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May 19, 2011 8:10am by David Farrar

General Debate 19 May 2011

Am in the Budget lockup today, so few stories until after 2 pm.

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Inventory2

Did you hear the one about the constipated Finance Minister?

He couldn’t budget …
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May 19, 2011 8:12am
Pete George

End of world classified ad from New York Craigslist (via Sideswipe)

Are you attending the Rapture on May 21? I expect to be left behind when it happens, so if you aren’t going to need your worldly possessions, be they money, cars, canned food, durable goods etc, I would gladly take them off your hands. Serious responses only, please. And remember time is short … Am willing to travel for said goods.

Opportunism or tongue in cheek? Anyone here wanting to dispense with unnecessaries before Saturday?
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May 19, 2011 8:32am
Nookin

IV2
So he called in his mathematician who worked it out with a pencil.
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May 19, 2011 8:34am
alex Masterley

Pete,
No, I’m going to work my way through the wine cellar, then the beer fridge, the pantry and then start on the port and cuban cigars finishing by 6.
If there is any shaking it will be as a consequence of the movements that follow.
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May 19, 2011 8:49am
rouppe

Fifty people owe $11 million in student debt

Wow. That’s $220,000 for each of those 50. How the heck…?

What caught my eye though was the statement from NZUSA co-president Max Hardy:

the recently introduced limit of seven years’ equivalent fulltime study per person was “arbitrary and restrictive”

You know these folk have been saying how I got free tertiary study, with no debt blah blah blah. When I was at university in the 1980’s the student allowance was available (this is from memory) “for five years or two degrees”. Well I didn’t concentrate fully and missed out on by Bachelor’s (after the usual three years) by one paper. One paper. Really pissed me off but I went back for the fourth year thinking I’d still have the allowance, just not be able to get it for a full 2 years of Masters study if I went that way.

Well the administrators at Waikato told me I couldn’t get the student allowance because I wasn’t doing Masters level, even though the rules said it was available for “5 years or 2 degrees”. Course back then I wasn’t a shit-stirrer so I just capitulated and got a part time job to get me through.

But it strikes me as funny that now seven years is “arbitrary and restrictive” when all I got was three…
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May 19, 2011 8:51am
Inventory2

Actually Nookin, in the more modern analogy, he’d call in a statistician to work it out with computer modelling
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May 19, 2011 8:51am
Mick Mac

or a computer model?
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May 19, 2011 8:56am
flipper

O’Reilly in NZHerald on Kyoto II or Cancun II is balanced. But on State-owned TV we continue to get rubbish on CO2….

A person named Jan Wright, holding the position of Parliamentary Commissioner for the environment, this morning (TVOne) demonstrated an abysmal lack of knowledge in respect of CO2. Her opposition to mining Southland’s lignite is predicated on her belief that the brown coal will produce massive amounts of so-called “greenhouse gases”. Worse, she described the culprit as CO2. If she had the slightest knowledge of problems associated with lignite use – problems which be managed – she would have referred to sulphur and other nasties.
Pollution by solids is always confused with CO2 which is not and never has been a problem.
She argued, so it would seem, that marginal increases in the concentration “of what is no more than a trace gas, amounting in total not to 10% of the earth’s atmosphere, not even to 5% – nay, not even to 1%. Can bring about cataclysmic changes in global climate. So, what exactly is the percentage concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere? Why, to be sure, it is a gasping, asphyxiating 1/27th part of a single percentage point” (R.C.E.Wyndham, Oxford, UK).
The more CO2 the better.

By the way Ms Wright; when did you swap your car (or your bus, train or aircraft travel) for Shanks Pony or a bicycle?
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May 19, 2011 9:10am
wat dabney

It has now been demonstrated how space particles entering the atmosphere – a process which, crucially, is modulated by solar activity – seed cloud formation.

“With the new results just published in the recognised journal Geophysical Research Letters, scientists have succeeded for the first time in directly observing that the electrically charged particles coming from space and hitting the atmosphere at high speed contribute to creating the aerosols that are the prerequisites for cloud formation.

The more cloud cover occurring around the world, the lower the global temperature – and vice versa when there are fewer clouds. The number of particles from space vary from year to year – partly controlled by solar activity. An understanding of the impact of cosmic particles – consisting of electrons, protons and other charged particles – on cloud formation and thereby the number of clouds, is therefore very important as regards climate models.”

http://science.au.dk/en/news-and-events/news-article/artikel/forskere-fra-au-og-dtu-viser-at-partikler-fra-rummet-skaber-skydaekke/

So solar activity controls cloud formation which controls the weather.

