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Morning all, I fear something has gone terribly wrong. The Vatican still haven’t rung yet. I’ve been doing everything right, rattling off hail Mary’s and sculling Peronis by the box. What more can I do?
Fair up! The Vatican have weeks of weird traditions to perform before you get to audition for the role. For example:
#. “tapping his forehead with a silver hammer. It is the camerlengo’s duty to perform the rite, administering three gentle taps on the pope’s forehead and calling him by his first name”.
Then there’s the small matter of the Pope’s ring:
#. “The ring is inspected to make sure it’s authentic, the camerlengo than scratches a cross onto it and it is then broken on a block of lead with a mallet.”
More of the crap at https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/a-guide-to-the-rites-rituals-and-ceremonies-following-the-popes-death
The ritualised garbage symbolises why the less gullible & more worldly of our fellows are drawn to the atheistic way of life.
Vatican releases first photos of Pope Francis in open coffin, reveals date of funeralso have you had an invite yet?
Cardinals met on Tuesday to set the date for Pope Francis’ funeral, as world leaders from US President Donald Trump to Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy said they would attend to honour the Catholic leader.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/world-leaders-set-to-attend-francis-funeral-as-cardinals-gather/TFCCK6A4RFDFTG6WEPJ2PLTPHQ/
Slam the lid and screw it down. He’s done!
Good job there’s nothing important happening in Ukraine that their leader should maybe stick around for. He does seem to leave on a regular basis.
That’s why he has all McManson.
Just as well NN, is over there, be able to do a Cindy.
He’ll probably put on a hijab.
Have you lit the Smoker and given away the fish? Called the baker to bring you bread.
confessed your sins and called all the good people of Whangarei to your free feeds?
Lots more to do. Call ROL for more advice.
Sorry, busy working on my CV for the top Job.
If you make the short list like myself can I catch a lift over with you? There seems to be some plan to stop me from going – probably due to the high probability of me getting the top job. I know how these things happen, I’ve watched the Da Vinci Code 127 times.
Yup. I am working on the itinerary as we speak. First a stop over in Thailand for a few weeks. After that we should be over any temptation for the rest of our lives. Also consulting Vatican layers as what to do with wifey. Popes have not had wives for a while, so I am not up to speed on that part of the process. Send me your bank account details, logon and password so I can make a good will deposit…..
That married bit is so last year! I’m trying to break new ground by becoming the first heathen Pope. What could possibly go wrong?
Some would say the current dead one is not that far removed from your wish. You may only be the second heathen Pope!
Who is Anthony Albanese and what is hiding behind his Communist connections and ideology?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_ZvCbiKLEg
Recommend watching this. You will see the parallel here. Scary for aussie.
From this thread:—
https://ysb.co.nz/have-your-say-365/#comment-438198
Thanks FJA
Komata:—
‘The DISTRUST of the Australian media at AN ALL TIME LOW…’???
There may be some decline in Trust of the media in Australia, but it does seem too little to late, even though I like the trend.
In part it would because Australia is largely urbanized, so will more easily controlled by relentless techno-bureaucracy.
Another factor is urbanisation, with 89% of its population living in a handful of urban areas,
Australia is one of the world’s most urbanised countries.
So practical experience, pragmatic thinking, common-sense, reason is being hi-jacked & strangled.
Yes scary for New Zealand, as mentioned the reliance NZ has on Australia if Albanese gains a 2nd term.
Not a good out look for NZ if Mark Carney & his crew win; a continuation & turbo charging of Trudeau’s party politics in Canada.
After all New Zealander’s picked up well on the “Freedom Trucker’s Convoy” to Ottawa, to then make a stand, for a great summer of “Wellington Protest”.
Whilst in the mean time Luxon is hob-nobbing with the diseased folk of the UK & Europe.
An IRS agent shows up at a hospital to conduct an annual audit. Anxious to find something wrong, he asks the CFO what they do with all the wasted bandage material at the end of each roll.
