Here I was all set to knock out a Christmas column full of cheer and bonhomie but life, or more accurately, Daily Life has intervened.
I normally disapprove of intra-media byplays but Fairfax Media’s Daily Life section has become so full of cranky third wave feminism that someone needs to hold it up to the light. Among this waste of ink and kilobyte street corner psychobabble, comes a contribution from self described feminist Polly Dunning who tells her harrowing tale of giving birth to a shame boy. The good news is she’s slowly getting over it.
I’m not allowed to swear anymore, at least not at volume but this is sorely testing my already fragile grip on self-control.
At first blanch this was merely another addition from women who have recently given birth and have come to believe that having done so, they have unlocked the secrets of the universe. But on further reading this is a tale of a woman not just at war with men but also her own male child.
Full column here.
I’ve noted, and it is not a new phenomenon, that a few of those on the side of agw, whom i’d bet are to a man (or woman) atheist’s or agnostic’s, have favoured following the old time, tried and true method of playing the futuristic fear and guilt trip. Hence the future generations and their lot have been prematurely enlisted by the ‘progressives’, or is it believing settlers, as the new fire and brimstone.
Having replaced God, or erased God from history, ‘modern man’ is not only capable of harmfully changing the earths climate , and certainly influential when it comes to wild weather (but never benign weather), this renaissance man is also smart enough to ‘correct’ the changes in climate. From what I have read the solution will involve the Green method in which humans will have to fork out the green in order to go about their business. Thus far this green plan will most likely only target white people, or people in predominately white lands. In the meantime it will be business as usual, especially for those coined up, and those who will get coined up by this new enterprise and its corollaries.
Bassman – there is only one Gore worth reading and that is Vidal, and not the hairdresser.
Razor/Dismayed – please don’t fight on my thread, lads.
ps. Dismayed you still haven’t told me how tall you are. I suspect it is because you are tall and have made mention (bragged) of it on here. I’ve a pretty good memory, but happy to be proven wrong!
Yeah, forget about the children.
Not my problem, Our father who art in Heaven give me my daily beer and all’s well with the world.
There’s really no difference between denial and faith.
But like the god botherer in the dark room that finds the black cat that isn’t there, the cop outs will find that difference.
To round out the comedy the children will bite the deniers on the arse and the faithful will discover there never was a heaven.
Milton, As I said the other day you are wrong. I have never mentioned my height it was the pin head plumber and Rowy/Razor who wanted us all to know how tall they were.. My height has nothing to do with my ability to see over you into the distance near and far or your need to look up to me. Your obvious backwards ways, your “insights” here on matters are ridiculously 1950. Outdated, ill informed, racist and misogynist. From the time you joined this blog you have shown you want to be accepted by the self proclaimed “elites” of the conservatives you want to show you conform. It is sad you have allowed yourself to have been blinded and accepted lies and myths to control you, you have been led by the nose (probably why yours is always brown) by those who wish to cling onto a time that really never existed or only existed in pockets of places where the worst of human nature was played out by owners of land and people. A quick question, can you show us 1 piece of evidence that God is real. Your delusions that an all powerful all seeing all hearing entity, deity, celestial being are somehow running the show expose you as someone without emotional intelligence and who does not want to take responsibility for their own actions but would rather rely on blaming and then seeking absolution from your never seen, never heard, never proven deity. I will give you a tip Religion was created by man to control other men &(woman)
Dismayed – i’m neither a misogynist nor a racist, so I find your suggestion both grubby and cowardly; but hardly surprising coming from you. It’s obvious you’ve neither the ticker nor balls to front up to people vis-à-vis and have sought solace from your frustrations and inadequacies by becoming a keyboard warrior. Carry on or move along, I care not as I find you an object of mirth, though a somewhat pitiful one.
Bad Christmas then Dismayed? You probably need to take stronger drugs – it is not as if they will impact on your judgment.
Why don’t you read Milton’s efforts at the start of the blog. You only have to look at any blog JTI has written to see Milton’s real self. Typical of you another con coming in without a clue just to join the rest of the sheep. What does this time of year have to do with highlighting ongoing hypocrisy? Stick to your outdated Friedman economics Simple simon. You are as up to date as it is. Pathetic.
I can only repeat you need to up the drugs dismayed you have gone from obnoxious and irrational to positively loopy.
PS Beyond an epithet precisely what do you mean by “Friedman economics” and their application to any comments on this blog. Friedman was quite prolific but ended up pretty loopy himself. Just curious as I have no idea what you are on about. If it is the bottom line difference between so called classicists and Keynesians – which is to do with price elasticity of labour supply – then I am definitely with the Keynesians. Cut wages and supply increases – and at a macro level demand falls.
Milton – he tells tall tales, but the last bit that’s on the tip of my tongue is very much debatable.
Yes me a BIG fan of Gore Vidal
Trump, Kim Jong Un, the problem is we actually have to be very scared of trump and his posse. These are very dangerous times. trump is the biggest threat to world peace in a long long time. His idiotic “tweeting” will lead to acts of terror and pre-emptive strikes by groups reacting to his juvenile brainless bluster, boasting and bullying. Yet many here continue to blindly support this dangerous psychopath because he supposedly represents their side of politics. Dismayed.
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-01-01/trump-to-continue-making-news-policy-via-unconventional-twitter
I’ll tell you one thing – it’s often said that the POTUS doesn’t actually wield all that much power. We may well find out in the next few years just how much individual power he really does have.
Perhaps they will do that American thing they do and take him to a theatre?
