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starboard

What goes 100 mph around an ashtray ?

An E-Type fag.
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January 19, 2019 8:00am
- stigie
  
  Sounds like one of Dad’s aids infected creeps..?
  
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  January 19, 2019 8:15am
  - starboard
    
    Fag, as in a ciggie, not fag, as in morrissy .
    
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    January 19, 2019 8:29am
    - Harkman
      
      Don’t worry about offending him everyone knows, he/she is a weirdo.
      
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      January 19, 2019 8:52am
    - Morrissey
      
      Message for you, broadrats:
      
      https://media1.tenor.com/images/a9cc3580aec0f713a4e53f3bc2489f19/tenor.gif?itemid=3528631
      
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      January 19, 2019 5:30pm
slightlyrighty

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/dont-pee-in-the-pool-sign-labelled-casual-racism-by-labour-mp/

So Tamiti Coffey thinks the imagery of a Bossy White Girl telling a Brown Boy what to do is “Casual Racism”.

Does Jacinda know?
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January 19, 2019 8:02am
- kowtow
  
  The media really outdo themselves pushing the racist thing , very happy to publish and highlight this bullshit.
  The worrying thing is how many others , people desperate to be seen as “progressive”, jump on the bandwagon.
  
  And yet in the real world dark coloured people are doing very bad things to innocent people.
  
  Where is the outrage at that?
  
  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6606087/Terrifying-moment-thug-squirted-corrosive-liquid-faces-clubbers.html
  
  Likewise I see the suspect in the Melbourne Maasarwe killing also doesn’t need 50 + sunscreen
  
  And yes white people also commit crime , but if it’s OK for progressives to constantly call out white “casual racism” , (it’s always white who are racists you see) , then in the interests of equality , I’ll call out non white criminality against very vulnerable people.
  
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  January 19, 2019 8:13am
  - stephieboy
    
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    “And yet in the real world dark coloured people are doing very bad things to innocent people.”
    
    But not white coloured people?
    
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1841524/Video-White-man-slugs-young-black-girl-wild-altercation-outside-NC-mall.html
    
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    January 19, 2019 8:21am
    - harvey wilson
      
      I don’t bother reading Stephiecucks posts before I downvote them .
      
      Does anyone read the goat enthusiasts posts?
      
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      January 19, 2019 8:26am
      - kowtow
        
        Yep , I’m appalled at the casual racism of the council cartoon accusing the white girl of shitting in the pool.
        
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        January 19, 2019 8:33am
      - kowtow
        
        Bugger , I was replying to red eye .
        
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        January 19, 2019 8:39am
      - Jack5
        
        Stephie X, whether white is a colour is a matter for debate. Same with black. Ask a physicist.
        
        However, assuming white is a colour, can we discuss whether there is a variation in skin colour in Stephiestan, reflecting Stephiestan’s castes?
        
        https://www.colormatters.com/color-and-design/are-black-and-white-colors
        
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        January 19, 2019 8:59am
      - pentwig
        
        Harvey
        there are times you need laugh so even a speed read provides that, if you can comprehend it
        then there is it just makes you feel good knowing that you were endowed with intelligence when you were born
        then there is someone to loathe because of his creepy self confessed perversions
        then there is his attempts at bullying
        
        so yes
        i almost forgot, he might post another porno photo
        
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        January 19, 2019 9:03am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        What’s more the white girl who had “accidentally pooed in the pool” was a freckled ginga.
        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12192556
        How damn biased is that, eh?
        
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        January 19, 2019 9:34am
- redeye
  
  Did stupid Tamati not notice it was the white girl shitting the pool?
  
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  January 19, 2019 8:20am
  - niggly
    
    No he didn’t – to make the issue worse the fool then uses Orwellian doublespeak to “reverse” reality by stating:
    
    “It’s quite hard anyway to get young Māori and Pacific kids to the pools, especially to learn to swim.
    
    “Anything that makes them wary about going in, i.e. little signs that target them about being the ones that defecate in the pools, is not necessarily a good thing.
    
    Well fancy that, another lying Labour MP!
    
    Tamati Coffee is a dangerous idealog who will distort the truth. Pity the lame stream media are too gutless to call him out.
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12192556
    
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    January 19, 2019 11:07am
    - Nermal
      
      That comment is absolute BS. The most common group using the Whangarei pools by far ar Maori kids having a great time
      
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      January 19, 2019 3:26pm
      - jgw739
        
        Maori seem to like our local Aquatic centre too – it’s a great place to drop off the kids for the day….
        
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        January 19, 2019 9:51pm
- JibberJabber
  
  Obviously, someone pissed in Tamati`s gene pool.
  
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  January 19, 2019 8:24am
  - starboard
    
    I always take a dump in the pool, whats wrong with that?
    
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    January 19, 2019 8:30am
    - JibberJabber
      
      Code Brown, don`t live in Invercargill do you?
      https://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/news/70644222/null
      
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      January 19, 2019 8:39am
      - harvey wilson
        
        Ah the phantom shitter of Invercargill, his sphincter hanging like a sword of Damocles over public pool users.
        
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        January 19, 2019 8:50am
      - Morrissey
        
        The name’s Smith. Nick Smith.
        
        https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/l/f/i/z/s/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.1240×700.1lfi0o.png/1504501119377.jpg
        
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        January 19, 2019 5:21pm
    - Biscuit
      
      starboatd, I almost took a dump in my own pants when – watching QI one night – Jack Whitehall made a reference to ‘dropping the kids off at the pool’.
      
      Host Stephen Fry was flummoxed.
      
      Jack explained.
      
      The ‘kids’ were, erm, one’s own droppings.
      
      The ‘pool’ was that low-lying pond in a white ceramic surrounding that is usually housed in one’s house’s smallest room.
      
      Oh how I chortled!
      
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      January 19, 2019 9:17am
- Liberty
  
  “racism’ by Labour MP”
  Leftist spend the day looking for problems.
  When they are the problem.
  
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  January 19, 2019 9:00am
  - starboard
    
    What has coffee done of note since joining the troughers club up there in Wellington?
    Yeah…thought not.
    
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    January 19, 2019 10:36am
    - stephen2d
      
      Got really fat, shagged a few boys in Wellington?
      
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      January 19, 2019 10:44am
- RF
  
  She would have known.
  
  Quick to scuttle off overseas yesterday just as the Kiwi Build resignation mess was blowing up plus her new best friends druggie emails being made public.
  
  Her house of cards is collapsing.
  
  Soon the rats will be jumping ship.
  
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  January 19, 2019 9:35am
- greybeard
  
  What annoys me most about this whole event is that the stupid, gutless council has decided to remove all of these signs. Tell Coffey to stuff off and keep putting up these signs would be the sensible adult response.
  
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  January 19, 2019 10:42am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Ah, health and safety (a pooh riddled with e-coli) trumps Tamati’s “racism” charge. If they remove the signs, how are people going to know it is inappropriate to crap in the pool?! ? //
    
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    January 19, 2019 12:42pm
- Woz
  
  Tamati Coffey embarrasses himself every time he opens his trap. We pay him a lot of money – he needs to find better things to do with our time.
  
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  January 19, 2019 12:46pm
duggledog

Does Jacinda know Alex Swney? Is he a friend?

Hmmm!
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January 19, 2019 8:05am
- igm
  
  But she knows a cheque or two!
  
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  January 19, 2019 8:15am
- stephieboy
  
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  duggledo,g , now what makes you think that?
  
  Inane post of the day so far!
  
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  January 19, 2019 8:26am
  - JibberJabber
    
    We`ll take your word for it, given you`re the expert on all things inane.
    
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    January 19, 2019 8:28am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    SB, you’re leading with your chin again, fool.
    We’ve talked about this.
    
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    January 19, 2019 9:14am
  - Nermal
    
    Because he sent her a text just signed ‘Alex’
    
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    January 19, 2019 3:29pm
- Surely Knott
  
  Is he a relative? Because Maggie pointed out yesterday the PM has an L. Swney as a cousin. Coincidence?
  
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  January 19, 2019 8:31am
  - stephieboy
    
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    Did Alex propose to Jacinda behind bars?
    
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    January 19, 2019 8:36am
    - holysheet
      
      He most likely was the one before the fisherman. These types swim in a very small pool.
      
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      January 19, 2019 8:42am
      - Morrissey
        
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        Translation: “Oh God, I’m so fucking ENVIOUS of that prick Gayford. What’s he got that I have not got? Oh, I wish someone like Jacinda Ardern would just LOOK at me.”
        
        https://i.imgur.com/UoVWnOc.gif
        
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        January 19, 2019 10:12am
      - dubya
        
        Yeah, nah, Morrissey. No sane man wants the mouth of the orthodontic nightmare that is Jacinda Ardern anywhere near their cock.
        
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        January 19, 2019 10:29am
      - howzit
        
        The Morris is now divulging his deep dark secrets. One wonders if he dresses up a Clarke or Jacinda on Saturday nights. What is in that closet of yours. Lipstick on a pig or a rod for fisherman?
        
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        January 19, 2019 11:16am
      - Morrissey
        
        Maybe no sane man does, dubya, but that old pervert Cap’n Mainwaring certainly wants it.
        
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        January 19, 2019 5:19pm
    - Surely Knott
      
      Haha no but cousin L Swney was reported as visiting baby Neeve a while back.
      
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      January 19, 2019 8:46am
      - dubya
        
        Not exactly a common surname, is it?
        
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        January 19, 2019 10:47am
    - MH
      
      I’ll go tally the votes again.
      
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      January 19, 2019 2:10pm
- lifesgood
  
  May even be related…her cousin is a Swney, according to Maggy.
  
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  January 19, 2019 12:27pm
- Woz
  
  Possibly a relative? A Lynn Swney is her cousin.
  
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  January 19, 2019 12:48pm
duggledog

Looking forward to missing ‘Madiba’ the musical coming to New Zealand about the life and times of terrorist Nelson Mandela, close pal of ultimate villains Arafat, Castro and Gaddafi.

I wonder who will be clinking glasses in the foyer at half time with their free tickets? Goff? Shaw?

I wonder if there will be any reference to Nelson Mandela being arrested with the thousands of explosives he was going to use to randomly maim or kill as many actual human beings of whatever age or ethnicity as possible, innocent or not?

Or recommending cutting off the noses of blacks deemed as collaborators with the hated whites?

Or the necklacing his evil wife got up to? Or the epic disaster area South Africa has now become?

LOL
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January 19, 2019 8:06am
- kowtow
  
  Or how wealthy his dynasty has become.
  
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  January 19, 2019 8:21am
- JibberJabber
  
  Johannesburg this week,
  https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=CloNg_1547794532
  Forward to the past sans the tyre, `aint cultural enrichment grand?
  
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  January 19, 2019 8:22am
- stephieboy
  
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  Are you an apologist for apartheid?
  
  What makes you think Nelson was a terrorist apart from the fact he was black?
  
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  January 19, 2019 8:29am
  - JibberJabber
    
    You really are KBs stupidest commenter, ignorant on every subject on which you try to inflict your feeble intellect.
    https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/the-dark-side-of-nelson-mandela/news-story/68f4acdbf2b0b4e6c799e458a55e6cb2?nk=0bead2328eb251b2dafdbcb898e43e77-1547839808
    
    . In 1961, he broke with African National Congress colleagues who preached non-violence, creating a terrorist wing.
    
    He later pleaded guilty in court to acts of public violence, and behind bars sanctioned more, including the 1983 Church St car bomb that killed 19 people.
    
    Mandela even suggested cutting off the noses of blacks deemed collaborators. His then wife Winnie advocated “necklacing” instead – a burning tyre around the neck.
    
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    January 19, 2019 8:34am
    - stephieboy
      
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      An “opinion” piece from a tabloid rag. Standard alt right fare re Daily Mail, NY Post,Breitbart Info wars etc, etc
      
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      January 19, 2019 8:38am
      - harvey wilson
        
        Can’t argue with the facts of the article, instead tries to claim it’s an alt right source like info wars.
        
        When you have to display this degree of dishonesty you really have absolutely no moral compass .
        
        And is apparently a serial goat worrier as well.
        
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        January 19, 2019 8:48am
      - JibberJabber
        
        Jeepers, so we`ll just have to agree to put your attempt to rewrite history in the FAIL cabinet, OK?
        You are gonna need another 50 decades of revisionism before your delusions become accepted.
        
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        January 19, 2019 8:48am
      - howzit
        
        Typical leftard response to facts. It’s a right wing conspiracy if it doesn’t suit their diatribe. Yet will believe anything if it’s printed in a “credible paper” so long as it was written by a fellow leftard.
        
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        January 19, 2019 9:45am
    - kowtow
      
      Only he’s not a commenter , he’s a relentless troll.
      
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      January 19, 2019 8:52am
      - harvey wilson
        
        If only Gilletteboy had a sense of humour there’d be some small value in his presence on this forum .
        
        Alas no , it’s just tedious repetitive whining and whattabouttery from our resident cuck .
        
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        January 19, 2019 8:58am
      - GazzaW
        
        A relentless repeater of Labour dogma authorised by the Fraser House commissars.
        
        Do they pay you steffie or do you get any perks like free attendance at weekend youth camps?
        
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        January 19, 2019 9:16am
  - harvey wilson
    
    It’s interesting how people gloss over Mandela’s terrorist past .
    
    https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/the-dark-side-of-nelson-mandela/news-story/68f4acdbf2b0b4e6c799e458a55e6cb2
    
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    January 19, 2019 8:34am
  - alloytoo
    
    “What makes you think Nelson was a terrorist apart from the fact he was black?”
    
    I dunno, probably his conviction for sabotage and membership of a then terrorist organisation.
    
    Where do they find you Stephies? Some communist community isolated since the fall of the Berlin wall?
    
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    January 19, 2019 9:16am
- mikenmildagain
  
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  A great man. How much longer would the racist colonial regime have lingered without his moral leadership?
  
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  January 19, 2019 8:31am
  - geoff3012
    
    Worked out real well.
    
    Not
    
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    January 19, 2019 8:34am
    - mikenmildagain
      
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      Yeah, how long do you think it will take Africa to recover from the European conquest?
      
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      January 19, 2019 8:52am
      - JibberJabber
        
        Well, Liberia has achieved it,
        https://joegbaba.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/six-more-years-of-poo2.pdf
        So not long now for the rest of the Continent.
        
