Posts by Joe Wylie
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If this was Vaucluse there might be some sort of case.
Vaucluse was sorted out around 200 years ago.
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Thanks Weston - that second link is great.
Watterson's misfortune seems to be that his strip came along after the dawn of dumb.
As an example, here's a Walt Kelly page from 1968 (Kelly's Pogo is one of the three strips, along with Peanuts & Krazy Kat, that Watterson names as his greatest influences):http://www.animationarchive.org/pics/pogo05-big.jpg
Once upon a time you could run a passing mention of Charlemagne in a Sunday page and assume people would know what you were on about.
Now we have *&$#@* Dilbert, FFS. -
Yes it would be but the Wild/Anderson report details all sexual abuse no matter the ethnicity of the offender . . .
Which would be fine if Howard had acted according to the report's recommendations. Instead he's attacked the problem as if it's a purely aboriginal issue, inferring that they're the authors of their own misfortune. Refugees throw their kids overboard, aboriginals abuse their kids.
If white abusers had been singled out while blacks had been largely ignored it'd be plainly perceived as racist.
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calling everyone they disagree with a racist when the central issue is of men preying on women and children.
It's racist when you make it clear that you're only interested in black abusers, and paint the problem as being entirely aboriginals abusing their own.
Non-indigenous abusers have been a feature of the outback since white settlement began. They get away with it because they have little to fear from any Australian government, state or federal.
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Meanwhile, he was on the radio this morning accusing Hone Harawira of belonging to a "racist" organisation: ie, the Maori Party.
Definitely the same Banksie who, back in his days as an MP, saw high Maori incarceration rates as an economic opportunity to be exploited by setting up an in-gulag handicrafts-for-the-tourist-market industry.
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Just saying something, as James does, does not make it true.
When the 'rough-spoken' (read idefensibly inarticulate) Bush is your role model, wilful ignorance is the order of the day. Add Karl Rove to gallery of role models, and active disinformation becomes a virtue.
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Apparently, like me, now Time Magazine is spouting Republican talking points.
Apparently, that is, until you read the piece. Even within its pitched-to-the-concentration-span-of-a-mosquito-with-alzheimers Time-Warner formulaic style, there's precious little endorsement of any 'talking point', Republican or otherwise, to be found in your linked article. More a dawning plague-on-both-your-houses sullenness from an electorate that realises it's been roundly shafted by a bunch of clueless idealogues and a collusive opposition.
If you're looking for an endorsement of your faith-based world view you'd be better off studying the entrails of a chicken.
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Alan Ramsey's long political memory provides further insight into Howard's underlying modus operandi:
A damned shame that there are so few journos of Ramsey's calibre.
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Japan wasn't so hot before 1945, a relatively backward more or less feudal society . . .
F*cked if I know where you channel this hogwash from, but even to someone locked into the mindset that all good in the world stems from the rectum of the GOP it should be bloody obvious that a 'feudal' society would be unable to mount the attacks on Pearl Harbour, let alone drive all the old colonial powers from East Asia and overrun China. Fascist, yes. Feudal, no way - like Germany, Japan had a parliamentary democracy in place well before 1900.
It took two nuclear devices and the massive firebombing of Tokyo to force 'backward and feudal' Japan to capitulate. Certainly the Japanese army & airforce were overconfident and arrogant - unlike the navy, which had made regular visits to the US West coast in the interwar years, they had little idea of the US's industrial might. But backward? Far from it.
Japan was an ally in WW1 - the armed escorts that accompanied the first NZ troops sent to Gallipoli were Japanese. Try learning something of history before you mouth off. -
Wish I could remember who said it, but it went something like:
I had a spring clean, replaced the bulb in the oven, cleaned the glass door. Then I road tested it with a potato. A while later I happened to walk past, spotted it out the corner of my eye and thought for a moment that it was SBS.
Yes, SBS does occasionally show movies like that, and for a while it was known as the Hitler channel on account of how there was almost inevitably a Hitler-related doco on every week - a bit like pyramids & the discovery channel.
But it's true, SBS news is really a stupid-free zone. Can be done.