Comments on: Hmmmm, I wonder if….? http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/11/30/hmmmm-i-wonder-if/ Life, Culture and Politics from BrisVegas Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:11:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: RobWindt http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/11/30/hmmmm-i-wonder-if/#comment-208508 RobWindt Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:52:22 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/11/30/hmmmm-i-wonder-if/#comment-208508 The meme semms to be spreading http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/just-ten-trained-terrorists-caused-carnage-1041639.html http://www.mirror.co.uk/most-popular/2008/11/28/seven-mumbai-gunmen-are-from-leeds-and-hartlepool-115875-20932675/ http://www.alternet.org/audits/109061/did_a_criminal_mastermind_stage_the_mumbai_nightmare/?page=entire The meme semms to be spreading

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/just-ten-trained-terrorists-caused-carnage-1041639.html

http://www.mirror.co.uk/most-popular/2008/11/28/seven-mumbai-gunmen-are-from-leeds-and-hartlepool-115875-20932675/

http://www.alternet.org/audits/109061/did_a_criminal_mastermind_stage_the_mumbai_nightmare/?page=entire

]]> By: Pappinbarra Fox http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/11/30/hmmmm-i-wonder-if/#comment-208507 Pappinbarra Fox Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:25:11 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/11/30/hmmmm-i-wonder-if/#comment-208507 NKWS at 12 I dont know about the wings but PS certainly already has the flies and you can see where they have been. Guffaw. NKWS at 12 I dont know about the wings but PS certainly already has the flies and you can see where they have been. Guffaw.

]]> By: Ai! Que Dolor! http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/11/30/hmmmm-i-wonder-if/#comment-208506 Ai! Que Dolor! Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:12:45 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/11/30/hmmmm-i-wonder-if/#comment-208506 "Bush and Putin are a mould cast in a similar light" Mixed metaphor of the week, and it's only Monday. “Bush and Putin are a mould cast in a similar light”

Mixed metaphor of the week, and it’s only Monday.

]]> By: Patrick B http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/11/30/hmmmm-i-wonder-if/#comment-208505 Patrick B Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:58:03 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/11/30/hmmmm-i-wonder-if/#comment-208505 What was it Fatty Vautin called him at a press conference ... ah yes a "fat shit" wasn't it? What was it Fatty Vautin called him at a press conference … ah yes a “fat shit” wasn’t it?

]]> By: peter jones http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/11/30/hmmmm-i-wonder-if/#comment-208504 peter jones Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:49:18 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/11/30/hmmmm-i-wonder-if/#comment-208504 Piers Akerman has been at a loss for an enemy since the Cold War ended but now at home he can attack multiculturalism and overseas the new demon, Islam. Piers, the enemy is extremism - whether it is rabid right wing Christianity, the nastier variants of Hinduism in India, some of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish forces in Israel,like the settlers in Hebron, or the misrepresentations of Islam that appeal to alienated youth but which run contrary to the Qur'an and the teachings of the faith itself. Tolerance is the enemy of extremism, Piers, so is there any chance that you will stop preaching your message of hate and use the power of your pen to demonstrate one of the key teachings of Muhammad in the Qur'an, that God was wise enough to make us all different and then to appreciate those differences ? Piers Akerman has been at a loss for an enemy since the Cold War ended but now at home he can attack multiculturalism and overseas the new demon, Islam. Piers, the enemy is extremism – whether it is rabid right wing Christianity, the nastier variants of Hinduism in India, some of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish forces in Israel,like the settlers in Hebron, or the misrepresentations of Islam that appeal to alienated youth but which run contrary to the Qur’an and the teachings of the faith itself. Tolerance is the enemy of extremism, Piers, so is there any chance that you will stop preaching your message of hate and use the power of your pen to demonstrate one of the key teachings of Muhammad in the Qur’an, that God was wise enough to make us all different and then to appreciate those differences ?

