Brian Rogers Rogers Rabbits www.sunlive.co.nz

It's been another tumultuous week in the news, with not only the ownership of water under the spotlight, but also the air.

Anyone who thinks they can corner the market for air really does have their heads in the clouds.

However some things do not change. Freedom of speech is still free to all. Genuine hardworking and community minded folk have had enough of the nonsense. Hone Harawira is still a racist.

These complete wastes of oxygen are taking the micky out of hardworking, real New Zealanders and wasting more than just oxygen. This greedy fantasy will be costing the taxpayer big-time and doing untold damage to race relations. It would be entertaining if it wasn't so nauseous.

They're turning the country into the laughing stock of the world. I haven't seen such a bunch of mis-matched parading clowns since The Village People, who incidentally, celebrate 35 years of similar garbage: singing the same old songs.

The unreasonable land confiscations are being settled. The injustices have been addressed. And rightly so. The Tuhoe, for example, have their result. One of their young people stated this week, it's time for us to move on from the problems of the past and look to the future. Good on you, girl!

But the air and water? That's nonsense.
It's time the average, fair-minded New Zealanders, including those decent Maori who know the sham has gone too far, to stand up. Where are all those 'enough is enough” t-shirts when you really need them? Come on Kiwis, kick this nonsense into touch and let's get on with being One People, as the treaty so rightly and simply tells us.

Odd Shoe Day shuffles in today

We're expecting a few celebrities will try it on, and some politicians will put their foot in it.

It's for Camp Quality, supporting children living with cancer. Put on your odd shoes and give a gold coin donation at Mazda dealers and Remax offices.

God finally passed judgement on the silly waka sculpture thing on The Strand, and blew it over with a bit of Maori wind. Fortunately no persons, or the statues of Hairy Maclary and friends were underneath, or we would have seen Bottomley Potts all covered in spots of bits of Bitzer Maloney.

Or worse, bits of ratepayer intermingled with the odd piece of parking warden.

Royal Burley

In other news, Prince Harry has just become the world's most famous bait. The royal burley trail is being dangled above from a helicopter, tantalising close to the Taliban.
Some reports say he's been trained in an exercise to mimic what would happen if his helicopter is shot down by the Taliban. Harry was dragged from a ‘downed' helicopter in the Cornish countryside.

Here at RR we know he has been well trained to resist interrogation. He was hooded with a bag over his head and taken to a farmhouse where he was pushed, kicked around and sworn at.

I guess the queen later took the bag off his head and made him say sorry for those terrible photographs.

Unbelievably fast news

Meanwhile, SunLive's instant news service is growing every day, bringing the Bay the fastest news, 24-7. This seems to be quite concerning for the other media in town, struggling to keep up and miraculously whacking up the same stories on their website as soon as they appear on SunLive. Such is their paranoia with the success of SunLive, they've been back-dating the time stamp on stories to try to make it appear they had it first! However, they put their foot in it this week. They wound back the time on one story to 3.17pm. Odd, since the incident happened at 4.30 that afternoon.

Must be great to have psychics on your news team – able to write the news before it happens! Unbelievable!

Here at Sun Media, we are mere mortals, writing the news as it happens, not before, so you can be assured it's as accurate, fair, honest and credible as we can manage. And, nine times out of ten, we have it first. Despite desperate attempts by others to appear to keep up, they don't.

Readers are not stupid, you KNOW you're seeing most stories first on SunLive. No amount of jiggery-pokery with the posted time is fooling anyone. All that proves is that some media are quite prepared to deceive, if only to smokescreen their inadequacies.

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