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starboard

..who was on top last night…Rodders or Milkymike?…
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August 13, 2011 8:02am
Scott Chris

Drunk Cop Falls Down Pub Stairs, Gets Head Wedged Under Car

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-world/2011/06/28/cop-ends-up-with-head-wedged-under-car-outside-pub-115875-23231547/

Two guys were walking along a road in Kaitaia when they were struck by a police car driven by a drunken cop. One guy was thrown through the windshield and his buddy was knocked down an embankment. The first guy was charged with breaking and entering and the second with leaving the scene of an accident.
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August 13, 2011 8:16am
mikenmild

starboard – it’s time you and I came clean on our relationship. I can’t live this double life any more.
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August 13, 2011 8:28am
Pauleastbay

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/5439048/Helen-Clark-proud-of-Tampa-move

Gotta love the Dominion, nine years of this bitch but at least this advertisement proves they acheived nothing
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August 13, 2011 8:29am
starboard

“Former Labour MP Darren Hughes is leaving for the United States and Canada and is understood to be considering staying overseas for some time to continue his studies”

Good..fuck off and dont come back. Mummy will be waiting for you in NY with a cushy job..
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August 13, 2011 8:39am
nasska

mikenmild

Starboard may be a little shy but you could help to enlighten the readers of this blog. Give us the juicy details…the stolen kisses, the cryptic messages hidden in your inane comments, the empty vaseline jar.

It will probably cause the Godbotherers to become unhinged but that’s a risk we have to take.
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August 13, 2011 8:41am
Pete George

The milk inquiry seems to be curdling a bit already. Does anyone know what it is supposed to achieve?
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August 13, 2011 8:42am
Inventory2

Starboard and Mikenmild; the Burt and Ernie of Kiwiblog!
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August 13, 2011 8:43am
starboard

..and I wonder what Hughes will be studying whilst overseas…apart from other mens bottoms…
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August 13, 2011 8:46am
iMP

Story 2 and 3 respectively today (Sat).
Student drug use on the rise
Drugs, including P, are increasingly available in schools, with figures showing a jump in drug-related stand-downs and suspensions.

Prayer row heads to tribunal
A row over whether a Wanganui council should pray during meetings could impact Parliament.

Priorities people, priorities!
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August 13, 2011 8:46am
Griff

God botherers are unhinged. Please no bed room story from the pair my breakfast is not going down to well as it is.

PG
It is supposed to show we are getting ripped of by nasty capitalist and support labor in taking gst of milk as well
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August 13, 2011 8:50am
iMP

So, who won the Presidential Repub nominee debate yesterday?

Mitt Romney, because he retains the lead. Gingrich 2nd, but he won’t make the finish line (baggage).
Bauchmann just isn’t strong enough to be American president; Pawlenty injured and limping; Santorum
yet to come thru field (he’s good, watch for late run). But wait till Palin comes in, she has more drive and
confidence than all of them together. If mid-range neutralise eachother, will help Palin against a Romney.

I like Ron Paul but needs political experience. Or maybe he’s what America needs?
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August 13, 2011 9:18am
joana

PG
The milk inquiry will achieve what every other inquiry in NZ achieves…….ZILCH.
What are the projected costs of the two inquiries into the collapse of buildings in the CHCH Feb quake? Both have already stated that no one will be ble held liable..So why bother with these inquiries?
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August 13, 2011 9:21am
Viking2

Why are we having a milk price inquiry???
What is the justification?
Just take the requirement off Fonterra to supply milk to others and let the market rule. We would soon see The Luxtons and Creeches moan even more.

As for Key giving into the noise makers. Lack of principles.
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August 13, 2011 9:28am
Other_Andy

Anti-capitalist group Socialist Aotearoa has called on people to join a protest over the price of jerseys and the conditions wages paid to overseas workers who manufacture the jerseys.
Protesters were asked to wear all black clothing for the protest outside Eden Park’s front gate tomorrow at 1pm.
“We’re calling on adidas to immediately raise the wages of all its garment workers in Asia to industry standards, to drop the price of the rugby jerseys to an affordable level and to apologise to New Zealand for its arrogance,” Socialist Aotearoa spokesman Joe Carolan said.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10744712
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August 13, 2011 9:33am
gravedodger

