General Debate 24 June 2018

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hmmokrightitis

The Blond asked if I wanted to set up house with her. Im even more in love than I ever thought possible.

I thought Id start GD with something happy rather than WoO have a moment 🙂
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June 24, 2018 8:04am
- waikatogirl
  
  Congrats hmm. Enjoy. ??
  
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  June 24, 2018 8:19am
  - hmmokrightitis
    
    Thanks WG. Not only did I want to start the day and GD with something that made me smile, I wanted to share with a bunch of people who Ive come to love over the last few years.
    
    After the mother of my children died, Id made the decision to stay single – Id seen too many friends stray into the meat market and get chewed up. I didnt want that for me, and I didnt want my kids confused by what was happening. I had my kids, my friends, my work, my toys and places I loved. What more could I possibly need?
    
    Turns out sometimes the universe decides you did need something else, and sends you a gentle, caring, loving, smart and gorgeous reason to make the smile even bigger.
    
    Before she died, knowing she was going to, my wife said to me that she knew she hadnt been the best wife, and that she hoped I would find someone who would be.
    
    The Blond accompanied me to her resting place last week. I cannot be more blessed.
    
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    June 24, 2018 8:51am
    - Duxton
      
      Fantastic news: well done.
      
      I’m tempted to suggest that you contact the PM’s office to get the name of her publicity agent, who could put you in touch with the Women’s Monthly, etc. You could refurnish the house with your story.
      
      Seriously, thanks for sharing your news. Best wishes to you both.
      
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      June 24, 2018 10:20am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Better marry her quickly before she comes to her senses!
  
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  June 24, 2018 8:39am
  - hmmokrightitis
    
    I did ask if she planned on making an honest man of me…and she got down on bended knee. Which being a 6 footer was quite the sight. At which point we both giggled like the sick making touchy feely couple we are. 12 months weve been together, and we still both melt in each others arms.
    
    I like that 🙂
    
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    June 24, 2018 8:45am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      And long may it continue for you both.
      Nice post to start the day.
      
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      June 24, 2018 8:58am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      My wife is a marriage celebrant, should that need arise. She loves hearing stories such as yours.
      
      Congratulations, and here’s to a very happy future 😀
      
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      June 24, 2018 9:28am
      - calendar girl
        
        That’s a bit opportunistic, KS – commercial advertising, gratis, on a Sunday morning!
        
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        June 24, 2018 12:10pm
      - Keeping Stock
        
        Not at all calendar girl. My wife does weddings because she loves them, and doesn’t charge a fee.
        
        Many of the couples she marries give her a small thank you gift, but her primary concern is that cost is not a barrier for the couple getting wed.
        
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        June 24, 2018 2:19pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Perhaps your wife could offer her services to Jacinda and Gaylord KS? They may drop you guys off a couple of fresh snapper as a gift for legitimising wee Neve. 🙂
        
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        June 24, 2018 3:12pm
      - Keeping Stock
        
        She’d be only too happy to officiate Johnboy, especially if she got a cuddle with wee Niamh!
        
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        June 24, 2018 3:30pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Wonderful! She could make it a triple wedding and do Winston and Jan, Grant and Alf as well so legitimising the whole of the leading lights of our wonderful paradise! 🙂
        Would save a lot of hassle’s regarding pension payments/child support/penal rates etc! 🙂
        
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        June 24, 2018 3:39pm
      - calendar girl
        
        Sorry, KS at 2:19pm. In attempting to reply to your comment after my tongue-in-cheek one, I managed to hit ‘Report’ when the ‘Reply’ button had disappeared.. Sincere apologies (i.e. for my ‘fat finger’, not for the ribbing about advertising your wife’s marriage celebrant’s services!).
        
        Always enjoy your comments.
        
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        June 24, 2018 7:29pm
    - GoVege
      
      Move in together???
      Why spoil a good thing!
      
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      June 24, 2018 12:21pm
      - hmmokrightitis
        
        LOL, yeah nah.
        
        My daughter, 13, was bereft after her Mum died. I spent a lot of time with her, we went to counselling, we worked through a lot of stuff together. Our relationship now is what the yoof call ‘tight’.
        
        And she adores the blond, and the blond has been so incredible with her. And my beautiful girl gets a strong, smart, girly role model – who also happens to be an awesome mountain bike rider.
        
        Best I dash, shes coming round for dinner, we leave for a holiday in a couple of weeks, planning to do over a nice bottle of Bollinger. Have a great week everyone!! 😀
        
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        June 24, 2018 3:07pm
- paul scott
  
  You have a lot to be proud of hmm as the ticks here and your comments below, signify.
  
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  June 24, 2018 6:38pm
Lee C

as the media increasingly bore us with the ‘baby’ and such, who would be brave enough to predict a backlash as struggling (and other) mums start to realise that they don’t have a staff of nearly thirty people to help them with their child?

Will there be a growth of resentment in the female voter?
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June 24, 2018 8:05am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Nope bro. My sources tell me Labour is at 50% and Tooth Fairy is riding high at 55%
  
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  June 24, 2018 8:08am
  - lifesgood
    
    Rubbish!
    
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    June 24, 2018 8:17am
  - flipper
    
    Mmnnn…
    50% of what?
    false expectations?
    My sources tell me that the cardigan wearers, the teacher and the nurse unions are having trouble with a disaffected membership. It seems the silly buggers believed the Tooth Fairy et al.
    Jacindamania will soon pass and the winter of discontent will further chill their short term celebrations.
    
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    June 24, 2018 8:28am
    - sooty
      
      Especially if we have to rely on Trev to keep them honest.
      
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      June 24, 2018 9:41am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    My sources are better than your sources and my sources says that your sources are wrong! And that you look funny
    
    I love it when a conversation contains some real hard hitting evidence based fact that just turns an argument on its head!
    
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    June 24, 2018 9:07am
    - double d
      
      I think SCS is doing some sort of weird satire that was funny for about the first month. Years on, scroll straight past.
      
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      June 24, 2018 10:40am
  - softail 1450
    
    S C S, tell your “sources” to lay off the sauce,
    excessive boozing can cause the telling of porkies.
    
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    June 24, 2018 9:33am
    - sooty
      
      Speaking of sauce, whats up with the sex camp report. Are they waiting for the Commie Chick to return? Come on Whiney, you can do it!
      
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      June 24, 2018 9:45am
- Gravelroad
  
  Short answer Lee – no.
  Reason being that Ms Ardern is seen as special, famous and a global phenomenon for caring and sharing.
  Ordinary women can’t hope to compete with that, but many admire Ms Ardern for her success and are willing to accept and justify privilege that goes with that success.
  Speaking of which, family members here yesterday asked each other what Ms Ardern did during her terms in opposition.
  After a bit of head scratching, one said she lost the Auckland Central election twice. Another said she was on one of those “young gun” morning TV promotional panels.
  But an international socialist leader and all around wonder woman?
  That happened very quickly, didn’t it.
  
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  June 24, 2018 8:22am
  - sooty
    
    All fluff and glitter. No substance!
    
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    June 24, 2018 9:47am
  - andydownhere
    
    She went around colleges brainwashing the teenies.
    Did a great job of that
    
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    June 24, 2018 9:04pm
  - riffer
    
    To be honest, its not a lot different to how Key rose. Different script, similar results.
    
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    June 24, 2018 9:38pm
- Psycho Milt
  
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  Will voters start to resent the fact that prime ministers have flunkies to do stuff for them? Well, they haven’t with any of the previous ones so I’m going with “No.”
  
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  June 24, 2018 8:28am
  - double d
    
    Thanks for clarifying on behalf of NZ.
    
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    June 24, 2018 10:41am
- Fletch
  
  I heard that the baby was born with a full set of… teeth 😉
  
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  June 24, 2018 8:43am
  - igm
    
    It is on chaff and oats already . . . keeping up family tradition.
    
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    June 24, 2018 8:46am
    - holysheet
      
      Being from Morrinsville, it would be a diet of maize silage and palm kernal. (with minced up monkey as the condiment). Standard fare for all those cows in the area.
      
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      June 24, 2018 8:53am
      - igm
        
        No, it’s a foal, not a calf. Look at the mother’s gnashers.
        
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        June 24, 2018 9:15am
  - softail 1450
    
    Fletch , babies first words will be, “has Twitford Chippie or Curran fucked up today”?
    
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    June 24, 2018 9:37am
- Komata
  
  Lee C: You raise an interesting point. How is it that a woman who is supposedly ‘anti’ capitalism and belongs to a party that very vocally and repeatedly indicates that it abhores ‘Rich pricks’, proceeds to exhibit all the characteristics usually associated with those two ‘ideologies’? And she is apparently able to do so with a completely clear ‘conscience’. It’s a most interesting phenomenon.
  
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  June 24, 2018 8:47am
  - tf78
    
    She did show her comrades she can slum it in a public hospital though – that must count for something.
    
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    June 24, 2018 9:06am
    - igm
      
      Is she going to stay in one of Gluckman’s safety approved meth homes to show Labour followers and leeches that the contaminated homes are 100% safe?
      
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      June 24, 2018 10:20am
    - Paulus
      
      Understand that she had the equivalent of four secure rooms in the hospital for her him and her PR and security entourage.
      
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      June 24, 2018 11:14am
      - lifesgood
        
        And she’s still bloody well there! Who else gets that privilege? Unless of course she was too posh to push like those rich bitches she so despises. I’m at the point of spewing. I had to turn the radio off in the car half an hour ago when red radio was crossing to Auckland Hospital for the PM’s press conference. When will this insanity end?
        
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        June 24, 2018 11:25am
      - calendar girl
        
        It was a surprise that Ms Ardern chose to have her baby in a public hospital. Yes, her socialist conscience would have struggled with the political imagery of her ‘going private’. But everyone knows that she is now a person of significant means, and could well afford to meet the highest private fees charged in Auckland. (Any private hospital would probably waive the fees anyway, in exchange for modest publicity.)
        
        If it is true that her presence (plus entourage) at Auckland City Hospital required the requisition of multiple secure rooms over a number of days for a single birth, why should taxpayers be expected pay for that scale of accommodation? And why should other expectant women be required to adapt to alternative birthing arrangements?
        
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        June 24, 2018 12:35pm
  - JibberJabber
    
    Given the excessive envy and addiction to other peoples money, troughs and Gravy trains inherent to the far left scum, Labours true colour should be Green, if they had an iota of honesty, which they don`t.
    
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    June 24, 2018 9:08am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    She studied under the Lecture Circuit self-promoter – Tony Blair and that rental housing entrepreneur – Helen Clark.
    
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    June 24, 2018 9:13am
- VicParking
  
  She can’t even have a Baby without lies and Bullshit. “The PM has to stay in Hospital for an extra day because of Security concerns”. They have had nine months to plan this, if she can’t be safe in her own house with 30 odd bodyguards where will she be safe. Twelve hours in Labour and Three days in hospital is a C Section for all money. I have no issue with this, what irks me is the ballshit about the truth. If the Spin Doctors thought that they could not drag out more sympathy from this situation, and more $$ for Clarke from the womens rags, they are not worth having. It seems the commie chicks ego got the better of her.
  
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  June 24, 2018 9:43am
- Viking2
  
  Well TV is going to lay it all out for you all too see in the next hour. Fill your boots with NZ’s First family. Not.
  
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  June 24, 2018 10:06am
- The Heat
  
  “NZSO records bi-lingual lullaby for Jacinda Ardern and Clarke Gayford’s baby”
  
  For the love of God…..
  
  How about recording one for Steve and Sharon and baby Patrick of Palmerston North?
  
  The invisible working class.
  
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  June 24, 2018 10:15am
- freemark
  
  The naming (although) nice seems to be a wasted opportunity.
  If the 1st couple had named the 1st baby Promise, it would have meant Cindy could have delivered at least 1 promise by now!
  Apologies if this is an old joke, I just heard it.
  
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  June 24, 2018 3:09pm
Lee C

An old man remarked to me upon my engagement:
“I never knew what true happiness was until I got married.”
Then he continued,
“Of course, by then, it was too late..”

All the best anyway..
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June 24, 2018 8:08am
duggledog

On Mike Hosking’s breakfast show Tuesday he interviewed PM Winston Peters.

Among topics discussed were falling business confidence, the $, gloomy forecasts etc.

In spite of proclaiming that if the economy stalls don’t blame him, Peters rebutted the stock market is in the best shape ever and the books are very good so stop worrying.

