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There is a headline on Stuff.co.nz stating “We Need to Talk About Racism”.
I haven’t read the opinion piece and don’t intend to, it is the headline that counts.
I agree, we do need to talk about racism.
Let’s start with Maori only electorates.
Anything but islam and it’s followers the Muslims. It is NOT racist to talk or be critical about them. But that’s what Stuff is referring to.
Perhaps journalists and other Leftards could start with the obvious fact that Islam is not a race?
Maybe then an intelligent conversation could be had with Leftards?
You mean because being Muslim is a religion so has nothing too do with racism? Well colour-me surprised.
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That fact of course doesn’t suit the narrative, by that token being Christian should also be a race.
I am of the Christian race, what rights shall that afford me?
I for one would rather not be confronted by Islam everyday, any publicity is good publicity? Keeps other Muslims in line knowing that there are those extremists out there? And non-Muslims too. Brings people over to the faith?
We are will aware that Islam is all pervasive.
I noticed in Stuff’s daily quiz today that they asked what for the meaning of hagiography. It obviously figures a lot in their minds, what with the almost daily writings of their hagiography of Jacinda Ardern.
Perhaps today they’ll track down (or interview their keyboards) some person, preferably a transgender Maori Muslim, that was once hungry in Morrinsville and Ardern gave that person one extra chip more than normal.
Nice drop of rain yesterday.
Only two deaths on the roads over the weekend. That is good.
The govt. has gone quiet. That’s a worry.
Pike is costing more and more. That’s a fiscal concern
The bombings in Sri Lanka will have wide ramifications. And rightly so.
(Government gone quiet)
Hence why they’re dragging up years-old stories, like Ardern using her taxi lift to help someone else. It’s a nice gesture but was it newsworthy then let alone now?
Haven’t we all helped those in need like that scenario? I know I have. I didn’t do it for media attention, I did it because I had the last taxi due to Air NZ’s standard incompetence as almost all the taxis had gone home for the night.
I am hoping all this old news may start to wake people up to the incompetence of this government but based on my FB feed I am about to give up on my fellow Kiwis. So JA did have the kids round to Premier House for an Easter event and you would think she is the second coming of Mother Theresa from the comments I saw.
Thanks blog host your speed at post approval is appreciated. For those I know here I was CHFR1 on Kiwiblog but this is my twitter handle.
Twitter? Only twits use that. Off to my real job now, so moderation might be a bit slower this AM.
I have found it useful to keep up with the days events now that my usual sources have become over moderated.
And the incompetent media.
But, but Colin, it diverted the twitteratti and the media from talking about Dear Leader’s flip flop over CGT.
Pike is costing more and more – as expected.
There fixed it for you.
Ad was converted in prison?
It’s now got to the stage where me and my wife have gone our separate ways and will be spending a considerable time apart for the indefinite future.
She’s shopping for shoes.
Hs, that will either increase her well being index or she is out for revenge at your expense.
Grant Robertson filled in for Cindy on the AMShow for her weekly interview slot. Was answering questions over the phone from international leaders asking her opinion on how to stop terrorist attacks a little too exhausting? Where is Cindy?
Jacinda, like me is having a well earned break away from all you alt right critics. She has had a hard time since March 15 supporting the survivors and their families. I wish her well.
Well the long weekend is over, and it’s time for JA to get back to work just like the rest of us. She wanted to be Dear Leader, she will take the flak that comes with it.
What little flak there is, seems to be too much.
Where to start with a comment like this. I doubt Jacinda gives a toss about alt right critics. I don’t know any that infest either this or Kiwiblog. People with right-wing leanings, yes, but that’s about 47% of the population based on the last Election. I didn’t realise Cindy Darling was actively involved in Victim Support in Christchurch. I actually have a family member who is involved in Victim Support in Christchurch, and based on his politics would be considered “Alt Right” based on your naive understanding of politics. Now grow up, enjoy the rest of the school holidays and get your self an education.
Love to know what word triggered moderation in my reply to Fairydust? Not a criticism, but just interested.
Nothing stands out, but you did use the devils word Labour
I’ll use a word that more accurately describes them in future….Liabour
No moderation, that worked! Excellent.
Shame about your name then lol
It’s hard to know what are the trigger phrases. I could trigger moderation by a negative phrase to the first ruler of the October revolution repeatedly. Even our blog host got moderated!
