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January 14, 2010 4:06pm by David Farrar

General Debate 14 January 2009

Lost Internet for around 12 hours so finally gave up and went to beach. Hence this is the first post of the day!

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Manolo

“Lost Internet for around 12 hours so finally gave up and went to beach.”

Nah, you lost a whole year. Heading still gives the year as 2009.
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January 14, 2010 4:18pm
Redbaiter

A full listing of Obama’s Czars.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2427827/posts

All around the Western World, cadres of extreme leftists are gaining power by pretending to be centre left.
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January 14, 2010 4:20pm
Murray

Its pronounced “was forced to exist in reality”.
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January 14, 2010 4:20pm
PaulL

The level of your addiction can be determined by how long you spent trying to obtain that internet connection before you decided the beach was a better idea.
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January 14, 2010 4:27pm
MyNameIsJack

Meanwhile, in 2010, Sarah “No Time for a Job” Palin has given up on her presidential aspirations to become a comedy act on FOX. Much better suited to her style, on FOX you don’t have to know anything, don’t have to follow a script and they STILL pay for your wardrobe.
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January 14, 2010 4:31pm
Redbaiter

Its so great to witness how Sarah Palin creates such terror in the hearts and minds of scuttling leftist lowlife.
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January 14, 2010 4:38pm
MyNameIsJack

What terror? She is pure comedy gold, in fact I can’t tell the difference between Palin and Fey, they’re both so incredibly funny. The more exposure Palin gets, the less credibility she will have.
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January 14, 2010 4:43pm
Inventory2

Sorry DPF, but “The dog ate my internet connection” is not a good enough excuse for your slackness. Please try harder in future 😉
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January 14, 2010 4:44pm
Redbaiter

“What terror?”

I dunno, I just thought your obvious obsession with the divine Sarah was a manifestation of fear, for such behaviour always naturally raises the question, if she’s so incompetent, why would she be worthy of such attention?

Its obvious. As a straight talking clear thinking Conservative who would set back the objectives of the knuckle dragging left two decades if she makes President, she scares you completely shitless.
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January 14, 2010 4:48pm
joe90

Credibility, what credibility.

Sarah Palin has trouble with truth.

John McCain’s top campaign strategist said in an interview Sunday that Sarah Palin was dishonest as the GOP’s vice-presidential nominee and that her untruths have done long-term damage to her public image.
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January 14, 2010 4:55pm
Pete George

Palin is reportedly quite excited about appearing on Fox, she hopes she can interview herself so she will be able to answer the questions.

It would scare me if she became Pres, or VP, but that’s not going to happen, she’s safe on Fox.
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January 14, 2010 5:02pm
joe90

Redstates Erick Erickson;

I am afraid Sarah Palin is going to harm herself unintentionally over this tea party convention in Nashville.

“Charging people $500.00 plus the costs of travel and lodging to go to a “National Tea Party Convention” run by a for profit group no one has ever heard of sounds as credible as an email from Nigeria promising me a million bucks”
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January 14, 2010 5:07pm
Danyl Mclauchlan

Its so great to witness how Sarah Palin creates such terror in the hearts and minds of scuttling leftist lowlife.

The left is ‘afraid’ of Palin in much the same way the right is afraid of Judith Tizard.
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January 14, 2010 5:23pm
Adolf Fiinkensein

Yadda yadda yadda. She’ll get more profile with more voters via Fox than your lot would get in ten years from the combined efforts of the tired old mistrusted New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and ABC.

That’s why you’re shitting yourselves, dolts.
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January 14, 2010 5:27pm
Redbaiter

“The left is ‘afraid’ of Palin in much the same way the right is afraid of Judith Tizard.”

One thing to your credit Danny. When it comes to propaganda, you’re never going to be as good as your mentor Joe Stalin. I don’t see anyone going apoplectic over Judith. If she had ever produced the fear in the right that Sarah produces in the left, (see the mass derangement above) she might have amounted to more than a dish washer, a political cronyist and a hanger on.
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January 14, 2010 5:30pm
andrei

Its so great to witness how Sarah Palin creates such terror in the hearts and minds of scuttling leftist lowlife.

The left is ‘afraid’ of Palin in much the same way the right is afraid of Judith Tizard.

