tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7768726620736075662024-03-06T02:05:19.361+11:00The Knight & DrummerAt The Hub O'the Universe.
A Free House Internet Tavern, Hotel and Fine Dining Restaurant. Amfortashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.comBlogger1103125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-48405700063483084032019-03-23T23:57:00.001+11:002019-03-24T00:44:08.893+11:00Manpower.<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have often heard, from outside the hedge, that most of the work in the world is done by women. I do not doubt for a moment that there are parts of the world where men sit and drink coffee and play board games all day while the ladies slave away, but that has not been my observation in the western world. And it would appear that much of what the western world enjoys in terms of 'modern goods', clothing, footwear and the like is made by ladies in China and the Indian sub-Continent. Were those ladies to down-tools for a week there would likely be an interruption to supply chains and a slow reduction in 'stuff' on the shelves for a while.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But we would get by.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not so if men downed-tools for a week. I hazard we would be in strife well before the week was out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Tavern has been in need of some maintenance work and over the past few weeks we have had the stonemasons in (it is a very old Tavern), along with carpenters, glaziers, roofers, electricians and plumbers, etc. Every one of them has been a man.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We had a Tradies Night for them last evening and the place was packed. We appreciated them in Tavern fashion. Free Ale, all night, served by a Knight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">By the way, that photo above is a nonsense. Propaganda. It is never seen in real life. Five woman and four men. Tradies?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yes, of course, in our 'equal society' such tasks can be done by women in equal numbers. <b>But they aren't.</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Women can do anything a man can do - and better " - come the shouts from beyond the hedge, but <b>they don't and won't.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A chap gets tired of hearing all the hubris and cant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Were men to down tools we would be done for in a week. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Oz is a modern country, like America, Europe, and perhaps half a dozen other 'First World' Nations, and we depend on men to do ALL the essential work to keep us going. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The ladies make sandwiches. Except they do that less and less, and with more and more resentment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That is an exaggeration, I know. Blame a customer for that one. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yes, ladies work, but largely in offices doing the paperwork. Few are in the trades. No quotas for ladies in the trades. Quotas are reserved for boardrooms and politics. Ladies pulling the plug in the west would mean that our bills would be late.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But men pulling the plug would mean disaster.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Janet Bloomfield</i></b> recognises this. She told us of what American men do. It is much the same in Oz.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I personally reckon that most of what she now speaks of would take a week, but who am I to argue with a lady. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>First up, the entire power grid is down. 100% of power plant operators, distributors, and dispatchers are men. Now, it’s possible that there are a few women working in these occupations, but however many there are, they do not make up even 1% of the total workforce, so statistically, 100% of the workforce is male.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>91% of the nation’s electrical engineers are men, and if they don’t show up for work, there is no one to monitor and manage the nation’s electrical supplies. Assuming some automation (designed by men, naturally) kicks in for the day, we had all better pray there are no problems. 97.6% of electrical power line installers and maintenance workers are men.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Lights out, ladies and gentlemen.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Don’t bother turning on your taps, either. Or flushing your toilets. 95.5% of water and liquid waste treatment plant and system operators are men.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Think you might be able to get out-of-town for the one day the men don’t show up?</i></span></blockquote>
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<i>Planes are out.</i></blockquote>
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<i>95.9% of aircraft pilots and flight engineers are men. If you happen to find a plane with a female pilot, don’t get too excited. 98.4% of aircraft mechanics and service technicians are men. You can, however, be assured of your comfort as you sit on a pilotless aircraft that has no mechanic for pre-flight clearance, because 77.6% of flight attendants are female.</i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But they stop short of actually making the sandwiches! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Should you be lucky enough to find a female pilot and a female technician to clear you for take-off, you still have some praying to do. Statistically, 0% of air traffic controllers and airfield operations specialists are women.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Of course, that doesn’t mean there are ZERO ladies working in air traffic control. There just aren’t enough to constitute even 1% of the workforce.</i></span></blockquote>
