tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53522634277629408602024-03-13T11:03:45.868+13:00Canterbury AtheistGod is watching YOU do number two's!..."Baaa theist flesh for dinner"Canterbury Atheistshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657noreply@blogger.comBlogger474125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-32088017441691941242014-10-23T08:56:00.001+13:002014-10-23T08:56:57.998+13:00Glassons back down to more social media hostage taking
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In case you missed it [more below] N.Z chain-fashion shop
Hallensteins Glasson’s recently backed-down to pressure, similar to the one
exerted when fat arses hit a chair, over a shop-front mannequin that in the
opinion of fat people didn’t represent their unhealthy body-shape. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Put simply: to achieve the build of the teen model they would have to
exercise and stop eating KFC for breakfast. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Being the same build as an N.Z Olympic female runner, triathlete,
rower, cyclist etc. is suddenly offensive to this group who consider they are the
epitome of ‘Real Kiwi Women’.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">‘Real Women’ are the ones that have their own ‘red-line’
ratio on the BMI scale. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Well low and behold Glassons gutless backing in to the ‘fat
pride’ contingent has seen them now face complaints by animal rights group SAFE
(Save Animals from Exploitation) in N.Z because it features – horror of horrors
– a rodeo.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yes, this is the same SAFE that is, in their words, affiliated
with international animal advocacy organisations PETA (People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals)</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">That’s the same PETA that is labelled by U.S Counter
Terrorism authority as being “# 1 Domestic terrorist group in America.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When militant groups hold hostages, the golden rule is to
never pay the ransom.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So when Galssons backed down to one group they were seen as
easy prey to push the causes of other radicals, in this case the N.Z affiliate
of a group that engages in terrorist activities. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Next thing the clothing chain will see complaints from the
colour blind they can’t see the ‘reds and pastels’ in their spring collection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Nepalese community in New Zealand, Kiwi’s over 7 foot
who demand want more mannequins to look like them.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This is what happens when you back down to what is in effect:
social media hostage taking. </span></div>
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Canterbury Atheistshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-7818608926619652722014-10-17T09:02:00.000+13:002014-10-17T09:02:16.465+13:00FAT RIGHTS PRESSURE GROUP DEMONISES BEING SKINNY
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This week it became official in New Zealand: being skinny is
not considered normal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Fat-rights campaigners have managed to pull from the shop
fronts of one of N.Z’s largest fashion retailers mannequins it considers ‘too
skinny’. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For the record my daughter is the same size as one of the ‘offending’
mannequins. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">She is blessed with good genes – mine- plus exercises about
10 hours a week. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Now let’s turn this travesty of political correctness around
to the point the faux logic eats itself.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The whimpish Hallenstein Glassons decided to put out obese
mannequins in their place, fat being the new normal.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Would they bow down to pressure from a petition from skinny
girls “these body images are unachievable”?</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">No fucking way.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The skinny girl who watches what she eats, gets out and
exercises is considered to be abnormal in this country. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Doing rowing and triathlon, eating health could lead you to being.....OMG.....skinny! </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In what must be the most absurd health advice ever issued being
skinny <em>“sends a potentially dangerous message”</em> according to so called experts,
who should have their medical licences terminated for being incompetent and
deluded. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The fat bimbo teen already with an arse the size of a Cook
Straight Ferry and thighs any All Black would be proud of is considered normal.
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Let’s be open and honest here.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Being fat is always unhealthy, not being skinny - except in the extreme of cases where there is an eating disorder. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It is possible for 90 per cent of the population to get down
to a normal build for their body shape.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sometimes this normal will even be skinny in the eyes of
others.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The pro-obesity group, fellow fat arses behind the petition to
get the mannequins pulled should have asked some doctors “<em>What is healthy build”?</em></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">“<em>Being skinny like this plastic doll or being fat at the age
of 18?” </em></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em> </em></span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The answer is clear to anyone except those that most need
this advice – the fat bastards and their advocates! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Shame on Hallensteins demonising teenagers who are skinny
and live active, healthy lives. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I will never shop there again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em> These skinny chicks really need to put on some weight, they are so unhealthy. </em></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
Canterbury Atheistshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-39638398108157296792014-10-16T10:24:00.001+13:002014-10-16T10:24:32.397+13:00Netball is a fucking stupid game. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This point seems to have escaped netball devotees and officials?
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">That’s all 10 of them, the global sporting oddity on par with
cheese rolling. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>Netball is a fucking stupid game</strong>.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So the prime reason netball remains a chicks sport isolated primarily
to the antipodes is again: it is a fucking stupid game. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">No other sport I can think of ‘super glues’ players to 1/3 of
the pitch.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">No other sport I can think of makes it illegal for certain players
to score.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">No other sport I can think of makes it illegal to even make
a spectacular long-distance scoring attempt. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">No other sport makes it illegal for some players to attack
and others to defend.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">No other sport I know of makes you stop the moment you get
the ball like you’ve been stunned. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">No other sport I know of lets a play have a free shot,
unopposed goal attempt in open play. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Just how many fucking stupid rules and regulations can you
put in to one game? </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><br />
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Canterbury Atheistshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-32404486548402829252014-10-15T14:54:00.000+13:002014-10-15T14:54:21.014+13:00Gyms are a largely a waste of time and money.
