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I’m not a god botherer.
The fellow running the shop is not a god botherer.
Why the hell is it illegal for us to do business today?
Well if the Islamification of NZ continues at its current pace everything shutting on Friday will be the norm.
If that happens the whole country will be shut down, and not only on a Friday.
Because it’s against the law, something like owning an AK47 or selling P to schoolchildren, without laws we could turn out like animals in the jungle or sweatshop owners,
Well aren’t you just a little authoritarian? How does opening your privately run business (without affecting staff who wish to enjoy the holiday) affect anyone other than the owner operator? Selling, food, clothing, furniture, hardware goods, etc is not in the same universe as laws preventing illegal activity as owning AK47 or drug dealing.
Whoever would have thought opening a corner Dairy would be the first step on the road to anarchy? ?
And yet, using garden centres as an example, some are prepared to wear the fine so that they can serve their customers wishes, I would find it hard to believe that they make a profit, the fine is 1k? That’s a lot of plants to sell, to cover that and wages.
https://www.employment.govt.nz/leave-and-holidays/public-holidays/restricted-shop-trading-days/
You can lay the blame at winstons feet. He refused to stop tht nonsence and allow people to open their shops. Pandered to the God botherers along with his National Catholic Mates.
The garden centre near me opens on Good Friday, has done for years, and no doubt dutifully pays its fines. However if you go down there today you will see the vast amount of business they’re doing makes that $1K nothing more than chump change.
Profit not turnover, and to have to pay the fine at all, which is up to a k you would need to be visited by an inspector and that doesn’t seem to happen much now, so they might as well change the law.
No noise from the Mobie guys this year about trading. Perhaps they all went away on holiday them selves. Which has to be good. Bet the ETU guys are fishing too.
Perfect weather for gardening Rachael, the garden centres won’t have a problem covering the $1k fine but they shouldn’t have to pay in the first place. Buying plants gives me a sense of serenity and is good for my “wellbeing” – Cindy says “wellbeing” must be encouraged. //
I am not arguing, I think it should be a business choice, I have never liked the artificial distinction between ‘tourist’ towns and others, as I think we all are needing tourist money, I am concerned about an erosion, if Easter is ‘liberated’ from its strictures I wouldn’t want that to extend to ANZAC day.
I used to own a business that was restricted during Easter and ANZAC and if I had opened, my business license would not have been renewed. Unless of course I was in a place like Rotorua or Queenstown, I think are two exceptions. Gardeners are good planners if gardening is really an imperative, buying them yesterday or even last weekend would have been fine.
so is consuming the lines from lawnmowing, but that doesn’t stop your glorious leader from doing so.
So post a link to the PM Jacinda Ardern or her partner’s drug taking, no i dont think you can , its just a mantra from bitter losers, this may be why David F under pressure, NUTTERS posting that Jacinders into drugs,and the MAJOR DEFAMATION LAWSUIT, his posters have caused, David has noticed nutters are making defamation claims and as it his blog like this one hes moderating, the host pays the damages, not the posters, so Hobo think of the host, and not EXPENSIVE throw away posts
What a strange fellow you are.
You are the only poster here who has mentioned the harridan or it’s plaything and the only one who has mentioned drugs (I gather not of the ethical type) and yet you warn Hobo.
Are you ill?
Maybe you should seek a Doctor – medical, not those pretend ones that pollute universities instead of facing the real world.
Why call the PM a harrian ,sounds rather childish for an adult and her partner a plaything…
Truth hurting is it!
harridan, are you stressing? And isn’t that what youth adjacent people do, have fun?
I don’t know who Hobo is, but I refer you to the following clause in our Terms and conditions, which I am sure you read before you agreed to abide by when you signed up, being the clever leftie you are.
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Scratching my head is it me JSF or Hobo your terms and cons are referring to??
You obviously haven’t read them then? In this instance it was aimed at both of you.
Why does JSF keep SHOUTING at us? Need more coffee? More sleep? More of that Easter chocolate?
