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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Dec 6, 2012 7:24:00 GMT 10
A new podcast from Nigel Warburton: Free Speech BitesInteresting timing. It surely can't be unrelated to recent events in the UK. I haven't listened to any episodes yet (just found it), but as a general rule I find that anything Warburton does is worth checking out.
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Post by angra on Dec 6, 2012 8:10:10 GMT 10
What the hell is this law all about?
"A Victorian man has briefly faced court, accused of training overseas for involvement in a foreign conflict.
Gerard Michael Little, 45, faced the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Wednesday, charged with committing preparatory acts for incursion into foreign states."
His crime?
The organisation Mr Little trained with in Ukraine - the International Law Enforcement Training Agency - was legitimate and backed by the UN.
And he expressed support for West Papuan independence on Facebook. Wow that's damning evidence.
What is going on here?
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Post by jules on Dec 6, 2012 8:56:05 GMT 10
A vaccine is like a software upgrade for your immune system in some ways. (Tho its not the best metaphor.
Each vaccine provokes an immune response. Perhaps multiple vaccines at once do increase risk as you say, probably by overloading the immune system and leaving people vulnerable to other infections that the immune system would normally deal with. Thats what appeared to happen to my daughter. But as annoying as it was, and as horrible for her, I still wouldn't consider that a reason not to get her immunised.
I have one of those small pox scars too, but a good mate of mine who is 3 years younger doesn't. The reason he doesn't have one is because smallpox was wiped out (mostly - at least in the natural world, it still exists in a few bioweapon labs allegedly,) by a vaccination program.
All medical procedures carry some risk, tho in many its infinitesimally small, vaccines are no different. The benefits do outweigh the risks tho. In future tho i may insist my daughter has hers next ones one at a time.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Dec 6, 2012 15:53:35 GMT 10
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Dec 7, 2012 8:09:05 GMT 10
I commented recently that the fox blonde who depresses me the most is dana perino - who used to be an intelligent, apparently-genuinely-nice person. Of all the sheer talking-point ignorance in the following clip, her comment is by far the most shocking (the others are just comfortable, obnoxious rich guys who like to think they know how it is).
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Post by jules on Dec 7, 2012 14:33:25 GMT 10
OMFG!!!!!! This has to be a joke doesn't it?
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Post by angra on Dec 7, 2012 15:04:16 GMT 10
The COAG debate on (amongst other things) power prices identifies air conditioners as the main culprit in domestic usage peaks in hot weather.
Who uses air conditioners? Go on, hands up the guilty ones.
You bastards!
At the risk of being labelled an old fart, I've lived throughout Australia and the South Pacific for 50 years, and have never used an air conditioner in my house.
Fans yes.
OK, occasionally I spent a weekend in an air-con hotel to get out of the heat, but I never had one on in my house.
What do the sooks want - no summer or winter? No real experience of nature?
Christ! I bet there's no aircon in hell.
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Post by jules on Dec 7, 2012 15:48:42 GMT 10
That is cos hell is other people, and they don't have air conditioners in them.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Dec 7, 2012 15:57:17 GMT 10
"This has to be a joke doesn't it?"
I rather think that it is. But it's funnier to think that it might not be.
Sort of ... the tin lids meets prussian blue.
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Post by jules on Dec 7, 2012 23:36:33 GMT 10
oops wrong thread...
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Dec 8, 2012 7:36:37 GMT 10
Oh dear www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-08/nurse-who-took-kate-prank-call-found-dead/4416348I'm with bolt that the consequences would have been a tad difficult to forsee. It does highlight just how @$%!full the radio-prank-call schtick is, though. Maybe somebody could start one of those online petition things to see if they can at least get the station to write a nice big cheque for the nurse's kids/family. I'm not sure if it's inappropriate, and it's definitely post-game quarterbacking, but I do wonder what processes the hospital had in place for those circumstances.
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Post by angra on Dec 8, 2012 8:42:52 GMT 10
The Poms invented the media prank call, so I don't what they're bitching about. Chris Morris perfected it, and eventually produced a brilliant TV show - Brass Eye - a spoof documentary series. He conned many personalities into giving their responses to a whole range of fake situations. The best example was when various celebrities were telephoned asking to help raise money for an elephant in a German zoo that had got it's trunk stuck up it's anus. And they fell for it! Unfortunately he went too far with the episode on Paedophiles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NesjvRihbEgCheck out old episodes on Youtube. They are very funny.
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Post by Matthew Of Canberra on Dec 8, 2012 9:14:33 GMT 10
"The Poms invented the media prank call, so I don't what they're bitching about"
Still doesn't mean it's funny.
Unless bart does it.
"Amanda Huggenkiss? I need Amanda Huggenkiss!"
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Post by angra on Dec 8, 2012 9:24:05 GMT 10
I've come over all Benny Hill.
Ivana Kutchyakokoff
(My Russian family-planning specialist)
And her partner...
Yumi Knokabollokoff.
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Post by jules on Dec 8, 2012 10:05:08 GMT 10
Angra, that Brass Eye thing was probably a bit to close to the truth for British entertainment. I was expecting to see someone who looked like Saville in that skit.
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