It does seem to point to a Leftist software design.
No one is wishing her any harm, just asking for competency, is it really too much to ask of a PM, fluffy ducks don’t run countries.
If you reverse the first letters of Fluffy & Ducks like the two Ronnies you get an accurate description of JA’s competency.
If we are not all familiar with Four candles, here’s a clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi_6SaqVQSw
For 400,000k a year she doesn’t do holidays.
What would Ardern know about stopping terrorist attacks? Her track record on stopping them is abysmal. After all, even Muslims get terrorised here under Ardern’s watch.
Ban semi-autos with centrefire ammo! That’ll fix ’em. Problem solved lol. What goofs.
I am reliably informed that Dear Leader has advised the Sri Lanka Govt to ban cars so they can’t be used as car bombs as they are much more effective in killing 300 against 50 and injuring 500 against 40. Perhaps Cindy hasn’t realized that neither guns or cars kill it’s the people that use them.
Freethinker, you are being provocative there and suggesting that Dear Leader might need to indulge in some logical critical thinking. Something that is not called for in the garden of unicorns, feels and hugs.
WG it’s ok – Grant can obfuscate just as well as she can but without all of the ums aaghs and other hesitations.
Grant sure can. He looks benign and trustworthy but I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could throw him.
Where was Grant when Cindy was informing the country the CGT policy w as being dumped? The policy was important to them but they left her to explain why they were dropping the CoL’s flagship policy without any sign of support from her Finance Minister or her deputy PM or any other MP involved. I actually felt a bit sorry for her, which was an unsettling feeling for me!
Grant doesn’t evince any of those thoughts for me, neither benign or trustworthy, he is so rarely in the news many wouldn’t know what he is, perhaps a name tag would help?
Grant is busy out the back writing. the Well Being budget he will be presenting on 30 May and plotting how to wring more tax out of the taxpayers to pay for it all.
WG, you can’t rely/trust Robbo, he couldn’t talk to or defend CGT, because he is as clueless about matters financial as is Dear Leader.
Which equates to them both satisfying the Peter Principle.
JA’s “How to stop terrorism in its tracks with compassion” 10th printing. Sold by ACME and endorsed by Wile E Coyote.
And that is what happens when the media tell the world that you have all of the answers. Someone might ask you what they are.
I said to hubby when I heard world leaders had been phoning Cindy to ask what the answer is, “I bet they were impressed!”
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Probably impressed Cindy knew how to answer the phone.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/super-rugby/112186467/crusaders-name-poll-suggests-75-per-cent-of-new-zealanders-want-name-to-stay
“So these are really striking figures and what they tell us is that a very small proportion of New Zealanders understand the deep history of conflict between Muslims and Christians that the word Crusade means,” historian Peter Lineham told TVNZ”.
A very interesting statement from some academic called Peter Lineham.
Only 15% of people voted for a name change to the Crusaders so his take on this is basically that the rest of the population is just ignorant and that’s why they don’t support it.
Well as an alternative Peter, how about the rest of the population are aware of what the crusades were but just don’t care as they have moved on from events which occurred back in the dark ages and maybe if academics and Muslims came out of their universities and mosques as well and left behind all this being hurt about medieval crap we would all be better off.
Lineham is an Associate Professor of Religious History. His speciality is post-Crusades, starting from the 18th century. I think this is an important detail to point out. He is not a specialist of crusading history.
http://sierc.massey.ac.nz/plineham.html
He is heavily involved in the Christian Rainbow community, is openly homosexual and claims to be a Christian. Normally, I wouldn’t care about his sexual orientation nor his Christian position but I believe for this particular argument, it presents considerable bias. Lineham is not going to present the Crusaders in a favourable light; he has a pre-disposed bias against them.
He seems to be unable to realise the Crusaders were created in response to Islamic aggression. The Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Emperor (Alexios I Komnenos) requested aid in the aftermath of the Battle of Manzikert. Muslims were taking over Christian territory militarily. In other words, hardly peaceful.
Muslims were also targeting Christian pilgrims to Jerusalem.
This is the background for the crusades. People like Lineham like to downplay or even outright ignore the context.
This is not to ignore Islamic aggression into Christian territories from the 7th century, including into the Iberian peninsula, France, Sicily, Southern Italy and even Rome.