I’ve noticed this many times on Kiwiblog, and now here: the Labour Troll School desperately needs to run remedial literacy classes. Their graduates would be far less conspicuous then, and their covert subliminal operations far more likely to fool us uneducated far-right… what was it the Proud Green called us again?
Jacinda is our most popular Prime Minister, adored World Wide and has been named Time’s person of the year.
Clarke is a brilliant and successful person in his own right. The rumours about him were proven to be a lie when the Police Commissioner bravely took a stance to protect Clarke’s reputation.
It’s just petty jealousy from disgruntled Tories….
What’s to be jealous of? Sincere question. Do tell.
A smart person who sees the world and our PM Jacinda as she is
I will say that when it comes to the personal side of being PM i.e. talking to people, smiling, showing compassion etc it’s hard to beat Jacinda but unfortunately when it comes to policy and actually implementing anything successfully you campaigned on she has probably been one of the biggest failures in recent memory.
If smiles could fill the stomachs of Kiwis we would all be fine, bad news is they can’t.
Warts and all? Or is she the perfect embodiment of womanhood, prime ministerial? A bit sychophantic, should Clarke be jealous?
What is it with you and the word brave? Why do those two Clarke and Jacinda need so many people running interference? Aren’t they meant to be grown ups?
You forgot the parents of the nations baybeeeeeee. That must rank up there as a great achievement surely? Or do you lefties not care about that?
The rest of the world has not a clue how worthless she actually is. The see the head scarf, and that’s about it. Yay. Time magazine is near bankrupt, with a tiny fraction of subscribers than what they used to have. Doesn’t matter what they think anyway. She answers to us, not them.
Clarke? Who cares!
Steady on there Greeny, before you soil your vegan bamboo undies. You’re getting a bit carried away. She’s made Time’s list of 100 most influential people. That’s a long way from their Person of the Year award.
I didn’t know there were Tories in New Zealand. Maybe you should concentrate more at university and learn that Tories are in the UK and Rabid Right Wingers infest New Zealand. Jacinda is NOT our most popular prime minister as she is yet to receive preferred PM rankings that John key had. Heard of Operation Ark? If not, do some research, you should know how to considering you are a “postgraduate student”. And we are not jealous, just very fucking smug knowing we are right and you are wrong, all the time. Now, fuck off.
Jacinda’s surely.
like …….. sweatshop owners,
That does raise another question: Without sweatshop owners how would those in poor areas earn their living?
“What you talkin’ bout Willis”?
“Different Strokes for Different Folks” ducklin! JSF is flexing his little muscles in support of Cindy. ?
I don’t pay much attention to the “first man” lol.
Who?? ?
Yes, I do not understand why people who don’t agree with the title, use the title.
Beginning to wonder which muscle.
Need a sleep in because the govt. is running out of money to give to the poor.
https://www.newsie.co.nz/news/147296-access-to-hardship-grants-hits-record-high.html?fbclid=IwAR2Sh5VAv9zt4k0KmYNpUxGky5iqJTiiKUdU2KmSmKMMUWaPYbtUL9qBjck
Feeel better now.
Will be a direct correlation between hardship grants and Powerball jackpots.
As the saying goes, “build it and they will come”
so does the CoL saying come one come all to the Winz office and there won’t be any condemnation
WG, I need some help here.
Maybe you (a knowledgeable person) or one of the communist dweebs (oops sorry: nice, current Govt. supporters) can help me.
Having retired from my business after gaining the pension I find I will need another vehicle to get to work while I convert my van to a camper.
An obvious hardship as you can no doubt imagine.
How does one go about getting one of these hardship grants?
Do I need to beg?
Do I need to attest I voted for the CoL (a step too far)?
Morning Tinman, what a beautiful “wellbeing” project you have underway converting your van into a camper. Cindy praises you for your ingenuity and clever acceptance of her new flagship policy. She does wonder how many of your neighbours you will be able to include in your new camper during future camping expeditions?
As the closest thing I have come to a Winz office is saying goodmorning to the security guard as I pass by their door, I suggest you approach said security guard and mention Cindy’s name and her shiny new “Wellbeing” flagship policy. I guarantee access will not be a problem but if there is any pushback, please contact Ms Sepeloni who is more than positive about extending the warm embrace of the taxpayer to those in need. I wish you well in your future endeavours.