Note that for the past few years the climate alarmists have been trying to dismiss such a physical process, since having the sun control the weather, rather than CO2, doesn’t fit with their self-serving agenda.
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May 19, 2011 9:47am
gravedodger

DPF’s post yesterday on Dairy farms not paying their share of tax elicited 119 opinions and nearly 100 of them commented through a fog of ignoring standard business accounting, ignoring the difference between gross and net incomes, ignoring the extreme financial pressure exerted when capital stock have to be sold in drought/flood events incurring abnormal tax liabilities that are the main thrust of declaring an adverse weather event, ignoring the exposure that many rapidly expanding highly leveraged entities are incurring and the most salient fact that the year chosen by “rooter” Nash was when the payout plummetted to just over $4.00 leading to major losses for most operators.

Some 12 000 dairy farms paying local body rates of say $20 000 each (est), total $240 000 000, then total all the extortion involved in having to obtain RMA consents to dig a drain, build an effluent pond, form a road, build a shed, sneeze, take a dump, say another odd mill or several, now that is really fair eh.

Thank all the gods for the dairy industry, $11 billion in 2010 while the GFC and its fragile recovery are the focus of the naval gazers.
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May 19, 2011 9:48am
Manolo

So much for trusting the natives. Maybe the communication was not in Te Reo?:

Deadline day for Waiwhetu Maori in Lower Hutt to hand over $150,000 in a deal that would let them keep the waka Te Raukura has passed – but no money has changed hands. Instead, Te Runanganui o Taranaki Whanui ki te Upoko o te Ika a Maui Inc wrote to Wellington City Council yesterday repeating its position that payment would only be made once a settlement agreement was signed.

Wellington City Council is now seeking legal advice. On April 20, councillors voted to give Maori 28 days to front up with the cash, which the council insists is a binding agreement.
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May 19, 2011 9:53am
Ender

What’s peoples positions on David Cunliffe’s GDP per capita graphs?

http://blog.labour.org.nz/index.php/2011/05/19/budget-faqs-5-growth-hockey-stick/
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May 19, 2011 10:02am
Falafulu Fisi

Ender, David Cunliffe is correct about the problems with Govt forecasting.

See my comment on the other thread “Cunliffe Poll”. In saying that, Labour relied heavily on the same forecasting methods from Treasury (as the current National Govt does) when they (Labour) were in Govt, but now Labour is criticizing (as the opposition).
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May 19, 2011 10:17am
RightNow

Dominique Strauss-Kahn is now being held in a unit reserved for people with communicable diseases. It seems the women he is accused of assaulting lives in an apartment building rented exclusively for adults with HIV/AIDS.
Strauss-Kahn, if the allegations of rape are true, may well have given himself a life sentence.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/imf_accuser_in_apt_for_hiv_vics_oZmUkbtouJ14RHw1434HvJ
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May 19, 2011 10:19am
Pete George

There are a heap of stories and rumours on the Strauss-Kahn case, we’ll have to see what turns out to be true, if that’s possible in the media and legal circus. But this statement…

His wife, Anne Sinclair, visited him in jail. “I do not believe for a single second the accusations levelled against my husband,” she said in a statement.

…surprises me, although I guess they could have had a very “open” marriage. But if the HIV story is correct she may not feel so supportive.
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May 19, 2011 10:28am
Chuck Bird

Did anyone else notice the comments about the murder/suicide in Oz? The previous incidents murder/suicide in NZ were selectively highlighted. That is the ones where the father is the perpetrator. There have been plenty of cases where the mother was the perpetrator but the normal response is to make excuses for the woman unlike when a father commits the same despicable crime.

This happened on the same day that a woman Whangarei was found not guilt of murder but guilty manslaughter for the brutal killing of her young child.

It would be nice to have one law for all applying to men and women particularly when it come to the ill treatment including killing of defenseless children.
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May 19, 2011 10:33am
Falafulu Fisi

Hurray, 1 more post from Pete George and then he reaches a milestone of 10,000 POSTS! I recommend the NOBEL committee to award Mr George a prize for his heroic efforts.
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May 19, 2011 10:35am
Ender

I was more hoping to get at the fact that Cunliffe is crowing on about how badly we have been doing since Wonder Woman left NZ to the National dogs.

