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Post by angra on Jul 20, 2012 11:23:00 GMT 10
Poor me. I've turned off my comments, because the fascists/communist/greens are out to get me! And you can expect more of this self-imposed censorship because of Gillard's threats to 'free speech'! "(No comments, because free speech is now dangerous - and costs.)" Isn't there an old saw (yes) about cutting off the branch you are sitting on? I'm gonna shoot myself and blame you! Sheesh
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Post by tewiremu on Jul 21, 2012 18:04:31 GMT 10
I took a look at Piers Akerman's figures. He seems to be benefitting from the drought at Bolt Desert....400+ comments for nearly all his posts, and he's also upped his output to a post every day, where he used to knock out two a week tops. Something odd is going on with Bolt.
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Post by angra on Jul 21, 2012 19:47:51 GMT 10
Lord, give us strength!
A group of 13 Indigenous men and women have graduated from a special program at Sydney Institute’s Eora College which aims to increase the number of Indigenous people in the NSW Police Force.
Mr Multiculturalism apparently thinks this is racism.
His comment - "I can’t say more. It’s a discussion we need to have, but which has become too dangerous."
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He keeps digging his own hole deeper and deeper.
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Post by tewiremu on Jul 22, 2012 18:08:18 GMT 10
It’s a discussion we need to have, but which has become too dangerous.
The joke is, where else is the 'discussion' going on? Only in Blot's World, and now it's not a discussion but a chance for him to stoke his little 'free speech' campfire. The real irony is that we can discuss Indigenous issues in general terms, without any interference.... as long as we don't tell lies about people. Aha! That's what upsets him. He can't tell lies without someone complaining. Boo hoo!
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Post by angra on Jul 25, 2012 9:32:15 GMT 10
Mr B has turned comments back on. No word of explanation but apparently he's been given more help with moderation. Reminiscent of his hissy fit when the HUN pulled his 'story' about Gillard and her Unionist friend and he threatened not to post anymore.
Ah, kids and their tantrums!
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Post by angra on Jul 25, 2012 13:48:12 GMT 10
Remember cut'n'paste? Here's one for the memory.
Mr B. doesn't like the idea of Aboriginal artists receiving any help in selling their works. It's "Pink batts for the Aboriginal artists."
"It’s to the stage now that, if Garrett told the nation the sun rose in the east, all Australians would look toward Perth to greet the dawn.
The Old and Unimproved Dave (Reply) Wed 25 Jul 12 (12:13pm) "
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Post by robj on Jul 25, 2012 15:14:35 GMT 10
I've noticed some of his readers have suggested that he ought to set up his own blog independent of News Ltd. LOL - they don't understand that he wouldn't dare write half of his crap without the deep pockets of News Ltd to protect him form potential lawsuits. Maybe his mate Gina could underwrite it?
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Post by robj on Jul 25, 2012 15:15:36 GMT 10
Hey angra why do you have a negative karma score?
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Post by angra on Jul 25, 2012 18:01:15 GMT 10
I dunno. 'Exalt' me and I'll be cured,.
Otherwise the bad-arses are out to get me.
That's exciting.
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Post by tewiremu on Jul 26, 2012 13:52:39 GMT 10
Forces that are trying to stifle free speech are smiting Angra. It's Teh Lefts !
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Post by angra on Jul 27, 2012 10:34:08 GMT 10
Apropos of several things in the Media Criticism thread, a new species of termite has been found in the rainforests of French Guiana. Aged workers grow sacks of toxic blue liquid that they explode onto their enemies in an act of suicidal self-sacrifice to help their colonies. The 'explosive backpacks' of Neocapritermes taracua grow throughout the lifetimes of the worker termites, filling with blue crystals secreted by a pair of glands on the insects' abdomens. Older workers carry the largest and most toxic backpacks. Those individuals also, not coincidentally, are the least able to forage and tend for the colony as their mandibles become dull and worn as the termites age. www.nature.com/news/termites-explode-to-defend-their-colonies-1.11074Couldn't make it up, could you?
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Post by angra on Jul 27, 2012 10:53:08 GMT 10
This calls for limericks.
Any takers?
Here's my first feeble attempt...
There was an old journo called Bolt Who grew toxic sacks on his bot
He heaved and he squeezed, And eventually eased
A stream of blue toxins on, What?
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Post by angra on Jul 31, 2012 9:52:36 GMT 10
He's crying 'poor me' again today. This time he's taking legal advice about what he can or can't say about an Australian boxer at the Olympics who got into trouble because he wore a shirt the with Aboriginal flag on it. Apparently this is a story about copyright on logos and stuff. So what's Blot's angle?
Maybe Damien Hooper doesn't look Aboriginal enough? even though his mother is indigenous?
And I don't recall any objections to Cathy Freeman' Aboriginal flag when she won gold in Sydney.
So what's Blot's point exactly?
"That is how ludicrous and obscene are our free speech laws. "
WTF?
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Jul 31, 2012 10:17:11 GMT 10
"This time he's taking legal advice about what he can or can't say about an Australian boxer at the Olympics who got into trouble because he wore a shirt the with Aboriginal flag on it. Apparently this is a story about copyright on logos and stuff. So what's Blot's angle?"
I have to admit that I'm curious to know which of the many predictable angles he'd take ... but I doubt if any of them would add anything useful to the discussion. Maybe he could just link to a thread where he's expressed the same view before?
I didn't know the background. If it really is about copyright and logos and advertising then that really IS a testament to what the olympics is about. I assumed they just had rules against this sort of thing so viewers didn't have to get upset, or think or anything.
"Maybe Damien Hooper doesn't look Aboriginal enough? even though his mother is indigenous?"
Oh, let's not go there. I've read so many arguments now about whose parents were aboriginal vs catholic vs god-knows-what that I think I'm becoming a little bit nazi inside.
"And I don't recall any objections to Cathy Freeman' Aboriginal flag when she won gold in Sydney."
I do. She was popular (and winning) enough that she could get away with it, but there were still murmurings.
One ironic observation that might be made is how totalitarian the olympics has become. The tiniest dissent attracts a warning of sanction. Athletes are products of their country and have to sign contracts. Jesse owens raises a fist and gets a warning. Carl long gets suspended for interfering in a long-jump competition.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Jul 31, 2012 10:23:28 GMT 10
I'm also chuckling at just how badly the sportsman is taking our medal results. Me - I don't care. This thing is supposed to be about the athletes, so let it be. China is massive. It is going to start winning these things, just be virtue of numbers and resources - the same way the USSR and USA used to do it. They're also still riding the same bounce every country gets when they host an olympics. Look at our own tallies around the 2000 games for an example. The medal counts just give people with little or no interest in the sports themselves something to latch on to. Sadly, a few of them insist on making the results a metaphor for whatever bugbear they happen to have that day. So it's about a "new order", or our business productivity or (today) our approach to life. Sheesh. As it happens, More Or Less did a good show about this (with a bit about gun control thrown in for interest). I had a listen while doing yesterday's ironing. It's a good one. "If you adjust for the fact that some countries are richer than others, and some have more people in them, can we work out what the Olympic medal tally should look like, based only on those factors?" www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01l1g64
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