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<i>Trains, of course, are also out.</i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>100% of locomotive engineers and operators are men, as are 100% of the workers who operate railroad brakes, signals and switches. 94.4% of railway yardmasters are men, but if you chance upon a female yardmaster, it won’t help you much. She can’t operate the trains.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>You might have better luck with bus drivers, almost half of whom are women.</i></span></blockquote>
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<i>But the streets are likely to be chaos. And there won’t be anyone on hand to help you navigate that.</i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>87.4% of police and sheriff’s patrol officers are men. 96.6% of firefighters are men. 68.8% of Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics are men, so if it all goes tits up and you get hurt, there’s a small chance you might make it to a hospital.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>I hope you don’t get too badly hurt, though. 65.7% of all surgeons are men.</i></span></blockquote>
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<i>Maybe you should just work from home? In the dark, mind you. With no running water.</i></blockquote>
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<i>Uh-oh. Looks like that might be a problem, too.</i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>For all computer and mathematical occupations combined, 74.4% of the workforce is male. Computer network architects, who design and implement all our computer based communications systems are 91.9% men. And 94.2% of radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repair technicians are men.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Looks like that plan is frucked.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Hope it doesn’t get too hot, or too cold the day men don’t show up for work. Even if you had power, <b>which you don’t,</b> you would be hard-pressed to get anyone in to take a look at your wonky air-conditioner or furnace.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>98.4% of heating, air-conditioning and refrigeration mechanics and installers are men.</i></span></blockquote>
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<i>Oh well. Guess you’ll have to mosey on down to the local café, which has no power either, but what’s logic and consequence anyways? Be careful when you step over all that accumulating garbage! Remember that most EMTs are men, and they’ve taken the day off. Don’t want to get hurt now.</i></blockquote>
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<i>Most garbage collectors are men, too – 93.4%, to be exact.</i></blockquote>
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<i>You’ll need to stop at the ATM first, for a little cash injection.</i></blockquote>
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<i>Oops. Don’t bother.</i></blockquote>
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<i>The machine hasn’t been filled with money today. 81.5% of security guards and gaming surveillance officers are men. It’s unlikely the banks would be functioning anyways, with no men at work. 72.1% of all securities, commodities and financial services sales agents are men. 72.6% of the nation’s CEOs would be taking the day off, along with 70.9% of all the general and operations managers.</i></blockquote>
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<i>Don’t count on getting a weather report today. Statistically, 0% of the nation’s atmospheric and space scientists are women.</i></blockquote>
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<b><i>Actually, don’t plan on acquiring pretty much anything today. </i> </b></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, there you have it. 'It' being just a glance at just a few instances of the essential work that is done by MEN. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">None of the tradies in the bar said a word about doing anything a woman can do - better or otherwise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But I guess that would be a man's job too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And as a voice from a corner of the bar shouted over.... </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>And yet, how many apocalyptic TV shows are saturated with kick ass women saving the day and beating those nasty, toxic males? I'll betcha there are feminists out there who think, bring on that no-male apocalypse, we'll show ya... lmfao!!!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now, before you go, I am sure we can all find a similarly comprehensive list of all the things we depend on women for. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Give it a go. Let us have 'the other side'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Amfortashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.com72tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-44482210774845161632019-03-22T23:49:00.000+11:002019-03-23T01:19:03.276+11:00Submission<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Land of the Long White Cloud, a little to the East of Oz, suffered a devastating blow to its National pride and cohesion which has left a sadness over the Tavern. Our sympathies go out across the Tasman to our Kiwi cousins. It went there too some time ago when that cloud turned pinky-puce with the election of a marxist-feminist to its highest office. Little did anyone guess just what an enormity she would commit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It took another act of enormity by a lunatic - and Oz lunatic at that - to light the fuse, with his attack on a mosque, killing 50 people, some, quite innocent children. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And what a mosque chosen for his atrocity. It was the Noor mosque, noted - but not by the mainstream media - for producing two Islamic terrorists who had a bloody hand in the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yes, that massacre we all said we would not forget, and about and which the media said "Je Suis Charlie".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jacinta Ardern, the Kiwi Prime Minister now says "We are Mohammedans".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>The Christchurch mosque where a gunman opened fire and killed dozens of Muslims has links to radical Islamic terrorism, according to a New Zealand newspaper.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>The newspaper, called Stuff, reported on a story in 2014 about how two Australians killed in Yemen by drone strike were radicalized in Christchurch mosques.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Specifically, Christopher Havard was reportedly radicalized by the Al Noor mosque, the same mosque targeted by shooter Brenton Tarrant.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Jones was killed alongside Australian Christopher Havard, whose parents said he was introduced to radical Islam at the Al-Noor mosque in Christchurch.”</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>“Mosque leaders confirmed Havard stayed there and studied in 2011, but denied radical teaching took place.”</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>“But a man who attended a converts’ weekend at the mosque 10 years ago said a visiting speaker from Indonesia talked about violent jihad and plenty shared his views. ‘Most of the men were angry with the <b>moral weakness of New Zealand. </b>I would say they were radical.'”</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>“Havard was the subject of an AFP arrest warrant over the kidnapping of Westerners in Yemen in December, 2012. It is not known if Jones, who reportedly fought under the name Abu Suhaib al-Australi, was involved.”</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>“Jones and Havard were with five others in the convoy hit by a missile fired from a US drone in Yemen’s Hadramout province on November 19. While authorities believe they were ‘foot soldiers’ of AQAP [Al-Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula], they were not the main target of the attack.”</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b>“If you’d known that this mosque was a terrorist factory, would it have changed your feelings about the news at all?”</b></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>“The Al-Noor mosque in Christchurch targeted by Brenton Tarrant produced at least two terrorists, from a very small congregation,” he wrote Saturday.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>“The Al Noor mosque should receive some official scrutiny but indiscriminate carnage of innocents isn’t the way,” reports the Review.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>“Maybe the New Zealand authorities have, or will now that his friend Mark Taylor is soon to be returned ‘home’ from a Kurdish prison, investigate the circumstances around the radicalisation at Al Noor, of jihadi Christopher Harvard, and any part played in the radicalisation of Daryl Jones.”</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Rather than nipping terrorism in the bud years ago, the New Zealand authorities did not act. Perhaps they could have prevented any such reprisal as we have witnessed and Jacinta Ardern might not have had the gall to encourage people to say </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"We are Mohammedans".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The qualities of compassion, of sympathy, even of empathy, are rightly considered as feminine as they are masculine, and Jacinta Ardern's expressions as a National Leader are wholly appropriate when comforting the survivors of the massacre and their families. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But her subsequent actions have demonstrated the danger of being so carried away that sense goes out of the mind. Her mind. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>You forced Parliament to be Submitted yesterday to Islamic Prayers, now you are forcing by demanded strong suggestion all of New Zealand to submit, to Submit to the Islamic call to prayer by it being played over the airways on NZ.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>It is one thing to have a moments silence which I think most New Zealanders would be honourable and respectful in regards to this depraved loss of life and the terrorising of New Zealand citizens and visitors at 2 mosques and the horrific loss of so many lives and loved ones: I too stand in silence and in honourable respect and deep sadness reflecting on this unnecessary loss of precious life.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>However New Zealand is not an Islamic Country, yet (it) has those of Islamic faith welcomed within her bounds, and you are correct, when migrants come to our beautiful country they assimilate or should assimilate and become "They are us". </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>We have the right to not worship or worship elsewhere, or worship a tree or a stone should we wish, it's called freedom paid for on the backs of our fathers and mothers and forebears. </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>I am getting a little sick of you as the PM and the media using Islam as a race card. ISLAM is not a RACE. </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b>You have no right</b> to stand in the highest office of the nation and use your position to influence and to insist this type of response. You must remain neutral in your decisions for the sake of all New Zealanders. You have gone too far. You are not an Imam you are the Prime Minister and as such you have no right or position in calling all New Zealanders to Islamic Prayer; you are so outside of the boundaries of your office. </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>I will say it again and most likely be attacked for it. You have given so much but now so much more will be demanded.