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The reason why people get overweight, unfit is not going to
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">People don’t need gyms to lose weight or get fit.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">They need motivation.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Motivation is individual pursuit.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">You can get a small initial boast from outside influences
like a mate, doctor’s report but ultimately it boils down to the drive of the
individual. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Exercise makes you fit not flash gyms with rows of expensive
machines you are ultimately paying for.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Even the ones you don’t use! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Let’s say Person A decided to spend money on a gym
membership and a trainer for the first initial 10 attendances.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Person B decided to invest in a good pair of running shoes,
waterproof jacket, a punch-bag and gloves. He also joins a social indoor soccer
team. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Both want to lose weight.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Let’s also say the gym is 20 minutes away for our guy A. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ultimately the winner in the race to lose weight will be the
most motivated.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">But B has a huge advantage. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">His training ground is the pavement outside his house, his
garage where the punch bag hangs. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The outdoors is free.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">You are not covering the gym owners rent. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">B also gets to bond with his soccer mates, target the odd
10K run rather than training ostensibly for nothing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In the time it takes A to get to/from the gym B can run/walk
for 40 minutes.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Do a 30 minute intense session on the bag, have a shower
before A has even swiped his membership card. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I can hear people say “I need to get away from the distraction
at home”</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">People like you are doomed to fail.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Gyms around the globe survive on ‘churn’ like you. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Being in the outdoors that exists just outside your
letterbox, playing in a park, running in a true gymnasium with a wooden floor
is always going to beat the static sterile atmosphere of a gym. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">If the weather is adverse use the punch bag in the garage. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Wind-up the stereo with your favourite music not the middle-of-the-road
tripe they pipe through gyms. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mix it up a bit.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">If you want to use weights buy a cheap set off e.bay. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">On the weekend go for a long walk, run. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">To me gyms are like own a batch/holiday home.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ultimately they are expensive for the time you use them, have
debatable usefulness, are expensive and commit you to something that one-day
you’ll decide isn’t me. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For 90% of people that join gyms this ‘it isn’t me’ realisation
happens within a few months.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Gyms are for suckers. </span></div>
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Canterbury Atheistshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-55883388514189240192014-06-12T13:15:00.000+12:002014-06-12T15:52:26.063+12:00WHY DO WOMEN HAVE CHILDREN TO LOSERS?<br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Women are far more emotionally centred than men.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Seeking out love and security, not just for themselves but
their offspring.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So the story goes, but I hate to disappoint you. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Women have children to dead-beat losers in every city and
town on this planet. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">You know exactly what I’m talking about here.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Shhhh…the Stasi like PC Police don’t like us talking about
stuff like this, so let’s do so in hushed tones.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Nah fuck that! </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Just because a woman is in a relationship with the dregs of
society doesn’t mean it’s compulsory for her to spud-out sprogs left right and
centre, now does it? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Brats their biological ‘sperm donor’ benefactor, more often
than not, cares little for.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Brat’s that the mother along with the taxpayer becomes contributors
for, whilst loser X is off doing his own thing the same as the day he first met
his then partner.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">To a man 'loser men' are never monogamists. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The thing is: woman know a loser when they see one and
seemingly don’t see it as a major issue impregnating them and doing the inevitable
runner. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Crime, alcohol, lack of work accruement don’t normally
first manifest themselves in a man in his 40’s. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">They are normally obvious self-evident character flaws from day one.
</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">9 times from 10 these men were obvious losers from the first
date, first time their bitch/skant (employing forms of scum-bag endearment) opened
their legs and forgot what day of the month it was. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So, why do women all-too frequently have children to losers, knowing they are losers? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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Canterbury Atheistshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-24653920894288814132014-06-11T12:46:00.003+12:002014-06-11T12:46:59.088+12:00Nutters with guns in the U.S are as newsworthy as a car accident in Peru
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sadly people die on New Zealand roads. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Similarly road accidents happen around the globe resulting
in injury and death with the same regularity. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Unless the death-toll is significant e.g. bus crashes, a road
fatality in Austria or India is not newsworthy enough to be reported outside that
particular country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This is because road-tolls are common-place, an unfortunate by-product
of getting behind the wheel. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Similarly random shootings in the U.S are a by-product of a society
that encourages the proliferation of guns. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The inevitable result allowing anyone with two legs and half
a brain to possess a gun, one that often serves only one purpose – killing other
humans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Little wonder so many nutters run about killing people with
guns in the U.S. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Gun crime that is an aberration in most other countries is ‘hoe
hum’ normal in the U.S, has been for decades. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Therefore shootings in America are not news here in New
Zealand any more than a road accident in Peru. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The media outside the U.S should ‘yawn’ as news of the next gun
rampage comes off the cable and put it in the same category as the Syrian civil
war, pollution in Mexico City, a flood in a country no one can place on a map. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Only worthy of reporting outside the United States when a
proverbial bus accident e.g. Sandy Hook happens. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">If no one in the U.S cares enough to restrict gun ownership
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Canterbury Atheistshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-6144352088691453852014-05-29T12:57:00.001+12:002014-05-30T06:59:17.521+12:00My Sure-Fire Way to Stop the Obesity Epidemic <br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Lancet researchers found more than 2 billion people
worldwide are now overweight or obese. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">That’s right: one third of the humans on the planet are fat and
lazy bastards.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><br />
<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></o:p><br />
<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Not one country has been successful curbing the epidemic. </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And it won’t be until the media portrays obese people as fat
and lazy bastards that this issue will be tackled head-on, the health systems we pay for won't collapse under their ample weight. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As I have <a href="http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.co.nz/2014/04/since-morning-after-pill-doesnt-work.html">suggested previously</a> a policy of social ostracising
is one way to get results.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am doing my bit to better the health outcomes of my fellow
humans by creating these ‘motivational’ posters. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Imagine sitting down and seeing these State-Sponsored ‘messages’
on your television! </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Effective, eh? </span></div>
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Canterbury Atheistshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-32322306921397354992014-04-02T15:07:00.001+13:002014-04-02T15:07:13.148+13:00New Zealand’s Personal Trainers are harming their clients
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<em><span style="font-family: Calibri;">One in eight Kiwis belong to a gym (up from one in 11 in
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<em><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Over the same period the number of personal trainers has
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just the past five years gym accidents have increased by 330 per cent. <o:p></o:p></em></span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So there’s been a 28 per cent increase in numbers going to a
