Posts by Tom Semmens
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Oh, FFS, Tom... I'm sorry to tell you this, but perhaps there's a fuss from people who perfectly sincerely regard the attempted genocide of European Jewry as no more amusing than the Rape of Nanking, Pol Pot's Killing Fields or the corpse-filled pits of Srebrenica and Murambi? There's certainly communities in Auckland who get rather dull and humourless about those subjects.
You are missing the point. It isn't that some might find cracking a funny over the rape of Nanking in rather poor taste and object to it with an entirely justified letter to the editor in the Herald. It is that when you make such a joke ABOUT JEWS then an entire right wing, character assassinating, clobbering machine swings into action, and that clobbering machine isn't really interested in the Holocaust - it is interested in making an example of anyone who might question the policies of the Jewish state.
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He made the news because he lost the plot and said stupid and offensive things in front of a room full of media people.
One can make a tasteless joke about Gypsies or the Rwandan holocaust without it becoming national news, or being accused of being a racist who hates Roma/black people in 500 font on the front page of every right wing publication in the land.
I have become very jaundiced these days about the fuss that gets made everytime someone makes a joke about the Holocaust. Not because i don't think the holocaust was a uniquely horrific event, but because of the way an insincere hyper-sensitivity over the holocaust is used by right wing commentators to shut down anyone who might dare criticise Jewish lobbyists, or the Jewish state.
The cheapening of the Holocaust to being merely another tool in the arsenal of those who seek to stifle any debate of Israeli policy is a tragedy in its own right.
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In Palmerston North it is known as the "Napier syndrome".
And in Napier they call it nothing, since the energetic pursuit of their blood feud with the hated enemy Hastings takes up all their time.
When we were fighting for our hospital Hastings did the old Dolchstoss into the back of Napier. Bastards. -
And if Edwards was an employee of mine, I'd be having a free and frank exchange of views on how on-line bitching about co-workers can be injurious to your continued employment.
As our friend Garth some illuminatingly illustrates, one of the advantages of being a septuagenarian is he doesn't have to give a damn.
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C'mon man jesus isn't all bad.
His policy of free kai moana and bread for all wouldn't go down well with the aspirational middle class.
The whole wine from water thing might upset the powerful anti-liquor vote, and let's face it - kids don't vote in local body elections.
However, that blessed are the cheesemakers thing should get him some $$ from big dairy.
And his general views on LGBT rights should Garner him plenty of MSM support.
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Trouble is, Brown doesn't have a daughter from his first marriage, the Colgans were not present at the dinner and (I gather) Tim Colgan's baby wasn't actually born when the dinner took place.
Outed? Hardly. Anderson's kept the weasel anonymous, so now they can safely shop their next tale to some more gullible journo.
What sort of unbalanced imbecile would try and peddle such an amateurish farrago of easily verified falsehoods in the expectation they'de be run uncritically in a main stream publication?
Hmmmmmmm.... Let. Me. Think.
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The Axis leads 7 world cups to 2 for starters.
As the Daily Mail famously said prior to the 1966 final,
“If, on the morrow, the Germans beat us at our national game, we'd do well to remember that, twice this century, we have beaten them at theirs.”
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how we beat the Bosch and all that.
We were at war with an automotive replacement parts and accessories company?
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Hah! The All Whites would never have conceded four goals.
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It's certainly going to hard to credibly cry foul (however justly) if the next Labour-lead Government decides to grab that shabby precedent with both paws.
I think you'll find the Herald will rediscover it's enthusiasm for defending democracy from attack when Labour is next returned to power, and will do its best to highlight abuses of urgency by the filthy socialists.