Uriah Heap

I agree with Crusty on this one. A choice between Trump, the slick used car salesman and Biden, who looks like he belongs in a Rest Home, is no choice at all.
I reckon an Independent would get plenty of votes in Novembers US election

Spasibo tovarishch

Now that's a completely seperate issue. I tend to look at things issue by issue, not just back one person and blindly believe everything they say, regardless of how stupid or untruthful they are. With regards Covid-19 Trump is completely out of his depth and has been shown multiple times to be a straight out liar, doesn't like being shown up by the scientists and is prepared to deflect and spread any bullshit in a bid to save his arse. With regards Obama I'm not so sure. I haven't followed it very closely so haven't previously commented on it, but it appears there's something going on there. As someone with immune and respiratory issues I've tended to concentrate more on Coronavirus because that effects me directly here in New Zealand. Obamagate not so much. 

You've never shown any "goodwill" toward Jacinta Ardern, on any matter, ever. You bag her mercilessly, in regard to everything she does, in both her public and personal life.
This lack of objectivity makes your views irrelevant.

You've never shown any "goodwill" toward Jacinta Ardern, on any matter, ever. You bag her mercilessly, in regard to everything she does, in both her public and personal life.
This lack of objectivity makes your views irrelevant.

You've never shown any "goodwill" toward Jacinta Ardern, on any matter, ever. You bag her mercilessly, in regard to everything she does, in both her public and personal life.
This lack of objectivity makes your views irrelevant.

You've never shown any "goodwill" toward Jacinta Ardern, on any matter, ever. You bag her mercilessly, in regard to everything she does, in both her public and personal life.
This lack of objectivity makes your views irrelevant.

You've never shown any "goodwill" toward Jacinta Ardern, on any matter, ever. You bag her mercilessly, in regard to everything she does, in both her public and personal life.
This lack of objectivity makes your views irrelevant.

With Super Rugby closed down, my son who plays Senior club rugby reckons he'll now be playing against All Blacks; like back in the 70's.

My views have nothing to do with my being a West Ham supporter 

With Super Rugby closed down, my son who plays Senior club rugby reckons he'll now be playing against All Blacks; like back in the 70's.

Good advice. Now which companies make toilet paper?

Good advice. Now which companies make toilet paper?

Tell me. Are we still following "the plan" and has it "all been revealed" yet.

Watching the end of the cricket last evening, I was certain I'd seen it all before.
It's the one where The Black Caps can't possibly lose.......and then they lose .

Watching the end of the cricket last evening, I was certain I'd seen it all before.
It's the one where The Black Caps can't possibly lose.......and then they lose .

"PM need to take some leadership and...." - blah blah blah - thanks very much for your input Mr Bridges.
She's correct in keeping right out of it. Cops make the decision and they've got gung-ho Chopper pilots in one ear and cautious pointy head scientist's in the other. 
They've gone in now after being appropriately cautious. 

Now this reads like a sensible summary of what's occurring in the USA.
At least there's no talk in this post of "the deep state", "draining the swamp" and "lying Hillary". Quite honestly those are catch phrases designed to suck in the gullible.

Kicks were poorly executed on the night. They kept doing them cause they could find no other way through the defence.
Standing off at rucks/breakdowns is a tactic the AB's often employ (recall the Boks try in the opening game.).
The Ref shouldn't need to have a second glance, because he has the TMO's to Police the off side line.

Kicking and screaming into the 21st century. No choice really. Locally around here, the Dairies all dropped Best Bets in favour of the Informant. Now the Informant is gone none have brought back Best Bets. There's no print form to be had in the area. 

Problem with rugby players is they're all soft these days. I can remember playing in a  typhoon up at Kimbolton, back in the day. Couple of the boys got hypothermia, but they came right.

Hasn't Grant Robertson done a great job with the books.
$7 billion in the black. No $11 billion fiscal hole here.
That makes Steven Joyce $18 billion out. Thank goodness he's gone.

Hasn't Grant Robertson done a great job with the books.
$7 billion in the black. No $11 billion fiscal hole here.
That makes Steven Joyce $18 billion out. Thank goodness he's gone.

During his 2008 election campaign John Key said that,, if elected, a National Govt would not raise the GST rate.
In the 2010 Budget the John Key led National Govt announced a 2.5%  rise in the GST rate, taking it from 12.5% to 15%. It was referred to in the media as a "flip flop".
Why then should we, the NZ public, believe any tax cut claims the National party might currently be making?

The Trump wave is rolling, and it won't be stopped
Joe Bennett04:30, Oct 02 2019  
  President Trump calls the proceedings against him a 'hoax' as Democrats race to quicken pace of inquiry. OPINION: The wave is building that will sweep Trump from power. And if it doesn't, well, the thing about waves is that they keep coming.
We'll know it's over when his henchmen turn on him. The first few to turn may get immunity, but the rest will join Trump's campaign manager, his attorney and his first national security advisor in prison. It will be fun to watch. But the primary spectacle will be Trump himself.
Psychiatry has got Trump sprawling on a pin like a beetle in a display case. The tag on the pin through his thorax says malignant narcissist. The clinical definition of malignant narcissism fits Trump like a leotard.
For the malignant narcissist only self matters. So he is literally incapable of feeling empathy for others. What could be more true of Trump? In Puerto Rico after a hurricane he lobbed paper towels to survivors as if throwing fish to performing seals. In a Texas hospital after a mass shooting he posed for the camera with thumbs up, a big grin and a freshly orphaned baby.
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The malignant narcissist seeks praise to bolster his fragile self. Trump will take praise from anywhere. He revels in the flattery of dictators like Kim Jong-un. And if he doesn't get praise he invents it. "So many leaders have come up to me and said sir, your economy is the envy of the world."
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Advertise with Stuff AP Donald Trump speaks with the country's first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, 'looking' over his shoulder. Because the malignant narcissist acknowledges no self but his own, he demands loyalty from others but gives none in exchange. Again, that's pure Trump. Anyone who opposes him is instantly dismissed. By now the only people still at his side are sycophants like Pence and cynics like Pompeo.
For the malignant narcissist there is no such thing as truth. There is only what's good for his self. So Trump lies. He lies obviously, brazenly, laughably. When the media points out those lies, Trump feels no shame. Instead he accuses them of fake news. In other words he accuses truth-tellers of lying about his lies.
Trump feels no shame because shame implies fault and the malignant narcissist cannot admit fault, about anything, ever. So when Trump wrongly suggested a hurricane might hit Alabama and the official weather service corrected him, his psychiatric disorder wouldn't let him just say that he'd made a mistake.
AP Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence. Instead he took a weather map and doctored it, drawing a new line on it by hand, a line that took in Alabama. He then presented that map on television as if it were the truth. It didn't matter that others didn't believe it. It mattered only that he preserved his own sense of being right.
The malignant narcissist ignores the law because the self is more important. So Trump solicits aid from foreign countries to get himself elected because it never occurs to him not to. He got help from Russia in 2016. He sought it from Ukraine this year. And that is what he'll be impeached for.
But his pathological psychology will be unable to accept the impeachment. He is already calling it treason. He will throw tantrums like a 5-year-old. He will scream that everything is rigged. And he will refuse to go.
So the men in white coats will have to take him away. And as they come for him Trump will try to destroy everything around him, because a world that rejects his self, that throws him from office, literally cannot exist. All this, according to the psychiatry textbooks, is inevitable. What a joy it will be to watch. And it's starting now.
  The Press