My question Winston – if this is so – is

Why would you touch anything – anything at all – on what you are saying is a tight ship steaming forward in a robust manner? Why would you be in a Coalition whose sole aim is to change literally everything?

Look, please can we all stop repeating the idea that Jacinda’s only PM because Winston ‘selected’ her?

Winston’s demands on National during negotiations were clearly absurd, unworkable, dangerous. They told him to sling his hook, knowing the result would be chaos. Which it is.

Winston ‘selected’ Jacinda like I ‘selected’ the sausage roll in the pie warmer this morning.

It was the only item in there.
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June 24, 2018 8:08am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Agree with you DD.
  Much is made of WP having power over the CoL because he could walk away.
  To where? The opposition bench is the only other place for him, and he won’t get to be PM (acting) from there.
  This CoL is a three legged stool. Each desperately needs the other two.
  
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  June 24, 2018 8:49am
Sir Cullen's Sidekick

Who is erupting with joy at our first royal baby and the visit of first nan? I just can’t wait for this MSM crap to end.
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June 24, 2018 8:09am
- Paulus
  
  How many people will be lining the route from the Auckland Hospital this morning (11 am we are told) to Pt Che or wherever to cheer on the arrival of our new Royal Family Princess. ?
  The Media of course and ladies of the local Labour University Party.
  
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  June 24, 2018 8:28am
  - igm
    
    Will not be their supporters, too early in the morning. May possibly interrupt a bit baby making to increase the household income.
    
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    June 24, 2018 8:48am
  - Inandout
    
    It will be announced yet another day’s stay is being given so the princess can be well rested. Also the gaggle of reporters can continue their pic gathering.
    
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    June 24, 2018 9:22am
    - VicParking
      
      More time for the stitches to settle
      
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      June 24, 2018 9:45am
      - igm
        
        Who in their right mind and productive actually gives a s . . t!
        
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        June 24, 2018 9:50am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        You seem to care a lot, igm. Why is that?
        
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        June 24, 2018 10:52am
      - Tauhei Notts
        
        Reminds me of a story after my wife’s difficult give birth experience.
        “we are waiting for the stitches to settle” I said.
        “How many, Tauhei?”
        “Six, I think.”
        “Bloody hell. there’s only five in a chaff sack!”
        
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        June 24, 2018 12:00pm
Lee C

yeah give it time SCS ….
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June 24, 2018 8:09am
Lee C

yeah dog I agree…
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June 24, 2018 8:10am
Happychappy

So NZ First win again and all Sir Patrick Hogan gets is slapped with a wet bus ticket for his illegal full page advise to Racing owners to support Winston Fìrst. Now we have a 40 million dollar cost for tax breaks to the Racing Industry for buyers that want to breed instead of the 4 million dollars that Winston wants the NZ voter to believe. When you have Leaders continually being involved in dodgy dealings which includes the Owen Glenn donation and the Vela Helecopters saga and now this and he still is allowed to rule the roost how can we say NZ Politics is not corrupt and be confident that it is not.
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June 24, 2018 8:19am
- waikatogirl
  
  Winston can get away with it as nobody will deal with corruption in this country. As well as all the dodgy deals Winnie has done look at all the other dodgy stuff that is swept under the carpet:
  
  Hulun speeding motorcade
  sexual assault in an MP’s home
  Materia Turei benefit fraud
  Labours sex attack camp
  Labours slave labour camp
  The boyfriend’s party favours
  illegal recordings
  etc
  etc
  etc
  
  “Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely”
  
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  June 24, 2018 8:33am
  - mikenmildagain
    
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    Is the ‘illegal recordings’ one the only National Party infringement you can recall?
    
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    June 24, 2018 9:32am
    - waikatogirl
      
      National sacked or stood down any MP who oversteps the line. Not so the ever-increasing number of COL MP’s who need to be dealt with by Cindy:
      -Clare Curran
      -Shane Jones
      -David Clarke
      -David Parker
      
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      June 24, 2018 9:43am
  - lifesgood
    
    Just remember none of that is anywhere near as serious as a playful tweak on a pony tail when everyone is laughing and joshing in good fun. Sarc.
    
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    June 24, 2018 11:30am
holysheet

Boy drops girl at home, he puts his hand on the wall by the gate for support, leans towards her.
Boy : Can I kiss you?
Girl: Not now, I’m at home.
Boy : Please.
Girl: No.
Boy : You were too sweet in bed today.
Girl: Woooow! You too, full of energy. I could not believe we had four rounds.
Boy : Let me kiss you good night.
Girl: Someone may be watching, they still think I’m a virgin at home.
(This goes on for five minutes)
Then the girl’s brother appears at the gate and says “Dad says whether you kiss him or not, its your decision, but tell that bastard to remove his hand from the intercom button, everyone at home is listening to your conversation.
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June 24, 2018 8:20am
Lee C

Imagine a world in which outrage about this was so great that the Electoral Laws of the land would be changed under urgency like with the Exclusive Brethren debacle.
Imagine the howls of outrage.
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June 24, 2018 8:21am
Humble Capitalist

With the constant MSM stories about people being ‘locked out’ of the housing market and hearing from a family member that they can’t afford to buy a house after having the opportunity to save for 25 years – I was delighted to find out during the week that one of my guys at work was buying his first house.
He purchased a modest 4 bedroom in a suburb a stones throw from the train station that gets you to the Wgtn CBD in under 30 mins for low $400k’s. He and his wife have been in KiwiSaver from the start so had $80k to use from that. In addition they get $5k each from the government for their first house so another $10k there. They got a good broker that got them a few grand from the bank with the mortgage and a great interest rate.
This made me feel really good for my mate and his family.
It also made me feel even more annoyed with MSM stories and with my family member that is ‘locked out’ of the housing market. This slightly younger family member has had at least 20 years to save and will only look in areas that they like (unaffordable). They Happen to be lefty voters that support greater refugee intake etc. however they wouldn’t even consider looking at an open home in Taita, Naenae, Kelso, Upper Hutt, Wainuiomata because it’s not good enough for them.
My mate just proved that nobody should get ‘locked out’ of the housing market even on a modest income if you are prepared to work hard and make sacrifices (plus you get government help!) and look in areas that your budget can afford. If you can’t do that then I don’t want to hear your whining.
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June 24, 2018 8:26am
- holysheet
  
  It’s called getting on the property ladder. You buy what you can afford anywhere and slowly build up your equity. With the slow but steady rise in property prices, the increase in inflation, then you cannot help but win.
  These lefty moaners who want it all now are delusional in their thinking.
  
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  June 24, 2018 8:33am
  - Humble Capitalist
    
    Exactly HS. Buy what you can afford. Some people think they deserve to be able to buy in the same neighbourhood as Mum and Dad straight away.
    Unfortunately some people have the budgeting mentality to whinge about the cost of something being $30 and then walk into the pokies room and blow $50 (or more)
    
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    June 24, 2018 8:39am
  - Maxx
    
    Too true. The amount of first home buyers that want their forever home as their first is absolutely staggering.
    
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    June 24, 2018 9:13am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  I still think first home buyers have the wrong attitude even with Kiwisaver and Govt gifts. Did they ever think about getting a second and third job, going hard out for 4 years, saving everything possible? Nope, have to have social time at the pub and parties. I did all this and now do not own a property (a Trust owns it freehold) I also have 3 vehicles, 2 boats and a caravan.
  End of rant, HTFU
  
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  June 24, 2018 8:49am
  - Maxx
    
    I was with you until the caravan…
    
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    June 24, 2018 9:14am
    - Steve (North Shore)
      
      It’s a 1972 Liteweight Vagabond that I restored and fitted new axle and brakes to. I like old school stuff
      
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      June 24, 2018 10:04am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    You are a wonderful and inspirational man.
    
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    June 24, 2018 9:36am
    - sooty
      
      Jealousey, will make you nasty. Oh! I see you are already.
      
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      June 24, 2018 9:57am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        I wish I could be a better man.
        
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        June 24, 2018 10:53am
      - rangitoto
        
        “I wish I could be a better man.”
        
        Two ticks blue will do that for you.
        
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        June 24, 2018 1:03pm
      - DifferentPerspective
        
        Never gonna happen though mikey until you put aside your neo-fascist socialist views.
        
        I live in hope for you though.
        
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        June 24, 2018 5:28pm
Lee C

Yes the world is full of people who support inviting refugees but would never dream of living next to them…
I think home ownership is not a ‘dream’ it is an aspiration. As such if one wants to, one can find a great home to live in. Check out Otago.
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June 24, 2018 8:30am
- Viking2
  
  Dreams are free, which of course is what first home dreamers want.
  Everything else costs and the rewards are consistent with the effort.
  
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  June 24, 2018 10:13am
Chuck Bird

From Whaleoil

Julie Anne Genter should resign after she defends Little’s trivialisation of sexual assault

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=195&v=35quuce5WwA
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June 24, 2018 8:31am
- peterwn
  
  I actually agree with Andy on this one. ‘Indecent assault’ is a ‘broad spectrum’ crime with 7 years jail maximum and covers everything from bottom pinching to serious acts just short of rape. Surely Parliament never intended someone would actually be sentenced to 7 years jail for pinching a bottom. Andy was merely pointing this out rather than trivialising the crime as such and Julie rightly concurred. Manslaughter is the other ‘strike’ crime that is ‘broad spectrum’. Perhaps these crimes should each be split in two for less serious and more serious situations with the less serious versions having lesser maximum penalties and not listed as ‘strike’ crimes.
  
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  June 24, 2018 8:42am
  - holysheet
    
    Surely this is covered by the “manifestly unjust” clause?
    No judge is going to give a third strike for just a little pinch on the bum.
    
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    June 24, 2018 8:58am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      I cannot agree.
      The prisoner assaulted a corrections officer with intent to intimidate. Very long sentence for that please. We don’t want that PoS loose in society thanks.
      
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      June 24, 2018 9:04am
      - waikatogirl
        
        Apparently, the prisoner got her in a confined space and grabbed a handful of arse which he held onto. Not just a friendly pinch on the bum, and as you say, intended to intimidate. Far, far more serious than just a simple pinch on the bottom.
        
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        June 24, 2018 9:22am
      - Keeping Stock
        
        And, having indecently assaulted the CO, the scumbag inmate then followed her, whilst making threats. But that’s fine according to Little; it was a “low level” offence, despite the fact the con was already on a first strike, and doubtless has a string of other “low level” offences.
        
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        June 24, 2018 9:32am
      - peterwn
        
        I was thinking of the R v Campbell case where, while the female corrections officer reported the incident, she indicated in her victim statement that she did not want the prisoner to be sentenced to 7 years without parole for it (third strike), and the judge invoked ‘manifestly unjust’ to allow the possibility of parole.
        There was also the R v Harrison case where the offender faced Life without parole as a second strike for murder following a first strike for pinching a policewoman’s bottom and the judge invoked ‘manifestly unjust’ to impose a finite sentence instead.
        I am not sure whether commenters are perhaps thinking of some other case.
        On the basis that Andy was questioning whether the full force of the ‘three strikes’ law should apply to ‘low end’ indecent assault, I consider that he has a valid point here. I consider at some appropriate time the the law be amended to the ‘three strikes’ does not apply to low end indecent assault and manslaughter rather than relying on the ‘manifestly unjust’ provision.
        I appreciate that he is using this as leverage to condemn the ‘three strikes’ law and have no issue with him being criticised for that aspect.
        It is conceivable that the courts’ use of the ‘manifestly unjust’ provision may have saved the day for the ‘three strikes’ law as Winston could have well have supported its repeal if the consequences of it were perceived to be excessively harsh.
        
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        June 24, 2018 4:57pm
  - tf78
    
    pertwn – I think the gentleman involved had quite a long list of previous crimes. (48 comes to mind)
    
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    June 24, 2018 9:14am
    - starboard
      
      Just a bit of info incase you want to retire in Thailand. Phuket.. 1 bedder condo fully furn close to beach start at 70K. 2 bed 2 Bathroom start at around 150K. New 3 bed 3 bathroom home fully furn start at around 220K. As you move further away from beach they reduce in price. You can get a retirement visa if you are 50 plus. These are for one year, renewable. $240. Cost to live here for a year for me single and depending on booze and ‘company’ 12K nz.
      
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      June 24, 2018 10:17am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Makes you wish you weren’t stuck on the single rate of super in your Christchurch East bedsit, doesn’t starboard?
        