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        January 19, 2019 8:58am
      - mikenmildagain
        
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        If only the Europeans had summoned the will to remain for another hundred years or so, then I am sure things would have turned out much better.
        
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        January 19, 2019 9:03am
      - JibberJabber
        
        LoL, Mikey the Wakandan.
        Stay ignorant Mikey, if only those Africans had stayed at home 2 million years ago…
        Would have saved all you snowflakes a world of grief.
        
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        January 19, 2019 9:13am
      - alloytoo
        
        Well lets remove the wheel, water sanitation and western medicine and find out.
        
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        January 19, 2019 9:19am
      - GazzaW
        
        Zimbabwe seems to be well on the road to recovery mike. The people are really relishing their newfound freedoms and standard of living. 😉
        
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        January 19, 2019 9:23am
      - Nigel Kearney
        
        There are examples around the world of uncolonized vs colonized countries:
        
        Thailand and Malaysia
        Tonga and Fiji
        Ethiopia and just about any other country in Africa
        
        Colonization does not generally make countries worse off unless it is by the French or Belgians.
        
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        January 19, 2019 10:46am
      - howzit
        
        You mean how long before they are back to where they were prior to technology, medicine and a decidedly more caring inclusive culture found its way to them. Mmmm not too far by the looks.
        
        You do realise that blacks kill blacks and places like South Africa already had it’s indigenous tribes wiped out well before the dirty white man cane along. Again doesn’t suit the white privileged diatribe does it?
        
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        January 19, 2019 11:24am
      - kowtow
        
        If whitey had to fuck off out of Africa ,then I suggest Africans can fuck off out of the west.
        
        Equality’s wot weez all ’bout these days , innit?
        
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        January 19, 2019 11:48am
      - Ed Snack
        
        Interestingly enough, in Ethiopia, there’s one large dam that is the main supplier of water for Addis Ababa, and there isn’t anything else like it. As a result AA has a generally better and more reliable water supply than really anywhere else in Ethiopia (there are a couple of places in the Blue Nile that are well served, for obvious reasons).
        
        That dam was built at considerable expense by the Italians in their brief period of colonial conquest in the late 1930’s. I would not wish to praise the Italian conquest of Ethiopia in any way, it was a gratuitous and nasty piece of conquest (they used poison gas for example) and it went against the dictates of the impotent a League of Nations, but one doubts that if they hadn’t build the dam, AA might never have had a decent water supply for much longer.
        
        FYI Britain tossed the Italians out of Ethiopia and Somaliland very early in WW2 before the rest of the Noth African campaign gained much impetus. The British were seriously outnumbered and mostly had somewhat inferior equipment, but were so superior to the Italians that they cleaned them out quite quickly. It wasn’t just to free Ethiopia of course, they wanted to remove a threat to their flank in Sudan and Egypt, but free Ethiopia they did. Restored Haile Selassie too.
        
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        January 19, 2019 4:40pm
    - howzit
      
      Yeah it’s funny how that part of the argument seems to be forgotten. When I visited Africa we had a butler from Zimbabwe he fled there to go to SA because of how bad it was in Zim. He is a man of colour (black as the ace of spades actually) and was worried about the decline of SA and felt that soon it would be just as bad. This was in 2007 and I think it’s getting pretty close to being there.
      
      The reality is apartheid whilst it seemed like the worst thing in the world to all those free spirited people lying on the couches drinking beer. For most blacks life has got worse. We don’t need to mention the whites as of course no one cares what happens to privileged white men and women do they.
      
      Africa is a beautiful area when looking at nature but an absolute abomination when you look at the humans that rule the various countries.
      
      I’m not an African by the way just a kiwi abroad when I went.
      
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      January 19, 2019 9:56am
  - Fletch
    
    A relative of mine worked for a South African lady in the hospitality industry and when she still lived in SA she had to work at a function where Mandela was present and she refused to personally serve him because of his connection to the ANC and terrorism, etc.
    
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    January 19, 2019 9:05am
  - alloytoo
    
    I think you’re confusing him with FW de Klerk
    
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    January 19, 2019 9:17am
secondcumming

So, with a Commerce Degree in wrapping greasys for a Morrinsville fish shop, Jacinda has headed off to represent this country at the *DAVOS World Economic Forum*

That’s probably akin to me asking the cute Maori barmaid at the gun club, to go and renegotiate my company’s lending facilities with Westpac.
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January 19, 2019 8:09am
- hullkiwi
  
  SC, she has not got a “Commerce” degree.
  
  She has a “Communications” degree, which enabled her to listen to what the order was. A “Commerce” degree would have enabled her to tell the punter the cost and handle the change. tasks well beyond her capabilities….
  
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  January 19, 2019 8:16am
  - kowtow
    
    A communications degree also enabled her to tell the electorate to , “read between the lines” ……..
    
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    January 19, 2019 8:23am
    - secondcumming
      
      Most *transparent government* ever……even your average kiwi is starting to see through them now.
      
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      January 19, 2019 8:31am
      - Paulus
        
        But the media and women’s magazines have not woken up yet – they remain enthralled by her emulation of Princess Diana.
        
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        January 19, 2019 1:48pm
  - stephieboy
    
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    hullkiwi, and your degree? Cesspit design and installation?
    
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    January 19, 2019 8:30am
    - Salacious Crumb
      
      And presumably your PhD in Chezolagnia?
      
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      January 19, 2019 8:45am
    - JibberJabber
      
      At least it`s a useful degree.
      “Cesspit design and installation?”
      White man’s magic, something you and your fellow Shitholians are yet to master without help, like the wheel.
      
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      January 19, 2019 8:54am
    - Swifty
      
      Weren’t you whining and bitching about abuse yesterday?
      
      And here you are first thing in the morning straight at it again – and initiating it, not responding to it.
      
      You really need to look at yourself.
      
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      January 19, 2019 9:02am
      - GazzaW
        
        Another day, another steffie.
        
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        January 19, 2019 9:27am
      - howzit
        
        He’s too busy looking out the window, the mirror is too scary for them
        
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        January 19, 2019 11:28am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      SB, tell us about your qualifications?
      Which university did you attend?
      What did you major in?
      
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      January 19, 2019 9:20am
      - dubya
        
        My money is on Sociology or something equally unemployable
        
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        January 19, 2019 10:45am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        Animal husbandry, obviously
        
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        January 19, 2019 2:55pm
- igm
  
  secondcumming: I think the latter would be more successful. Huckery Harridan only handed out orders, but maybe when pushed, they allowed her to wrap them!
  
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  January 19, 2019 8:18am
- Harkman
  
  Has she bought off setting carbon credits?
  
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  January 19, 2019 8:54am
- calendar girl
  
  I usually have some respect for political columns written by Fran O’Sullivan. However, her fawning piece on Ardern’s forthcoming trip to the Davos meeting fall well below what I expect of O’Sullivan: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12192613
  
  References to Ardern’s “star” status at the Davos event – before it even occurs – are infatuated political twaddle.
  
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  January 19, 2019 9:07am
- Liberty
  
  Remember the good old days when we had a PM. Who was a whizz kid with money.
  
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  January 19, 2019 9:41am
  - Viking2
    
    Remember when Fran the secret columnist used to write good articles. Now she is no better than the rest of the trash journos that they employ.
    
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    January 19, 2019 7:18pm
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NZ Herald readers (of yesterday’s edition), in particular, will be aware that ‘The Atlantic’ magazine has published an article advocating the commencement, sooner rather than later, of impeachment proceedings against President Trump, aka the Huckster-in-Chief. You can read this excellent piece, here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/impeachment-trump/580468/.

Even if the subject matter is not to your taste, you will come away from this reading experience better informed about the process that “Individual-1” could well be subjected to later this year, or next.

I have set out some excerpts, below, to whet your appetite—

“Impeachment is a process, not an outcome, a rule-bound procedure for investigating a president, considering evidence, formulating charges, and deciding whether to continue on to trial.”

“The question that determines whether an act is impeachable, though, is whether it endangers American democracy. As a House Judiciary Committee staff report put it in 1974, in the midst of the Watergate investigation: ‘The purpose of impeachment is not personal punishment; its function is primarily to maintain constitutional government.’ Impeachable offenses, it found, included ‘undermining the integrity of office, disregard of constitutional duties and oath of office, arrogation of power, abuse of the governmental process, adverse impact on the system of government.’”

“[…]. The question of whether impeachment is justified should not be confused with the question of whether it is likely to succeed in removing a president from office. The country will benefit greatly regardless of how the Senate ultimately votes. Even if the impeachment of Donald Trump fails to produce a conviction in the Senate, it can safeguard the constitutional order from a president who seeks to undermine it. […].”

The […] Grabber-in-Chief has committed numerous impeachable offences. One can only hope that his nemesis, the newly re-empowered Nancy Pelosi, will do the right thing – soon.
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- holysheet
  
  So in other words its just a process where they are seen to be doing something. Never mind that the outcome will be fuck all.
  Oh how the democrats love committees. Just like our lefties here, they need to be seen doing something. Anything is not always better than nothing.
  
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  January 19, 2019 8:21am
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    You don’t think the other party in congress uses committees?
    
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    January 19, 2019 8:33am
- kowtow
  
  “Grabber-in-Chief” , and you’re asking us to take the article seriously and in good faith ?
  
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  January 19, 2019 8:26am
  - Steve Todd
    
    For goodness sake, kowtow, read the article. Do you seriously think The Atlantic would use expressions like that?
    
    Clearly, “[…] Grabber-in-Chief” is another aka (of mine) for Trump. Did you not notice the all-important missing word before “Grabber”?
    
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    January 19, 2019 8:35am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      He’s not gong to read anything that might disturb his illusions.
      
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      January 19, 2019 8:53am
    - Tall Man
      
      Who really cares about Trump?
      
      You and the rest of the ueless tits commonly called “coalition supporters”.
      
      Does it make you feel all warm and fuzzy to spout anti Trump crap here in NZ. It is a great pity that we do not have some form of electoral recall as ardern the liar plus the lying sleaze wynston would be facing a recall for the total failure to deliver on one single election promise.
      
      You must be an absolute dimwit to spend your day fantasizing about nasty Trump when you have one of the most corrupt governments in NZ history right in front of your face. Sort the shit out in your own political nest before looking around for more “cool” things to join in.
      
      Trump is in the USA, ardern the liar is right here, although at moment she is off the clock spouting dribble to a group of disinterested hangers on.
      
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      January 19, 2019 10:55am
      - Steve Todd
        
        Oh, dear, you just couldn’t help yourself, could you, TM?
        
        You really are quite ungrateful, you know. Back on 6 December, under ‘Robin Hood Super’, I let you off (and responded to you respectfully) when you talked about “life expectancy”, when the conversation was about “health expectancy”. (See my reply to you, at 2.48 p.m., and my reply to howitis, at 5.39 p.m.)
        
        Then, last Saturday night, at ‘General Debate’, you threw a barb at me, telling me my opinion was worth “nothing”. How did I respond to you (just after midnight)? Graciously, treating you with respect, that’s how, although I did tell you that your Ardern obsession was now pathetic, which, let’s face it, it is. (The insertion of “Ardern is a liar” (and variations thereof) into 95%+ of your comments (95%+ of which are nasty, reactive barbs), indicates a very severe case of ‘Ardern Derangement Syndrome’, not displayed by anyone else at this blogsite.)
        
        All I am expressing here, is a different point of view to that which prevails at Kiwiblog. I do it rationally and with respect to others, although yesterday morning I tried to have a bit of fun, which I didn’t quite pull off. Yes, I could use a nom de plume and engage with everyone in the same, nasty, reactive, disrespectful way you do, but I choose not to. On the other hand, I could adopt a nom de plume and try and have great fun here, but I’m not as clever as people like mikeandmildagain (and I certainly don’t possess his wit).
        
        What you are really saying, is that Kiwiblog should be an echo chamber that reflects *your* view of life, and that of people like you. Is that what you really want? If DPF were to remove everyone from this blog that you and people like you disagree with, its popularity would decline rather rapidly, I suspect – because it would be boring, just like your ADS is.
        
        Now, to your latest missive. I have commented on many subjects over the last five or six years, particularly about STV, including NZ politics. It is just that right now, Trump, Pelosi, and the partial shutdown, are huge news. I have followed US politics closely since the JFK assassination. I do not fantasise about Trump, or anyone else for that matter.
        
        Over the last 15 years, DPF has put up hundreds of posts to do with US politics, and the individual presidents since Bush 43. Does that make him an “absolute dimwit”? No, because his interests are demonstrably wide-ranging. Mine are, too – as I’m sure yours are – it’s just that you don’t know that.
        
        One of Kiwiblog’s best contributors, kiwi in america, whose posts are always eagerly anticipated, writes almost exclusively about US politics, for our edification. No-one here would consider him to be an “absolute dimwit”.
        
        You tell me to “[s]ort the shit out in [my] own political nest”. Ha! Do you seriously believe that you are convincing anyone to your point of view with your short, nasty, swipes at everyone you disagree with? I can tell you the answer to that; it’s no.
        
        So, TM, you really do need to take a good look at yourself. Do you really think everyone shares your hatred of the current government, and, if not, that they must be dimwits? And, if they don’t, that they should be shouted down by people like you until they just go away? You are a successful man (apparently), you have raised children who are successful. Don’t you think it rather beneath you to behave the way you do here? Would you express yourself the way you do under your real name? Of course, you wouldn’t.
        
        Expressing your points of view in a rational manner must surely be fairly easy to do. Others seem to be able to do it. Why don’t you give it a try? It would be so much more pleasant for the rest of us, if you did.
        
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        January 19, 2019 1:46pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Oh dear steve….I don’t give a shit.
        
        Your post is too long, too boring and yes, I believe that a majority of people in NZ do not give a shit about ardern the liar and her drivel.
        
        Just for a bit of fun..google ardern the liar. You may then understand but I doubt it, you are a dimwit.
        
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        January 19, 2019 6:19pm
  - Steve Todd
    
    The final paragraph is my concluding comment – it does not start and finish with quote marks. I could perhaps have made that clearer, say, by putting quote marks around the words in question. I apologise for the confusion caused.
    
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    January 19, 2019 9:03am
    - pentwig
      
      no need to apologise for your stupidity steve
      after yesterdays attempt we know what to expect
      same intellect as stoopidthing
      
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      January 19, 2019 9:26am
      - Steve Todd
        
        Gratuitous and unnecessary, pentwig.
        
