsonian-channel/this-man-is-the-father-of-modern-american-su/
        
        … then … soon after … Malcom McLean created the modern container industry … dropping shipping costs dramatically … for example with what cost $6 with break – bulk cargo handling to just 16 cents with containerization ! …
        
        The Power of Outsiders – Video – NYTimes.com
        
        https://www.nytimes.com/video/business/100000004807604/the-power-of-outsiders.html
        
        … note here the extremely small costs of shipping selected items around the planet … so that transportation costs are pretty much irrelevant today in the whole scheme of things (thank you Malcom McLean ! ) …
        
        Malcom McLean and Containerisation | Maersk Line – YouTube
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq8UU9kafJ0
        
        … so that today …
        
        1. Standard detached housing should not cost any more than 3.0 times annual household incomes of specific metros ( refer Annual Demographia Surveys ; recent Glaeser & Gyourko paper ; recent Reserve Bank of Australia paper ).
        
        2. New fringe starter house and land packages should cost around 2.5 times … at development ratios of 20% serviced lot and the balance construction ( Definition of an affordable housing market http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning ).
        
        3. Apartment / townhouses should be around 2.0 times ( to illustrate refer Houston Association of Realtors Monthly Report ).
        
        4. Fringe manufactured house and land packages should be around 1.5 times ( refer Leaky Homes And An Architect’s Musing’s | Scoop News March 2010 published Interest Co NZ as ‘Houston: We have a housing affordability problem’ … extract below General Email) .
        
        Following 13+ years of intense public discussion of these issues in New Zealand, there is no excuse not to have a sound grasp of these ‘structural basics’.
        
        After all … housing development and construction is a very formulaic business today.
        
        With the gross annual median household income in Auckland now about $94,000 (refer Demographia Survey schedules) … the detached median house prices should not exceed $282,000 … fringe starter house & land packages $235,000 … apartments / townhouses $188,000 and fringe manufactured house & land packages about $141,000
        
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        April 8, 2018 12:34pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Yes, keep going Hugh. Oh yes! That feels SO good!
        
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        April 8, 2018 12:44pm
      - mikewasmild
        
        You can’t deny his passion.
        
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        April 8, 2018 12:49pm
      - stigie
        
        Jeez Nostra, don’t let Hughie know you’re having an orgasm, 0therwise he will put twice as much shit up ole chap !~
        
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        April 8, 2018 1:48pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        The Fake Tories will as usual cry a lot … but do nothing …
        
        PM John Key on Housing Reform 2007 – YouTube
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWPgoAI1cLE
        
        with Nick Smith March 2016 …
        
        Labour support on city limits welcomed | Nick Smith | Beehive.govt.nz
        
        https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/labour-support-city-limits-welcomed
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        In contrast … Labour …
        
        November Interest Co NZ report …
        
        Speech from the throne pledges that Auckland’s urban limit will be removed and density controls will be freed up in this term of Government | interest.co.nz
        
        https://www.interest.co.nz/property/90780/speech-throne-pledges-aucklands-urban-limit-will-be-removed-and-density-controls-will
        
        Housing – New Zealand Labour Party
        
        http://www.labour.org.nz/housing
        
        … extract …
        
        Remove barriers that are stopping Auckland growing up and out
        
        Labour will remove the Auckland urban growth boundary and free up density controls. This will give Auckland more options to grow, as well as stopping landbankers profiteering and holding up development. New developments, both in Auckland and the rest of New Zealand, will be funded through innovative infrastructure bonds.
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        Google search ‘New Homes ………..’ (city / metro of your choice North America) … for example … ‘New Homes Atlanta’ … ‘New Homes Dallas Fort Worth’ … “New Homes Houston’ … here is an example from Pulte Homes, Phoenix Arizona …
        
        Pulte Homes Suburban Development Phoenix Arizona
        
        https://www.pulte.com/homes/arizona/phoenix/florence/parkside-at-anthem-at-merrill-ranch-7739#CommunityDetailsView
        
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        April 8, 2018 2:50pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Housing Minister supports UN call for housing strategy | Māori Television
        
        http://www.maoritelevision.com/news/politics/housing-minister-supports-un-call-housing-strategy
        
        (NEW ZEALAND) Housing Minister Phil Twyford is supporting the United Nations’ call for the government to create a national housing strategy to increase the availability of quality affordable housing to low income, Māori and Pasifika families.
        
        Twyford has welcomed the findings of the UN committee and is on a mission to make it happen.
        
        “Housing is a human right and it’s a terrible scandal that so many of our people are denied decent affordable housing,” says Twyford, “We want thousands of whānau Māori to get access to home ownership, that’s what we’re doing”. … read more via hyperlink above …
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        following mid – week report …
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        United Nations calls on NZ to adopt human rights-based national housing strategy | Stuff.co.nz
        
        https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/102830739/united-nations-calls-on-nz-to-adopt-human-rightsbased-national-housing-strategy
        
        The United Nations is supporting calls for New Zealand to adopt a human rights-based national housing strategy, and has asked the Government to report back to it on the matter within 18 months.
        
        The support was issued by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in response to a submission from the Human Rights Commission (HRC).
        