@ joana, I don’t personally need a lynching but I am very interested if there was a systamatic or a systemic failure of design and or maintenance including the reinspection process and activity around the clearance following the Sept4th quake.
All those ‘brick shithouses along Manchester St and elsewhere were just disasters waiting to happen and the Heretage mupetts were responsible for the danger they contained, but the spectacular failures of CTV and PGC require as full an answer as possible.
Wellington has too much vulnerability to allow that not to happen.
That the Grand Chancellor, as representative of many other buildings that survived for an evacuation, remained standing albeit structurally destroyed is the standard so why the difference.
The inquiry cost is minimal if the answers are discovered.
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August 13, 2011 9:36am
tristanb

http://www.auckland2011.com/What-s-on/Events/Queens-Wharf-Fanzone—10-September.aspx

Why is our government still giving free money to P Money? He’s being paid to “perform” at Queen’s Wharf for the RWC. Without going into reasons, I don’t think he is an appropriate person to represent our country.
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August 13, 2011 9:37am
dog_eat_dog

Socialist Aotearoa highjacking the jersey debate for it’s own anti-MNC stance, more like.
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August 13, 2011 9:38am
nasska

Unless the final recommendation of an inquiry or a commission is to introduce legislation to remove more of the freedoms of the general public they are simply ignored by government. National or Labour….it makes no difference. The setting up of boards & commissions achieve nothing other than enabling the government of the day to appear caring & efficient while wasting more of the taxpayers’ money.

Stall, obfuscate, lie, dodge the issues & prevaricate. Just another day in the life of our parliamentarians.
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August 13, 2011 9:41am
Longknives

Tristanb- Agreed. I can’t believe the ‘free ride’ this guy gets from the NZ media…he is a talentless wannabe ‘gangsta’ (although apparently rates himself as quite the ‘player’- I recall an interview a few years ago where he pathetically bragged of his prowess with the ladies…)
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August 13, 2011 9:44am
tristanb

I recall an interview a few years ago where he pathetically bragged of his prowess with the ladies…

Haha. Well parents, lock up your teenage daughters!

I’ve tried to email the organisers of the Queen’s Wharf concerts, but I’m sure it’ll just be ignored. He must have some good friends in the media.
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August 13, 2011 10:00am
Viking2

Why are we having MILK PRICE INQUIRY? I THOUGHT ABOUT THIS AND HERE IS THE ANSWER.
National it would seem at first appearances, would not want to piss off the diary farmers who supply 25% of this nations export income, but the question is do they really care anymore about that?

National have two types of voters these days. Farmers and traditional Nat voters, and the urban national voters. Now we know that to stay in power the Nats. need that urban vote and that urban vote has also changed from blue collar and white collar union type Labour voters to now mostly office and tech workers. (No factories left .)
The Nats. want those votes and when its boiled down farmers are not that many votes as opposed to grabbing the urban seats which are slowly becoming more and more concentrated with voters. Eeven they acknowledge that they need to do this.

Looking at the makeup of the National MP’s and particularly in Cabinet ask yourself how many are farmers by background, how many have been manufacturers of product and sellers of product made in NZ? Few that I could name. The Nat. MP’s consist of lawyers, teachers,academics, ex beneficiaries, ex university students, accountants and so on. somewhat reminiscent of the Labour Party.

White collar, urban dwelling, and not all representative of the Farmers and manufacturers of NZ.
Some like Nick Smith represent the far left looney fringe when it comes to sensible pragmatic solutions for NZ.
Others like Findlayson embody all that is wrong with dealing with this Nations history and finances and the separatism that is evolving.
Even worse is the attempt to retain power by changing the voting system rather than changing the core practice of representation. MMP isn’t the problem. The problem is the use of power of Cabinet and forcing, with the use of whipping, MP’ s who are elected to represent their constituents views to ignore those views at the peril of their funding and expulsion from their party.

So the answer to the question of Why a Milk Price Inquiry?
Because urban voters are forming a greater vote base for the National Party then Farmers and if they lose a couple of seats in the Waikato they will make up the votes in the urban area’s.
We are seeing the National Party take over from the Labour Party in town Labour Stragglers will move to mana et al. Labour will struggle to exist in another election as it no longer has a platform. National will continue with its socialism as it becomes more and more the home for those of the centre and left.
We need the rise of the New right to reclaim the Founding Philosophy of the National Party for they no longer represent the interests of that philosophy.
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August 13, 2011 10:03am
Griff

v2
Your eloquence astounds me
The right has been captured by left leaning lackeys
reclaim the right vote ACT (at least in till some thing better comes along)
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August 13, 2011 10:30am
mikenmild

It’s quite amusing to see desperate please for National to become more right wing, more like ACT, etc, etc. Political parties are about exercising power. National and Labour determinedly occupy a fairly broad centre ground, and share more in the way of ideology than the few issues that distinguish them. This is because they wish to appeal to a broad range of voters. Were National to move to the right, they would lose more votes in the centre than they would pick up from the remnants of ACT.