]]> By: Paul Burns http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/11/30/hmmmm-i-wonder-if/#comment-208503 Paul Burns Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:54:58 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/11/30/hmmmm-i-wonder-if/#comment-208503 Well, can't Bolt and Akermann be unimposed on Insiders? After all, there has been a cahange of government. Not enough change in the country for my liking. I don't mind Right wing commentatots as long as they're intelligent. But that's probably an oxymoron. Ackermann was particularly disgusting on yesterday's Insiders. If the ABC had any courage or integrity left (which I doubt after The Howard years) they'd blacklist the monster. Goebbels would have loved him. Hang on, Ratty did love him. Didn't mean to be tautological there. Well, can’t Bolt and Akermann be unimposed on Insiders? After all, there has been a cahange of government. Not enough change in the country for my liking.
I don’t mind Right wing commentatots as long as they’re intelligent. But that’s probably an oxymoron.
Ackermann was particularly disgusting on yesterday’s Insiders. If the ABC had any courage or integrity left (which I doubt after The Howard years) they’d blacklist the monster.
Goebbels would have loved him. Hang on, Ratty did love him. Didn’t mean to be tautological there.

]]> By: Alan http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/11/30/hmmmm-i-wonder-if/#comment-208502 Alan Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:33:29 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/11/30/hmmmm-i-wonder-if/#comment-208502 Piers also managed to slime anyone calling for David Hicks to be treated with due process as supporters of the Mumbai terrorists. He, unlike anyone else at this stage, linked the terrorist to the Kashmir and as David Hicks supported the Kashmir cause ergo anyone who thought Hicks should get his day in court was a supporter of the Mumbai atrociities. Such is the way the feeble brain of Akerman operates. He also managed to foist the failings of Baz Lurhman's Australia onto inner city trendies I am told the ABC Insiders has had he and Bolt imposed on them and they think both are a waste of space. Piers also managed to slime anyone calling for David Hicks to be treated with due process as supporters of the Mumbai terrorists. He, unlike anyone else at this stage, linked the terrorist to the Kashmir and as David Hicks supported the Kashmir cause ergo anyone who thought Hicks should get his day in court was a supporter of the Mumbai atrociities.
Such is the way the feeble brain of Akerman operates. He also managed to foist the failings of Baz Lurhman’s Australia onto inner city trendies I am told the ABC Insiders has had he and Bolt imposed on them and they think both are a waste of space.

]]> By: glen http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/11/30/hmmmm-i-wonder-if/#comment-208501 glen Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:54:50 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/11/30/hmmmm-i-wonder-if/#comment-208501 PA ends with this discussion: "Now, of course, [David Hicks] is the darling of a subset of the suburban Left, those who either have no memory, or no love of democracy nor grasp of morality." Is anyone from the 'suburban Left' (I thought it was inner-city left?) talking about Hicks in any shape or form at all? Is it only conservative columnists who discuss Hicks as a foil to attack the Left? PA ends with this discussion: “Now, of course, [David Hicks] is the darling of a subset of the suburban Left, those who either have no memory, or no love of democracy nor grasp of morality.”

Is anyone from the ‘suburban Left’ (I thought it was inner-city left?) talking about Hicks in any shape or form at all? Is it only conservative columnists who discuss Hicks as a foil to attack the Left?

]]> By: Mercurius http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/11/30/hmmmm-i-wonder-if/#comment-208500 Mercurius Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:13:40 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/11/30/hmmmm-i-wonder-if/#comment-208500 Can't Akerman at least wait for the corpses to get cold before he uses them as point-scorers for his spiteful little rants? Can’t Akerman at least wait for the corpses to get cold before he uses them as point-scorers for his spiteful little rants?

]]> By: Evan http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/11/30/hmmmm-i-wonder-if/#comment-208499 Evan Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:01:31 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/11/30/hmmmm-i-wonder-if/#comment-208499 Never let the truth get in the way of a good story. Attaboy, Piers. Maybe LP ought to think about starting an annual award for misinformed spin-doctoring, masqueradng as journalism. You could call it the "Piers" and the prize could be a whoopee-cushion. On second thoughts, it would never work: Piers would win The Piers every time, and all he ever does is fart anyway. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Attaboy, Piers.

Maybe LP ought to think about starting an annual award for misinformed spin-doctoring, masqueradng as journalism. You could call it the “Piers” and the prize could be a whoopee-cushion.

On second thoughts, it would never work: Piers would win The Piers every time, and all he ever does is fart anyway.

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