Posts by Juha Saarinen
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No ROFFELS, no PIMPing...
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That's very good, Merc... maybe a bit too cynical to be true, but a nice soundbite.
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"Without defending Saddam's regime, it was secular. Women and gays were safer and had more rights than they do now. Fact."
I'm sorry, but I have to take issue with that statement. It seems a stretch to say that women and gays were safer and enjoyed more rights than they do now, just because the Islamists are freed from their shackles.
Wouldn't it be more correct to say that the oppression was spread out more evenly under Saddam, rather than making him into some sort of gay and women's right champion?
Here's an Iraqi woman's view of life under Saddam, for what it's worth.
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Oh oh... pumps.
Why are they called that? Never figured it out.
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Pump-action? I suppose I should know what that is... nothing to do with shotguns then?
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No, it really isn't funny.
Sometimes it seems the Internet is a catalyst for suppressed misogyny and sexism. It's very hard to mention Helen Clark without a sneering choir going on about lesbianism and her looks appearing, for instance.
As perhaps a mild example of the abovementioned condition, I was curious to read that a blogger of some repute recently only noted the footwear and age of the female part of the audience at a media-studded event, ignoring the equivalent attributes of the men in the congregation. :)
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"Solipsistic" is one of those words that we cannot speak after a few drinks, as my friend Halfwittgenstein likes to tell me.
Even so, I don't see anything amiss with opposing sharia law and religious oppression brought on by believers of any flavour of imaginary people in the sky or back of the garden.
Probably be better if it wasn't done by humourless lefties fond of fractious backstabbing though, or foaming at the mouth rightwingers.
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"His last 24 hours on Earth were perhaps the most disappointing he experienced."
I think it's safe to say Woolmer felt a little stronger than that about his last moments, especially towards the end.
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Yes, it's quite widely celebrated. Errm, by some people at least.