Rodent – correct re the coalition and Morrison (?)/Dutton taking the kids and adults out of Keating’s detention centres. Trigg’s, imho, was remiss on this and decidedly political. Forgetting deaths at sea we now see uni students with too much time on their hands protesting (or is it all about being seen and feeling obscene about their good fortune) against the harsh treatment in detention. A friend of mine is a fifo at Nauru and from what he tells me, with no reason to lie, it is not an island paradise nor a draconian concentration camp. It certainly sounds preferable to Syria or parts of Afghanistan.
Milton, if there is No reason to lie Why the secrecy, why the contracts to stop people from talking? Why did the coalition announce and cheer every arrival for 6 years? to then drop an iron curtain of secrecy? You claim to be a Christian yet support the indefinite detention of people who have committed NO crime. Still today the majority of Asylum Seekers are found to be genuine refugees. You again highlight your abject hypocrisy and that of those you support.
Jack the Insider 02:59pm
ONE here for you Jack talking about what do we tell our children while backing the the wrong horse,,
What if we ignore nuclear weapons gaining speed in many countries while Kim Yong UN the mad dictator is running wild exploding missiles with next war heads installed.
I take in your concern and more informed then me and you are the boss so no argument there . I am not a “yes” man , like to wait , not like my apponents running on empty on rogue hysteria alarmism.
Cheers.
Always love to hear about the grandchildren….Hockey used to talk about them all the time. Debt, grandchildren. More debt. Less grandchildren!! Hee hee. Joe and his looters never seemed to worry about the oceans boiling, the seas rising and having to STOP THE BOATS from all of the refugees that will be flooding into Oz because of rising seas…it is happening already Rodent! Hey are you more worried about saving the planet for your grandchildren or the Muslims and refugees carrying all of those dreaded diseases John Howard scared us with!!
Oh forgot. The boats were full of TERRORISTS as well.The climate will get us before Nukes son!
RE: Jack The Insider says:
January 2, 2017 at 3:00 pm
I can change the order. What do others think?
I vote for the change and I also think an informal agreement to revert to this ‘old style’ of format would help.
I think this was suggested previously perhaps by either Yvonne or Tracy not sure? But it would avoid the trawling through comments and subordinate threads.
I might be culturally ignorant but if your surname was Klupper and you had a son I can accept there might be family reasons why you would you name him Elmer Funke. But if you were born Elmer Funke Klupper why would you use your full name as the byline in a piece in The Oz?
OK, I know I’m playing the man and not the ball and that’s not usually my style but Elmer today has been given the privilege of a half-page piece in the Oz (the Mediterranean Opera and Music Cruise advertisement aside).
And what did he say?
We might have a credit downgrade by “agencies” – you know, those agencies that basically handed us a GFC.
“The consequences of a downgrade will be broadly felt”…”mortgage rates will go up by 0.2%” – yawn
“Therefore there is no room to cut taxes, even where there is a positive business to do so” – Amen
“Let me sketch one such unlikely, but plausible scenario”…”There is no doubt that this is an unlikely scenario given our current position.” So why postulate it? Maybe Santa is real, maybe there really is an Easter bunny but let’s not spend squillions ruling that in or out.
“…we cannot afford three levels of government in a country with only 24 million people.” Agree.
The sting is in the tail. “Re-engineer the healthcare and education systems which account for a large and growing part of government spending…much better target social welfare spending…”
All that was missing was the italicised addendum – “brought to you by the IPA”.
Otherwise The Oz was a good read today.
I’d be happy with changing the order, Jack. Not a bad suggestion.
On other matters, if what I read is correct then Barack Obama is acting like a sore loser and going out of his way to lay a few banana skins for his successor. Sound familiar?
plmo – re your earlier post, don’t forget that Abbott is “an act of God”!
Bassman ,02:50pm .
C’mon ,..don’t be like that knowing we had around 5000 arguments and found a resolution of around 4990.
Settle down Chappy maybe they took my wings away from me on operations sets me in motions .
Don’t worry , us old fart built up our super , now part pensioners must have too much time on our hand , as for you , you can argue with yourself , I’m returning to my music from now on.
Jack the Insider ,02:59pm
Thanks , taking in cautiously what you saying with no argument there with Curry and 50 top scientists gather every year in stats updates. I mentioned from their reports as “inconclusive” at this stage , While on that , they have top scientists in conferences monitoring the show Jack on results so far .
Second,…I said to these other donkeys time and time again, allow scientists to do their work being academics , we are just like pigeons sitting around on keyboards arguing among ourselves on what they argue as conclusive thinking they know more then the scientists. LETS just have a breather on all this stuff and stop all the conspiracy while I myself do believe in climate change as history shows with variations embedded into climatology reports .
Going into your reply Jack , you may well be right but base your head around this fact that that mad Korean dictator Kim Yong Un whatever his name is looks like wiping us all out on nuclear weapons soon if we don’t act ,
These apponents I have at the moment seem to be gearing up for a climate cballenge .Me, ,….damn sure the one that arrives first will be that atmospheric ballistic missile before climate catastrophe Jack!
Tell you what Jack ,…and your flock here , does anyone want to bet me that CC will spoil the party here before Kim gets his fleet of missile headjng down under ???? Anyone????
Well saying all that Jack you do have a point .I lost 10 bux on the Pakis and OZ blokes in cricket so anything is possible , even my mrs revving me up to get off this stuff and take her out .
Cheers
Don’t bet Rodent…he has winning form!
Bassman , ammendment , read Judith Sloane on economics chief to get accuracy , not your fading Fairfax Clementine Ford cheer squad .
Groan! The Sloan Ranger and Henry Ergas. Next you will be lecturing me on Terry McCrann. A basket of right wing ideologues who write consistently for your side of politics only.