Were Labour to move more to the left, they would lose more votes than they would pick up from the Greens, Mana, etc.

A good illustration of this inherent conservatism is the general reluctance of the main parties to upset their rivals achievements. So National in 1990 left Labour’s reforms in place. Labour in 1990 did not impose any radical change, and the same went for National since 2008. This is not because they believe that their rival’s achievements were good, but because they fear to alienate the mass of fairly conservative support that makes up the middle ground in New Zealand politics.
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August 13, 2011 10:38am
reid

mm, the job of politicians is to lead.

This means, they don’t necessarily give a fuck about what the general population thinks about something like asset sales, if asset sales are the right thing to do.

Unfortunately in a democracy it takes just as much effort to sell the really good ideas as it does to sell the majority of them which are the absolutely mental ones that will never work in a gajillion years, like high youth wage rates, et al.

If only people weren’t so fucked in the head, we’d all be a hell of a lot better off.

I think we should insert a trick question in the census: one about celebrities and the other about sport and the people who meet the secret criteria are stricken from the electoral role. See how it works, mm? That’s another really good idea that would be tough to sell.

It’s not fair.
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August 13, 2011 10:46am
reid

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2024680/Why-rich-selfish-empathetic-altruistic-lot.html

Why Apple is now No. 1 company in the world
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44090899/ns/business-us_business/

Police Beat Man After He Finds Out His Son Committed Suicide [This is really appalling…]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fWmr0TnEuo&feature=youtu.be

http://www.kawther.info/wpr/2011/08/09/syrian-defense-minister-killed-by-his-predator-president
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August 13, 2011 10:51am
kaya

Years of liberal dogma have spawned a generation of amoral, uneducated, welfare dependent, brutalised youngsters

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2024284/UK-riots-2011-Liberal-dogma-spawned-generation-brutalised-youths.html#ixzz1UrHNpakW

The best artcle I have read yet about the riots in the UK. It’s a complex issue but this piece nails it on the head. While reading, substitute NZ for UK at every instance. Excellent writing.
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August 13, 2011 11:00am
reid

It certainly does kaya, thanks for that.
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August 13, 2011 11:18am
Elaycee

@kaya says: “While reading, substitute NZ for UK at every instance. Excellent writing.”

Very good. Well spotted.
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August 13, 2011 11:25am
side show bob

Just how many options does government in New Zealand have. Seems National are happy with a watered down version of socialism, having a self serving wish not to upset the punters. How long can we continue to borrow billions a year before the loan sharks want their pound of flesh. Yes socialism may keep the vast majority happy with their lot but all we are really doing is gifting our sovereignty to the money lenders. When the IMF comes calling the days of socialism will be looked back on in fondness, they will sure as hell beat the days of slavery.
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August 13, 2011 11:38am
reid

http://johnansell.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/new-london-olympics-logo/
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August 13, 2011 11:40am
reid

China building 3 aircraft carriers, heads for superpower status
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2011/lev1007_08_11.asp

The last man out of the North Tower who saved unknown numbers of people, decorated by the President, tells what he saw and heard. Since he worked in the WTC before 911 happened, he tells what he saw and heard in the weeks and months beforehand, in the bowels and heights of the building. It’s quite interesting. Watch out for that pesky cognitive dissonance.
http://flybynews.wordpress.com/2011/08/11/last-man-out-makes-shocking-911-disclosure/
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August 13, 2011 12:01pm
reid

This is interesting: Echelon at work. And of course they will have kept all the data so over time they can trace every single riot-related message. Oh dear.

http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/europe/uk-spy-agency-hunts-for-blackberry-riot-leaders
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August 13, 2011 12:18pm
mikenmild

Fascinating. Just looked up Rodriguez – he’s quite a guy.
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August 13, 2011 12:18pm
reid

China to outstrip US by 2016 – IMF
http://rt.com/news/china-economy-leader-us/

China’s economy has actually grown by 45 per cent since 2007, while the GDP of the United States has grown by less than one per cent since then.
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August 13, 2011 12:21pm
reid

I wonder technically how the UK would be able to implement a kill switch for the social media sites and whether it would need to be for the entire network or just for those sites. That would be good to know. Any network engineers here? Where’s Dilbert. He’s a network engineer.
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August 13, 2011 12:41pm
Griff

Gee and China and India burn coal never mind if we have a carbon tax that will fix it.

