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Macacacacarten spouts his weekly tripe, that passes as political analysis:
The opening salvos of the election were well and truly launched this week. Phil Goff was out of the blocks first with an excellent repositioning economic statement aimed directly at his party’s core vote.
This makes good strategic sense. Labour has obviously decided any personality contest between John Key and Goff is a lost cause.
Instead, it has launched an election framework with three main economic points of difference with National.
Dishonest journalism at its worst. According to the warmist hack Kraemer, the floods are a proven a consequence of AGW. If she says so, it must be true.
Australia Raises a Tax to Cover the Costs of Climate Change
Fri Jan 28, 2011 2:11pm EST
by Susan Kraemer
Australia’s new Prime Minister Julia Gillard has just levied a tax to pay for the catastrophic flooding of the last two months that drowned areas larger than France and Germany combined.
The Australian floods temporarily shut the coal mines that are most responsible for climate change but they also washed away the rail lines to carry that coal to market, and damaged bridges and roads and destroyed thousands of buildings across three major states. Total damage is estimated at over $10 billion.
The Australian government itself faces another $5.6 billion in flood costs. Gillard’s new tax will run for two years and flood victims are exempted.
The tax brings up the question: just how are nations in the future going to pay for the increase in frequency of catastrophic damage as the result of climate collapse?
Fascinating chart here of Egyptian Internet activity in the lead up and immediate aftermath of their uprising. “Drops like a stone” is an accurate description!
I also like the headline to a blog comment on the moronic Vice President of the US, whose many comments would surely now put him into a category of stupidity far exceeding that of Dan Quayle. Here’s Biden on Mubarak:
…I would not refer to him as a dictator.
You can read the rest at ‘Whose Bright Idea Was It to Send Joe Biden Out to Talk About Egypt?’. Actually that’s not a snarky headline, it’s the question that one of the writers at the magazine Foreign Policy asked (the answer is: the people who saw the alternative as President Obama).
The followers of the evil “religion of peace” in medieval Afghanistan doing what they do best:
Taliban Spokesman: ‘Anyone who knows about Islam knows that stoning is in the Koran, and that it is Islamic law. There are people who call it inhuman – but in doing so they insult the Prophet. They want to bring foreign thinking to this country’
Oh, and Phil, here’s some balance to Matt McCarten’s myopic socialist worldview:
Finally John Key has staked out a real point of difference between the National Government and Helen Clark’s regime.
Key’s decision to float the prospect that National will sell down the Government’s 100 per cent stake in a raft of blue chip state assets if it wins the election is long overdue.
It is high time more tangible steps were taken to build an “ownership society” and slay the ideological dragon that says private ownership of major companies is wicked.
A “dedicated”mother and sufferer of silly first name syndrome (thick and criminal are also applicable):
Georgia Mom Gets Son, His Friends to Help Rob a Bank
Jan. 28: Surveillance video allegedly catches a mom and three teens robbing a Georgia bank.
Three teenagers are facing armed robbery charges after the mother of one of the boys allegedly checked them out of school so they could help her rob a bank.
Authorities say 35-year-old Tawander Simmons of Stone Mountain checked out her son, 17-year-old Benny Brice and two other boys from Stephenson High School on Friday morning. Police say the four then robbed a Wells Fargo in Lilburn.
A member of the underclass complains, but I reckon the cops did her a big favour!
A woman is suing the police over allegations a female officer cut body piercings from her with a boltcutter after she had been arrested.
The Christchurch resident, who is in her 30s, claims five piercings were cut from her, including one from her genitalia.
She has accused the policewoman of unlawful sexual connection, assault, breach of the Bill of Rights and abuse of her position.
“…Speaking frankly, aren’t we all starting to get a bit concerned that the National-led Government seems asleep at the wheel when it comes to dealing with our snow-balling debt?
Yes, there are working groups galore which will produce recommendations that the National Party will campaign on at the next election.
But there’s plenty an action-minded John Key could get on with before the election rolls round.
Here’s my Top 10: This list does not include asset sales or “co-ownership”, as the in-term now goes.
Nor does it include axing the DPB, or other beneficiary imposts.
But most fair-minded New Zealanders would surely agree to the following…” (cont..)
So very glad I didn’t go to bed at the end of the first set.
Didn’t realise that Li Na was that old,
Great final and good result for “Aussie Kim”.
Jees that review technology is something els isn’t it, so quick and accepted so widely.
IV2. Selling key assets may bring in lots of cash for the socilaists to waste again but how about selling assets that the taxpayer doesn’t need to be involveed in. e.g. Coal mines, meat inspection, school buildings, hospital buildings, airports, ports, insurance companies,aka known as kiwisaver, acc, EQC, met service, the list is bloody endless. Housing. why should govt. be involved in owning houses?
During a recent flood in a small town, a young girl and a boy were perched on top of their
house. As they sat watching articles float by in the water, they noticed an old hat go past.
Suddenly, the hat turned and came back, then turned around and went
downstream. After it had gone some distance, again it turned and came back.
They watched as it did this a number of times.
“Do you see that hat?” said the girl in amazement. “First it goes
downstream, then turns around and comes back, then it goes back downstream
and then it comes back again.”
“Oh, that’s nothing, it’s only my dad,” replied the boy. “This morning my
Mum said that come hell or high water, he had to mow the lawn today.”
A question for Phil; do you REALLY go to the library to use the internet, or have you been bullshitting us all along? I’ve never come across a public library that was open at 5.04am, which is when your first post at Whoar went up this morning …
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You can ignore me all you like, it does not change a thing, I will be demanding that you tell me how many jobs you have applied for on a daily basis until you join the workforce and stop stealing money from hard working Kiwis.
BTW..have you apologised to the Chemist who you terrorised?
@ big bruv; of course he hasn’t. People like Phil don’t believe that they have anything to apologise for. They can justify anything. I wonder how Phil would feel if he was mugged by an armed P-addict.
January 30th, 2011 at 8:35 am
i see my one-term-john prediction is gaining some currency in the mainstream media
Phool I have never seen a correct prediction from you yet. For someone who claims to have a political degree (probably just another of your many lies) you are always way off the mark.
Further, who on KB gives a fuck what you predict. You are a self confessed druggie with an IQ in common sense and decency of a doornob. In fact a doornob has a more intellectual IQ as well.
We all realise you only post on KB to whore your own unpopular and unread blog.
Perhaps if you applied a bit of astuteness and commonsense to your own blog it may become popular, but to waste your time whoreing your lunatic blog KB is an effort of futility.
- she was also the progenitor of a sweeping “moral philosophy” that justifies the privilege of the wealthy -
- and demonizes not only the slothful, undeserving poor – but the lackluster middle-classes as well.
Her books provided wide-ranging parables of “parasites,” “looters” and “moochers” using the levers of government to steal the fruits of her heroes’ labor.
In the real world, however, Rand herself received Social Security payments and Medicare benefits under the name of Ann O’Connor (her husband was Frank O’Connor).
As Michael Ford of Xavier University’s Center for the Study of the American Dream wrote -
- “In the end, Miss Rand was a hypocrite – but she could never be faulted for failing to act in her own self-interest.”
Her ideas about government intervention in some idealized pristine marketplace -
- serve as the basis for so much of the conservative rhetoric we see today..”
Conservatives were around 100 years before Ayn Rand was a sparkle in her father’s eye. The men who wrote the American Constitution, the greatest freedom document in the history of the world, had never heard of her.
What are you on about phool? If Rand morally objected to paying into medicare and social security, but the government forcibly took the money off her in taxes anyway, then she is morally justified to get her own money back by collecting on the schemes. This is actually mentioned in the source article in the part you don’t quote. Honest as ever eh phool?