gym and a tenfold increase in punters employing personal trainers has seen a
tenfold increase in accident expenditure! </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>23,000 claims in 2013 alone, up 10,000 on 2012.</em> </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">If this trend continues soon going to a gym will be in the
same category as playing a physical contact sport like soccer in terms of
injury risk. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This can’t be explained away as an anomaly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">More Personal Trainers = More Injuries in New Zealand Gyms
is what the figures state. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So why do we have this worrisome trend and why aren’t gyms
more honest over the perceived benefits versus dangers of using a PT?</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Is it just me or I am right and saying that most personal
trainers are aged under 30 years and most of their clients aged well over 30
years? </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It would be ridiculous for say Bayern Munich to employ a
coach who was a decade plus younger than the players he’s coaching. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Most of N.Z’s PT’s are coaching the equivalent of their
parents. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">To use the soccer analogy again, imagine the injuries that
would be produced if you had a 20 year running the training sessions for a
golden-oldies team? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Gyms, fitness industry should look to quality and not quantity.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Look to experience like other recreational activities. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Pay their employees enough so a 40 year old with kids and a
mortgage can make a comfortable living, not tweens on low wages, with no
responsibility apart from paying back the loan on their car. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Therein lies the problem.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">An industry in denial and until the gyms/industry trainers
admit there is an issue it means gym goers will continue to be injured in numbers
that are comparable even to contact sports. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ceasing
the myth personal trainers correlate to fewer injuries is a start. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The most astounding revelation to the news that the
widely-used morning-after pills is less effective in preventing pregnancy in
woman over 70kgs, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is the salient point Kiwi
men are actually having sex with them in the first place.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Are Kiwi men in New Zealand just not fussy? </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">That desperate for sex, or that drunk not to care who they
are banging? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Do they want a brat with a fat 'nameless' bimbo they picked-up at the
pub? </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Clearly today's N.Z women care less about their weight than their
mothers with the average weight going up 12 kilos in one generation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">62kgs in sixties New Zealand and now 74 kilos in 2014.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Use of the morning after pill generally indicates casual sex
and the prevention of an unwanted pregnancy. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The simple solution to the ‘morning after pill’ being
rendered a third effective by the women’s weight is for men to not fuck them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></o:p> </div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Do society a favour - go home and have wank instead. </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The same applies to women contemplating having sex with fat
guys.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Don’t!</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Let fat people sit on the margins (naturally after
strengthening them) of society. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Then let Darwinsm work its magic.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In one or two generations – no more fat people! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>Footnote: Congratulations to radio presenter Rachel Smalley calling
New Zealand women "heifers" and "a bunch of lardos”. She is dead
right and needs industry accolades rather than complaints which will doubtless come from the
very same ‘heifers’ she describes. The fatties with time to write letters, consume a packet of biscuits but not to exercise. </em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It’s been widely known for decades, if not centuries Inuit
Indians don’t tend to live long lives due to their restrictive food sources, the
same with the Massai on the African plains. Too much meat is bad for one’s
health, produces higher rates of cancers as well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Little surprise therefore in the results of adopting a high protein
diet from studies undertaken by University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Centre
and University of Southern California. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">People on high-protein diets are likely to lose years of
life along with the weight they shed, according to these two recent studies.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The results of adopting a high-protein bodybuilding diet should
send shivers down the spines of the personal training fraternity, gym bunnies. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Those who consume just 20 per cent of their calories from
protein were four times more likely to die of cancer or diabetes than other
people.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The risk of cancer adopting a high protein diet is as much
as smoking 20 cigarettes a day! </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Surprise, surprise a balanced diet is a key to a long life.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The bodybuilding, gym industry is massive and pervasive proponents
of consuming excess protein – all because there’s a buck in it. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">They point to the market muscles as a positive sign of a
person being healthy gulping down protein shakes when the ripped magazine model is just as
liable to develop cancer as a result of their unbalanced diet as a person
smoking a packet a day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Shamefully they are not telling consumers the detrimental effects
of undertaking a bodybuilders diet e.g. increased risk of diabetes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><br />
<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></o:p><br />
<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Personal Trainers concept 'looking better, weighing less' with high protein diets is the key to good health has been shown not only to be a profit driven sham but dangerous advice.</span></o:p><br />
<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></o:p><br />
<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Any gym that cared about their clients should strip the shelves of protein powders and encourage customers to eat more fruit and vegetables. </span></o:p><br />
<o:p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mums, middle-aged
office workers etc wanting an extra push in an attempt to lose weight should avoid
personal trainers who have bulked-up on protein, since clearly they have no
interest in their own health, so why should they care about yours? </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Naïve eve
fools that uses a personal trainer that is involved in bodybuilding events in
the deluded belief they are fit when they are just the opposite may as well employ
one that smokes for what it’s worth. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span></span> </div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Besides most bodybuilders are gay men and I wouldn't want one getting too close to me if I could avoid it. </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So gyms that
employ bodybuilders as personal trainers, push sales of protein should
be shunned since medical research says<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they haven't a fucking clue what they are doing when it comes
to people’s health. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For someone to undertake a hard-core bodybuilding diet with the full
knowledge they are harming themselves best exemplifies the narcissistic nature
of bodybuilding. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Systematically killing yourself to look good in a mirror, appeal to gay men is outright disturbing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am sorry - poor people aren’t obese and they certainly can’t
afford smokes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Let me re-phrase that statement to emphasis my following
points.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Truly poor people, like those up in Polynesia, shouldn’t be the
fattest people on the planet, with an unhealthy perchance for smoking and still
receive aid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Truly poor people in need of aid from countries like New
Zealand don’t, for example, run symposiums focusing on the evils of soft-drink
(google: Fizz, Auckland) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></o:p> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Around 70 per cent of Western Samoans are obese.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">65 per cent of Tonga is obese.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In basic terms you get fat by lack of exercise and
eating/drinking too much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">New Zealand gives both Samoa and Tonga close to NZD 20
million a year. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Without this overseas aid all the countries of Polynesia
would collapse. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For example 40% of Samoa’s revenue comes from overseas
donors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Governments like New Zealand like to point to tourism,
education, infra-structure projects up in the islands being the core recipients
of taxpayers money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">What is conveniently left out of any sanitised Government
report on aid are the crippling costs to the island economies having the
fattest people, on the planet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And stop blaming genetics. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Genetics doesn’t force a person to drink shitty soft drinks,
eat canned corn beef in favour of more healthy traditional foods. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Genetics doesn’t make you buy Pall Mall ciggies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Compare photos of Samoans, Fijians in the 1800’s with today.