        A human rights-based housing strategy requires housing to be affordable, habitable, accessible and secure in tenure.
        
        The HRC’s chief commissioner David Rutherford said New Zealanders, “particularly our most vulnerable”, were experiencing the flow-on effects of governments “over many decades neglecting to treat housing as a human right”. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
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        April 8, 2018 2:56pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Hugh:
        
        Have you tried Tinder – or perhaps Grindr’s more your thing? I’m curious to find out if “there’s someone for everyone” applies in your case. You need someone in your life to distract you from this obsessive hobby of yours. I must admit that you strike me as a matchmaker’s nightmare though!
        
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        April 8, 2018 3:27pm
- Swifty
  
  Did Hugh’s mother not tell him that he shouldn’t skin his lizard every day of the week, let alone multiple times a day?
  
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  April 8, 2018 12:17pm
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  Toronto Real Estate’s Harsh New Reality: Buyer Beware … Huffington Post
  
  https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2018/04/07/toronto-real-estate-new-reality_a_23405449/
  
  Until recently, Greater Toronto’s housing market had been something of a fairy tale. Years and years of price growth convinced many that buying into the market — at any price — would pay off. In essence, a house in Toronto had become a miracle investment: no matter what happened, you made money.
  
  But now, with home sales in the metro area down nearly 40 per cent over the past year, and prices down 14 per cent in that time, the market is doing something it hasn’t done in a good three decades: It’s creating losers. … read more via hyperlink above …
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  Greater Toronto Home Sales Drop Nearly 40%, Vancouver Sales Down Almost 30% … Huffington Post
  
  https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2018/04/04/toronto-home-sales_a_23402704/?utm_campaign=canada_newsletter
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  ‘Lower your expectations’ is good advice for real estate — and life | Toronto Star
  
  https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2018/04/06/lower-your-expectations-is-good-advice-for-real-estate-and-life.html
  
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  April 8, 2018 6:03pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Hugh:
    
    Lower your expectations
    
    Speaking for myself, and possibly a majority of other Kiwiblog readers, my expectation of you as an obsessive (and boring) copy-and-paste merchant couldn’t go any lower!
    
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    April 8, 2018 7:03pm
waikatogirl

8 April: It’s 50 years since the Wahine Disaster.
A sad day for us all to remember.
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April 8, 2018 10:34am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Wahine Day is 10th April
  (my late Brother’s B.Day….. we spent the birthday dinner glued to the TV)
  
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  April 8, 2018 10:37am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Sorry Maggy, you are right, wrong date. I remember standing outside on the porch with the noise of the wind howling past and the rain going sideways.
    
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    April 8, 2018 2:21pm
Maggy Wassilieff

There’s life in some of these old (brown) men.
https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/2018/04/mahathir-mohamad-return-malaysia-pm-aged-92-180407192049972.html
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April 8, 2018 10:35am
EAD_TWO

I received a message from a cobber in the UK and he said that the people who control the MSM have been launching an all out propoganda war to blame anyone but the nig-nogs (who do the killings) for the spate of stabbings in London:

It is the fault of (white) DJs❗ https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/top-dj-tim-westwood-profits-from-gangs-6jhn0w6lk

It is the Tories fault for cutting police numbers❗
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5581061/Lammy-blames-prolific-cocaine-market-makes-buying-drugs-easy-ordering-Deliveroo.html

It is the Eastern Europeans fault❗ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-43653291

It’s Social Media’s fault❗ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/31/cressida-dick-social-media-fuels-murder-knife-crime-among-children/

Why won’t the MSM confront reality? If you import the 3rd world, you will become the 3rd world
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April 8, 2018 10:50am
- stephieboy
  
  “Why won’t the MSM confront reality? If you import the 3rd world, you will become the 3rd world”
  
  MSM try to avoid your kind of overt racism , hate and ignorance .
  
  ” Imported ” Pacific Islanders and Somalis making NZ Third world?
  
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  April 8, 2018 10:54am
  - Jack5
    
    Stephie X:
    
    Interesting to see a troll roster change. Back to the Stephie who has flaky punctuation skills.
    
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    April 8, 2018 11:05am
    - GazzaW
      
      Stephie Mk 1 has to do Mass first on Sunday mornings.
      
      I think we might have more than one mikewasmild too. Yesterday’s was very ‘go with the flow’ and even garnered plenty of upticks but today’s very ztev-like in his confrontationalism. Could mikewasmild be ztev dodging the ban?
      
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      April 8, 2018 12:18pm
  - KiWombat
    
    Last time I checked, retarded wasn’t in season !
    
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    April 8, 2018 12:15pm
Jack5

A bone for the Stephiestani Trolls Syndicate Ltd to chew on …

An English girl details her abuse at the hands of Pakistani paedophiles in Britain. She’s one of thousands abused.

Police and officials, perhaps stymied into numb inaction by years of propaganda from multiculturists, did nothing.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5589835/Victim-Rotherham-child-abuse-ringleader-reveals-social-workers-police-did-nothing.html
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April 8, 2018 11:03am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  Feminists take PC-ness to extreme levels
  Politicians listen to the Feminazis
  Mass PC virtue-signalling ensues
  Young women get raped on an industrial scale
  
  The term “libtard” is not an insult, it’s just an accurate description.
  