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        June 24, 2018 10:55am
      - stigie
        
        Well, starboard has to feed and treat your mother to starboard’s highest standard MM..?
        
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        June 24, 2018 12:23pm
      - starboard
        
        Don’t hate yourself milky, it’s gona be allrite.
        
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        June 24, 2018 12:29pm
    - lifesgood
      
      Please don’t call him a gentleman, he manifestly is not.
      
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      June 24, 2018 11:35am
    - KevOB
      
      When you see how Police pile up charges as they please the numbers are largely meaningless.
      
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      June 24, 2018 6:48pm
Paulus

Trade Me this morning is showing 904 properties for sale in Tauranga for under $550,000.
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June 24, 2018 8:31am
- KiWombat
  
  And for those that still consider that unaffordable – try the West Coast, where there is still plenty available today for under $100,000 !
  
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  June 24, 2018 8:51am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Do you get sunshine with a house on the West Coast KiWombat? ?
    I wish I could send you some of our sunshine this morning. Beautiful sunny day up here. Most house prices are somewhat more eye-watering though!
    
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    June 24, 2018 9:03am
    - KiWombat
      
      Of course WG. We’ve already had this month’s day of sunshine, and if Metservice is to be believed we could even get two more this week – not holding my breath though !
      
      Just a nice sprinkle of rain today though, to keep the back paddock quagmire fit for frogs !
      
      As for your sunshine, whilst I would welcome it I’m sure that too much would convince locals that the apocalypse was upon us, so graciously decline !
      
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      June 24, 2018 9:46am
Monique Watson

Passed Davis and and back on the Freeway shortly. Onroute to Sacramento: Kids are fighting it out and we went through In and Out Burger and are now in the McDonald’s drivethru.
Best Sledge so far: One brother to another: “Take a left off the Cliff”.
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June 24, 2018 8:33am
- sooty
  
  Have you got fussy eaters that only eat haute cusine!
  
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  June 24, 2018 10:02am
  - Monique Watson
    
    They’re all fussy eaters and the Dad is in Tech but is the best Chef in town according to fellow Housewives so we eat curry and Pizza homemade on a regular basis but you roll up to a drive-thru to silence the noise and we’re all thrilled. I just can’t get over how we had to double down and do the two fast-food restaurants in Davis. To cater for everyone! You gotta put In and Out Animal style your bucket list and anything with jalapeños!
    
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    June 24, 2018 12:04pm
- Rich Prick
  
  If ever there was a town that didn’t need a one-way system, Sacramento would be it.
  
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  June 24, 2018 10:31am
- Duxton
  
  Thanks Monique. Love reading your stuff!
  
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  June 24, 2018 11:13am
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Is the tide turning against Brexit? ,

Pro-EU protesters march in London, demand new vote on Brexit

Tens of thousands of anti-Brexit protesters have marched on Saturday in London to demand a new referendum on leaving the European Union, as a divided Britain marked the second anniversary of its vote to quit the bloc.

Leading Brexit supporters, meanwhile, warned the British government not to delay or water down the divorce from the 28-nation bloc. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Prime Minister Theresa May must deliver the “full British Brexit” that voters were seeking.

Britain voted 52 per cent to 48 per cent on June 23, 2016 to quit the EU, and its official exit is slated for March 29, 2019. But the country – and its Conservative government – remain divided about what kind of economic relationship it wants with the EU…

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/360256/tens-of-thousands-march-in-london-demanding-second-brexit-vote
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June 24, 2018 8:35am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  Ok so I know you are a libtard but you are drawing a long bow.
  
  Firstly marching activists are meaningless, it’s a 70s thing and it’s now become a hobby for the indigent and unemployed.
  
  Secondly, 17.4 million voted in favour of Brexit. 10,000 unwashed marching means nothing at all. If all of them were converts from the Brexit voters (unlikely but I’m indulging you) the majority in favour of Brexit would still be 1.26 million.
  
  Thirdly, we know the MSM over-report numbers of anything that favours the globalist, left-wing agenda and under-report any showing of support for the ordinary, decent conservatives in society.
  
  Of much more relevance and much more revealing is the totally unrelated evidence that is swamping out of the FBI that a state security organisation had been subborned by a sitting President for nefarious political purposes. The mental gymnastics required of world socialists to pretend that a state-sponsored attempted coup isn’t a problem shows how little the left can ever be trusted. But by all means drone on wishfully about anti-democratic anti-Brexit pipe dreams.
  
  All socialists think of democracy as a bus, something to ride until you get to where you want to before stepping off when it suits.
  
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  June 24, 2018 8:55am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Great reposté!
    
    However, and there is always a however, I know that socialists think that busses are for other people and end up with a crown limo or a taxi that I, the taxpayer, has provided The other end of the political divide know that busses are for other people and go by their own car.
    
    Busses are for ideologues and councils.
    
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    June 24, 2018 9:38am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Nice work to put that acute accent on riposte (which is spelled differently and doesn’t require the accent, btw).
      
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      June 24, 2018 10:57am
      - Paulus Gnome
        
        Thanks, your comment didn’t require a comment either but here we are.
        
        My spelling is pants and my woodwork is mediocre to say the least but I am certain that I can spell shit head and that’s what I think you are, a shit head.
        
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        June 24, 2018 1:01pm
- mandk
  
  I have a feeling that the leave vote would be more than 52%, if there was to be another referendum.
  
  The people don’t like having their will subverted, especially if the subversion is orchestrated by the likes of Soros.
  
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  June 24, 2018 9:18am
- Inandout
  
  They were told they were marching against Robinson, not Brexit. Still dumb arse socialists though.
  
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  June 24, 2018 9:28am
- softail 1450
  
  Septicboy , our election was much closer, would you agree to a re run of that, an election or binding referendum is final ,fool.
  
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  June 24, 2018 9:47am
- VicParking
  
  Simple answer Stephie, morning, NO.
  By the way Trump has a tariff on in importation of goats, especially if they are wet from swimming in the Rio Grande. Can I suggest Venezuela as a better choice to move to ????
  
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  June 24, 2018 9:51am
- Manolo
  
  A majority of the British population voted for Brexit. Why are you against the people, stephieboy?
  
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  June 24, 2018 9:56am
  - JibberJabber
    
    When the Leftards get what they want ” the people have spoken”, when they don`t “the people are wrong” and we want another go.
    
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    June 24, 2018 10:44am
    - Piniwi
      
      But JJ we must not forget the newest excuse from the silly school girl “we failed to take the people with us” followed by the usual need for a conversation on our plans.
      
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      June 24, 2018 2:29pm
flipper

Wasn’t it great to see the Dunedin event and the nature of the game?
But, Lordy, the Australian and South African events continue as one-dimensional borefests. Had Winston McCarthy (remember what he said about D B Clarke’s 6 penalties v the ’59 Lions) and T P still been around they would have excoriated those teams and the World Rugby (IRB) fools
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June 24, 2018 8:40am
- Inandout
  
  The game has become a tad ‘computerised’ though, and thereby somewhat predicable. The occasional fisticuffs though must have confused the TV controlled ref, who by the way shouldn’t block a player’s actions.
  
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  June 24, 2018 9:33am
  - VicParking
    
    Yes!!!! Maybe he should be able to ‘click his finger and disappear’ or maybe he should be a hologram.
    Or maybe the defending halfback should have had the brains not to run into him. The try scorer had the half back running on his hip so if the French halfback had of got to him he would of offloaded. Same result.
    
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    June 24, 2018 10:04am
- VicParking
  
  I have been watching the Football World Cup. The commentators are all positive and look for the good in everything. The NZ rugby commentators however look for everything bad. They think they know the rules of the game better than the ref and are willing to tell all about it. If they were the Video Refs the All Blacks would have been down to about five players by the end of the game and the Ref would have had a tire for a collar.
  P.S. They did not even know their All Black selection Number.
  
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  June 24, 2018 9:58am
DifferentPerspective

DPF kicked out of a restaurant for being National’s pollster

Ok so not really, but this is what is coming to NZ with the alt-Left basket of despicables calling themselves progressives (as we can see from the US). The WH press secretary getting kicked out of a restaurant for having the wrong opinions an working for the “wrong” side.

So imagine the scene Mr Farrar, you pop into your local Wellington cafe with your lovely family and you get asked to leave because you are the pollster for National?

First they came for Sarah Sanders, but you didn’t speak out because you were a never Trumper ….

Tolerance and diversity of Sanders’ views and opinions? Not so much!

No one does hypocrisy like a socialist!
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June 24, 2018 8:42am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Sarah Sanders will get her own back, she usually does. Stephenie Wilkinson might get a visit from a few rednecks who want to give her an opinion
  
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  June 24, 2018 8:55am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Will the ‘support team’ also be baseball fans?
    
    I hope so. Socialism is a disease and needs a heads up with more than bat
    
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    June 24, 2018 9:44am
- Fletch
  
  Trumps Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was also heckled by protesters, forcing her to leave a restaurant (there’s video).
  
  https://nypost.com/2018/06/19/protesters-chase-homeland-security-secretary-from-mexican-restaurant/
  
  More shouting protesters surround her home later on.
  
  http://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2018/06/22/video-protesters-surround-dhs-secretary-kirstjen-nielsens-alexandria-home/
  
  If you don’t have the correct left-wing opinion you can now expect hostile and abusive crowds harassing you.
  
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  June 24, 2018 8:57am
  - Inandout
    
    I can count at least four lesbos in that Breitbart picture.
    
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    June 24, 2018 9:38am
- Fletch
  
  Oh, and the CEO of Twitter has been made to apologize for eating a chicken sandwich during Pride Month from the wrong establishment.
  
  https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2018/06/11/twitter-jack-dorsey-chick-fil-pride/691298002/
  
  Because of the owners of Chick-Fil-A are Christian and made their views on marriage known about 6 years ago.
  
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  June 24, 2018 9:00am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Would it have been okay if the restaurant refused to serve people celebrating a gay wedding?
  
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  June 24, 2018 9:02am
  - holysheet
    
    yes because it is THEIR private business.
    
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    June 24, 2018 9:10am
  - itstricky
    
    LOL. Exactly. And I bet ya Fletch, DP and Steve would have been pretty outspoken about that, if we care to look back.
    
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    June 24, 2018 9:11am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      That’s because they have no moral standards, so can twist the argument on any issue to suit their hateful prejudices.
      
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      June 24, 2018 9:14am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        See Fletch’s gymnastics below: in special circumstances it is okay for businesses to display their intolerance.
        
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        June 24, 2018 9:20am
      - holysheet
        
        You talking about your lefty brothers, right?
        
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        June 24, 2018 9:21am
      - Viking2
        
        As do all lefties and religious nuts.
        
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        June 24, 2018 10:21am
    - softail 1450
      
      itssticky . “looking back” is strangely enough what progressives do best ,go for it .
      
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      June 24, 2018 9:56am
  - Fletch
    
    Yes. The owners of bakeries who have refused to make a wedding cake for a gay wedding have no problem serving homosexuals any other time or baking any other goods for them; in fact in the cases we’re talking about, the gays who wanted the wedding cake were regular visitors. They just refuse to use their artistry to make a cake celebrating something that goes against their religious beliefs. In the same way would it be OK for a Muslim baker to refuse to make a pizza with pork in it?
    
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    June 24, 2018 9:16am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Not likely as many of the staff at that place are gays.
    
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    June 24, 2018 9:17am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Oh noes, teh gayz!
      
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      June 24, 2018 9:19am
  - softail 1450
    
    milkinmadagain, I suspect you could answer that question.
    
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    June 24, 2018 9:50am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Don’t you just love the tolerance of the left.
  
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  June 24, 2018 9:17am
- MrLovebucket
  
  Or worse, can you imagine the outcry if someone from the PM’s office had been asked to leave a restaurant on account of their job?
  
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  June 24, 2018 9:46am
  - Viking2
    
    Shades of Nashville where Nash MP wouldn’t got to his own fundraiser because it was run by Hooten (his old mate) after Hooten criticized Cabinet Ministers.
    
    No doubt though his Napier labour Party will accept the funds so raised.
    
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    June 24, 2018 10:24am
- cha
  
  No one does hypocrisy like a socialist!
  
  Paul Ryan was so pleased a bakery declined a Biden campaign stop, he invited the owner to speak at a rally.
  
  But hey, no one does hypocritical sniveling quite like a conservative snowflake!.
  