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        January 19, 2019 10:15am
    - Ed Snack
      
      I wonder if they will use the Buzzfeed information about how Trump instructed Cohen to lie to Congress about the Trump Organization project to license the Trump name to a Hotel in Moscow ?
      
      Or is that just another Fusion GPS paid for lie that the MSM so delights in preferring to real news. Now of course the office of the Special Counsel has issued a statement completely undermining that narrative.
      
      You know, Trump is so absolutely right about the media in the USA – it is the de-facto opposition and is full of fakes news or worse than fake, deliberate lies.
      
      And I wonder if Adam Schiff will have the decency to resign ? He heard Bruce Ohr’s Testimony before Congress where he testified that he told the FBI and DOJ (in the parsons of Andrew McCabe, Lisa Page, and DOJ’s Weissman who is now on the Mueller team) about the origins of and the unverified nature of the Steele Dossier. Yet Schiff prepared and published a minority Congressional official report that blatantly lied about that – claiming that the FBI & DOJ were not informed until November. That is blatant lying to Congress and to the public, Perjury in effect. Maybe he should be impeached if he doesn’t have the decency and how can he serve as Intelligence Committee chairman when he has publicly shon that he is completely unreliable in regard to telling the truth.
      
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      January 19, 2019 4:53pm
- Komata
  
  Steve
  
  Not a fan then?
  
  (Asking for a friend).
  
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  January 19, 2019 8:29am
  - Steve Todd
    
    Got it one, mate.
    
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    January 19, 2019 8:37am
    - Komata
      
      Steve
      
      Thought so; it shows.
      
      Thank you.
      
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      January 19, 2019 9:00am
      - Steve Todd
        
        You’re welcome, Komata.
        
        I try to write clearly – in Word, then I copy and paste into the box – but, as you can see, above, I can still get it wrong.
        
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        January 19, 2019 9:10am
- stephieboy
  
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  Impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump?
  
  The sooner the better. The guy is incompetent. Err insane.
  
  Case closed!
  
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  January 19, 2019 8:33am
  - holysheet
    
    Oh how I wish we could do the same with you, stoooopidboy. If sanity or not was the only hurdle to meet, you would have been committed in your mothers womb
    
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    January 19, 2019 8:36am
  - lilman
    
    Lol piss off you soft prick.
    Trump makes me laugh every day. The look on Pelosi face as her flight was canceled was priceless.
    What an incompetent woman and the left keep voting for her.
    
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    January 19, 2019 9:03am
    - Jules99
      
      LOL, who said comedy was dead. Trump’s funnier than anything on TV right now.
      
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      January 19, 2019 12:52pm
- mikenmildagain
  
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  The latest reporting is that multiple sources have provided evidence of the president instructing his personal attorney to lie to congress.
  Tick tock.
  
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  January 19, 2019 8:34am
  - rangitoto
    
    Yep. Only two years before Trump wins a second term.
    
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    January 19, 2019 8:37am
    - mikenmildagain
      
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      https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-rev-up-impeachment-threats-after-report-trump-told-cohen-to-lie-on-russia-project
      
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      January 19, 2019 8:49am
      - KevOB
        
        Cohen is a convicted criminal of the worst white collar sort. Work to feather their own nests and milk their clients. Setting up deals to excite client interest so they can be sold on. Guess who holds the options?
        I have personally encountered both a lawyer and and accountant in cahoots that way against the rest of the sucker base. NZ is not safe from these people either.
        
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        January 19, 2019 10:24am
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Sure. It’s just unfortunate that Trump’s closest associates turn out to be crooks. He’s just unlucky that way, and I’m sure he will be able to convince some people of that.
        
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        January 19, 2019 11:55am
      - Ed Snack
        
        Mike, you better read a bit further. The Office of the Special Counsel has issued a statement (a rare occurrence) denying the truth of that story.
        
        So once again you are guilty of promoting not just fake news but malicious slander. Must be a great strain to be disappointed so very often.
        
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        January 19, 2019 4:59pm
    - Paulus
      
      And under two years before Princess Cindy gets another three years.
      
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      January 19, 2019 1:51pm
  - lilman
    
    Two plus years and nothing on trump.
    
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    January 19, 2019 9:04am
  - JibberJabber
    
    I fucking love the lefties capacity for wishful delusion.
    
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    January 19, 2019 9:18am
    - harvey wilson
      
      They are like reef fish flocking to every piece of clickbait that mentions trump .
      
      Imagine being utterly obsessed with the leader of a country that you don’t get to vote in ? Actually don’t , it’s s but sad to think about how empty their lives must be.
      
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      January 19, 2019 9:22am
      - All_on_Red
        
        Yeah it’s funny eh.
        ‘BuzzFeed’s bombshell report (based on anonymous deep state sources) alleging that President Trump ordered his lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress seems to have hit a snag:
        
        Did the authors see any evidence? Yes! says one. ‘No! says the other:
        ‘https://pjmedia.com/blog/liveblogevent/live-blog-168/entry-250466/
        
        Bruce Ohrs evidence is more interesting. 12 gone from the FBI and DOJ so far. Indictments soon?
        Ex DNI Clapper must be nervous. Lying to a FISA Court is more serious than the lying Cohen got done for.
        
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        January 19, 2019 9:39am
      - stephieboy
        
        All On Red, our first local QAnon recruit?
        
        https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-apocalypse-in-america-the-smell-of-fascism-in-the-pro-trump-qanon-conspiracy-1.6809655
        
        LOL
        
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        January 19, 2019 10:26am
  - alloytoo
    
    Can we impeach Ardern, after all she has publicly lied to Parliament?
    
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    January 19, 2019 9:25am
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      Crimes against the people are not subject to the Courts–military only as we have no other safeguards if the GG takes no part.
      
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      January 19, 2019 10:26am
  - Tall Man
    
    Multiple sources have identifies that ardern the liar is indeed a liar. Confirmation will be presented by the MSM when they emerge from the self induced hypnotic state of sniffing fairy dust distributed daily by adern the liar and her deluded supporters.
    
    Ritchie Hardcore is a personal friend of hers, Alex Swney is a personal friend of ardern the liar…
    
    I think you can safely surmise that she is living proof of the old saying”if you lie down with dogs, you will get fleas”.
    
    Pretty sure she is well infested, it will be interesting to see how many others in her circle start scratching soon.
    
    ardern is a liar
    
    mikey is a dimwit who adores a liar….
    
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    January 19, 2019 11:01am
- Viking2
  
  Pelosi is mad as a hater. Watch Trump. He has given her a chance to redeem herself but she will get whats coming.
  Predict she will quit sometime soon.
  
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  January 19, 2019 7:21pm
hullkiwi

Folks in case you missed it in the ususal Friday bury the news……

there was this wonderful piece of BREAKING NEWS about Princess Jacinda…..

Under an OIA…Matthew Hooton has received the text messages from Hardcore and there is more, there will be an email to come….

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/karel-sroubek-richie-hardcores-text-to-jacinda-ardern-revealed/ar-BBSoPRn?ocid=spartandhp#image=1

Princess better get on her plane to Europe fast…..!
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January 19, 2019 8:12am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Stuff reckon they have the emails
  
  This story was on their front page site yesterday, but has now disappeared.
  Swney is a former inmate who served at the same time as Sroubek. The emails he included the Prime Minister on was released to Stuff by the Prime Minister’ Office.
  and
  After this response Swney sent another email to the Prime Minister insinuating that the whole scandal had more to do with Sroubek’s ex wife than the actual conviction.
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/110018901/karel-sroubek-a-good-guy-richie-hardcore-says-in-text-to-pm-jacinda-ardern
  
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  January 19, 2019 8:32am
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    MW,
    
    “This story was on their front page site yesterday, but has now disappeared.”
    
    Now, why could that be?
    
    And the content of the text?
    Did the PM respond?
    
    Smoking gun BS!
    
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    January 19, 2019 8:43am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Now, why could that be?
      
      Coz, the folks running Stuff are Labour Party stooges.
      
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      January 19, 2019 9:26am
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        MW, pathetic!
        
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        January 19, 2019 10:41am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Yep, it’s pathetic alright.
        
        Henry Cooke goes to all the trouble to get his piece out right after the PM’s OIA release and his story disappears off Stuff’s viewable web pages in a matter of hours… but here is some Labour propaganda on Taxes – still viewable after 5 days.
        
        https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/109818642/capital-gains-tax–what-we-know-about-how-it-would-work
        
        Yep, truly pathetic, Stuff!
        
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        January 19, 2019 11:22am
      - artemisia
        
        Hmmm, you other comment about the capital gains tax article still up on Stuff might indicate more clicks thus more interest in a CGT than predicted by Ms Ardern and the TWG. Suspect the interest is not exactly what they want to see. Several pundits are picking CGT to be THE big issue on 2020.
        
        (And on that subject, how will the government propose to implement the probable TWG recommendation to bring a CGT and also a tax cut. Since a CGT will not produce sizeable revenue for a long time, initial tax cuts would have to be chewing gum size. That will go down real well!)
        
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        January 19, 2019 11:58am
      - GazzaW
        
        …and their equivalent at NZME Maggie which I believe is known as the ‘silent court’.
        
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        January 19, 2019 12:22pm
      - Paulus
        
        Will not be Stuff much longer unless some fool wishes to throw their money to save it.
        Not worth very much – see lay offs around already.
        Gone by lunchtime !
        
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        January 19, 2019 1:55pm
      - oldgolfer
        
        Not for much longer, I suspect.
        
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        January 19, 2019 5:28pm
    - pentwig
      
      stoopidthing
      ffs are you really, really that stupid?
      
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      January 19, 2019 9:31am
      - JibberJabber
        
        We`ve come to the realisation here at KB that calling Stiffy stupid is an insult to stupid people, tho` its commitment to stupidity deserves a Nobel.
        
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        January 19, 2019 9:53am
      - Tall Man
        
        Because steffy has no balls, being a butch girl, I will answer the question for her…….
        
        ffs are you really, really that stupid?…”Yes.”
        
        Well that confirms it then, steffy knows she is really stupid and that…
        
        ardern is a liar
        
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        January 19, 2019 11:06am
    - toby1845
      
      Stephie, you’re not Phil Goff by any chance?
      
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      January 20, 2019 12:00am
  - Dave Mann
    
    Articles like this just prove to me what society will be missing when Stuff (and probably most of the MSM) go under.
    
    Sure, they often write content that people disagree with….. but when there are no more traditional news media, who will investigate and publish stories like this?
    
    KiwiBlog is a great forum for discussion, but what ae discuss is very often originally published by the ‘hated MSM’.
    
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    January 19, 2019 10:17am
    - Tall Man
      
      Sarcasm is strong with you today….
      
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      January 19, 2019 11:07am
    - toby1845
      
      Nice sentiments, Dave, but frankly…..as far as I’m concerned, hearing the Stuff is about to go under is like hearing that the local drug dealer has terminal cancer.
      
      Good riddance.
      
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      January 20, 2019 12:04am
secondcumming

I can’t help feeling Prince Wills and Harry arranged Phil the Greeks car crash yesterday, in retaliation for their Mum’s little organized prang.
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January 19, 2019 8:17am
- Biscuit
  
  For your missus, secondcumming:
  
  Great to see the Royal Family embrace the 21st century.
  First mixed-race wedding last year, and yesterday Prince Philip convincingly transitioned into a woman.
  
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  January 19, 2019 8:26am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Wow – hadn’t seen that conspiracy theory for a while. Isn’t it a little early in the day to be drinking heavily?
  
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  January 19, 2019 8:36am
  - dirty harry
    
    Dont know why you are so concerned Mike, the word is ya Mum starts hitting the piss as soon as she wakes up.
    
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    January 19, 2019 12:09pm
    - toby1845
      
      And drank heavily throughout her entire confinement with Milky.
      
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      January 20, 2019 12:06am
- Jules99
  
  Have to say, it crossed my mind that somebody might have.
  
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  January 19, 2019 12:56pm
Justitia

So China’s construction of its base on Inexpressible Island in New Zealand’s Ross Dependency continues apace this summer. Meanwhile New Zealand has been blindsided by Chinese inroads into Niue and the Cook Islands, both part of the “Realm of New Zealand” for whom New Zealand has responsibility for defence and foreign affairs. The independent Chinese media in New Zealand has been pushed aside by outlets promoting the official Beijing line, including the New Zealand Herald’s Chinese language edition. New Zealand refuses to stand alongside Canada to show international solidarity against China’s hostage taking of Canadian citizens and is the only western country not to join an international protest against China’s treatment of its Uighur minority. After a year long investigation the burglary and harassment of Prof Anne Marie Brady still has no outcome. “Donations” by members of the Communist Party’s United Front in New Zealand continue to flow to New Zealand political parties including a possible “cash for candidacies scheme”. A former? member of the Chinese Intelligence Services continues to sit in the New Zealand Parliament and refuses to answer questions about his background. Spokesmen for a major political party cite Chinese talking points on the South China Sea, the Uighurs and New Zealand’s defence posture. China’s planners must be astonished at how easily they have managed to bring New Zealand under their sway.
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January 19, 2019 8:18am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  And don’t forget Labour’s Raymond Huo MP is still connected to his old university in Beijing.
  In April 2013 Raymond was appointed an Honorary Professor of Law at his alma mater, China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing.
  https://www.labour.org.nz/raymondhuo
  
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  January 19, 2019 8:38am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    I’d have to check the Croaking Cassandra blog, but I think it was Raymond Huo who translated “Let’s do this” into Chinese so that it equated to a saying from President Xi.
    
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    January 19, 2019 8:46am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Oh,
      I thought President Xi had copied Jacinda’s speeches:
      
      “The well-being of our people is the Party and the government’s greatest political achievement. Our cadres should put the people’s state of living at the heart, and help them live a better life.”
      
      and
      Let’s do it together and make it happen.
      
      http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-01/01/c_136865166.htm
      
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      January 19, 2019 9:23am
- mikenmildagain
  
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  Meanwhile, Kiwiblog is more concerned about Yemen’s presence on the UN’s gender equality body, rather than China’s membership of the UN Human Rights Council.
  
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  January 19, 2019 8:39am
  - Salacious Crumb
    
    Yeah I don’t get. Wake up people.
    
