Posts by Joe Wylie
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Don't blame the Jews for the hijacking, Joe. "Antisemitism" is a 19th century German coinage
I don't, Stephen. It does bug the hell out of me to hear Chomsky, for example, tarred as a self-hating Jew, as if he's somehow broken ranks by being an independent thinker.
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It's a pity the term Zionist got derailed from the original Jewish and Christian groups who campaigned for the state of Israel in the late 19th century to a nutty anti-Semetic/conspiracy theorist term of abuse, because it was a neat way of encapulating said groups.
(Sigh) Yes, and while this has no doubt been harped on ad infinitum it's amazing how the language has been so effectively hijacked, when Palestinians, Saudis, Iranians etc, are every bit as semitic as Israelis:
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The tax system here is mostly a doddle, with the odd complication. For a hideous mess, try Australia!
It's the legacy of the penal colony. Murky regulations allow decisions to be made on the whim of minor bureaucrats. The number of lashes you receive are at the governor's pleasure.
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prose that can sing and put-downs that zing.
Which occasionally more than verge on outright nastiness, as happened with the recent manifestly undeserved attacks on merc.
You're kind, Rob. I'm sure it wouldn't detract from Craig's pithiness to employ a similar generosity of spirit.
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I felt that Bolton didn't turn out to be quite the OTT nutjob we'd been warned about during his time at the UN. Now, off the leash, he sounds just like the real deal.
A bit like a certain 'troubled' blog poster, who usually adopts a markedy measured tone here compared to his rants elsewhere.
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Watching television is the new dissing television.
As in Paying attention to Wishart is the new dissing Wishart?
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Toy Love - Good Old Joe
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I have come to rather treasure the precious little things. Lie back, enjoy them....think of England if you have to. Stiff upper and all that.
Spose it's a cut above watching chicken movies.
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All together now: I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those pesky kids!
If it wasn't for you pesky kids the ski lodge/chicken farm/moral high ground/unbridled moral panic over animal husbandry/whatever/ would be mine . . .
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But apparently the David Bain case is linked to all of this as well? WTF?? Is this some kind of weird vortex in the space-time continuum that's swallowed a copy of the Sunday Star-Times?
Yes - weird vortex PI-guy.
He was hired to work on Bain's appeal to the Privy Council, sometime post-chicken & pre-Brethren.