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Comment: Open mike 16/11/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 12:37 pm, November 16th, 2023
Christ on a bike, is this what it has come to:"? The Coalition of Chaos starring the Marx Brothers and any other dipstick that wanders into shot. According to Stuff this morning, and this surprises the hell out of me because you couldn't really write this ...Comment: Open mike 15/11/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 9:54 am, November 15th, 2023
A lot of our birds have had their origin in Australia, the Puteketeke is one of them along with waxeyes, plovers, even the parakeet with its own support group, it fact shit loads of them, blame the wind. I've had first hand experience of a Puteketeke, ...Comment: Open mike 14/11/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 1:24 pm, November 14th, 2023
Couldnt agree more Ian, in the 70s my old old man used to complain about all the murders of which in reality there were less than previous decades . My reasoning to him was that in the 50s he got the 2Minute Silence also known as the Marlborough Express ...Comment: Open mike 13/11/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 10:34 pm, November 13th, 2023
Ah Mckenzies, I knew it well, never pinced anything from there though or anywhere for that matter, a good God-fearing Doolan boy, but i knew others who did. This has been a lovely cricket conversation, theres something about cricket with its implied ...Comment: Open mike 13/11/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 4:35 pm, November 13th, 2023
Lance was a big boy from an early age, he probably moved out of B-grade before he was even 14!. All the Picton boys at Marlborough Boys college were tough as well. I probably knew Him Indoors, I'm 73. P.s, thanks bwag, yeah, i'm still awaiting the call ...Comment: Open mike 13/11/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 11:57 am, November 13th, 2023
Could the conditions associated with late Autumn in India be a help for us. As an aside, I do like the way we Kiwis call one of the very best teams in world "us ", we, mostly, being incapable of knowing one side of the bat from another and having dined out ...Comment: The Holocaust should be a lesson not a template
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 10:17 am, November 12th, 2023
My father was in Egypt, Libya, Lebanon, Syria and Palestine with the NZEF in WW2 and said of all the peoples around that area the Kiwis got on very well with the Palestinians as they were generally the friendliest, most honest and trustworthy of all the ...Comment: Open mike 11/11/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 11:37 am, November 11th, 2023
Tragic as it may be but a lot of "new " drugs do not have an efficacy that much better than existing ones that Pharmac funds but what they do have is a solid P.R. campaign behind them funded by big pharmaceutical companies to push their minor advantages ...Comment: Open mike 09/11/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:58 pm, November 10th, 2023
@Gabby "I imagine the slaughter may stop when hamas no longer exists"........Israel and the USA has ensured that Hamas will become bigger and more extreme and dangerous than we can possibly imagine....how many Muslim men and woman around the world do you ...Comment: Open mike 10/11/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 5:09 pm, November 10th, 2023
He said the screen could be 20kms by20kms with frigates etc on the outer.Comment: Open mike 10/11/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 11:59 am, November 10th, 2023
A while ago a good mate who was ex-navy said anything we can afford or be allowed to have, i.e super secret techo, as a frigate would only be usable in a aircraft carrier screen on the far periphery of the protection screen. I'll check with him again on ...Comment: Open mike 09/11/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 7:24 pm, November 9th, 2023
You know what, I am not going to engage with you..anyone whose moral compass is so broken that they can sit there and play down (so in essence defend) the war savage crimes that the degenerate, apartheid state of Israel is commiting on civilians in Gaza ...Comment: Open mike 09/11/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 6:39 pm, November 9th, 2023
Who knows...what is your point...just say what it is, and stop beating around the bush. How would you describe the layer upon layer of war crimes the Zionists are inflicting on the population of Gaza?Comment: Open mike 09/11/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 6:24 pm, November 9th, 2023
What has any of that got to do with this crime against humanity?Comment: Open mike 09/11/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 6:23 pm, November 9th, 2023
What has that got to do with this?Comment: Open mike 09/11/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 4:52 pm, November 9th, 2023
"I just hope that international solidarity keeps building to the point where Israel has to stop the slaughter and destruction, and that somehow a negotiated settlement will begin" Israeli Zionists have never wanted to negotiate, and they won't stop their ...Comment: Open mike 07/11/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 2:32 pm, November 7th, 2023
Very few people went with NZ1, about 2 to 3 % who were not long term Winstonistas whom amount to about 3+%. The late comers are the flotsam of the loony right who were too loony or not loony enough to fit in anywhere else and just followed whatever wombat ...Comment: Open mike 07/11/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 10:53 am, November 7th, 2023
It would not surprise if in three years time ( or even quite likely, sooner ), that the barometer swings wildly back the other way. The electorate is becoming more skitterish, which is not surprising given the pandemic and the "deprivations" thereof, the ...Comment: Open mike 06/11/2023
Written By: Adrian - Date published: 1:27 pm, November 6th, 2023
Doesn't know any and never received a clip under the ear from one either.. but keep talking like that and its not far away.Comment: Still pussy-footing on Gaza
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 5:00 pm, November 5th, 2023
Of course I didn't...though I suspect it was at least half true. BTW, where are links?....either provide links when you make your many wild allegations on this issue or please refrain from making those incendiary, unsubstantiated comments (in other words ...Comment: Open mike 04/11/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 4:52 pm, November 5th, 2023
Yeah, I have been asking for links to prove their incendiary claims time and again....usually all I get is crickets.Comment: Open mike 04/11/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 4:50 pm, November 5th, 2023
Holy shit....first of all the terrorist state of Israel is bombing the 'safe' zones....I am not going to bother with links because I am sure you are aware of this fact as it is in every single news source in the World. Secondly...While I don't condon ...Comment: Open mike 05/11/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 4:37 pm, November 5th, 2023
2 Nov "Hundreds of dual passport holders and dozens of seriously injured Palestinians were allowed to leave Gaza on Wednesday after more than three weeks under siege" It is incredible the these two lines can get printed and no one seemed to see a problem ...Comment: Open mike 05/11/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 3:37 pm, November 5th, 2023
Dennis Frank +1 The other key component of post war Free Market fundamentalism is that they have effectively and specifically taken control of pretty much every serious 'Left' wing political party in the West...thereby nicely (for them) nullifying the one ...Comment: Still pussy-footing on Gaza
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:17 pm, November 5th, 2023
Only one side has power...what the hell are you talking about?Comment: Still pussy-footing on Gaza
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:11 pm, November 5th, 2023
Then I guess you wouldn't know that The daily Mail is actually a better source of information (most days) on this conflict than any of those sources you highlighted..and also better by a country mile on keeping up with the Assange travesty. And I see you ...Comment: Open mike 05/11/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 12:03 pm, November 5th, 2023
They would be better off waiting for the next Labour Govt to get their "second coup"...if the history of radical free market economics in Western politics is anything to go by.Comment: Open mike 05/11/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:25 am, November 5th, 2023
Unfortunately for New Zealand nothing serious will be done about our obscene housing/rental problems.....Labour/National are both captured and controled by Free Market fundamentalists...end of story.Comment: Open mike 05/11/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 10:18 am, November 5th, 2023
That was a pretty flimsy piece. I also found that reading through his other bits on this subject, that he often either lacks context, by leaving out or at best lightly brushing over or playing down vital recent and/or historical information. I also find ...Comment: Open mike 04/11/2023
Written By: Adrian Thornton - Date published: 5:13 pm, November 4th, 2023
Why?...because it part of a serious debate to reveal your sources of information..... one of the things your link above also reveals, is that in all of the bombing of civilian and govt infrastructure by the Russians, there was one person killed. " hostages ...
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