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    January 19, 2019 8:49am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      There is an incredible drift among sectors of New Zealand towards the view that our future prosperity is inextricably bound with China and, to that end, we must do everything we can to maintain ‘good relations’ with that horrible regime.
      
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      January 19, 2019 8:56am
      - Justitia
        
        You are correct, but they are wrong. Yes it’s true China last year narrowly surpassed Australia as our largest single market. But our exports to Australia, the US and the EU far outstrip those to China. Our trade with China is commodity-based: milk powder and logs in the main. They represent a dead-end, and commodities that China would probably have bought without an FTA or kowtowing from us. Our trade with our western friends is not only far larger than with China but it is also based on a wider and far more sophisticated range of goods and services. That is where our future must lie if we are to increase our per capita productivity, which has been static for many years, and to prosper as a nation. We should be actively reducing our exposure to China.
        
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        January 19, 2019 9:18am
      - Salacious Crumb
        
        There is a naivety in our successive governments which I can’t decide is negligent or criminal. China plays a long game – traditionally a 100+ year plan. We, on the other hand go for the instant gratification, also reflective of the quality of our politicians. Is it any wonder we’re just fodder for their expansionism?
        
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        January 19, 2019 9:21am
dave_c_

My morning giggle:
Using free speech to argue against free speech !
http://12160.info/profiles/status/show?id=2649739%3AStatus%3A1871527
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January 19, 2019 8:22am
holysheet

I had my first parachute jump today and I was terrified.
This guy strapped himself to me and we jumped out.
As we plummeted he said “So how long have you been an instructor?”
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January 19, 2019 8:26am
Happychappy

Oh wow NZ First MP Derrick Ball has blamed National for a stupid law under there watch for the Deaths of the two brothers stealing a car and driving reckless even after the Police had called off their pursuit. NZ First want to grow up and have a good look at themselves and there policy as National could and should hold the same to all members of the Coalition by saying the housing crisis was caused by them for not passing a workable RMA which still right up to this minute as I am penning this is also stopping housing being built at the rate it is needed. So to blame others for something your Government could change because discipline and lack of respect for others and their property was the cause of these deaths and just like the cigarette tax that NZ First blamed for dairies being robbed and they would repeal that law if they came to power, well you have overseen to rises in the time you formed this Coalition and like most things you again have done Sweet Fanny Adam’s about it. Oh that’s right NZ Firsts motto promises are made to be broken.
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January 19, 2019 8:26am
- Happychappy
  
  I see it took not more than a few seconds for me to upset a NZ First supporter and get down ticked.
  
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  January 19, 2019 8:32am
  - harvey wilson
    
    The opinions of NZ first supporters are not to be valued . The cognitive dissonance they display in the face of all the evidence of the drunk of old crooks history is off the charts.
    
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    January 19, 2019 8:38am
  - stigie
    
    Will those NZ First supporters you talk about see the light and vote National or will Winston at the next election grab them by the scrotum and say “Vote for me big boy if you know what’s good for you”..?
    
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    January 19, 2019 8:42am
  - Biscuit
    
    Happychappy, bad news, it looks like BOTH of NZ First’s supporters have now down-ticked you!
    
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    January 19, 2019 9:23am
    - Happychappy
      
      Biscuit very much like the Coalition and their MP’S the truth hurts.
      
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      January 19, 2019 9:29am
    - RF
      
      What…. there are 2 knuckle dragging NZ First Supporters left….
      
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      January 19, 2019 9:52am
      - Happychappy
        
        Obviously more than we thought RF but as you know a leopard never changes the colour of their spots and it’s ver likely the same will continue here.
        
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        January 19, 2019 10:18am
Thought Criminal

97 percent of scientists believe humans cause climate change? Where did that figure come from?

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion/climate-debate-97pc-of-scientists-agree-on-nothing/news-story/1e9a5d64619cc3ed54352f12026bf1b6

The 97 per cent figure derives from a survey sent to 10,257 people with a self-interest in human-induced global warming who published “science” supported by taxpayer-funded research grants. Replies from 3146 respondents were whittled down to 77 self-appointed climate “scientists” of whom 75 were judged to agree that human-induced warming was taking place. The 97 per cent figure derives from a tribe with only 75 members. What were the criteria for rejecting 3069 respondents? There was no mention that 75 out of 3146 is 2.38 per cent. We did not hear that 2.38 per cent of climate scientists with a self-interest agreed that humans have played a significant role in changing climate and that they are recipients of some of the billions spent annually on climate research.

Another recent paper on the scientific consensus of human-induced climate change was a howler. Such papers can be published only in the sociology or environmental literature.

The paper claimed that published scientific papers showed there was a 97.1 per cent consensus that man had caused at least half of the 0.7C global warming since 1950.

How was this 97.1 per cent figure determined? By “inspection” of 11,944 published papers. Inspection is not rigorous scholarship. There was no critical reading and understanding derived from reading 11,944 papers. This was not possible as the study started in March 2012 and was published in mid-2013, hence only a cursory inspection was possible. What was inspected? By whom?

The methodology section of the publication gives the game away. “This letter was conceived as a ‘citizen science’ project by volunteers contributing to the Skeptical Science website (www.skepticalscience.com). In March 2012, we searched the Institute for Scientific Information Web of Science for papers published from 1991-2011 using topic searches for ‘global warming’ or ‘global climate change’.”

This translates as: This study was a biased compilation of opinions from non-scientific, politically motivated volunteer activists who used a search engine for key words in 11,944 scientific papers, were unable to understand the scientific context of the use of “global warming” and “global climate change”, who rebadged themselves as “citizen scientists” to hide their activism and ignorance, who did not read the complete papers and were unable to evaluate critically the diversity of science published therein.

The conclusions were predictable because the methodology was not dispassionate and involved decisions by those who were not independent.

As part of a scathing critical analysis of this paper by real scientists, the original 11,944 papers were read and the readers came to a diametrically opposite conclusion. Of the 11,944 papers, only 41 explicitly stated that humans caused most of the warming since 1950 (0.3 per cent). Of the 11,944 climate “science” papers, 99.7 per cent did not say that carbon dioxide caused most of the global warming since 1950. It was less than 1 per cent and not one paper endorsed a man-made global warming catastrophe.

Political policy and environmental activism rely on this fraudulent 97 per cent consensus paid for by the taxpayer to rob the taxpayer further with subsidies for bird-and-bat-chomping wind turbines, polluting solar panels and handouts to those with sticky fingers in the international climate industry. It’s this alleged 97 per cent consensus that has changed our electricity from cheap and reliable to expensive and unreliable.

Activists with no skin in the game are setting the scene for economic suicide.
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January 19, 2019 8:31am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  A classic example of the Big Lie ( große Lüge) technique.
  
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  January 19, 2019 8:50am
- Dave Mann
  
  This manipulation of data to fit pre-conceived opinion and dress them up as ‘facts’ is exactly the kind of bullshit that consultants like MartinJenkins get up to.
  
  It’s like money laundering. In fact I think I might have just invented a new phrase. ‘Data laundering’. This describes it perfectly… but others have probably thought of it first. Anyway, it fits.
  
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  January 19, 2019 10:33am
- jonno1
  
  But, but, two independent studies both came up with 97%, so it must be right! Right? /sarc (just in case).
  
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  January 19, 2019 11:26am
- auckwood
  
  I strongly encourage viewing of this video.
  Answers the ‘97% of scientists’ claim, among other ridiculous claims made in this day and age.
  
  https://youtu.be/ZAog8RaIXhM?t=145
  
  Shows the difference between an intelligent, logical thinker, and someone who would support the CoL
  
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  January 19, 2019 12:48pm
Paulus

I see that our Princess Diana Ardern (without baba and presumably her sperm giver) has been given a star role in Davos on all sorts of speaking places.
Probably they cannot find anybody else with such a large gob.
FFS Tgis is an Economic Forum and she has to talk on GDP – she does not even know what it is.
But Heather and Robby will try and tell her but she knows everything.
Pity her persona in New Zealand is higher than very low – when she actually works and not open kindys.
Overseas flaunted by our travelling media she is a star.
Other than Woman’s magazines she is the pits here but what is the media says. Time will tell.
Did nobody tell her that Trump has more important things to do, along with Xi Jinping who cannot be bothered.
She has one hell of a lot of problems to solve – Peters being the most important one making public Foreign Policy on his own – this does not concur with the Princess and Labour Policy.
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January 19, 2019 8:33am
- KevOB
  
  She’s been rebuffed previously as a nobody with PM for a title. Advising other high achievers is only appreciated by their own sort.
  
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  January 19, 2019 10:32am
duggledog

Just ‘reading between the lines’

Alex Swney’s text to Jacinda is signed ‘Alex’.

You only put your first name at the end of a short missive like this if you know that the receiver knows a limited number of people with your first name.

IOW one
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January 19, 2019 8:35am
- All_on_Red
  
  The odds are pretty good she would know Swney.
  His previous role promoting the City means there’s numerous times they would have met, especially during the years Ardern was trying to win Auckland Central?
  
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  January 19, 2019 9:24am
secondcumming

First thing I saw this morning when I woke up 🙁

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DvpbanhWwAAsOT9.jpg

…….better take a couple more of them ‘happy pills’
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January 19, 2019 8:35am
- Fletch
  
  Get an LED or a halogen. Hate those mercury-filled things..
  
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  January 19, 2019 9:12am
artemisia

So the first Kiwibuild head honcho is gone, due to an ’employment dispute’. Since this is usually a euphemism, we can read between the lines.

My reading between those lines is that Mr Barclay told his bosses that it was going to be KiwiFail and they didn’t like it up ’em.

It is possible that Mr Barclay was wrong in that case, as there is to be a miracle, according to the official Kiwibuild website as recently as today –

1000 homes will be built by June 2019 and a further 5000 the following year
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January 19, 2019 8:37am
- Ultima
  
  No CEO of any caliber will be stupid enough to head Kiwibuild because not one person in Twitford’s department knows what it takes to build a house.
  
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  January 19, 2019 10:21am
- GazzaW
  
  How the hell could you work for Twyford and retain your sanity? He moves the goalposts twice daily at least.
  
  I’m thinking that Judith is lining up the questions already.
  
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  January 19, 2019 1:46pm
DifferentPerspective

High quality international reporting by Stuff

Amazingly, I’ve been really impressed by the incredible integrity and penetrating reporting of Stuff as they keep us informed of the most significant world social unrest event since Tianamen Square – I am of course talking about Yellow Vest protests that have been going on unabated for months now.

Stuff never fails to report on this major event – every day I can’t wait to turn to our nation’s most courageous and prestigious journal to keep informed on this once in a hundred years event.

WAKES UP FROM DREAM
Oh that’s right – I was dreaming. Stuff has a total news blank-out on this. We have to be protected from the truth in case we all realise what an utter mind-fuck the whole diversity/globalism scam is.

Just as a matter of interest DPF – isn’t this appalling dishonesty and failure in the core function of the media something worth a teeny bit of coverage in your blog?

I know it doesn’t feed your TDS – but it is an utterly staggering level of corruption and proof of the Pravda behaviour in the NZ MSM.
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January 19, 2019 8:39am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Since 1789, France has had a revolution or a coup about ever 25-30 years. They’re just overdue for the next one.
  Now, back to worrying about Yemen’s oppression of women.
  
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  January 19, 2019 8:43am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    Oh look a squirrel!
    
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    January 19, 2019 8:45am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Hey, I’m not responsible for what DPF highlights on his blog. Maybe if you think the riots in France are of world-shattering importance you could send DPF a guest post on it. Judging from your writing, it would be better than reading something by flipper.
      
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      January 19, 2019 9:08am
      - freethinker
        
        mikenmildagain Yellow vests are now active in 23 European countries and Micron has armed his Darth Vader Troops with Automatic weapons and live rounds, this is a totalitarian response and legitmizes the protesters to follow their example. I expect to see Burning Police stations/Vehicles and Police and god help recognized officers hoping to live in peace in the neighborhoods.
        A minister fled into a Govt building to find its door smashed by a forklift truck, there will be no place to hide for the Pollies/Police/Bankers when/if the protesters carry out their threat to withdraw their money to create a Bank run and a General strike is in the air. With arrogant arseholes in charge of France,Germany and the Evil Union this will not end well but brutally and ugly.
        
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        January 19, 2019 10:00am
mikenmildagain

Happy Robert E Lee day to all admirers of the confederacy.
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January 19, 2019 8:40am
- rangitoto
  
  The Dems have never forgiven the Republicans for freeing their slaves. They are still full retard on it today.
  
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  January 19, 2019 8:49am
  - Viking2
    
    Yep and I’m waiting for trump to call them slave traders. That will get Bezos humming.
    
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    January 19, 2019 7:40pm
- holysheet
  
  That’s a very wracist thing to be pointing out.
  
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  January 19, 2019 8:52am
  - Biscuit
    
    holysheet, talking of wracist, I’m off to Wellington Cup Day today.
    
    142 or so horses will get to do their thing over a 10 race programme.
    
    Erm, 142 non-white horses, I mean.
    
    The only white horses you’ll see all day WON’T be allowed to run against their brown, black or chestnut brothers/sisters but will, instead, be obliged to carry heavy-looking ‘Clerks of the Course’ about.
    
    Where’s the Equal Opportunity mob?
    
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    January 19, 2019 9:34am
    - Jack5
      
      Milky points out it’s Robert E. Lee day.
      
      Given it’s Wellington Cup day, a tip for a lucky punt might come from the name of Lee’s favourite horse during the Civil War, Traveller. He was a grey of 16 hands, notable for speed, strength, and courage during combat.
      
      Lee and Traveller:
      
      https://youtu.be/SvhmX4idsn4
      
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      January 19, 2019 10:56am
      - stephieboy
        
        And Traveller’s owner lost!
        
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        January 19, 2019 12:26pm
      - Jack5
        
        Do they have horses in Stephiestan?
        
        I thought it was all goats and camels.
        
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        January 19, 2019 1:24pm
- Harkman
  
  Mike nobody here likes the confederacy, they hyperinflated the money supply and didn’t believe in individual freedom. After they lost the war they placed all their energy into bringing about international socialism. So you can take Marx back to the Standard where you belong.
  
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  January 19, 2019 9:00am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    You think the confederates were socialists?
    