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>I want to remind you that there is no such thing as Government Funded, there is only "Tax Payer Citizen Funded". When you say we will pay and ACC will pay or I will ensure this will be paid you are actually saying every NZ tax payer will pay, making an instsnt decision over and above all ACC protocols and procedure, ok I get it.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>However New Zealand is not guilty of this crime a fundamentalist fool is. Yet going to these far responses in itself is (forcing by empowered suggestion bordering demand from your office) is also extreme and fundamentalist.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>On another note Jacinda since when did Gang Patch Members have a security guards license ? Since when were Patched gang members allowed to patrol the streets and the front of public buildings and houses of worship in Gang Colours and regalia? Please explain.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>If you wish to wear your hajib I honour and respect your right to do so, if you wish to bow down and in knelt prostrate position on the floor under the sound of the Islamic Call to prayer and Honour Allah I respect your right to do so, but as PM you do.... </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b>....NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO FORCE OR EVEN SUGGEST THIS ON OTHERS IN YOUR OFFICIAL CAPACITY OF OFFICE.</b> </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>If that is what you want all of NZ to do then you must relinquish your office and your authority first and do this from grass roots not from entitlement of the nations head office. In this You have gone way too far, perhaps you should step aside from your headship as you have now gone far beyond your responsibilities. </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b>For the record - Islam does not mean Peace, it means <span style="background-color: red; font-size: x-large;">Submission.</span></b></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Please don't misinterpret me, the only right response to the attacks on New Zealand's citizens and visitors including those proclaiming and identifying as Muslim by faith is unconditional love and kindness, however it is not that others are to be made subjects of Islam, by your decree.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The younger dead may well be innocents: the older ones however, cannot make that claim. Islam constantly and unequivocally tells us that anyone not Muslim is an Infidel and must convert or be killed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is a cult of inhumanity, hatred and widescale murder of innocents. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To have public-funded radio and TV broadcast Islamic 'prayers' across New Zealand is treasonous. For a marxist-feminist to instruct that it be done shows the depths that ideology can sink.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To broadcast that 'There is only one God, and his name is Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet' is a </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">GROSS INSULT</span> to ALL Christians in New Zealand.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Amfortashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-41590406788195481282019-03-14T21:21:00.000+11:002019-03-14T21:29:37.829+11:00The Healing Voice<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was 'put on hold' on the phone today. What passes for modern music played, or rather assaulted my ears, whilst I waited. Thankfully it was just a few moments but the damage to my sensibilities was done. Our civilisation's decline is screetched at us by teenybopper 'Divas' who have never taken a singing lesson in their lives and rely almost entirely on strutting their pudendas across the stage as they warble. My ears needed healing. Thank goodness my eyes were spared.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The singing voice is a marvel. Can be. My phone call was to my pharmacist and later in the day after picking up my meds (I am an old and knackered Knight, remember) I sought some healing salves for my aural sense .... I sought visual too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Older era music can lift my soul and heart, and coupled with modern technology (which does not improve the aforesaid teen divas' efforts) can provide a gentleman's pleasure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, a short post, of just three short songs with beauty, sensuality and delight. Let me start with Elīna Garanča recording <b><i>Dopo l'oscuro nembo</i></b> (from Adelson e Salvini) - by Bellini. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dressed for work, not 'Performance'. To me, she is the epitome of the Opera Diva.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You could put her in a muddy field in the rain, wearing just a work-worn smock, and the Angels would gather to listen to her sing. The orchestra fits, but for some pieces the voice itself is all you need. Several, harmoniously, can render an orchestra redundant. So...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b>Miserere mei, Deus </b></i>- by Allegri - sung by the Tenebrae Choir.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">OK, one more. A 'proper' performance. Renée Fleming performing <b><i>Casta Diva</i></b> (by Bellini, again) in the Palaces of the Czars in Saint Petersburg in 2009.