New Zealand 0.02% of total word emissions growth 1.5%
China India 23.00% growth 10%

Rule of thumb x * 10%compounded = 2x at year seven
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August 13, 2011 12:49pm
Griff

reid
Most on here would be pretty stuffed with out a cell phone. Boy racers used cellphones to implement the same tactic here
(It drove banks nuts)
A switch to turn off Facebook, twitter, blogs, the net in general,cellphones.
If you go that route there is no end. A SHORT SHARP SHOCK WORKS. Taking the cars of the boy racer’s hurts. A rubber bullet hurts.

Same effect problem recedes
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August 13, 2011 1:00pm
reid

Well they need to take out the comms network somehow Griff, they just do. They couldn’t jam specific numbers in the short time a riot coalesced, not until they trace all the social media connections people have, then they could but I bet they haven’t yet married up that data – yet. So they have to stop it being used, somehow.
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August 13, 2011 1:36pm
KH

Deprivation — so what.
Ever seen a band of drinken students, with every privilege and probably a high earning future.
Some of those bands are dangerous to come across on the street.
Scary — serious head injuries are not uncommon.
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August 13, 2011 1:37pm
Elaycee

I see that the Unite Union [Minto’s mob] are protesting against Adidas. Apparently Adidas gets their products made in countries where labour is cheap. Gee – that’s a revelation.

Its a pity that these members of the Unite Union are not similarly motivated to protest against Matt McCarten’s mis-use of employee contributions. But of course, that wouldn’t fit alongside their political agenda, would it?

Their hypocrisy is stunning.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10744902
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August 13, 2011 2:20pm
reid

Talk about headline vs reality. Have a look at the video. Passengers aren’t distressed at all.

And the captain turns back. Oh dear, hope it was a full speed + emergency landing lest someone have a fit or something. Were the ambulances waiting on the runway? Let’s hope so.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8693432/Bat-on-a-plane-causes-panic-on-US-flight.html
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August 13, 2011 2:23pm
Banana Llama

Reid

You can’t kill social networking sites people will just create mirrors, you can be extreme and shut down ISP’s but that would be a bad idea.

Stopping riots requires a change in attitude from the people starting them which is unlikely as they have rejected the British system entirely.
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August 13, 2011 2:24pm
noskire

The fastest way to shut down social networking sites is to kill the Internet – just type “Google” into the Google search bar. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqxLmLUT-qc
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August 13, 2011 2:29pm
reid

About a dozen members of Unite Union are at Auckland’s Eden Park following the reaction to the pricing of the official jersey.

I used to live right opposite the main gates in the 80’s and one day about a dozen turned up and they lit something and presently the cops turned up and put it out. No-one else was there, can’t recall the issue but it was funny.

I wish the cops had done a baton charge, that would have made it even better but sadly that didn’t happen.

Point is tho it was very lonely, pointless, no media eventuated, nothing happened.

Bet this will be on TV One AND 3 tho won’t it. Yes, it’s a gweat big corpowation that’s pwice gauging, just like Fontewwa. And in both cases it’s the childwen who suffer cause (a) they don’t get to be like evewyone else who is a wich pwick and can affowd a jersey and (b) they don’t get milk! Oh dear, it’s a twagedy of Bibwical pwopowtion. Those gweat big meanies.
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August 13, 2011 2:29pm
joana

Gravedodger,
Don’t quite understand all yr post but what is the point in finding answers if nothing is going to be done about them? Why decide before you do an inquiry that no one is liable. Inquires happen all the time in NZ..Usually about 18 mths /two years after a huge book is produced which about half a dozen really keen , types read..and of course , nothing changes and everything stays the same..I don’ think the cost of inquiries is really that minimal….hotels , lawyers , allowances., admin staff….This money could employ or train several CHCH youths for while.
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August 13, 2011 2:42pm
trout

Bananas are $1.95 per kg.today at Countdown; if GST was excluded they would still be $1.95 per kg. But no bananas in the trolleys being pushed by the fat people; just coke and chips. This is why the proposed removal of GST on fruit and vegetables is just sanctimonious clap trap. The target market would still prefer coke and chips.
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August 13, 2011 2:47pm
Banana Llama

How much were Llamas going for Trout? not to cheap i hope.
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August 13, 2011 2:52pm
noskire