Sure Danyl, we spend all day discussing what a bimbo Judith Tizard is – not!!!!

Day after day we see sneering comments about the Lady from Alaska – Why I ask myself?

There is definitely something about her that gets the “reality based community” frothing at the mouth.

Perhaps it is that she is pretty, a characteristic notably lacking in women on the left.

Not that I’d be so cruel to name names or to bring up photo-shopped election material
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January 14, 2010 5:31pm
trout

Are we over the indigenous culture crap at last (and the harmful effects on kids) – the ozzies lead the way.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/white-grandmother-wins-custody-of-tiwi-kids/story-e6frg6nf-1225819009605

Someone tell WINZ.
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January 14, 2010 5:37pm
joe90

Hi Facebook fans! It’s Sarah here!

You know, I read all the magazines and books and stuff, and so I just got done watching that 30 Minutes thing they did about me on MSNBC, and they just got everything wrong, didn’t they?

You betcha!

Now, I don’t really think that I should have to correct everyone else when I already corrected them over a year ago during the election, but it looks like these liberal Democrat guys like Steve Schtick who were on the other team just won’t stop making stuff up about me! I mean, did he even really get to know me? Wasn’t he on the Obiden campaign or something?

I guess it’s not that important. It’s also not that important that people think I didn’t know the differences of some things they say were important, and really weren’t! I mean, does it really matter if I can remember where North Korea is in the Middle East? Does it matter that I couldn’t remember how many TV sets Iraq makes and sends to our country every year? Osama Hussein sure did attack us on 9/11 and everyone knows it – they didn’t have to teach me that. And who cares about when World War III was fought? That’s so last century and quite unimportant.

No, what is important is that being a hockey mom from Alass-ka, I was fully qualified to lead our nation into the twentieth century.

Now, I know that all the other news channels are really jealous today because I chose Fox News over them, and they’re probably going to be running that Katie Gibson interview and the one with the other guy they all think that I messed up on. I think it was on CNN or something, but I’m not sure. But does that matter? No it doesn’t, because as Steve said that I already said: It’s all part of God’s plan.

And it is! That’s why you’re all voting for me, isn’t it? Because, you know, God’s plan is so much more important than anything else and I’m perfectly qualified to be the enabler of it. Just ask any mom with lots of kids who ran a small town in a snowy place! You know, I betcha Obiden doesn’t have to remember where all the mitts are for his kids before he sends them to school on a cold day, but I do! And does that Steve guy know how to ration your heating logs when a storm front comes in? I don’t think so.

That sort of energy experience is vital for a President to have in the twentieth century, and I’m that girl! That’s right, moms, you know what I mean. Because when it comes time to staring down Emir Putin from Saudi Arabia because he wants to sell us more steel and put good Americans out of work in the steel mills, that’s the kinda knowhow that’ll make the difference at that table! I should know!

And when it comes time for whether or not we allow Obiden Care to let terrorists into our hospitals while we Americans are lined up in death camps in front of panels which choose who lives or dies, that’s the kinda of experience that won’t let America go Socialist on you!

It’s true I haven’t traveled much in the world, but that’s what Air Force One is for, right? And what I need to know about is America, not the rest of the world. Not France or Iran. It’s just so important that I know other things, like what the evils of Communism look like. Remember, I stared at those evil things going on from my porch while looking at Communist Russia for so many years.

What is really the most important thing though, is knowing how to cheer on your team. That’s what a President is! And who better qualified than me to be doing that? Everyone knows it!

So thank you for your support and God Bless you all.

Sarah Palin.

Summer
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January 14, 2010 5:42pm
Redbaiter

” Day after day we see sneering comments about the Lady from Alaska – Why I ask myself? ”

Its their standard modus operandi. Especially when someone frightens them. They have no real answer to anyone who stands up and confronts their ideology (which survival depends on silencing critics through intimidation and ridicule) so have to fall back on character assassination.

As I have always said, call the left’s bluff. They never have anything that will withstand real scrutiny. So all they have is their own arrogance and sneers and childlike allegations such as “dumb, stupid, etc”.

The dimbulb left are also slow to pick up on the difference between a Republican and a Conservative.