S & S, there is an opinion piece on the Herald website by the DJ Mike Yardly that gives an interesting perspective.
In his piece he describes his trip to Turkey for the 2015 centennial Commemeration at Gallipoli and his meeting with a Muslim Turk who is a rugby fan and a fan of the Crusaders. Yardley states that over a drink they had a very wide ranging conversation including a discussion about the Crusades. Paraphrasing Yardley, he said the Turk had no problem with the Crusadesas a matter of history and indeed the Crusader army had been brought together to defend Christian Holy sites from the attacking Islamic hordes. So, why as a person in the 21st Century should he be offended by history?
Yardley then goes on to discuss the issue with the insult to Islam that is the Crusaders Rugby team. As he correctly points out, it is not the Islamic community calling for the name change, it is a handful of local woke do gooders in need of a cause. He further comments that the Colmar Brunton survey is the death of the campaign for a name change and the subject will quietly be dropped. Else there will be an unwanted backlash.
Yes all good points but I said on here yesterday and I still maintain the name change will go ahead despite public opinion opposing it simply because the NZRU have become a bunch of limp wristed wimps who run for cover at the slightest sign of trouble instead of standing their ground and arguing their case.
They have become one of the worst examples of spineless modern day sports administration.
Only time will tell whether I’m right or wrong.
Good to see we are in the International News again for all the wrong reasons. I don’t believe in Maori folklore or their spirituality, so their sacred stuff is just plain old physical features, whether they are rivers, mountains, volcanoes or springs. So, somebody swam in a fucking spring. (and it turns out the do gooders probably got the wrong place.)
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/instagram-model-denies-claims-swam-sacred-spring
Oh dear, just goes to show the what damage can be done when you give I’ll informed workers a platform or an “open mike”.
Scott Simpson, National has travelled to Westland to inspect the rubbish dump uncovered in the recent storm where some of the contents has washed down the river and landed on the local beaches between Okarito to Martins Bay. Locals have attempted a cleanup but are massively under resourced. He is calling out Eugenie Sage to put her theories aside and actually organise help with the $1m fund available for such environmental emergencies. He says much of the contents of the rubbish tip is still contained along the banks of the river and needs a large organised crew to clean this out before the river is flushed out with the next heavy rains. That would result in even more rubbish flushed out to sea and settle on the beaches.
Think of all of the plastic bags. Did you see the picture of the shark that choked on a turtle? https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12224306
Amazing photo.
Didn’t the sharks mother ever tell it to chew it’s food!
I think it was trying. Ninja turtles fight back?
Those bloody plastic bags. The turtle ate those nasty plastic bags, the shark ate the turtle and ended up dead. Blame it on the bags.
A helicopter with 3 people on board has gone missing on its way to the Auckland Islands. It hasn’t been heard from since 7.30pm last night. Airforce support has been asked for and fishing boats in the area have been put on alert. Doesn’t sound very hopeful.
I wonder if it was DOC? That’s one seriously remote spot.
The helicopter was on a medical callout. Serious if we lose any of our medical rescue guys. Not an area anyone wants anything to go wrong in. Literally the end of the earth.
Wreckage found
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12224398
Terrible news. I wonder how the person who was having a medical emergency is doing.
That’s awesome news.
Fishing boat I believe.
Latest is , three people found wandering around a isolated rock.
Great news… it seems that the crew have all been found alive!
https://a.msn.com/r/2/BBWbs06?m=en-nz&referrerID=InAppShare
How fabulous that they were properly equipped.
More broken promises from looney Labour.
This time it’s …sorry but you won’t be getting 1800 cops.
Nash now admits it was only a wish. Half way there and they have only recruited 500.
Time to blame National again. Their fault.
“Aspirational” seems to be the go to word now for all the unattainable bullshit you promised you would deliver.
Child Poverty is going to end up aspirational as well.
That’s correct… Nash aspired to reach the target of 1800. More weasel words from liars.
On another one of my crusades I was with a vocal supporter of Ardern yesterday. She was singing her praises and when questioned disputed her communist tendencies.
Fortunately I had my IPad out in the car and had great pleasure showing her the “Comrade YouTube video”.
It completely shut her up. In fact she was stunned.
Another friend who was there asked the golden question.