</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Since between 10 to 15 per cent (figures I found varied) of
the Samoan population have <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>developed
diabetes, these treatment costs alone are the largest part of Samoa’s health
budget.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Then add to this burden heart-attacks, strokes etc. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Staggeringly only 16% of the Fijian population is aged more
than 55 years due to premature preventable deaths.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">62% of Tongan men smoke. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So much for Tonga ‘needing’ New Zealanders help.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">What for?</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">A free carton of Bensons and Hedges for every family?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And if you are buying smokes it’s way better to grab them
off the shelves in say Tonga and Samoa where they are half the price as N.Z
because they both don't impose taxes at a level anywhere near necessary to
cover the adverse health effects.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Island governments know ‘muggins’ New Zealand will cover
the shortfall in cigarette taxes when the smokers end up in their hospital
beds. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Being overweight and smoking is a death wish. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">What’s necessary is for New Zealand and other benefactors to
employ some ‘tough love’ when it comes to aid in the islands.</span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Give
their respective Governments targets to address obesity, bad health decisions
or lose funding. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><br />
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<span abp="3086" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To a small proportion of society gambling is addictive.<o:p abp="3087"></o:p></span></div>
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<span abp="3092" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The moment you place the word ‘addictive’ in any statement it
is natural to think about heroin addicts, drunks and the like.<o:p abp="3093"></o:p></span></div>
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<span abp="3098" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Can gambling seriously be compared to the addictiveness of
ingesting chemicals in the form of drugs and alcohol? <o:p abp="3099"></o:p></span></div>
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<span abp="3104" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For starters it’s patently stupid to tell a gambler they
have a disease and “it’s not your actions that are to blame but some misfortune
with your make-up”. <o:p abp="3105"></o:p></span></div>
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<span abp="3110" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Labelling them diseased means the gambler believes they are
somehow rendered powerless. <o:p abp="3111"></o:p></span></div>
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<span abp="3116" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It places all the blame on this nefarious disease or illness
of which medical science has not definitive grasp of and certainly no cure. <o:p abp="3117"></o:p></span></div>
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<span abp="3122" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There is no definitive study to say “having this gene makes
you a gambling addict”. <o:p abp="3123"></o:p></span></div>
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<span abp="3128" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The only people who call gambling an illness or a disease
are those with vested interests: doctors and psychiatrists. <o:p abp="3129"></o:p></span></div>
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<span abp="3134" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I myself gamble, on the horses. <o:p abp="3135"></o:p></span></div>
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<span abp="3140" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In fact I lose money on the horses, yet I weigh this up with
the entertainment and excitement I get from the exercise. </span></div>
<div abp="3139">
<span abp="3140" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span> </div>
<div abp="3139">
<span abp="3140" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If gambling is a disease - by rights casual punters like me also carry a 'Malaria' type infection and simply don't not know it. </span></div>
<div abp="3139">
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">If the disease theory holds water punters like me must also have something in our systems that can resist this 'invader'? </span></div>
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<span abp="3146" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I have yet to meet anyone who wins at the races.<o:p abp="3147"></o:p></span></div>
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<span abp="3152" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This includes large gamblers. <o:p abp="3153"></o:p></span></div>
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<span abp="3158" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Everyone, including the problem gambler is fully aware they
are losing - only way less so than your average punter. <o:p abp="3159"></o:p></span></div>
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<span abp="3164" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One of the major differences is a problem gambler has a far greater expectancy to win. </span></div>
<div abp="3163">
<span abp="3164" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span> </div>
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<span abp="3164" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I want to win, I don't expect to in-fact I expect to lose. </span></div>
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<span abp="3164" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span> </div>
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<span abp="3164" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now reverse this mental state. <o:p abp="3165"></o:p></span></div>
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<span abp="3170" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A decade or so ago having a greater expectancy to take more
of the pool would have been called greed, but no-one is allowed to be so blunt nowadays. <o:p abp="3171"></o:p></span></div>
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<span abp="3176" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Addictive gamblers hate others winning money they see as
theirs. </span></div>
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<span abp="3176" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span> </div>
<div abp="3175">
<span abp="3176" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I love when my fellow punters win big - it gives you hope, it's nice seeing people happy. <o:p abp="3177"></o:p></span></div>
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<span abp="3182" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Couple this increased expectancy with an elevated ‘thrill of
the win’ and you have addictive issues. </span><span abp="3183" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></div>
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<span abp="3188" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The problem-gambler therefore places the pleasure they
derive from gambling above most of the things going-on in their lives. <o:p abp="3189"></o:p></span></div>
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<span abp="3194" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Problem gamblers exhibit narcissistic traits
placing their own ‘pleasure’ above the needs of even their children, love-ones, employers etc. <o:p abp="3195"></o:p></span></div>
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<span abp="3200" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The adverse results of their addiction are compatible with alcohol
and drugs but that’s as far as the connection goes. <o:p abp="3201"></o:p></span></div>
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<span abp="3206" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Anyone who says gambling is a disease has vested interests
or wants to defer the blame away from the real cause. <o:p abp="3207"></o:p></span></div>
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Canterbury Atheistshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-12285253007622234812014-02-19T13:32:00.001+13:002014-02-21T07:17:26.678+13:00Oxfam is Not a Good Cause<div abp="1354">
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<span abp="1357" style="font-family: Calibri;"><em abp="1358">Wealthy elites have co-opted political power to rig the
rules of the economic game, undermining democracy and creating a world (Oxfam
NZ Site)</em> </span><o:p abp="1359"><span abp="1360" style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span abp="1364" style="font-family: Calibri;">I am directing this missive, not just to the Trail Walkers
but to anyone who considers giving money to Oxfam. </span><o:p abp="1365"><span abp="1366" style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span abp="1370" style="font-family: Calibri;">Don’t! <span abp="1371" style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p abp="1372"><span abp="1373" style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span abp="1377" style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong abp="1378">Point One: Oxfam in New Zealand and globally is not an
apolitical group.</strong> </span><o:p abp="1379"><span abp="1380" style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span abp="1384" style="font-family: Calibri;">Don’t think for a moment Oxfam is a benign neutral charity.<span abp="1385" style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p abp="1386"><span abp="1387" style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span abp="1391" style="font-family: Calibri;">Oxfam N.Z was set-up by the current Labour Party spokesman
on Housing, Phil Twyford. <o:p abp="1392"></o:p></span></div>
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<span abp="1396" style="font-family: Calibri;">To further prove Oxfam (NZ) non-neutral political stand-point,
their last local Executive Director (Barry Coates) departed his role just
before Christmas to run for The Green Party at the next election.</span><o:p abp="1397"><span abp="1398" style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span abp="1402" style="font-family: Calibri;">At one stage Barry Coates was also chair of the Global
Campaign for Climate Action.<span abp="1403" style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p abp="1404"><span abp="1405" style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span abp="1409" style="font-family: Calibri;">So Oxfam in New Zealand does not exist just to feed the poor,
that’s just one of their guises. </span><o:p abp="1410"><span abp="1411" style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span abp="1415" style="font-family: Calibri;">Oxfam is a political beast.<span abp="1416" style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span><o:p abp="1417"><span abp="1418" style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span abp="1422" style="font-family: Calibri;">Thinking the money raised by your walk, fundraising is going
to a ‘good cause’……..think again! </span><o:p abp="1423"><span abp="1424" style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span abp="1428" style="font-family: Calibri;">Oxfam in New Zealand is neck deep in left wing politics,
exhibits an almost pathological hatred of rich people. </span></div>
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<span abp="1433" style="font-family: Calibri;">The fact Oxfam in New Zealand policies mirrors those of The Green Party is no accident. </span><span abp="1434" style="font-family: Calibri;"> <o:p abp="1435"> </o:p></span></div>
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<span abp="1439" style="font-family: Calibri;">Tax Havens for example are something this charity campaigns