  “Nothing personal, but I just happened to disagree with the president and the vice president on a few things.”
  
  https://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/22/va-baker-is-in-the-spotlight-at-ryan-rally/
  
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  June 24, 2018 5:10pm
Fletch

I heard on the radio today that the govt reckons there is too much competition between schools and that their shouldn’t be “winners and losers” because it’s not good for children.

The head of the taskforce overseeing the review, Bali Haque, said many schools did well out of the reforms, but some did not.

“The system is succeeding for many, but it’s failing for too many and that needs to be dealt to, we cannot afford to allow so many of our students to fall out of the system,” he said.

“We have winners and losers and if we’re talking about education and we’re talking about children and we’re talking about young people’s lives, then I think having a system that sort of generates winners and losers is no longer acceptable, not sustainable. It’s not good for us as a country and its spells problems for us down the track.”

https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/insight/audio/2018650326/insight-examining-tomorrow-s-schools
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June 24, 2018 8:53am
- holysheet
  
  I always thought the idea of going to school was to prepare you for the real world. Out in the big wide world there are only winners and losers. The lefty scum cannot be winners so they try to create the illusion of everyone being a winner.
  If this was the case, why did so many like watching the rugby last night. No doubt who was the winner and who was the loser.
  
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  June 24, 2018 9:05am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I don’t approve of loser schools.
    Good teachers tend to congregate in certain districts.
    It’s easy teaching in a well-resourced school with polite middle / upper-class kids if you have competent colleagues.
    Why would you want to make difficulties for yourself by going to teach in a poorly managed school with problem kids?
    
    Some kids don’t get a choice about the quality of school they attend.
    
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    June 24, 2018 9:35am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Almost HS, there have been two draws in Hansen’s eighty-six odd test match tenure; the lefttards must have creamed themselves on both occasions!
    
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    June 24, 2018 9:49am
- Harkman
  
  Something tells me easier tests are on the way to cover for an educational collapse.
  
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  June 24, 2018 9:06am
- mikenmildagain
  
  You shouldn’t listen to the radio if it upsets you so much, Fletch.
  
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  June 24, 2018 9:08am
- holysheet
  
  One of my favorite quotes is this
  “Those than can do, those that cannot teach”
  Says it all really.
  
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  June 24, 2018 9:12am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    So you were taught by people who could do nothing? It certainly appears that those who taught you could not communicate correct spelling and the use of commas.
    
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    June 24, 2018 9:15am
    - holysheet
      
      What I was taught was to stand up for myself. Always be honest to yourself, and try to be the best you possibly can be. My journey through life has had it’s ups and downs, a failed business made me stronger. Now I am the owner of a very profitable business, with property, and a debt free home.
      
      If I had followed the lefty way I would have given up after the first failure, or maybe wouldn’t have even tried in the first place.
      
      My success had fuck all to do with what my teachers tried to teach me. All they said on every school report was “he is just cruising and can do much better if pushed.”
      
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      June 24, 2018 9:29am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Cool story bro, Tell it again.
        
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        June 24, 2018 9:39am
      - holysheet
        
        What I was taught was to stand up for myself. Always be honest to yourself, and try to be the best you possibly can be. My journey through life has had it’s ups and downs, a failed business made me stronger. Now I am the owner of a very profitable business, with property, and a debt free home.
        
        If I had followed the lefty way I would have given up after the first failure, or maybe wouldn’t have even tried in the first place.
        
        My success had fuck all to do with what my teachers tried to teach me. All they said on every school report was “he is just cruising and can do much better if pushed.
        
        Happy now?
        
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        June 24, 2018 11:01am
      - Monique Watson
        
        Briliant. Yeah I dropped out and made some dickhead decisions around study and have had my fair share of health shit including being paralyzed but always rolled with the punches. Always buy low and add value. And trust your kids to make the right decisions if you have the correct values. And you can’t be too nice in every situation.
        
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        June 24, 2018 12:50pm
    - softail 1450
      
      mikenmadagain, how many times did you proof read that post before you pressed enter you grammar nazi nutcase?
      
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      June 24, 2018 10:02am
      - Steve (North Shore)
        
        Oh dear, that was probably a typo caused by fat fingers. No way would Mike make a mistake after berating others
        
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        June 24, 2018 10:12am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        I had to edit it several time to avoid infringing Muphry’s Law.
        On a slightly different point – do you think calling someone a ‘Nazi’ about being careful of words and their use is somewhat disproportionate?
        
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        June 24, 2018 10:12am
  - kloyd0306
    
    …and those that cannot teach, teach Phyz Ed……
    
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    June 24, 2018 12:24pm
    - chuk
      
      …and those that cannot teach, lecture on education…
      
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      June 24, 2018 1:16pm
- Inandout
  
  Oh good, this dropping of ‘winners and losers’ will surely end workers’ annual performance assessments in the real world.
  
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  June 24, 2018 9:40am
- Ross12
  
  Well I can honestly say competition at the schools I went to was the best thing that happened in my education. It bought the best out in me, from an educational point of view and if I could, I’d happily go back and thank the teachers and the headmasters involved for that competition they promoted.
  
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  June 24, 2018 10:09am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I’ll get in before mikenmildagain…
    bought (recte – brought)
    
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    June 24, 2018 10:25am
    - Ross12
      
      English (and proof reading) was never a strong subject for me Maggy.
      
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      June 24, 2018 11:40am
      - itstricky
        
        Must have been those bloody useless teachers. Oh – sorry – EDIT: bloody useless unionised teachers. Everyone knows they’re different.
        
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        June 24, 2018 7:38pm
- Duxton
  
  I am more concerned at the prospect of someone with Bali Haque’s background being allowed anywhere near our education system.
  
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  June 24, 2018 11:44am
- Piniwi
  
  But F it is yet another illustration of how these people involved in a review are so far disconnected with the children. The competitive spirit has always been very strong in children but sadly education administrators and officials still fail to see or understand it.
  In fact it is that strong young competitive spirit that is the major driving force for the gaming industry which is huge. Sadly the state education system has strayed too far from the fundamentals with their curriculum which is the biggest cause of failures exceeding successes. Thereby creating the first level of haves and have not’s. The winners only get that way with substantial parental support, encouragement and involvement. The looser start down the have not path because of the absence of that support thus something like a Bali Haque comes along with an alternative. Make them all losers. It is attitudes like this that spell problems for us down the track.
  
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  June 24, 2018 3:05pm
flipper

Well put DP.
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June 24, 2018 8:55am
Harkman

One is going to show the Airhead leaving hospital, how pathetic.
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June 24, 2018 9:04am
Monique Watson

Oldest just suggested the Chinese Fire Drill. That’s when you stop at a red light and switch seats and there is always one poor sucker left standing on the outside.
And we sang 100 bottles of beer on the wall right down! Whole family chimed in. Usually the endurance drops off before 60 bottles are off the wall.
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June 24, 2018 9:05am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  You’re a saint Monique.
  
  I would have tossed the tykes by now.
  
  Have you thought of sending them all into a mall/diner for something while you ~~park the car~~ drive off in the sunset?
  
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  June 24, 2018 9:40am
  - Monique Watson
    
    Could be in Oregon by midnight 🙂
    
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    June 24, 2018 9:52am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      You’re not driving and reading KB at the same time, are you Monique?
      
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      June 24, 2018 10:27am
      - Monique Watson
        
        Oldest has stolen the front seat but he’s 6”3 so I gave it up. Hubby is driving and I’m bitching about the lack of coverage. Just tailgated a Dodge Viper with a Trump sticker and are now behind a black Lambo. Brother just dutched ovened another brother. Car smells bad but all souls intact. Typical road trip.
        
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        June 24, 2018 10:45am
Harkman

Dopey Dann on this government to Michael Barnett, “they were elected they have a mandate.” Funny joke.
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June 24, 2018 9:08am
- Harkman
  
  Robo, “sure we can improve the way we communicate.”
  
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  June 24, 2018 9:09am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Harkman is yet another Another moron who doesn’t understand how the proportional representation works.
  
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  June 24, 2018 9:12am
  - Harkman
    
    Hi Mike Joy, no rivers to protest about now Labour is in power? Did all NZ 1st voters support Labour? No. If surveyed did NZ 1st voters want the Greens in power? No again. Pretty clear really Mike.
    
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    June 24, 2018 9:17am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      In case you have not heard, the way a government is formed is so that it combines the parties that together command the support of 50% of the votes cast in the election.
      While you might well be correct that some voters did not expect their chosen parties to form coalitions, it still provides a wider base of support than a first-past-the-post system.
      It has always struck me as strange that those who bewail the deficiencies of MMP never seem to acknowledge the deficiencies of FPP (remember the governments elected despite receiving fewer votes overall?) or, indeed, that there can be no such thing as a perfect electoral system.
      
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      June 24, 2018 9:25am
      - Harkman
        
        The Aussie system is better, it whittles out protest votes that aren’t serious.
        
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        June 24, 2018 9:34am
- Harkman
  
  Well I take my hat off to dopey Dann, he got Robo on the real GDP per person growth that Robo was moaning about last year in opposition. The rest of the questions were softies.
  
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  June 24, 2018 9:20am
- Harkman
  
  Great some human rights lawyer women on the panel says detention of illegal immigrants is illegal. WTF. Completely open borders or you’re a racist.
  
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  June 24, 2018 9:50am
  - Viking2
    
    Yeh gods there are hundreds of her type running around the country these days. Have little idea about anything.
    Naive would be being nice.
    Worse she apparently believes what is printed in the MSM.
    
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    June 24, 2018 10:30am
    - Paulus
      
      Heard of one medium sized Auckland Law firm Partners having a disagreement with their HR on how many interns should they take this summer and what sex they should be.
      They usually take up to six but are reluctant to take any this year as they are afraid of being targeted by applications.
      Will advise when a decision has been made but the Partners are under extreme pressure not exercise their wish. They do have two women Partners too.
      Difficult when HR have so much say on your business.
      
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      June 24, 2018 1:27pm
Longknives

God have mercy and let this somehow end!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/104960065/hold-her-close-to-your-heart-neil-and-liam-finn-send-lullaby-to-pms-first-baby

“The Finns thought giving the song was a fitting tribute for the girl who’s stolen the hearts and minds of the nation.”

I just have one thing to say-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWq9_m9fiCY
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June 24, 2018 9:09am
- Viking2
  
  How much largess from the Taxpayers via the Govt’s. various art bodies and events are these bloody awful songwriters going to get now?
  
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  June 24, 2018 10:32am
  - itstricky
    
    bloody awful songwriters
    
    Split Enz – 7 Top 10 albums
    Crowded House – 6 Top 10 albums
    Neil Finn solo – at least 3 number one singles
    Tim Finn solo – 1 number two single
    
    I’m sure you could do better, right?
    
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    June 24, 2018 7:45pm
Stars And Stripes

Currently swanning around on an Alaskan Cruise and last night we stopped in Victoria, British Columbia.
Everything was going fantastic till we stopped at a pedestrian crossing and I happened to glance at the lamp post on my right.
Stuck on it was a poster with the ugly mug of Helen Clark saying that she will be in town tonight to promote the new documentary “My Year With Helen” which was premiering in town that evening.
Well Canada if you fancy some feminist/lesbian stuff then be my guest but if you value your dignity then don’t bother as she has spread her shit wide enough already.
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June 24, 2018 9:17am
- mikenmildagain
  
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  You poor snowflake. It’s not fair for you to be triggered like that when you are on holiday.
  
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  June 24, 2018 9:26am
  - Stars And Stripes
    
    Jealous are we?
    Maybe if you had a better job you could afford it as well.
    
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    June 24, 2018 9:41am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      I’m always envious of those boasting on their wealth on blogs.
      
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      June 24, 2018 9:57am
      - waikatogirl
        
        So you should be mm. Not much of an existence for you in that Wellington basement. ?
        
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        June 24, 2018 11:21am
- softail 1450
  
  S&S, that must be an old poster surely ,that spew came out a year ago or more.
  
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  June 24, 2018 10:10am
secondcumming

Last week, when the missus got home from Mass, she swore she’d never take the bloody kids again! She reckons Mister10 & Miss8 were just sooo naughty, with their constant bickering and fighting. Anyway, she relented this morning, got them up early and took them along with her….one more chance!

