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Winston is recovering from minor leg surgery.
https://www.twitter.com/winstonpeters/status/1164373375659069440
lol, how is that not a parody account?
This is something that shows how vindictive Bennett and most of her cronies are, this is something that in time hindsight will be reflected on and remembered and even she will have to "zip" it in shame.
I suspect she might have borrowed that ploy from Rob Muldoon.
In 1974, as Kirk lay dying in hospital (to be fair no-one knew at the time how seriously ill he was) Muldoon sent Kirk are Get well card saying: Get well soon, someone needs your bed.
Oh yes, Anne, I'm old enough to remember that. I thought it pretty disgusting at the time,
Actually, I think it was: Get well soon, a pensioner needs your bed.
what happened to our sense of humour?
Umm, he was a pretty sick man Pat. No need for Muldoon to rub it in. Even his own supporters were disgusted. He died a few days later.
I would expect that Norm got a bit of a laugh out of that message and that aint bad….you may need to be a little circumspect about who you banter with but I expect Muldoon knew Kirk pretty well
Just think what gender relations in NZ might have been had Norm not been such a virulent homophobe
Normally I have one but in this instance time may well show how inappropriate it is, ie no joking matter.
Further to that did anyone do anything similar when Bennett had surgery?
ROFL!
May he make a speedy recovery 🌻
oh dear this is getting really bad – this is not really funny it is scary.
Great for Denmark and Greenland.
They don't have spend a fortune on housing and entertaining the f****d retard.
God, he's scared of strong and intelligent women isn't he!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2019/aug/21/why-has-trump-dropped-his-bid-to-buy-greenland-video-report
God, he's scared of strong and intelligent women isn't he!
Yup.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/01/opinions/trumps-meghan-markle-nasty-proves-her-point-alaimo/index.html
Prick is a bog standard imperialist.
In fact, buying Greenland has been tried seriously twice. But the changes in international relations since then make it a far worse idea than it was at the time.
The first time came during the administration of President Andrew Johnson. William Seward, a Lincoln holdover, used Johnson’s distraction over Reconstruction to pursue his longstanding goals of territorial expansion.
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The second attempt came in the aftermath of the Second World War. Denmark, which still administered Greenland as a colony, was conquered in a six-hour operation in March 1940. A year later, the Danish ambassador, who retained his credentials even though he refused to take orders from the occupied government in Copenhagen, signed an agreement with the US government allowing it to occupy and fortify the island to prevent Germany from using it as a base against the US and Canada.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/16/american-imperialists-have-always-dreamed-of-greenland/
http://archive.li/uH6Cf
A three ring circus.
https://twitter.com/stuartpstevens/status/1164003031425474561
Amazing how everyone has stopped talking about Trump’s relationship with Epstein, oh my god it’s a dead cat
I still haven't figured out the original of that nat meme: do the nats really believe that "everyone who wants to work should be able to" is a worse thing than "everyone who can work, should work"?
To me it reads "opportunity" vs "work or die".
Volition versus compulsion. Totally different, and, as you ask, what do those National weasel words actually mean?
"Everyone who can work, should work"
So, no retirement for any of us then?
Arbeit macht frei..
inorite?
Fifteen years ago when they started this lark with the iwi/kiwi line, I'd at least met people who would have had their ideas reinforced by it.
Not so much the current attempts.
I hope their innovative and new "dancing cossacks" ad is better lol
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/08/step-mexico-judge-approves-recreational-cocaine-190821055455190.html
Mexico going the way of Portugal? 250.000 dead in the war on drug since 2009, 33.000+ last year alone.
Pin up boy for the rabid right wing gets sweary at ordinary people doing their job.
No wonder National people love Stuart Nash. He's just like them!
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12261082
the tories engineered it for nash to get his seat..
it was a safe tory seat – and they got that toe-rag from family first to stand and so split the right vote..
and nash was able to walk thru the middle..
he owes them – he is one of them…
Greta Thunberg, dad and the crew of the Malizia 2 now over half way to New York, courtesy of the wind. Luckily for her and rather coincidentally considering the climate change message she's taking to North America, it's been a very quiet summer hurricane season in the North Atlantic and the yacht has made good progress, mainly into prevailing westerlies. About another week before she gets to New York. She's got guts, that kid!
https://www.windy.com/track-team-malizia-and-greta-on-their-journey-across-the-atlantic?41.739,-41.572,4,i:pressure
On the Amazon fires and tariffs.
https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1164241120378990593
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https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1164241125516959744
https://twitter.com/70sBachchan/status/1161622928779337728
"All over the world, the governments that refuse to act on the climate catastrophe are gearing up to fight the environmental rebellion they recognise as inevitable."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/22/australias-climate-change-inaction-is-now-bipartisan-protest-is-all-we-have-left