Getting *someone else’s* money is the morally objectionble thing. Obviously not a problem for you though phool. The concept of “her own money” is clearly unfamiliar to you, since you’re always “taking” and never “giving”. Just like in prison!
pentwig – I assume he’s retardedly trying to spell “amygdala”. One of many parts of the brain no longer functioning in phool due to decades of drug abuse.
It’s General Debate so I can bring this immaterial matter up.
My nephew’s “hop-on” has just given birth to a son. The weight was not quoted in grammes. It was noted as 7.15 pounds. That is sort of metric as old fashioned people like me would refer to it as 7lb 2.4oz.
Old fashioned people refer to a partner as a hop-on. They hop on, then they hop off.
“..What are you on about phool? If Rand morally objected to paying into medicare and social security, but the government forcibly took the money off her in taxes anyway, then she is morally justified to get her own money back by collecting on the schemes. ..”
is that the same justification you and others use when you ‘adjust yr affairs’..into trusts/w.h.y…
..to ‘qualify’ for working-for-families govt-handouts..(y’know..!..those things you are so opposed to/rail against..?
d’ya pause yr rantings for awhile…?…
…as you trouser the folding…?
..it’s quite fascinating the ideological-justification loop-de-loops you all do on this..eh…?
opposed to…but ‘arranging affairs’..to qualify…
..for money you don’t really need…(eh..?..bloody-hands-bob..?)
…all the while railing at poverty-stricken sole-parents..and the like..eh..?
so much cant/hpocrisy..you could almost bottle it…eh..?
b.tw….many spinal infuries/back-problems arising from such a testing movement/convolution…?
Hey Phil; instead of making lots of long, rambling, incoherent statements, why don’t you answer some of the questions that poeple have asked you over the last couple of days?
Auckland Mayor Len Brown’s office has rejected the suggestion his pledge to take public transport to work is off the rails.
Brown was joined by reporters on a train from Papatoetoe to Britomart on January 17 after releasing a statement saying he would “start taking the train to work on a regular basis as part of his commitment to public transport”.
On his Twitter feed that morning, the mayor urged other Aucklanders to do the same.
“Great morning to be taking the train – I’m heading in from Papatoetoe to the city. Give the train a go, Auckland.”
He pushed a similar message on his Facebook page: “Took the train in this morning, excellent trip. Beautiful weather, train nearly full, service running on schedule. Give it a go, Auckland.”
Brown has travelled from his Totara Park home by car every day since.
New Zealand faces the embarrassing prospect of being forced to host Fiji military coup leader Frank Bainimarama as a VIP during the Rugby World Cup, even though he is blacklisted from entering this country.
And it’s possible Bainimarama’s convicted killer brother-in-law, Francis Kean, could also attend the tournament if he is successful in staging his own coup and takes over as chairman of the Fiji Rugby Union.
Both men would be hosted at the taxpayer’s expense, and their VIP treatment is expected to cost around $45,000. Under International Rugby Board rules, the host nation pays for two officials from each participating nation to attend.
If Kean becomes chairman, Bainimarama is expected to become the FRU president, a position he held in 2003 when he attended the RWC in Australia. He has vowed to be at the 2011 event.
In 2009 the Labour Department confirmed that exemptions to the coup blacklist would be granted to protect multilateral sporting tournaments hosted by New Zealand, such as the Wellington Sevens and the Rugby World Cup.
Kean and Bainimarama would be hobnobbing with guests including British royals, prime ministers including John Key, Australia’s Julia Gillard, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and possibly Britain’s David Cameron.
Meanwhile, International Rugby Board top brass arrive in Suva tomorrow, hoping to fend off a coup that could install Fiji navy commander Kean as head of the rugby union.
Kean was convicted of manslaughter after punching a man at the wedding of Bainimarama’s daughter in 2007. He was sentenced to 18 months’ jail but was kept on full pay behind bars for three months, released and reappointed to head the navy.
Sorry about the longish quote, from stuff.co.nz – but where now are all the people who condemned Government interaction with Warner Bros as ‘giving away the country’s sovereignty?
If the Americans and British are involved in the Egyptian riots, if they are, then who do they have in mind as a replacement, and what’s the price they’ve asked of him or her in return for installing them?
A capital gains tax is part of the Green Party’s solution to reduce New Zealand’s debt.
Co-leader Russel Norman has included it in what he calls the “smart green economics” he’s outlining in the party’s State of the Planet speech today.
“The Greens are advocating a capital gains tax, excluding the family home, because we think that’s an essential component of the tax system which is present in just about every developed country apart from New Zealand” he told Newstalk ZB. “(It) would make a significant impact in fixing up the governments books.”
Mr Norman says a capital gains tax would bring in over four billion dollars a year, enough to make a significant reduction to debt, and is also advocating capping government borrowing.
Reid – I’m guessing they aren’t backing a Taleban-style Muslim Brotherhood regime. Word is that much of the protesters are affiliated with Western Culture more than the MB. We shall see….
Greens push capital gains tax to reduce NZ debt
10:32 AM Sunday Jan 30, 2011
A capital gains tax is part of the Green Party’s solution to reduce New Zealand’s debt.
Co-leader Russel Norman has included it in what he calls the “smart green economics” he’s outlining in the party’s State of the Planet speech today.
“The Greens are advocating a capital gains tax, excluding the family home, because we think that’s an essential component of the tax system which is present in just about every developed country apart from New Zealand”, he told Newstalk ZB.
“(It) would make a significant impact in fixing up the governments books.”
Mr Norman says a capital gains tax would bring in over four billion dollars a year, enough to make a significant reduction to debt, and is also advocating capping government borrowing.
How about reducing the fucking Govt. spending on the unnecessary Wussel.
David Kato was brutally murdered in uganda for the “sin” of being homosexual. He was tarhetted by newspapers and christians.
Scuffles erupted at the funeral of a murdered Ugandan gay rights activist after the presiding priest charged that homosexuality is ”evil and will be punished by God”.
”You must repent. Even the animals know the difference between a male and a female,” Anglican priest Thomas Musoke told mourners at the funeral of David Kato.
Yeah they wouldn’t be involved with the MB at all, Tim. I mean, nah. So what might it be. I wonder if they need a shift in Egypt’s attitude toward Iran? I don’t know, I’m only guessing. What else could it be, unless it was to destroy the MB-Al-Qaida in Egypt, that’s another possibility.
Yes, even at his funeral god’s minions cannot restrain themselves from the hatred engendered by their religion.
Jack you might care to reflect on the fact different countries of the Anglican church have different policies on this and that including on homosexuality and that this phenomena might actually be reflective of a national identity thing, rather than a religious thing. But I know when you’re a fanatic about something, everything points in one direction, doesn’t it.
Phool, it’s wrong to take someone else’s money to contribute to a scheme they don’t want and there is no ‘opt out’. If someone has taken yours for such a scheme, you are justified in using that same scheme to get your own money back. Not really complicated is it phool? What is wrong is lazy and unintelligent people who contribute nothing ( hi phool!) thinking they are entitled to the money that clever, talented, hardworking people earn . Only a leftard like you would consider someone wanting to keeping what is rightfully theirs as an “ideological loop de loop”.
Luckily I’ll soon be back on my own PC where RIP makes phool’s nonsense vanish into the air like so much fart gas.
Apparently, Mickey Mouse McCully has just said that Dear Old Uncle Frank won’t be allowed in to watch the Rugby world Cup.
He still gets Sky of course.
Why is it that we continue to interfere in another countries politics?
Ego must be the reason, can’t think of any other.
