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This empty suit is Aotearoa New Zealand’s Prime Minister.

That had me wrinkling my nose too.

Melaka - up there as one of the most strategic waterways in the world.

Cook Strait - separates the North and South Islands in Aotearoa New Zealand.

In my experience in New Zealand is that if Kiwis hear a North American accent they often enquire if the person is Canadian. I think it’s because Canadians get offended if mistaken for being American (fair enough) while Americans don’t particularly give a shit if mistaken for being Canadian.

Jeffery Goldberg can take his reckons and dive head first into the bin.

I'd love to see Goldsmith out of parliament, but he'd probably still haunt the building as a lobbyist.

Are there Nat electorate MPs on thin ice? They all should be, but who is especially vulnerable?

How I arrived on BlueSky

Yep. It has been miserable hot lately. We had about five minutes of rain a couple of days ago, but other than that, hotter than hell and dry as a bone,

Hmm…really? Okay then.

"The Immigration (Enhanced Risk Management) Amendment Bill will allow immigration officers to request identity-based information from a person when there is good cause to suspect they are in breach of their visa conditions or potentially liable for deportation."

Sloppy legislation and open to abuse

Good grief, NBC News.

NBC News, what’s with the yellow ribbon pins?

Seriously dumb, yep.

Congress and the courts are refusing to give Trump what he wants, so he’s concocting a new plan to seize control of the election. Here’s what you need to know: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The Muslim community voting for a lady from a party led by a gay Jewish man is clearly… sectarianism?

I don’t know this man, but after reading his statement it’s obvious he’s a big ass bigot.

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I’ll second that. Seymour can go get in the bin.

All within a 60 metre radius of our house we have banana, durian, mango, mangosteen, and papaya. There are also oil palms whose fruits are made into oil which is often used for frying chicken. I’ll also mention rubber trees whose latex goes into making lycra, a key part of stretchy pants, lol.

Ask him to define communism. That’ll be amusing.

Everything but the actual issues.

Post something from the 70s

It’s this tinkering around the edges bullshit that’s irritating. Raising the threshold is useless when people don’t have income because of lack of jobs.

Trump Announces Greenland Hospital Ship Mission as Mercy and Comfort Sit in Alabama Shipyard President Donald Trump announced on Saturday via social media that the United States will send a hospital ship to Greenland to provide medical care, posting alongside an illustration of the...

Trump is up to his distraction bullshit.
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5 authors I’ve read at least 5 books by:

Michael Swan (EFL nerds know)

Peter Viney (More EFL stuff)

Louis L’Amour

James Clavell

James Michener

I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.

Seymour said, “…as it stands the Government has committed to the policy, and ACT had signed up to it. But he was open to other arguments - such as selling assets to pay for the (LNG) import terminal.”

More swindles from Seymour. Yuck…

The Three Muppeteers.

Morning ice coffee in a rural village.

This morning’s tropical snack is a cousin of the jackfruit, cempadak (chem pah da’).

It has almost a mild banana bread flavour with faint savoury garlic notes.