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Post by angra on Nov 7, 2012 16:09:44 GMT 10
Richard - you are right. Your third-last para - about the Republicans cutting their own throats by moving to the extreme right and ditching the old moderates, was said just now on ABC 24 by of all people Alexander Downer.
The RW nutters will have nowhere to go (maybe they can start a new party with Ron Paul), and the damage to the centre-right has been caused by the rage whipped up by shock jock hysteria (like O'Reilly.)
Rush Limbaugh said today that the Republican party should be closed down if Romney doesn't win. Talk about spitting the dummy!
I wonder if any pundits and commentators here might learn a lesson from this.
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Post by angra on Nov 7, 2012 16:45:48 GMT 10
So Mitt's magic underpants didn't do him any good.
If you didn't know about them, Google it. Its a Mormon thing.
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Post by angra on Nov 7, 2012 17:08:39 GMT 10
2nd last post - 'here in Australia' of course, not here on this excellent site. Here's Penn Jillette's rant on Mormon underwear and religion in general. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qJDd-2tM-A
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Post by angra on Nov 7, 2012 19:00:10 GMT 10
Can I suggest there is a touch of hypocrisy in the animal welfare brigade and their crusades against live exports, Rodeos, camel culling etc.? All high profile, but aren't they ignoring what's under our noses? Just look at our domestic meat production. And horse racing/riding (the greatest cause of animal caused human deaths in the country). And you realise that all male calves born on dairy farms are shot at 2 days old? This has been standard practice for over 100 years. And battery chooks. (what happens to the Roosters?) And kangaroo shooting? And the Emu Wars? (machine guns used to cull Emu numbers. Good practice for the ADF). Not to mention the killing of hundreds of thousands of unwanted dogs and cats by animal welfare organisations every year. And don't mention the hypocrites at PETA. www.youtube.com/watch?v=inFtOMx8nDU
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Nov 7, 2012 20:04:52 GMT 10
"Can I suggest there is a touch of hypocrisy in the animal welfare brigade and their crusades against live exports, Rodeos, camel culling etc.? All high profile, but aren't they ignoring what's under our noses?" Well, no. Because the actual animal welfare brigade has never lost sight of that stuff. The issue here is that Ordinary People have been exposed to where meat comes from, and they don't like it. We could cut our nation's meat consumption by 80% in a week - just put web-cams in our nation's abattoirs. Don't get me wrong - cruelty to animals (or people, if you must ask) blows my fuses. I am not, in any way, condoning the recent activities in our, *ahem*, export markets. But in practice I suspect that the line between what those guys were doing, and what happens in many abattoirs in western countries, is very fine. Don't blame the animal welfare crowd - they already know that.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Nov 7, 2012 20:08:24 GMT 10
"The vehemence and deliberate misrepresentation I use in expressing a view are in inverse proportion to the probability of it being true." I've started to put some real faith in that rule. Leaving aside the "I hate labor" stuff - I don't actually give a toot about that, and the truth or otherwise is usually a matter of opinion, there have actually been dodgy stories that I've seen on PJM/Drudge that I've just laughed at and not bothered to follow-up ... I until I saw spruiking them. That usually gives me that little extra hit of confidence that the story is a load of ... let's say malarky. I'm honestly NOT saying that it's deliberate. I just think ... he's unlucky.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Nov 7, 2012 20:10:04 GMT 10
So Mitt's magic underpants didn't do him any good. That's just plain untolerant. You might laugh now, just as you laughed when romney blew his own money at the last election (this is his second try, for those who don't remember). But you won't be laughing when mitt has his own planet. No, you won't.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Nov 7, 2012 20:12:14 GMT 10
I was checking in on PJM earlier this afternoon and cacking myself (not literally - that would have been uncomfortable).
There are nutjobs over there calling for insurrection / secession / anything else that ends the terror.
Brace yourselfs for another round of truther claims. Ok, they have less to gain now, but they also have a heck of a lot less to lose.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Nov 8, 2012 7:39:42 GMT 10
Last election's wingnut catch-cry was "tyranny". Code, for "we lost".
This election's phrase is "a divided country". Code, for "we lost - by 2.4% in the popular vote, 20% of the college vote and dropped several seats in both houses"
Divided. Yeah, good one. The US is ALWAYS divided after an election (1980 being one arguable exception). Can anyone seriously believe that the US is more "divided" today than it was after bush won by one judicial vote?
Dare I be so rude as to suggest that "a divided country" could really be a proxy for "dammit - why aren't those non-whites voting the same way as me? They must be racist!"
Fox was having a whinge last night about the beastly "mainstream media" (there's a conceit - fox thinks it's the scrappy outsider). They were seriously trying to argue that the ridiculous "you didn't build that" beat-up was in the same league as romney's 47% clanger. I think they've lost sight of the difference between media momentum/strategy/whatever and what readers and viewers actually think.
I'm still amazed that this wasn't dragged through the courts. I suppose the margins on the day sort of made that unlikely to succeed.
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Post by angra on Nov 8, 2012 8:27:37 GMT 10
Amazing how the righties seem to think it's their inalienable right to win every election, and if they lose it must be some conspiracy.
Have you seen Trump's dummy-spit?
"This election is a total sham and a travesty. We are not a democracy!"
He said worse about Obama, these tweets have been deleted.
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Post by angra on Nov 8, 2012 17:22:41 GMT 10
So why did Gillard refuse to talk to Ahmadinejad, even though she was at the same table?
Can't talk to those who the yanks and Israelis don't want you too?
What a coward.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Nov 8, 2012 17:32:38 GMT 10
"So why did Gillard refuse to talk to Ahmadinejad, even though she was at the same table?"
A couple of possibilities come to mind
(1) he's nuts (2) he tends to go on a bit about embarrassing topics and opinions (3) he's not actually in charge of iran
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Post by angra on Nov 8, 2012 17:54:41 GMT 10
I wanna complain about Bet365.com.
Samuel Jackson keeps pissing me off.
I don't need a new betting outlet. I don't need him telling me how great it is.
He's an arsehole, who'se sold out to the bastards.
The TV channels are just showing their arses.
Lovely. I'll take some pics.
Can someone tell him and Tim Waterhouse to just piss off?
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Post by angra on Nov 8, 2012 17:57:29 GMT 10
Or is it Tom? - I can't remember. That's how boring the ads are.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Nov 10, 2012 9:35:32 GMT 10
Vultures. Mother blames Victorian Department of Human Services for fatal Coolaroo crashI've read it, and I don't see where "mother" blames anyone for the crash. She apparently does say that she wants the government to do more for families in need, but no - she's not (according to anything quoted or even paraphrased in that article) blaming anyone for the crash. I'm a bit sad and angry about that article. It's a tragedy, pure and simple. But somebody has to go and take it that one step further and try to make it political. And sure enough, it then becomes grist for mr inclusiveness and unity to feed to his us-and-them machine. But kudos - at least he's not bothered to highlight any funny names this time.
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