She’s just got back, and said they couldn’t have better, sat there quiet as mice. The wife reckons when Mister10 opened the message I sent to his iPad and showed his sister, they both nearly shit themselves.

https://i.imgflip.com/2cobc2.jpg
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June 24, 2018 9:23am
- Viking2
  
  One day they will realize that you are not God and the fear will evaporate as it should.
  
  Mass twice in 2 days is enough to send them to the mad house. Still it gets them out of the house and into the Priests tender care.
  
  Be careful what you wish for. Those Priests and Nuns have fearful reputations.
  
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  June 24, 2018 10:35am
Harkman

This is for the SJWs who think that people can simply chose their sexual orientation as they wish.

https://youtu.be/WPMDCJrRpT8
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June 24, 2018 9:29am
Manolo

The arrogant and dictatorial new Turkish sultan:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/angry-erratic-erdogan-cusp-becoming-080000736.html
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June 24, 2018 9:54am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Have you seen the size of Ince’s rallys?
  https://www.rferl.org/a/turkey-presidential-campaign-ince-izmir/29313583.html
  
  Turkey is on a powder keg.
  
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  June 24, 2018 10:31am
Maggy Wassilieff

One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by

Don’t quote Rommel.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6578791/exeter-university-motivational-quote-erwin-rommel/
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June 24, 2018 9:55am
- mikenmildagain
  
  That will have EADolf conflicted. One the one hand, Rommel was a senior Nazi and relatively successful general. OTOH, he plotted against Hitler and was forced to commit suicide.
  
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  June 24, 2018 10:00am
  - softail 1450
    
    milkenmadagain, please follow his example,could i suggest experimenting with explosives in your back shed?
    
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    June 24, 2018 10:12am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Sure, you can certainly come and experiment with explosives in my back shed. So long as ‘back shed’ isn’t one of your homosexual code words.
      
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      June 24, 2018 10:22am
      - itstricky
        
        code words
        
        Watch out for the that throbbing engine between his legs
        
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        June 24, 2018 7:49pm
- Harkman
  
  Maggy, I think it was New Plymouth Boys High that currently has Malcolm X on its prospectus (but don’t ask me how I know that).
  
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  June 24, 2018 12:01pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Meet Julius Caesar

https://www.rt.com/news/430659-caesar-head-reconstructed-rome/
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June 24, 2018 10:34am
Hugh Pavletich

If New Zealand is to crack the problems of unaffordable housing, government here must look seriously at how the better parts of America finance infrastructure, Eric Crampton argues | interest.co.nz

https://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/94430/if-new-zealand-crack-problems-unaffordable-housing-government-here-must-look-seriously

By Eric Crampton*

This seems about the worst possible month to be suggesting that anybody should try to emulate anything going on in America. The place seems to be going mad in ways no longer funny to laugh at from very far away.

So it’s a bit of a shame that the best lessons on infrastructure financing and affordable housing come from a few places in the United States that have really figured things out. If the exact same lessons had come from Canada, or the UK, or Estonia, Infrastructure New Zealand would have an easier time marketing its latest report.

If New Zealand is going to crack the problems of unaffordable housing, government here is going to have to look seriously at how the better parts of America finance infrastructure. Within the same country, you can find major urban areas like San Francisco that are as unaffordable as Auckland, others like Atlanta, or Houston, where housing remains very affordable – and plenty in-between.

In April, an Infrastructure New Zealand delegation visited Portland, Denver, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston and San Francisco. Their report, “Enabling City Growth: Lessons from the USA”, was released last week. … read more via hyperlink above …

Enabling City Growth: Lessons from the USA (pdf) … Infrastructure New Zealand

https://infrastructure.org.nz/resources/Documents/Reports/Infrastructure%20NZ%20USA%20Report.pdf
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… Wellington Presentation Event … WED 27 JUNE 2018

Infrastructure New Zealand – WELLINGTON – WED 27 JUNE 2018 EVENT: Lessons from the USA – Planning, Funding and Enabling City Growth

https://infrastructure.org.nz/event-2932846
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June 24, 2018 10:40am
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  … WOW … Now in ( Singapore ) The Straits Times too ! …
  
  As Housing Prices Soar, New Zealand Tackles a Surge in Homelessness – The New York Times
  
  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/world/australia/new-zealand-homeless.html
  
  AUCKLAND, New Zealand — New Zealand is known to many outsiders as a beautiful, affluent country, the place where the “Lord of the Rings” movies were made. But Joseph Takairangi and thousands of others know it better for the expensive housing that lies far out of their reach.
  
  On a recent cool night in a misty rain, Mr. Takairangi and some of his friends were looking for somewhere to spend the night. They had decamped to a parking lot after being ejected from a stretch of takeaway food shops in Henderson, an Auckland suburb.
  
  Soon, a speaker mounted on a wall above them crackled: “Move along, please, guys.”
  
  New Zealand has the highest homelessness rate among the wealthy nations that make up the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Yale University study found last year, though it noted that definitions of homelessness vary by country. Social workers here say the country’s homeless — 1 percent of the population, according to a comprehensive study from a New Zealand university — increasingly include people with jobs. …
  
  … Auckland, the country’s largest city, consistently ranks among the 10 least affordable housing markets in Demographia International’s annual global survey, which measures house prices against income. … read more via hyperlink above …
  
  … reprint …
  
  As housing prices soar, New Zealand tackles a surge in homelessness, Australia/NZ News & Top Stories – The Straits Times
  
  https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/as-housing-prices-soar-new-zealand-tackles-a-surge-in-homelessness
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  Don’t be put off by the HAM – I believe you can still buy a house | Stuff.co.nz
  … note readers’ poll …
  
  https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/money/104817263/Don-t-touch-the-HAM-its-off
  
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  June 24, 2018 10:59am
  - sooty
    
    Hughs post was here, for how long
    
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    June 24, 2018 12:32pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Done my bit.
      
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      June 24, 2018 12:53pm
      - sooty
        
        It’s as though he was never here!
        edit Isee what you mean about hughey sneaking in and dropping shit in yesterdays post.
        
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        June 24, 2018 5:29pm
Right of way is Way of Right

A friend of mine is about to have her second child. Not especially newsworthy, unlike some recent births…..or is it?

You see, my friend has had to battle cancer, TWICE! Chemo, radiation, double mastectomy, multiple surgeries, hospital stays, and holding down a full time job. She always wanted more than just one child, and now this miracle. She and her husband are two of the best people, and deserve every blessing. They even bought a house in Auckland last year.

A much better story than some the media are peddling at the moment.
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June 24, 2018 10:40am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Cool story, bro.
  
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  June 24, 2018 11:01am
  - holysheet
    
    Cool story bro, Tell it again?
    
    You are a quick learner MM.
    
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    June 24, 2018 1:53pm
  - Longknives
    
    Sneering at a Cancer survivor? Jesus this incarnation of Mikenmild is all class…
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD0rUFVDEhw
    
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    June 24, 2018 2:44pm
    - Right of way is Way of Right
      
      Hey MM, guess what mate, I’m a cancer survivor too. I hope you’re not sneering, and I hope that, taken in the right context, your statement was one of support and appreciation.
      
      However, if it wasn’t, jog on, and let the grown ups talk, ok?
      
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      June 24, 2018 3:31pm
rightoverlabour

There may be an upside to the relentless Jacinda Baby media preoccupation. It already happened at a Mass today, when a priest suggested that maybe as Jacinda looks at her little bundle of joy, she may be moved to change her stance on abortion. Nothing like creating posters with the beautiful baby and miracle-working mother promoting the murder of innocents that are yet to be born. “I was allowed to be born, but mom thinks that others should be murdered”.
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June 24, 2018 10:51am
- Inandout
  
  Only a committed nazi-dyke could look at a newborn and consider it disposable. Jacinda it appears has normal enzymes.
  
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  June 24, 2018 11:08am
  - GoVege
    
    Only a twisted mind could compare the birth of a baby to a happy couple in their 30s, to young single frightened girls contemplating abortion.
    
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    June 24, 2018 12:49pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Kiwiblog: twisted minds r us.
      
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      June 24, 2018 1:08pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Those are pretty nasty comments. I’m very surprised Keeping Stock and Maggy Wassilief have not yet issued their usual admonishments.
  
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  June 24, 2018 12:48pm
  - Johnboy
    
    It’s just that since you relinquished your strategic post at the public service the supply of rubber bands and paper clips has slowed down so they couldn’t get their white papers finished in time old chap! 🙂
    
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    June 24, 2018 12:51pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Luckily we can always rely on you to keep things civil.
      
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      June 24, 2018 1:07pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Quite so Milkey. I do detest comments that delve into the deepest peccadilloes of humankind’s nastiest perversions as you know! 🙂
        
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        June 24, 2018 1:16pm
Inandout

The royal entourage has departed Auckland Hospital.
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June 24, 2018 11:06am
Anne Glen Eden

Some things never change and human behaviour is one of them. I suppose one that has, and is ‘progressively’ sliding backwards, is levels of maturity in the ‘adult’ generation.

HdPA is bemoaning NZ not following overseas trends fast enough. Clearly, she learned to use the argument “But I want to do it!. Everyone else is doing it!” with her parents when growing up and they listened. Responsible parents responded, “If everyone else was jumping of a cliff, would you do it?” The idea, of course, is to use your intelligence and rational mind to make good decisions in your own/society’s best interests.

By no stretch of the imagination would I call NZ ‘conservative’ – not even approaching it. But then, I wouldn’t call it ‘rational’ either – more caught by the ridiculous and fraudulent ‘globalist liberal’, ‘individual rights’, and PC ‘identity’ movements causing havoc all over the world; and here. All that has achieved is the highest rates of child abuse and youth suicide in the developed world. I wouldn’t mind betting we’re up there with STI rates and rates of drug/alcohol problems would be interesting as well.

She does end her immature rant with, “Kiwis have always been brave enough to call out BS, then fall on the right side of history. It’d be a pity if those days are over.”

Hopefully, they’re not. Perhaps that’s why she senses a movement away from what’s causing the problems – anarchic, alienating, and self-destructive individualism; the destruction of true democracy of the people, by the people, and for the people in favour of total power to ‘representative’ individuals/minorities who tell the supposedly ‘tyrannous’ majority how they should and will live. A society in which people are heavily invested in ways to blank their minds to get away from the reality.

Speaking of all which, we’ve had many governments in my lifetime, some of which I’ve love, some hated, and some really didn’t care much. This is the first time we’ve had one which might be technically legal but I don’t recognise. It wasn’t ‘elected’, or even preferred. It was the choice of Winston Peters. As was Ardern. And the best you can say about any vote for her or Labour is that it was mostly down to a lot of irrational, emotive, PR spun, lies and manipulation with remarkable similarity to the workings of the ‘Pied Piper’, aided and abetted by the MSM.

Similarly, Ardern’s ‘motherhood’ is more political PR spin. I can’t express how much I despise her ‘modelling’ of what is appropriate for women/mothers. Giving birth is a major physical event, a major rite of passage, and a major life change which deserves due attention and participation by all members of the family involved.

Ardern may want to receive her ‘box’ of government papers. The vast majority of women can’t and/or don’t want to work while giving birth and for some time after, and definitely should not be expected to. In fact, I can’t imagine that responsible appropriate professionals would be recommending such a course of action for the general populace as being in the best interests of mother, baby, or family.

I think all babies are miracles and I hope this one is healthy and happy. But there’s no way I support Ardern and/or her ‘frog prince’ in how they’re processing it all publicly and for political purposes. It’s nauseating and I suspect something they will come to regret in the future.

In the meantime, I hope all women stand up for themselves and their right to have this time for themselves, babies, families without having to work and/or rush back to work, and to enjoy the rights and take responsibility for raising their children rather than abandoning them to intermediaries or child care centres. Perhaps more like the Duchess of Cambridge who clearly has a better appreciation of what the role encompasses and values her children as her first priority.
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June 24, 2018 11:17am
- Kabull
  
  Well said, Anne.
  
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  June 24, 2018 11:27am
- mikenmildagain
  
  You seriously compare the life of an elected New Zealand politician to that of the work-free lifestyle of a royal duchess?
  
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  June 24, 2018 1:03pm
  - lifesgood
    
    There’s a huge difference between carrying out the role required of you with grace, dignity and how it’s meant to be done, as the Duchess does, and trying to carry out a role you are completely ill equipped for and making a hash of it.
    
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    June 24, 2018 1:18pm
- KevOB
  
  Thanks Anne, What media fees have Ardern-Gayford got for this PR stunt?
  