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is an astonishing rendition of this aria. Such a wonderful interpretation of this difficult piece of music. Everything that is required is in place: the support is solid, the resonance full, the registers blended, the dynamics carefully controlled, the timbre is beautiful and finely textured, the central coloratura section is sung in one breath; the line remains seamless, and the text is gently inflected with colour and real sentiment. People have to remember that here, in 2009, Fleming was 50, and so of course not a match for the singing of her absolute prime (nor perhaps for the up-and coming Elina). Neither Caballe nor Sutherland maintained their voices in this immaculate condition at this age. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">OK, your taste may not be mine but we can all do with extending into areas (and arias) where we have not previously ventured, and leave modern trash .... er... tracks, behind us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My ears are back in working order again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pax</span>Amfortashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-76102005206194961222019-03-13T17:05:00.001+11:002019-03-14T17:24:57.773+11:00Hero Porn<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some 'drives' can carry even an old man away. Heroes too. We may be 'past it' in performance but even the smells and sounds can be captivating and get the blood and other juices flowing. Voyeurism has a poor reputation but only in some instances. Others are OK. And so it was that my recent holiday saw me at an Air Show where Power, air-sheering noise and avgas brought back memories of times past.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It got me thinking of the dedication, effort, skills, the captivating intensity that dominated my earlier years, and brought memories of others who took it to the further reaches of 'actualisation'. There were men who went beyond. Men who made <i><b>Thunder City.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Principal amongst them was <b>Mike Beachy Head, </b>who had a love of the same aircraft that I hold dear, and, frankly, turn this old Tavern Keeper on! The story of Thunder City's aircraft acquisitions and effots is told below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ENTREPENEUR and aviator, Mike Beachy Head, who gained an international reputation as the custodian of the world’s largest private collection of fighter jets, based at Thunder City at Cape Town International Airport, died of a heart attack 2 years ago in May 2017. He was 59.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Beachy Head accumulated immense wealth through his ambition to reach beyond the ordinary and a willingness to grasp sometimes unlikely opportunities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is a measure of his drive that, after qualifying as a pilot of small airplanes two-and-a-half decades ago, he went on to master – and then buy – one of the fastest fighter jets ever produced, the English Electric Lightning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With laconic understatement, Beachy Head once reflected on his affection for the plane by saying: “I’m a bit of a performance junky.” He eventually owned four of these planes – and no fewer than 10 other combat aircraft.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Beachy Head possessed an enthusiasm for the thrill of speed and danger, the power – even the noise – of immense engines; he went at life full-tilt, flamboyant in spirit, and generous in sharing his delight with others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>So, the customers of the Tavern, and I, </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>raised a glass or three today, in memoriam.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thunder City is an aircraft operating and maintenance company based at the Cape Town International Airport in Cape Town, South Africa. It was well known for owning the largest civilian collection of former military jet aircraft in the world These aircraft were used to perform in airshows and could also be chartered by the general public for recreational flights, including going supersonic and climbing to altitudes around 50,000 feet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Part one of a splendid programme is here. Pt 2 later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Following a fatal accident in 2009 in which an English Electric Lightning crashed at an airshow, the company ceased flying operations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Three English Electric Lightning. One T5 was lost in an accident on 14 November 2009.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Three Blackburn Buccaneers. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Seven Hawker Hunters. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>One BAC Strikemaster. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>One Aerospatiale Puma, a demonstrator of the company's upgrade and refurbishment services </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>One Gloster Javelin FAW Mk.1 (RAF No. XA553). Mounted as a "Gate Guard" on display at the entrance to the company premises.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In October 2012, three Lightnings, three Buccaneers and four Hawker Hunters were put up for sale. It was the End of Thunder City.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>The Lightning.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not since the Spitfire has one aircraft captured the hearts and imaginations of a generation of fighter pilots in the way that the Lightning has.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Unequivocally Britain's most loved jet fighter, the Lightning earned itself legitimately a place among the greats of celebrated aviation legends. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In continuous front line service for almost thirty years with the Royal Air Force the passing of the Lightning represented the end of a unique era. It was the last of a rare breed: Single seat, entirely British, magnificently over powered and possessing delightful handling qualities. It was radically different in design with its vertical twin engine design, slab sided fuselage and highly swept wings making it stand apart from others. Built by craftsmen, it was a privilege to fly. You don't fly the Lightning like a conventional airplane - you strap it on your back and experience the ultimate thrill. Words can do little justice to the sensation of climbing vertically on a column of raw power, breaking the bond between earth and sky.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There never has been an aircraft as charismatic as the Lightning and it's unlikely in this modern age that there ever will be again." ( from The Last of the Lightnings, A nostalgic farewell to the RAF's favorite supersonic Fighter, Ian Black, © 1996 Patrick Stephens Limited).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Twin engine tandem seat low level strike attack aircraft powered by two Rolls Royce Spey non-afterburning bypass turbofans developing 12600 lb. static thrust each.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Equipped with terrain hugging radar, this attack aircraft is at its peak prowess low and fast. "Most air forces do have fast jets which were specially designed for the ground-attack mission. Almost certainly the best have been subsonic, examples being the Grumman A-6 Intruder and the BAE Buccaneer. They are superior because, compared with supersonic aircraft, they carry more, fly further, and can make their attack with at least equal precision and probably at lower altitude. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As for speed, none of the supersonic types can actually attack at supersonic speed, and with its internal bombload of 4000 lb. the Buccaneer was faster than (for example) a Jaguar, Phantom, F-111, Mirage, F-15E, Tornado or Su-24 with the same load !" (The Encyclopedia of Modern Warplanes; The Development and Specifications of all Active Military Aircraft; Bill Gunston; ©1995 Aerospace Publishing Limited)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Possibly the best transonic fighter and ground-support aircraft of its kind, the classic Hawker Hunter, with clean lines, excellent handling characteristics and a good load carrying capacity, the Hunter was built in greater numbers than any other postwar British aircraft.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Single engine two seat (side by side) transonic advanced combat training aircraft, powered by the non-afterburning Rolls Royce Avon axial flow turbojet developing 7600 lbs. static thrust. First prototypes flying in 1951, it was Britain's first indigenous swept wing fighter to enter service and briefly held the world speed record in 1953. It formed the backbone of the Royal Air Force fighter force from 1954-1961 and remained in front line service until the early seventies, the last examples only being withdrawn in 1995. Nearly two thousand Hunters of all types were built for a number of different air forces, including the Belgian, Chilean, Danish, Dutch, Indian, Swedish and Swiss air forces. The Swiss ultimately purchased 160 Hunters, operating the type from 1958 until December 1994.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As was announced in </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2010, Thunder City, which has the world's largest civilian-owned fleet of ex-combat jets including three English Electric Lightnings, three BAe Buccaneers, seven Hawker Hunters and a retrofitted Puma helicopter, is to cease flying operations with immediate effect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Making the announcement founder and CEO of Thunder City, Mike Beachy Head says, "After a decade of indelible memories and enormous thrills in flying international and local visitors in our distinctive jets, we have decided to cease the flying activities at the base.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Established under the name Thunder City in 2000, the brand has gone on to become one of the most globally recognised as a home-grown South African one. Seen by millions of TV viewers in countries across the planet, the iconic Thunder City jets have inspired many to travel to Cape Town to experience the thrill and adrenaline-rush of flying in a supersonic ex-military jet. We have had a lot of worldwide media exposure, especially in Europe and the USA. TV networks from all over the world have filmed documentaries on the Thunder City operation. These include household names such as Sky TV, CNN and the Discovery Channel, as well as Turkish, Austrian, Chinese, Dutch, French, Spanish and several German TV channels and also our own Top Billing and MNet's Carte Blanche."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Beachy Head says that it was not an easy decision to make, but that a number of factors such as the current slow economy, high cost of maintenance and short to medium term prospects, had influenced the closure. He says that the 13 jets will be moth-balled until a final decision is made as to the future of this valuable and historic collection.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">During the past decade the Thunder City jets have flown more than 2000 sorties and generated revenue of R100million. Many celebrities such as Mark Shuttleworth, Sir Richard Branson, as well as many Middle Eastern sheiks and princes, and European royalty have flown in the super-powerful English Electric Lightning, the pride of the fleet, as well as their other jets. Some flying enthusiasts have saved up to come to Cape Town for the thrill of a lifetime.