The CFO says “We collect it and, once a year, we send it back to the manufacturer who sends back a complete roll.“
Then he asks what they do with all the leftover plaster when they make casts for patients. The CFO says “We save that too and once a year we send it to the manufacturer who sends us back a complete box.”
The agent, growing. annoyed, says “I suppose you’re gonna tell me you do the same thing with your leftover toilet paper.”
The CFO replies: “No, we send that to the IRS and they send us a complete asshole.”
History 101:
For those that don’t know much about history here is a condensed version:
Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer & would go to the coast to live on fish & other seafood in the winter.
The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer & the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These were the foundations of modern civilisation & together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups:
1. Socialists (the Left) 2. Coalition supporters (the Right).
Once beer was discovered, it required grain & that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminium cans were discovered yet, so while our early humans were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That’s how villages were formed.
Some men spent their days tracking & killing animals to BBQ at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as the Right.
Other men who were weaker & less skilled at hunting learned to live off the Right by showing up for the nightly BBQs to do the sewing, fetching & hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Left.
Some of these socialist men eventually evolved into women. Those became known as girlie-men. Some of their noteworthy achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of nasal inhalation therapy, group hugs & the concept of social welfare to decide how to divide the meat & beer that the Right provided.
Modern socialists like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu & French food are standard Lefty fare. All vegans are of the Left. Another interesting evolutionary side note: most of their women have higher testosterone levels than their men. Most social workers, lawyers, politicians, bureaucrats, journalists, actors & group therapists are socialists. Usually to be found kissing women’s feet while begging for a charity fuck.
Centre Right supporters drink domestic beer. They eat red meat & still provide for their women. Supporters of the Right are big game hunters, farmers, forestry employees, construction workers, firemen, medical doctors, engineers, corporate executives, athletes, members of the military, airline pilots & generally anyone who works productively. Many own companies & employ those who want to work for a living.
Socialists produce little or nothing. They like to govern the producers & decide what to do with the production. They crept in after the hard work of developing NZ & created a business of trying to get more for nothing.
Here ends today’s lesson of our history.
I liked that and so true
This is part of the latest TPU email.
“There’s no polite way to put this, but over recent months, it’s become clear that unless New Zealand fundamentally changes course, we are headed towards crisis.
The public has no idea just how bad the deficit and accumulated debt is becoming.
The media are not doing their job, and once again it falls on the Taxpayers’ Union to step up to the plate.
Right now, the Government is borrowing at a faster rate than when Chris Hipkins and Grant Robertson left office!
Despite all the media coverage about ‘brutal cuts’, it’s simply not true. The numbers do not lie.
While Nicola Willis and the National/ACT/NZ First Government talk-the-talk about prudent fiscal management, their task is mammoth. In order for them to make the tough, but necessary, calls to cut wasteful (non-frontline) spending, they need the public to understand the true scale of the challenge.
And with the media working lock-step with the Opposition Parties to oppose any spending cuts – no matter how commonsense they are – we need to get to work .
Your household’s share of the national debt: $92,500 (and growing!)
Right now, Nicola Willis is borrowing more than $1 million each and every hour .
Over the Easter weekend alone, the debt grew by more than one hundred million dollars.
On a per household basis, it’s sobering: right now your household’s share of the debt is now more than $92,500. ”
I can hear howitis laughing his head off saying something like ” The TPU still think National are better economic managers !! They are very slow learners ”
Further down in the email it says this : “Our sources in Wellington tell us that the Government Ministers know what they need to do – but can’t see the political room to do so.”
Thanks for mention Roscoe
Yes, there is no cutback on Govt expenditure but a significant expansion.
Notional (with Willyless) appear to have no clue on how to implement fiscal responsibility
The need Zero based budgeting as I have said for years.
Cut expenditure by a random numbers application.
Give every non-frontline pubic servant a number starting at 100,000 100,001 100,002 and so on.
Then toss a coin.
Do best of three if you like.