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  June 24, 2018 6:56pm
rightoverlabour

Very good comment. I also wonder when this will all turn to custard. Newborns bring a huge amount of stress into a relationship. One does not need the added stress of “looking good” for the press. They should grow up and leave Jacinda alone, and she needs to tell them to piss off.
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June 24, 2018 11:23am
- lifesgood
  
  She won’t tell them to piss off. She and her live in lover are publicity whores.
  
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  June 24, 2018 11:50am
  - Paulus
    
    Until he has had enough of being a housefather day and night in and out.
    No beersys with his mates – no chatting up women – going to be tough for him so many years.
    Although he has no real job so he can rest in whenever it gets too much.
    The Nanny will take over whenever he is not required to go to Mummy Mornings with all those hormonal other mothers.
    
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    June 24, 2018 1:34pm
    - Longknives
      
      Clarke is joining a Mum’s Coffee Group?
      Jesus isn’t that a bit like letting the Rat into the Cheese larder??
      
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      June 24, 2018 2:46pm
      - Monique Watson
        
        https://youtu.be/PPN3KTtrnZM
        
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        June 24, 2018 3:21pm
- Komata
  
  RoL: Except that she won’t ‘cos it makes her feel ‘wanted’ and ‘important’. The lady is a media junky and can’t live without media exposure. There is no way she’ll tell them to take a hike… I believe it’s known as a ‘Symbiotic’ relationship, although I would suggest that the word’Parasitic’ could possibly be a suitable substitute…
  
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  June 24, 2018 11:50am
  - RF
    
    Pathetic psycho parasite…..
    
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    June 24, 2018 3:37pm
- The Heat
  
  There is about as much chance of the infantile MSM growing up as there is of The Stranded embracing Roger Douglas.
  
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  June 24, 2018 1:46pm
- KevOB
  
  Bu there’s money in it.
  
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  June 24, 2018 6:57pm
secondcumming

*Neve Te Aroha Adern-Gayford*

My father in-law reckons the sprog will be grateful her mother wasn’t from…… Eketahuna.
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June 24, 2018 11:29am
- RF
  
  I have seen where there is another name….
  
  Niamh Te Aroha Ardern Gayford.
  
  What ever it is…. poor little bugger.
  
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  June 24, 2018 12:01pm
  - lifesgood
    
    Niamh is Irish and is pronounced Neve.
    
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    June 24, 2018 1:20pm
  - KevOB
    
    Te Aroha is a noun useage: the name of a place.
    
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    June 24, 2018 7:00pm
- Inandout
  
  ‘Nivea’?
  
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  June 24, 2018 12:11pm
  - sooty
    
    Is’nt that face cream?
    
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    June 24, 2018 12:21pm
  - KevOB
    
    Whitens the complexion.
    
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    June 24, 2018 6:58pm
- Duxton
  
  Neve and Niamh both mean ‘snow’. Hopefully there isn’t any snow around the house. Poor wee thing could catch her death of cold.
  
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  June 24, 2018 12:23pm
  - holysheet
    
    Depends on your definition of “Snow”
    
    An alien spaceship landed in Mt Albert and it’s two occupants got out and spoke to the first human they saw, “Take us to your dealer, ” they said to him,
    “Haha, what’s up boys?
    The universal translator on the blink?
    Don’t you mean leader? ” said Clark sarcastically.
    “Look sonny, ” said one of the aliens, “we’ve landed in Mt Albert, we know what we mean.
    
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    June 24, 2018 1:57pm
- Fletch
  
  It will be useful later on should the child decide to change genders, he can still be called Nev.
  
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  June 24, 2018 12:29pm
Monique Watson

Well before I rush into the kitchen after we arrived safely in Incline Village I have to say I’m happy for them and had to wipe a tear off and I’m happy the sound is better on Stuff Live and I’m simultaneously wondering when the Ministry of Silly Walks is going to be installed.
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June 24, 2018 11:36am
kevn

@SC… ‘Snow’ ‘Love’ A-G. Sort of interesting combo.
Something for everyone I guess.
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June 24, 2018 11:37am
lifesgood

Te Aroha …LOL how utterly predictable!
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June 24, 2018 11:54am
- Inandout
  
  A few Maori votes there. The Guardian will immediately run an article on the Te Aroha name, its origins and how our princess was begot there.
  
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  June 24, 2018 12:13pm
BeaB

Surely cultural misappropriation – a Maori place name and an Irish name they have changed the original spelling of because it’s too hard.
Gotta love these Lefties.
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June 24, 2018 11:56am
- Monique Watson
  
  Spotted that. Niamh! Which is incidentally my daughter’s middle name. Gonna be bitch for her to spell down the line until 3rd grade but she’s got the right spelling. Still you trust the parents to give the right name. Haha one of my kids is named Axel by the way and they all have distinctive names.
  
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  June 24, 2018 12:17pm
- Piniwi
  
  But BeaB there is much told in the attributes of this middle name:
  You are extremely analytical and sometimes critical of both others and of yourself, and must guard against sarcastic speech and temper.
  • At times you feel torn between your desire for system and order, and your need for change and new experiences.
  • You do not accept new ideas readily and do not appreciate unsolicited advice.
  • You tend to be impulsive and could attract accidents as a result.
  Seems familiar.
  
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  June 24, 2018 3:27pm
Johnboy

I think it’s hugely appropriate that the Finn’s should dedicate a song to the fishermans daughter! 🙂
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June 24, 2018 12:12pm
- Inandout
  
  ‘The captain of this lugger
  He was a dirty bugger
  He wasn’t fit to shovel shit
  From one place to another’
  
  Sort of describes Captain Clarke.
  
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  June 24, 2018 12:18pm
  - Johnboy
    
    “The captains wife was Mabel
    By God but she was able
    She gave the crew a nightly screw
    Upon the galley table”
    Luv your metre in or out! 🙂
    
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    June 24, 2018 12:24pm
  - Longknives
    
    Hold on- Give it some bollocks!
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh_i7nZT_Qs
    
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    June 24, 2018 1:32pm
dime

Lmao at the babies name.

Named for politics. What a disgrace.

Also, isn’t cultural appropriation a thing for the left? Or can chompers or house wife claim 1/64th bro?
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June 24, 2018 12:22pm
- Johnboy
  
  It only gets better dime!
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9v%C3%A9
  “Névé that survives a full season of ablation turns into firn, which is both older and slightly denser.”
  Sounds like what the poor wee mother and daughter will both undergo with Winnie in charge! 🙂
  
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  June 24, 2018 12:36pm
- Longknives
  
  Virtue signalling at it’s absolute worst. (Though I did predict a Maori name)
  I feel like I am going to puke again…
  
  Any truth to the rumour little white kid with the Maori name has already been signed up to her Mum’s beloved Junior Communists?
  ‘Comrades…Today we welcome our newest Comrade!’
  
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  June 24, 2018 1:30pm
- UpandComer
  
  I feel sorry for the kid. Her identity will be characterised by strife between her actual lineage, and the one her parents have adorned her with. She will spend her whole life aspiring to be ‘more Maori’ and will over compensate in all manner of identity dimensions as a result. She will always have an idealized view of the concept ‘Maori’ and will never value or treasure her actual genetic identity. All so her parents can virtue signal. It’s like having gay parents. The kid from conception is simply an appendage of their gay identity, and the child can never leave it, for to break with that identity when the personal is so highly and unrelentingly political would be to repudiate the parental relationship. So again the constant conflict and dissonance between reality and politically correct non reality.
  
  I’m sure she will be fine. But this naming complicates matters considerably.
  
  It is always inherently political where parents of a certain hue baptise their children in another culture they deem superior, mistakenly.
  
  Neve is nice though. ‘snow’.
  
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  June 24, 2018 3:45pm
  - EAD_TWO
    
    Great comment UpandComer once again.
    
    Keep up the good work you do here on Kiwiblog
    
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    June 24, 2018 8:16pm
MCos

In light of the names chosen for the PM’s baby I wonder if there will be a flood of poor little buggers with names incorporating the father’s favourite blog such as Kevin Kiwiblog or Willie Whaleoil.
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June 24, 2018 12:48pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  That would be empty virtue signalling. Or something.
  
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  June 24, 2018 1:04pm
- Johnboy
  
  I really can’t see Lizzie Liturgy or Polly Pundit catching on these days! 🙂
  
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  June 24, 2018 1:09pm
- Brigitte
  
  Bog Standard?
  Up Your(N)Z?
  
  The possibilities are endless.
  
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  June 24, 2018 1:40pm
  - Johnboy
    
    Bogdan is quite a popular chaps name in slavic countries.
    It means “Gods gift”. That said it doesn’t really go with the trash seen on the Stranded! 🙂
    
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    June 24, 2018 1:47pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Johnboy:
      
      Aldo and Brito seem quite popular boys names these days too, so I believe?
      
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      June 24, 2018 1:59pm
      - Johnboy
        
        They don’t seem to be quite as popular as they were just recently Nostra. I can’t understand why that should be as we Aotearoans have offered all our skill and expertise with animal husbandry/barbering to immigrants such as those. 🙂
        
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        June 24, 2018 2:05pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Johnboy:
        
        The thought of you wielding some golden shears, and hosting wild demonstration shows that attract tourists from all around the world, including Lebanon in Brito’s case, is somehow very comforting!
        
        Edit: Sorry, it was Aldo from Lebanon. Brito was the other chap!
        
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        June 24, 2018 2:42pm
stigie

The man with a face like a busted grape should apologize as well said Damien Grant.

Damien Grant: “If you are willing to use other people’s stolen private emails to write a book then you have no moral basis to cry foul when the very principles that you have failed to uphold are subsequently not upheld by others.”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/104920287/damien-grant-hager-has-received-his-apology-perhaps-he-should-say-sorry-too
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June 24, 2018 1:09pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  In what circumstances should journalists publish material that is leaked to them?
  What laws regarding search and seizure should the police be allowed to ignore?
  
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  June 24, 2018 1:16pm
  - Johnboy
    
    “In what circumstances should journalists publish material that is leaked to them?”
    What a silly question Milkey. In Hager’s case it’s the circumstance that gains him the most income old chap!
    What a fucking nasty, greedy, little grasping capitalist he really is! 🙂
    
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    June 24, 2018 1:21pm
  - Viking2
    
    I wonder Mm if Hager will ever see the irony of his position?
    
    Nah
    
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    June 24, 2018 1:33pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      it was indeed ironic that the police, who we rely upon to uphold the law, were deliberately breaking in as they sought to pin a crime on Hager.
      
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      June 24, 2018 5:49pm
Humble Capitalist

If you’re going to politicise a baby then at least learn how to pronounce your baby’s name properly
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June 24, 2018 2:03pm
Captain Mainwaring

Well Hugh’s gone again so at least something positive has been achieved today.
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June 24, 2018 2:18pm
- Monique Watson
  
  I don’t believe Hugh did the old Golf Tango Foxtrot Oscar but we can always live in hope. I need my forefinger for other purposes than scrolling past his word dumping.
  
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  June 24, 2018 2:51pm
MrTips

ztev in the wild:
https://youtu.be/sAhEFuq62-I
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June 24, 2018 3:03pm
Jack5

In addition to spiralling city debt, Christchurch is in a knot about how to improve its water quality. The cost of bringing it up to standard seems to have jumped 40-fold from original estimates.

This while the city’s debt levels spiral, and the question arises again of selling at least minority stakes in some of the council’s assets.

At the controls on water is the city’s designated “chief strategist,” Helen Beaumont, a B.Sc from Massey who worked as a scientist with the old DSIR, with a focus on water chemistry and “environmental impact assessment.”

No-one’s happy with the water: health people with its quality and citizens long spoilt by having unchlorinated water, with the chlorine levels.

The Christchurch Press yesterday said the council is planning to earmark $25 million or so on improving the water, and is looking at a mixture of ultra violet and ozone treatment which could cost as much as $90 million. The Christchurch Star says costs have already jumped from $800,000 to improve the wellheads, to $35m to fix 49 pump stations around the city.

Is the council is thinking, ‘Well, if we’re spending the best part of $100 million on a replacement central library, what’s another $100 million on water?”

Perhaps it’s time to put some intelligent local engineers on cost leashes and set them to work.

