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Open mike 14/02/2012

Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, February 14th, 2012 - 69 comments

omt

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the mike…

ImperatorFish: If Political Journalists Wrote Sports News

Written By: - Date published: 2:27 pm, February 13th, 2012 - 8 comments

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Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here

Speculation began yesterday that Richie McCaw may face a challenge to his captaincy of the All Blacks, after the team’s near-loss in the Rugby World Cup final.

Open mike 13/02/2012

Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, February 13th, 2012 - 137 comments

omt

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the mike…

Caption contest

Written By: - Date published: 6:19 pm, February 12th, 2012 - 66 comments

Snow Whites meet the forgotten dwarf – Wavey.

Site health – comments and posts

Written By: - Date published: 4:31 pm, February 12th, 2012 - 35 comments

Dolphin Over World 2010

vto made a comment that he thought that the number of comments was diminishing at kiwiblog. Now I have no idea because I usually avoid the sewer section there. However it did remind me that I should have a look here. It feels like it has been getting more popular, but intuition is a poor substitute for actually looking at the numbers.

John Key’s emergency descent

Written By: - Date published: 11:22 am, February 12th, 2012 - 15 comments

John Key one the way down - square

A great graphic from the Sunday Star Times as John Key starts dropping towards a hard landing in the personal popularity stakes. And in the great tradition of  journalists everywhere, the rest of the article is about how he is still preferred by rubber fetishists.

Open mike 12/02/2012

Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, February 12th, 2012 - 44 comments

omt

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the mike…

Open mike 11/02/2012

Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, February 11th, 2012 - 51 comments

omt

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the mike…

Weekend social 10/02/2012

Written By: - Date published: 2:00 pm, February 10th, 2012 - 37 comments

wksc

Weekend social is for non political chat. What’s on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever. No politics, no aggro, why can’t we all just get along?

Armed police storm Key mansion

Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, February 10th, 2012 - 24 comments

key in prison

Armed Police assisted by the Eagle helicopter, the counter-terrorism unit, customs officials, and the police launch towed on its trailer have raided Prime Minister John Key’s Parnell mansion, executing warrants relating to the illegal ‘DJ Key’ election ad. Simultaneously, a joint Police-SAS taskforce has stormed RadioLive, deploying teargas and tasering all present.

Open mike 10/02/2012

Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, February 10th, 2012 - 76 comments

openmike

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the mike…

Open mike 09/02/2012

Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, February 9th, 2012 - 20 comments

omt

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the mike…

Open mike 08/02/2012

Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, February 8th, 2012 - 84 comments

omt

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the mike…

Caption contest

Written By: - Date published: 9:22 am, February 7th, 2012 - 70 comments

Open mike 07/02/2012

Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, February 7th, 2012 - 52 comments

omt

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the mike…

Open mike 06/02/2012

Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, February 6th, 2012 - 60 comments

omt

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the mike…

Open mike 05/02/2012

Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, February 5th, 2012 - 87 comments

omt

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the mike…

Open mike 04/02/2012

Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, February 4th, 2012 - 33 comments

omt

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the mike…

Citizens on the Internet

Written By: - Date published: 3:34 pm, February 3rd, 2012 - 5 comments

ImperatorFish: Call Me, John

Written By: - Date published: 2:50 pm, February 3rd, 2012 - 41 comments

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Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here

Catherine Isaac “loves education”, and spent six years on a school board of trustees; Scott is a big fan of education and spent several years in various schools – he fancies an “working” group job setting up Charter Schools too…

Weekend social 03/02/2012

Written By: - Date published: 2:00 pm, February 3rd, 2012 - 27 comments

wksc

Weekend social is for non political chat. What’s on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever. No politics, no aggro, why can’t we all just get along?

Open mike 03/02/2012

Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, February 3rd, 2012 - 131 comments

omt

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the mike…

ImperatorFish: Shock As Labour Discovers David Farrar Is Not The PM

Written By: - Date published: 10:07 am, February 2nd, 2012 - 12 comments

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Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here

Labour Party MPs are said to be red-faced, after discovering that prominent blogger David Farrar is not the Prime Minister of New Zealand.

Open mike 02/02/2012

Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, February 2nd, 2012 - 89 comments

omt

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the mike…

Open mike 01.02.2012

Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, February 1st, 2012 - 105 comments

openmike

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the mike…

ImperatorFish: Sonny Bill Has No Plans To Sleep With You

Written By: - Date published: 2:45 pm, January 31st, 2012 - 2 comments

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Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here

The stock market dipped sharply in trading today, after no stories appeared in any of the major newspapers about Sonny Bill Williams for almost two hours.

Open mike 31/01/2012

Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, January 31st, 2012 - 54 comments

omt

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the mike…

Open mike 30/01/2012

Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, January 30th, 2012 - 34 comments

omt

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the mike…

Open mike 29/01/2012

Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, January 29th, 2012 - 69 comments

omt

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the mike…

Open mike 28/01/2012

Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, January 28th, 2012 - 15 comments

omt

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the link to Policy in the banner). Step right up to the mike…

Weekend social 27/01/2012

Written By: - Date published: 2:00 pm, January 27th, 2012 - 9 comments

wksc

Weekend social is for non political chat. What’s on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever. No politics, no aggro, why can’t we all just get along?

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