GDP per capita 1.3% down from half year update projection doesn’t seem terribly bad to me considering.

As an aside, looking at the World Bank World Development Indicators via Google Public Data, I notice NZ is one of a very select few countries to have an uptick in GDP per capita post-2008. The world average and certainly most other countries show a distinct fall, some very severe. Also, by the figures David Cunliffe listed on his post we currently sit somewhere about $4k per annum above where we were at (with Labour) before the bubble ~2007. Not much to crow for about Labour when you look at things as a whole?

If I’ve made a mistake in my readings please do dispute
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May 19, 2011 10:36am
TripeWryter

Mick Mac:

I left a reply for you at the end of yesterday’s GD thread.
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May 19, 2011 10:52am
TripeWryter

Flipper:

Maybe Ms Wright is parroting the utterances of James Hansen, who was bestowed an unbelievably soft interview on Close Up last week.

Mark Sainsbury didn’t so much interview him as to feed him softies that enabled Hansen to proceed unchallenged with such lines as the coal must be left in the ground.

The global alarmists are still alive and well.
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May 19, 2011 10:56am
Manolo

The followers of the “religion of peace” are offended across the Tasman:
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/islams-the-problems-not-muslims-says-senator-cory-bernardi/story-e6frf7l6-1226008418768
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May 19, 2011 11:13am
AlphaKiwi

Weird question for you guys.

If China were to reach Mars and start colonising it first, could they claim it as part of China?
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May 19, 2011 11:51am
flipper

TripeWryter..
Well spotted.
Quite agree.
Slick Jimmy is totally discredited.
That OUR Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, and silly mustache Salisbury chose to use him……
well that is cause for concern.
It partly explains the idiotic decisions on this, recommended by no less than a would be landslip PH.D. (who has no credentials apart from his ignored dissertation), young nicky Smith), coming out of the 10th floor.
AH WELL…as WSC so eloquently said of de Gaulle, “..The crosses we have to bear…..”
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May 19, 2011 11:54am
Ryan Sproull

Pete George,

What are you going to do for your 10,000th post? Reply to this one or something?
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May 19, 2011 12:09pm
bhudson

Well here is Phil Goff talking at parliament grounds and showing once again that he believes that the truth should not be allowed to stand in the way of a good story
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May 19, 2011 12:34pm
adze

Alpha
Some legal eagle probably needs to answer that, I did hear that some law in the US allows them to claim the moon by virtue of landing there first (some enterprising dodgy outfit even sells real estate there on that basis), but my guess is that it isn’t recognized outside the US. I suspect that only right to occupy a particular area would apply to any permanent Martian colony.
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May 19, 2011 12:44pm
tom hunter

If China were to reach Mars and start colonising it first, could they claim it as part of China?

Not as far as I know, for the same reason the US could not claim Luna as part of their country by dint of landing there first (though I’m tempted to re-run Eddie Izzard’s Have You Got A Flag routine).

As I recall the Outer Space Treaty forbids such claims.

UPDATE:

Woo hoo – the two minute edit window to the rescue

Outer Space Treaty
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May 19, 2011 12:47pm
tom hunter

I think this is a little brutal – The Onion would probably be sharper.

IMF chief tried to fuck maid after mistaking her for a small financially crippled country

IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has claimed he only tried to fuck a New York maid because he thought she was a small Caribbean island in financial difficulty.
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Mr Strauss-Kahn was remanded in custody in a New York jail despite protesting his arrest was merely the result of a case of mistaken identity.

An IMF spokesperson explained, “Forcing our engorged corporate genitals into the tiny crevices of small financially suffering countries is what the IMF is all about.”

“Once inside we pump them until they do exactly as we instruct – which only makes us harder. It’s a power thing, you know?”

Ouch!
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May 19, 2011 12:54pm
Falafulu Fisi

Ryan said…
What are you going to do for your 10,000th post? Reply to this one or something?

I’m keen to shout Pete George for a free ticket to Eden Park tomorrow night (Friday) to watch the Auckland Blues game, only if he’s willing to accept it.
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May 19, 2011 12:55pm
Brian Smaller

Weird question for you guys.

If China were to reach Mars and start colonising it first, could they claim it as part of China?