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    January 19, 2019 9:09am
    - alloytoo
      
      “You think the confederates were socialists?”
      
      hmmm lets see, a working class suppressed into abject poverty with no political rights, ruled over by a wealthy elite who maintain the status quo for “Their own good.” where people have to resort to tunnels and the like to escape.
      
      Sounds like text book socialism to me.
      
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      January 19, 2019 10:13am
      - SGA
        
        hmmm lets see, a working class suppressed into abject poverty with no political rights, ruled over by a wealthy elite who maintain the status quo for “Their own good.”
        
        Pretty good description of much government for the last few thousand years (often with the elite having some sort of “divine right” to rule). It’s never been much fun being a serf, peasant, slave, or worker in many places.
        
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        January 19, 2019 10:32am
      - Jack5
        
        I’m neutral on the US Civil War, but I think Harkman would be well out when he claimed no-one here – Kiwiblog – likes the Confederacy.
        
        Here’s a song for Robert E. Lee Day:
        
        https://youtu.be/g5EHpok66SU
        
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        January 19, 2019 11:02am
      - stephieboy
        
        alloytoo, but we are discussing the civil war Confederacy or is this silly revisionist history?
        
        Nobody on KB likes the Confederacy?
        
        Seriously doubt it!
        
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        January 19, 2019 12:30pm
      - harvey wilson
        
        Dishonest left wing cuck tactic # 1
        
        Assign people positions they don’t actually hold and build your accusations from there .
        
        Ie Stephiecuck
        
        “Nobody on KB likes the Confederacy?
        
        Seriously doubt it!”
        
        Any evidence to support this accusation that anyone here is a fan of a regime of racist losers that existed 160 years ago in another country?
        Of course not , there’s less chance of that happening than Stephthecuck putting down the Velcro gloves and leaving his harem of angoras alone.
        
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        January 19, 2019 12:45pm
      - Jack5
        
        Harvey, how long have you been following Kiwiblog?
        
        Haven’t you met EAD, Kea and Co?
        
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        January 19, 2019 1:38pm
      - Viking2
        
        Isn’t that like China today?
        
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        January 19, 2019 7:41pm
Manolo

The worst is yet to come:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/01/capitol-hill-aides-wait-disaster-end-shutdown/580639/

As the longest government shutdown in American history lurches toward its fifth week, a grim but growing consensus has begun to emerge on Capitol Hill: There may be no way out of this mess until something disastrous happens.
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January 19, 2019 8:46am
- Fletch
  
  According to one column I read (but can’t find right now), the average man in the street has been mostly unaffected by the shutdown and is wondering why they have such a big government to begin with….
  
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  January 19, 2019 9:15am
  - Pascal
    
    Like that time between governments when New Zealand runs smoothly and efficiently, there’s no crap in the media, etc.
    
    Our lives would be so much better with a drained swamp.
    
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    January 19, 2019 10:06am
  - Jules99
    
    One opinion writer thinks that the shutdown could lead to the break up of several key government institutions like the IRS. A bit ‘out there’ but if the public are not really suffering that much, maybe they could have some of the money funding them returned to their pockets via tax cuts.
    
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    January 19, 2019 1:04pm
    - Viking2
      
      I guess most have forgotten that Regan sacked all the air controllers full stop. That went on for a while till they came to their sanity.
      Regan won.
      
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      January 19, 2019 7:43pm
kowtow

Talking of casual racism……

I see our media are now comfortable with the euphemism “unruly tourists” , instead of “Irish travellers”
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January 19, 2019 8:54am
- mikenmildagain
  
  ‘Irish’ isn’t a race – it’s a pattern of behaviour.
  
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  January 19, 2019 9:10am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  That’s because no one can quite figure out where the scum are from.
  
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  January 19, 2019 9:40am
- Southern Raider
  
  Amazing all the virtue signallers who came out on social media decrying how people were incorrectly labelling English tourists as an ethnic minority (use of Irish Traveller as a description).
  
  The main guy even finally admitted they live on a “site” near Leicester. They are travellers through an through but identity politics is trying to hide the truth.
  
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  January 19, 2019 10:52am
stoptheboats

Had a look at givealittle site this morning and came across this punter that seems to be reasonably onto it ..
https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/make-nz-great-again
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January 19, 2019 8:59am
- mikenmildagain
  
  Going to help him with his wish for $5,000 to ‘raise awareness of the Globalist agenda’?
  
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  January 19, 2019 9:13am
Harkman

Did I hear right? The Greens are now wanting to ban plastic children’s toys and they have a new menu for what we are allowed to eat.
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January 19, 2019 9:02am
- rangitoto
  
  TVNZ were promoting the Green’s compulsory diet last night. Maximum amount of meat equivalent to one hamburger patty a week.
  
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  January 19, 2019 9:04am
  - Harkman
    
    Yes, no milk, nothing. Notice how the study’s author was talking about food being redistributed off us to lazy, corrupt countries? Amazing how these people think.
    
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    January 19, 2019 9:07am
    - holysheet
      
      How did the milk biscuit thingy go back when these dumbarses were still in nappies?
      The dairy board came up with the idea of getting rid of surplus milk by making a dried biscuit and selling it to the shitholes of Africa. Trouble was they were far too nutritious for them to digest.
      They ended up back here on sale in health food shops.
      
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      January 19, 2019 9:15am
      - Fletch
        
        That reminds me – we bought some kiwifruit last week, and the sticker says they had been imported from overseas (I can’t recall the country of origin now). Why is our country (one of the biggest growers and exporters of kiwifruit in the world) having to import kiwifruit from overseas to sell in our local market? Are growers so intent on making money that they sell all their goods overseas leaving the country to have to import fruit to sell to the public?
        
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        January 19, 2019 9:20am
      - artemisia
        
        Now it’s plumpy nuts. Peanut based but still with added milk and sugar.
        
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        January 19, 2019 9:21am
      - SGA
        
        @holysheet
        
        Trouble was they were far too nutritious for them to digest.
        
        Was the problem that they were too nutritious, or that most of the adult population in Africa is lactose intolerant (which it is)? Don’t know, just asking.
        
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        January 19, 2019 9:47am
      - Morrissey
        
        Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
        The problem was that those milk biscuits were foul. They were hard, plastic in texture, pink or green in color, and virtually inedible. Lots of them were brought into schools as free samples for New Zealand kids, who rejected them almost completely.
        
        They’d be of some use as a method of low level torture, I guess, but that’s all.
        
        Another disastrous failure by Big Dairy. Not as catastrophic as their destruction of New Zealand’s fresh water infrastructure, but disastrous nonetheless.
        
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        January 19, 2019 9:50am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @Fletch
        
        Zespri is a marketer of kiwifruit.
        It is not only involved in the growing of kiwifruit here in NZ; it is the biggest company running the distribution and sale of kiwifruit grown elsewhere.
        
        Kiwifruit are picked in autumn. We’ve probably exhausted all the 2018 crop left in NZ, so Zespri bring in overseas crop (probably been grown by one of Zespri’s subsidiaries) to tide us over until the 2019 crop is picked.
        
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        January 19, 2019 10:05am
      - Morrissey
        
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        Three dirty dairy deadbeats have downticked this. Haven’t you louts got a brucellosis-infected beast to put down, or a stream to foul?
        
        https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/l/f/i/z/s/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.1240×700.1lfi0o.png/1504501119377.jpg
        
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        January 19, 2019 10:05am
      - GazzaW
        
        Checked your tinned fruit or frozen peas lately Fletch? It’s as if Hawkes Bay & Central Otago had been wiped off the map. One could easily assume that most of our decent produce is being exported and the locals required to consume second rate imports.
        
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        January 19, 2019 11:40am
      - harvey wilson
        
        You can still but those milk biscuits, they still taste like crap.
        
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        January 19, 2019 12:47pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @SGA
        East Africans and Nilo-Saharan Folks are not Lactose intolerant.
        (Cattle, goat and Camel herding folks)
        
        Genetic Origins of Lactase Persistence and the Spread of Pastoralism in Africa
        https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3980415/
        
        Africans’ ability to digest milk linked to spread of cattle raising
        https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140313123133.htm
        
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        January 19, 2019 2:20pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    I said to hubby, I’d like to see that bloke tell a 120kg Tongan he is only allowed 1 meat patty a week.
    
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    January 19, 2019 9:14am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    While they were doing that, I was tucking into a 350gm scotch fillet, cooked medium rare. It was delicious, and the health benefits are obvious; I feel fantastic this morning.
    
    14gm of meat per day? No thanks.
    
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    January 19, 2019 10:03am
    - GazzaW
      
      As one local stated very succinctly on Prime News last night “No fucker (or word to that effect) is going to tell me what or what not to eat.” The food police have yet to convince Waitakere Man that BBQs and pies are not on the menu any longer. Good luck with that.
      
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      January 19, 2019 11:45am
  - Woz
    
    What amazed me about that was that nobody mentioned population control or planning. Apparently we all need to eat rabbit food from now on to save the planet from the effects of the projected 10 billion people it will be supporting by 2050, but nobody says anything about not breeding ourselves up to that appalling level.
    
    Furthermore, and this should come as no surprise, Google can quickly show you the world’s fertility hotspots, which are mostly, in fact almost entirely, in Africa.
    
    Ergo, we must henceforth starve ourselves on mung beans and lettuce so that another few billion miserable Africans can survive to cut down their last tree, shoot the last rhino, and shit in their last river.
    
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    January 19, 2019 1:13pm
holysheet

Police Officer: Now then, your Royal Highness, explain how the accident happened.
Prince Philip: Well, I drove out of the gates and swerved to avoid a pheasant.
Police Officer: You mean you swerved to avoid a peasant.
Prince Philip: Don’t be stupid man. Why on earth would I swerve to avoid a peasant?
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January 19, 2019 9:02am
holysheet

Something you will never hear her say

Europe: Were sorry you’re leaving, but you will need to settle your bill before you go. ”

“Theresa May: “It’s ok, we’ll send your exports back, please be expecting five million immigrants in the next few months, “
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January 19, 2019 9:06am
- GazzaW
  
  To which the EU will reply: “That’s fine, please be expecting 1.4 million Brit retirees back in the next few months.”
  
  It’s all a bit of a mess.
  
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  January 19, 2019 9:52am
  - freethinker
    
    Yellow vests are now active in 23 European countries and Micron has armed his Darth Vader Troops with Automatic weapons and live rounds, this is a totalitarian response and legitmizes the protesters to follow their example. I expect to see Burning Police stations/Vehicles and Police and god help recognized officers hoping to live in peace in the neighborhoods.
    A minister fled into a Govt building to find its door smashed by a forklift truck, there will be no place to hide for the Pollies/Police/Bankers when/if the protesters carry out their threat to withdraw their money to create a Bank run and a General strike is in the air. With arrogant arseholes in charge of France,Germany and the Evil Union this will not end well but brutally and ugly.
    
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    January 19, 2019 10:06am
    - Komata
      
      Perhaps Europe should be thankful that Merkel’s ‘European Army’ is only a ‘concept’ at the moment.
      
      One wonders how the average Frenchman would react to another ‘invasion’ by Le Boche’ (albeit in different garb).
      
      It would probably not end especially well…
      
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      January 19, 2019 11:32am
      - Salacious Crumb
        
        Well not for the French if history is anything to go by.
        
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        January 19, 2019 2:30pm
      - Viking2
        
        Take out the Yanks and all that Germany would have is a screaming horde of goat shaggers. No wonder Merkle wanted to import them.
        
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        January 19, 2019 7:51pm
  - Jules99
    
    Except that those retirees are spending British taxpayer dollars in the local economy. That would be a huge loss in some communities.
    
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    January 19, 2019 1:08pm
secondcumming

OIA request for txts between Richie and Ian …..dated *28 November 2018*

richie@richiehardcore @ianleesgallowayMP

ARSEHOLE!!
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January 19, 2019 9:10am
- stephieboy
  
  ????
  
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  January 19, 2019 10:48am
  - Tall Man
    
    He shouts “arsehole” and you pop up. You are a well trained wee girl aren’t you?
    
    ardern is a liar
    
    stefyy is one fucked up girl.
    
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    January 19, 2019 11:16am
waikatogirl

Did anyone else see the bizarre survey by Family First who are checking cafes for the ability to access porn in public spaces? Family First are obsessed with publicising themselves and this is their latest attempt at getting media attention. Does anyone else believe NZ is inundated with weirdos getting their jollies while sipping a latte at their local family friendly cafe?? ?
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January 19, 2019 9:11am
- holysheet
  
  At the St lukes mall maybe?
  
  Stephieboy on 3 December 2015:
  
  Jack 5, recently i was at St Luke’s shopping mall and I saw a Muslim lady dressed in traditional apparel accompanied by her two beautiful young daughters dressed in modern western tight jeans and blouses , revealing lovely supple body proportions , including small but ample breasts .
  
  stephieboy
  Yesterday I was at the Robert Harris cafe St Lukes Megacentre , Mt Albert enjoying a cappuccino. I noticed next door three Muslim women enjoying their lattes with their children . Two of these honeypots .were wearing their Nijabs with stylish jeans and blouses . The other in more typical kiwi informal attire?
  
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  January 19, 2019 9:21am
  - Morrissey
    
    stephieboy and mikenmild are notorious perverts. Anyone who sees either of them hanging about St Lukes or Lynnmall should contact either the police or Daisycutter Sports Inc.
    
    I won’t spoil readers’ brunches by posting up a clip of stephieboy in flagrante delicto, but here’s a phile photo of mikenmild….
    
    https://thesystemworks.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/01102012saville_6728881.jpg
    
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    January 19, 2019 9:39am
    - Morrissey
      
      Those perverts stephieboy and mikenmild are up and about already, I see. Two downticks.
      
      Fuck off, the pair of you.
      
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      January 19, 2019 9:52am
    - JibberJabber
      
      Must confess, I did LoL at that one…
      
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      January 19, 2019 9:57am
      - Morrissey
        
        Good on you, RibberJobber! Have a nice day, my upticking friend.
        
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        January 19, 2019 10:02am
    - stephieboy
      
      Morrisey, Chomsky is a liar!
      
      Trying to curry favour with the rabid alt right?
      
      Ideological fanatics and warriors ( Left and right) flock together!
      
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      January 19, 2019 10:34am
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        “Trying to curry favour with the rabid alt right?”
        
        Just so you know, stupidboy’s ‘rabid alt right’ includes anyone who’s to the right of Jeremy Corbyn.
        