on. </span><o:p abp="1440"><span abp="1441" style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span abp="1445" style="font-family: Calibri;">Ironically it’s mostly the middle class and rich Kiwi’s that
support Trail Walker Oxfams cause, suckered into thinking their efforts will
solely help the poor in The Pacific etc.<o:p abp="1446"></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p abp="1450"><span abp="1451" style="font-family: Calibri;">Because of it's extreme left wing dogma, donations to Oxfam are but effective in the short term - never treat the root cause [refer: Point Two] </span></o:p></div>
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<span abp="1457" style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p abp="1458">It's t</o:p>hese middle classes and rich in countries like New Zealand
who are the very same demographic Oxfam thinks don’t pay anywhere enough tax. <span abp="1459" style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p abp="1460"><span abp="1461" style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span abp="1465" style="font-family: Calibri;">Oxfam campaigns locally and globally to see an end to free
trade agreements, like the one between China and New Zealand that has enriched
all New Zealanders.<span abp="1466" style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span abp="1469" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span abp="1470" style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span> </div>
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<div abp="1472">
<span abp="1473" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span abp="1474" style="mso-spacerun: yes;">China is New Zealand's biggest export market, yet Oxfam (N.Z) want the Government of the day to rip-up our FTA and say goodbye to 9 billion in revenue. </span></span></div>
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<span abp="1477" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span abp="1478" style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span> </div>
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<span abp="1481" style="font-family: Calibri;">Oxfam also want all New Zealand business’s to pay their employees
the Rev Waldegrave formatted ‘living wage’ irrespective of the economics. <span abp="1482" style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span abp="1483" style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p abp="1484"><span abp="1485" style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span abp="1489" style="font-family: Calibri;">NZD 22.90 an hour for McDonalds bun flippers.<span abp="1490" style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span abp="1491" style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p abp="1492"><span abp="1493" style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<div abp="1495">
<o:p abp="1496"><span abp="1497" style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></o:p> </div>
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<div abp="1499">
<o:p abp="1500"><span abp="1501" style="font-family: Calibri;">NZD 47,500 P.A for an unskilled worker first year out of school. </span></o:p></div>
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<o:p abp="1504"><span abp="1505" style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></o:p> </div>
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<div abp="1507">
<span abp="1508" style="font-family: Calibri;">Oxfam shamelessly wants to tax New Zealand businesses more.</span><o:p abp="1509"><span abp="1510" style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div abp="1512" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<div abp="1513">
<span abp="1514" style="font-family: Calibri;">Oxfam a so-called charity into helping staving millions has
just issued a report that amongst other policies desires more regulations for
business’s under the banner of equity and sustainability.<span abp="1515" style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
</div>
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<div abp="1517">
<span abp="1518" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span abp="1519" style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span> </div>
</div>
<div abp="1520" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<div abp="1521">
<span abp="1522" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span abp="1523" style="mso-spacerun: yes;">It could be cut and pasted straight from The Greens. </span></span><o:p abp="1524"><span abp="1525" style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<div abp="1526">
<br /></div>
<div abp="1527" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<div abp="1528">
<span abp="1529" style="font-family: Calibri;">In September last year Oxfam <span abp="1530" style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>slandered all New Zealanders with false
statements accusing the (National) Government as effectively shirking on its contributions
in in Syria. </span><o:p abp="1531"><span abp="1532" style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
</div>
<div abp="1533">
<br /></div>
<div abp="1534" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<div abp="1535">
<span abp="1536" style="font-family: Calibri;">Oxfam’s figures were 4000% out!<span abp="1537" style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span abp="1538" style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p abp="1539"><span abp="1540" style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
</div>
<div abp="1541">
<br /></div>
<div abp="1542" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<div abp="1543">
<span abp="1544" style="font-family: Calibri;">Nor is there anything on Oxfam's sites that addresses the
real reasons behind poverty in the Pacific and beyond……<o:p abp="1545"></o:p></span></div>
</div>
<div abp="1546">
<br /></div>
<div abp="1547" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<div abp="1548">
<span abp="1549" style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong abp="1550">Point Two: Poor people have too many kids!</strong> <o:p abp="1551"></o:p></span></div>
</div>
<div abp="1552">
<br /></div>
<div abp="1553" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<div abp="1554">
<span abp="1555" style="font-family: Calibri;">Using the Pacific as an example here’s the facts (births per
1,000 persons)</span><o:p abp="1556"><span abp="1557" style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
</div>
<div abp="1558">
<br /></div>
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<span abp="1561" style="font-family: Calibri;">34.3 Solomon Islands</span></div>
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<div abp="1563">
<span abp="1564" style="font-family: Calibri;">31.1 Vanuatu</span></div>
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<div abp="1566">
<span abp="1567" style="font-family: Calibri;">30.9 Papua New Guinea</span></div>
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<span abp="1570" style="font-family: Calibri;">29.7 Naru</span></div>
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<span abp="1573" style="font-family: Calibri;">26.5 Tonga</span></div>
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<span abp="1576" style="font-family: Calibri;">24.8 Samoa</span></div>
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<div abp="1578">
<span abp="1579" style="font-family: Calibri;"></span> </div>
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<div abp="1581">
<span abp="1582" style="font-family: Calibri;">New Zealand?</span></div>
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<span abp="1586" style="font-family: Calibri;">14.3! </span><o:p abp="1587"><span abp="1588" style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
</div>
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<div abp="1590" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<div abp="1591">
<span abp="1592" style="font-family: Calibri;">That’s right most of the families up in ‘the Islands’ are
twice the size as here in N.Z.</span><o:p abp="1593"><span abp="1594" style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<div abp="1595">
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<div abp="1597">
<span abp="1598" style="font-family: Calibri;">What’s more the average GDP of a New Zealander is USD
30,000.</span><o:p abp="1599"><span abp="1600" style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<div abp="1603">
<span abp="1604" style="font-family: Calibri;">The average GDP of a Solomon Islander is a paltry USD 3, 000.</span><o:p abp="1605"><span abp="1606" style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span abp="1610" style="font-family: Calibri;">Papua New Guinea is less! </span><o:p abp="1611"><span abp="1612" style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<div abp="1615">
<span abp="1616" style="font-family: Calibri;">Kiwis are subsidising the irresponsible breeding habits of
our Pacific neighbours and Oxfam tries to make us all feel guilty for it,
prefers instead to blame successful businessmen for not being taxed enough, when there is far easy answer. </span><o:p abp="1617"><span abp="1618" style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<div abp="1620" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<div abp="1621">
<span abp="1622" style="font-family: Calibri;"><em abp="1623">Stop them breeding so much</em> is the logical answer to poverty in the
Pacific.</span><o:p abp="1624"><span abp="1625" style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<div abp="1627" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<div abp="1628">
<span abp="1629" style="font-family: Calibri;">Any other efforts are literally feeding the issue, in some cases making it worse!</span></div>
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<span abp="1632" style="font-family: Calibri;"></span> </div>
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<div abp="1634">
<span abp="1635" style="font-family: Calibri;">Samoa has the fattest people on the planet. </span></div>
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<span abp="1638" style="font-family: Calibri;"></span> </div>
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<div abp="1640">
<span abp="1641" style="font-family: Calibri;">Tonga is a close second. </span><o:p abp="1642"><span abp="1643" style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<o:p abp="1646"><span abp="1647" style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></o:p> </div>
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<div abp="1649">
<o:p abp="1650"><span abp="1651" style="font-family: Calibri;">Oxfam is heavily (pun intended) involved in both Samoa and Tonga. </span></o:p></div>
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<div abp="1654">
<span abp="1655" style="font-family: Calibri;">Imagine suggesting 'interfering with birth control' is a
solution to the pinkos at Oxfam? <span abp="1656" style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span abp="1657" style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p abp="1658"></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em> "Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth"
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Back in 2008 the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in
Munich highlighted the link between young smokers and suicide. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thoughts about suicide and attempts to commit
suicide were four times more frequent for German teens aged 14-24 that smoked. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In the U.S a year later Ronald Kessler and his fellow Harvard
University colleagues provided data that smokers were about two or three times
as likely to have thought about or attempted suicide in the past year than
non-smokers. The more you smoked the more you thought about ending your life. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This result backs-up a ‘mass’ study done involving 300,000 U.S
smoking/non-smoking military employees over the period 1987 to 1996. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Suicide and Smoking are unequivocally linked. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">These studies however concentrated exclusively on the act of
killing oneself on the spot, rather than taking the long route via lung cancer etc.