Well it is already the Red Planet.
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May 19, 2011 12:57pm
publicwatchdog

Seen this Kiwibloggers??
‘Banks puts hand up for Epsom’

http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/banks-puts-hand-epsom-nn-93451

So – ‘flip flop’ John Bank$ is now seeking selection as the National “B” Team /ACT) candidate for Epsom.

Wonder what ACT’s democratic ‘due process’ for candidate selection involves?

If it’s anything like the way Don Bra$h became ‘Leader’ of ACT, two hours after he joined the ACT party – it seems that you just have to demonstrate that you have access to significant BIG busine$$ finance (including your own?) – and that’s it?

Corporate style ‘democracy’ – according to the ‘Golden Rule’ – ‘those who have the gold – make the rules?

Seeking public office in order to serve WHOSE interests?

How CONVENIENT that the ‘Leader’ of ACT /National “B” Team, Don Bra$h, and John Bank$ – just happen to be business buddies as well?

Job$ for the boy$?

NO possible ‘conflicts of interest’ there?

Wonder what Mr ‘line-by-line accounting’ / ‘open the books’ John Banks now has to say about the proposed 4.9% Auckland ($upercity) Council residential and commercial rate increase?

(Please be reminded that on 13 December 2010, C&R Auckland Councillors supported a 3.9% rates increase).

Please also be reminded that during the Auckland Council Mayoral campaign, ex-Auckland City Council Mayor John Banks, was a loud and proud $upercity supporter.

I’ve spoken to a number of Epsom voters who knew nothing about the proposed 4.9% Auckland Council rate increase.

Many from the Remuera, Parnell and Newmarket shopping centres, enthusiastically took postcards to send to Prime Minister John Key, pledging ‘to consider not paying this proposed Auckland Council 4.9% rate increase.

The ‘books’ are NOT open.
The use of private contractors – especially consultant contractors is simply out of control.
There is NO ‘line-by-line’ accounting.
The public are being used as a giant CA$H COW all pay – no say.

(I will be giving an update on these developments at the Auckland Council Governing Board meeting on Tuesday 24 May 2011, 10am at the former Manukau City Council building.)

Penny Bright
http://waterpressure.wordpress.com
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May 19, 2011 1:00pm
Elaycee

Bugger. The blog blight has arrived – complete with a keyboard stuck in neutral.

There goes the neighbourhood.
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May 19, 2011 1:08pm
Johnboy

“I’ve spoken to a number of Epsom voters”

Good grief Penny.
I’m surprised the good citizens of Epsom would converse with one such as yourself.

Probably thought you were a busker or something. 🙂
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May 19, 2011 1:19pm
gravedodger

N B tarnished coin didn’t claim to have LISTENED to a number of Epsom voters. I guess they wouldn’t get a word in edgewise.
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May 19, 2011 1:28pm
KH

How tired are we of the endless queue of people groaning on about how disastrous it will be to cut off their special government pipeline.
“Once a government learns it can bribe the public with it’s own money …….. It is destined to die a death of nagging”
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May 19, 2011 1:31pm
Rich Prick

Penny, you have almost got it! But your theories only go half way though, think beyond where you have got to, imagine your worst imagination and multiply it by 911 and even then it’s worse than that.

I see you haven’t completely got the Bank of America connection yet, and how it is in turn connected to other certain multi-national corporate big businesses, and how they all connect back to John Key. Keep working on it, you’ll get there eventually.
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May 19, 2011 1:31pm
Elaycee

@ Johnboy – 1.19pm.

Maybe she thinks her current campaign for the Howick Ward will be more successful than her last (the Mayoral elections for Auckland).

Of the total votes cast, PB got …… 0.55% of the vote! This was worse than the idiots who forgot to put a tick in any box at all (blank – 0.84%).

So if PB changed her name by deed poll to “blank” she could be assured of an increase in support at the next elections!

Not sure about the busking angle – maybe she was explaining to the good folk of Epsom the reasons why she struggled to reach 0.6% in the Mayoralty race… whilst coming across as an off colour Joan Baez with a bad case of croup.
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May 19, 2011 1:36pm
publicwatchdog

# Johnboy (4,721) Says:
May 19th, 2011 at 1:19 pm

“I’ve spoken to a number of Epsom voters”

Good grief Penny.
I’m surprised the good citizens of Epsom would converse with one such as yourself.

Probably thought you were a busker or something. :)”
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Actually, ‘Johnboy’ most Epsom voters with whom I conversed, were not only very appreciative that someone was making an effort to inform them about the 4.9% proposed Auckland ($upercity) Council rate increase, (of which the overwhelming majority knew NOTHING) – but that I had organised an action they could take to DO something about it.