Getting a hardship grant is easy.
The following methods are guaranteed:
1.Say you have had a bad week at the TAB
2.Excise tax has gone up on smokes so you will need a top up
3.Your 15th kid is sick and you need gas to take him to the hospital
4.Need to go to a tangi and have to chip in for the feed
5.Say your camper is to be used by yourself in Christchurch giving trauma and spiritual support to the Muslim community
With the above methods they will not tell you how much you can have,they will be asking how much you want…
I believe there’s a stronger correlation between more taxation on tobacco and alcohol, and hardship grants. I’m not saying Powerball isn’t a factor, mind you.
I’d never heard of the term “dole” until i moved to NZ when i was 21. Welfare to me meant high-rise slums full of winos in big cities like Chicago.
Similar, we just don’t do highrise.
Here you go: The origins of the term ‘On the dole’? In the UK, Unemployment Benefit has been known by the slang term ‘the dole’ since WWI. This derives from the ‘doling out’, that is, ‘handing out’ of charitable gifts of food or money.
Like the time back in the day before student loans, I was having a talk with a student. He says hes not on the dole but on the “fisheries”
When I asked what he meant, he replied I am a beneficiary.
Reminds me of the great billboards that were erected at the car yard by the Basin Reserve in the late 80s early 90s asking if after the Sealord deal “will Sealord be renamed Benny Fisheries ?”
Things must really really really be bad. Not only have they got record numbers wanting hardship grants, they couldn’t afford to pay enough baubles to Winston to get him on side and support their CGT.
Oh to be a fly on the wall of that meeting.
Now they want to censor more songs as inappropriate, there is some incident somewhere around the world on multiple occasions, where guns are used , tv is violent, films are violent, there is music that contains violent references. What if your hit song mentions guns, should Six Sixty have sung it at the benefit concert?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=12223643
Just shows that it does not matter how good your intentions are if you don’t conform to the ideological purity required of the mob they will be on you.
Let us, and particularly people I would have more understanding with, read and relate about Tarrants Manifesto.
Even though I think the guys is seriously messed up.
Let us see why Tarrant changed his targets.
Not that I agree with him going and shooting any one or any thing, or intimidating. If he had information he should have been sending a copy to the police, as well as the copies to else where, spreading the information of what he knew.
Some of the news papers pulled who attended what mosques, and what some of the converts had done, in going to ISIS.
One of the essential parts that Rowan Atkinson used in his request in stopping “hate speech” laws.
Do not take it that I am an Obama fan, but those points like Rowan Atkinson, are worthy of re quoting and making the point to many that support “hate speech” concepts.
So are all the Hollywood block busters and sci fi movies and violent games also going under the censor? Barking fucking mad these stupid bastards.
Not a fan of President Obama, but then again the fans may pickup on what he said.
and that was used and acknowledged in Rowan Atkinson’s speech against “hate speech” laws.
Obama continued with that in mind December 27, 2017
Sorry missed closing the last quote after Obama’s speech marks “” and before my comment about ‘Free speech even for Tarrants manifesto, …. ‘
FFS if they think that’s “offensive”, have a listen to Slayer’s “Angel of Death”. Slayer was due to play at Chch before the shootings. Millions around the world love those guys. (guilty!)
Like Trump is being called a Nazi for playing the song edelweiss
https://pjmedia.com/trending/new-york-times-white-house-correspondent-thinks-edelweiss-is-a-nazi-anthem/
So all those who drive Volkswagon cars are Nazis too? After all, Hitler commissioned Volkswagon as “the peoples’ car”.
Why does this not surprise me? The Sound Of Music is offensive now Good Lord!!
All those rain drops on roses, and whiskers on kittens, one of those is a favourite thing.
AL-AQSA Mosque, third-holiest site in Islam, was struck by a fire that broke out at the same time the Notre Dame Cathedral was devastated by an inferno. Donations from the wealthy are expected to run into millions of gallons.