</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So what about smokers who don’t take overdoses of pills, place
a gun to the forehead – are they too suicidal, just too ‘chicken’ to jump off a
bridge? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">All smokers know they are deliberately ending their lives
early, yet they are perfectly happy exchanging a shorter life for what they
consider ‘a pleasure’. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Most smokers dismiss outside advice to quit the habit with
the quip <em>“You have to die some-way”.</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’m sure you’ve heard the dismissive barb before, more than
once. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></o:p> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Is this simply a form of the philosophical doctrine of
fatalism: death is inevitable so live your life to the fullest doing whatever spins
your wheels?</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This could be the case were it not a fact smoking is
strongly linked with suicide of the immediate kind. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Repeat: the more you smoke the more you think about suicide.
</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Similarly it’s a fact, smokers as a group end their lives
earlier than non-smokers and they largely don’t care, remain almost defiantly proud of
this sad stat. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For all intents every smoker <u>is</u> manifesting suicidal tendencies,
most opting to take the long-way out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For this demographic, if it wasn’t smokes it would be some other health impinging
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I got invited to a BBQ the other day.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Technically it was my wife’s do. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So apart from the hosts I didn’t know another soul.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">One of the other couples arrived on their Harley so I
started to make idle chatter with the bloke and the subject of mufflers arose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I got to hear the argument ‘loud mufflers save lives’. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The premise has a certain logic to it.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">But it’s simply wrong, not born-out in any independent study
I could locate and ignores the fact bad drivers crash into other cars at the
same rate as they crash into motorbikes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ignores physics: sound travels behind a bike not in front of
it. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">How many accidents happen when a vehicle driving on an open
highway drives up the arse of another one moving at speed? </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Then there’s the ‘herd of elephants in the room’ if you are in-fact
a safety conscious motorcyclist? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Not an attention seeking one, driven by
fashion and the desire to be a weekend rebel. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Daytime running lights will make you more visible to other
motorists. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">There are studies (Scandinavia, Denmark etc) that prove
this. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Similarly donning a hi-vis jacket as opposed to dark
leathers will also increase visibility.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So if you want to put loud pipes on your bike for safety
reasons and not just exhibiting a form of attention deficit syndrome – then by
rights it follows you will ride the roads in a fluro yellow vest or similar with
headlights blazing day and night, eh? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As we all know Harley Davidson owners see themselves as ‘real
men’ and wouldn’t be seen dead in poofy fluro, nor adopting the effeminate
habit of riding with lights on during the day. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yet these very same Harley owners are perfectly happy
creating noise pollution under the guise of personal safety! </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Last but not least as a safety conscious motorcycle owner what
about buying a motorbike that has the most favourable specs for handling, suspension
and brakes etc? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Get say a sports bike like a Ducati or Kawasaki which would ‘kill’
a heavy Harley in any performance, handling comparison. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">More importantly the likes of a Ducati, Yamaha, BMW make safer
motorcycles better suited to N.Z roads. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">That’s probably why the owners of these motorbikes don’t see
it as necessary to employ noisy exhausts. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Canterbury Atheistshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-9049198505039369132014-01-03T09:30:00.000+13:002014-01-03T09:30:42.096+13:00Mid-Life Motorcyclists Keeping New Zealand Funeral Directors Busy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I actually like motorcycles, prefer motorbike racing to car
racing. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I once owned a Honda C125 and CB350. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Great machines. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Then I had a ‘life changing event’ in my early twenties when
I thought I was going to die on the CB350. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">But god (tongue firmly in cheek) intervened, prevented my
premature demise, but from that day forward I was sworn-off motorbikes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">On a good-day and the right road it’s hard to beat that ‘alive’
feeling you get on a motorbike. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The fact still remains (Transport NZ Crash Facts 2012) you
are 22 times more likely to be involved in a fatal or injury crash on a motor
bike than in a car over the same distance. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Take some time to count to 22. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sure some of the disproportionate risk hopping on a bike can
be put down to other motorists crashing into innocent riders. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The stats say approx. one third. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Regardless of who is to blame that doesn’t diminish the relative
danger riding a motorbike nor those stark stats. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Bad drivers crash into other cars as well. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">What is apparent from the accident figures are the high number
of number + 40 y.o’s involved in accidents. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">More than the entire age group 15 to 30 who, let’s not
forget are notorious for their dangerous driving habits behind the wheel. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In the two years 2011-12 just one Kiwi motorcyclist aged
15 to 20 died on our roads compared to 52 aged 40 and above. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This difference is probably down to the type of bikes both
demographics were adopting. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Teens and twenties come off their scooters, low cc bikes
during the week and the ‘mid-life crisis’ rider their 750 plus bikes over weekends.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The difference between predominately low speed accidents in
urban environments for junior versus high speed ones for ‘the old man’ blatting
around the countryside. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Regardless of engine size, demographics there’s no escaping
a staggering 27 per cent of motorbike riders involved in accidents were either
drunk or drugged! </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">36 per cent of motorcyclist crashes involve a bike with a cc
rating over 750cc.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">That’s way disproportionate to the numbers. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When you ‘crunch’ these stats it’s obvious the mid-life
weekend warriors Harley owner has a risk-factor versus driving a car the same
distance well above that 22 times average. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">By my maths it’s 40 times or more, but it’s fair to say I failed
school cert mathematics. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Freedom comes at a price. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">One I’m not willing to pay. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Over-all most people that get tattoos realise they cause
offence to certain sectors of society.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It is bleeding obvious to anyone with half a brain-cell tattoos
are synonymous with criminal fraternities, mostly follow trends that render arguments
“It’s an individual thing” baseless. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Cutting to the chase: great leaders and inventors with coverable
tattoos are few and far between. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Most people who opt to get a tattoo are bright enough (room temperature?) to place it in a location
on their body that can be hidden from public view as the situation dictates.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Like say if you had a decent job, have to interact with