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  April 8, 2018 11:44am
Maggy Wassilieff

Marama Davidson new Greens co-leader

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/354433/marama-davidson-wins-green-party-co-leadership-contest
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April 8, 2018 11:28am
- Manolo
  
  Mad as a snake. 😀
  
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  April 8, 2018 11:30am
  - mikewasmild
    
    That’s a nasty thing to say about Maggy.
    
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    April 8, 2018 11:32am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      You’ve taken over the “abuse Maggy duties” have you?
      
      Don’t you think the Mad woman meme has done its run?
      
      Try something original….
      although most of my orifices have been discussed here…. mightn’t be too much left with which to shame me.
      
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      April 8, 2018 12:03pm
      - mikewasmild
        
        Not a dig at you, old bean. Aimed at poor old Manolo. But I humbly apologise anyway.
        
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        April 8, 2018 12:41pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Maggy:
        
        The only thing left to discuss after your underwear size (thanks to Stephieboy) is your fsvourite colour!
        
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        April 8, 2018 12:48pm
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        Mike, pitiful attempt at backtrack.
        You didn’t mention Manolo’s name, you mentioned Maggy’s in relation to the “mad as a snake” comment, despite Maggy demonstrating on a daily basis with her well-reasoned and researched comments that she is sane and rational.
        Then you refer to Maggy as an ‘old bean’ in a foot-in-mouth way to feign friendship.
        Is that what passes for humour in Leftistan?
        
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        April 8, 2018 1:33pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @nostradamus..
        
        and if I revealed a favourite colour what would my abusers read into it?
        
        https://www.sherwin-williams.com/architects-specifiers-designers/education/project-profiles/SW-ART-STIR-COLOR-RELIGION
        
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_colour
        
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        April 8, 2018 1:54pm
      - mikewasmild
        
        I’ll bet Maggy is super excited at you turning up as the white night, Shaun.
        Should I apologise to you as well, or just taunt you?
        
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        April 8, 2018 5:43pm
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        Mickey you need to spend less time with Mrs Palmer.
        
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        April 8, 2018 10:48pm
  - KevOB
    
    My uptick was for Marama being “mad as a snake.”
    
    She’s juvenile and not capable of managing a sandpit. A kindergarten bully.
    
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    April 8, 2018 12:51pm
- DifferentPerspective
  
  The Greens achieved something!
  
  It’s an incredibly difficult task to elect a co-penis that was more revolting, more divisive, more stupid, more racist and more polarising than Me Tu.
  
  But the irredeemably dumb Greens membership managed to meet the challenge!
  
  Well done libtards! A grateful nation thanks you!
  
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  April 8, 2018 11:36am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Well hopefully that’s the Green party munted.
    They’re now nothing but a racist communist party. Real environmentalists can hitch their wagon to National.
    
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    April 8, 2018 11:44am
  - Muttonbird
    
    Grasp your worry beads, it’s another brown woman for you to fear.
    
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    April 8, 2018 11:44am
    - GazzaW
      
      More for Labour to fear I think muttonhead. At worst you could just be watching the birth of a new Blue-Greens party but regardless of that what Labour does not need right now is a divided and disaffected Green Party.
      
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      April 8, 2018 12:26pm
      - stephieboy
        
        GazzaW and fellow alt-righters , still in the extreme margins of political irrelevancy?
        
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        April 8, 2018 12:46pm
      - GazzaW
        
        You wish stephie. Disaffection in the Greens, factionalism showing up in NZF – I wouldn’t want to be relying too much on my partners right now.
        
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        April 8, 2018 1:28pm
      - DifferentPerspective
        
        Sqwawk alt-righters, sqwawk!
        
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        April 8, 2018 3:37pm
      - Piniwi
        
        Too late Gazza as they seem to be her main target after telling us “not having a ministerial role will give her more room to criticise Labour.” Wonder if she will have enough conviction to that task to force a vote of “no confidence” after being only side members of the COL.
        
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        April 8, 2018 6:07pm
  - RF
    
    Israel will be alerting its navy about our new co leader.
    
    In celebration of her new position she might just decide to sink a few of their war ships.
    
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    April 8, 2018 11:46am
  - noskire
    
    And it only took them six months.
    
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    April 8, 2018 12:28pm
- Rich Prick
  
  The diversity was bound to win.
  
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  April 8, 2018 12:42pm
wiseowl

Don’t miss ‘The Outsiders’
Ch 85 now
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April 8, 2018 11:45am
srylands

What the fuck are these people thinking?

https://i.stuff.co.nz/life-style/parenting/baby/102840315/Zoe-Marshall-slammed-by-doctor-for-drinking-her-placenta
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April 8, 2018 12:27pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Media whore.
  Will endanger herself and her baby for a bit of press.
  
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  April 8, 2018 1:41pm
stigie

Just wondering about Penny’s hovel, when people are tendering, will Penny kindly let them through the hovel to make their assessment or will they have to make their assessment for tender from the roadside..?
I haven’t seen it discussed on here yet or have i missed it..?
Edit:- Hopefully Nostra can help out !~
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April 8, 2018 12:48pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Stigie:
  
  I’ve submitted a $1 tender offer, which probably isn’t enough to make Penny happy, but I’ll take my chances!
  