McCully just doesn’t like tropical beaches maybe?
Still Frank keep the door open cause we all like to come and don’t need socialists to tell us what our holiday plans should be.
Shanghai and Peking don’t interest many.
Phool you’d better hurry along back to your site, someone just commented on your blog !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh my god things are really humming along now for whore.co.nz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Onwards and upwards !!!!! Next step, knocking off the huffington post!!!
Nah, of course I’m just winding you up phool, it was 18 days ago.
VIKING:…….I am of the view that the Greens and Labour have held a joint election strategy meeting. A Capital Gains Tax is the only means by which Goof can pay for removing GST from Food and declaring $5,000 tax free as well as other promises. The policy will appeal most to Greens Voters so they will be at the forefront of softening up the Public to accept it.
“scientists ‘invent artificial petrol’ that could cost just 90p per GALLON…artificial petrol that costs 19p per litre could be on forecourts in as little as three years.”
That’s great news wat, and potentially solves one stumbling block toward a hydrogen economy – distribution/infrastructure. However, the bigger problem remains – hydrogen production, specifically, the energy deficit…
Kindly desist from inflicting even more advertising than is already customarily present in these columns that are normally devoted to contributor’s comments.
I refer particularly to the ads (?) for Summer City and Live Soul.
You may be the web-meister, but don’t forget that many others regard this medium as a public service and object to the over-commercialisation of its space. The edges and top of the pages are quite adequate for advertising purposes. So far and no further!
(Having blogged this I am quite aware that – being the umpty-umpth comment today – my remarks have little, if any, chance of being seen by said web-meister, much less of having any effect.)
“You may be the web-meister, but don’t forget that many others regard this medium as a public service and object to the over-commercialisation of its space.”
It doesn’t matter a flying shit if you regard this as “public space”, it is private property owned by DPF and it’s his business how he pays for it. If you don’t like it, there are plenty of other blogs you can go to. Phool’s blog has no advertising, but it probably doesn’t cost him much to maintain a site with essentially zero traffic, no original content and typically two user comments a month.
I must say, I am enjoying watching anti-Western leftards try and spin a possible Islamist MB regime in Egypt as something not that bad. “It’s not so unlike the Christian right!” they cry, totally ignoring the fact that A) they keep screaming fascism whenever they discuss the subject in any minor way and B) Islamism as practised in Iran has been a barrel of laughs and opportunity for all there. Oh wait, hang on. So, either the Christian right (who I am not major fans of, might I add) is really not that bad or…they’re lying.
Generation Y women losing ‘female’ skills such as cooking, ironing and sewing
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OUT OF THE KITCHEN: Young women wielding cooking equipment is an increasingly rare sight. Source: HWT Image Library
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BACK TO THE FUTURE: The traditional domestic skills of women, often stereotyped as those of the ’50s housewife, risk being lost by today’s Generation Y. Source: Getty Images
BASIC “female” skills are becoming endangered with fewer young women able to iron a shirt, cook a roast chicken or hem a skirt.
Just as more modern men are unable to complete traditional male tasks, new research shows Generation Y women can’t do the chores their mothers and grandmothers did daily.
Only 51 per cent of women aged under 30 can cook a roast compared with 82 per cent of baby boomers.
Baking lamingtons is a dying art with 20 per cent of Gen Y capable of whipping up the Aussie classic, down from 45 per cent for previous generations.
Social researcher Mark McCrindle said: “Women of today tend to be busier, juggling more roles, and are quite prepared to compromise a bit of the homemade just to save some time.
“They also have a lot more disposable income compared with their mums and their grandmothers so buying a cake mix or lamingtons ready-made is not a big deal.”
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Traditional skills outside the kitchen are falling by the wayside with Gen Y women woefully behind their older counterparts, the study by McCrindle Research found. Only 23 per cent can grow a plant from a cutting when 78 per cent of older women say this is a breeze.
“We live in a throw-away culture where, rather than repair something, we will buy a new one, even if it is just a matter of darning holes or sewing on buttons,” Mr McCrindle said.
“As such, many women have lost these skills. If we do want something repaired, women today are more likely to take it to their local drycleaner because they are busy and can afford it.”
Driving manual cars is also on the decline with just 40 per cent of women under 30 possessing this skill compared to 71 per cent of older women.
The results tally with a recent survey, which found that Australian men from Gen Y were more comfortable changing a nappy than changing a tyre.
But Gen Y women are taking on other skills.
As well as working full or part-time, they are doing tasks previously done by men.
More than 70 per cent of women under 30 say they often take out the bins, 77 per cent mow the lawn and 70 per cent claim they wash the car.
# Hurf Durf (2,487) Says:
January 30th, 2011 at 8:31 pm
Non-affiliated, actually. I could happily vote for any other party which most serves my rational self-interest.
This statement could be interpreted in a number of ways, but these are the two obvious interpretations:
1. Hurf is such an arsehole who couldn’t give a shit about anyone else that he sucks his own cock rather than spend some time with a chick who would then happily service him. Of course, maybe his Mum does that for him, anyway.
2. Hurf understands that it is a small planet and we are all in in this together, so it is in his rational self interest to consider others, utilising his own (or his parents) excess wealth to alleviate the deprivations of others.
I choose 1.
What do you guys and gals choose?
[DPF: I choose 10 demerits. Make your point without references to sucking cock]
@Viking
That may or may not be bad news, it depends how valuable those skills will be in the future… I expect that traditional ‘male’ skills such as hunting, or DIY skills such as building a deck or changing the oil in a car may soon be lost too.
And speaking of utter berks, remember when the MFM sold Joe BFD Biden as “Barack Obama’s foreign policy brains trust?” They were as wrong then as they now.
January 30th, 2011 at 8:11 am
Macacacacarten spouts his weekly tripe, that passes as political analysis:
The opening salvos of the election were well and truly launched this week. Phil Goff was out of the blocks first with an excellent repositioning economic statement aimed directly at his party’s core vote.
This makes good strategic sense. Labour has obviously decided any personality contest between John Key and Goff is a lost cause.
Instead, it has launched an election framework with three main economic points of difference with National.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10702942
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 8:17 am
Dishonest journalism at its worst. According to the warmist hack Kraemer, the floods are a proven a consequence of AGW. If she says so, it must be true.
Australia Raises a Tax to Cover the Costs of Climate Change
Fri Jan 28, 2011 2:11pm EST
by Susan Kraemer
Australia’s new Prime Minister Julia Gillard has just levied a tax to pay for the catastrophic flooding of the last two months that drowned areas larger than France and Germany combined.
The Australian floods temporarily shut the coal mines that are most responsible for climate change but they also washed away the rail lines to carry that coal to market, and damaged bridges and roads and destroyed thousands of buildings across three major states. Total damage is estimated at over $10 billion.
The Australian government itself faces another $5.6 billion in flood costs. Gillard’s new tax will run for two years and flood victims are exempted.
The tax brings up the question: just how are nations in the future going to pay for the increase in frequency of catastrophic damage as the result of climate collapse?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/01/28/idUS194685301720110128
Hat Tip: Crusader Rabbit
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 8:30 am
Fascinating chart here of Egyptian Internet activity in the lead up and immediate aftermath of their uprising. “Drops like a stone” is an accurate description!
I also like the headline to a blog comment on the moronic Vice President of the US, whose many comments would surely now put him into a category of stupidity far exceeding that of Dan Quayle. Here’s Biden on Mubarak:
You can read the rest at ‘Whose Bright Idea Was It to Send Joe Biden Out to Talk About Egypt?’. Actually that’s not a snarky headline, it’s the question that one of the writers at the magazine Foreign Policy asked (the answer is: the people who saw the alternative as President Obama).
