Uriah Heap

TPPA.
"Now children! Listen up! Donald has gotten over his tantrum. He realises he's been stupid and is not happy, sitting alone under the old oak tree, missing out on playtime. Do you think you could find a way to let him back into your game?"

And that would have to be Jacinda Ardern's fault wouldn't it rdytry? C'mon - don't disappoint us - link it to Jacinda.

Peter 5:5 points to it being highly unlikely the God will be using a man like President Trump for his purposes.
"Clothe yourself in humility toward one another. For God sets himself against the proud (the insolent, the overbearing, the disdainful, the presumptuous, the boastful); but gives grace (favour) to the humble."

I agree Chevy. I think because I have called Trump an idiot( and rightly so), that I am therefore a Clinton supporter. Frankly I don't give a monkey's for either.
America gets what  it deserves.
Lee is the same as 100,s, he doesn't get it either. 

100-1. Your obsession with what (ex) President Obama did and did and did not do while in office is a red herring. Obama is yesterday's man. It's the current President who is the issue and there are plenty of issues to discuss so far as he is concerned. It's not all "fake news".

100-1. Your obsession with what (ex) President Obama did and did and did not do while in office is a red herring. Obama is yesterday's man. It's the current President who is the issue and there are plenty of issues to discuss so far as he is concerned. It's not all "fake news".

They're good lads when it comes to playing and they participate in plenty of organised sport. However, when not having organised games or practices, they're on the couch, whereas we would have gone out and hit cricket ball against the shed door, practised our goal kicking, or swung the golf club. About the only unorganised activity they'll do is shoot hoops down at the Court.

Problem with u lot is you're dinosaurs. Probably still play golf and bowls. Teens in my house watched both Gridiron Conference Finals back to back. They know the teams, the players, they know the moves and will no doubt look to skip school and work to catch the Superbowl. Other thing they watch non stop - Basketball - NZ's fastest growing sport. Then they go to the Court and shoot hoops. They are why Sky is broadcasting American sport.

It's not a beauty contest Ohoka. She's no nonsense and the Bulldogs picked up their game under her watch. She's a great choice for Aus rugby.

World Rugby's Player of the Year for the 2nd year in a row. Not bad for a young fellow still not playing in his best position - Lol 

Grandstanding is an interesting occupation, and psychologically speaking, it is an occupation, because those who do it believe they are doing everyone a favour and that it is their job to enlighten the masses.    Climate Change will be the undoing of Donald, because whilst he thinks he is making money for the US and his industrial, armament frenzied mates, he is destroying the very planet that he thinks he was born to save but his own arrogance and self importance and ever encroaching dementia, drive him to believe that nature isn't important, that man is more powerful and I think in the long run his legacy will be that he aided in the decline of much of what we love.. he can declare what ever he wants in the name of National Parks, but he does nothing to ensure they will be here for his great grandchildren to see or enjoy, it is all about Donald here and now, look at me.. look at what I'm doing for you.. tomorrow someone can tidy up - probably my PR people ..
 

That text about Time magazine "Person of the Year" is a tried and true Trump tactic. It's worked well for him in the past. He did the same when continuing to question Obama's citizenship. You merely put the story in the public arena. The truth doesn't matter. Those who want to believe will believe.

As Ron Dufficy would say - "He went the early crow."
Top effort pfp. You've got big balls.

There is honour in defeat. While the connections of one of these ‘stayers’ will collect the cup and squeak an awkward apology over the Riccarton PA there will be 11 others who manage to skulk away in silence.
One of the jockeys will sit and smile broadly to himself in the weighing room after having to give up at the 1200 when his charge snorted, wheezed and shortened stride at the first ask for any effort. Never a hope the jockey smirks, so bad I didn’t even have to ride out for 8th place prizemoney.
For most races my formbook-grinding winner-picker machine works on merit. For this average rating 83 lot though the settings were reversed so that it spat out the worst horses first.
Here are the results
Last - Gobstopper. Preferred racing style is to be a pacemaker for the other runners and then drop out to finish last. This has worked on 4 out of his 20 starts and can continue here.
11th - Bee Tee Junior. Will pull out and whack away in front of the grandstand first time around.
10th - Villa Elba. Earned the comment "too good" on trip to Southland. Something of a prerequisite I would have thought. Followed that win up with a "strong finish" to get within 8 lengths of a r68-er, whose form since reads 6-2-8-6-10. Carries the Zabeel line with shame.
9th - Kaharau. As ridiculous as it is that a horse with the Banks Peninsular Cup as its greatest achievement is topweight in the NZ Cup, he won't be finishing last, even with an extra 4.5kg on top of an average effort in last year's renewal.
8th - Zentangle. This one knows the game. Avoids effort by shaping to want a trip but when sent a yard over 2000m disappears in a puff of smoke.
7th - Sureasyouwereborn. Another jaded journeyman. Plods around in anything over 2000m with occasional success. Consistently mediocre. When your sire is named Lucky Unicorn you can only ever be a disappointment, and this one does not disappoint.
6th - Nothing Trivial. A trolling late entry. Well played by connections who rightly think that their sprinter-sired snowflake has a chance off his $10k Waikato hurdles win 9 seasons ago.
5th - Locally Sauced. This beast racked up over $40k in stakes after only 37 starts. What's more, it's only 6. Will be conserving energy for 10 further racedays before Christmas.
4th - Imperium. "Never a hope" in the Avondale Cup is encouragingly bad. Out of Ethereal and while there is only so far an apple can fall from a tree this one found a hill to roll down.
3rd - She's Poppy. No wins or placings from 5 starts on good gives the only hope of a poor run.
2nd - Sampson. Rarely puts in a stinker, wins good races. No interest here.