How much will 1 election 2005, Abbas donate, or will he keep on pilfering and amassing funds like Arafat.
I am sure Saudi, Qatar, Kuwait or Iran will be up for major contributions as they seemed to be ok with Abbas and his family, embezzling of funds, that are supposed to help ordinary Palestinians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Abbas
In an interview in Simon Bridges : Cancelling the CGT is a win for NZ’ers
https://www.newsie.co.nz/news/147131-cgt-back-down-win-kiwis-bridges.html
Simon need to keep his foot on the gas and a club in his hand to beat Labour with over all their hair-brained failures. The new campaign slogan shall be “A stick in time clubs nine.”
It’s only a win for greedy farmers and lazy fat cat property investors.
It’s a disaster for the rest of Aotearoa…
OMG really? Perhaps you should go and work on a farm and see what those farmers have had to do everyday of their lives. You are an envious wee thing aren’t you, have none of your predecessors been successful enough to pass something on to following generations, that is what some of the farmers have had, the blood sweat and tears of their preceeding generations, why is it their fault if yours chose to not be educated, not to have aspiration or to piss their money up against the wall, or gamble, there are choices in NZ, some are forward thinking and some just have their head up their arse.
But you know what, every family has had a mixture of both, my paternal grandmother gambled away the family farm and that grandfather spent a lot of his productive life making good on her debts, he lived a very simple life and was a good man, he came out from Wales when he was 13.
My maternal grandparents had some success but came from nothing, but one thing that I have learned, is that if you have anything, some other bastard wants it for nothing.
Wow! Rachael it could not be explained better than that. 🙂
I have many friends who are farmers, and most of my kids’ school mates live on farms. They are not the slightest bit “greedy.” They are the back bone of rural New Zealand.
I guess hard-working Kiwis who carry their own weight and contribute to a multi-billion dollar industry we all benefit from are greedy, as opposed to those queuing up in a WINZ office wanting someone else pay their rent and heating bills. The left mindset is truly retardation. It’s a disease.
Be careful here this turkey is an educated man according to him. He is a PHD student for what that’s worth. We farmers and greedies have paid a lot to educate him. But being entitled as he is then he will never repay us other than with innane comments and insults.
Have you repaid your Student Loan yet Mr Green and Proud.
Pride always comes before the fall.
PHD in Underwater Bubble Blowing?
Postgraduate or PhD? Please enlighten us a bit more.
sigh………………………………………………………………………………..
Can we have this nutter locked up please?
I fucking gave up at some fantasy land called “Aotearoa”. Please do tell where this is?
The CGT capitulation has been spun as “a response to public feedback” and the abandonment of Kiwibuild as any meaningful program was a merely a “recalibration” so it now begs the question of what will be said when the “child poverty reduction” policy inevitably goes down in another ball of flames.
Possibly a “reappraisal” of what constitutes poverty, instead of one dozen eggs feeding a family of four over a week it will be deemed under the new policy that one egg is enough to feed this same family and therefore anyone with two eggs or more is now affluent and out of the danger zone.
Anyone with a tray of eggs will go to the gulag.
Ah,so, now there will be a working group to thin k up new words for each set of failures. Be a collection of nasty MP’s, left wing academics and trajics.
ics.
There is already the all encompassing clusterfuck. But we do not want to be mean about Labour’s failures, imagine how much worse it would be if they were competent? I do wonder how many people pay to read paywalled ‘news’, the mushrooms just get fed the generic bullshit.
I found this really interesting, not anything new, but it shows what mushrooms the public are.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12223536
Phil Goff taketh, and continues to taketh away. As with the Col Govt, just imagine for one second where their careers would be in the private world. That would be In The Toilet!
Jacinda Ardern named world’s second greatest leader by Fortune magazine
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/jacinda-ardern-named-worlds-second-greatest-leader-by-fortune-magazine/ar-BBW5a1T?ocid=spartandhp
When you read all these headlines from overseas magazines proclaiming how adored Ardern is one would think her popularity in NZ must be up around 90% but last poll I think it was around 53%.
