Posts by Heather Gaye
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oh, </sarc>, just in case someone didn't get that.
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Was anyone else disturbed by the emphasis the Herald gave to the shooter being a recent immigrant? Seriously, how the heck is that relevant to the tragedy?
Well, obviously being from south korea has a lot to do with it. I don't know much about south korea, but those north koreans want to blow up the US with nuclear bombs, so the south koreans must have a hand in that too.
I couldn't help thinking that carnage on the scale would represent an average day in Iraq.
That'd be their gun-free culture.
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As for the quality of "our news", the Boxing Day Tsunami was the low point.
What annoyed me most about that news coverage was the solid month of competition over who could cram in the highest number of superlatives, imparted in a ringing thespian tenor. It was like they were trying hard to convince themselves that they were still feeling appropriately shocked and horrified.
Also, subsequent front-page stories in small town newspapers centred round an interview with the only Sri Lankan in town reporting that none of his family was in the area.
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and next we see why babies need food
I SAW THAT PIECE! Cutting-edge research that concluded that mothers should eat healthily while they're pregnant. Then they had a shot of a new mother and a voiceover saying something like "but you don't have to tell Grace that, she's just given birth to a healthy baby girl!" NEWSFLASH! WOMAN EATS WELL, SAVES BABY!
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Yet nobody asks how much the cost of global warming will be reduced by the measures.
There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept. I think the final phase of the IPCC investigation (to be released in may) is intended to provide exactly that - a range of suggestions to mitigate the problem to greater or lesser degrees.
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Illegal aliens will be the first to cop it, trust me.
...after they've returned to their home countries, presumably.
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Good point, and they don't even work against aliens.
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Aurgh, can't read, bad web design.
Thing is, God doesn't have to destroy the world with a flood. Humans can do a perfectly adequatic job without him.
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Our Garth is way ahead of you...
...oh. Probably I should read the reference material before answering the exam questions.
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I think the psychology behind it is partly "I don't like people telling me what to think".
I've been having a think about this & I think there's an extra element to it - progressive theories table the proposition what we've always assumed was right & good hasn't just been factually incorrect, but ethically wrong. This morning Havoc got a rather blunt text message that said "you're telling me that I'm a bad parent", which was a bit of a revelation for me about why the smacking debate has gotten so polarised.
It seems that where a progressive wants to adjust future behaviour in light of new evidence, a conservative has this need to vindicate their past behaviour by digging their heels in (this is the way we've always done it, how can it be wrong?).
Man, I have a whole mess of a theory muddling around in my head wrt relativism, ego, christians and world travel, but I think I'll have to blut that in my own time.