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US Election Discussion Post 3/11/16

Written By: - Date published: 5:58 am, November 3rd, 2016 - 197 comments

Today’s post for all random comments and links on the US election.

US Election Discussion Post 1/11/16

Written By: - Date published: 5:58 am, November 1st, 2016 - 190 comments

Today’s post for all random comments and links on the US election.

US Election Discussion Post 31/10/16

Written By: - Date published: 5:55 am, October 31st, 2016 - 132 comments

Today’s post for all random comments and links on the US election.

US Election Discussion Post weekend edition 29/10/16

Written By: - Date published: 5:14 am, October 29th, 2016 - 152 comments

The weekend post for all random comments and links on the US election.

US Election Discussion Post 28/10/16

Written By: - Date published: 5:37 am, October 28th, 2016 - 22 comments

Today’s post for all random comments and links on the US election.

Bennett is PM. We are doomed …

Written By: - Date published: 12:19 pm, October 27th, 2016 - 25 comments

Paula Bennett is currently acting Prime Minister.

Police launch moral crusade against old people

Written By: - Date published: 9:04 am, October 27th, 2016 - 65 comments

Police subjected a group of elderly people attending a meeting on assisted dying to random breath tests so that they could collect the identities of each person who attended.

US Election Discussion Post 27/10/16

Written By: - Date published: 8:59 am, October 27th, 2016 - 54 comments

Today’s post for all random comments and links on the US election.

US Election Discussion Post 26/10/16

Written By: - Date published: 5:55 am, October 26th, 2016 - 81 comments

Today’s post for all random comments and links on the US election.

US Election Discussion Post 25/10/16

Written By: - Date published: 5:51 am, October 25th, 2016 - 45 comments

Today’s post for all random comments and links on the US election.

US Election Discussion Post 24/10/16

Written By: - Date published: 5:48 am, October 24th, 2016 - 31 comments

Today’s post for all random comments and links on the US election.

US Election Discussion Post weekend edition 22/10/16

Written By: - Date published: 5:55 am, October 23rd, 2016 - 50 comments

The weekend post for all random comments and links on the US election.

Darren Watson 2 John Key 0

Written By: - Date published: 8:03 am, October 21st, 2016 - 140 comments

The Court of Appeal has ruled that Darren Watson’s Planet Key song should not have been banned during the 2014 election campaign.

The US election daily discussion post 21/10/16

Written By: - Date published: 5:55 am, October 21st, 2016 - 114 comments

Today’s post for all random comments and links on the US election.

The US election daily discussion post

Written By: - Date published: 5:55 am, October 20th, 2016 - 108 comments

Today’s post for all random comments and links on the US election.

The US election daily discussion post

Written By: - Date published: 5:55 am, October 19th, 2016 - 158 comments

Today’s post for all random comments and links on the US election.

The US election discussion post

Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, October 18th, 2016 - 167 comments

Today’s post for all random comments and links on the US election.

I see a poverty of ideas and a poverty of Government responsibility

Written By: - Date published: 7:35 am, October 13th, 2016 - 210 comments

Judith Collins yesterday said that child poverty is the fault of parents and not the fault of her Government.

Nothing’s Going to Happen.

Written By: - Date published: 3:00 pm, October 11th, 2016 - 104 comments

A wee reflection on our psychological fuck-edness.

Clinton vs Trump; Debate 2

Written By: - Date published: 8:25 am, October 10th, 2016 - 235 comments

Round 2 of the Presidential debates. Trump is on the ropes, can Clinton land the knockout blow? Certainly, there’s a lot of Republican Party grandees hoping Hillary puts them out of their misery. Seconds out at 2PM, NZ time.

UPDATE: Obama nailed Trump’s real issue a few minutes ago; it’s insecurity. Video in post.

UPDATE 2: LIVE STREAM now in post.

Donald Trump has a really big tax write off

Written By: - Date published: 8:06 am, October 3rd, 2016 - 166 comments

Donald Trump’s reluctance to release his tax returns has now been explained.  He has possibly not paid tax for decades.

He isn’t a racist because his ex wife is from Singapore

Written By: - Date published: 9:08 am, September 30th, 2016 - 139 comments

Don Brash and a group of other predominately privileged white males are complaining that Maori may also be receiving some privilege.

Dear Herald you can do better than Rodney Hide

Written By: - Date published: 9:15 am, September 25th, 2016 - 248 comments

Rodney Hide continues to provide extreme analysis free right wing ramblings courtesy of the Herald.  Is it time for them to reintroduce a left wing columnist?

Trump resiles from birther theory but says it is all Hillary’s fault

Written By: - Date published: 9:09 am, September 20th, 2016 - 88 comments

Donald Trump has now finally accepted publicly that Barak Obama was born in America. But claims that Hillary was the cause of the birther theory.

Paula Bennett improves supply of housing, or does she?

Written By: - Date published: 4:02 pm, September 19th, 2016 - 74 comments

National’s latest plan to do something about the housing crisis is to buy a Motel and kick families who stay there out on the street.

New Zealand is a socialist nirvana *

Written By: - Date published: 8:45 am, September 13th, 2016 - 65 comments

* at least according to David Seymour.

The homeless crisis is getting worse

Written By: - Date published: 8:46 am, September 12th, 2016 - 139 comments

Figures provided by the Government to Labour suggest that providing accommodation for families with chronic housing needs is taking much longer than it did six months ago.  But Paula Bennett has replied by suggesting that the figures do not reflect reality.

The manipulation of burglary statics

Written By: - Date published: 8:52 am, September 11th, 2016 - 36 comments

Reporter Eugene Bingham who broke the story on how Papakura police were doctoring crime statistics by recoding burglaries as other offences two years ago has written about how his attempts to get to the truth of the matter has effectively been thwarted by the police.

NZ: Home of Rugby, Raping and Beer

Written By: - Date published: 3:30 pm, September 8th, 2016 - 103 comments

The whitewash of the rugby players who assaulted a woman at a post season piss up has been released. A mightily relieved rugby boss Steve Tew can now go into the rest of the season knowing that the All Black squad will not be affected by the loss of any players to suspension. The only person to have lost their job over the incident is the victim. How cool is that?

Water quality too important for bird-brained excuses

Written By: - Date published: 7:01 am, September 1st, 2016 - 59 comments

Nick Smith’s latest excuse for inaction on water quality is birds. Yes birds. You couldn’t make this shit up.

For a dose of blessed sanity, watch the (10 min) webcast by Dr Mike Joy explaining what the real problem is.

The right for Spy’s to break the law, bill.

Written By: - Date published: 4:49 pm, August 30th, 2016 - 16 comments

No Right Turn has reminded me that the deadline for submissions on the Spy bill is 7th October 2016. Submissions.  can be made here. The spy bill. The bill makes it illegal for civil servants, or anyone else,  to blow the whistle on the Government. It makes it legal for spies to break laws at […]