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 8:35 am
i see my one-term-john prediction is gaining some currency in the mainstream media…
http://whoar.co.nz/2011/matt-mccarten-key-despite-his-popularity-will-be-the-first-one-term-prime-minister-since-walter-nash/
“…The opening salvos of the election were well and truly launched this week.
Phil Goff was out of the blocks first with an excellent repositioning economic statement aimed directly at his party’s core vote.
This makes good strategic sense.
Labour has obviously decided any personality contest between John Key and Goff is a lost cause.
Instead, it has launched an election framework with three main economic points of difference with National.
Firstly, a flat tax cut for everyone on their first $5000 of earnings – and raising tax on income over $120,000.
It’s simple populism – and is going down well with the party’s base.
Second, amending the Reserve Bank Act – a cornerstone of Rogernomics -
- is the clearest acceptance that Labour’s adherence to economic neo-liberalism is over.
Given that Goff was one of Roger Douglas’ right-hand men – it’s a big step.
But the third issue that may well define this election year is that Goff has promised there will be no asset sales.
After the sale hysteria of the 1980s – and the embarrassing, and necessary, government buyback of some of them -
- New Zealanders are in no mood to have their family silver hocked off yet again.
When Key followed Goff and gave his economic positioning statement – he was on the back foot over his announcement of restarting public asset sales.
Trying to market the idea of selling off minority stakes in our profitable assets will be hard work.
Convincing people selling public, profitable assets to those with spare cash – so the Government can fund its tax cuts to the rich -
- is near impossible – even for a likeable salesperson like Key.
It’s a great circular money-making roundabout to get on if you’re rich -
- but most New Zealanders will see it for what it is -
- the theft of profit-making assets that is funding tax cuts to the wealthy.
There’s little doubt that asset sales will be a dominating factor in the election.
It may determine that Key – despite his popularity – will be the first one-term prime minister since Walter Nash…” (cont..)
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 8:37 am
The followers of the evil “religion of peace” in medieval Afghanistan doing what they do best:
Taliban Spokesman: ‘Anyone who knows about Islam knows that stoning is in the Koran, and that it is Islamic law. There are people who call it inhuman – but in doing so they insult the Prophet. They want to bring foreign thinking to this country’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1350945/Horrific-video-emerges-Taliban-fighters-stoning-couple-death-adultery.html
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 8:41 am
Sheesh; the library’s open early today. Tell me Phil; what do you do with your son while you’re blogging day and night down at the local library?
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 8:43 am
Oh, and Phil, here’s some balance to Matt McCarten’s myopic socialist worldview:
From Fran O’Sullivan yesterday
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10702740
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 8:44 am
A “dedicated”mother and sufferer of silly first name syndrome (thick and criminal are also applicable):
Georgia Mom Gets Son, His Friends to Help Rob a Bank
Jan. 28: Surveillance video allegedly catches a mom and three teens robbing a Georgia bank.
Three teenagers are facing armed robbery charges after the mother of one of the boys allegedly checked them out of school so they could help her rob a bank.
Authorities say 35-year-old Tawander Simmons of Stone Mountain checked out her son, 17-year-old Benny Brice and two other boys from Stephenson High School on Friday morning. Police say the four then robbed a Wells Fargo in Lilburn.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/01/29/georgia-mom-gets-son-friends-help-rob-bank/
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 8:46 am
Someone has to oversee the kitchen.
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 9:02 am
hey..!..manolo..i cauterized you on 28th gen thread..
you are now just another yapping mongrel…
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 9:04 am
A member of the underclass complains, but I reckon the cops did her a big favour!
A woman is suing the police over allegations a female officer cut body piercings from her with a boltcutter after she had been arrested.
The Christchurch resident, who is in her 30s, claims five piercings were cut from her, including one from her genitalia.
She has accused the policewoman of unlawful sexual connection, assault, breach of the Bill of Rights and abuse of her position.
http://msn.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10703023&ref=rss
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 9:06 am
re o’sullivan…
..i was quite surprised when i looked in my archives at just how much i have highlighted o’sullivans’ pieces…
http://whoar.co.nz/?s=o%27sullivan
(my best-of…as it were..)
but as for inv 2′s quote…here’s one back at ya..!
http://whoar.co.nz/2010/fran-osullivan-ten-ways-to-beat-our-snowballing-debt/
“…Speaking frankly, aren’t we all starting to get a bit concerned that the National-led Government seems asleep at the wheel when it comes to dealing with our snow-balling debt?
Yes, there are working groups galore which will produce recommendations that the National Party will campaign on at the next election.
But there’s plenty an action-minded John Key could get on with before the election rolls round.
Here’s my Top 10: This list does not include asset sales or “co-ownership”, as the in-term now goes.
Nor does it include axing the DPB, or other beneficiary imposts.
But most fair-minded New Zealanders would surely agree to the following…” (cont..)
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 9:17 am
So very glad I didn’t go to bed at the end of the first set.
Vote:Didn’t realise that Li Na was that old,
Great final and good result for “Aussie Kim”.
Jees that review technology is something els isn’t it, so quick and accepted so widely.
January 30th, 2011 at 9:17 am
Phool
How many jobs did you apply for yesterday?
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 9:19 am
IV2. Selling key assets may bring in lots of cash for the socilaists to waste again but how about selling assets that the taxpayer doesn’t need to be involveed in. e.g. Coal mines, meat inspection, school buildings, hospital buildings, airports, ports, insurance companies,aka known as kiwisaver, acc, EQC, met service, the list is bloody endless. Housing. why should govt. be involved in owning houses?
Why should the Govt. own any of this stuff?
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 9:20 am
big bruv…see gen-thread 28/1/11..
(all will be explained…)
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 9:20 am
From a small town in Aussie
During a recent flood in a small town, a young girl and a boy were perched on top of their
house. As they sat watching articles float by in the water, they noticed an old hat go past.
Suddenly, the hat turned and came back, then turned around and went
downstream. After it had gone some distance, again it turned and came back.
They watched as it did this a number of times.
“Do you see that hat?” said the girl in amazement. “First it goes
downstream, then turns around and comes back, then it goes back downstream
and then it comes back again.”
“Oh, that’s nothing, it’s only my dad,” replied the boy. “This morning my
Vote:Mum said that come hell or high water, he had to mow the lawn today.”
January 30th, 2011 at 9:28 am
philu said “big bruv…see gen-thread 28/1/11..(all will be explained…)”
You mean this? http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2011/01/general_debate_28_january_2011.html#comment-790476
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 9:28 am
Not good enough Phool, as one who pays your wages I demand some accountability for that money.
Now, I will ask you again, how many jobs did you apply for yesterday?
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 9:31 am
it’s pretty exciting that the egyptian army..tho’ deployed..is holding back..
..in egypt the army has always been proudly independent from their political masters..
..and are not their tool…
it has been the police and the internal security forces who have been the thugs/torturers/killers…
..and the enforcers of mubareks’ dictatorship…
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 9:39 am
A question for Phil; do you REALLY go to the library to use the internet, or have you been bullshitting us all along? I’ve never come across a public library that was open at 5.04am, which is when your first post at Whoar went up this morning …
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 9:41 am
oh..!..bruv..u shd know…that post 28/1..the followed procedure to the usual/groundhog day yaps..
..will be one referral to 28/1 gen-thread..
..then ignoring..
mmm-kay…?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 9:43 am
‘..5.04am, which is when your first post at Whoar went up this morning ..’
yes..i do start working early….eh…?
..must get back to it..
..later….
