Posts by Paul Campbell
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I'm largely a pacifist, I spent my teenage years with the spectre of the draft and Vietnam hanging over them - but I've always told myself that if another nazi Germany reared it's head I'd recognise it and do the right thing.
It was ISIL's throwing of gay people off of buildings then stoning them that got me thinking, the wholesale slaughter of people because of their religion or their sexuality and their goal of world domination isn't all that different from Hitler's - no apologies for the Godwining here, sometimes it is a fair thing to compare against.
I'm still on the fence, in two minds, but Key's slathering behaviour yesterday in parliament definitely did not convince me that we should be making our way to way towards war, he obviously wasn't in his right mind - sending just 16 people to train Iraqi soldiers isn't going to make jot of difference - meanwhile we're putting our own citizens in danger.
I travel a lot for work, sometimes in the Middle East - in his moment of traving insanity in parliament yesterday Key is putting ME in danger for no particular upside.
Maybe he was right about the Liu thing, and about the Springbok Tour, maybe he really has no memories of the past.
If we are going to go to war we should talk about it, and vote, not trade our safety away for some trade deals, did we learn nothing from Vietnam?
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I thought those last two quoted sentences were comedy gold ....
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Hard News: When the fast track seems a…, in reply to 81stcolumn,
I couldn’t help noticing the rather exciting shooting gallery proposed in the plan. Imagine what one might choose to shoot at (for fun) in Wellington?
I'm sure they're planning a needle exchange under the stands as well
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Oh that Zippy, I was thinking more of the pinhead variety
It seems seems to me that pairing Ms Spong with a certain Kiwisaver Mogul might be an environmentally successful strategy ….
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If you have a small dark creature whispering in one ear isn't it traditional for there to be a white one whispering in the other, you know for balance, testing ones moral courage ....
Is this what's wrong with our government? our leader has lost his balanced out look on the world, he has turned, to, well, the dark side ..... it would explain a lot, the fetish he has with black flags, both ours and ISIS's, the weird idea that selling houses makes more of them, the apology to (spit) Slater
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Speaker: Sex with the office lights on:…, in reply to Grant McDougall,
Back in the late ’80s, a mate of mine was playing in a covers band at The Provincial pub in Dunedin, one Friday evening. During their set, the crowd slowly parted…to reveal a couple “in congress” in the middle of the dance floor.
from memory the dance floor in the Provincial (the basement) was about the size of my flat kitchen at the time .... it was likely a small crowd
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Xmas street decorations Hanoi ....
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Scrotum!
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What you’re implying that racing is not a sport? I’m pretty sure that’s heresey, especially if uttered within about 100km of Winston
I mean if it wasn’t a sport and instead a business then the practice of using pokey profits to pay for prizes would be, um …. illegal
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Yes, why do we have a Minister of Racing, but not a Minister of Silly Walks?
We don't even have a Minister of Rugby or Netball