So only 1 in 2 people in NZ share the adoration.
Given that John Key regularly polled over 50% as well you really have to ask if all this hoop la around Ardern is just sycophantic nonsense propagated by elements of the so called progressive media.
Hard data available would seem to indicate that.
There ya go. For all you doubters out there, the world has spoken. What other proof do you need that she is one of our finest PM’S ever.
We’ll take any bid to take her off our hands. Line up, line up. No pushing or shoving. There’s plenty of other’s from the ‘shallow carpark puddle’ who gladly become your leader. Twyford, Jackson, Kelvin, Grant, and any others of your choosing. Bids open at 1pm.
Wow that’s one way to completely ignore the whole argument put forward and just stay on message.
For me it calls into question the criteria on which the selecties are selected. I mean seriously what would some other PM have done, gone and bombed Australia for the sins of their son? I wasn’t a fan of the hair shirt, and if Jacinda is such a leader then the next attack on a Christian nation by a ‘lone’ wolf then I expect their leaders to do the same, otherwise, what exactly is she leading and what example of hers is actually being emulated?
It was admittedly easier for a woman to be all huggy, but empathy does not run a country, Jacinda has a set of skills, but they are not those suited to running a country.
As a female chauvenist, I would normally applaud a woman’s ascendancy, but I truly do not think that Jacinda’s is deserved, but hell, we would all take it, the adullation, I am sure that she didn’t even know that she was this wonderful before the media told her, but this country is going to hell in a handbasket and that is down to Jacinda and her not taking care of business, tcb (hat tip to Elvis)..
David Seymour critical of Ardern’s grasp on economic policy
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/387377/david-seymour-critical-of-jacinda-ardern-s-grasp-of-economic-policy
Yess! Jacinda Ardern has been named Time’s ‘Person of the year’ AND the second greatest leader by Fortune Magazine-
She is quite literally the greatest politician New Zealand has ever seen- Hell many around the University consider her the greatest ever New Zealander!
From her humble beginnings she blazed a path through the mighty International Socialist Youth (Where she is rightfully revered) and then onto the New Zealand Political scene…Which she has literally dominated since she began!
The whole damn World loves Jacinda- It is just a shame a few bitter old Tories can’t smell the roses…
We are truly blessed to have her…and just think- In twenty years time little Baby Neve may follow her mother into Politics! If you could bet on such things who would bet against Neve becoming our youngest ever Prime Minister?
Now your just being silly. Going over the top in your comments here aren’t you?
I wonder how much more Holy will take of this shit you are spouting before you are reigned in….
I think our gracious host understands the concept of Parody…
Ah It’s too late to try and suck up now. I am sure he would have noted your stupid comments.
You are confused…
Jacinda Ardern is not Time’s Person of the Year.
That title is bestowed in December 2019.
Nice to have you join Maggy. Beautiful day. We have just planted 3 more trees. Shane can’t have them. It’s time he planted some of his own.
Oh dear, I’ve just chopped one down; ring-barked another- a bloody karo!, and am plotting the demise of 2 liquidambers (I’ll let them have their last show of autumn colour before they meet the chainsaw).
It’s 4pm and the Sun has finally put in an appearance… just in time for me to light the fire and reduce complex C-compounds to CO2 and warmth.
Sitting here in a t.shirt, brilliant blue sky all day and actually it was too warm gardening late this morning. Stunning autumn in the Waikato. Cool early mornings, blue and gold days. Desperately need rain. Liquidambers are beautiful but are more suited to large estates or paddocks. I’ll send some sunshine your way Maggy.
Welcome along Maggie. Its much more fun here. The kiddies are not allowed. 😆
Not the Liquid Ambers! They are truly a beautiful tree! However, I have had a fire going since Monday. Very proud of all the lovely CO2 I have put into ensuring the survival of life on this planet. Going to keep burning until at least Easter Sunday!
Besides, Maggy. Time’s person of the year would put her alongside Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin (Twice) and all the Bushes and Trumps the left despises.
Hi Maggy. Glad to see you have popped in here to raise the tone of debate.