(Feedback I have had indicates that a number of the ‘good citizens of Epsom’ were also very appreciative of the work myself and the Water Pressure Group have done over the years opposing Metrowater and water privatisation.)

Most decent, fair-minded, sensible Kiwis give credit where it is due, and are appreciative of work done in the public interest.

Arguably most ‘good citizens’ don’t want their rates to go up, when there is no ‘line-by-line’ accounting and the money spent on consultants and private contractors is simply ‘out of control’?

Of course, gormless, unquestioning ‘ca$h cows’ with obviously more $$$$ than sense – like ‘Elaycee’ – don’t fall into the above-mentioned category.

(Meant of course in a caring way 🙂

PS: Did you like the hoardings that have gone up in the Howick Ward ‘Elaycee’?

“NO RATE$ INCREASE!”

“CUT OUT THE CONTRACTORS!”

“$UPERCITY = SUPER RIP OFF!”

(Probably not………….

Bugger.

😉

Penny Bright
http://waterpressure.wordpress.com
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May 19, 2011 1:42pm
Sofia

Hi kiwibloggers, again!

Seen this?

“…The Amerikan Police State Strides Forward…”
“…The International Monetary Fund’s director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was arrested last Sunday in New York City on the allegation of an immigrant hotel maid that he attempted to rape her in his hotel room. A New York judge has denied Strauss-Kahn bail on the grounds that he might flee to France.

President Bill Clinton survived his sexual escapades, because he was a servant to the system, not a threat. But Strauss-Kahn, like former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, was a threat to the system, and, like Eliot Spitzer, Strass-Kahn has been deleted from the power ranks.

Strauss-Kahn was the first IMF director in my lifetime, if memory serves, who disavowed the traditional IMF policy of imposing on the poor and ordinary people the cost of bailing out Wall Street and the Western banks.

Strauss-Kahn said that regulation had to be reimposed on the greed-driven, fraud-prone financial sector, which, unregulated, destroyed the lives of ordinary people.

Strauss-Kahn listened to Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz – one of a handful of economists who has a social conscience.

Perhaps the most dangerous black mark in Strauss-Kahn’s book is that he was far ahead of America’s French puppet, President Sarkozy, in the upcoming French elections.

Strauss-Kahn simply had to be eliminated.
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Missing me already dears? 🙂

Oh diddums ‘name’!

Perhaps if you ‘pulled finger’ you’d be able to cope with the scrolling?

errr…….

Why even bother reading my posts if the FACTS and EVIDENCE so disturb you?

Duh?

VERY slow learners are some of you ‘Kiwibloggers’.

Keep going!

Over the last 20 years – have YOUR rates gone up or down?

Apologise in advance if any of the following FACTS trigger more apoplectic ad hominem drivel from the politically unsophisticated Kiwibloggers (which seems to be most of you – how sad is THAT?), who have yet to learn ‘issue by issue’ politics?
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errr……….
Duh?

SO ill-disciplined ‘name’!

errr…….

You just can’t help yourself can you? Poor pathetic little thing……………. 🙂
(Meant of course in a caring way………. 🙂
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Duh?

At least I’m not so gormless as to ACCEPT ‘bullshit’.

It is my view that ACT /National “B”(Bra$h) Team will cannibalise National centre/ RIGHT votes, and National “A” Team will bleed votes to NZ First and Labour as they realise a vote for corporate raider (shonky) John Key is a vote for Don Bra$h – ‘. ‘I’ve got the Big Busine$$ ca$h – (and vice versa).
EEEK!
To be blunt – I don’t know how you can realistically expect the public majority to support policies which support big busine$$ – given the voting public’s previou$ experience with neo-liberal ‘Rogernomic$’ being that what i$ good for big bu$ine$$ is not u$ually good for the majority of u$?

You just carry on being a (silly) ca$h cow – ‘all pay – no say’.

How DUMB is THAT?

Penny Blight

http://waterpressure.wordpressure.com
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May 19, 2011 1:47pm
Elaycee

PB: I bet your rapt that your surname starts with a “B”…

The only time you appear near the top of an elections result sheet, is when its listed in alphabetical order.
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May 19, 2011 1:48pm
Elaycee

@ Sofia 1.47pm concludes:

“…How DUMB is THAT?