  Penny has said “no visitors” as KevOB says, but when I last checked her Facebook page, she was passing around the silver tin to her groupies.
  
  I wouldn’t expect any excitement on the tender closing date. Best to allow a couple of weeks for the successful buyer to be selected, for the buyer to run out of patience with Penny’s grandstanding, and for strong muscular guys to be sent in to finish the job!
  
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  April 8, 2018 1:23pm
  - srylands
    
    I just can’t understand why she has let it get to this point. Surely she will stump up the amount she owes before the deadline?
    
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    April 8, 2018 1:30pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Srylands:
      
      I think she miscalculated at the point when Auckland Council invoked the court sale process. Penny had a meeting with them back in January, or possibly February, which she publicised in her usual way through an open letter on Kiwiblog. The court sale process was invoked after that meeting, so I’d say Penny was her characteristically rude usual self, and persuaded Auckland Council to move things along.
      
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      April 8, 2018 1:39pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    I’d counter with $1.50, but with my luck I’d win it.
    Good luck with your bid.
    Have you researched how much it will cost you to put a bulldozer through it?
    
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    April 8, 2018 1:38pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      There’s lots of costs to consider: house demolition, land rehabilitation, rubbish removal, fumigation, cats shelter rehousing, water supply reconnection… actually, now that I think about it again, $1 was too much!
      
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      April 8, 2018 1:45pm
      - stigie
        
        $1 is about right Nostra, by the time you get Penny dragged out of the hovel, your $1 will be worth about $1,50 !~
        
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        April 8, 2018 2:03pm
      - holysheet
        
        Nah yous are being far too generous. I put in an invoice to cover all expenses plus the house.
        
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        April 8, 2018 2:37pm
      - milkmaid
        
        You could always move in with her 😉
        
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        April 8, 2018 5:58pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Milkmaid:
        
        You could always move in with her
        
        As Sid the Sloth said in Ice Age: no thanks, I choose life!
        
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        April 8, 2018 7:07pm
  - Awww C-mon
    
    I’ll put in $5 and let her stay rent free, it’s s good investment and keeps the crazy bitch in Auckland, dumb fuckers deserve her.
    
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    April 8, 2018 5:32pm
KevOB

I believe Penny has instructed the estate agents involved that there are to be no visitors.
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April 8, 2018 12:54pm
Felt

Sunday Times Magazine (UK)

The Magazine Interview: Jacinda Ardern, the pregnant prime minister of New Zealand, on her work/life balance and meeting Barack Obama
“I have help: my husband will be primary caregiver.”
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April 8, 2018 2:20pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Nothing about the modest red-brick bungalow on the outskirts of Auckland suggests it is the home of a world leader.
  
  But most of it is paywalled….
  https://www.thetimes.co.uk/magazine/the-sunday-times-magazine/jacinda-ardern-prime-minister-new-zealand-work-life-balance-meeting-barack-obama-cmtbg6mn2
  
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  April 8, 2018 2:27pm
  - Longknives
    
    “World Leader”???
    
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    April 8, 2018 4:51pm
    - mikewasmild
      
      I’m not sure when it was that our PMs joined the ranks of ‘world leaders’. And I can only remember Bolger referring to himself in those terms.
      
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      April 8, 2018 5:47pm
  - Viking2
    
    “I have help: my husband will be primary caregiver.”
    
    HAVE WE MISSED SOMETHING OR SOME GREAT HAPPENING?
    
    Better look up my copies of Womens Day to see if they ran the marriage pics.
    
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    April 8, 2018 5:38pm
  - stephieboy
    
    MW, but you would have to agree the PMs’ and Barack Obama’s residence pales before the current Presiidantis residences
    
    https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/real-estate/news/a9285/donald-trump-house-photos/
    
    Again not sure the point you’re trying to make?
    
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    April 8, 2018 7:17pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Of course you would miss the point.
      You’re Kiwiblogs Dumbest Commentator
      Still stalking Maggy I see.
      
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      April 8, 2018 7:21pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Again not sure the point you’re trying to make?
      Was I making a point?
      Perhaps I was just providing a link to the article Felt had mentioned.
      (I could see that Felt was new to KB and perhaps wasn’t au fait with the need for “citation”)
      
      But…. if you were following this thread you would see the PM’s houses/places of residence are not of interest to the rest of us…
      It is that little word husband
      and the phrase world leader that have garnered our attention.
      
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      April 8, 2018 7:23pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Again you point seems obscure. She has a husband?
        
        So what ?
        
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        April 8, 2018 7:32pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        She has a husband?
        
        Oh, that’s news to us, stephieboy
        Fabulous.
        When did Jacinda and Clarke get married?
        
        I’ll do a whip around for a KB wedding pressie.
        I’ll put in $5.
        What shall I put you down for?
        