Get hipkins as leader of oppo to do it. 😁
Heads for even number, tails for odd number.
Where it lands , odds or evens, pay out the public servants to the end of this year, no other payments or redundancy.
They vacate their desk immediately .
Not tomorrow or end of month, …NOW.
There will be no drop in productivity.
They are paid up 8 months and time to find or create some work.
Notional increased spending last year by 17%. We shall see this year but at least 8% in real terms.
By way of note however, Blinglish was borrowing in 2009/2010 for about 18 months $300 million week .
Notional have NO fiscal responsibility.
and with this lot, no capability of displaying any .
And net zero and apartheid continue unabated.
What really changed in October 2023 ?
PS anyone who still criticizes Muldoon with the clarity of hindsight (media beat up then, as now ) is somewhat low IQ.
FYI
AI answer
Zero-based budgeting (ZBB) is a budgeting method where all expenses, regardless of previous spending, must be justified for each new budget period, starting from a “zero base”.
It requires a thorough analysis of an organization’s needs and costs to allocate funds effectively, rather than relying on historical spending patterns.
or
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-based_budgeting
Zero-based budgeting (ZBB) is a budgeting method that requires all expenses to be justified and approved in each new budget period.
It was developed by Peter Pyhrr in the 1970s.
This budgeting method analyzes an organization’s needs and costs by starting from a “zero base” (meaning no funding allocation) at the beginning of every period.
The intended outcome is to assess the efficient use of resources by determining if services can be provided at a lower cost.
However, the saving comes at the expense of a complete restructuring every budget cycle. Although used at least partially in both government and the private sector, there is some doubt whether ZBB has ever been utilized to its fullest extent in any organization.
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Application
Simple solution.
set up a team that analyses all govt expenditure
cost justify as you go.
every Govt Dept gets a full audit every 5 years
on a rolling cycle
The team must change and evolve with 25% staff change – via secondment- every year so they dont get too clingy and set in their ways.
A base 25% of team drawn from Audit Office
, with secondment from the big 4 accounting firms where the normal salary is paid by Govt, premises and computer supplied, with a 20% leasing fee paid to the CA firm. No hourly rate stuff.
It can be done.
But Willyless with an English litt degree and the a churnalism course would be totally clueless on this.
My version of zero based budgeting is starting the month with no money left from the previous one.
DOGE all unnecessary spending. Start by cutting the Wellington public service bureaucrats and politicians by 50%.
Woolly woofter arts grants
NZ on Airtaxpayer funded journalism fund TVNZ and RNZ
corporate welfare
university funding if doing more harm than good
overseas jollies for politicians and councillors
business regulations, health and safety
Maori training courses, etc
…
Start by cutting the Wellington public service bureaucrats and politicians by 50%.
see above at 2.23 pm
And yet they can borrow $150 million to GIVE to Ukraine!!!!!!!!!!
the Notional cabinet are very war-oriented for a bunch of effeminate wets.
that punch and judy Collins has always been a huuuuge talker, but shithouse on delivery.
23 years of big mouth, little brain.
Her biggest talent…..
she was was not as mad or bad as Toddy Mooller in 2020.
Talk on the street is she want’s to be a nun
Much more deserving than our Maori!
They could stop paying for totally ineffective covid shots as a start.
According to Grok:
For the 2024/25 financial year, the direct spending on COVID-19 vaccines and their delivery is approximately $56.435 million, as outlined in Budget 2024. This covers:
Vaccine purchases (primarily Pfizer’s Comirnaty JN.1, free for those aged 5+ and select high-risk children aged 6 months to 4 years).Operational costs like distribution, storage, and vaccination clinics run by Health New Zealand.
Anyone want a free EV?
https://principia-scientific.com/nine-unwanted-evs-dumped-on-roadside-in-nottingham/
From the link provided by Curious:
….“There’s a common misconception that electric vehicles break down less frequently than petrol and diesel vehicles. Currently, at least, that is not the case. The breakdown rate is, in fact, slightly higher for electric vehicles than for internal combustion-engine vehicles.”….
