General Debate 18 March 2009

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greenfly

The very, very quiet behaviour of Judith Collins lately is understandable and is probably the result of her having had her fangs extracted.
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March 18, 2009 8:19am
llew

Or someone else’s inserted.
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March 18, 2009 8:28am
Wycroft

What sort of animal is a Chris Hipkins?

Is it soft on gangs?
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March 18, 2009 8:36am
wreck1080

Bloody hell, trustpower just debited my credit card 3 times for last months power bill.

Anyone else had a problem?
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March 18, 2009 8:39am
goodgod

Bloody hell, trustpower just debited my credit card 3 times for last months power bill.

Anyone else had a problem?

Oh that’s ok, that’s just them preparing the ground for Chairman Cullen. That you have a credit card tells them you are a rich prick. How dare you.
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March 18, 2009 8:49am
Tauhei Notts

(1.) It might possibly be a side effect of so many N.Z. dairy farmers feeding their cows palm kernel, that the Sri Lankans think that Fonterra products are contaminated with palm oil.
(2.) If a Housing Corporation employee gave me the full name and date of birth of a subsidised Housing Corp tenant, that employee would be summarily dismissed. If that employee had given sensitive information to the Mongrel Mob he/she will keep their job. Go figure that one.
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March 18, 2009 9:05am
Spam

After watching John Campbell fawn all over the lastest AGW alarmist film, I read a review:
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/6359/

Interesting.
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March 18, 2009 9:08am
Rakaia George

I bumped into our newly elected MP, Sam Lotu-Iiga at the garden gate the other night as he was doing his own leg-work delivering letters. First impression:what a bloody good bloke, I’m gald I voted for him…of course he’s a keen newbie and all that, but if he and the famously hard-working Nikki Kaye up the road are any guide to the quality of National’s new intake then it’ll take more than pretending to drink a half of lager in Greymouth to make Labour relevant again.
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March 18, 2009 9:34am
LUCY

Spam – Fab review. You should send it to Campbell.
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March 18, 2009 9:44am
aardvark

I’m wondering if anyone else has been having the same problems with their local council that I’ve been having with mine (ie: the lights are on but nobody’s home).

I blogged about it today — please chip in if you’ve found the levels of service to be significantly less than might be considered reasonable.

Where are you Rodney?
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March 18, 2009 9:45am
Chuck Bird

Let us hope Mr Key takes note of this latest poll. The general public understand that even a light smack is a criminal offence.

http://www.nzcpr.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=124

83% Still Want Smacking Law Fixed – Poll

Almost two years after the passing of the controversial anti-smacking law, more than 80% of NZ’ers still want the law changed and 77% say that the law won’t have any effect on our unacceptable child abuse rate.

These are the key finding of research commissioned by Family First NZ, following on from similar research in 2007 and 2008.

The Curia Market Research poll surveyed 1,000 people, and also found huge confusion over the legal effect of the law.

83% said that the new law should be changed to state explicitly that parents who give their children a smack that is reasonable and for the purpose of correction are not breaking the law (85% in 2008, 82% in 2007).
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KEY FINDINGS
83% say the law should be changed – only 13% say to keep it as is
77% says the law won’t help reduce the rate of child abuse in NZ
Less than one third of respondents actually understand the law
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“This is essentially the same question that will be put to NZ’ers in the Referendum at the end of July. The government can save $8 million of taxpayer funding towards the cost of running the Referendum during a recession, and amend the law now,” says Bob McCoskrie, National Director of Family First NZ.

Respondents were also asked whether the new law makes it always illegal for parents to give their children a light smack. 55% said yes, 31% said no, and 14% didn’t know.

“This proves just how confusing the law is to parents and it is this confusion that is causing huge harm. Parents have been given conflicting messages by the promoters of the law, legal opinions have contradicted each other, and on top of that is police discretion but not CYF discretion to investigate.”

“Parents have a right to know whether they are parenting within the law or not. This law has just created confusion and as a result, good parents are being victimised,” says Mr McCoskrie. “Meanwhile, the rate of child abuse continues. This flawed law must be fixed and the real causes of child abuse confronted.”

The poll was conducted during the week beginning March 9, and has a margin of error of +/- 3.2%.
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March 18, 2009 10:57am
bearhunter

Spam, thanks for that review. Whatever your take on AGW, the use of language in the review was an absolute pleasure. “Eye-swivelling witlessness” indeed.
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March 18, 2009 11:27am
thedavincimode

Wreck 1080

Give them the flick. Burn fossil fuels.
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March 18, 2009 12:23pm
adc

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10562299

haven’t they heard of tranquilizer guns?
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March 18, 2009 12:47pm
freethinker

Just read that Astronomers are reporting that all the planets in the Solar system are heating up so clearly the global warmers are right and Mercurians Venusians, Martians et al are all pumping greenhouse gases into their atmospheres. Does our sun also shine on them too – perhaps there is a connection?????????
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March 18, 2009 1:48pm
senzafine

So. The Japs think the IPCC are all shite:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/25/jstor_climate_report_translation/
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March 18, 2009 2:27pm
grumpyoldhori

wreck1080 did you miss the letter sent to you ?
The extra payments are koha to me for trust power using my rivers for power generation.
The dosh has been put to very good use, a few bottles of a damn good single malt 🙂
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March 18, 2009 3:37pm
Patrick Starr

grumpy – so what’s your WINZ benefit number? – so we can debit your account for drinking our damn good single malt
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March 18, 2009 6:58pm
Whafe

Hope no one has loud neighbours, because you will be shit out of luck getting them evicted, even if they have been visited by 9 members of the men in blue in riot gear to get a stereo, or 30 noise complaints in 1 evening……

This PC crock of shit in this country will be the ruin of the country…
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March 18, 2009 7:25pm
Ross Miller

What is the most un pc song ever written?

Nick O Teen and Al K Hole would have to be in the mix.

And why should we be worried about un pc songs?

I’m not and neither are our two children who use the brain god gave them and a modicum of common sense to distinguish right from wrong.
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March 18, 2009 8:02pm
Chthoniid

What is the most un pc song ever written?

The late 70s track by the Drug Addix, titled ‘Gay Boys in Bondage’. Now fortunately available again through iTunes.
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March 18, 2009 8:16pm
wreck1080

Trustpower phoned me, that ‘2’ debits had been taken from my account.

They must not have a good handle on the situation, since, 3 were taken from my account. The CSR was unaware of this fact.
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March 18, 2009 11:23pm

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