73% of the retail price of spirits is tax.
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August 13, 2011 3:05pm
backster

IMP………..I don’t agree about BACHMAN I thought she did well, certainly stood no shit from Pawlenty and any woman who can raise 5 of her own children and 23 foster children must have picked up some skills along the way. The experts seem to think Gingrich won it, I thought him too angry, too dogmatic, not surprised his staff all quit on him I can’t imagine anyone wanting to work with him. He had plenty of good ideas reminded me of Winston.. I like that CAIN, identify the problem, identify the solution, brief, no political palaver, he would be an ideal vice president runner to show up the indecisive OBAMA and grab black vote. PAUL want America the way it was before the 2nd world war, insular, full employment prosperous and to hell with the rest of the world, let Iran build the A Bomb controlled by the nutter Ahmadinajad and the fanatic Mullah who pulls his strings. No thanks. ROMNEY will probably get it but will prove a mediocre President talks plenty but says little like OBama. Sanctorum and Pawlenty seemed capable but run of mill. HUNTSMAN seemed well grounded and sensible but probably too liberal. PALIN on Fox tonite and the straw vote tomorrow should be interesting.
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August 13, 2011 3:38pm
Other_Andy

MARK STEYN
BRITAIN’S HARVEST OF BIG GOVERNMENT – FERAL YOUTH AND COWED POLICE

The British police force all but entirely useless when it comes to preventing crime or maintaining public order has time to police everything else. When Sam Brown observed en passant to a mounted policeman on Cornmarket Street in Oxford, “Do you know your horse is gay?”, he was surrounded within minutes by six officers and a fleet of patrol cars, handcuffed, tossed in the slammer overnight, and fined 80 pounds. Mr Brown’s “homophobic comments”, explained a spokesmoron for Thames Valley Police, were “not only offensive to the policeman and his horse, but any members of the general public in the area.” The zealous crackdown on Sam Brown’s hippohomophobia has not been replicated in the present disturbances. Anyone who has so much as glanced at British policing policy over the last two decades would be hard pressed to argue which party on the streets of London, the thugs or the cops, is more irredeemably stupid.

http://dakotabeacon.com/entry/mark_steyn_britains_harvest_of_big_government_feral_youth_and_cowed_police/
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August 13, 2011 3:45pm
reid

Mr Brown’s “homophobic comments”, explained a spokesmoron for Thames Valley Police, were “not only offensive to the policeman and his horse, but any members of the general public in the area.”

Everyone knows horses understand English and what if the horse in fact was gay? What about that then? And how did Mr Brown know he wasn’t? He didn’t, did he. So there.

Crikey if he had’ve been Brown would have served time, for sure and we would have been right nasty about it, as well. Serve him right. Poor Lancelot. He’s got a very sensitive disposition, that’s all.
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August 13, 2011 4:02pm
gravedodger

@ joana, two buildings catastrophically collapsed, PGC built for the CHC Drainage Board early 60s and CTV building built some 10 years later.
Both built with some engineering requirements re EQs although somewhat below what is required today.
Why did those two fail when older and other contemporary structures endured.
The answers to those questions are IMO necessary for the rest of NZ’s buildings of that time.

Believe me when I say I am not normally a supporter of Commissions of inquiry, your points resonate with me, however answers are needed and there are also questions re the CTV structure post Sept 4th and prior to Feb 22nd about the lifting of status and suspected inherent movement and unusual noise observed by survivors of those who worked there.
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August 13, 2011 4:05pm
reid

I’m pretty sure I’ve posted this before but if anyone missed it, very good British doco on how Murdoch influenced politics for over 40 years.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28715.htm
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August 13, 2011 4:11pm
axeman

Did you know that a police horse is a unique animal?

It is the only one with its c*nt on its back.
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August 13, 2011 4:20pm
nasska

reid

You seem knowledgeable about things financial. Do you know what currency NZ’s overseas debt is in? My reason for asking is that if the USA decides to hyperinflate its way out of trouble & our debt is in US$ we could end up with a free piggyback ride.
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August 13, 2011 4:23pm
tom hunter

“What was remarkable was to see outside of Washington the enthusiasm, the energy, the hopefulness, the decency of the American people. And what I said to them is you deserve better. You deserve better than you’ve been getting out of Washington over the last 2½ months – for that matter, for the last 2½ years.”

I could not agree more Mr Obama. But is that really what you wanted to say about your time as President?
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August 13, 2011 4:33pm
reid

No idea nasska, but I hope it’s denominated in sea shells because we have lots of those.