        I’ll get the girls (WG, CG, KKKKKK, Harriet, Monique, Penny, etc to come up with some ideas for the pressie)
        
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        April 8, 2018 7:48pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Maggy:
        
        I’ll get the girls (… Harriet … to come up with some ideas for the pressie)
        
        Just to let you know… Harriet is a guy!
        
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        April 8, 2018 8:05pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Harriet is a guy!
        
        I’m broadminded… She can be a guy if she wants..
        I’m sure she has good taste and suitably acceptable oestrogen levels for gift-choosing.
        
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        April 8, 2018 8:31pm
- holysheet
  
  Surely not another lie. She is turning out to be the mother of all liars. Being mother of the nations baby is obviously not enough for our Cindy. What next. Perhaps she will claim to have had a love child by Obama. After all, he is the messiah.
  
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  April 8, 2018 2:43pm
  - Longknives
    
    I think Justin Trudeau is more likely Holysheet.
    He seems to be the object of this silly Girl’s fantasy…
    
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    April 8, 2018 4:50pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  She’s either married or lying again?
  
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  April 8, 2018 4:57pm
- RF
  
  Husband… my arse !!!
  
  Another friggen lie.
  
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  April 8, 2018 5:45pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    I’ll get the girls (WG, CG, KKKKKK, Harriet, Monique, Penny, etc to come up with some ideas for the pressie)
    
    Well Maggy, Something cheap and returnable I imagine as, well, ah…, ok…the chances of a wedding, um… What can one say, I don’t think it’s a goer for the ever hopeful Cindy. Gayford just isn’t into anyone else that much but himself.
    
    If Cindy is going around telling mainstream international media she is married, does she wear a wedding ring, or even just the ring for those actually betrothed?
    
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    April 8, 2018 9:14pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      @WG
      
      returnable
      
      Brilliant.
      I knew I needed help with these finer details.
      
      cheap
      Again, how thoughtful… of course most KBers are old codgers on a pension… I forget that we are not all fat capitalist plutocrats…. perhaps 20c koha might be a better call.
      
      I had a look at Cindy’s left hand in the Sunday Times pic… There might be a ring there… but I’m not really sure.
      
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      April 8, 2018 9:37pm
      - waikatogirl
        
        There hasn’t been a ring on her finger recently. I’ve been looking when she is giving press updates, etc.
        
        Her party supported partners living together under the same conditions as those legally married. I wonder why she believes it is better to use the term husband? I think it is, but then I’ve been married a long time.
        
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        April 8, 2018 9:58pm
      - Kimbo
        
        @ waikatogirl
        
        Maybe she was misreported when she said “partner”, and the person who heard (an overseas journalist, maybe unaware of the details of her personal circumstances it was reported in a UK newspaper) thought it was “husband”. Hanlon’s Razor: never attribute to malice that which can equally be explained by incompetence.
        
        Also, as I’ve mentioned you on another thread, waikatogirl, you do realise your comment that Clark Gayford’s youtube boast that he’s had “thousands of successful relationships” is “an oxymoron” is correct…because Gayford himself was using homourous sarcasm? “I start every relationship off by acting as badly as possible, and then get better, and it works…I’ve had thousands of successful relationships”. I mean come on. It was a joke!
        
        But at least you got the oxymoron! ?
        
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        April 8, 2018 10:04pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @Kimbo
        
        if you look at the Sunday Times link you will see that the following words are placed in quotation marks
        
        “I have help: my husband will be primary caregiver.”
        
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        April 8, 2018 10:20pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Yes. But as per my post, that could still be a misreporting, especially by a UK reporter who conflated partner/husband. Plus I know one well known NZ sports journalist who admits that he follows the principle that if you get the gist right, people won’t complain if their exact words are not quoted. But he never encountered the plot theories on Kiwiblog! ?
        
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        April 8, 2018 10:25pm
- lifesgood
  
  Can’t stop lying, can she? Did she mention her “husband’s” spot of bother?
  
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  April 8, 2018 6:26pm
  - RF
    
    Jesus… just come back from a BBQ where the main topic was about Gayfords current problems. Not sure if it’s true but and I say but… if it is true the PM by association is in the shit and I believe should stand down.
    
    If not true I am surprised there have been no comments in rebuttal as it’s not a secret.
    
    What ever happens it’s going to make us look stupid in the eyes of the world.
    
    They are heading off to the UK soon and knowing the media over there they will have Ardern for breakfast.
    
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    April 8, 2018 6:47pm
    - holysheet
      
      The problem she has is she cannot tell yet another lie to cover up the last lie. Her level of intelligence is not that good to remember all the lies.
      She tells so many lies, she has forgotten how to tell the truth.
      
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      April 8, 2018 7:09pm
softail 1450

just returned from 4500km south island circumnavigation of the entire coast including the iconic warbirds over wanaka, i can honestly say that in all the overnite stays in mostly backpackers where all ages and types of people were staying i never found 1 kiwi that was happy with this COL government. but then again when we left auckland 2 1/2 weeks ago we were resigned to getting wet every day (mad motorcyclists) yet never had one drop of rain in the entire trip, so possibly all the labour supporters were down the welfare office and i missed them.
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April 8, 2018 4:56pm
- Awww C-mon
  
  Your handle does give a pretty good clue, but more details on the bike?
  
