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David George

I see another Muslim has ploughed his car into a crowd in Europe, gays and queers this time.
Here in NZ the Muslims are demanding a blasphemy law, that their beliefs are to be put above and beyond question. This comes at a time when there is, finally, some recognition that there is something seriously wrong with the entire ideology. At a time when we need our eyes fully open.

“Civilizations have always encountered rivals. The mistake of the West is that it encountered Islam while armed with a conceptual vocabulary that rendered the rival invisible as a political actor. Correcting that vocabulary is not optional. It is the precondition for any policy that has a chance of preserving the nation-state order the West developed at such cost and that Islam regards as temporary and illegitimate”.

https://www.danburmawi.com/p/the-wests-deadliest-misdiagnosis
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July 27, 2026 8:03am
- mike
  
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  So, ‘the Muslims’, huh? What about ‘the Christians’?
  
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  July 27, 2026 8:10am
  - burt
    
    Make as many Christian jokes as you like, draw weird pictures depicting Christ or God in absurd ways and that’s also fine. Makes jokes about Christians around Christians – have at it.
    
    Would you try doing any of that with Mohammed or Allah around Muslims?
    
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    July 27, 2026 8:20am
    - David Garrett
      
      Burt: Couldn’t have put it better myself…and of course Mikey is just trolling..as he does
      
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      July 27, 2026 8:39am
      - mike
        
        Trolling…is…a…bad…thing?
        
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        July 27, 2026 8:42am
    - mike
      
      Poor burt…
      
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      July 27, 2026 8:41am
      - Gravelroad
        
        You haven’t attempted to answer Burt’s question.
        Too challenging.
        Poor Mike.
        
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        July 27, 2026 8:53am
    - mike
      
      But the two fictional characters make the point better than I can:
      https://www.jesusandmo.net/comic/good/
      
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      July 27, 2026 8:57am
Cassandra

Hard nosed National Party sorts out the deficit: “NZ is spending more than it earns and the cause is that we don’t give parents enough paid time off” said PM Luxon //.

I know this was raised yesterday but it got very little attention then, being Sunday afternoon and DG was still at church.

It does seem to me to be a low priority but presumably it’s designed to appeal to a sector of voters ie an election bribe.

Another sector is graduates with Arts degrees. For ages there’s been a declining market for Art History or PR majors. Now none of them can find jobs. Perhaps they need a bribe? How about a three year spell in the infantry?
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July 27, 2026 8:04am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Another sector is graduates with Arts degrees. For ages there’s been a declining market for Art History or PR majors. Now none of them can find jobs.
  
  I do recommend weeding…. there’s no shortage of jobs for folks who aren’t afraid to get a bit of dirt under their nails.
  
  He’s started to apply for jobs that are completely unrelated to his degree, everything from supermarket work to weeding gardens.
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/education/805079/there-isn-t-anything-students-facing-tough-job-market
  
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  July 27, 2026 8:35am
  - David Garrett
    
    Mags : Quite so…before my current gig in Tonga came up I did everything from a bit of law to operating a digger…even a bit of laboring…I’m a bit past that now…
    
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    July 27, 2026 8:43am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      My first full-time job was gardening (mainly weeding) for 1 year…and 50 years later, I’m still at it (now unpaid).
      I always knew that if my brilliant career turned to custard, I could find work as a gardener.
      
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      July 27, 2026 8:57am
- RoboRob
  
  Came to post about this. We all know and mostly disrespect the Labour party for bribing us with our money purely for votes. Then National come out and do exactly the same thing. We have no money. Willis and Luxon chose not to cut expenses and instead borrowed even more then Labour. Now we have National chasing votes and offering to spend even more of our money.
  
  National do not deserve the vote of any New Zealander who believes in fiscal responsibility. DPF and other National supporters here need to call National out on this crap. This is blatant vote buying and is disgusting. The really sad thing is it wont work at all either. The people who would be bought by this will vote Labour anyway, especially once Labour one up the Nats by doing something like promising to increase the payments as well as the time of paid parental leave.
  
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  July 27, 2026 8:59am
Tomtoddy

Quite a reasonable frost in Papakura. Must be minus readings on the tube.
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July 27, 2026 8:17am
- pdm
  
  TT I saw a photo on Facebook taken from Waipukurau showing a good dumping of snow on the Ruahines this morning.
  
  Hawkes Bay can look forward to some good frosts coming up.
  
  5 degree frosts were common when I was a teenager biking to school or to catch school buses or working in the nursery at Gwavas Forstry in school holidays in the early 1960’s
  
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  July 27, 2026 8:44am
Yvette

Electrifying New Zealand’s entire fossil-fueled vehicle fleet would require approximately 4.5 to 5 Benmore hydro stations running at full typical annual capacity (representing an increase of roughly 20–25% over NZ’s total current annual electricity generation).

At its full 280 MW planned capacity, the Southland Data Centre will consume roughly 1.1 Benmore Hydro Stations worth of energy every year (or around 1.1 to 1.2 Benmores).
(Note: If the developers ever achieved their long-term, ultimate vision of a 1 GW facility, that would require roughly 4.0 Benmore Hydro Stations on its own).

So 6.2 more Benmores

Gemini AI may have used a bath-tub or two of water over said Benmore spillway to calculate how many bath-tub fills may need to come later. Sorry.

It’s ~~not~~ won’t be that easy being Green – Kermit the Frog
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July 27, 2026 8:24am
- burt
  
  These are the realities they are not wanting us to know.
  
  But what is the end game of using tax payers money to motivate us onto a path that is completely unsustainable?
  
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  July 27, 2026 8:31am
  - mike
    
    Who are ‘they’ and how does Yvette get this secret information?
    
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    July 27, 2026 8:59am
- RoboRob
  
  Its almost like NZ needs to build more generation. If only Simon Watts and Megan Woods knew about this.
  
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  July 27, 2026 9:04am
Maggy Wassilieff

The changing nature of NZ University academics.

https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2026/07/david-lillis-employment-in-university.html
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