Penny Blight
http://waterpressure.wordpressure.com”

Ha ha – very good.
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May 19, 2011 2:32pm
ciaron

Dumber than a sack of hammers.
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May 19, 2011 2:47pm
publicwatchdog

# Elaycee (136) Says:
May 19th, 2011 at 1:48 pm

PB: I bet your rapt that your surname starts with a “B”…

The only time you appear near the top of an elections result sheet, is when its listed in alphabetical order.”

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errr……….. wrong ‘Elaycee.

You are proving to be as uninformed as you are gormless.

SUCH a slow learner you are ‘Elaycee’.

Haven’t you learned yet dear?

YOU start it – I”LL finish it………………..

🙂

FYI:

Check out the ‘DECLARATION OF RESULT OF BY-ELECTION’

“Auckland City Council

I hereby declare the result of the by-election taken on 11 November 2000 for the office of Member for the Avondale – Roskill Ward of Auckland City Council to be as follows:

CANDIDATES Votes received

BRIGHT, Penny 6273
GREFSTAD, Jan Henry 851
HENDERSON, Kathryn Mary 1829
MACDONALD, Duncan 1454
MANSILL, Douglas 2396
RAFFILLS, Noelene 7041

I therefore declare the said to be elected

Noelene RAFFILLS

Dated at Auckland this 14th day of November 2000.

DM Ofsofske
Returning Officer
Auckland City Council
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Just as well we didn’t have a bet ‘Elaycee’.

You would have LOST.

AGAIN.

Want to ‘have a go’ on any other matter and continue to make a complete fool of yourself ‘Elaycee’?

AGAIN?

Don’t say you weren’t warned………….

Kind regards,

Penny Bright
http://waterpressure.wordpress.com
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May 19, 2011 2:50pm
ciaron

Ahh, second place… First of the losers.

Nice touch though that you prove Elaycee’s point by being on top of the list, ordered alphabetically.
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May 19, 2011 2:59pm
backster

PENNY:………..I recall when Banksie had a talkback programme you were one of his biggest fans. So get in behind him now. He needs you.
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May 19, 2011 3:22pm
publicwatchdog

# ciaron (647) Says:
May 19th, 2011 at 2:59 pm

Ahh, second place… First of the losers.

Nice touch though that you prove Elaycee’s point by being on top of the list, ordered alphabetically.
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# Elaycee (137) Says:
May 19th, 2011 at 1:48 pm

PB: I bet your rapt that your surname starts with a “B”…

The only time you appear near the top of an elections result sheet, is when its listed in alphabetical order.
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Have a problem with English comprehension do you ‘ciaron’?

Getting a close second – only 758 votes behind Citizens & Ratepayers candidate Noelene Raffills) and nearly 4000 votes more than the City Vision candidate, Douglas Mansill, proves the opposite to the point that ‘Elaycee’ was attempting to make in her customary uninformed way.

ie: If names were ranked according to election results and not alphabetically – I would have been ranked second – which is as close as you can get to the ‘top of the list’ without winning the election.

Can I make the point any clearer for you – or have you ‘got it’ now?

Best of luck.

Kind regards,

Penny Bright
http://waterpressure.wordpress.com
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May 19, 2011 3:25pm
Rich Prick

In Penny-speak, that’s “success deferred” … for 11 years and counting.
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May 19, 2011 3:27pm
Johnboy

Touched a nerve there I suspect folks.
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May 19, 2011 3:28pm
publicwatchdog

# backster (1,010) Says:
May 19th, 2011 at 3:22 pm

PENNY:………..I recall when Banksie had a talkback programme you were one of his biggest fans. So get in behind him now. He needs you.”
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errrr…. think it was the other way round?

In those talkback host days when John Banks was SO outspoken in his opposition to Metrowater ‘price-gouging’ ‘Charitable Payments’ – which he later supported after obtaining office?

Yep – full of empty one-liners and broken promises – that’s ‘dear John’.

PS: If he was John Banks (lite) – what is he now he’s standing for the National Party “B” (Bra$h ACT Team?

John Banks ‘HEAVY’?

Sounds a bit menacing – don’t you think?

🙂

Penny Bright
http://waterpressure.wordpress.com
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May 19, 2011 3:31pm
ciaron

Oh, I got it… 758 people deserve a medal.
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May 19, 2011 3:32pm
publicwatchdog

# Johnboy (4,724) Says:
May 19th, 2011 at 3:28 pm

Touched a nerve there I suspect folks.”
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Oh – I’m sure ‘Elaycee’ is a big girl, and will get over it soon.

