hopefully get off the moari roll this year. try to each time and find myself back on it. last year i chucked my vote at the booths because i could only vote for the moari seats, the fuck is with that?

So what's the bet the law changes in light of this whole GCSB business will make at least some of what was illegal now legal?

Oh, woops, nevermind. That was already the case at the time of my post.
Key: GCSB should be able to spy on Kiwis

I'm not sure what to think of this

Ding Dong The Witch is Dead is No1 on iTunes

John says..'we need to change these laws beacuse people might use nz products to build weapons of mass destruction or delivery systems'.
He means rakon,right?::facepalm::

I hate peter dunne a little less today.
Sharples can choke on a cock.

Five ignored posts in a row - something must have happened; I bet it's not exciting enough to see what they're on about though so I'll leave it.

Just more lunacy. Like this:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post...-energy-policy

Thanks for letting us know, GT.

So it's essentially Pharmac for electricity?

If you toe The Norman-Shearer line, then yes. If you think about drug suppliers having other markets to supply to, then no.

Yes, Steven, this is just like North Korea

lols

Nope - becuase you still have the option of purchasing drugs without a pharmac subsidy, it just costs you more. Under this scheme, you can only buy your power from NZP, and if you have power to sell, you can only sell it to NZP.

Interesting . . . Labour-Greens plan could work, says Vector CEO

No,no...not overly emotional at all.
:rolleyes:

I guess it's an effective if unexpected mechanism to reduce the exchange rate; this should happen immediately they get elected. Beyond irritating me this won't have much effect on my family - I bet it will royally fuck the now well entrenched lifestyles of families earning under $100k though.

So much for encouraging New Zealanders to invest in the New Zealand share market rather than in property. I've just lost 5% overnight because of these fuckwits. Think I'll sell up all my shares and buy a renter in Glenfield (again).

You had all your shares in one company?

Nope, but a good chunk in Trustpower and Infratil. I guess 5% was exaggerating a tad. But still enough to hurt. It's the concept that scares me and a hell of a lot of other investors out there. What's next?

Oh fuck, shares can go DOWN as well as up? Holy shit why didn't anyone tell me!

i just cant believe they'd take the well-being of the citizen over that of the share-holder.....
is this north korea/Venezuela/stalinist russia?

MRP investors may get money back
lordy lololol

Homosexual rejected for priesthood speaks of humiliation

Personally I'm generally against organised religions being exempt to parts of the HRA. But this probably wouldn't really bother me if they weren't getting significant tax exemptions and also trying to impose their beliefs on me.

16 and a half.
seems pretty possible.

*guffaw*

If there is a win here, would this force for example Catholics to accept women as priests?

^^
Anal but as I understand it there is a specific exemption here allowing discrimination on the basis of sex.

Ah true. I guess Catholics will be fine, their priests have to be celibate to be ordained I think, where as Anglicans require you to be "chaste", which it is seems secular law may get to define.

Let me get this straight... the Greens banned perfume and aftershave from the national conference? Isn't that taking the "stinking hippies" thing a bit far?

norman reminds me of Hitler; the man is pure evil.

Yes, yes he is. And Australian to boot.

..no,no..i never troll.

He's not trolling, he's sharing his genuine perception, as distorted as it may appear to some.

swap 'distorted' for 'comical' and im with you.

They also suggested some kind of open orgy forum according to 3 News.

And a ranga...

Green aussie ranga hippy... GET OUT.

Turks deprived of TV turn to Twitter for protest news

"Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has taken dim view of this development. ''There is now a menace which is called Twitter," he said. "The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society.''"

I think it's more of a case of social media being a threat to the power base of the dominant culture. Western societies have been generally fine in the face of social media as for a long time we've learnt to some degree to listen to minority voices. Anywhere with a history of marginalising the views of minority groups are now finding themselves battling much more coherent opposition to dominant values.

Which is all good as far as I see it.