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Comment: Open mike 13/12/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 4:32 pm, December 13th, 2023
OK Sanctuary,do you mean the generation that protested and won about Nuclear Proliferation, a nuclear-free Pacific, Manapouri, the Vietnam War, the 1968 protests in France and the US, Apartheid, Springbok tours, Iraq War, Abortion, foreshore and seabed, ad ...Comment: Open mike 13/12/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 12:38 pm, December 13th, 2023
I don't think it will be that long I'm sure the odds are shortening on longevity by the day.Comment: National’s contradictory stance on Immigration
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 5:26 pm, December 12th, 2023
No, it's because going further left just robs the Greens and TPM, there might be a few Marxists or hardline Leninistas holed up in the hills with 19th century blunderbusses but good luck coaching that half dozen down to a polling booth. Hipkins knows that ...Comment: Open mike 12/12/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 2:25 pm, December 12th, 2023
She was born miserable.Comment: Open mike 10/12/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 1:07 pm, December 10th, 2023
Te Tiriti hikoi in Blenheim as we speak and my reporter, wife actually, reports lots of toots and a couple of hundred walkers. Not bad for little notice, she came upon it and joined in. Couple of hundred in the rain is pretty good for here, you won’t get ...Comment: Open mike 09/12/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 4:15 pm, December 9th, 2023
Two Teslas. Got to grab a good thing when it’s going cheap.Comment: Open mike 07/12/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 9:02 am, December 7th, 2023
A small mention a few days ago in Stuff or Granny stated that ram raids were still going on, one in fact for a 7k damage bill garnered a 1 dollar chocolate bar.Comment: Open mike 06/12/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 9:03 am, December 6th, 2023
But are swamps the answer, surely that’s where almost all the methane comes from, with the exception of ruminants, but to grow logs to stick them in swamps means we would have to create even more swamps and even more methane. What are the mechanics of ...Comment: Willis’s budget analysis is either deeply cynical or evidence she does not know what she is talking about
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 3:20 pm, December 5th, 2023
You’re right Reality, a few weeks ago a few ex-school mates of hers used almost the same words about her at school. Can’t remember where I saw it.Comment: Willis’s budget analysis is either deeply cynical or evidence she does not know what she is talking about
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 10:29 am, December 5th, 2023
She doesn’t have a boss Patricia she thinks she is the boss because after all she holds the purse strings.Comment: Willis’s budget analysis is either deeply cynical or evidence she does not know what she is talking about
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 8:55 am, December 5th, 2023
When a basic lunch for kiddies becomes a fiscal cliff then we are truly rooted.Comment: Open mike 04/12/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 5:57 pm, December 4th, 2023
I agree with Deborah Russell, a CGT would be much easier, a wealth tax would mean a huge leap in the number of bloody Tax Accountants and they would charge more than the WT would bring in. The key is that the simpler the system the better. Wealth is more ...Comment: Open mike 02/12/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 5:15 pm, December 2nd, 2023
I'll pay to bring back the Poukai, Haasts Eagle to the Te Reo limited. Imagine it, hundreds of them soaring and swooping, grabbing the old sheepy straggler and the occasional naughty disobedient kid who didnt stay close to mum and dad, a small price to pay ...Comment: Just One Term
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 4:42 pm, December 2nd, 2023
If you do that Tony you only take votes off the Greens and TPM that is no way to power, the leverage percentage needed is the dithering middle, the waverers and the Ian Taylors and the '" We didnt know how lucky were cohort ". There is no lost left vote ...Comment: 100 days of chaos
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 1:38 pm, December 1st, 2023
I think reality might be dawning for Willis in particular. It’s patently obvious that she really doesn’t know how government finances work and/or has real trouble comprehending official papers, but more telling is the body language and facial expressions. ...Comment: 100 days of chaos
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 1:36 pm, December 1st, 2023
I think reality might be dawning for Willis in particular. It’s patently obvious that she really doesn’t know how government finances work and/or has real trouble comprehending official papers, but more telling is the body language and facial expressions. ...Comment: Open mike 30/11/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 8:26 am, November 30th, 2023
It has come to pass that this new gummint has an obvious trouble with telling the truth, pretty much everything they say is lies. A few days ago both Luxon and Willis defended the smoke free cancellation because of the threat of robberies saying that there ...Comment: Open mike 29/11/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 11:58 am, November 29th, 2023
These u-turns of Peters are interesting, they appear to be vaguely memory related, forgetting he was involved in the policy formations he is currently railing about. Senility? or is it something else. He was not even supposed to be there, tracking below ...Comment: Daily review 27/11/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 6:17 pm, November 27th, 2023
Congratulations to Jenna Lynch on Newshub TV3 this evening for an excoriating dismissal of Peters and his attack on the media and allegations of bribery. Next time Jenna ask him how much the tobacco industry paid him to drop the anti-smoking legislation.Comment: Nigel Haworth – Back to the Future?
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 5:19 pm, November 27th, 2023
If we try to tax estates too much the following generation may never own a house of their own.Comment: Open mike 27/11/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 5:02 pm, November 27th, 2023
Glad to amuse you Robert though I'm not much of an archer. Yes it pisses me off that it was rarely if ever mentioned that as the Police had been saying, they had pretty much arrested all the likely suspects and it would all peter out. I see a lot of ...Comment: Open mike 27/11/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 2:47 pm, November 27th, 2023
Now it appears as though the ramraids mysteriously all stopped after election night. Intriqueing coincidences always raise my suspicions and combined with my long held reply to any call of "Who did it and why? " I use that old standby,'" just follow the ...Comment: Open mike 25/11/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 6:12 pm, November 25th, 2023
Evil is being complicit in the suppling of lethal drugs for profit. I wonder if someone who fell out with Ardern/Labour over a difference of opinion on a matter of principle may have disappointed some influential backers who demanded value for that support ...Comment: Open mike 25/11/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 5:43 pm, November 25th, 2023
This has to have corruption at its very core. The scrapping of the smoking cessation legislation and wait there’s more!!!! the scrapping of the de-nicotineising of smoking products. Pressure for these measures could have only come from the industry, one of ...Comment: Open mike 24/11/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 3:41 pm, November 24th, 2023
Anyone know where I can get some used Stop Co-Governance signs cheap?. With Peter’s and Seymour sharing DP I’m over this co governance bullshit already! Oh.. and some Stop Three Wankers ones too.Comment: Mergers and acquisitions
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 2:21 pm, November 21st, 2023
I thought Sulky Seymour turned it into a cliffhanger with his comment to do away with January2nd as a national holiday on the petulant reason that we now have Matariki., I'm sure I heard a collective FuckYou all the way down here in the South. ACT slipped ...Comment: Open mike 20/11/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 8:41 am, November 20th, 2023
For someone who has spent a life in deodorants Luxon really is stink.Comment: Open mike 18/11/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 3:29 pm, November 18th, 2023
Joe90..as usual only the most indepth analysis and deep dive reporting is delivered to you from the Standards very own expert purveyor of everything 'Putin'.....yes folks follow this chap down his rabbit hole....yes, go on, read it if you must.. and then ...Comment: Open mike 16/11/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 4:09 pm, November 16th, 2023
Sorry Roy, I can do many things, some very well, according to myself, but working out how computers function is not one of them. P.s, its on Stuff.Comment: Open mike 16/11/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 4:07 pm, November 16th, 2023
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