Why doesn’t National play the video at every opportunity as many do not know about it ?
Good question.
Simon are you listening ?
But that would be mean.
Fairydust would like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9rsxFaq6Ig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeUfEDLIwCI#action=share
Thank you. I love you……
I put them on my facebook page a few weeks back, and would encourage others to
Child “poverty” = i blew the dole money at the TAB and bought a $90 pack of tobacco. I need an emergency grant to buy a $5 box of weet-bix. WINZ you owe me! I breathe, therefore i shall receive.
Surely Nash can find some way to blame it on “9 years of neglect”.
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Twyford can assist there. That’s all he bloody talks about.
Yes, Lisa, we have…
A real NZ alcoholic drink?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz//business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12223644&ref=clavis
I’ll stick with Steinlager, and a side order of Jack Daniel’s thanks.
It would be great if she could immigrate here.
Katie Hopkins – Our Final Stand for The West
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjzQrD7B63o
The fat controller had a few words to say about Katie this morning. He didn’t share our views, you might say.
Compelling speaker, and witty.
wow Sean Plunket had a bit too much Jacinda kool aid with breakfast this morning…. going off on Katie Hopkins comments to the PM Select and praising the SLG… Vomit inducing!
Has a PM ever needed so many to defend her.
How come he s allowed to search for it but I would be criminal? I didn’t watch it the first time and have no interest in it, I think the manifesto is different but banning it has just created interest.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12224469
The banning/censorship highlights the shameless way the event has been used for political gain.
I unknowingly was subjected to the video prior to banning & censorship as it showed up in my news feed, but thought it was a crappy new video game as it doesn’t look realistic at all. I understand the need for respect for the victims/survivors/families, but what is the difference compared to seeing JFK’s head being blown off, or countless incidences of (real) Nazi’s executing Jews etc in WW2? Twin towers?
As for the manifesto… my brother is living outside of the country so he is not bound by any silly laws, so he will often explain the direct contradictions between the misinformation/fake news in the media or spouted by politicians and what the shooter actually said in his own words in the manifesto, including the reasoning behind the decision to ban it in the first place! Which makes the case for censorship in even more shadier…
How to get free advertising 101, lol
https://www.wthr.com/article/kentucky-bbq-business-getting-heat-lgbtq-shirts
Lol, go Simon, a great sledge at “Call me Sir”, Cullen
https://twitter.com/simonjbridges/status/1120160696413503488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
As a new member on this site I wish to acknowledge our host who has allowed us to post our comments without having to wait for several hours for them to appear.
This permits continuity and makes it so much easier to follow.
Thank you.
Thank you. My moderation policy is very simple. If you post something I don’t like and it is critical of me or my blog, then you get eliminated. Only done it once in the 2 weeks we have been going. It seems to have had a salutary effect. I am slowly removing some of the words on the moderation list, as they are not required. Labour should be spelt Liarbour to remove any chance of your post going to moderation.
OK.. very fair and straightforward. .
In future I will use Liarbour instead of the Devils word…. Cheers..
From KB a petition regarding ANZAC day
https://www.change.org/p/new-zealand-police-stand-up-for-community-anzac-day-commemorations-in-new-zealand/psf/share?source_location=petition_show&psf_variant=combo
Let’s not forget Louisa.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/112102853/nz-syria-reporter-emma-beals-says-hope-for-louisa-akavi-must-never-wane
It never stops does it.
A special permanent resident visa has been set up and anyone who was present at either mosque during the shooting, or their families can apply.
Immigration NZ says to be eligible you must have been living in New Zealand on March 15, when the attacks happened, and not just visiting.
Family members can include partners, children and immediate family of children who were at the mosques.
Immigration NZ says they will check police records to verify who was there at the time of the attacks.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/04/special-residents-visa-set-up-for-christchurch-attack-victims.html?fbclid=IwAR0tIclFlTpy32Tb3nYLPG3S7h3j9bKIg6-rVTV9NuNfDjvSz5BDvuO9GfU
Either they had a visa before or they didn’t.
If they didn’t why would we grant the privilege?
Terror
This blog has now risen to 11,181 on the Alexa Traffic Ranking.
(Whilst another blog is falling)
Westpac Bank is no 30
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12224693
Claims Sri Lanka was indeed a revenge attack