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  April 8, 2018 5:08pm
  - Nookin
    
    You a biker Aww?
    
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    April 8, 2018 8:18pm
Rodney Randall

One News reporting on Munster attack tonite:
The attack occured on a street designed for no vehicles. A chief official stated publicly, during a media briefing, that he cannot rule out the possibility that they are dealing with an Islamic motivated attack.

The guilty look on the officials face said it all.
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April 8, 2018 6:23pm
- lifesgood
  
  Why do they always rush to deny it is terrorism? Because they are terrified? Seems like the low life muslims have won. It’s bloody embarrassing.
  
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  April 8, 2018 6:30pm
  - Rodney Randall
    
    TV one actually being straight up for a change.
    What was the bs reporting from zb this morning?
    
    ZB decided to report that this was not a terrorist attack (circa 6am.) How could they possibly rule it out when the investigation is pending?
    
    ZB are notorious for this shit.
    
    I nearly choked on my meal when TV one reported the facts for a change.
    
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    April 8, 2018 6:33pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Rodeny Randall, clearly the media are not required to report to suit your tastes , biases and pet hates
      
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      April 8, 2018 6:42pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Tell us about your ‘tastes’
        Oh that’s right
        We all know
        Don’t we Mall Stalker
        
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        April 8, 2018 6:57pm
      - Rodney Randall
        
        Stephanie:
        
        ZB stated at circa 6am this morning, that this was not a terrorist attack.
        
        German officials have not ruled this out.
        
        Jihadist magazine “Inspire,” gives instructions on how to use vehicles to kill.
        
        Carrying the title “The Ultimate Mowing Machine,” it calls for jihadists to use a pickup truck a “mowing machine, not to mow grass but mow down the enemies of Allah.”
        
        My ‘preference’ is for factual reporting not obfuscation.
        
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        April 8, 2018 7:55pm
      - Rodney Randall
        
        Inspire articles suggest using a four-wheel-drive pickup truck, adding, “the stronger the better.”
        
        “To achieve maximum carnage, you need to pick up as much speed as you can while still retaining good control of your vehicle in order to maximize your inertia and be able to strike as many people as possible in your first run,”
        
        Inpire also suggest bringing weapons to finish up the job in case the attack is thwarted.
        
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        April 8, 2018 8:08pm
      - Rodney Randall
        
        Pet hates Stephanie?
        
        Young radicalised fuckheads in Chch wanting to carry out this sort of attack on innocents here, (currently under surveillance) and self loathing, chronic-masturbating, mock Christians, who haunt malls, perving at nubile girls.
        
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        April 8, 2018 8:11pm
  - stephieboy
    
    lifesgood , I suppose the media want to take establish the facts before jumping to conclusions to satisfy your pique and faux umbrage.
    
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    April 8, 2018 6:46pm
    - Nookin
      
      Stephie, the point being made, and I fully understand that its implications may be hard for you to comprehend, so I will type slowly, is that ZB said that this was not a terrorise attack. That appears to me to be a clear and unequivocal statement of fact. It also seems that it is incorrect and the opposite may be a distinct possibility which means that ZB didn’t check the facts or made some up.
      
      Roger makes the point that the media have a tendency to make bold assertions such as this and ever so frequently get it wrong and that really makes him pissed. Roger, it seems, would like the MSM to take time to ascertain facts rather than pretend they do not exist.
      
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      April 8, 2018 8:41pm
EAD_TWO

We are being lied to again:

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/354447/syria-toxic-gas-attack-kills-at-least-70-in-douma

Bashar al-Assad’s, war against his enemies in Syria, namely ISIS, is almost won, so here he goes making the worst possible tactical decision a leader could make and launches a gas attack on his own people and thus drawing the ire of the international community.

Seems believable… (rolls eyes)
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April 8, 2018 6:44pm
- stephieboy
  
  EAD TWO ,
  
  (((( False flag)))
  
  Boston
  Sandy Hook
  Parklands …
  
  Yawn .
  
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  April 8, 2018 6:48pm
- mikewasmild
  
  What gets you excited the most about Bashar al-Assad, EAD?
  His hatred of Jews?
  His love of gas?
  The possibility he might one day get to gas Jews?
  
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  April 8, 2018 7:10pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Mikewasmild
    
    I never got around to asking you: what happened to your Mikenmild account? My understanding is that at the end of a ban, you need to email DPF and ask him to unlock the account. You don’t need to create a new one.
    
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    April 8, 2018 7:20pm
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      Ah, there was a different hitch and it was easier to create a new account than wait for a reply to my email.
      
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      April 8, 2018 7:25pm
    - mikewasmild
      
      Still pretty pissed off about getting a ban when that arsehole flipper got no sanction for the same offence. Still, some wankers have to be given extra latitude – flipper is a Very Serious Person and used to suck Muldoon’s cock, so he’s pretty special.
      
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      April 8, 2018 7:28pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Mikewasmild:
        
        I’ve just gone back and reviewed that thread – and I see you added a comment on 3 April.
        
        Ultimately, it’s DPF’s blog and DPF’s rules, but I can see how he might have scanned the thread quickly, skipped over Flipper’s comment, and stopped at yours. Flipper referred to a “he” – and you have to read the thread closely to discern the intended reference.
        