I am starting to think you are actually just a right winger pretending to be a left winger as the comments are getting so exaggerated they lack credibility.
However if I take you at face value, you say on the NZ political scene she has “literally dominated since she began”.
I gather you are ignoring the fact she contested the seat of Waikato and Auckland Central(x2) and was defeated every time.
Hardly dominant I’m afraid.
Bless your little self, you are like a yappy little dog around the heels of your betters.
Who are these “tories” of whom you speak? Are they another tribe that the Treaty Partners haven’t recognized yet?
Will they be allowed to apply for funding to build their Green marae?
Fuck Off.
Chinese owner of Wairarapa sheep station selling up after xenophobic abuse.
The Chinese owner of a Wairarapa sheep station says he is selling up because his family and staff were targeted with racist abuse.
Hong-Kong based Eric Chun Yu Wong has been embroiled in a dispute with officials over public access to the sprawling $3.3 million Kawakawa Station, at Cape Palliser.
When the stoush with the Walking Access Commission became public last year, Wong says there was a backlash and his unnamed farm managers quit.
“Our accommodation bookings dropped off. Our farm managers were called terrible names (all racist terms that we will not repeat) and harassed in their community,” Wong said in a written statement to Stuff.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/112156730/chinese-owner-of-wairarapa-sheep-station-selling-up-after-xenophobic-abuse?cid=facebook.post&fbclid=IwAR1-q6woTgnBC7x2MrQPbIkTJ12bjOL99VQxC_lItxT7rUHV0erCkVuLd3c
Nothing to see here as he is rich and Chinese.
Govt agencies would be queuing up to assist though if he was poor and black/Muslim.
What a barbaric custom
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12223730
What’s that burning smell?.
Oh that, that’s the smell of diversity.
And woman’s rights.
Will a hijab be worn in support?
Where is the condemnation from Bangladesh let alone our very own saint, sounds like some of the bastards were wearing burkha, true solidarity from Jacinda surely demand that she don the same. Golriz?
Normally they wear a bra but with womens libbers the way they are boobs in a scarf sounds reasonable.
Bad, bad Winston for signing the UN migration pact! The 3rd world needs to STAY there.
So the Nats. are now supporting entering Pike river.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12223747&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nzh_fb&fbclid=IwAR2DBc0t-Hn435NA7R6yLhTAg7g-B9DeXUK8FJxXOgKNqqp547wSs-dPMuE
Next they will be crawling up the Greens arse. Oh what they already are.
To be fair, they said if it was safe they would. If it is now safe, then let them. I’m more aghast at the cost of this.
Jacinda Ardern,up there with the best, Fortune magazine….PS Simon Bridges isn’t there
World’s Greatest Leaders
1 Bill and Melinda Gates.
2 Jacinda Ardern.
3 Robert Mueller.
4 Pony Ma.
5 Satya Nadella.
6 Greta Thunberg.
7 Margrethe Vestager.
8 Anna Nimiriano.
Second year running for the leader that politicises tragedy when it gets her international kudos.
Hard group to please
Shouldn’t politicians be judged against other politicians? Mind you Jacinda is philanthropic with our money.
Quite a few Capitalists in that list…
Do you think Jacinda is plotting the overthrow of folks like the Gates, Pony Ma, & Satya Nadella?
It is difficult to compare. The work that Bill and Melinda Gates are doing has a REAL impact. And while Jacinda virtue signals, what has she actually achieved?
Oil and Gas? Negative environmental impact.
Kiwibuild? Good idea but it has not delivered.
Child poverty? Worsened on almost all metrics.
Climate change? Worsened, expecting 6 years before ajy positive gains are realised.
And she has presided over an authoritarian, statist government that has steadily sought to erode individual liberty.
How are they even comparable?
Great news for gun owners, considering the draconian punishment imposed…
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/112035308/a-version-of-the-christchurch-mosque-shooters-gun-remains-legal-despite-law-changes
So, a poorly implemented law done quickly for polling didn’t achieve the stated goals? Colour me surprised.