Now, that’s the type of revelation we seldom read of in the MSM. Can’t be part of the ‘approved’ message.
I can vouch for that. My electric golf buggy has broken down twice in the past year.
2 weeks in the shop each time.
I think I need to attach a manual trolley to a self drive motor mower.
I can trim the greens as I go !!
You could mount a composting toilet on it as well. Never seems to be a bog within a mile when I need a crap on the golf course.
theres 18 holes to dump in saggy 🙂
my best man shit in the 18th hole on several occassions…. we werent playing golf, he was just pissed to bits when we were driving past late at night.
revelation we seldom read of in the MSM.
Nasska :— That is Non-Criminal Hate Speech NCHS ! ! !
The NZ police are still in training to recognize NCHS
You must trust the media much more.
You must not throw doubt about the media’s messaging, which one is the flavour of the day..
You will come to “Love Big Brother” & sing his praises & pay homage & tributes to them, (your very knowledgeable younger betters)
Crowds boo as Lorde’s pop up concert in New York gets shut down by police—————
A cryptic event held by Lorde at a park in New York was shut down by police before she even turned up.
US-based fans of the singer, who had joined a Whatsapp group launched to promote her new single, received a message on Tuesday at 4pm ET – “Meet me in the park tonight 7pm – x x.”
Lorde didn’t reveal which park – but fans were quick to run to Washington Square Park, and began singing Lorde songs while they waited.
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Well good on the cops
There would be law abiding citizens nearby (even though in NY they would be overwhelmingly Demonrats) who would suffer from the screeching and, if line of sight, the spasdic gyrating Lordie/O’Connor somehow imagines is dancing.
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Give peace a chance
Shut down Lordie
the one hit wonder just does not cut it .
Should have held it in a phone box. Anyone who stands around singing Lorde songs is clearly deranged.
That’s where all the TDS idiots hang out
She is one of the few singers who would qualify for a place on the Honours List for services to music simply by not turning up to one of her own concerts.
She doesn’t appreciate her fans being there, that’s for sure:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y0BxgnHqzaE
Well said Michael Laws.
This has needed saying for a long time!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlV3PKUQhT4
The maori curse of “Aotearoa” proves to be very costly, as that then allows all the costly maori lores to be activated
NN stuffed ANZ and left them welcoming that pedophile cunt Bussy Doyle’s purple haze.
I see there are big changes happening at the WEF. Apparently Klaus has gone and is being replaced by some bloke who looks like he has a wig on and used to be the head honcho at Nestles. So basically they’re replacing a sour Kraut with a yodeling Nazi, meet the new boss same as the old boss. Could have been worse it could have been Cindy.
Even the WEF knows that there is not much going on between her ears.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/davos-tyrant-falls-grace-as-wef-turns-its/?
Lip reading the podcaster
https://x.com/itsme_urstruly/status/1914736042768523505?s=46
New fish farm.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1010315221286686&set=a.1691654274487123
yeah I know but you don’t.
Explanation of debt
https://x.com/ramseyshow/status/1914304598065467746?s=46
He misses one important point. That is when Treasury issues a bond and the Fed prints some money and purchases it. This tends to cause inflation due to the extra money in the system. Overtime the value of the bond will deflate which suits the issuing government just fine.
It couldn’t be explained much better. If individuals ran our household finances the same way as governments do the nation’s we would be clients of the NZ Insolvency and Trustee Service.
if a business ran that way theyd be classed as trading while insolvent and likely face criminal charges
What’s the saying? Give them enough rope…….
https://x.com/interneth0f/status/1914816774106653000?s=46
Why women need their own gyms
https://x.com/Enezator/status/1914672224352526419
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHWr6sRVBmY
Sall Grover On The UK’s Legal Definition Of Woman Supreme Court Ruling
The Platform
I have no idea whether these containers will be widely used but they could reduce the storage area required at ports.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Oq1RIYxYVx0
Will they leak, and will the hinges go rusty like containers do?