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        January 19, 2019 10:56am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Oh Morrissey, did my comment yesterday upset you? What can I do to atone?
      
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      January 19, 2019 12:03pm
      - Salacious Crumb
        
        Stop being so damned accurate for a start.
        
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        January 19, 2019 2:32pm
      - Morrissey
        
        What can you do to atone? You could apologize to all those little girls you’ve leered at while nursing a soy latte at St Lukes. Then you could walk around the neighbourhood, door to door, announcing to the locals what you are.
        
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        January 19, 2019 5:16pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @Morrissey
        
        You are confusing Mikenmild with stephieboy.
        
        They do appear to be distinct entities.
        
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        January 19, 2019 6:06pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        Appear to be…
        
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        January 19, 2019 7:51pm
- alloytoo
  
  Family first have a solution looking for a problem.
  
  Like the final line form the TVNZ1 report.
  
  “If you spot someone watching porn in your cafe, don’t be alarmed, it could just be someone from Family First”
  
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  January 19, 2019 9:37am
  - Morrissey
    
    Here’s a phile photo of Bob McCoskrie in action….
    
    https://tentofabraham.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/adult-bullying.jpg
    
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    January 19, 2019 9:43am
    - Morrissey
      
      And here’s another one….
      
      https://c7.alamy.com/comp/M0K9XC/scared-girl-sitting-in-the-corner-M0K9XC.jpg
      
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      January 19, 2019 10:00am
      - starboard
        
        How was last nights friday fisting session, morris ?
        If you are having rectal issues, check out below.
        
        https://www.wellness.com/find/proctologist
        
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        January 19, 2019 2:30pm
- Gravelroad
  
  Having said that Wg, I am disliking the pop-up ads on here. I am not interested in meeting my “Russian soul mate”.
  And I can do without the miserable looking, anorexic sheila in the red bikini advertising some sort of miracle sex pill.
  Kind of devalues the blog imo.
  
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  January 19, 2019 10:39am
  - Tall Man
    
    “devalues the blog”…..
    
    or gives you a discreet opportunity 😉
    
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    January 19, 2019 11:17am
    - Morrissey
      
      I believe the perverts mikenmild and Captain Mainwaring often click on the Russian bride ads.
      
      How do you say “watch out girls, he’s dodgy” in Russian?
      
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      January 19, 2019 8:11pm
      - Jack5
        
        Radio man – Morrissey – that’s easy:
        Девуки – будьте осторожны! Он хитрый.
        
        Google Translate is for everybody. ?
        
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        March 19, 2019 12:40pm
  - Pascal
    
    Adds are targeted based on your profile at the add provider. I’m seeing a lot of motorcycle adverts in Japanese and adverts for video games.
    
    If you’re using a shared computer, maybe check what people are browsing? E.g. if you have kids they may be looking at a lot of porn or similar?
    
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    January 19, 2019 11:29am
    - harvey wilson
      
      Christ I’d hate to see the ads our resident betas are getting.
      
      Mikethecuck – flesh light mini for the man who needs a snug fit
      
      Stephiebeta -grazing opportunities for your livestock near you
      
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      January 19, 2019 1:17pm
  - GazzaW
    
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    January 19, 2019 1:38pm
  - holysheet
    
    What ads??
    Get yourself an ad blocker and live in peace.
    Change your browser to Firefox and get the adblocker in add-ons.
    
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    January 19, 2019 6:31pm
    - Viking2
      
      Seems there must be lots of adds that are tempting. Might have to the add blocker off.
      
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      January 19, 2019 7:56pm
Richard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDAjEaFPnwY

Time to start importing large pallet loads of yellow vests in time for next years election.
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January 19, 2019 9:37am
Tall Man

FFS, come on people.

You’re being a bit slow on the down ticks for steffy girl.

The only way to eradicate her stupidity is with a concerted effort from all non loonies.

I have no problem with sane comments but from her they are few and far between, she just uses this blog as an opportunity to throw insults and stupidity about.

I have no problem with free speech but someone taking a verbal dump is just a step too far.
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January 19, 2019 9:44am
- holysheet
  
  Tall man, your standards are slipping.
  You left out
  steffie is a girl
  Ardern is a liar
  
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  January 19, 2019 9:54am
  - stephieboy
    
    His antipsychotic meds must be starting to kick in!
    
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    January 19, 2019 10:38am
    - Tall Man
      
      “antipsychotic”..
      
      Playing with Google again steffy?
      
      ardern is a liiar
      
      steffy is a girl.
      
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      January 19, 2019 11:32am
  - Tall Man
    
    yep, sorry about that.
    
    I think I was a little over incensed with soe of the stupidity emanting from steffy girl in particular this morning. Was flat out doing “rich man” stuff and just had time for a quick peak and the first thing I landed on had that idiot burbling about something.
    
    Anyway, back to reality..
    
    ardern is a liar and….
    .
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    steffy is a girl
    
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    January 19, 2019 10:42am
    - stephieboy
      
      Oh, the dosage is not quite right!
      
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      January 19, 2019 10:47am
      - Tall Man
        
        Oh dear, you really know how to hurt a guy…
        
        Was that the best you’ve got you demented little tosser…meds?
        
        ardern is a liar
        
        steffy thinks other people need to be on meds if they don’t like her…
        
        Do you take meds to arrest your self loathing steffy girl.
        
        Trust me, there aren’t enough meds out there to get many to take you seriously.
        
        ardern is a liar
        
        steffy thinks people should like her….but they don’t.
        
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        January 19, 2019 11:30am
- Pascal
  
  I don’t mind the comments. I’d just like an easy way to skip that one + the 30 variants of trite insults easily to get to the actual discussions. Don’t need RSI scrolling past pages of shite.
  
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  January 19, 2019 10:11am
  - Morrissey
    
    This should make you feel a little better, Pascal….
    
    https://68.media.tumblr.com/da8eaedab64a670ea438c20201b5584c/tumblr_nxpgs2zQjw1tyncywo1_400.gif
    
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    January 19, 2019 10:20am
    - Pascal
      
      Pascal: “Not interested in inane bullshit”
      Morrissey: “Here’s some insane bullshit”
      
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      January 19, 2019 11:25am
  - Tall Man
    
    Typical…you use the word “shite” and out he pops.
    
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    January 19, 2019 10:42am
- artemisia
  
  This is an ‘alt-right’ leaning blog, using the new improved definition of ‘alt-right’.
  
  I have wondered why there are some who post incessantly without adding anything much to a conversation. They can come in any stripe, but a few stand out as opposed to the general tenor of the blog.
  
  I have come to a tentative conclusion that it is sabotage to drive readers and posters away. By peppering serious threads with quantities of insults personal or otherwise, various drivel and irrelevancies. At a level that hopefully folk will read something else. Maybe The Standard where the quality of debate is so much higher. I am told.
  
  If so, doesn’t seem to be working.
  
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  January 19, 2019 10:26am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    If so, doesn’t seem to be working.<.
    
    Yep, after 5 years on this blog, I've arrived at the same conclusion.
    
    But that's about the extent of our trolls' repertoire…
    
    repeat, repeat, repeat a failed strategy
    Some folks are SLOW learners.
    
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    January 19, 2019 11:49am
- harvey wilson
  
  I’ve been doing my bit and downvoting all the betas* posts .
  
  * he’s a beta in our world amongst those who produce the ingredients for feta cheese he occupies a slightly higher rung on the social ladder.
  
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  January 19, 2019 12:52pm
All_on_Red

Looks like Trumps winning the PR War over the shutdown.
‘In the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll released Thursday, President Donald Trump may have suffered some among Republicans overall, but he saw a huge point gain in a different demographic breakdown, and an unexpected one by conventional wisdom. In early December, the poll had Trump’s approval rating among Latino adults at 31%. The results from the poll released Thursday show the president’s job approval among Latino adults at 50%. That is an astonishing 19 point swing. Prior results had less variance, with Latino approval numbers at 36% in their November 1st findings. It was 27% in the pollster’s mid-October survey. The January poll was conducted during the government shutdown over border wall funding, most notably. So the big swing among Latinos was while Trump and Democrats faced off over funding for the wall.”
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January 19, 2019 9:54am
- stephieboy
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Daily Presidential Tracking Poll
  
  The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 44% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Fifty-five percent (55%) disapprove.
  
  The latest figures include 31% who Strongly Approve of the job Trump is doing and 47% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -16. (See trends).
  
  http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/current_events/politics/prez_track_jan18
  
  Tsk, tsk, tsk…
  
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  January 19, 2019 10:32am
  - Jack5
    
    What are you doing back, Stephieboy. Sixth strike, February 18, but back in one month.
    
    Has DPF given an amnesty to Stephiestanis as a token of good will to the world Muslim community after the recent sad atrocity? ?
    
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    March 19, 2019 12:46pm
- Cobolt24
  
  It looks like Trump is winning the trade war too:
  
  China Plans $1 Trillion Buying Spree to Reduce US Trade Deficit
  
  https://www.ccn.com/bye-bye-trade-war-china-plans-1-trillion-buying-spree-to-reduce-us-trade-deficit/
  
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  January 19, 2019 3:44pm
Happychappy

Well everyone’s favorite blogger blubber let his following on whale know he was still alive and kicking with a comment supporting his favorite MP Judith Collins after his wife had run a poll on who should be Nationals leader yesterday.
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January 19, 2019 10:42am
secondcumming

The BBC reports:

MOGGMANIA has taken hold in the UK, as government back bencher *Jacob Rees-Mogg* tells adoring fans he wants nothing less than a ‘no deal’ that Brexit …..

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DwpVneVXcAEg-Uf.jpg
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January 19, 2019 10:54am
Southern Raider

Spinoff is now having a go at other media other their stories about the “police killed my boys” deadbeat dad

It shows how fucked up NZ is by the support from people on social media that the dad did the best he can and also that the Police are corrupt and oppress good people

FFS. The father is a classic case of why we have young offenders and his supporters are why NZ society is going down the sink
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January 19, 2019 10:58am
secondcumming

*RANDOM IMPERTINENT QUESTION*

Would you buy a ‘million dollar’ house off a Chinese builder?

Read what the *President of the NZ Chinese Building Industry Association*, Frank Xo, has to say…….

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1086333501677350913
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January 19, 2019 11:26am
Manolo

With friends like these…
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/rowdy-tourists-praise-m%C4%81ori-culture-slam-ruthless-white-kiwis/ar-BBSqYyh

The infamous group of British tourists who caused disruption across the country have praised the Māori culture and slammed “white Kiwis” as ruthless.
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January 19, 2019 12:08pm
- KeaRea
  
  Lol point at laugh at the stupid British people. I wonder if their kids have been raped by Muslims or not. Probably. Going by the ratio of rotherham victims to total female population and the number of like towns. They sure get uppity outside their Caliphate. Best slither back and mind their tongues due to the hate speech laws they fetishize.
  
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  January 19, 2019 1:06pm
  - Jack5
    
    These folk are Pikeys. I hope they have a look at our harness racing, which Travellers/Pikeys like. They race trotters in illegal matches early in the morning on straights of regular roads.
    
    Here’s a great clip from the film Snatch, in which Bradd Pitt played a Traveller/Pikey bareknuckle boxer:
    
    https://youtu.be/kUrnCK4zEPo
    
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    January 19, 2019 1:57pm
Inandout

The difference between US and Russian treatment of Somali pirate scum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NKdAxN5jJI

And the soft cock EU.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGk-ZMSYLKo
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January 19, 2019 12:08pm
- stephieboy
  
  Inandout, even the US can’t get it right according to this poster,
  
  “I prefer the Russian approach of just sinking them straight away without all the lame warning shots.”
  
  A throwback to your favourite wild west movies?
  
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  January 19, 2019 12:19pm
  - starboard
    
    “Faart..Farrttt…fffaaarrrrtttt ”
    
    LOL !
    
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    January 19, 2019 12:27pm
  - Inandout
    
    No steph, A jump forward to 2021 when the West will finally bend to the rule of the people, and that includes the Chuck n Nancy wooden idols. The EU will wither away and there will be Muslim blood on the streets; unfortunately. Alt Left will be just a Venezuela memory.
    
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    January 19, 2019 2:17pm
Manolo

The infamous smoke seller and Argentinian socialist continues to push for the invasion of Europe:
https://www.repubblica.it/vaticano/2019/01/17/news/papa_migranti_arricchimento-216772884/
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January 19, 2019 12:11pm
The Heat

MSM hilarity #7509409995

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12192613

“Refreshingly, Ardern is travelling sans family this time round. This means accompanying news media will be free to concentrate on the substance and outcomes from her meetings rather than banal stories about ‘Baby Neve on tour’.”

I guess they’ll just focus on other equally banal stories. And no one ever forced them to concentrate on “Baby Neve”, they chose to do so.

“Ardern’s next panel is “More than GDP”, which will enable her to promote New Zealand’s first “wellbeing Budget”, which Finance Minister Grant Robertson will unveil this year.”

GDP? Does that stand for “Green-Dacinda-Peters”? That’s so silly – everyone knows Jacinda starts with a J.

” key leaders such as US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping — who are at the centre of the global trade war — will not be in Davos this year.”

Kinda like a music festival where the main acts pull out and you’re left with Dobbyn.
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January 19, 2019 12:14pm
- Jack5
  
  From Jacinderella’s ~~mouth~~ spot at the Cabinet web site:
  
  First on meeting Drunker Juncker and other EU chiefs –
  
  ““I will be using my engagements to enhance New Zealand’s profile as a likeminded partner to the EU across a wide range of issues, including climate change, social policy, trade and our commitment to the rules-based system.”
  
  Second, on what she will be doing at Davos – note her site in part reports Jacinderella in the third person, PR handout style:
  
  She will be participating in a range of panel discussions at Davos including one focused on wellbeing and options beyond GDP with the head of the OECD, the future of the international trading system with the head of the WTO and a panel focused on mental health with His Royal Highness Prince William.
  
  “Our wellbeing approach is generating significant international interest, particularly at a time when the international rules based order is under strain and leaders are grappling with constituencies dissatisfied with the status quo. ”
  
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  January 19, 2019 1:11pm
  - Jack5
    
    The edit function seems to out of action again, so to make this readable:
    
    First on meeting Drunker Juncker and other EU chiefs –
    
    “I will be using my engagements to enhance New Zealand’s profile as a likeminded partner to the EU across a wide range of issues, including climate change, social policy, trade and our commitment to the rules-based system.”
    