See above for examples.
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January 14, 2010 5:43pm
Tim Ellis

What happened to the comment ratings?
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January 14, 2010 5:56pm
Pete George

It’s just as well we have stalwarts like you who would never stoop to intimidation and ridicule, or have to fall back on character assassination. Someone who would never sneer or make childlike allegations such as “dumb, stupid, etc”.

You’re funny, just about as funny as your red mate Palin. Who would fear a good laugh?
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January 14, 2010 5:58pm
Tim Ellis

If ever there were a sign that the Left are starting to lose it, it is this comment from roger nome at the left wing sewer today:

i wish the standard had enough cash to send someone after Key on his hollidays to snoop around in Hawaii. what the hell does he do there anyhow? i hope it’s all savory activities. no strip clubs etc…. if he were going to indulge in anything that offends “mainsteam NZ” he sure as hell wouldn’t be doing it in Wellington.

at the very least an expat NZ asset could be developed to keep tabs on him.

a flight of fancy perhaps, but maybe not an unrealistic one..

http://www.thestandard.org.nz/the-whaling-plan/#comment-183598
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January 14, 2010 6:00pm
Redbaiter

” You’re funny, just about as funny as your red mate Palin. Who would fear a good laugh?”

I hope I’m funnier than Joe 90’s mate Summer whose got as much talent in the satire trade as Helen Klark has in painting pictures. Poor old Joe, nothing to contribute ever apart from his obsessive and desperate need to try and persuade us to read the works of the half witted political commentators he approves of.
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January 14, 2010 6:04pm
Whafe

Great, the left are filling their nappies with steamy brown stuff again re Sarah P…. It is a beautiful thing how she installs fear in the lefties around the globe…. Carry on being scared you lefty clown pants, just wait, she is a coming…
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January 14, 2010 6:08pm
Angus

Detroit, once the jewel in the crown of the industrialized world – ruined by decades of progressivism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hhJ_49leBw&feature=player_embedded#

Then & Now – a pictorial view of Venezuela under Chavez.
http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2010/01/venezuela-under-chavez-socialism.html#links
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January 14, 2010 6:20pm
fatman43us

Joe90: it must be the glasses, you’re writing like a dork!
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January 14, 2010 6:22pm
Pete George

Should we be scared Palin might one day hear of NZ (God might tell her), or worse, learn what direction to look in to see us?

Or are you hoping that if you repeat it enough somehow someone might think there is something to be worried about? You’d better help out and explain what the fear is supposed to be about.
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January 14, 2010 6:29pm
Richard Hurst

Meanwhile Google has had enough of Commie spying: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html
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January 14, 2010 6:30pm
Reg

Could someone explain to me in laymens terms why Karma has been removed.
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January 14, 2010 6:44pm
Say Goodbye to Hollywood

I understand from DPF that the karma was attracting DOS attacks.
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January 14, 2010 6:55pm
jaba

Tim .. how many weeks/months left on your Redalert ban .. they REALLY need more people to challenge the shit they dream up.
maybe they should employ Mike Williams as a private eye to check on JK .. he has experience in this field, found fuck all BUT the left will never let the “rich prick” title go.
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January 14, 2010 6:55pm
Inventory2

No contempt charge for Cam Slater

http://keepingstock.blogspot.com/2010/01/no-harpoon-yet.html
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January 14, 2010 6:58pm
Say Goodbye to Hollywood

Roger Nome, what a complete waste of space that idiot is.
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January 14, 2010 6:58pm
Reg

Sorry for being thick Hollywood, but what’s a DOS attack
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January 14, 2010 7:08pm
Steve

It’s a disk operated system attack!!

No it’s not, it’s denial of service. Wonder where this comes from? Hackers love this anachy. Certain blogsites not getting enough hits coz they banned so many people? They must be quackers.
Jealousy comes to mind.
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January 14, 2010 7:25pm
Hurf Durf

joe90’s rectal anguish makes me lol.
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January 14, 2010 7:27pm
Redbaiter

Two very good links Angus- thanks for that.

Interesting that this is comment coming from the new media.

