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https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018849418/double-your-money-property-pitches-still-circulating
Today’s quiz – What have property speculators got in common with a saint?
Answer – St Augustine was having such a good time being ‘very earthy’ that he didn’t want to change his ways to be a better man.
He prayed “Lord, make me chaste (sexually pure) – but not yet!”
I guess that is the same prayer that speculators pray, except that they include their property addiction in with their sexual practices. Possibly some of them don’t have pious mothers.
https://lexloiz.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/lord-make-me-pure-but-not-yet-augustines-naughty-prayer/
St Augustine became a great intellectual, a professor of Rhetoric in the city of Milan. He lived in relative luxury and enjoyed a life of sin. His mother, Monica, was a committed Chrstian and prayed earnestly for his conversion calling him ‘the son of so many tears’.
Augustine’s confessions make interesting reading! He was the young man who prayed “Lord, make me chaste (sexually pure) – but not yet!”
He became a great intellectual, a professor of Rhetoric in the city of Milan. He lived in relative luxury and enjoyed a life of sin. His mother, Monica, was a committed Chrstian and prayed earnestly for his conversion calling him ‘the son of so many tears’.
So what’s up with the panic! Robo and Woods do a stand-up on a Sunday!
You’d think it was something serious! Like WWIII has kicked off! Or someone had died! Or … The All Blacks suck!!
But nah. Just a miserable 25c for a litre of fuel for a little bit longer?!
WTF!
Or…has he seen the latest GDP data?
Last quarter shrunk by -0.2%.
Another negative quarter means a Recession is here. I think that’s what all the panic was about really.
This is a balanced but critical report about how some of the media are bypassing the important message and information that we should be getting about Covid. The message is that media are trying to downplay the reality on the basis
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018849569/sick-and-tired-of-the-sickness\.
..On her show last week, Newstalk ZB’s Heather du Plessis-Allan made a momentous announcement in an almost blithe, off-hand manner.
“The pandemic’s over for all intents and purposes but we’re still having to deal with this nonsense. Isn’t that ultimately why we’re feeling miserable because we all want a break? If I was in government what I’d do right now is ‘green setting guys, go for your life, party party, whatever’. Just for the mental break of it.”…
…Recently a senior Stuff executive sent staff a memo telling them their audience is “over Covid” and has “actively moved on from Covid content”.
It implored them to find cracker non-Covid stories on topics including cons, crime, and safety, the cost of living, NZ culture, and stuff everyone is talking about…
..National leader Christopher Luxon just returned from a whirlwind overseas tour with the news that most people he met were no longer even talking about Covid.
“It’s interesting to me I’ve just come back from Singapore, Ireland, and the UK. In most of those places we didn’t have a single Covid conversation. In places like Ireland there’s no mask wearing at all.”…
In the United States, hospitalisations and reinfections are rising with the increasing prevalence of the BA.5 strain of Omicron.
In the UK, about 13,000 hospital beds are currently occupied by Covid patients. Hospitals are dealing with staff absences, exhaustion, persistent backlogs and problems discharging patients, and the UK government is considering bringing back restrictions if the situation gets any worse…
Question from scoop about Luxon and Gnats –
Gordon Campbell: On Labour’s Bunker Mentality
It seems very odd that RNZ thought it was worth breaking into its normal programming yesterday in order to provide Christopher Luxon with a platform from which to try and explain away his latest outbreaks of foot-in-mouth disease. Can we now assume that any time that National wants a media megaphone on the campaign trail next year, state broadcasting will rush to provide Luxon with one by tossing out its normal schedule?..
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/471160/families-struggle-to-pay-for-burials-as-funeral-grant-fails-to-meet-costs
There is an image of a fancy casket here.
I had a look at some of the costs, many would be impossible for hand to mouth families living week to week. I note some of the cheapish ones that I found on google in July 2022. Prices will be changing with wood costs and inflation rising I would think.
Funeral expenses breakdown
Item Average cost for Burial⁴ Average cost for Cremation⁴
Coffin/casket $2,532 N/A
Cemetery and grave fees $1,350 N/A
Burial plot $808 N/A
Removal of body $1,132 $1,043
8 more rows
How Much Does a Funeral Cost | New Zealand Seniors
https://www.nzseniors.co.nz › Funeral Insurance
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Product Overview
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This coffin is NZ grown plantation Pine, is 100% made in NZ. The finish is a Solid Wood
RRP $2450
Our Price $1845
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Carried Away
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At Carried Away, our mission, is to make affordable coffins available to … Priced from only $500, it is freight free to any urban address in New Zealand.
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$365 Flatpack coffin (have to put together yourself – probably the cheapest and with some difficulty)
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/home-living/lifestyle/other/listing/3681763674?gclsrc=aw.ds&gclsrc=ds&gclsrc=aw.ds
Caskets and Coffins available from Kiwi Caskets – DIY Funeral
http://www.diyfuneral.co.nz › caskets_coffins › caskets…
This casket is supplied as a flat pack for people who are pre-planning a funeral and wishing to pre-purchase and store a casket. $365.00. Click for more info >> …
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Cardboard Coffins –
https://thespinoff.co.nz/business/27-02-2020/no-frills-the-coffin-company-that-wants-to-bury-you-in-cardboard