(Meant of course in a caring way 🙂

Penny Bright
http://waterpressure.wordpress.com
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May 19, 2011 3:34pm
Johnboy

Uh I can see why you always come second Penny it was your nerve I was referring to. 🙂
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May 19, 2011 3:36pm
ciaron

Oh, Jooohhhnnbbooyyyyyyyy…. Thats disgusting.
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May 19, 2011 3:46pm
Elaycee

PB: Thank you for proving my point. Again.

Ha ha – firstly, the results you have provided are dated…. 2000! 11 years ago! But, yup I agree – with alphabetical listing used, PB is near the top. But in terms of the result – you were down the gurgler. And yet you seem to think that this is a measure of “success”?? EEEK!

But if this really excites you, perhaps you should change your name to ‘Aardvark’ and be done with it – then you’ll always be “near the top of the list”. Or if the moniker ‘Aardvark’ doesn’t spin your wheels, how about adopting my earlier suggestion that you change your name by deed poll to… “blank” – because ‘blank’ received more votes than you did in the Auckland Super City Mayoral Election. Blank! FFS, Penny notso, the number of dimwits who didn’t tick any box at all, outnumbered the total votes you received and yet you come to this blog, infiltrate it with regurgitated spin and bollocks, get smacked down repeatedly when your crap is exposed as propaganda and still consider yourself electable?

I’m sure the voters in the Howick Ward will have the last say on 27th May. I’m pleased I’m one of them.
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May 19, 2011 3:50pm
publicwatchdog

Elaycee (138) Says:
May 19th, 2011 at 3:50 pm

PB: Thank you for proving my point. Again.”

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‘Elaycee ‘ – it appears that you are just THICK?

(sigh……)

“I’m sure the voters in the Howick Ward will have the last say on 27th May. I’m pleased I’m one of them.”

FYI – yesterday I checked with the Howick by-election Returning Officer.

So far only 22% of voters have done so……….

Voting closes at midday Friday 27 May 2011.

Best you rally around all your friends who are quite happy to pay the proposed 4.9% Auckland ($upercity) Council rate increase to get their votes in!

Shouldn’t take you very long………………

(Think those NOT opposed to the proposed 4.9% Auckland ($upercity) Council rate increase, will be a VERY small ‘minority’ group 🙂

Kind regards,

Penny Bright
http://waterpressure.wordpress.com
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May 19, 2011 4:19pm
ciaron

So, a majority in a 20-odd% turnout would be a mandate for what exactly?
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May 19, 2011 4:26pm
nasska

The Secret Diary of Water Woman aged 50 something (& getting desperate)

Monday: Resolved to seek psychiatric help with this compulsion to get elected to something. Got owned on Kiwiblog.

Tuesday: Missed early morning meds. “Elaycee” on Kiwiblog insists that getting less votes than the blank ballot papers is not winning. Can’t follow the man. It’s very confusing.

Wednesday: Spent morning cleaning spittle off keyboard & wiping walls. Memo to self…don’t write political slogans with own shit. The nice people on Kiwiblog have offered counselling.

Thursday: Handed out pamphlets in Epsom. Using the “$” instead of “S” in everything I write is a masterstroke…..it’s only a matter of time before I’m congratulated on my brilliance. “Ciaron” on Kiwiblog must be scrolling past my comments. I’ll send him a carton of my election speeches on CD – he’s bound to see things my way then.

Friday: Attended conference on collecting water in buckets (must remember to include in CV). Down to fortyseven cats…will call into SPCA on way back from electioneering. New jacket fits well & the fluoro orange colouring suits my hair but the ties are all on the back. Must tell my adoring fans on Kiwiblog.
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May 19, 2011 4:56pm
Rich Prick

“Memo to self…don’t write political slogans with own shit.” “Down to fortyseven cats…”

That’s priceless!
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May 19, 2011 5:40pm
Elaycee

That’s good, Nasska. Very good indeed. 🙂
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May 19, 2011 5:53pm
Johnboy

nasska: 🙂 🙂

Do you think Penny has a lover called Phil maybe? 🙂

Hell I mean she looks a bit like something a Magpie would drag back to its nest.