I was reading that Jacinda said some Arabic words when she was in her hijab, is Arabic the only language spoken in Mosques? There were such diversity of races that were affected in the Mosque attacks, shouldn’t there have been words from every affected race?
I didn’t watch any of it, so there might have been, did anyone else watch it who would know?
Ardern did say words for every affected race.
They roughly translate in English to “Your residency papers are in the mail”.
Not I; I generally avoid JA when she is on TV, and mute the radio!
All she said was “As-salāmu ʿalaykum” which is a greeting in Arabic that means “Peace be upon you”
Ardern then called for the adhan (call to prayer), that is introduced the imam to do the chant, who did the traditional 7 verses repeating some from the koran’s first surah (chapter).
Muslims believe that Allah (God) used Arabic to talk to Muhammad through the Archangel Gabriel (Jibril), giving him the Quran in Arabic.
So many muslims attempt to learn some Arabic, or at least can quote the noises in rote of Arabic, for certain verses, even if they do not fully understand. 🙂
Many ulama (muslim scholars) claim that the holy scriptures can only be fully understood in Arabic, and that is why Western people can not ever really understand. 🙁 but there are about 5 good recognized English translations. 🙂
All together now, to the tune of the Proclaimers, I`ll fly 10,000 miles…to protest global warming.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6938095/Dame-Emma-jets-5-400-miles-green-is.html
Even if you didn’t ask for it, like Soubrek?
Another one who loses my respect for lack of common sense and virtue signalling. Emma Thompson – one rule for me, another for thee.
What use to the Planet is the Entertainment industry?
How many tonnes of CO2- equivalents are wasted by the luvvies when they produce a bit of film fluff?
http://www.carbonvisuals.com/projects/one-hours-tv-production-for-bbc
https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/33797344/BUCHANAN-DOCUMENT-2016.pdf?sequence=1
I haven’t read the body of the article, I don’t need to.
Fortune (whatever the fuck that is) doesn’t need to live in the country the harridan pollutes.
Fortune, in fact, needs to first answer the question: What exactly does the harridan lead?
and
How does showing a frowny face verandered by the symbol of female suppression constitute leadership?
Certainly there has been no other display of leadership.
Large displays of incompetence, laziness, dishonesty, communism, refusal to accept opposition of thought and action, yes, but leadership, no. None at all!
Fortune = Wrong!
Sorry, missed the shot. The above article should start” There is a headline in something called Fortune dissing most other world leaders”.
People are influenced.
You are often unaware just who and how. I found this an interesting read as I read down.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12223546
So Jacinda did it right in the worlds eyes.
Certainly around the people side.
On the legislation side that’s something else.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/education/112151278/university-of-auckland-cancels-graduation-processions-due-to-increased-risk-after-christchurch-terror-attack
Compare and contrast.
I thought all the “guns were under lock-down”, and censors stopping any bad thinking, and police chasing down any supremacist.
To avoid your posts going to moderation, just use one link to another site per post.
Thanks; can work with that.
Just thought it was just a very fast hic-cup as cleared so quickly. 🙂
I did put some things in the quote in html bold, but it did not come through.
Testing here the bold, italics and striking out.
“other forms of terrorism like those seen overseas”. and then ” ‘vehicle as a weapon’ ” so who is looking to that form of terrorism as believed possible by the Vice-Chancellor Stuart McCutcheon a place of
learningI am so pleassed that Ardern canned the CGT.
It was goign to kill business and innovatin an dour NZ way of life.
And be far to complictaed to administer
Now to be more fair our tax system needs to collect some money from Apple and Facebook etc.
And reduce the middle class welfare of Working for families and Accomodation Supplement.
And get all the neets working so that they pay some tax.
Its good to see so many familiar names on here.
And for a blog page to start early in the morning.
Now that CGT is dead, will the housing market rebound?
Has it occurred to the pundits that Jacinda was too busy with her international agenda to be bothered with domestic politics regarding the CGT, i mean really, such bread and butter stuff when you are being feted by domestic and international media, I guess Jacinda has started believing the rhetoric. Ego will not have caused the first down fall of those who think they are above us.