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Besmirch A Man's Reputation In Blackest Ink, In the Deepest Mire & Mud, In the Most Offensively Opprobrious Shades & Hues...& Yet - If God be With Him (or Her), As With Sacred Scripture's Beloved Type of Christ, the Book of Genesis' Joseph - [Their] Sterling Character Will Merely Shine Out All the Stronger & Brighter...

So all power (of God's grace) to (kiwi expat) Australian TV preacher Brian Houston...as the Aussie authorities now undertake (as of 18 days ago now, evidently) to 'bring him to justice' for doing something I'd wager most of us would be guilty of - if ever put/placed/found in the same position... not taking one's own parent [father/mother] to the authorities when discovering they're guilty as sin.

Hooray to Newbie (Defence) Minister Peni Henare - A Man/Politician to Watch (Wherever He Ultimately Ends Up Politically) - For Expeditiously Sending A Rescue Mission to Afghanistan (to Evacuate Expat Kiwis & Afghan Interpreters), and Evidently Twice the Number of (Military) Personnel Requested

I Suddenly Realized Just the Other Day, And Am Convinced It Ain't Merely An Incredible Coincidence, That Aotearoa-New Zealand Has Seen its Dramatic and Wholly Unexpected Resurgence of 'the Covid' (as One Talkback Host Quaintly Refers to It) in the Immediate Aftermath Of Its All-Time Triumphant Showing at the Recent Tokyo Olympics...

 Hey, didn't the all-wise Master & the all-wise King Solomon both declare and warn that the proud and/or exalted one/s ought to take/pay due heed lest s/he/they fall? And did(n't) we get just a mite bit cocky and self-assured as the Tokyo Olympics progressed and then ended?  Just askin', folks...

Hey, How About THIS For A Simple & Straightforward Solution to New Zealand's Great Name Debate: Just Do What I've Oftentimes Done Throughout My Blogging 'Career' Since Beginning (Just Prior to the 2012 London Olympics Incidentally) Around Mid-2012 - & ENTIRELY WITHOUT ANYONE'S PRESSURE MUCH LESS COERCION, FOR YOUR INFORMATION: Use 'Em Both, TOGETHER, i.e. Interchangeably; Yes, Combine Them!

Yes, you guessed aright, I didn't come down with the last cloud - or the previous one, for that  matter... Postscript:  Hey, it'd be useful, I suppose, to share the two names with you, and how I've at least ever and always combined 'em: Aotearoa-New Zealand . Hey, most 'small bikkie' issues like this are relatively easy to deal with...if there's a will and a way...and people aren't simply endlessly and arrogantly self-absorbed, heedless and headstrong...