        Just to be clear, your comment tally is 32,721 comments (as Mikenmild) plus whatever you chalk up as Mikewasmild 🙂
        
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        April 8, 2018 7:40pm
      - mikewasmild
        
        What term should we apply to the Kwiblog equivalent of a trainspotter?
        
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        April 8, 2018 7:57pm
      - Nookin
        
        I suspect that the different sanctions were attributable to the fact that Flipper’s previously transgressions were listed under his name but in the incorrect alphabetical order and was oversight rather than deliberate. He was inadvertently treated as first offender because his conviction list was misplaced, as it were.
        
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        April 8, 2018 8:54pm
      - mikewasmild
        
        Thanks. It might comfort me to imagine that DPF was slipshod rather than malicious in his moderation. Or I might not care either way.
        
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        April 8, 2018 9:48pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Yeah, you do. I mean, come on. Being angry is one thing, but slapping a Kiwiblog treasure Nostradamus as a “trainspotter”? Who breaks a butterfly upon the wheel? ?
        
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        April 8, 2018 9:50pm
Awww C-mon

Stephie-altright,

I’m doing a research paper on political ideology, it’s actually why I read KB.

As someone who comments from a left perspective, but shows alt right behaviour. I’d be keen to know, what gets you off more

– bullying middle age woman and misogyny
– small but ample breasts
– fapping over GD
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April 8, 2018 7:05pm
- stephieboy
  
  AwwwC-mon . do you seriously believe Sandyhook , Assad ’s chemical attacks etc were false flag conspiracies ?
  
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  April 8, 2018 7:09pm
  - Awww C-mon
    
    I have never commented on those things Stephie-squirrel, how about you address the question
    
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    April 8, 2018 7:13pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Stephieboy:
    
    Awww C-mon hasn’t expressed a view one way or the other on false flag conspiracies. He asked you a different question.
    
    If I were to adopt your debating tactic, I’d say something like: Stephieboy, do you seriously believe that it’s acceptable to go to shopping malls to look at pre-teen girls’ breasts? My point is that you’re attributing a position to Awww C-mon that has nothing to do with what he said. If that’s your preferred debating style, then you can’t complain when others reciprocate.
    
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    April 8, 2018 7:16pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Nostradamus , what he posts ( and you for that matter ) about me is simply not true IMO
      
      I have a pretty good idea ( from earlier posts ) the kind of garbage he/ she posts about. I may add also you. IMO
      
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      April 8, 2018 7:25pm
      - Awww C-mon
        
        So in your opinion small bit ample breasts and bullying are acceptable? Or you just don’t believe what you are doing is bullying?
        
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        April 8, 2018 7:30pm
      - mikewasmild
        
        And are you bullying, Aww C-mon?
        
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        April 8, 2018 7:33pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Stephieboy:
        
        what he posts ( and you for that matter ) about me is simply not true IMO
        
        Now we’re getting somewhere. Everyday – and today’s no exception – you make these kind of comments:
        
        DP , so this has to be good for planet earth and time to encourage us to pollute our rivers and oceans?
        
        KKKKatee I have this feeling you made it all up just to vent your anger and frustration on KB etc
        
        V2 , Trucking firms and car owners shouldn’t contribute for high way and roads etc upkeep and maintenance?
        
        AwwwC-mon . do you seriously believe Sandyhook , Assad ’s chemical attacks etc were false flag conspiracies ?
        
        The debating technique is transparent: ascribe a position to someone that doesn’t logically follow from what they said. So, if you apply this debating technique, then you can hardly complain when it’s used against you.
        
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        April 8, 2018 7:33pm
      - Awww C-mon
        
        Probably Mike, but I’m a fuckwit and not worried about it.
        
        The question is, is he just a bit stupid like many think or is he as vindictive as others suspect?
        
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        April 8, 2018 7:40pm
      - mikewasmild
        
        Well, I think he’s a bit dim, but I don’t know why you and Nostradamus want to hassle him all the time when there are plenty of truly nasty bastards posting comments every day.
        
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        April 8, 2018 7:47pm
      - Awww C-mon
        
        TBH, Mike.
        
        When he was just a painful leftie troll, no issues.
        
        He got nasty and personal with a couple of ppl, and it pissed me off. Now there is just this ongoing passive aggressive approach that frustrates.
        
        You’re right, generally there are some true arseholes round here.
        
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        April 8, 2018 7:53pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Mikewasmild:
        
        Stephieboy is a prolific commenter who, for some reason, has made a point of targeting Maggy over an extended period of time.
        
        Stephieboy on 19 February 2018:
        
        Awww C-mon, I will continually to challenge and dispute poster whom I consider put forward unsound or rubbish opinions ( whether so called ladies or not ) And those like you who seek to break/hack posters privacy and non de plumes .
        
        Stephieboy on 22 June 2017:
        
        Wacky Weed , some further examples of those ” 58 “so called scientific papers from”dipyyourwickzone” ? LOL
        
        The other day Maggy intervened when Stephieboy had a go at Monique:
        
        I counted 10 prior instances of the use of fuck, cunt, ffs, fucking on this thread this morning. But Stephieboy waits until has has a female in his sights and then tries to shame her and her family for using the word fuck.
        