China and Russia are already advocating reserve replacement but question is: to what? I doubt currently encumbered creditor banks are going to let their own book values become engangered just cause the USD is dying. A solution will be found but time it could be interpreted in some ways, is running out and the Euro, the only other viable alternative for a single currency as opposed to a basket, is a real basket case at the mo. Poor ole ECB isn’t in any position to become the world’s Fed and won’t be for the foreseeable.

I suspect the correct answer is to request the creditor banks to make an appropriate book entry and the whole thing would disappear just like in the movies, but that probably won’t be what happens.
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August 13, 2011 4:34pm
nasska

reid

Guess it was a pipe dream but no doubt without the USD as a reserve currency doing business internationally is going to get a whole lot harder.
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August 13, 2011 4:43pm
reid

One interesting possibility is the US ditches the dollar in favour of a gold-backed currency. They could do that, but it’s not time yet.
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August 13, 2011 4:47pm
Griff

Had to laugh at the protest half a dozen idiots one board kid hahaha some impact you morons.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/news/5440764/Adidas-feels-the-heat-of-fan-fury
stuff “Adidas felt the heat of fan fury today when protesters set fire to an adidas effigy outside Eden Park.”
The fire brigade were called to the protest. “It’s nearly all over so we are just going to help them dampen it down, he said.”

Or how to write a sensational story about nothing
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August 13, 2011 5:09pm
starboard

… Trout has a point. Fat people are fat because they eat shit. Chips , coke , chocolate , biscuits , pies etc..just look in their trolleys…taking gst of fruit and vege wont mean jack shit, they will continue to eat crap. Fail Phil.
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August 13, 2011 5:23pm
Griff

Socialist Aotearoa

I have been laughing ever since I saw your protest. Some brand marketing would proberbly help your cause. Being a joke is not a good look

Just a hint before you protest any more read this

Saul David Alinsky rules for radicals
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August 13, 2011 5:34pm
reid

How to build a nuclear sub:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5mKzBFuKn4&feature=related
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August 13, 2011 5:40pm
Scott Chris

Jon Stewart exposes Fox News’ Megyn Kelly’s hypocrisy. Hilarious. Go to 9.21 or watch the whole episode. Begins with a bit on the Iowa straw poll.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/thu-august-11-2011-michael-wallis
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August 13, 2011 5:56pm
joana

Reid..are you bored or what..?? I don’t know anything about finance/economics but I thought the US was out of gold? I am going to pass yr nuclear sub idea on to an unemployed engineer I know.
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August 13, 2011 6:49pm
Viking2

Did we know that a National Party conference was on this weekend??

Well no DPF “forgot” to tell us in his usual open way.
Whats up DPF?
No live blogging for this conference?

Dear dear. either DPF isn’t invited or ???
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/5440441/Nationals-welfare-reforms-to-target-young-people

Key joked that he had given Finance Minister Bill English one task this year – to get New Zealand’s credit rating equal to the United States.

The US credit rating was last week downgraded to AA+ by Standard and Poor’s.
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English got one back at Key in his speech, however, joking that he had got New Zealand’s credit rating equal with the US quicker than Key had caused New Zealand to catch up with Australia.

Both failed. ARGHHHHH
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August 13, 2011 6:57pm
reid

I thought the US was out of gold?

Yes that’s also my understanding joanna but that doesn’t mean they can’t or won’t find a way to do it.

I am going to pass yr nuclear sub idea on to an unemployed engineer I know.

I’d quite like to build my own nuclear sub, it’d be a talking point at parties.
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August 13, 2011 6:58pm
nasska

As you may have heard, a recent medical study showed that frequent masturbation can actually reduce a man’s chances of developing prostate cancer, as well as numerous other illnesses.

In related news, the life expectancy of the average Red Alert commentator has just been calculated at over 120 years.
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August 13, 2011 7:00pm
Steve

‘I’d quite like to build my own nuclear sub, it’d be a talking point at parties.’

Come and see me when you want to order the steel, I have a few contacts
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August 13, 2011 7:11pm
Viking2

While the overall unemployment rate in New Zealand is 6.5 per cent, the rates for young people ages 15 to 19 is 27.6 per cent.

Of all unemployed, 43.8 per cent are aged under 25.

could include addressing both youth unemployment and training and young women on the DPB but it is not expected to include a return to youth rates.

In his speech this morning, Finance Minister Bill English said in a growing economy “we will need everyone who can work to be in work”.