Which leaves us with...
 
1st - Pentathlon. Could be pulled up at the 1200 and still beat half this field home.

We certainly saw this happen with John Key. Always seemed a decent bloke, but when required, he became very "flexible" with the truth.

Richmond Tigers vs Adelaide in the Grand Final tomorrow. Richmond haven't got near a Grand Final since forever and their long suffering, fickle fans have poured out from the logs they've been hiding under. I've never liked Richmond as always thought they were soft and just failed to deliver (a bit like the Auckland Warriors or the Auckland Blues). However, two things - 1. They've easily got the best song and 2. Their star is a Kiwi boy. So just for tomorrow I might have to suck it up and say "Go the Mighty Tigers" 

It is very interesting to see the somewhat (sic) partisan approach subscribers and the general public have when it comes to deciding where Winston should align his party. His own party appears to be split 30/30 (40% undecided) and non-party opinion merely follows the voting patterns supportive of the major parties. Add to the mix an idea that Winston is in the process for personal gain/revenge and the pot just gets stirred.
Surely there are only two questions he needs to consider before making a judgement call (there is no moral high-ground under MMP).
First and foremost, is either or both major parties competent fiscally to govern the country. If the answer is only one of them then Winston has a clear and certain obligation to place his party along side that major party.
If both are judged competent then his obligation is then to broker a deal that sees the most progress being made towards fulfillment of NZ First policy. It was the policy that prompted the party vote and Winston has a duty to those who voted for him to pursue to his best ability the attainment of those policies.
Admittedly the judgement calls are subjective but that is why he achieved the 7%. None of his voter supporters expected NZ First to be a majority party, most I assume, wanted Winston in just the roll the election has given him.
All he now needs to do is fulfill his obligations first to NZ and then to NZ First.
"One man's opinion".
cheers

Socialist?? Both Labour and National hug the centre line so tightly any talk of "free market" on one side and "socialism" on the other is a fiction.

Love The Informant coming out on Thursday's now. Sitting back browsing through it last evening. Along with the fields, it's a good read.

Love The Informant coming out on Thursday's now. Sitting back browsing through it last evening. Along with the fields, it's a good read.

Love The Informant coming out on Thursday's now. Sitting back browsing through it last evening. Along with the fields, it's a good read.

In the news again with a Podcast by journalist Martin van Beynen titled "Black Hands". This because these words were uttered by David Bain to Police, shortly after the murders.
I don't know how to listen to Podcasts, but am interested to read some of the evidence again. For me there were so many small contentious matters delved into far too deeply, when some fairly obvious facts were barely touched on. 
One such fact is the suicide note - "You are the only one who deserved to stay" - typed on the family computer. The Defence said written by Robin Bain. However, it's in the past tense.It should read "You are the only one who deserves to stay", if written by Robin before he shoots himself.
And why would Robin decide, of all his children, that David deserved to stay? Why him, who openly stated he "hated" his father, argued with him regularly, and was very closely aligned with his mother, in the parents deteriorating relationship. Why not young Stephen; the 14 year old, high achieving, active school boy, who appeared the most normal out of all the family?

Well; that's another season done and dusted. Not too bad with the Canes largely reverting to how they were a few years back. They'll smash teams with the razzle dazzle in games that don't mean a great deal, but are shut out of derby games that really matter. They're not a bad team to support and at least we've now got one Championship in the cupboard. Maybe another - if we can snaffle home advantage in the Finals.
In the Final - I can't pick it. Maybe Lions, cause they at home.

There were at least two people who testified that Laniet had told them about being sexually abused by her father. These were often people who she didn't know particularly well. She also told people that she'd been raped in Papaua New Guinea when 11 years old and had a black baby, that she'd had a white baby, that she'd had an abortion, that she'd slashed her wrists in a suicide attempt. There was no proof any of these things actually occurred and David Bain himself said he did not believe any of them. 
Laniet was most likely a messed up product of a messed up family and made grandiose statements in an effort to secure attention. One thing she said that was likely true was in telling two or more people that her brother David had called a family meeting that weekend and that she had to go home for it. The fact that she was home at the house on that Sunday night would mean this statement was likely true.
 

This "North Shore" you speak of. Is that in Auckland? The place with useless Rugby League, Rugby Union teams, severe road congestion and $1 million average house prices. Us living in New Zealand (south of the Bombay Hills Demilitarised Zone) couldn't really care much about that.