Oh FFS!
Did your hip pocket just get lighter? DIA sponsors kapa haka tournament WITHOUT Ministerial approval.
DIA Spends $67,000 Without Minister’s Sign-Off – Point of Order
It appears the arrogant racist party refused to turn up to Parliament’ Privileges Committee again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNVOkxG8ALg
Abolish Freebie Te Pāti Māori Electoral Seats!
WhangareiTim
Te Pāti Māori refuse to attend the Privileges Committee, so abolish their freebie electoral seats!
They didn’t even get over the 5% threshold, so why are they even in Parliament?
Compulsory racist training course
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6wSjaVFU0w
Elliot Ikilei On The Auckland Uni Course Whiteness In The Settler State
Leah Panapa talks to Elliot Ikilei from Hobson’s Pledge about the Auckland University course Whiteness in the Settler State or “How to think like a racist”
Lets blame Trump for our own financial ineptitude.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360663300/trump-screwed-our-kiwisaver-and-house-purchase-tariff-volatility-rippling-through-first-time-buyer
Kiwisaver was for retirement until Jacinda decided to let them use it. Kiwisaver should be second behind a mutual fund or such so you can build a deposit quickly.
only 3k short, if they dont have that lying around then theyre probs fully tapped out and only a payday shy of default, they probably shouldnt be buying a house.
It seems some do not feel at home in a new country, unless they have all their own crazies to eventually share with the rest of us.
….. the test tubes had been designed to sustain the ants for up to two months and evade airport security detection,” ….
….. describing this as “premeditated and well-executed”. …..
“We did not come here to break any laws.
By accident and stupidity we did,” said David Lornoy, one of the Belgian smugglers, as he asked the court to show leniency. […. Yeah right …. & make some money]
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/kenyan-agents-bust-plot-smuggle-giant-ants-sale-foreign-insect-lovers-2025-04-15/
Is it a part of the case, that “you will eat ze bugs”? or the bugs will eat the rest of you others? or just being all inclusive? as part of the UN Global Migration Pact?
What do the recent local migrants in NZ want here, besides bats & pangolins, to prove a viral concept. ?
Why do drivers’ education classes at Gore High School use the car
only on Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays?
Because on Tuesday & Thursday, the Sex Ed class uses it.
Not my quote
“Fools love communism and socialism; it compensates for their foolish mistakes and natures.”
(When asked how it felt to take human life)
“I wouldn’t know, I’ve only killed communists.”
Rafał Gan-Ganowicz
While most of us are less than impressed with the crim hugging policies of our political parties two facts are undeniable; a) occasionally one of the criminal class pushes his/her luck too far & gets a too short sentence & b) inevitably they will be released.
When they are released we have the vague hope that they will get their act together & connect with society. To do this they need to be housed, they hopefully become employed or even if they cling to the welfare tit one thing is constant. They need a bank account & none of the major trading banks will touch them.
Under the guise of the the anti-money laundering scam “potential clients need proof of ID, including a valid passport, driver’s licence, or national identity card. Proof of address, dated within the past 12 months, is also required.”.
This is often difficult, if not impossible, for a newly released prisoner yet an account is effectively a “passport to the economy”. All credit to Westpac who are to offer “a new ‘basic’ bank account, designed as a transactional bank account with simplified functionality.”
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/22/bank-accounts-should-be-for-everyone/
Pure gold – Winston Peters:
“Arrogant wokester loser Corin Dan on RNZ asked me this morning how we would “force our members bill defining a woman in law”.
News flash Corin. We can’t force you to stop being so delusionally woke.
The sooner you and your mates wake up and stop being so out of touch the sooner our country will get back to some common sense.
Welcome to the front line of the war on woke.
PS
Corrin, you keep wondering why the media have record low levels of trust from the public. Keep it up champ. See how it’s going to end for you.