        And asking Maggy for her underwear size was bizarre.
        
        I’ve observed this commenting behaviour for a while now, but if Stephieboy changes his commenting style, then I’ll be the first to step back in line.
        
        Edit: I see Awww C-mon has expressed a similar view in his 7.53 pm comment.
        
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        April 8, 2018 7:59pm
      - Awww C-mon
        
        Whatever Stephie is Upto, one thing is clear.
        
        Total fucking pussy.
        
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        April 8, 2018 9:11pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Nostradamus,
        
        A gross distortion of what I meant or saiid all taken totally out of context
        
        Can’t ever MW look after herself without you putting your big conk into things as though some kind of act of faux ancient chivalry?
        
        Utterly contepable !
        
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        April 8, 2018 9:12pm
      - Awww C-mon
        
        Hahaha a pussy and a sloppy drunk ?
        
        Hope it’s not an early start Stephie-drunkard
        
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        April 8, 2018 9:21pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Stephieboy:
        
        A gross distortion of what I meant or saiid [sic] all taken totally out of context
        
        No, I’m not going to let you use the Labour Party “it was a misunderstanding” excuse. Let’s look at your exact words and the relevant context:
        
        Stephieboy: MW, what sized undergarments do you wear?
        https://historicalsewing.com/the-tail-of-3-bustles
        
        Maggy Wassilieff: Why the Dickens would you, Stephieboy, want to know what size undies I wear? Do you intend sending me a new set of knickers and bra?
        
        And (in response to Nasska): I must admit, I am a bit worried about that request. I have tried to put the best possible interpretation upon it. But it feels creepy…
        
        You never returned to that thread to clarify any misunderstanding and/or apologise.
        
        Then, 2 days later, on this thread:
        
        Stephieboy: Nostradamus , I ddn’t [sic] ask her underwear size. Merely suggested that the Victorian kind might be appropriate for her to wear given her decidedly IMO old-fashioned views
        
        Your claim is incorrect in 2 respects. First, contrary to your assertion, you did ask Maggy for her underwear size. Second, you didn’t make any “suggestion” (your word) regarding some tenuous connection with Victorian-era clothing. You simply posted a link to some obscure website and left the reader to infer for themselves whatever point (in your mind) you were trying to make.
        
        Maggy responded:
        
        Today, you have written a post to All_on_Red in which you suggest he is to find comfort in my arms. … I will remind you that I am a private citizen who has been faithfully married to my husband for nearly 40 years. You know nothing about me, the community I live and work within, or the effect your filthy insinuations may have upon my family or business associates. I suggest you start looking for a decent lawyer.
        
        So, rather than backtrack, you doubled down on your verbal assault by telling All_on_Red to “[h]ave a sulk in MW’s arms” (Maggy misquoted you). And, once again, you never bothered to return to the thread to clarify any misunderstanding and/or apologise.
        
        Utterly contepable ! [sic]
        
        I suggest you look in the mirror and reflect on the way you conduct yourself on Kiwiblog.
        
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        April 8, 2018 11:28pm
stephieboy

More depressing news for the POTUS and Mantafort has obviously something to hide ,

Judge skewers Manafort’s civil case challenging Mueller’s powers

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge tore into all of the legal arguments that a lawyer for President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort made on Wednesday in his long-shot civil case to convince her that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation has run amok and should be reined i

“I don’t really understand what is left of your case,” U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson said to Kevin Downing, Manafort’s attorney, after peppering him with a lengthy series of questions.
Manafort filed a civil lawsuit on Jan. 3 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the Justice Department official who appointed the special counsel, in a key legal test of how far Mueller’s mandate extends.

Jackson did not say when she might rule on the civil case, which the Justice Department is seeking to dismiss.
Mueller is investigating possible collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia as well as whether the president has unlawfully tried to obstruct the probe.

Mueller has charged 22 individuals and entities to date, including Manafort and his associate Rick Gates. Manafort’s civil case marks the first time a defendant has sought to challenge his authority.

Manafort, who performed lobbying work for a pro-Russian former Ukrainian president before serving as Trump’s campaign chairman in 2016, is facing two indictments brought by Mueller in federal courts in Washington and Alexandria, Virginia. The charges against him include conspiring to launder money, failing to register as a foreign agent, bank fraud and filing false tax returns…’

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia/judge-skewers-manaforts-civil-case-challenging-muellers-powers-idUSKCN1HB0E7
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Viking2

One-third of prisoners are gang members. Nearly all the recent increase in prison numbers are more gang members getting their comeuppance. Those wanting to reduce prison numbers are unlikely to campaign on the slogan “too many gang members are in prison”. Over twice as many gang members are in prison than in 2010. This welcome development is driving the increase in prison numbers.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12028415
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- mikewasmild
  
  I’m a bit confused. Do we need to lock up more people in general, more gang members, decrease the number of gang members at large, or decrease the number of gang members overall?
  The economist you quote doesn’t seem to be clear about any of this.
  
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