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 9:44 am
Phool
You can ignore me all you like, it does not change a thing, I will be demanding that you tell me how many jobs you have applied for on a daily basis until you join the workforce and stop stealing money from hard working Kiwis.
BTW..have you apologised to the Chemist who you terrorised?
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 9:47 am
Answer the question Phil; which library is open at 10.44pm on Friday, and 5.04am on Sunday?
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 9:50 am
@ big bruv; of course he hasn’t. People like Phil don’t believe that they have anything to apologise for. They can justify anything. I wonder how Phil would feel if he was mugged by an armed P-addict.
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 10:19 am
philu (9,509) Says:
January 30th, 2011 at 8:35 am
i see my one-term-john prediction is gaining some currency in the mainstream media
Phool I have never seen a correct prediction from you yet. For someone who claims to have a political degree (probably just another of your many lies) you are always way off the mark.
Further, who on KB gives a fuck what you predict. You are a self confessed druggie with an IQ in common sense and decency of a doornob. In fact a doornob has a more intellectual IQ as well.
We all realise you only post on KB to whore your own unpopular and unread blog.
Perhaps if you applied a bit of astuteness and commonsense to your own blog it may become popular, but to waste your time whoreing your lunatic blog KB is an effort of futility.
Say hello to the librarian for me.
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 10:20 am
Doncha know guys……..
Phool conned WINZ into buying him a laptop and wireless router to do on-line jobsearch/home work.
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 10:21 am
Video especially for Kiwiblog leftists.
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 10:31 am
hey randites..!
yr heroine was a screaming hypocrite…
..claiming govt-benefits under a different name…
whoar…!…eh…?
http://whoar.co.nz/2011/ayn-rand-railed-against-government-benefits-but-grabbed-social-security-and-medicare-when-she-needed-them/
“…Ayn Rand was not only a schlock novelist -
- she was also the progenitor of a sweeping “moral philosophy” that justifies the privilege of the wealthy -
- and demonizes not only the slothful, undeserving poor – but the lackluster middle-classes as well.
Her books provided wide-ranging parables of “parasites,” “looters” and “moochers” using the levers of government to steal the fruits of her heroes’ labor.
In the real world, however, Rand herself received Social Security payments and Medicare benefits under the name of Ann O’Connor (her husband was Frank O’Connor).
As Michael Ford of Xavier University’s Center for the Study of the American Dream wrote -
- “In the end, Miss Rand was a hypocrite – but she could never be faulted for failing to act in her own self-interest.”
Her ideas about government intervention in some idealized pristine marketplace -
- serve as the basis for so much of the conservative rhetoric we see today..”
(oo-err..!..eh..?
..but brilliant tho’..!..eh..?..)
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 10:37 am
Conservatives were around 100 years before Ayn Rand was a sparkle in her father’s eye. The men who wrote the American Constitution, the greatest freedom document in the history of the world, had never heard of her.
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 10:38 am
sheesh..!..that pentwigs’ amadygala must be throbbing like a house-party…eh..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 11:00 am
gee red..!..don’t you love both the tea-party…and the constitution…?
http://whoar.co.nz/2011/tea-partiers-introduce-some-more-blatantly-un-constitutional-legislation/
“…The pace at which the Tea Parties’ armchair Constitutional scholars are introducing blatantly un-Constitutional legislation is quite impressive.
Here’s Ian Millhiser over at Think Progress with a run-down of what should be called Virginia’s ‘We Never Fought a Civil War Over This Crap Act’..”
what to do red..?..what to do..?
it must be tearing you apart…
..first ayn (the welfare-dipping-hypocrite) rand…
..and now this…!
whoar..!
..eh…?
phil(whoar.co.nz):
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 11:10 am
You bewdy; Warriors games will be watchable now!!
http://keepingstock.blogspot.com/2011/01/hallelujah.html
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 11:16 am
red – great video.
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 11:19 am
Manolo (2,994) Says:
January 30th, 2011 at 8:44 am
A “dedicated”mother and sufferer of silly first name syndrome
Here are a few more people who, according to you, suffer “silly name syndrome”.
Barack Obama
Condoleezza Rice
Oprah Winfrey
Mohandas Ghandi
Deepak Chopra
Jesus Christ
Kofi Anan
Mikael Gorbachev
Did you have a point, or are you just dumbass apeing the Fat Mammal?
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 11:33 am
What are you on about phool? If Rand morally objected to paying into medicare and social security, but the government forcibly took the money off her in taxes anyway, then she is morally justified to get her own money back by collecting on the schemes. This is actually mentioned in the source article in the part you don’t quote. Honest as ever eh phool?
Vote:Getting *someone else’s* money is the morally objectionble thing. Obviously not a problem for you though phool. The concept of “her own money” is clearly unfamiliar to you, since you’re always “taking” and never “giving”. Just like in prison!
January 30th, 2011 at 11:37 am
phool
amadygala???
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 11:41 am
pentwig – I assume he’s retardedly trying to spell “amygdala”. One of many parts of the brain no longer functioning in phool due to decades of drug abuse.
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 11:43 am
It’s General Debate so I can bring this immaterial matter up.
Vote:My nephew’s “hop-on” has just given birth to a son. The weight was not quoted in grammes. It was noted as 7.15 pounds. That is sort of metric as old fashioned people like me would refer to it as 7lb 2.4oz.
Old fashioned people refer to a partner as a hop-on. They hop on, then they hop off.
January 30th, 2011 at 11:48 am
“..What are you on about phool? If Rand morally objected to paying into medicare and social security, but the government forcibly took the money off her in taxes anyway, then she is morally justified to get her own money back by collecting on the schemes. ..”
is that the same justification you and others use when you ‘adjust yr affairs’..into trusts/w.h.y…
..to ‘qualify’ for working-for-families govt-handouts..(y’know..!..those things you are so opposed to/rail against..?
d’ya pause yr rantings for awhile…?…
…as you trouser the folding…?
..it’s quite fascinating the ideological-justification loop-de-loops you all do on this..eh…?
opposed to…but ‘arranging affairs’..to qualify…
..for money you don’t really need…(eh..?..bloody-hands-bob..?)
…all the while railing at poverty-stricken sole-parents..and the like..eh..?
so much cant/hpocrisy..you could almost bottle it…eh..?
b.tw….many spinal infuries/back-problems arising from such a testing movement/convolution…?
phil(whoar,co.nz)
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 11:53 am
Hey Phil; instead of making lots of long, rambling, incoherent statements, why don’t you answer some of the questions that poeple have asked you over the last couple of days?
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 11:55 am
now..this is kinda interesting…
it’s an historical perspective which emphasises the unreasonablness of yr current rightwing-demands…
..from back when the top tax rates for the richest in america were 92%..
(sphincters tightening/snapping shut at that figure…?..lads..?..lassies…?..)
http://whoar.co.nz/2011/rachel-maddowthe-huge-ever-rapid-shift-rightward-makes-dwight-eisenhower-and-richard-nixon-look-like-lefty-radicals-today/
(The following is a shortened version of Rachel Maddow’s opening monologue from her show on Wednesday on MSNBC):
“…For the next hour, we begin with the president of the United States addressing the nation -
- and calling for a massive investment in this country’s infrastructure -
- rebuffing the idea of giant tax breaks for the richest Americans -
- and warning anyone who would dare touch Social Security to keep their hands off.
You want to talk about red meat for the base?
Listen to some of the language the president used.
“Workers have a right to organize into unions – and to bargain collectively with their employers.
And a strong, free labor movement is an invigorating and necessary part of our industrial society.”
Wow.
How about this one?
“Only a fool would try to deprive working men and women of their right to join the union of their choice.”
Listen to the way he goes after the right here.