The city’s over-all deteriorating financial strength reflects the decline in the character of NZ citizens. If the earthquakes had occurred a century ago, perhaps even just half a century ago, Christchurch citizens would have talked of planting its new wastelands in radiata pine, with an eye on the harvest. Now it’s talk of native trees, cycle ways, artificial lakes and sports facilities.
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June 24, 2018 3:30pm
- sooty
  
  It’s them lefties. They would rather have a cycle trail than safe water.
  
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  June 24, 2018 5:26pm
  - Jack5
    
    Dem Lefties want both, and there’s no problem with wanting.
    
    The problem for the Left is paying for their dreams.
    
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    June 24, 2018 9:46pm
    - sooty
      
      No problem. Just use someone elses.
      
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      June 25, 2018 10:25am
wiseowl

This whole overreaction to water and possible contamination etc has all been exaggerated by the hysterical response to the Havelock Nth water episode.
There is NOTHING wrong with water from many of the major water takes in NZ.
I listened to an interview with the former Hastings Mayor (now MP) who admitted that the HDC underestimated the possiblity of contamination from poor headworks.
The staff at HDC refused to react to warnings given by the HB Regional Council staff that they needed to maintain certain well heads.They did not like being told what to do and look what happened.
The millions being spent in Hastings now was totally unnecessary as the water is still pristine but the reaction has been one of panic.
This panic has spread throughout the country and ratepayers are copping it bigtime ( or bigly)
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June 24, 2018 3:50pm
- Johnboy
  
  Meanwhile, back in the real world, inscrutable oriental gentlemen extract many more billions of litres from NZ as they know it’s far better than water from honourable Yangtze! 🙂
  
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  June 24, 2018 3:55pm
Jack5

Have we had anything in Kiwiblog about a Maori activist complaining to the United Nations about NZ 250th anniversary celebrations of Captain Cook’s explorations? The celebrations are being run by the Ministry of Culture and Heritage.

The Christchurch Press says Tina Ngata, whom it says teaches indigenous rights at “university level” (that suggests a wananga), made the complaint on the ground that New Zealand’s “ discovery narrative”, through the Tuia Encounters 250 events”underpinned the denial of indigenous rights”.

She said New Zealand had failed to condemn the actions of Cook, which Ngata says include “theft, abduction, genocide and imperial expansion.”

Ngata raised money to attend the UN’s 17th Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues, in New York, through a Givealittle fundraiser, which raised $1618 of its $2700 goal.

Fears of offending Maori seem to have skewed the anniversary celebrations. Former Prime Minister Jenny Shipley says the celebration will focus on “our shared society.”

It looks as though celebrations of the James Cook, one of the greatest navigators and explorers the world has known, will be diluted so they don’t offend Maori activists and their weasley pakeha friends.

Ngata, from Ruatoria, is also known for her campaign against plastic pollution.
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June 24, 2018 4:02pm
- Johnboy
  
  I think Sir Bob should sue her for not demonstrating enough gratitude. I’m prepared to make a substantial donation to his Givealittle page! 🙂
  
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  June 24, 2018 4:09pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  I wonder why you get so upset sometimes. Why would the 250th anniversary be all about James Cook? Although he is probably the greatest mariner and explorer, even you should be able to understand that the significance to our country of 1769 is the first contact between European and Maori (Tasmania doesn’t really count).
  
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  June 24, 2018 4:47pm
  - KevinH
    
    That honour belongs to Abel Tasman, November 1642 his crew encountered Maori at Golden Bay with an unfortunate outcome.
    
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    June 24, 2018 5:34pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      I said that didn’t really count (sorry for writing Tasmania instead of Tasman). Tasman’s fleeting, violent, encounter did not really lead to any sustained interchange in the way that Cook’s voyages did.
      
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      June 24, 2018 5:52pm
- Longknives
  
  Lefties hate James Cook.
  Shit they hate all White People (Especially those howwible, howwible Old White Men..)
  The Left are even trying to ban Shakespeare from Schools/Universities in the UK..
  
  Nothing surprises me with these freaking whackjobs.
  
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  June 24, 2018 4:55pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    James Cook was a great man. Should I hate him, or do I have to be FITH like you and see everything as part of some bullshit culture war?
    
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    June 24, 2018 5:01pm
    - Johnboy
      
      I agree with you Milkey. Any chap that can drive a wooden coal-scuttle round the world three times is either a genius or a fuckin idiot but a great man either way! 🙂
      
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      June 24, 2018 6:02pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        He was indeed a great man. It should be a great party in Turanganui-a-Kiwa next year.
        
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        June 24, 2018 6:21pm
      - Jack5
        
        Turanganui-a-Kiwa? Ah you mean Poverty Bay, as Cook called it.
        
        Milky leaves the macrons off, English language style.
        
        Now take another step, Milky, and write of Poverty Bay when you are posting in English, and Tūranganui-a-Kiwa when you are writing in te Reo Māori.
        
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        June 24, 2018 9:54pm
Fletch

Just look at this complete load of bollocks Heather du Plessis-Allan passed off as a column today.

‘Oh, little old New Zealand is sooo SQUARE because we don’t let our mums kill their babies – even Ireland is beating us, etc, etc….’

God, the stuff almost made me puke.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=12075680

The woman has no morals at all. But what do you expect from left wing media.
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June 24, 2018 4:06pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  You shouldn’t read the media you so despise, Fletcher, if it upsets you so.
  
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  June 24, 2018 4:39pm
- Inandout
  
  She also has no children, like Helen, although I suspect Barry is more red blooded than Peter.
  
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  June 24, 2018 5:47pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Some people are unlucky: she has no children; whereas you have no brain.
    
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    June 24, 2018 5:53pm
  - Psycho Milt
    
    How about if you post photos of yourself and your missus, and we have a good old speculate on what kind of breeding stock you’d be? Fair’s fair an’ all.
    
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    June 24, 2018 7:05pm
  - Duxton
    
    HPDA’s lack of kiddies is likely linked to Barry’s inability to gain an erection.
    
    That, in turn, has two likely causes:
    
    1. Prolonged and excessive alcohol (ab)use.
    
    2. The fact that HDPA is so fugly.
    
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    June 24, 2018 11:28pm
- Psycho Milt
  
  The woman has no morals at all.
  
  You appear to have none yourself – normally I’d be too polite to mention it, but seeing as you’d already gone there…
  
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  June 24, 2018 7:03pm
  - Fletch
    
    Because I don’t support abortion???
    
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    June 24, 2018 7:46pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Because you are a bigoted arse wipe.
      
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      June 24, 2018 7:55pm
    - Psycho Milt
      
      Would that be worse than you saying HdPA has none because she doesn’t oppose abortion?
      
      But, no – the reason I say you have no morals at all is because you outsourced it to a third party. That morality provider certainly licences you plenty of morality content for re-use, but that’s not the same thing as having your own.
      
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      June 24, 2018 9:25pm
      - Fletch
        
        You mean the “third party” being God? lol
        
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        June 24, 2018 9:56pm
      - Psycho Milt
        
        There’s no such thing. The third party you outsourced morality to is a church.
        
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        June 24, 2018 10:18pm
- Psycho Milt
  
  This bit on how conservative NZ’s become seemed spot-on to me. You should be chuffed, Fletch.
  
  How else do you explain Simon Bridges as the leader of the country’s biggest party? The guy voted against same-sex marriage, doesn’t support abortion legislation, doesn’t support marijuana law liberalisation and doesn’t support euthanasia. The guy is 41. Going on 141. It’s like he did his apprenticeship under Rob Muldoon.
  
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  June 24, 2018 7:19pm
  - itstricky
    
    The guy is 41. Going on 141.
    
    Too true. He used ‘pinko’ the other day. Who was the last to use that seriously?
    
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    June 24, 2018 7:54pm
Captain Mainwaring

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-wine/food-news/104963334/top-wellington-restaurant-is-taking-meat-off-the-menu

I wonder how long this will last before the balance sheet has its revenge.
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June 24, 2018 4:35pm
- Johnboy
  
  Is it my imagination or does Asher Boote look like a chap that should be eating much more meat? 🙂
  
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  June 24, 2018 4:38pm
- Inandout
  
  All those extremely well paid Wellington public servants will choose this restaurant for a while (because it is so trendy, darling), but will swim to another joint soon after. Don’t forget many travel over the Rimutakas on Sundays to the trendy towns that dwell there. You see, they love ‘diversity’.
  
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  June 24, 2018 5:46pm
  - nasska
    
    Don’t remind me. The footpaths of Martinborough & Greytown are cluttered every weekend with the pretentious wankers!
    
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    June 24, 2018 5:54pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Why don’t you just stick to your own patch, instead of straying into the south Wairarapa?
      
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      June 24, 2018 6:13pm
Rodney Randall

https://i.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/wellington/103985607/porirua-citys-muslim-community-float-womenonly-swimming-sessions

Bagheads pushing for Sharia swimming Sessions because they feel unsafe around their rapey male muslim counterparts. So all men get banned because of stoneage regressive oppressive ideology. Council on all fours gagging for it.

FUCK ISLAM
FUCK SHARIA
FUCK OFF BACK TO JORDAN
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June 24, 2018 4:43pm
- Johnboy
  
  I’ve never got over this Rodders! How could she treat her gourmet admirer’s so callously? 🙂
  https://www.google.com/search?q=Nigella+swimming+in+burka&client=firefox-b&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjP7oSuv-vbAhUKHJQKHfZoDQAQsAQINg&biw=1680&bih=885#imgrc=3vLlA_nAkB9TLM:
  
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  June 24, 2018 4:49pm
  - Psycho Milt
    
    Do you imagine she got skin like that by exposing it to the sun, Johnboy? I expect reluctance to expose it to the horde of slavering Papparazzi came a distant second.
    
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    June 24, 2018 7:07pm
    - Johnboy
      
      I must admit I hadn’t thought of that aspect PM but surely she could just expose herself once, briefly, to a Papparazzi so all her adoring fans such as I could have something more meaty to masturbate over? 🙂
      
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      June 24, 2018 7:14pm
      - Psycho Milt
        
        Hmmm, I’d click on it too and would question the heterosexuality of any 50+ man who wouldn’t, which I guess explains the slavering Papparazzi quite adequately.
        
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        June 24, 2018 7:21pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Nurse!
  
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  June 24, 2018 4:49pm
- Longknives
  
  Wouldn’t the Garbage sack weigh you down in the water?…
  
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  June 24, 2018 4:51pm
  - Johnboy
    
    She could weigh me down, in or out of the water, anytime she bloody well wanted too LK! 🙂
    
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    June 24, 2018 4:53pm
    - nasska
      
      She’s been banging on about wearing a rubbish bag to save her skin but we in the know have the codes JB.
      
      The message she’s sending you is that she’s deteriorated into a mess of cellulite, spider veins & butter flab around the gut. 🙂
      
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      June 24, 2018 5:28pm
      - Johnboy
        
        I’m a tit and butt man not a gut man nasska! 🙂
        
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        June 24, 2018 5:42pm
      - KevinH
        
        According to that infallible rag the Womans Weekly, which I occassionly leaf through while at the doctors, Nigella began her career in cosmetics and is known for taking cautious measures to preserve her almost flawless skin. She is in her late fifties now and still looks amazing.
        
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        June 24, 2018 6:02pm
      - sooty
        
        Sorry jb. fat fingers. I reported you.
        
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        June 24, 2018 6:03pm
    - nasska
      
      What if her tits are resting on her gut & her butt’s between her knees & the back of her boots JB? Then wandering around the beach in a sleeping bag makes sense!
      
      I’m sorry to be the one who has to break the news to you. 🙂
      
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      June 24, 2018 5:50pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Any meat she want’s to serve me is fine nasska.
        I’ve always loved a good bit of fatty old crackling! 🙂
        
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        June 24, 2018 5:53pm
Johnboy

Hey lookie here…Little Ronnies the Man!
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/104965447/defence-minister-ron-mark-one-step-closer-to-replacing-old-military-planes
In further news Ron Mark is having his Carterton property’s runway extended to 2000m and getting new light weight replica’s of all his medals minted! 🙂
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June 24, 2018 5:50pm
- Jack5
  
  Someone knowledgeable about military aviation might explain why NZ couldn’t complement its long-range maritime patrol planes with something cheaper for patrolling closer to our shoreline.
  
  Perhaps that or some sort of screen of drones.
  
