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				<title>Kumara Republic</title>
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						And the fact that the SST have slammed Serco's recent projects as 'PC gone mad' speaks volumes. If Colin Craig as PM doesn't go far enough for them, where would they draw the line? Lee Kuan Yew? Verwoerd? Pinochet?
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				<title>Ian Dalziel</title>
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						<p><strong>Hooks and suckers and smoke and mirrors…</strong><br /><q>Serco. The tapeworm in the bowels of government. </q><br />Yeah well, give ’em an inchworm and they’ll go full measure…</p><p>Some light reading on why PPPs are a poison chalice:</p><p>From Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/Right_to_Remain/status/258861947678752768" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Serco flout minimum wage at detention centres</a></p><p>Corporate Watch’s  <a href="http://corporatewatch.org/content/newsletter-30-45-public-private-parasites-rotters-club" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Rotters List</a></p><p>A…</p>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2014 09:42:51 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Roger Lacey</title>
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						<p><q>For whatever it’s worth, I discovered this morning that Kim Dotcom, or whatever constitutes his Twitter presence, is now following me. That appears to be about it.</q></p><p>Sadly it appears to me that Mr Dotcom despite his millions, still thinks it's fine to not only steal IP but to doctor…</p>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2014 16:30:49 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Craig Young</title>
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						However, note that Colin Craig hasn't said whether or not he's a member of a 'parachurch' fundamentalist professional network/'ministry" like the Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship or other such organisations.
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				<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2014 08:54:39 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Henare</title>
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						Colin should try standing on Rangitoto on a summers day.... Beats asphalt hands down.
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				<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2014 22:26:52 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Joe Wylie</title>
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						<p><q>linked to Joe’s page and pointed out that the sig had somehow gone missing. No response as yet.</q><br />Appreciated. For whatever it's worth, I discovered this morning that Kim Dotcom, or whatever constitutes his Twitter presence, is now following me. That appears to be about it. Seriously, even David Farrar…</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:49:02 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Russell Brown</title>
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						<p><q>What also irritated me was that people were ‘tweeting’ ‘good job’, ‘nice work’, etc back to him (Kim.com), as if he’d done it, <br />I didn’t see any replies disabusing them.</q></p><p>I did: linked to Joe's page and pointed out that the sig had somehow gone missing. No response as yet.</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2014 13:08:57 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>mike gemmell</title>
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						<p>Even Obama is having a dig at CC's climate change and moon  positions</p><p>"Now, part of what’s unique about climate change, though, is the nature of some of the opposition to action. It’s pretty rare that you’ll encounter somebody who says the problem you’re trying to solve simply doesn’t exist.…</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:46:54 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>DexterX</title>
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						<p><q>Mr Twofirstnames is a complete dick<br />Hey</q></p><p>it is actually "Richhard Dickhead"</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:10:36 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Ian Dalziel</title>
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						<p><strong>Bloc heads...</strong><br /><q>So maybe the time has come for the CCCP</q><br />Which means there will always be an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octobriana" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Octobriana!</a><br /><q> ...created in the 1960s by a group of dissident Russian artists calling themselves Progressive Political Pornography (PPP).<br /></q><br />or at least a Kiwi version thereof...</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2014 07:48:05 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Ian Dalziel</title>
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						<p><q>...deliberately trimming my sig from the image</q><br />Isn't that the digital version of fraud, altering and using a 'document' (file) to gain an advantage?</p><p>What also irritated me was that people were 'tweeting' 'good job', 'nice work', etc back to him (Kim.com), as if he'd done it, <br />I didn't see…</p>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2014 07:42:07 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Joe Wylie</title>
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						<p><q>So maybe the time has come for the CCCP</q><br />As envisaged by the always excellent <a href="https://m1.behance.net/rendition/modules/111841675/disp/7ec35097ba6909908c358e9d0ada945c.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Danny Hellman</a>.</p>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2014 23:34:41 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Steve Barnes</title>
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						<p><q>Yep – the phrase ‘more money than sense’ comes to mind.</q><br />I always loved the total impossibility of More Dollars than Cents now I realise that that is how Capitalism seems to work.<br />So maybe the time has come for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_Communist_Party " target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> CCCP</a></p>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2014 23:15:47 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Sacha</title>
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						<p><q>deliberately trimming my sig from the image</q></p><p>rude</p>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2014 22:02:03 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Joe Wylie</title>
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						<p><q>    Can someone who ‘does’ twitter take him to task please…<br />    He must understand about Copyright and Terms and Conditions by now…</p><p>Can you or Joe email me with the background?</q><br />Hi Russell &amp; thanks for the heads up Ian. Naturally people will help themselves to images, even people one doesn't necessarily…</p>
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				<title>Kumara Republic</title>
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						And still on Wang & McVicar et al, would they regard the Grand Theft Auto series as training manuals? <a href="http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0804/S00395.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">McCoskrie First</a> and <a href="http://karldufresne.blogspot.co.nz/2013/11/miley-cyrus-and-roast-busters.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Karl du Fresne</a> certainly seem to.
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				<title>Stewart</title>
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						<p>CCCP that would be C(3)P &ndash; oh! </p><p>With just as much considered thought.</p>
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				<title>Ken Sparks</title>
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						Yep &ndash; the phrase 'more money than sense' comes to mind.
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				<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2014 18:28:14 +1200</pubDate>
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				<title>Russell Brown</title>
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						<p><q>Ouch! He’ll be dragging you through the court if you keep this up…</q></p><p>It's my honest opinion of him.</p>
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				<title>David Hood</title>
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						<p>"Astological  events"</p><p>That's what happens when Mecuy is in etogade</p>
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				<title>Ian Dalziel</title>
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						<p><q>...doesn’t seem to bother with <strong>facades</strong> ... </q><br />(there's that soft 'c' shuffle again)</p><p>...and a facade is just<br />a 'face' with an 'ad' in it,<br />innit?<br />amirite?<br />:-  )</p><p>ps: I like 'CCCP',  for our Colin<br />lotsa graphic possibilities there...<br />silly c-c-cyrillics and all</p><p>1cc would be a bit too…</p>
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				<title>TracyMac</title>
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						<p><q>Astology, noun. A branch of histology specialising in studying the part of the human anatomy from which Colin Craig plucks his policies.</q></p><p>Seems to be in quite broad use, although sadly unacknowledged as a source by other parties.</p>
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				<title>Ken Sparks</title>
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						<q>He's more just a narrow-minded fool.</q> Ouch! He'll be dragging you through the court if you keep this up...
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				<title>Russell Brown</title>
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						<p><q>If anything, CCCP has more in common with Bob Day, or the more illiberal side of Cardinal George Pell. Abbott doesn’t seem to bother with facades these days.</q></p><p>I don't think that's it either. He's not really a proper religious conservative &mdash; he doesn't actually go to church. He's more…</p>
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				<title>Kumara Republic</title>
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						<p><q>Sometimes I detect a strange resonance between Colin Craig and Tony Abbott. Anyone else think they have much in common?</q></p><p>If anything, CCCP has more in common with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Day" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Bob Day</a>, or the more illiberal side of Cardinal George Pell. Abbott doesn't seem to bother with facades these days.</p>
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				<title>andin</title>
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						<p><q> our weird fudge of a system </q><br />Applies to a lot of "systems" now.<br /><q> you have to game the system.</q><br />Most people's least favoured option.<br />Except of course..with exceptions...<br />thems in the systems.</p>
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				<title>Rich of Observationz</title>
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						<p><q>Craig make his money any way?</q></p><p>Inherited a lot of property which then went up in value.</p><p>I think in Australian terms, he'd be Gina Rinehart.</p>
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				<title>Russell Brown</title>
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						<p><q>I also note that Kim Dotcom is using Joe Wylie’s Porcupine Farm images without crediting them or linking back (as far as I can make out).</p><p>Can someone who ‘does’ twitter take him to task please…<br />He must understand about Copyright and Terms and Conditions by now…</q></p><p>Can you or…</p>
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				<title>Ian Dalziel</title>
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						<p><strong>Dotty Rat...</strong><br />I also note that Kim Dotcom is using <a href="https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/477947198051602433/photo/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Joe Wylie's Porcupine Farm images</a> without crediting them or <a href="http://porcupinefarm.blogspot.co.nz/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">linking back</a> (as far as I can make out).</p><p>Can someone who 'does' twitter take him to task please...<br />He must understand about Copyright and Terms and Conditions by now...<br /><q>Attribution…</q></p>
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				<title>Ian Dalziel</title>
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						Separated at birth?
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				<title>Ian Dalziel</title>
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						<p><strong>Nursery crimes…</strong><br />I can’t see how Key could partner up with ‘Gollum’ Craig – the Conservative ‘literature’ constantly bags the National Party, so how can something that is supposed to be better than National, or at least an alternative, then play a subservient role – or is Colin just trying…</p>
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				<title>Craig Ranapia</title>
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						<p><q>Sometimes I detect a strange resonance between Colin Craig and Tony Abbott. Anyone else think they have much in common?</q></p><p>Not really &mdash; Tony Abbot may be a vindictive rat bastard impervious to taste, common decency, evidence-based public policy or honoring his own campaign promises but he's a frighteningly competent…</p>
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				<title>Ian Dalziel</title>
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						<p><strong>budget smugglers...</strong><br /><q>...a strange resonance between Colin Craig and Tony Abbott.</q><br />I took a speedo reading course once, but both men are still ciphers to me...</p>
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				<title>Richard Aston</title>
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						<p><q>Sometimes I detect a strange resonance between Colin Craig and Tony Abbott. Anyone else think they have much in common?</q></p><p>I detect a strange resonance between Colin Craig and Mr Bean.</p>
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				<title>Ross Mason</title>
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						Tony Abbott did marry a <a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/9136921/First-lady-a-girl-from-Wainuiomata " target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Wainuiomartian........</a>
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				<title>Bill Bennett</title>
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						Sometimes I detect a strange resonance between Colin Craig and Tony Abbott. Anyone else think they have much in common?
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				<title>Craig Ranapia</title>
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						<p><q>I just wish the ACT party, SST and other psycopaths (I use the term correctly according to my understanding of neuroscientist Sam Harris of 1% of humans genetically unable to feel empathy for other human beings)</q></p><p>It would be useful if we treated being an wilfully ignorant shill for junk…</p>
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				<title>martinb</title>
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						<p>I read analysis of the Canute story somewhere.</p><p>It has come down to us in two forms. One, in which Canute was a prideful king who was showing off and two, in which he was a wise king who wanted to teach his foolish sycophants a lesson.</p><p>The possibility of…</p>
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				<title>Tom Beard</title>
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						<p><q>apparently partly caused by "astological events" </q></p><p>Astology, noun. A branch of histology specialising in studying the part of the human anatomy from which Colin Craig plucks his policies.</p>
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				<title>Ian Dalziel</title>
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						<p><strong>Going dam busters…</strong><br /><q> (first names) I have always had a problem with people with two of them.</q><br />Uh oh!<br />Ahem, Steve, meet <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes_Wallis" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Barnes Wallis!</a></p><p>:-  )</p>
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				<title>Kevin McCready</title>
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						I just wish the ACT party,  SST and other psycopaths (I use the term correctly according to my understanding of neuroscientist Sam Harris of  1% of humans genetically unable to feel empathy for other human beings) would at least try "intellectually" to understand why mandatory sentencing fails them, fails victims,…
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				<title>Steve Barnes</title>
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						<p><q>the Conservative Party’s stance on climate change</q><br />Spotted another mistake in that pamphlet, Canute.<br />The correct spelling is actually Cnut, a name not to be messed with.</p>
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				<title>Russell Brown</title>
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						<p><q>Asphalt causes global warming! Well a little bit .</q></p><p>Isn't that amazing?</p>
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				<title>Richard Aston</title>
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						<p>Thanks Russel, just love this ..  </p><p><q>Man made carbon generation and other human activity does have an influence on temperature locally. Stand on an asphalt pavement in the middle summer and compare this to standing in an open field and you get the point.<br />.</q></p><p>Asphalt causes global warming! Well…</p>
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				<title>Craig Young</title>
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						Don't forget some quite mouldy UKIPpers as well... in fact, if it's populist and rabidly socially conservative, it gets the Colon stamp of approval...
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				<title>BenWilson</title>
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						Sun Flares are coming back, man.
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				<title>Russell Brown</title>
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						And with the happiest of timing, Richard Easther has published <a href="http://excursionset.com/blog/2014/6/15/conservative" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">his analysis of the Conservative Party's stance on climate change</a>, which is apparently partly caused by "astological events" [sic].
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				<title>Steve Barnes</title>
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						<p>Speaking of Practically Jokers…<br />Our Prime Joker had this to say this morning on News Waffle ZB about the Americas Cup challenge…<br />Reported in <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&amp;objectid=11274763 " target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Te Harold</a><br /><q>"This can’t be a government-led thing,” he said.</q><br />Well, apparently, according to the same tabloid…<br /><q>An evaluation of the economic benefits of the…</q></p>
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				<title>Kumara Republic</title>
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						<p>What were Kenneth Wang and his ilk expecting Serco to name their new prison wing? Abu Ghraib? Guantanamo? This is the very same Serco that courted criticism from Garth "Gay Crime Wave" McVicar for its "<a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/5102736/Anger-over-Club-Med-Mt-Eden" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Club Med</a>" facilities at Mt Eden.</p><p>The real driving force behind Wang and McVicar et…</p>
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				<title>Craig Ranapia</title>
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						<p><q>Methinks I spotteth a Cunning Plan to Nab New Zealand First’s core social conservative constituency. Which isn’t working very well</q></p><p>He will insist on taking pages from the Tea bagged/Theo-Conned GOP playbook without properly acclimatizing them to New Zealand or properly committing to the sheer awfulness required. You call that…</p>
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				<title>Steve Barnes</title>
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						<p><q>Serco</q><br /><q><a href="http://www.serco.com/about/ataglance/history/index.asp " target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Serco</a> was founded in 1929 as a United Kingdom division of the Radio Corporation of America and initially provided services to the cinema industry</q><br />Bloody Hollywood at it again.</p>
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				<title>Ken Double</title>
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						Serco. The tapeworm in the bowels of government. How did they get in here? Did David Cameron have something to do with it?
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				<title>Steve Barnes</title>
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						<p><q>Hey</q> There's always <a href="http://www.dia.govt.nz/Services-Births-Deaths-and-Marriages-Changing-a-Name?OpenDocument " target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> deed poll.</a><br />Sorry Mark, or Thomas.<br />;-)</p>
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				<title>Steve Barnes</title>
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						<p>In other "news" I hear the Gerry Brownnose is pushing the <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&amp;objectid=11274590 " target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Cycleway</a> bs again. Isn't that the "mandate" Jonkey got in on in the first place"<br />Having, last week, driven down from the far North in a storm and watched State Highway 1 disintegrating before my eyes I…</p>
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				<title>BenWilson</title>
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						There is a golden thread in conservative law and order, that the main purpose of sentencing is for revenge on the wrongdoer.
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				<title>Mark Thomas</title>
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						<p><q>Mr Twofirstnames is a complete dick</q></p><p>Hey</p>
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				<title>Craig Young</title>
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						<p>Methinks I spotteth a Cunning Plan to Nab New Zealand First's core social conservative constituency. Which isn't working very well and couldn't be described as a weasel. </p><p>As for CC's 'informed consent' abortion tactic, for 'informed consent' read 'ram graphic and mendacious anti-abortion propaganda down women's throats under the pretence…</p>
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				<title>Robyn Gallagher</title>
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						<p><q>Seriously? The term “correctional facilities” is creeping liberalism now? </q></p><p>Actual lolz. Does Mr Wang know that the government department responsible for prisons is the Department of <em>Corrections</em>?</p><p>The idea of prisons being used to "correct" the prisoner is a centuries old idea. And isn't it, ideally, what we'd want? That…</p>
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				<title>Steve Barnes</title>
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						<p>Nail, meet head.<br />Abbasolutely Craig, you had your name first and kept it that way. I have always had a problem with people with two of them.<br />Plus the fact that Mr Twofirstnames is a complete dick.</p>
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				<title>Craig Ranapia</title>
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						<p><q>“Why should, say, a 70-year-old who’s had one partner all their life be paying for a young woman to sleep around? We are the country with the most promiscuous young women in the world. This does nothing to help us at all.”</q></p><p>To be fair, I rather like this line…</p>
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						<p>Discussion from blog post.</p>
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