tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post7175142047765507884..comments2024-03-28T22:51:37.034+11:00Comments on loon pond: Bugger all wit, bugger all wisdom this lightweight Thursday ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-61800127405362473182014-04-11T08:52:24.510+10:002014-04-11T08:52:24.510+10:00The Bolter must have heard you. Or perhaps he only...The Bolter must have heard you. Or perhaps he only noticed because Sky News noticed, and you should provide links within the empire to promote all the outposts of the evil empire...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-85622200068476947422014-04-11T08:50:42.422+10:002014-04-11T08:50:42.422+10:00Excellent link DW. The pond has been inclined to p...Excellent link DW. The pond has been inclined to play in the shallow end of the pool with Colbert and Stewart. Unfortunately nothing will stop Faux News or its demonic overlord ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-30144552541868239792014-04-11T08:48:41.101+10:002014-04-11T08:48:41.101+10:00You have to end civil liberty to save civil libert...You have to end civil liberty to save civil liberty, HB, and remember war is peace ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-70245319159519696522014-04-11T08:47:59.946+10:002014-04-11T08:47:59.946+10:00Great fun Anon. Poor old Lawrence Krauss explained...Great fun Anon. Poor old Lawrence Krauss explained his appearance on Slate and then lordy lordy they put up the trailer<br /><br />http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/04/08/lawrence_krauss_on_ending_up_in_the_geocentricism_documentary_the_principle.html<br /><br />"So, for those of you who are scandalized that a film narrated by a well-known TV celebrity with some well-known scientists promotes geocentrism, here is my suggestion: Let’s all stop talking about it from today on. This will be the last thing I intend to write about it. Note I have avoided mentioning the name of the film. I objected to even embedding the trailer, but my Slate editor insisted on including the video. <br />I recommend not wasting time watching it. If you haven’t heard about it, as I expect most people haven’t, then you are losing nothing by not knowing it.<br /><br />If others bring up the film, the best thing we can do is tell them to not to waste their time or money either watching it or talking about it. Maybe then it will quickly disappear into the dustbin of history, where it belongs."<br /><br />Too late. It sounds like as much fun as Noah ... though Noah may be more scientific ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-32849297413787399782014-04-11T08:42:11.549+10:002014-04-11T08:42:11.549+10:00Better yet, you can listen to it here on YouTube, ...Better yet, you can listen to it here on YouTube, perhaps while reading the book version.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KijbZjYR39c#t=158<br /><br />The 2'57" is jammed full of witty remarks, one liners, put downs and wry Norman Rockwell philosophical insights.dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-90188153212145079542014-04-11T08:40:04.162+10:002014-04-11T08:40:04.162+10:00Interesting result Anon and even more interesting ...Interesting result Anon and even more interesting times when the presidential election comes around, but the MSM is off on a junket, so you can't expect focus, just more hagiography ...dorothy parkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816807935021738560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-42844322108544454872014-04-10T22:51:22.530+10:002014-04-10T22:51:22.530+10:00I don't hear the calls of 'freedom!"...I don't hear the calls of 'freedom!" from the righties saying anything about the plight of Peter Greste.<br /><br />Where's Tim Wilson? He's too interested in sucking up to Blot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-36803496426201735172014-04-10T18:55:25.313+10:002014-04-10T18:55:25.313+10:00Hi Dorothy,
Many thanks for your tireless work. T...Hi Dorothy,<br /><br />Many thanks for your tireless work. There is nothing much I could add to yet another well executed skewering of the loonacracy but I did think this might add a bit more grist to your mill.<br /><br />http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/global_warming/Science-or-Spin-report.pdf<br /><br />Ciao<br /><br />DiddyWroteAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-34423922551565467462014-04-10T17:26:27.941+10:002014-04-10T17:26:27.941+10:00George Brandis:
“But I must confess frankly that...George Brandis: <br /><br />“But I must confess frankly that, as the minister within the Australian system with responsibility for homeland security, the more intelligence I read, the more conservative I become. The more deeply I come to comprehend the capacity of terrorists to evade surveillance, the more I want to be assured that where our agencies are constrained, the threat to civil liberty is real and not merely theoretical.”<br /><br /><br />http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/09/the-more-intelligence-i-read-the-more-conservative-i-become<br /><br /><br />He would say that. He’s just another neoconservative and this lot are aided by the Murdoch press that propagates deceptions and as Machiavelli wrote,” One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived”.<br /><br />Anyone wanting an insight into their game of politics should get a hold of the BBC documentary film series The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear. It illustrates the Brandis’s of this world and their use of fear for political gain.<br />higgs bosonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-79625722082218821892014-04-10T16:26:43.406+10:002014-04-10T16:26:43.406+10:00There really is a US film coming out that argues t...There really is a US film coming out that argues that the earth is the centre of the universe. 'The Principle', which describes itself as "destined to become one of the most controversial films of our time", argues the long-debunked theory of geocentrism – where the Earth is the centre of the Universe and the Sun resolves around it – is true and Nasa has tried to cover it up.<br /><br /><br />http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/star-trek-actress-kate-mulgrew-tricked-into-narrating-controversial-geocentric-universe-1444051<br /><br />I'm not sure if this isn't meant to be a wind-up (or something from The Onion) , but mind you the producer has said in the past that nobody can prove six million Jews died during the Holocaust and there is a conspiracy between the Jewish people and Satan to rule the world.<br /><br />http://galileowaswrong.com/<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-44369308771977344272014-04-10T12:18:33.752+10:002014-04-10T12:18:33.752+10:00Dorothy, do you own a copy of the "The Wit An...Dorothy, do you own a copy of the "The Wit And Wisdom Of Ronald Reagan"?<br />http://www.discogs.com/No-Artist-The-Wit-And-Wisdom-Of-Ronald-Reagan/release/1421098Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-69318421907217941292014-04-10T11:59:11.543+10:002014-04-10T11:59:11.543+10:00I fully expect Carr to continue taking the piss in...I fully expect Carr to continue taking the piss in his media conference. He should draw similarities between the crap he came out with in his memoirs and the idiocy that is the Abbott government. Abbott has set the scene, Carr is just living up to expectations.<br /><br />If he doesn't at least do that, what little respect I had for him will disappear.Iannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1462488453822156883.post-17718949362449729422014-04-10T08:57:32.911+10:002014-04-10T08:57:32.911+10:00I see SBY has conceded defeat in the Indonesian el...I see SBY has conceded defeat in the Indonesian elections, but no mention of this in the Oz papers.<br /><br />http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/04/09/sby-admits-defeat.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com