http://www.pennybright4mayor.org.nz/Welcome.html

🙂 🙂
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May 19, 2011 6:10pm
nasska

Johnboy

I’ve made a few enquiries about that but no one is talking. Bloody Family Court!
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May 19, 2011 6:18pm
Steve

Pb = Lead
Lead is a poisonous substance to animals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead
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May 19, 2011 6:29pm
wreck1080

Free market is all good and fine, but, I reckon the free market is failing with such things going on…

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/exclusive-salaries-for-top-executives-are-rocketing-out-of-control-2284397.html

The essence of the article is…
“The top one thousandth of the British working population currently receives 5 per cent of the country’s earnings, a ratio equivalent to that in the 1940s, the report says. If these trends continue, income for the highest paid will account for 14 per cent of the country’s total by 2030”

That extra money for the top 1000 comes would be at the expense of the lesser paid.

I don’t know if this is accurate, and they don’t know the trend will continue. Although, you’d think executives will receive even larger increases when the economy returns to health.
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May 19, 2011 6:36pm
Yvette

Johnboy, leave Phil alone – he is not bothering you here, and he still puts together an interesting enough array of items on his own blog
Ne poussez pas un chien de sommeil

Hell I mean she looks a bit like something a Magpie would drag back to its nest.
The doubt the Magpie is big enough
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May 19, 2011 6:42pm
Johnboy

Yvette.

Il est difficile de faire le chat cesser de tourmenter la souris. 🙂

Vous êtes naturellement correct. La pie pourrait ne jamais manipuler une bête de cette taille! 🙂
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May 19, 2011 7:01pm
nasska

Once upon a time, allegedly, in a nice little forest, there lived an orphaned bunny and an orphaned snake.
By a surprising coincidence, both were blind from birth.

One day, the bunny was hopping through the forest, and the snake was slithering through the forest, when the bunny tripped over the snake and fell down. This, of course, knocked the snake about quite a bit.

“Oh, my,” said the bunny, “I’m terribly sorry. I didn’t mean to hurt you. I’ve been blind since birth, so, I can’t see where I’m going. In fact, since I’m also an orphan, I don’t even know what I am.”

“It’s quite OK,” replied the snake. “Actually, my story is much the same as yours. I, too, have been blind since birth, and also never knew my mother. Tell you what, maybe I could slither all over you, and work out what you are, so at least you’ll have that going for you..”
“Oh, that would be wonderful” replied the bunny.

So the snake slithered all over the bunny, and said, “Well, you’re covered with soft fur; you have really long ears; your nose twitches; and you have a soft cottony tail. I’d say that you must be a bunny rabbit.”

“Oh, thank you! Thank you,” cried the bunny, in obvious excitement.
The bunny suggested to the snake, “Maybe I could feel you all over with my paw, and help you the same way that you’ve helped me.”

So the bunny felt the snake all over, and remarked, “Well, you’re smooth and slippery, and you have a forked tongue, no ears, no backbone and no balls.
I’d say you must be either a union leader or possibly someone high up in the Labour caucus”.
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May 19, 2011 8:07pm
immigant

Penny, you should Run for Epsom, you are good at winning shit. You’re a winner.
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May 19, 2011 8:12pm
Johnboy

Well I never nasska. Silent T is a snake eh. In the grass as far as Goofy is concerned I suspect. 🙂
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May 19, 2011 8:12pm
Pauleastbay

Good to see that poisonous bitch Helen Kelly getting air time on TVNZ tonight casting copious amounts of positivity about, fuck I hate unionists…..
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May 19, 2011 8:19pm
immigant

On Keith Ng’s Graphs, the massive jump in spending on transport in 2009, was that due to the clapped out train set Helen and Co bought with my taxes?
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May 19, 2011 8:28pm
Johnboy

The funny little fellow who bears a striking resemblance to Herr Himmler never had a train set as a child immigant so he took his evil rewenge as an adult and bought a dog instead. 🙂
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May 19, 2011 8:34pm
Manolo

The Messiah sides with the ragheads: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110519/ap_on_re_us/us_obama_mideast_palestinians_1
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May 20, 2011 7:57am
cha

Never mind that the article says:

Until Thursday, the U.S. position had been that the Palestinian goal of a state based on the 1967 borders, with agreed land swaps, should be reconciled with Israel’s desire for a secure Jewish state through negotiations.

And in his speech he said:

The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states.

It’s all a secet mooslem plot, aye.
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