customers who weren’t part of a sub culture and greater society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Following the thread that tattoos are symptomatic of outside
trends e.g. some numbskull bass player from their fav band has one, invariably
we expect to see sheeple follow what they perceive as fashionable or cool. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So like day follows night, over just the last decade we now
have people – not individuals – adorning themselves with neck tattoos as spotted on a music video, internet, mag etc. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Until recently neck-tattoos were the defiant F.U badge of
street gangs. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tragically we now see middle-class kids with them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">These trend-seekers, attention deficit sufferers think they
look cool or tough with their neck tattoos when to the rest of society it yells,
via a large megaphone “I’m a loser.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Let me prove this brutal statement succinctly.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tell me one great person from the 7 billion on this planet
that has a fucking neck tattoo? </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Taps fingers on the table await an answer he knows will
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Canterbury Atheistshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-47107397397835648552013-12-08T20:35:00.000+13:002013-12-09T05:27:30.496+13:00Nelson Mandela’s legacy means 1 million S.A children now live with HIV/AIDS. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">South
Africa is riddled with AIDS. </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The term
epidemic doesn’t do justice to the scale of HIV infection in South Africa.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">18% of the
population is infected, a figure that isn’t falling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">When apartheid
ended and Nelson Mandela and his ANC Party gradually took power in 1990, AIDS/HIV
infection levels were at just 1%. </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">When he
ceased to be SA’s leader (1994-99) it was 10%.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">No one is
prepared, even today; to destroy the image of ‘Saint Mandela’ by pointing-out 500
people died every day of a preventable disease with him ‘at the helm’. </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The first
time Mandela even mentioned AIDS publically was in a 1997 speech, given not in Johannesburg
- but Switzerland. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mandela
left office in 1999 and became an AIDS campaigner, swooned over by sycophantic
western media who failed to look at his motivations, nor his appalling record
in stemming the disease when he was a power broker. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">On World AIDS
Day in 2000, Mandela pronounced; "Be faithful to one partner and use a
condom... Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS."</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mandela
himself was a serial philander, hardly a poster-boy for chastity.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">One of his
own sons, Makgatho, died of the disease – not that Mandela was ever really a
real father to him, preferring to up-grade his women like cars. His last wife
was 28 years his junior. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">To quote
his daughter Dr Makaziwe Mandela “He was an absent dad.” </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It was his
son’s death, not those of thousands of other fellow South Africans, that belatedly
drove Mandela to tackle AIDS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">But by then
the disease was so endemic his efforts were futile. </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">When he has
the chance in Government to stem the spread of AIDS in its infancy: Mandela did
all but nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Instead of
giving the monstrous disease enveloping his country priority along with building
hospitals, schools and roads etc the ‘peace and love’ new leader of a ‘New’
South Africa went out and spent billions on new jet fighters and tanks! </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Budget for
up-grading South African military forces in 1998: 38 Billion South African Rand
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Budget for
AIDS education: next to Zero.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">AIDS along with crime and poverty has
blighted Mandela vision of a new South Africa.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mandela’s
legacy means 1 million S.A children now live with HIV/AIDS. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Most of
them are black South Africans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<br />Canterbury Atheistshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-9030207214461467282013-12-06T12:37:00.000+13:002013-12-12T07:15:40.179+13:00Nelson Mandela was not a Great Guy <br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Brazen philander: <em>His first wife Evelyn had to endure him
coming home with the office secretary and them both retiring to their marital
bedroom to do the business. Abandoned his first wife & four children to marry his mistress. </em> </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Wife Beater: <em>Evelyn Mandela went to the police after being threatened with an axe, but her complaint
was withdrawn as the pressure went on her from his activist circles. Not a good look from a lawyer. Evelyn's claims of beatings continued to her dying breath. <o:p></o:p></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Terrible Father: <em>His words not mine. One of his daughters Makaziwe Mandela wished her father could have been a father to her
rather than ‘the country’.</em> <sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></sup></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Terrorist: <em>Attended a training camp in Ethiopia. Was behind bombings
against government buildings, homes of government officials and public places like railway stations, banks for which he was
convicted and imprisoned. Note: He pleaded guilty at his trial. Included in his death toll were innocent mothers and children. </em></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em> </em></span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Communist: <em>Sort aid from both Russia and China to fund the
overthrow of not just the apartheid system but also democracy in South Africa. Was
a member of South African Communist Party.</em> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <em>That's him (above) 'front and centre' at a Communist rally in 1990.</em> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Advocated Social Change via Violence: <em>Founded the militant
wing of ANC that rejected political change via peaceful means. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">AIDS:<em> Twiddled his thumbs whilst in power when the number of AIDS/HIV cases went from 1 per cent to 10 per cent. It's now closer to 20. The 'rot set in' when he failed to address the burgeoning infection levels. Mandela only became an anti-AIDS campaigner after his own son died of the disease. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Idolised Numerous Dictator Despots: <em>Charles Taylor, Arafat, Castro, Charles Taylor, the list of despotic dictators <strike>Mugabe</strike> Mandela swooned over goes to double figures. He loved Muammar Gaddifi so much he insisted one of his grand-sons was named after him. </em><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><em>Only a twisted
mind would name their blood line after the orchestrator of the Lockerbie
bombing.</em> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Canterbury Atheistshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-6984765998988636722013-11-28T10:46:00.000+13:002013-11-28T10:46:33.111+13:00The Conservative Party in New Zealand is a Christian political front-group
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<em><span style="font-family: Calibri;">There are six things that the LORD strongly dislikes, seven
that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that
shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to
run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord
among brothers.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">[Proverbs 6:16–19]<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Opening on the front foot here, The Conservative Party are a
bunch of religious zealots that haven’t bothered to read-up on the recent failed
attempts by similar ‘morally based’ political parties in New Zealand, that have
tanked.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Future New Zealand, Christian Heritage, United New Zealand,
United Future, Peoples Front of Judea (just taking the piss), Christian Democrats,
Kiwi Party: all toast at the ballot boxes over the last two decades. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Conservatives membership base, like their candidate for
the Christchurch East by-election (Bi election?) Leighton Baker largely comes
from the ashes of these failed parties. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So who is Leighton Baker, builder by day and moral crusader
in his spare time? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In cases like this Google is a true ‘blessing’. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This is Mr Baker’s god-bothering <a href="http://www.parliament.nz/resource/0000243368">rant/submission</a> to