“Unemployment among those aged 25 and over is already down to 4.5 per cent, with an ageing population leaving the workforce in increasing numbers,” English said.

Where do they get this stuff?
Just a few days ago there were posts on here showing that there are more over 65’s in the workforce than ever.

No wonder they can never figure it out.
To much living in offices.
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August 13, 2011 7:13pm
pdm

Lofty where are you????

HAWKES BAY 32 bay of not much 13

It is resolved – there is only one bay – Hawkes Bay!!!!

Come on The Bay!!!!!!
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August 13, 2011 7:20pm
krazykiwi

reid –

Well they need to take out the comms network somehow Griff, they just do

That capability already exists in UK mobile phone networks. It was used after the recent London bombings. The big-switch mechanism basically renders all ordinary cellphones inoperable, while leaving those of police, emergency services and key leaders still working and with heaps of capacity. One NZ mobile network provider claims to have this capability but doesn’t. Another doesn’t claim to have it, but has recently implemented it. And the others don’t count 🙂
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August 13, 2011 7:22pm
RF

Spare a thought for Helen Clark. Just seen a full face photo of her over on KB where she is singing her own praises about her saving the Tampa.

I was shocked to see all that dental work she spent on her teeth has failed. You have to compare this recent photo with others taken pre election in 2008 when she had perfect white teeth.

Isn’t life a bitch.
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August 13, 2011 7:25pm
RF

Sorry DF. Meant Stuff. I was getting too excited with my hot news
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August 13, 2011 7:32pm
nasska

At school, a boy was told by a classmate that most adults are hiding at least one dark secret, and that this makes it very easy to blackmail them by saying, “I know the whole truth”. The boy decides to go home and try it out.
He goes home, and as he is greeted by his mother he says, “I know the whole truth.”
His mother quickly hands him $20 and says, “Just don’t tell your father.”
Quite pleased, the boy waits for his father to get home from work, and greets him with, “I know the whole truth.”
The father promptly hands him $40 and says, “Please don’t say a word to your mother.”
Very pleased, the boy is on his way to school the next day, when he sees the mailman at his front door. The boy greets him by saying, “I know the whole truth.”
The mailman drops the mail, opens his arms, and says, “Then come give your FATHER a big hug.”
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August 13, 2011 7:39pm
Viking2

Who wrote this?

To promote good citizenship and self-reliance; to combat communism and socialism; to maintain freedom of contract; to encourage private enterprise; to safeguard individual rights and the privilege of ownership; to oppose interference by the State in business, and State control of industry”.
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August 13, 2011 7:41pm
side show bob

” a recent medical study showed that frequent masturbation can reduce a man’s chances of developing prostrate cancer”. This news will be most welcomed, great news for the crew over at the substandard.
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August 13, 2011 7:43pm
joana

No Rf.
Life’s not a bitch. ….. is a bitch. What is she doing back here? Checking on her feminazi mates.? they seem to be on another roll. The Aussie are bending over re women on boards and the girls here are rubbing their hands together..Only 9 per cent women on boards in NZ..Heaven help us..Bring in the quota system..bla bla bla.. Don’t you just love those feminazis. they are like rust;they never sleep.
If you think NZ has gone to the dogs now , just wait a few years..
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August 13, 2011 7:43pm
Viking2

Yep, Joanna, many a true word spoken in jest.

Problem is exacerbated by the girlish so called men that infest so many institutions as well.

only 30% of real men left. Makes the competition tough for you ladies wanting to mate.
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August 13, 2011 7:55pm
nasska

Three British educational institutions were commissioned by the government to discover why the human penis is the shaped the way it is. Oxford University allocated a budget of £500,000 for research. After 2 years they concluded that the reason the head of the penis is wider than the shaft is that it fits better, when in situ, so to speak. This would prevent leakage of semen and increase the probability of successful fertilisation.
Cambridge University spent £750,000 on a research programme that lasted years. The results showed that the penis widened near the tip because it maximised the number of nerve endings stimulated during sex. This would lead to increased sensitivity and a better chance of impregnation.
Finally, the Open University spent £2.50 on a copy of Playboy and 10 minutes in the staff toilet, only to discover that the penis widens at the tip in order to prevent your hand from slipping off the end.
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August 13, 2011 8:01pm
Steve

No problem for the real men nasska. The other 70% of not real men will have a problem with the tip being much smaller.
Not that I would know 🙂
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August 13, 2011 8:12pm
Griff

@RF
I wish I did not have to. I saw the photo you are referring to. Der Clarkenfurhrur still makes me heave after all this time.
I guess labor have smuggled her back in to see if she can make a difference in the polls.
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August 13, 2011 8:13pm
Steve

Wait until this catches on in NZ:
http://eater.com/archives/2011/08/10/a-whole-stick-of-fried-butter-on-a-stick-at-the-iowa-state-fair.php#fried-butter-on-a-stick-3
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August 13, 2011 8:15pm
Steve

‘I guess labor have smuggled her back in to see if she can make a difference in the polls.’