Meanwhile all we get from the hopelessly compromised mainstream media is the same old same old glorification of socialism. All lies and propaganda, and they wonder why they are despised and held in contempt by so many people. Cowardly Progressive scum who cheer for destruction.

Reg- A DOS attack is an action by which inarticulate leftist are Denied the Opportunity of Spite. No means to submit negative karma means they actually have to explain why they disagree, and most can’t do this.
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January 14, 2010 7:32pm
Redbaiter

” Tim .. how many weeks/months left on your Redalert ban .. ”

Gosh Tim, you weren’t being OFFENSIVE were you? How terrible. Especially after all your instructions to Redbaiter as to how things should be done.

I guess when your posting rights are restored on Red Alert, you’ll be back there grovelling and kissing arse as usual.

Playing the game by their rules, and you still get banned.

A loser in triplicate.
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January 14, 2010 7:38pm
Fletch

Nah, you lost a whole year. Heading still gives the year as 2009.

Speaking of 2009…
If anyone is still using RIP, you’ll have to edit the RIP to change it from 2009 to 2010.
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January 14, 2010 7:51pm
tristanb

Redbaiter, you must just be baiting the so-called communists you conjure up in your imagination. She’s an idiot! A complete retard! She is the stupidest woman on TV! She is thickest, dumbest, most-useless, moronic half-wit America has ever seen. And they’ve got their share of idiots.

God, she’s dumb.
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January 14, 2010 8:05pm
Redbaiter

Thanks for that opinion tristanb, its just what I needed to prove my case.
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January 14, 2010 8:19pm
Michaels

BALOO BALOO WHERE FOR ART THOUGH BALOO!!!!!!
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January 14, 2010 8:33pm
big bruv

“She is thickest, dumbest, most-useless, moronic half-wit America has ever seen.”

I take it you have never heard of plastic Pelosi then?
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January 14, 2010 8:41pm
PaulL

Fletch, the person I would have used RIP on is not here very frequently anymore. Maybe he got a job?

Tim, a denial of service attack is when some hackers generate lots of traffic on a website, thereby causing it to run slow or crash. This means that the users of that website stop using it. Presumably the karma buttons, since they let an unregistered user generate transactions, were a way for someone to do that.

I wonder where that DOS was coming from – could be interesting. Surely nobody in the blogosphere would feel that was a good idea? I don’t see why anyone who wasn’t somehow politically involved in NZ would want to do it – there is nothing to gain from a DOS on kiwiblog unless you’re politically motivated.

I guess it takes all sorts.
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January 14, 2010 9:02pm
grumpyoldhori

Trout , interesting about those kids, after the stolen children saga the Aussies have been very sensitive about taking half cast kids away from their mothers for obvious reasons.
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January 14, 2010 9:44pm
grumpyoldhori

Come on people, you are speaking about America’s Margaret Thacher when you mention Caribou barbie, don’t you realise that conservatives believe she has the education and the intellectual fire power of Thatcher at her peak ?
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January 14, 2010 9:48pm
malcolm

I don’t see why anyone who wasn’t somehow politically involved in NZ would want to do it – there is nothing to gain from a DOS on kiwiblog unless you’re politically motivated.

I doubt that. Most likely a teenager got a hacking book out of the library during the school holidays and went looking for a popular site with that sort of AJAX functionality. No point DOS’ing a site which only gets three visits a day.
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January 14, 2010 9:51pm
Fletch

Maybe the karma function could be altered so that one has to be logged in, in order to increase or decrease karma. That would stop attacks from multiple random machines.
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January 14, 2010 10:07pm
Sonny Blount

Well at least the democrats have Joe Biden as VP. Easily the most pathetic candidate on the ballot in 08. But I guess they were smart enough to campaign in all 58 states, so they won.
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January 15, 2010 1:35am
Sonny Blount

Maybe the karma function could be altered so that one has to be logged in, in order to increase or decrease karma. That would stop attacks from multiple random machines.

They went a bit haywire since he made those changes a while back. I was able to vote multiple times sometimes whereas previously they would always grey out. Perhaps he should change them back to the olden days.
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January 15, 2010 1:37am
dime

Palin is great. she keeps the base energised. takes focus off the republicans that will make a run. the left are terrified of her because their attacks aren’t denting her popularity. its all good.
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