    Second, on what she will be doing at Davos – the Cabinet site in part reports Jacinderella in the third person:
    
    She will be participating in a range of panel discussions at Davos including one focused on wellbeing and options beyond GDP with the head of the OECD, the future of the international trading system with the head of the WTO and a panel focused on mental health with His Royal Highness Prince William.
    
    “Our wellbeing approach is generating significant international interest, particularly at a time when the international rules based order is under strain and leaders are grappling with constituencies dissatisfied with the status quo. ”
    
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    January 19, 2019 1:14pm
    - Jack5
      
      If you want to find out about the “well being” stuff that Jacinderella is going to talk on at the Davos talk fest, have a look at this Treasury stuff:
      
      https://treasury.govt.nz/information-and-services/nz-economy/living-standards/our-living-standards-framework/wellbeing-approach-cost-benefit-analysis
      
      If you’re interested enough, that will probably lead you to this downloadable piece:
      
      https://treasury.govt.nz/sites/default/files/2015-07/cba-guide-jul15.pdf
      
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      January 19, 2019 1:18pm
    - waikatogirl
      
      Is Cindy going to inform Prince William that she has promised zero suicides under her watch. I bet he will be impressed. ?
      
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      January 19, 2019 3:01pm
      - Inandout
        
        Our Cinders is concentrating on mental health, an apt subject for our princess. I can just imagine the pressure she is on at the moment with the cafe crowd chattering like crazy.
        
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        January 19, 2019 3:08pm
    - KevOB
      
      I hope she has take some bandages for her to be bloodied nose. Her skin is thicker than Clarks but her intellect shows zero. Among the top fish & Chip shop owners of the world she appears as an upstart.
      Why isn’t the Foreign Minister doing his job or is he too inebriated?
      
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      January 19, 2019 5:29pm
starboard

“Kinda like a music festival where the main acts pull out and you’re left with Dobbyn.”

Then Dobbyn does a runner and replaced with the Topp Twins and darky moa..
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January 19, 2019 12:18pm
rockape

DHBs are preparing for more strikes, no not the one on the 28/9 of this month. It looks like they are going to rolling 3 day strikes to put pressure on DHBs. At the same time the Government is putting pressure on DHBs to stick to budget , OR ELSE! Seems DHBs and patients are getting squeezed in the middle.
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January 19, 2019 12:21pm
starboard

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January 19, 2019 12:25pm
- Tall Man
  
  And only one twin….
  
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  January 19, 2019 12:30pm
wiseowl

Chris Bishop does a lot of good work but after watching coverage of him on Sky News I am scratching my head.
OK.So you can afford an EV.
Not many people can and the whole idea around EV ‘s is really pandering to the UN and the climate change idiots.
Coming across like a greeny is not going to get you support from the majority of kiwis who are not going to move to EV’s.
And the suggestion that petrol driven cars get taxed more is infuriating.How are these EV’s paying their way towards roading?
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January 19, 2019 12:29pm
- MCos
  
  It all depends on your perspective.
  All sorts of road users contribute little or nothing towards their construction & maintenance by way of petrol excise tax. Pedestrians, cyclists, scooter users, joggers.
  On the other hand those people plus electric cars don’t emit exhaust fumes.
  
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  January 19, 2019 12:44pm
- brett68
  
  National isn’t just about old fossils such as yourself.
  Have you heard of Telsa? lots of people think EVs are awesome.
  
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  January 19, 2019 12:56pm
  - wiseowl
    
    You miss the point brett.
    EV’s maybe awesome .It is what is behind the whole idea that needs to be explored.
    Maybe you agree with the climate change scam and think that EV’s are part of the answer to changing the worlds climate.
    I don’t.
    It has nothing to do with being a fossil, it is to do with the facts .
    If you agree with the government taxing petrol vehicles because of ‘pollution’ that’s fine.
    I don’t.
    One needs to think through what the hell is going on and if you can’t see that this EV path is purely a green response to something that is not a problem I am happy to accept that.
    
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    January 19, 2019 1:58pm
    - brett68
      
      Quieter, save money on fuel and less pollution.
      
      http://www.gw.govt.nz/air-pollution-from-cars/
      http://www.eniscuola.net/en/2017/03/22/road-runoff-environmental-pollution/
      
      Try and get past the climate change stuff if you can there’s more to EV’s than just climate change
      
      Also they go like a cut cat
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ7Jlq9mQrY
      
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      January 19, 2019 3:10pm
      - Komata
        
        Brett
        
        Since you seem to be an enthusiast for the concept,a few questions (meant seriously btw):
        
        What is the fully charged range?
        
        How long do such vehicles take to recharge?
        
        How is the necessary ekectricity generated?
        
        What’s a cocky in the middle of the backcountry near Wangamomona (for example) supposed to when the lines are down and his electric 4×4 is out of juice?
        
        These are the sorts of questions the advocates of such vehicles never answer; perhaps you’ll be the first?
        
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        January 19, 2019 3:41pm
      - brett68
        
        What’s a cocky in the middle of the backcountry near Wangamomona (for example) supposed to when the lines are down and his electric 4×4 is out of juice?
        
        Have cockeys never heard of generators?
        Having said that if I was on a farm I’d be running a diesel.
        
        Electrics vehicles don’t equal get rid of everything else.
        
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        January 19, 2019 3:58pm
Steve (North Shore)

Looks like the wheels are starting to turn in the WH. Announcement Sat 3pm local their time.
MAGA. Trump 2020.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-hell-make-major-announcement-saturday-about-partial-shutdown-border-crisis?fbclid=IwAR06NurN1JJMLDmc4BN41pI7yPsVLZ7NTSWlohiuiVYj5PXsadwB8jAB9uc
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January 19, 2019 12:37pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Forget about grounding Nancy, now the left will have something new to bitch about, and so will the TDS wankers here
  
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  January 19, 2019 12:39pm
fernglas

I see Trump will be addressing the great American public from the White House tomorrow about the humanitarian crisis at the border, and the shutdown. State of Emergency, anyone?
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January 19, 2019 12:38pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Yep. Bringing in the tough guys. They have been warned, and we know that Trump does what he says he will do. Showdown. MSM will be like flies on shit
  
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  January 19, 2019 12:42pm
  - Inandout
    
    CNN will go into a state of withheld masturbation.
    
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    January 19, 2019 3:12pm
    - Steve (North Shore)
      
      That is their default setting
      
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      January 19, 2019 3:21pm
  - MCos
    
    The whole shutdown and subsequent bunfight, while it’s a disaster for the people caught in the middle who are not, and will never, get paid, is certainly solving the unemployment problem in the Shock Horror industry.
    
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    January 19, 2019 3:13pm
    - Steve (North Shore)
      
      Fake news. Stop watching CNN etc. Those not getting paid have only missed 1 pay Cheque – Jan 11th. When the Govt is not shut down they will be backpaid. I know it and so do you. How about some facts instead of fiction?
      
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      January 19, 2019 3:19pm
      - Steve Todd
        
        Yes, you’re right, Steve (see https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/trump-signs-bill-giving-federal-workers-back-pay-once-shutdown-ends), but, Ana Kasparian at TWT (on YouTube) told me last night that 78% of federal workers live pay check to pay check. (Before your head explodes, let me just say that those guys exist to combat the MSM; to give their audience the facts. No fake news with them.) Also, I saw elsewhere that even FBI / DEA employees and uniformed police officers are now turning up at foodbanks (in New York City), to get food. The shutdown – 28 days completed in 90 minutes time, at 6.00 p.m. our time – is really hurting. People who are required to keep working, now have to borrow money for transport costs.
        
        If Individual-1 declares a state of emergency tomorrow morning (our time), the above will be the reason. As I said to you last Saturday night, people can’t afford to miss two pay checks; that’s when the proverbial starts to hit the fan. It looks like someone has finally got that through to Trump. Interesting times.
        
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        January 19, 2019 4:29pm
      - MCos
        
        Don’t watch CNN, Fox, or any other American TV news, or Sky News for that matter.
        I don’t subscribe to those channels because it would eat into my cricket viewing.
        
        As it is these an overwhelming plethora of news from all four corners of the globe right here on the iPad.
        It’s just a matter of checking the source rather than taking the stuff at face value.
        
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        January 19, 2019 5:25pm
KeaRea

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/01/capitol-hill-aides-wait-disaster-end-shutdown/580639/

Theodore Beale is so very good.

His reponse to this article was ‘will no one give us a false flag to rid us of this troublesome shutdown?’.

He’s right. I suspect there is going to be a school shooting, or a utilities failure, or a services failure, all of a sudden, thanks to bad Mr Drumph shutting down the govt.

Maybe all these its are afraid of what happens when the gibs stop flowing into the inner cities.

Boxer the horse isn’t to keep working harder
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January 19, 2019 1:03pm
secondcumming

A friendly reminder for the *lycra brigade* out there this weekend……remember:

ONLY 2 A BREAST !!

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1086132333978234883
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January 19, 2019 1:34pm
- Komata
  
  Sc
  
  Unfortunately, it seems that for the Road Lice, ‘Rulz’ is for others, NEVER, EVER, them! I live near a Waikato town that belives it is the ‘Home of Cycling’, and the arrogance and stupidity exhibited by the lycra mob when out in flocks on the road has to be experienced to be believed! They display little observance of even the most basic of road rules and when things do become awkward due to their actions, the abuse hurled is ‘colourful’ and always intended to reinforce the view that the motorist is the cause.
  
  Cycling NZ, supposedly the ‘Controlling’ body is, unfortunately toothless…
  
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  January 19, 2019 3:26pm
MH

well, yer got ya basic brexit people then you got yer Duke of Edinburgh who brakesit then breaksit.
God bless em.
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January 19, 2019 2:02pm
srylands

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/380449/sis-apologises-to-former-green-mp-for-past-treatment-as-a-threat

I think this is a bad precedent. Locke was a threat to New Zealand, especially as an MP. His views, if translated into government policy would have wrecked New Zealand’s international security relationships. Just for a start. There has been no MP in the last 50 years with more dangerous views (although there is one new MP who is running a close second). I think Rebecca Kitteridge is a fine public servant. However I respectfully disagree with her decision.
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January 19, 2019 2:29pm
- MCos
  
  “His views, if translated into government policy”
  
  That’s a mighty big ‘if’
  
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  January 19, 2019 2:56pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Really, finding reality passing you by recently?
    
    We have a coalition with a green tinge…oil & gas gone. Relationship with the US under threat. Plastic bags on the way out. Plastic toys under threat (now that is serious) all mining in conservation ares (31% of NZ) to be phased out.
    
    5 eyes programme under threat.
    
    Perhaps that “if” is now “when”.
    
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    January 19, 2019 5:19pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  You really think that he posed more of a threat than the current MPs who owe their primary allegiance to the Chinese communist party?
  
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  January 19, 2019 7:30pm
  - Johnboy
    
    Utter lies Milkey! Everybody knows that all the NZF MP’s owe their allegiance to Winston and Winston alone! None of the wankers should ever forget that or they will be out on their fuckin ears! 🙂
    
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    January 19, 2019 7:34pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Yes, the inherent corruption of NZ First is a concern. But I’d argue it is a minor concerned when compared to the major sellout to the CCP of Labour and National.
      
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      January 19, 2019 7:58pm
MCos

Tweet of the day

Half of America believes the earth is 6000 years old and 2 of every kind of animal lived within walking distance of Noah’s house, a guy who built a boat the size of an aircraft carrier out of wood. In his backyard. With hand tools.
@Stonekettle
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January 19, 2019 2:35pm
- nasska
  
  Don’t be so cruel.
  
  It’s their fairy tale & it would break their widdle hearts to have to file it with Aesop’s bedtime stories. 🙂
  
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  January 19, 2019 2:42pm
  - stigie
    
    Yes, you just can’t break peoples hearts when 2 penguins arrived from the Antarctica to the Middle East to board Noah’s Ark !~
    
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    January 19, 2019 3:20pm
- Inandout
  
  1.5 billion people worldwide believe gays should be tested for flight on high buildings, and that women are just chattels.
  
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  January 19, 2019 3:14pm
  - nasska
    
    When you drill down a common pattern emerges.
    
    About 95% of the ignorance & shit that plagues the world today had its genesis in the various fantasies of illiterate goat molesters wandering the Middle East.
    
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    January 19, 2019 3:36pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Inandout, the results for your informal bigot’s society straw poll?
    
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    January 19, 2019 3:38pm
    - Tall Man
      
      As a disturbed gay girl, how long would you last on the west bank?
      
      Happy to start a “givealittle” page if you’re keen to give it a go.
      
      ardern is a liar
      
      steffy wants to be oppressed.
      
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      January 19, 2019 5:23pm
    - Inandout
      
      It is all explained in your Kran.
      
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      January 19, 2019 5:50pm
  - MCos
    
    Wrong on both counts.
    Although the anti gay treatment you describe is obviously woefully melodramatic I would suggest an awful lot more people than you suggest, particularly from some of the more primitive corners of society, have an abiding hatred anyone not the same as themselves.
    Similarly the world is well populated with males who consider women inferior &/or chattels and then whine & moan when this is drawn to their attention.
    
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    January 19, 2019 5:14pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Speak for yourself thanks, the rest of us are not interested in your dysfunction.
      
      Christ, you’re as bad as cunliffe.
      
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      January 19, 2019 5:28pm
      - MCos
        
        ‘The rest of us’
        
        Did you have a quick ring round?
        All four and and a half million of ‘us’.
        
        I’m just a bit more modest. I speak for myself and some days I don’t even believe him.
        
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        January 19, 2019 5:58pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Yep, spoke with just over half the population..you know, the men, and we all agree, you are a pratt and the tiny tiny minority of men that do misbehave with women aren’t worth the mention so please stop assuming we all think like you.
        
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        January 19, 2019 6:44pm
  - Tall Man
    
    They did ask for that really didn’t they…
    
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    January 19, 2019 5:20pm
- brett68
  
  And here it is !
  https://arkencounter.com/
  
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  January 19, 2019 3:21pm
  - stephieboy
    
    brett68 , deluded enough to offer a bit of voluntary sandpapering?
    
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    January 19, 2019 3:39pm
- Morrissey
  
  So does this zombie.
  
  https://www.radionz.co.nz/assets/news_crops/67446/eight_col_Bridges.jpg?1539564502
  
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  January 19, 2019 6:04pm
kowtow

There’s that diversity dividend thingy again.