Have a great day.”
Just to catch a few good comments here.
Winston Blasts Insulting RNZ Journalist, Big-Time!
https://youtu.be/E4CDJ0JqQmg
1 min, 54 secs : 23rd April, 2025 : WhangareiTim
Just a few from the large number of comments:—
A social issue always “imported” when they don’t like it, and “grassroots” when they do like it.
Peters “you talk over…”
Interviewer interrupting
“No I don’t!”
Winston’s not wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6HBUDdVDGUE
‘You’re a disgrace’: Winston Peters takes aim at RNZ during fiery interview | RNZ
The maori iwi, the controlling elites can feel & see it slipping between their fingers.
23rd April 2025….. wants his tangihanga at home, due to religious differences with his whānau and lack of time spent at his marae.
“If we went to a marae then kawa, tikanga is dictated by the haukāinga as well as all of our kōrero and our traditions passed down from on the marae.
So at least this way, my wife and my daughter will have free reign to do as they please without being hurt.
Not only physically but potentially spiritually and emotionally,” ….
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/558848/fewer-tangihanga-on-the-marae-families-don-t-feel-really-connected
So are we in the stage of a reactionary “swan song” some death froes, or better that some have made the escape from the iwi collective.
The signs of the change was noticed over a decade ago.
2012 …. Professor Tapsell said keeping bodies at home never happened when he was a boy.
Any talk of it and kaumatua were down to the home in a “flash” with young people to help them carry the deceased to the marae.
Now bodies don’t make it back from Australia, let alone a couple of kilometres down the road, he said.
“Without the death ritual of tangihanga we’re losing the real reason of why we have marae. ……
…… “It gives expression and context and frames our whakapapa [descent] as Maori, which is accountable back to a landscape in which our ancestors are buried.
“If we do not farewell our dead on their ancestral marae, there goes the last bastion of being Maori,” he said. ……
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/demise-of-tangi-a-threat-to-culture-professor/ZHYIJ65PBVLZBMAMKYTDQIFVBY/#google_vignette
As many recall the battle over Billy T. James body & heart, & where to bury him.
That has continued on & in many cases as Tapsell mentioned, on the down-low, how the corpse was seized by activists for a funeral & burial else where.
Very few cases where complaints were made to the police or hit the head lines. The family just cope with that indignity.
Tangihanga don’t come cheap. No matter who you are the bills must be paid. From https://www.terarawa.iwi.nz/nga-marae-o-te-rarawa/roma-marae/marae-hire:
“The first day is $300.
Any extra day following the normal 3 days for a tangi is charged at an extra $100 per day. These prices are subject to review from time to time without notice and are available on request. The hire charge includes bedding, use of kitchen facility, crockery, pots and dishes, dining room and ablutions. The hire charge excludes costs for rubbish, laundry and power. The Trustee on duty will confirm these final costs on the last day of the hire period. ”
I accept that there will be costs wherever the proceedings take place but the wailings about the neglect of the culture may be secondary to the income opportunities lost to the kaumatua who run tribal facilities like a fiefdom for their own benefit.
At the same time they enslave many others as unpaid volunteers, & who ever collects the “koha” envelopes does not have to account inside that ‘fiefdom’.
Then as you mention nasska, other charges can evolve that helps gain another round of “volunteers”.
Then when will the accounts be presented, and are they ever audited?
Particularly when those envelopes can be put into a “barter” system, and any way, there is a provincial fund or community grants or more to tap into for “maintenance” from the helpful buddies.
US Military chest thumping.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc4weAgZ05k
CHINA SHOCKED! Thousands of US Military Vehicles and Equipment Arrive in Philippines
In a major show of force and alliance readiness, thousands of U.S. military vehicles, heavy equipment, and advanced weapons systems have landed in the Philippines ahead of Balikatan 25—the largest-ever joint military exercise between the United States and the Philippines.
Hunty says buy Gold !
We sending any submarines?