“Should any political party attempt to abolish Social Security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs -
- you would not hear of that party again in our political history.
There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things – but their number is negligible and”–and the president says–
– “their number is negligible and they are stupid.”
That is not what Barack Obama said last night.
That is way to the left of any national Democrat at this point.
That was all Republican President Dwight David Eisenhower.
That was all the stuff he said when he was president.
Republican President Dwight Eisenhower – president when the top tax bracket for the richest people in this country was 92 percent.
President Eisenhower defended that tax bracket.
He said we cannot afford to reduce taxes until, quote, “the factors of income and outgo will be balanced.”
Eisenhower insisting there must be a balanced budget – and that taxes on the rich are the way to balance it.
Dwight Eisenhower – you know – noted leftist….” (cont..)
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 11:57 am
Auckland Mayor Len Brown’s office has rejected the suggestion his pledge to take public transport to work is off the rails.
Brown was joined by reporters on a train from Papatoetoe to Britomart on January 17 after releasing a statement saying he would “start taking the train to work on a regular basis as part of his commitment to public transport”.
On his Twitter feed that morning, the mayor urged other Aucklanders to do the same.
“Great morning to be taking the train – I’m heading in from Papatoetoe to the city. Give the train a go, Auckland.”
He pushed a similar message on his Facebook page: “Took the train in this morning, excellent trip. Beautiful weather, train nearly full, service running on schedule. Give it a go, Auckland.”
Brown has travelled from his Totara Park home by car every day since.
…do as I say not as I do. Typical lefty.
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 11:59 am
New Zealand faces the embarrassing prospect of being forced to host Fiji military coup leader Frank Bainimarama as a VIP during the Rugby World Cup, even though he is blacklisted from entering this country.
And it’s possible Bainimarama’s convicted killer brother-in-law, Francis Kean, could also attend the tournament if he is successful in staging his own coup and takes over as chairman of the Fiji Rugby Union.
Both men would be hosted at the taxpayer’s expense, and their VIP treatment is expected to cost around $45,000. Under International Rugby Board rules, the host nation pays for two officials from each participating nation to attend.
If Kean becomes chairman, Bainimarama is expected to become the FRU president, a position he held in 2003 when he attended the RWC in Australia. He has vowed to be at the 2011 event.
In 2009 the Labour Department confirmed that exemptions to the coup blacklist would be granted to protect multilateral sporting tournaments hosted by New Zealand, such as the Wellington Sevens and the Rugby World Cup.
Kean and Bainimarama would be hobnobbing with guests including British royals, prime ministers including John Key, Australia’s Julia Gillard, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and possibly Britain’s David Cameron.
Meanwhile, International Rugby Board top brass arrive in Suva tomorrow, hoping to fend off a coup that could install Fiji navy commander Kean as head of the rugby union.
Kean was convicted of manslaughter after punching a man at the wedding of Bainimarama’s daughter in 2007. He was sentenced to 18 months’ jail but was kept on full pay behind bars for three months, released and reappointed to head the navy.
Sorry about the longish quote, from stuff.co.nz – but where now are all the people who condemned Government interaction with Warner Bros as ‘giving away the country’s sovereignty?
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 12:00 pm
inv @ 11.53 am..
..see 9.41 am…
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 12:02 pm
This general debate is shaping up as usual
to this point 41 posts.
philu 11 posts
philu has dominated over 25%
count up the space he has occupied thus far, in excess of 30%
What will the score be by end of play today ?
This would be a good thing if he had anything sensible to say. Right ?
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 12:04 pm
If the Americans and British are involved in the Egyptian riots, if they are, then who do they have in mind as a replacement, and what’s the price they’ve asked of him or her in return for installing them?
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 12:14 pm
http://www.telstraclear.co.nz/news/news-story.cfm?content_id=803319
Greens favour Capital Gains Tax
Sunday, 30, Jan, 2011 10:21AM
A capital gains tax is part of the Green Party’s solution to reduce New Zealand’s debt.
Co-leader Russel Norman has included it in what he calls the “smart green economics” he’s outlining in the party’s State of the Planet speech today.
“The Greens are advocating a capital gains tax, excluding the family home, because we think that’s an essential component of the tax system which is present in just about every developed country apart from New Zealand” he told Newstalk ZB. “(It) would make a significant impact in fixing up the governments books.”
Mr Norman says a capital gains tax would bring in over four billion dollars a year, enough to make a significant reduction to debt, and is also advocating capping government borrowing.
Yeh right
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 12:14 pm
Reid – I’m guessing they aren’t backing a Taleban-style Muslim Brotherhood regime. Word is that much of the protesters are affiliated with Western Culture more than the MB. We shall see….
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 12:17 pm
Greens push capital gains tax to reduce NZ debt
10:32 AM Sunday Jan 30, 2011
A capital gains tax is part of the Green Party’s solution to reduce New Zealand’s debt.
Co-leader Russel Norman has included it in what he calls the “smart green economics” he’s outlining in the party’s State of the Planet speech today.
“The Greens are advocating a capital gains tax, excluding the family home, because we think that’s an essential component of the tax system which is present in just about every developed country apart from New Zealand”, he told Newstalk ZB.
“(It) would make a significant impact in fixing up the governments books.”
Mr Norman says a capital gains tax would bring in over four billion dollars a year, enough to make a significant reduction to debt, and is also advocating capping government borrowing.
How about reducing the fucking Govt. spending on the unnecessary Wussel.
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 12:18 pm
Every time I see a Republican, I see why the Right thinks Sarah Palin is intelligent.
Here is dumbphuck of the week -
Talking on Climate change, he syas “The science should not even be in the debate” WTF? 2:08 in
Later, in response to another science question “I believe I came from god, not from a monkey” WTF? 3:15 in.
Then “The science needs to get out of Washington … and into the lab”. WFT? 6:20 in
Then the realdumphuck statement “Where’s the missing link?” WTF?
I give you Jack Kingston (R) Georgia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YwdSoEPsNfE#
Sarah Palin is still as dumb as batshit, but that seems to be a common theme with the Repubs.
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 12:21 pm
Maybe David might consider renaming this thread in honour of philu.
any ideas?
What about, ‘Opportunity to talk to a genius.’ or
‘Make a point, a genius will analyse for you, free.’ or
‘Be abused by an expert, talk to philu.’
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 12:23 pm
David Kato was brutally murdered in uganda for the “sin” of being homosexual. He was tarhetted by newspapers and christians.
Scuffles erupted at the funeral of a murdered Ugandan gay rights activist after the presiding priest charged that homosexuality is ”evil and will be punished by God”.
”You must repent. Even the animals know the difference between a male and a female,” Anglican priest Thomas Musoke told mourners at the funeral of David Kato.
http://www.theage.com.au/world/priests-words-spark-scuffle-at-funeral-of-gay-activist-20110129-1a90c.html
Yes, even at his funeral god’s minions cannot restrain themselves from the hatred engendered by their religion.
Religion poisons everything.
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 12:26 pm
Yeah they wouldn’t be involved with the MB at all, Tim. I mean, nah. So what might it be. I wonder if they need a shift in Egypt’s attitude toward Iran? I don’t know, I’m only guessing. What else could it be, unless it was to destroy the MB-Al-Qaida in Egypt, that’s another possibility.
Yes, even at his funeral god’s minions cannot restrain themselves from the hatred engendered by their religion.
Jack you might care to reflect on the fact different countries of the Anglican church have different policies on this and that including on homosexuality and that this phenomena might actually be reflective of a national identity thing, rather than a religious thing. But I know when you’re a fanatic about something, everything points in one direction, doesn’t it.