Germany.

‘Authorities said they were targeting family crime clans of Arabic background in the northwestern state. According to the mass-circulation Bild daily, police are focusing on Arabic crime syndicates, especially those with Lebanese background.’

https://www.dw.com/en/police-in-western-germany-launch-massive-raids-against-criminal-clans/a-47062084
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January 19, 2019 3:20pm
- DigNap15
  
  It just shows that if Europe had not let these scum in then they would be able to save millions on surveillance. monitoring and security at games venues etc etc.
  
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  January 19, 2019 4:05pm
Cobolt24

China Plans $1 Trillion Buying Spree to Reduce US Trade Deficit to zero by 2024

https://www.ccn.com/bye-bye-trade-war-china-plans-1-trillion-buying-spree-to-reduce-us-trade-deficit/
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January 19, 2019 3:45pm
- DigNap15
  
  More proof that Trumps methods do work.
  And Kim Jung Un wants another meeting!
  Kicking the can down the road Obama style does not work.
  Build the wall and make America great again.
  
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  January 19, 2019 4:07pm
  - Morrissey
    
    DickNip, you continue to be possibly the stupidest poster on this board.
    
    https://media1.tenor.com/images/aa5ebe6d2dd3b74882337bb6948693d4/tenor.gif?itemid=5588971
    
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    January 19, 2019 5:28pm
  - stoptheboats
    
    Yeah MAGA ! and Trumpys tactics to derail Granny Pelosi @82 plane trip is an absolute classic, I’d have loved to see the Dems faces when that bus returned from the airport?
    
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    January 19, 2019 10:59pm
Morrissey

About Time

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/380449/sis-apologises-to-former-green-mp-for-past-treatment-as-a-threat
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January 19, 2019 5:10pm
- Tall Man
  
  Old news but still a waste of space.
  
  Much like yourself and locke relly.
  
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  January 19, 2019 5:14pm
- Johnboy
  
  Oh bollocks! His whole family have been a commie threat to us normal folks in Aotearoa since the Bolshevik revolution!
  You only have to look at the purse lipped little prick to realise he’s a threat to humanity! 🙂
  
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  January 19, 2019 5:16pm
  - Morrissey
    
    Democratic dissent, parliamentarians speaking their mind, free discussion: don’tcha HATE all that!
    
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    January 19, 2019 5:24pm
- big bruv
  
  Is that the same Keith Locke who is on record as being a huge fan of Pol Pot?
  
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  January 19, 2019 6:16pm
  - Morrissey
    
    You silly old fool, Locke soon saw how evil the Khmer Rouge were and condemned them.
    
    The U.S. and U.K. governments, OTOH, supported the Khmer Rouge years after the revelations of their genocidal reign. And so, to our eternal shame, did our National Party government…..
    
    http://www.nzjh.auckland.ac.nz/docs/1999/NZJH_33_2_05.pdf
    
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    January 19, 2019 6:27pm
    - oob
      
      You silly old fool, Locke soon saw how evil the Khmer Rouge were and condemned them.
      
      Citation please, I find that difficult to believe. Unless of course his denunciation was 20 years later in the 1990s rather than contemporaneously.
      
      The U.S. and U.K. governments..
      
      To this day the Khmer Rouge are the only government in exile to ever occupying a seat at the United Nations. This was at the behest of the Jewnited States who were still smarting from their defeat in Vietnam.
      
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      January 19, 2019 6:46pm
      - mikenmildagain
        
        I’d uptick this comment if it weren’t for your crazy attempt to blame Western support for the Khmer Rouge on the Jews…
        
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        January 19, 2019 7:15pm
      - Morrissey
        
        “Jewnited States”?????
        
        Come on oob, that sort of crap makes you sound like Mike Hosking or Leighton Smith. I had you pegged as an intelligent and nice guy.
        
        Come on now.
        
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        January 19, 2019 7:27pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Citation please,
        I think folks are referring to an article Locke wrote in 1975…
        Michael Cullen tabled it in Parliament .
        http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/323890/Cullen-almost-reduces-Green-MP-to-tears
        
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        January 19, 2019 7:35pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Thanks Maggy. Yes, Cullen tried to silence Keith Locke’s criticism of the Clark-Cullen maladministration’s human rights outrages by tabling that article, written just after the Khmer Rouge had taken power and before anyone knew how terrible they were.
        
        In contrast to Keith Locke’s naive but short-lived endorsement, the U.S., U.K. and New Zealand regimes supported the Khmer Rouge years after its horrific crimes were exposed to the world.
        
        http://www.nzjh.auckland.ac.nz/docs/1999/NZJH_33_2_05.pdf
        
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        January 19, 2019 8:06pm
  - oob
    
    Is that the same Keith Locke who is on record as being a huge fan of Pol Pot?
    
    You’re referring to the article Cambodia Liberated: Victory for Humanity which Locke wrote for, I think, Socialist Action.
    
    Locke is thoroughly contemptible but “supporting Pol Pot” is an unfair criticism as no-one knew who Pol Pot was at the time. I’d suggest letting this particular accusation go in favour of the many legitimate criticisms of Locke available.
    
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    January 19, 2019 6:43pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Nope, he deserves all he gets and then some.
      
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      January 19, 2019 6:56pm
    - Morrissey
      
      Having just acknowledged that Locke, aside from that impetuously written article for Socialist Action, did not support Pol Pot, you then go on to claim he “is thoroughly contemptible.”
      
      Could you back that up with some evidence, please? Otherwise your comments seem as ill informed and crazed as a John Banks speech.
      
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      January 19, 2019 7:31pm
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        Locke is an arsewipe, just like Morris Moron.
        End of story.
        
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        January 19, 2019 7:48pm
      - Swifty
        
        What a slimy hypocrite you are Morrissey.
        
        You slur without evidence frequently and then when challenged evade the question.
        
        “Otherwise your comments seem as ill informed and crazed…..” – that sums a lot of your comments perfectly and for exactly this reason.
        
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        January 19, 2019 7:50pm
      - Morrissey
        
        The Cap’n and Swifty. Ha! The heavy arsenal is out this evening, I see.
        
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        January 19, 2019 7:59pm
      - nasska
        
        …..”and crazed as a John Banks speech”…..
        
        Impossible! Nothing & no one has ever approached that degree of inanity & lack of self awareness.
        
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        January 19, 2019 8:21pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Although Cap’n Mainwaring often comes close.
        
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        January 19, 2019 8:31pm
      - nasska
        
        Transcript of John Banks on Radio Pacific Sunday 14 April 1996:
        
        …..”This is state funded genocide and I am compiling a list of all the doctors in all the hospitals up and down the country that commit these murders every morning of the week and dump these babies either in the waste disposal unit in the hospital or into a ‘kleensac’ and I am going to release their names publicly so that you’ll be able to walk down the street “That’s a killer!””……
        
        From John Banks’ paternity case in August 2017:
        
        ……”Ms Mayes said her relationship with Mr Banks went awry after she fell pregnant. She says he wanted her to get an abortion, and gave her drugs from the pharmaceautical company that he worked at.”……
        
        The child was conceived mid 1969.
        
        John Banks could walk under a snake’s belly carrying both his faces while wearing stilts.
        
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        January 19, 2019 8:57pm
      - Morrissey
        
        Banks was a far better radio host than he was a parliamentarian. And he was one of the worst radio hosts of all time.
        
        Still, it has to be admitted, he was way better than Leighton Smith.
        
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        January 19, 2019 9:01pm
      - nasska
        
        John Banks was a Godnutter & a social conservative, neither of which normally figure very high on my list of life forms.
        
        There are, however, a few who are far worse & he is an exemplary model of the creeps…..
        
        ……fucking hypocrites!
        
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        January 19, 2019 9:16pm
      - Jack5
        
        .. but, but, but …
        
        John Banks and his wife took a young child out of a Russian orphanage.
        
        Two children were waving to the boy, and upset.
        
        When John Banks found they were the boy’s brother and sister, Banks adopted the whole family.
        
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        January 19, 2019 9:54pm
big bruv

If anybody doubts that female sport is a joke have a look at the obese (she’s way past being’fat’) Williams sister and the way she is able to dominate the female game. It’s laughable.
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January 19, 2019 5:38pm
- Morrissey
  
  You will, of course, now challenge Serena Williams to a game and thrash her, just to show how superior males like you are, big luv.
  
  Actually, I suspect she’d beat you 6-0, 6-0 if she had one hand tied behind her back and let you have an unlimited number of faults.
  
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  January 19, 2019 5:54pm
  - Morrissey
    
    Having noted that she would blow that lump of lard big luv off the court, I want it to be made clear that this writer, i.e. moi, is not a fan of Serena Williams…..
    
    https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/01/serena-williams-was-booed-at-roland.html
    
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    January 19, 2019 5:57pm
  - big bruv
    
    Morrissey
    You’re so busy summoning up faux outrage that you totally missed the point.
    Mind you, that is so typical of the left.
    
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    January 19, 2019 6:11pm
    - Swifty
      
      He’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
      
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      January 19, 2019 6:16pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Can I pick the hand?
    
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    January 19, 2019 6:38pm
- wiseowl
  
  An Aussie cartoonist did a great cartoon of her packing a sad .
  Now his family won’t talk to him.
  I think there’s a story in the ‘Australian’ today.
  
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  January 19, 2019 7:20pm
Inandout

Cohen talks rubbish it has (unsurprisingly) been established. Go the Don.
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January 19, 2019 6:04pm
- rangitoto
  
  Even Mueller’s office have rubbished the buzzfeed crap the MSN were running with.
  
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  January 19, 2019 6:10pm
  - Inandout
    
    Not surprised then that many folk look askance at the MSM. Buzzfeed itself has major financial problems it seems.
    
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    January 19, 2019 7:50pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Makes me wonder why an astute businessman such as Trump employed him in such a sensitive role for so many years.
  
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  January 19, 2019 8:01pm
Swifty

Catching up with Kimbo at my place tomorrow afternoon – we’ll walk the estate 🙂 and perhaps down a cold one.
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January 19, 2019 6:08pm
- Tall Man
  
  Or three?
  
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  January 19, 2019 6:21pm
- nasska
  
  Go easy on him Swifty. He’s a gentle soul with a delusional belief in the Great Sky Daddy.
  
  Unfortunately he can no longer handle the rough & tumble of KB GD. 🙂
  
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  January 19, 2019 6:22pm
- holysheet
  
  Wish him all the best from me.
  I miss our banter, even if he was a silly old prick
  
  *holysheet-school-of-wilful-and-capricious-spelling
  
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  January 19, 2019 6:35pm
Swifty

A couple of Aussies shooting long range – this vid is .50 cal over two miles, for those interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PkfK9xiHN8
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January 19, 2019 6:30pm
Swifty

There you have it – beer is a lifesaver…

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/110034820/man-pumped-with-15-cans-of-beer-to-save-his-life
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January 19, 2019 6:39pm
- nasska
  
  …..”a blood alcohol level 1119 times higher than the legal limit”…..
  
  Pfft! Some of our Xtian conservatives would beat that when they make their first comments about the evils of marijuana every morning. 🙂
  
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  January 19, 2019 6:49pm
  - Swifty
    
    Heh.
    
    I’m going back into the Avocado business nasska, but in pots this time and as a bit of an experiment.
    
    I’ve got two to go in tomorrow.
    
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    January 19, 2019 6:56pm
nasska

No wonder stephieboy has been reinvigorated of late. He took the family for a holiday: 🙂

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/109942806/doc-investigating-after-family-took-pet-goat-into-restricted-cave
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January 19, 2019 6:54pm
Johnboy

Nothing new about that. Everytime I get pissed on meths and wake up feeling fucked I always down a bottle of scotch to clear up the liver! 🙂
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January 19, 2019 6:55pm
Johnboy

Hey are any of you folk going to watch the Going South thing on 4 tonight?
Even more so are any of you going to record the whole 12 hour version starting at 1:30 tomorrow? 🙂
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January 19, 2019 7:28pm
Jack5

Obsequious Andrew to crawl to UN hypocrites …

Andrew Little on Monday will face the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva for the five-yearly review of New Zealand’s human rights record.

On behalf of New Zealand, Little will in effect kowtow to a council whose members include Saudi Arabia, China, Somalia, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Qatar, Cuba, Senegal (condemned by Amnesty as well as the US State Department), and Burakino Faso (which has problems with torture and child marriage).

Little says of the review:

“The findings of the review are not legally binding, but are sometimes cited as persuasive in the courts and the Waitangi Tribunal.”

Our courts listen to Third World dictators?

https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/andrew-little-lead-delegation-un-human-rights-review
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January 19, 2019 9:01pm
- stoptheboats
  
  Are there any govt Ministers actually left in NZ this month? Seems to be a mass exodus at the taxpayers expense.
  Little should be staying at home organising the Great Pike River Exhumation Experiment, which is further delayed….
  
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  January 19, 2019 11:12pm
Jack5

Usually a report like this can fire up the pro-cannabis clan, but given its after 9pm on a Saturday, they may well be zonked by now.

Another scientific warning has been given on potential problems from marijuana use.

Scientists have found that smoking as few as one or two joints before the age of 14 can alter a person’s brain structure.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2019/01/14/smoking-cannabis-just-teenager-enough-alter-brain-structure/
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January 19, 2019 9:13pm
- nasska
  
  Cannabis is still safer for teenagers than the Catholic Church.
  
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  January 19, 2019 9:21pm
  - Jack5
    
    Would it liven things up if they burned cannabis in those incense-burning pots Catholic and Orthodox priests swing on chains – I think they are called thuribles?
    
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    January 19, 2019 9:29pm
    - nasska
      
      Possibly. At least it might numb the pain of being bent over the altar table & sodomised! 🙂
      
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      January 19, 2019 9:33pm
- stoptheboats
  
  A few years ago I went on a grog rehab course with some druggies who were trying to stay clean for 2 weeks. Anyone that thinks marijuana is all good needs help,the effect on those peoples lives was horrific- I heard stuff that I wouldn’t repeat on KB. .
  
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  January 19, 2019 11:18pm
Jack5

Quiet on Kiwiblog tonight.

I think I’ll be off to an old Springsteen concert in Leipzig.

https://youtu.be/L-Ds-FXGGQg
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