Yes she will make a difference. Another reminder to never never ever let these lying, cheating, thieving, leeching, coniving, taxgrabbing socialist iceholes to get control again.
Why is she here? Got told to fuck off in 2008 and yet hangs around like a bad smell
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August 13, 2011 8:28pm
Griff

New Investment Definitions

These terms have been redefined to fit current circumstances:

CEO – Chief Embezzlement Officer.

CFO – Corporate Fraud Officer.

BULL MARKET – A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius.

BEAR MARKET – A six to eighteen month period when the kids get no allowance, the wife gets no jewelry, and the husband gets no sex!

VALUE INVESTING – The art of buying low and selling lower.

P/E RATIO – The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the market keeps crashing.

BROKER – What my broker has made me.

(S&P) STANDARD & POOR – Your life in a nutshell.

STOCK ANALYST – Idiot who just downgraded your stock.

STOCK SPLIT — When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your assets equally between themselves.

MARKET CORRECTION – The day after you buy stocks.

CASH FLOW – The movement your money makes as it disappears down the Toilet.

INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR – Past year investor who’s now locked up in a Nuthouse.

MOMENTUM INVESTING – The fine art of buying high and selling low.

‘BUY, BUY’ – A flight attendant making market recommendations as you step off the plane.

FINANCIAL PLANNER – A guy who actually remembers his wallet when he runs to the 7-Eleven for toilet paper and cigarettes.

CALL OPTION – Something people used to do with a telephone in ancient times before e-mail.

YA HOO – What you yell after selling all you owned to some poor sucker for $240 per share.

WINDOWS – What you jump out of when you’re the sucker that bought Yahoo for $240 per share.

PROFIT – Religious guy who talks to God.
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August 13, 2011 8:40pm
Viking2

It is a story well worth recording and one that deserves more study. From a distance, it is like an allegory of social breakdown and recovery: initially, the crowding and confusion lead to a severe stressing of the social fabric, a weakening of the body politic, so to speak, of which criminals take advantage; then order is reasserted, the criminals are eliminated, responsibility is demanded and granted, and a social microcosm is restored.

Interesting read about ww1.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/intern-nation/story-e6frg8n6-1226111096259
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August 13, 2011 8:51pm
Viking2

Someone gets it!

Italy squeezes $63bn in new savings to avoid ‘unstoppable decline’

THE Italian government approved legislation today aimed at squeezing 45.5 billion euros ($63 billion) in fiscal savings over the next two years in a bid to balance the budget in 2013.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/economics/italy-squeezes-63bn-in-new-savings/story-e6frg926-1226114173149
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August 13, 2011 8:59pm
Griff

How Much Is A Billion?
The next time you hear a politician use the word “billion” casually think about whether you do, or don’t, want that politician spending your tax money!!
A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but an advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure in perspective in one of its releases:
A billion seconds ago, it was 1959.
A billion minutes ago, Jesus was alive.
A billion hours ago, our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.

And….

A billion dollars ago, was only 8 hours and 20 minutes at the rate Washington spends
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August 13, 2011 9:05pm
Steve

But if I spend one billion dollars, someone else can pay it back. Or they may find out the bank is fucking empty and has been for ages
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August 13, 2011 9:12pm
joana

Viking2
I never speak in jest. I am a post feminist women as I have discussed here before. There are not many of us out here..I freely acknowledge the brainwashing I rec’d from female teachers in a girls school many moons ago.
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August 14, 2011 9:25am
mikenmild

A big day for the National Party today? John Key is expected to announces policies on welfare reform, focused on young people.

All sensible stuff, I’m sure, but why bother? National is riding high in the polls and is looking at being able to form a government without a need for coalition partners or support parties. So why announce more policy now that they have no intention of following through?

National has chosen a traditional ‘do nothing’ policy for its first term, and has been rewarded with huge popularity. Why change a wining formula?
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