Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: Haphazardly to war, in reply to Rich Lock,
Thanks for that. But a distinct whiff of Straw Men and what-iffery, imho.
In which? The Atlantic or the New Yorker?
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Hard News: Haphazardly to war, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Local or overseas-based?
Local.
Also done fiction. Used to be a glam rock singer, according to him, but glam rock was pretty much done before he was born. Total tosser. You can find him on Simon Prast's feed. I think Simon keeps him around for amusement. -
Hard News: Haphazardly to war, in reply to John McCormick,
We shouldn’t support this just because it is American led, but we shouldn’t reject it for that reason either. The question is, is this the right thing to do? America largely created the problem with it’s disastrous invasion of Iraq, is it not right that it should do what it can to reduce the damage?
But it won;t undo the damage. The current damage is rooted in the last intervention, and the one before when America intervened in Afghanistan which created al Qaeda. There comes a time to say "Woah Nellie! This shit ain't working!"
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Hard News: Haphazardly to war, in reply to tussock,
Obviously the United States of America isn’t anything like Nazi Germany, with it’s Department for the Security of the Fatherland spying on all their own citizens, a local racially-defined underclass locked away in vast ghettos or penned up in huge numbers in isolated prisons for the most ludicrous of victimless crimes, casually murdered in the street by so-called law enforcement officers.
I had this precise argument with a dickwad on Farcebook, who described himself (and I quote) as "the best Lefty on the thread" but still repeated the inane bullshit Key has been serving up and said we had to go to war because innocents. He declined to believe that the US was anything but a free nation, and opined that we fought fascists in WWII so we should fight them now (on the basis that ISIS were fascist). I googled him - he makes documentaries. *headdesk*
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Hard News: Haphazardly to war, in reply to BenWilson,
I avoid etymological phallusies.
Don't be a dick is still a thing...
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100 years ago, our soldiers were "Massey's Tourists"; now they're Obama's. So much for sovereignty.
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Hard News: Haphazardly to war, in reply to BenWilson,
We could lose thousands of people doing that.
Do we have that many ships?
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Hard News: When the fast track seems a…, in reply to Ross Mason,
Thanks.
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Reality is biting back.
The Prime Minister, the dinner and the $25,000 donationThe PM has always maintained that he met Donghua Liu at a National Party fundraiser but would never say where. Today, the Weekend Herald can reveal that the fundraiser was actually a private dinner at Mr Liu's $4.75 million home in Remuera, where a smiling Mr Key and Jami-Lee Ross, the MP for Botany, were photographed alongside Mr Liu and his young family.
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Hard News: When the fast track seems a…, in reply to Ross Mason,
Wellington developed the “Royal Tiger” range which was in Taranaki St beofre it got shifted to Russell Terrace in the 60s.
Is there a connection to the Royal Tiger pub, which was one of the roughest in town for many years, before it was pulled down in the 90's?