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 12:36 pm
Phool, it’s wrong to take someone else’s money to contribute to a scheme they don’t want and there is no ‘opt out’. If someone has taken yours for such a scheme, you are justified in using that same scheme to get your own money back. Not really complicated is it phool? What is wrong is lazy and unintelligent people who contribute nothing ( hi phool!) thinking they are entitled to the money that clever, talented, hardworking people earn . Only a leftard like you would consider someone wanting to keeping what is rightfully theirs as an “ideological loop de loop”.
Vote:Luckily I’ll soon be back on my own PC where RIP makes phool’s nonsense vanish into the air like so much fart gas.
January 30th, 2011 at 12:37 pm
Want a reason to ban Islam. Go to Crusader Rabbit and see this.
“Stoned to death with her lover: Horrific video of execution of girl, 19, killed by Afghan Taliban for running away from arranged marriage”
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 12:39 pm
Bereal
I think we are all waiting for DPF to do right thing but we have been waiting a few years now.
I was away when the phool coped his ban but I bet the standard of KB increased significantly.
As much as I want to ignore the drug addled idiot I’m like a bee to nectar. I do however refuse to link to his
Vote:aggrieved links.
January 30th, 2011 at 12:46 pm
“..I was away when the phool coped his ban ..”
yes..i did ‘cope’ during it…
in fact…i even extended it…
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 1:10 pm
Apparently, Mickey Mouse McCully has just said that Dear Old Uncle Frank won’t be allowed in to watch the Rugby world Cup.
He still gets Sky of course.
Why is it that we continue to interfere in another countries politics?
Ego must be the reason, can’t think of any other.
McCully just doesn’t like tropical beaches maybe?
Still Frank keep the door open cause we all like to come and don’t need socialists to tell us what our holiday plans should be.
Vote:Shanghai and Peking don’t interest many.
January 30th, 2011 at 1:14 pm
awww..!!…pentwig described my humble offerings here as ‘nectar’…
wasn’t that nice…?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 1:21 pm
Phool you’d better hurry along back to your site, someone just commented on your blog !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh my god things are really humming along now for whore.co.nz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Onwards and upwards !!!!! Next step, knocking off the huffington post!!!
Nah, of course I’m just winding you up phool, it was 18 days ago.
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 2:03 pm
VIKING:…….I am of the view that the Greens and Labour have held a joint election strategy meeting. A Capital Gains Tax is the only means by which Goof can pay for removing GST from Food and declaring $5,000 tax free as well as other promises. The policy will appeal most to Greens Voters so they will be at the forefront of softening up the Public to accept it.
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 2:48 pm
Have a wee peek at this sucker winding up and maybe coming our way. Wohoo.
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/gms/largec.html?area=4&element=0&mode=UTC
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 2:50 pm
“scientists ‘invent artificial petrol’ that could cost just 90p per GALLON…artificial petrol that costs 19p per litre could be on forecourts in as little as three years.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1351341/Relief-pumps-Revolutionary-hydrogen-fuel-cost-just-90p-GALLON-run-existing-cars.html
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 3:24 pm
wat dabney 2:50 pm. I sure hope this fuel is ready for prime time within five years.
cheers
David Prosser
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 3:31 pm
That’s great news wat, and potentially solves one stumbling block toward a hydrogen economy – distribution/infrastructure. However, the bigger problem remains – hydrogen production, specifically, the energy deficit…
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 3:34 pm
Nuclear. Problem solved. Suck it, hippies!
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 5:04 pm
Memo to Web-meister
Kindly desist from inflicting even more advertising than is already customarily present in these columns that are normally devoted to contributor’s comments.
I refer particularly to the ads (?) for Summer City and Live Soul.
You may be the web-meister, but don’t forget that many others regard this medium as a public service and object to the over-commercialisation of its space. The edges and top of the pages are quite adequate for advertising purposes. So far and no further!
(Having blogged this I am quite aware that – being the umpty-umpth comment today – my remarks have little, if any, chance of being seen by said web-meister, much less of having any effect.)
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 5:33 pm
Memo to Web-meister
How would you like to pay a subscription fee then Akaroa?
It probably costs more than $0 to sustain a website with 600,000+ comments and who knows how many threads on it.
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 5:38 pm
One for the muzzie lovers in DPF’s cesspool:
Vote:http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/01/29/iranian-dutch-citizen-mother-of-two-hanged-today-in-iran-for-protesting-iranian-election-results-in-2009/#comments
January 30th, 2011 at 5:58 pm
“scientists ‘invent artificial petrol’
Emission free too. Yeah, right.
I’ll wait until this is proven before I get excited about it.
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 6:58 pm
“You may be the web-meister, but don’t forget that many others regard this medium as a public service and object to the over-commercialisation of its space.”
It doesn’t matter a flying shit if you regard this as “public space”, it is private property owned by DPF and it’s his business how he pays for it. If you don’t like it, there are plenty of other blogs you can go to. Phool’s blog has no advertising, but it probably doesn’t cost him much to maintain a site with essentially zero traffic, no original content and typically two user comments a month.
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 7:01 pm
well..it is proven…pg…
hydrogen is emission-free…water is the bye-product…
..and the cost of catalyzing/manufacturing hydrogen has been the barrier untill now..
..but even aside from these dudes…there is the kiwi who was interviewed by kim hill a couple of weeks ago..
…he has the backing of the pentagon/major oil companies for his new hydrogen catalyzer..
..which he/they plan to start marketing in two years…
..he has simplified the process..
..and catalyzers that now cost approx three and a half ground….(anf d are the barrier) will be replaced by his model..
…which will sell for $200..
..it will sit in yr back yard/w.h.y…and if you use solar/wind to drive it…(which he has designed them for..)
..your fuel will be totally free…
..(interview will be findable at nat-rad sat..should you disbelieve/doubt..)
..so..it’s a race between those two…
…and you can see why the military are so keen….no need for fuel-support…
..i reckon these two are the best news for ages…
clean/free fuel….
what’s not to love about that…?
back in the day…you wd probably have grumbled doubts about that new-fangled electricity..eh pg…?
..wot with gas everywhere..eh..?
anyway..don’t just winge yr doubts here..
..go and get yr questions answered…
…and come back here with something (emphatic) to actually say..eh..?
try it…you might like it…
..it beats simpering (a totally uneducated/uninformed)..’oh..i don’t know..!’..on/from the sideline..
…eh..?
go prove..or disprove…
..(consider it therapy…)
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 7:40 pm
I must say, I am enjoying watching anti-Western leftards try and spin a possible Islamist MB regime in Egypt as something not that bad. “It’s not so unlike the Christian right!” they cry, totally ignoring the fact that A) they keep screaming fascism whenever they discuss the subject in any minor way and B) Islamism as practised in Iran has been a barrel of laughs and opportunity for all there. Oh wait, hang on. So, either the Christian right (who I am not major fans of, might I add) is really not that bad or…they’re lying.
Guess which one I’m putting money on?
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 7:42 pm
Hi philu
i asked my partner to look at the general debate for the last couple
of days and comment on your ‘contributions’
He concluded, philu is shorter than 5ft 7ins.
Vote:Was he right ?
January 30th, 2011 at 7:45 pm
As for JackOff: I love the irony of an Alliance official calling other people stupid. How’s that political irrelevancy working out for you?
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 8:21 pm
nah..!..way taller that that…(not that that matters…!…)
is he below average intelligence too..?
..y’know..!..to help with communication..?
…to be on the same wavelength..as it were..?
..does he share your obsession with measuring…?
..is he australian too..
..and does he have an aussie phonetic-name too…?
..bry-ann..?…maybe…?
bry-ann and bereal..?..eh..?
awww..!
