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December 28th, 2006 at 10:27 am by David FarrarJuha has blogged the top “tech moment” of 2006. It has been a big year.
The Ashburton Guardian has an amusing boxing day article featuring fictious novels such as:
* Don Brash’s The DonKey Years and The DonKey Years with All My Emails
* Helen Clark’s A Million Bucks! How the Hell Do We Pay That?
* Brian Connell’s Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow?
“I threw myself, sobbing, at Gerry Brownlee’s feet, clawing his ankle socks in despair. Callously, Brownlee, WHO HAD ONCE BEEN MY FRIEND, signalled to his rottweilers, Smith and Williamson. Seizing me by my flowing locks they hauled me from the room, my fingernails gouging deep tracks in the shag pile, and hurled me into the cold night. As the door slammed I heard cheers and, above all, a single voice (English’s?) crowing ‘who wants Rakaia? It’s up for grabs.’”
And Hawke’s Bay Today has advice for the PM on combating extremism:
Tags: BlogosphereMiss Clark says the government is planning “a statement on religious diversity”. Apart from being a noble intent capable of being ignored, what will it achieve? And will it recognise that the very existence of a liberal democracy is enough to incite some within it to try to destroy it? The cure for violent extremism is intolerance: Intolerance of incitement, intolerance of violence, of religion-driven prejudice … intolerance of intolerance.
Those who use a religious imperative for violence are no more deserving of understanding or toleration than swastika-covered meat-heads who smash grave stones by night in Jewish cemeteries.
December 28th, 2006 at 1:49 pm
Anyone who pays the slightest bit of attention to the small minded Tory Taliban who run Hawke’s Bay Today need their head read.
Vote:December 28th, 2006 at 4:50 pm
That is part of the excellent editorial I referred to in an earlier comment. I think if you linked to the whole editorial it will show `toms’ for the small minded labourite he obviously is.
HB Today editorials are day in day out the best in any daily paper that I see, including the Herald and DomPost. They are full of good old plain common sense.
Vote:December 28th, 2006 at 6:49 pm
Its well known that the two editorial writers of Hawke’s Bay today use the paper to peddle their fundamentalist christian line and a particularly embarassing (for the locals) small town pettyfoggying toryism.
H.B. Today’s editors particularly distinguished themselves with their hysterically anti-Labour, pro-Brash (and his discredited agenda) line in the 2005 election, culminating in one of the most appalling abuses of the editor’s privilege I’ve ever seen with a last minute anti-Labour diatribe on the eve of election day itself.
Don’t just believe me – over 8,000 subscriptions were cancelled in the wake of that editorial and local trade unions actively campaign to get supporters to not buy the publication.
Hawke’s bay today is nothing but the narrow mouthpiece of bigoted and racist editors who toady to a cringingly snobbish and small minded local self-appointed ruling elite.
As a sixth generation Napier man, this piece of crap dosn’t represent me and it doesn’t represent the many good people of tolerance and vision who live in Napier and Hastings. The province deserves better than the half wits who set the editorial policy of the paper.
Vote:December 29th, 2006 at 7:50 am
`Don’t just believe me – over 8000 subscriptions were cancelled in the wake of that editorial……etc’.
Evidence please!!
Only a Russell Fairbrother sycophant could write the drivel you have.
Vote:December 29th, 2006 at 3:59 pm
Then I can only assume Toms that you agree with Klark and Liabour that we should roll over and surrender to the dictates of the Moslem manahiri in our country today in the hope that their descendants will not be stirred up to sabotage and kill us by fundmentalists Imans in the future.
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