  If smaller aircraft were feasible for NZ, would something on the scale of the NATO push-turbo-prop Piaggio P180 multipatrol aircraft version be economic and a suitable complement for the bigger planes?
  
  https://youtu.be/A8jW8cEWXmY
  
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  June 24, 2018 10:19pm
  - Jack5
    
    Similarly, aviation and military buffs might tell us whether the apparent resurgence of light attack aircraft provide a chance for resurrecting the fighting arm of the RNZAF?
    
    https://youtu.be/tSOlkj38FYA
    
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    June 24, 2018 10:27pm
  - Jack5
    
    The interior of the business version of the Piaggio might appeal to MPs.
    
    https://youtu.be/GSmZAjApuWc
    
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    June 24, 2018 10:36pm
sooty

I was reading WO and someone had hopped of a cruise liner in Brish Columbia from memory and there was a flyer stuck on a lampost was Helen Clarks ugly mush adverising her movie One Year With Helen ( which is already in the bargin bin at the Warehouse).
My questain is.
Who pays for all her tripping around the place. She’s promoting her business. I presume she’s paying tax in it.
So she should be on her own dime. Not the taxpayer.
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June 24, 2018 5:50pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  I believe she has a Twitter account. Perhaps you could ask her.
  
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  June 24, 2018 5:55pm
  - sooty
    
    You may be a twit with a twitter account, but I am not. Why the hell would I go do something stuupid like that, just because you do!
    
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    June 24, 2018 8:58pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      I don’t have a Twitter account, either. I was trying to be helpful, as you seem desperate to know some details of Helen Clark’s finances. Perhaps some other kind person will provide you with suggestions for pursuing your research. Please report back.
      
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      June 25, 2018 6:58am
RF

Picked up my dear wife from a baby shower this afternoon. I just had to ask if the love child was mentioned…

I had expected adoration and love expressed by the group that were a “mixed bag”.

So wrong…. To a person all had just had a guts fill of the media hype. Several had suggested that it’s not Arderns fault but that was quietly shouted down as most believe she is milking it to gain some sort of political advantage. There was disgust that she would stage manage the happy event.

Although there were no obvious Green supporters there many expressed admiration for the way JAG was conducting herself in contrast to Ardern.

Surprise surprise….
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June 24, 2018 5:54pm
- nasska
  
  ….” as most believe she is milking it to gain some sort of political advantage”…..
  
  Wait for the photos of the caesarian scar. Should make the front page of the Herald & half an hour’s worth of TV1 News. 🙁
  
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  June 24, 2018 6:04pm
- sam green
  
  “cough cough”
  
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  June 24, 2018 6:05pm
  - Johnboy
    
    Wait till someones holding your balls before you “Do that again Sam” 🙂
    
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    June 24, 2018 7:30pm
- Psycho Milt
  
  There was disgust that she would stage manage the happy event.
  
  Was there any explanation as to how they imagined the event had been “stage-managed?”
  
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  June 24, 2018 7:11pm
  - nasska
    
    “Stage managed” may not be the correct term. There are probably other words to describe an event where someone arranges & controls everything carefully in order to achieve the result they want.
    
    “Production” comes to mind. So do “choreography” & “political squirrel creation”.
    
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    June 24, 2018 7:26pm
    - stigie
      
      It becomes a right bastard when you’re writing something of fuck all interest and you look up a word to see how it’s spelt, and when you’ve got that sorted you forget what you were going to say.
      I must be a sandwich short of a picnic !~
      Gone on holiday as of now !!
      
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      June 24, 2018 7:49pm
      - nasska
        
        It happens to all of us stigie. For instance I look up “Labour Party Prime Minister” & I get deceiver, fibber, falsifier, teller of lies, teller of untruths, perjurer, false witness, fabricator, equivocator, prevaricator, spinner of yarns; romancer & fabulist.
        
        By the time I work through that lot I could be excused for forgetting my own name! 🙂
        
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        June 24, 2018 7:57pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Stigie:
        
        writing something of fuck all interest
        
        Dad’s much-anticipated book is of considerably more interest to us than Nicky Hagar’s stuff, old chap!
        
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        June 24, 2018 8:07pm
      - stigie
        
        Yes Dad, where is that fucking book..?
        Of interest, i want to see if i feature along with those other 14 identities !~
        
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        June 24, 2018 8:21pm
      - Monique Watson
        
        Yeah Stigie it’s a bitch.I just obsessed about missing inserting an ‘a’ in a post and an ‘on’ in another. While chasing around seven kids, five of my own.
        But as long as you can smell a lemon dementia ain’t setting in.
        
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        June 25, 2018 2:04am
    - RF
      
      nasska.
      
      I agree that control would be a more accurate description. She leaves nothing to chance.
      
      When speaking she uses precise words and phrases that I believe you don’t generally hear in your usual conversations… communications 101.
      
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      June 24, 2018 8:00pm
      - nasska
        
        She uses “precise words and phrases” which are designed to mean anything she says they mean later down the track RF. Everything is carefully phrased PR speak & gobbledegook. Eg “Well I think… I believe…. It’s my opinion that”.
        
        When you analyse any of her press statements or answers to questions they are as free from useful information as a frog from feathers.
        
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        June 24, 2018 8:04pm
jcuk

Back on the 18th there was a short discussion where I commented on town being spelt twon. [by our host ]
This was an attempt by me to jog folk here into checking what they wrote before posting …
Nothing to do with their education but rather their fingers not hitting the correct keys in the right order.
Something that I suffer from with age but do my best to correct before posting.
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June 24, 2018 5:55pm
- Brigitte
  
  That reminds me of Candidate for a Pullet Surprise, which was written as a response to whether to use a spell checker or not (the story of it’s origin is here: https://www.thoughtco.com/spell-checker-poem-by-mark-eckman-1692348).
  
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  June 24, 2018 7:42pm
  - jcuk
    
    If only folk understood that the english language is complicated and beyond the ability of spellcheck = there/their is a frequent example but pure laziness and the inability of folk to proof read their own work is another .
    
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    June 25, 2018 10:22am
cha

70 years ago today the Berlin air bridge took to the skies.
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June 24, 2018 8:23pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  New Zealand sent some RNZAF aircrews to help out.
  
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  June 24, 2018 8:41pm
  - Jack5
    
    In the Berlin airlift there were 473 sorties by New Zealand pilots.
    
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    June 24, 2018 9:44pm
starboard

Courtesy of the good folk at Hobsons Pledge..

“Relations ‘still broken’ despite decades of appeasement
Crown-Maori relations are in need of repair, according to Kelvin Davis, who is the Minister of the new Crown-Maori Relations portfolio.

This is despite decades of appeasement, more than $3-billion being paid in Treaty settlements, and numerous other special deals.

Davis appears to take the 1800 people who attended 16 hui on the issue as justification for a new body to facilitate a partnership between “the Crown and Maori” to administer “7000 post-Treaty settlement commitments made by the Crown that nobody has been monitoring”.

Davis ignored a letter and subsequent full-page adverts placed by Hobson’s Pledge that objected to a Crown-Maori portfolio.

We argued that such a portfolio entrenches the notion that the Crown and Maori somehow exist as separate groups in partnership with each other when it is constitutionally impossible for the Crown to partner with a sector of its citizens.

Our letter also objected to the matter being discussed at marae meetings because such venues are private property and off limits to all New Zealanders who may be concerned with the issue.

A Stuff report revealed that a note had been sent out ahead of every meeting saying media weren’t able to attend the bulk of the hui. Therefore, matters discussed remained secret.

Most surprising is the confirmation that there are 7000 post-Treaty settlement commitments made by the Crown, as well as the assertion by Davis that if these were acknowledged, Maori will start to feel like “fully-contributing members of society”.

If Davis succeeds in persuading Cabinet to set up a new government bureau to administer the 7000 post-Treaty settlement commitments made by the Crown, we can be sure that the notion that the Crown and Maori somehow exist as separate groups in partnership with each other will be fully entrenched in government processes, as we argued against.

A constitutional impossibility will be turned into a reality.”
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June 24, 2018 8:57pm
nasska

Being white has its disadvantages too, you know.

It can be super hard to find a rap song on iTunes when you spell all the words correctly.
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June 24, 2018 9:09pm
Nostradamus

An interesting headline from Stuff’s main page: Poo spies in the skies

The actual headline when you click through: High-risk farms the focus as aerial monitoring looks to make a return

For a moment I thought that drones would pass over Hagley Park and the Mt Roskill pool (thanks to Inandout and Nasska for that information) on reconnaissance flights!
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June 24, 2018 9:27pm
- nasska
  
  Most farmers own shotguns Nostra. My guess would be that the councils would be replacing their drone fleet on a monthly basis. The ack-ack displays in the skies over the Waikato would resemble those of Dresden in 1944.
  
  I did actually look at buying a drone for stock management but shelved the idea when we decided to sell the property. The idea of checking that everything on the hill paddocks was okay from the comfort of my lounge appealed. 🙂
  
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  June 24, 2018 9:42pm
Jack5

The Government housing push in Auckland is going to be big – 23,600 houses over 10 years, 46.6 per cent of them State homes. All on present State land.

All they need now is 30,000 Asian carpenters, who will get residence and bring in their families and mean net Auckland housing available will fall 6000.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12071219
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June 24, 2018 10:56pm
Piniwi

Funny Jack5 they seem so much like the US TV standard of NSCT that was never the same colour twice as we not this statement: “We have consistently said that modelling has suggested that the changes we intend to make are estimated to reduce net migration by 20,000-30,000 a year, but we have never said that was a target.” Not a target now? Not what they were barking about before the elections. They are increasingly becoming more dependent on elevated migrant numbers stopping the economy from floundering. Almost as funny as sweet cheeks saying the reason for slumping business confidence is a matter of “perception” even the worst yet to come as they wind back labour relations.
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June 24, 2018 11:17pm
- Jack5
  
  Yep, Labour’s drunk the immigration Kool-Aid. So, apparently, has NZ First.
  
  Meanwhile, growth in GDP per capita was zero in the latest reported quarter.
  
  We are about to go backwards in wealth. Estimates reported in the CIA’s World Factbook:
  
  NZ GDP per capita:
  
  2016: $US37,800
  2017: $US $38,500 (which ranks us 47th in the world).
  
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  June 24, 2018 11:23pm
Piniwi

Apparently violent crime involving gang members is decreasing nationally.(Down 10%)

As part of its brief, the Gang Intelligence Centre has spent four years gathering this new information.
Another part of the Centre’s brief is crime prevention, but so far it has offered no reason for why gang-related violent crime has dropped so significantly.
So what is the significance of this being released now? Is it to condition people into a false sence of safety for the pending catch and release plan? Or is it another example of the benefits of having the 3 strikes law doing it’s job detering serious recidavist offenders?
Must be a tough trough on the Gang Intelegence Centre if after 4 years of gathering information they showed minimal intellegence by ignoring the success of 3S.
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June 24, 2018 11:49pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Intelegence (sic)
  
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  June 25, 2018 7:02am
Hugh Pavletich

Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/06/links-25-june-2018/#comment-3129637 … and … https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/06/general_debate_25_june_2018.html/comment-page-1#comment-2239659

NEW ZEALANDS SHAME … The New York Times reports … The Straits Times reprints …

As Housing Prices Soar, New Zealand Tackles a Surge in Homelessness – The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/world/australia/new-zealand-homeless.html

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — New Zealand is known to many outsiders as a beautiful, affluent country, the place where the “Lord of the Rings” movies were made. But Joseph Takairangi and thousands of others know it better for the expensive housing that lies far out of their reach.

On a recent cool night in a misty rain, Mr. Takairangi and some of his friends were looking for somewhere to spend the night. They had decamped to a parking lot after being ejected from a stretch of takeaway food shops in Henderson, an Auckland suburb.

Soon, a speaker mounted on a wall above them crackled: “Move along, please, guys.”

New Zealand has the highest homelessness rate among the wealthy nations that make up the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Yale University study found last year, though it noted that definitions of homelessness vary by country. Social workers here say the country’s homeless — 1 percent of the population, according to a comprehensive study from a New Zealand university — increasingly include people with jobs. …

… Auckland, the country’s largest city, consistently ranks among the 10 least affordable housing markets in Demographia International’s annual global survey, which measures house prices against income. … read more via hyperlink above …

… reprint …

As housing prices soar, New Zealand tackles a surge in homelessness, Australia/NZ News & Top Stories – The Straits Times

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/as-housing-prices-soar-new-zealand-tackles-a-surge-in-homelessness
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