..eh..?
..phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 8:25 pm
“…How’s that political irrelevancy working out for you?..”
an act-ite..?..aren’t ya..?
..hows that working out for you…?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 8:31 pm
Non-affiliated, actually. I could happily vote for any other party which most serves my rational self-interest.
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 8:35 pm
and if hide loses epsom…
it’ll be bye bye miss american pie..eh..?
..that whole rightwing revolution thing..
..down the gurgler…eh…?
i mean..acts’ best-case scenario is hide just scraping back in..
..and becoming another jim anderton….
..eh..?
…except he made a bank…
…eh..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 8:37 pm
Sheesh; is the library STILL open Phil? Or have you been bullshitting us again?
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 8:43 pm
In which area of the country does philu reside?
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 8:43 pm
And I suppose you’ll be at the head of the queue to sign up to Martyn “Fuckwit” Bradbury’s Neo-Leftard Party, right Philip?
Please, make it happen. I want to see the Green Party vote split.
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 9:16 pm
This is an interesting development. What do the extinct New Zealand Labour Party and Egypt’s nearly extinct National Democratic Party have in common?
They’re both affiliated with the Socialist International!
Solidarity forever!
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 9:45 pm
i don’t think it wd be bradburys’ party..if it happens..
..but if the maori party/harawira split happens ..
..a centre-left workers/fighting for the unrepresented party..
..with mccarten/bradford etc..
..makes a lot of sense…
..and wouldn’t face that 5% thresh-hold..’cos harawira owns his seat…
…and they wouldn’t split the greens…
…they wd take some from labour…but that wd just strengthen labours’ spine/will..
..and they wd mop up some from maori/the poor/unrepresented…
like bradbury..i think this is a good idea…
..and i see it as a maturing/bedding-in of mmp…
..and the bringing of some political clout..
…to those who have been marginalised/ignored/driven further into poverty…
..i hope it happens…
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 10:06 pm
Generation Y women losing ‘female’ skills such as cooking, ironing and sewing
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* January 30, 2011 12:00AM
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OUT OF THE KITCHEN: Young women wielding cooking equipment is an increasingly rare sight. Source: HWT Image Library
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BACK TO THE FUTURE: The traditional domestic skills of women, often stereotyped as those of the ’50s housewife, risk being lost by today’s Generation Y. Source: Getty Images
BASIC “female” skills are becoming endangered with fewer young women able to iron a shirt, cook a roast chicken or hem a skirt.
Just as more modern men are unable to complete traditional male tasks, new research shows Generation Y women can’t do the chores their mothers and grandmothers did daily.
Only 51 per cent of women aged under 30 can cook a roast compared with 82 per cent of baby boomers.
Baking lamingtons is a dying art with 20 per cent of Gen Y capable of whipping up the Aussie classic, down from 45 per cent for previous generations.
Social researcher Mark McCrindle said: “Women of today tend to be busier, juggling more roles, and are quite prepared to compromise a bit of the homemade just to save some time.
“They also have a lot more disposable income compared with their mums and their grandmothers so buying a cake mix or lamingtons ready-made is not a big deal.”
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Traditional skills outside the kitchen are falling by the wayside with Gen Y women woefully behind their older counterparts, the study by McCrindle Research found. Only 23 per cent can grow a plant from a cutting when 78 per cent of older women say this is a breeze.
“We live in a throw-away culture where, rather than repair something, we will buy a new one, even if it is just a matter of darning holes or sewing on buttons,” Mr McCrindle said.
“As such, many women have lost these skills. If we do want something repaired, women today are more likely to take it to their local drycleaner because they are busy and can afford it.”
Driving manual cars is also on the decline with just 40 per cent of women under 30 possessing this skill compared to 71 per cent of older women.
The results tally with a recent survey, which found that Australian men from Gen Y were more comfortable changing a nappy than changing a tyre.
But Gen Y women are taking on other skills.
As well as working full or part-time, they are doing tasks previously done by men.
More than 70 per cent of women under 30 say they often take out the bins, 77 per cent mow the lawn and 70 per cent claim they wash the car.
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 10:36 pm
This statement could be interpreted in a number of ways, but these are the two obvious interpretations:
1. Hurf is such an arsehole who couldn’t give a shit about anyone else that he sucks his own cock rather than spend some time with a chick who would then happily service him. Of course, maybe his Mum does that for him, anyway.
2. Hurf understands that it is a small planet and we are all in in this together, so it is in his rational self interest to consider others, utilising his own (or his parents) excess wealth to alleviate the deprivations of others.
I choose 1.
What do you guys and gals choose?
[DPF: I choose 10 demerits. Make your point without references to sucking cock]
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 10:42 pm
lol, Puke. What’s up? Bad day? Kid seized by CYFS? Don’t blame me for your erectile dysfunctions.
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 10:48 pm
@Viking
Vote:That may or may not be bad news, it depends how valuable those skills will be in the future… I expect that traditional ‘male’ skills such as hunting, or DIY skills such as building a deck or changing the oil in a car may soon be lost too.
January 30th, 2011 at 11:06 pm
And speaking of utter berks, remember when the MFM sold Joe BFD Biden as “Barack Obama’s foreign policy brains trust?” They were as wrong then as they now.
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 11:24 pm
Don’t worry Hurf, it’s been a very good day. I can promise you one thing, I’ve had a lot more sex that you with a lot more women!!
Of course, you may surpass me if you live long enough, but I’m man enough to say, good for you!
As regards Biden, that hasbeen fuckwit, the Christian Zionist, who would you suggest instead?
Sarah Plain (not a typo)? Bill O’Reilly?
How’s your Mum?
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 11:29 pm
I hope they let you do so first, Luc. I wouldn’t want them to pull an Assange on my favourite paranoid moonbat.
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 11:35 pm
Luc said “Biden, that hasbeen fuckwit, the Christian Zionist”
The usual anti-semitic crap from Luc. Like a record stuck in a groove.
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 11:41 pm
Hey Rodders
Arabs are Semites.
Are you aware that Semite is a language, not a race?
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 11:42 pm
And Hurf
When you grow up, you will learn that sex by surprise is a favourite fantasy of most women!
Even your Mum.
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 11:45 pm
Oh, a very dark side of Luc Hansen is appearing.
Luc the Rapist. Who would have thought? No wonder you’ve gone through so many women, they end up being totally repulsed by you.
Vote:January 30th, 2011 at 11:45 pm
I apologise Luc. I should have described you simply as a Jew hater. Happier now?
Vote:January 31st, 2011 at 12:14 am
Poor Rodders
Arab hater?
No racism involved, of course.
Hurf, enjoying your juvenile fantasies? How many times have you wanked today?
If you had a gf, you wouldn’t need to vent here, would you?
Vote:January 31st, 2011 at 12:38 am
This explains your bizarre ranting all of the time, then. That Jewish girl who showed you up, all those years ago. You can’t let go, can you?
Vote:January 31st, 2011 at 12:48 am
Hurf
How bizzare…
Do you notice the longer you are posting, the less you keep to the point of discussion?
Is your Mum allowed to sleep now?
Vote:January 31st, 2011 at 12:58 am
Do you notice the more you breathe, the longer you stay alive?
Hold your breath. Let your life slip away. Go on.
Vote:January 31st, 2011 at 1:10 am
OK Hurf
Anything to please you…
Bye…
Vote:January 31st, 2011 at 1:18 am
Once again, Puke scurries off with a slapped arse and a hurt expression. Don’t give up the day job, mate.
Vote:January 31st, 2011 at 7:42 am
Being called a racist by the jew hating Luc is like being told you are ugly by a bullfrog.
Vote: