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Well Barry...should the situation arrive where I was offered chemo,I would decline.
You forgot to mention what the Natz achieved in the health sector in 9 years=5/8ths of F.A.

Try some National 'logic' compliments of Stephen Joyce/zoologist...govt bridging finance for old firm TV3,massive taxpayer subsidy to Chorus to keep it afloat and donation to  12 days in the country ,new citizen Thiel with a heads we lose ,tails you win investment 'partnership'!!

first National stalwart John Roughan and now the grand daddy partisan of them all,silly old John Armstrong!
Do me a ...favour!

Why did he apologise if he doesn't give a shit...the prurient,lurker.

why bother with the minority?
The advertisers withdrawing are REAL...believe it or...not.

Try some National 'logic' compliments of Stephen Joyce/zoologist...govt bridging finance for old firm TV3,massive taxpayer subsidy to Chorus to keep it afloat and donation to  12 days in the country ,new citizen Thiel with a heads we lose ,tails you win investment 'partnership'!!

The way it reads it will be a one ride job at this stage. J Mac will then probably decide to commit or otherwise.
 
Greg

AUS bloodstock got Our Candidate  for 80k guineas at HIT last October . Penultimate outing in UK in average Leicester race .was well beaten into 6th as second fav, left UK on 78. Winner of that race was given a stone by Red Galileo and left 20 lengths behind him at Newmarket in June . Our Candidate has raced a handful times in OZ , 3 wins , placings and over 160k in prizemoney with more to come  no doubt , only young horse .
That's good talent identification or good connections or both . 

plenty of photos of Key Govt ministers in ethnic attire if you look Ted.Dozens of them.

plenty of photos of Key Govt ministers in ethnic attire if you look Ted.Dozens of them.

Reminds one of a nuns outfit..eh Ted.

Very exciting , your right there , hosed home .
Mandela didn't do a lot today but Dabiyr covered me and had run  for me money with Harrison at big odds .Got enough back for Ebor , Raymond Tusk ew.
Liked the run of Casadian on OZ debut , last brought wide and ran on nice,  only one little flick with whip , wait till it gets to a mile .
 

Well you are spoiled for choice...potential superstar Mandela and now the best 3y.o filly in Oz on debut both going off tomorrow.
Interesting races ….both.

Another Trump Tanty.....I thought the Danish PM was very restrained in her response actually....said "Fuck Off.." very nicely...

I’m loyal to the bitter end so it’s theNZ TAB for me.

“She is hands down the best 3yo filly in Australia”. She’s never raced as a 3yo so how can you make that statement??? She hasn’t won a G1 as a 2yo either - or have I missed something? Poor Gerry. Spends a fortune on racehorses and now you put the moz on a promising, yet to have her first as a  3yo filly! Will be interesting to see how she measures up. 

Yes Tomarse , the Nat's have been playing the climate game since the Muldoon days , we need to sell our goods internationally .
Keyoto agreement was muldoons contribution , the difference between cindy and National is clear , cindy wants personal attention on the world stage advocating all sorts of useless meaningless strategy's , National wants to build dams to ensure our citys don't run out of water , we continue to generate electricity and our farmers continue to farm . No harm done when the scam is exposed but cindys lot want to bankrupt our local economy not protect it , tax tax tax .

Australian P.M has a different view,as  do most reasonable people,that are not 'shock jocks'.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/115045951/australian-pm-slams-alan-jones-call-to-shove-a-sock-down-throat-of-jacinda-ardern

onya Ted,cut and paste from National fanbois Hosking.
Saves Natz voters ,thinking for themselves,not something they excel at.

by', most measured commentators'I  think you mean=people who agree with you.Govt in NZ is not a dictatorship.As I just informed you the Nats had 2 unelected M.P's in the most important positions in Govt.Look at the way they wrecked NZ.
I think you need -more sleep,and more OBJECTIVITY.

Reading these last few postings it appears Hillary Clinton was a wicked woman. A traitor even.
The gist is Hillary Clinton is evil - so we have to have Donald Trump.
I would ask "If we accept Hillary was/is evil - why does that mean we have to have Donald Trump? Why can't we have another Republican; a decent one; who doesn't resort to name calling and bigotry. One who hasn't gone with prostitutes, then paid money to shut them up; one who doesn't undermine world peace by making policy merely to get back at his predecessor. etc etc; one who builds bridges not walls etc etc.
 

Anonymous booing in a large crowd says more about the booer than the person being booed. Look at Quade Cooper - still booed by rugby crowds in NZ 10 years after he did whatever he did; Steve Smith - booed by the Poms after being hit in the head by a cricket ball; Jacinda Ardern - booed by a crowd who paid a minimum $150 per ticket, have never voted Labour, nor are ever likely too.

Taking 4 figure bets for the 'love' of the game!!...yeah...right!

They could put a ban on Flockofewes talking. That would do a lot for CO2 reduction targets!

so apparently Betfair came to an agreement to pay the NZ Industry to pay product fees (the report failed to mention they also took live feed well before the start of this year on NZ Racing on the Betfair site, mmm wonder if Betfair were supplied that from live racing video feed from TABCORP like they will be supplying to Sportsbet who is a subsidiary of Betfair. I doubt Betfair were paying anything prior to about now its just they know with legislation coming for Race Field Fees  they will be forced to pay as it will be a bad look as they are partners with the NZRB and unlike the other overeseas partners like NSW TAB and TABCORP they pay nothing. So someone needs to ask who was supplying live NZ Racing Feed to Betfair prior to this year? And why was it allowed to happen when they were not paying any product fees to the NZ Industry?
Something odd is going on here it reads that Betfair signed a deal earlier this year now we also read    .
We are very grateful to Tabcorp for delivering the vision to Sportsbet, their biggest competitor in Australia.”
Following a deal between RITA and Betfair, another Flutter-owned brand, it will see Betfair agree to pay product fees to the TAB in return for offering odds on New Zealand racing.
The last week two GM managers and a manager from NZRB flew to Ireland, mmm thats where Paddy Power resides - a deal struck up earlier this year ha ha yeah right. 
 
 
A new deal? they never had a previous deal so its not new its a commercial deal. Is NZ Racing paying Sportsbet to have live racing on their Betting Platform and in return they will now pay a  product fee? No doubt if anyone in the NZ Racing Industry asks any questions re income and expenditure for this they will be told can't say as commercially sensitive. 
Wonder if it will be such a god deal like the $50 million dollar betting platform where the Industry was told its benefits would be $19 million a year extra income and would pay for itself in just 3 years. End result it only services half of the previous wagering the previous betting platform did so does half the job required and will never look like returning that extra revenue per year especilaly when you deduct teh %178 million a year to service and run it. Its not a betting platform its a major liability that comes with a noose.     
The GM of Broadcast I see was involved in this new deal. His credentials on Broadcasting are very suspect at best so no doubt Paddy Power bluffed him to a deal to suit them. Go and source his Broadcasting background in Australia pre NZRB you wont find much at all ohh but word is he was very good friends with a  certain GM so say no more. Word was (and confirmed by someone that would know) that Trackside had to employ  the GM a qualified and competent 2 IC at considerable cost to the Industry as the GM was that far out of his depth.
RITA are in full control of all managerial and expense controls the Industry was told from July 1st ?????