Parliament against same-sex marriage. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Here are Mr Baker’s <a href="http://righttolife.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/candidates.html">predicable opinions</a> on Stem Cell,
Abortion and Contraception. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">That’s right Mr Baker was then with the Kiwi Party not so long ago. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So Leighton Baker is a ‘template’ for what a Conservative
Party Candidate should be.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">There is only one reason why the Conservative Party exists
in the first place. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">His name is Colin Craig and he has a lot of money. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Conservatives are the vanity project and the public
voice for millionaire Craig. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mr Craig believes in compulsory military training, looney
chem trail conspiracy, doubling tax on alcohol and modelling his political
career on Sarah Palin.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Oh yeah silly of me to leave out Mr Yahweh from Mr Craig’s eclectic
mix.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Gods book says beating kids is fine: so it's okay by him. </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Craig clearly didn’t earn all his dosh by making stupid
decisions. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">He knows to be tainted as a ‘Christian Party’ in New Zealand
is the equivalent of endorsing <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10335791">Graham Capill</a> as deputy leader. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So let me spell this out clearly for the punters, just to
piss them off: <strong>The Conservative Party in New Zealand is a Christian political front-group.</strong>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So why not be brave, honest enough to say so Mr Craig? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Canterbury Atheistshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09900223059660267657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5352263427762940860.post-83283981326930585502013-11-28T08:39:00.000+13:002013-11-28T08:39:03.630+13:00Which Countries still use the Imperial Unit System in 2013? <span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Answer: United States of America, Burma and Liberia </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Trivia: N.Z started the Metrication process in 1969 and it was officially completed at the end of 1976. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Despite the list of countries still embracing communism being
in single figures there is still a yearning in some quarters for the good old
days Maxist-Lennism. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Socialist paradises like Albania and Romania. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Leading the charge to rid the planet of the evils of some people
making more money than others is none other than Pope Francis. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I personally don’t give a flying-fuck what a bloke with a
chicks name, whose only meaningful ‘job’ is to cover up the global paedophile
ring he heads, has to say. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">But the sheeple of the Catholic Church can’t simply dismiss the
words of a man they consider Gods emissary on Earth. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Pope Francis reading more from a page of the ‘Little Red Occupy
Book’ as opposed to say ‘Letters to Paul’ wants the <em>“current prevailing
economic system</em>” over-hauled. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">What say bludging Churches in New Zealand pay their fair share of tax? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Orders from Pope Franny need obeying. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Capitalism is evil. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Worryingly New Zealand’s own Minister of Finance is a devotee
of Pope Francis’s and Bill English has a litter of kids to prove it. </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>PS: The ‘good oil’ is this is Pope F’s favourite song.</em> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Good on the Australian Government undertaking an enquiry
into Clerical Abuse on Children in that country. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The results of this just released are damning for the Catholic Church.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">To quote the report: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Calibri;">"The levels of abuse in the Catholic Church are
strikingly out of proportion with any other church, and that is the
reality,"</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></em></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Calibri;">"a reluctance to acknowledge and accept responsibility
for the Catholic Church's institutional failure to respond appropriately to
allegations of criminal child abuse".</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>"Rather than being instrumental in exposing the issue
and the extent of the problem, the Catholic Church in Victoria minimalised and
trivialised the problem, contributed to abuse not being disclosed and ensured
the community remained uninformed”</em></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Nothing new here.</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">What this ground-breaking report has done, is finally put a
figure on the rate of abuse amongst Catholic Clergy versus any other ‘man of
the cloth’ (in Australia) </span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Using fifty years of stats they concluded….</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong>“Catholic clergy in Australia are responsible for six times
more child sexual abuse than all the other churches combined” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></strong></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Pity they couldn’t recommend the rotten edifice be closed
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Golf is a
game that bores me to tears: ponderously slow and archaic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The terms ponderous
and archaic are a nice segway into my two main criticisms of the game.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am
loathed to use the word sport here in the same sentence as golf. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">How can it
be a sport when we see morbidly obese golfers puffing away on fags?</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And these
are the pros! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">No top
athletes play golf. </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Just, beer
bellied blokes with double-barrelled names dressing like extras in a tacky rap
music video. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If golf is
a sport then so is Play Station! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Golf is not
a fucking sport.</span></strong> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Golf is a
game for the indolent rich, elderly and physically infirmed to allow them time
to compare bank balances, European vehicles and swap stock-market tips. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Golf is
played by those that have lost the will to live and don’t have, never had,
enough testosterone pumping through their veins to play a real man’s sport.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Golf is
Nature’s way of Saying “It’s Time to Die”. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I have been
on a radical get fit program.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Walking, swimming
and weights.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I have lost
4 kilos and plan to lose 3 more. </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">One thing
is apparent to anyone who goes to a swimming pool…</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: large;">Fat parents
breed fat kids.</span></em></strong> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The
offspring of fat parents are virtually all obese, in-line for ill-health. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">According
to my failing eyesight there is no such thing as thin parents and fat kids. </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Why are we
beating about the fucking bush here peoples?</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If I was to
repeatedly inject a substance into my children’s bodies that would reduce their
lifespans: I would be arrested and the children taken into care. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Why do we
allow parents who have no respect for their own health to inflict their own
detrimental lifestyles on to their children? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We don’t
allow parents to shove a smoke in the gob of their kids, now do we? </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">But it’s
fine to serve KFC and Maccers to a 3 year old breakfast, lunch and dinner! </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">You can
feed a baby Coke and nothing will happen.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In closing remember my mantra…</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://canterburyatheists.blogspot.co.nz/2013/04/my-sure-fire-way-to-halt-new-zealands.html">Don’t fuck a fatty! </a></span></span></div>
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