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What can be more enjoyable than flying over Cape Town with some of the world's most spectacular scenery, with panoramic views of Table Mountain and the Cape Peninsula, dotted with white beaches along the surrounding coastline and vineyards on the lower reaches of the nearby majestic mountain ranges. Being at the foot of Africa, it is also one of the most uncluttered air spaces on the planet, making it the ideal place to fly in supersonic jets. No more will the thunderous jets enthral visitors to airshows, where the raw power, iconic shapes, manoeuvrability and consummate flying skills of the pilots will be missed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">... we will continue working on the Puma SA 330 helicopter retrofit and upgrade programme which was begun 3 years ago. Thunder City, which is a certified Aircraft Maintenance Organisation (AMO), has completed both the rigorous P4 inspection process and a full avionics upgrade on their first retrofitted Puma helicopter, through the installation of the "glass cockpit" concept, which incorporates the digital era. There are currently another four Pumas in various stages of rebuild.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"One of the clear trends is the development of digital avionics technology, and being able to upgrade mechanically sound aircraft with "glass cockpits", cost-effectively. There is currently a global shortage of medium-lift helicopter capacity to satisfy the needs for Search & Rescue, transport for military personnel and oil exploration crews.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Finally, we wish to thank all the many visitors who have flown with us for their support. We are also grateful to the print and electronic media for the generous coverage they have provided over the past 10 years. It will be very quiet at the base without the distinctive sounds of the various Rolls Royce jet engines starting up and also over the skies of Cape Town. It's been an more exhilarating ride and we greatly appreciate all the efforts that our dedicated maintenance team at the base have put in over the years. Who knows, if circumstances change the mighty roar of the jets may be heard again at some time in the future."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is doubtful that anyone soon will follow his example. The dedication and devotion is rare and the capital required is too often frittered on yachts! I know. Astonishing, isn't it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mike has gone. He is amongst the Tavern Heroes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As is Dave Stock who flew so much with Thunder City, but whose untimely death in the crash of Lightning ZU-BEX tolled the bell for the enterprise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Toast heroic men.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Amfortashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-27002918790475535842019-03-12T16:57:00.000+11:002019-03-12T16:57:07.712+11:00Before Alcatraz<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">America often follows Britain, and indeed, Oz, in dealing with the dregs of society. Long before <i><b>Alcatraz </b></i>there was <b><i>Sarah Island</i></b>, described in the day as <i><b>HELL.</b></i> I went there on holiday. It pre-dates the largest and almost as notorious prison, Port Arthur, which is much closer to the Tavern. Sarah Island is remote in the extreme; cold, wet, surrounded by water and dense forest, it was considered 'escape-proof'. It wasn't for the want of attempts though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alcatraz, for our non-American customers, is also notorious, and was established as a military prison in1828, and a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. Because of its isolation from the outside by the cold, strong, hazardous currents of the waters of San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz was used to house soldiers who were guilty of crimes as early as 1859. By 1861, the fort was the military prison for the Department of the Pacific and housed Civil War prisoners of war (POWs) as early as that year. Starting in 1863, the military also held private citizens accused of treason, after the writ of habeas corpus in the United States was suspended.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sarah was for just civilian riff-raff of the very worst sort. Before the American Revolution Britain sent upward of 50,000 such riff-raff to the American Colonies, which perhaps explains some aspects of the wild west. But the theft of the New World brought about the development of the World Down Under, and a new place to send convicts. Hey, don't knock it. Back in the day it was considered a great and humane solution !! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When you see the natural beauty of Macquarie Harbour, on the West Coast of Tasmania, it’s hard to imagine that back in the 1820s, this was the scene of incredible misery. However, the fact that the entrance to the harbour is known as <b><i>Hell’s Gates</i></b> should give you a clue. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Entering the harbour through Hell’s Gates meant navigating waters <b><i>so treacherous</i></b> that many lost their lives here. For them it may have been their salvation because what awaited those who did make it was much, much worse than death. Almost all the vegetation of the island was cut down, such that huge wodden fences some 15 metres tall had to be erected along the length of the island to give some shelter from the high winds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Conditions at the penal settlement on Sarah Island in the southern part of the harbour were so harsh that one convict, only known as Trenham, went as far as stabbing a fellow inmate, reasoning that ..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Originally, the Macquarie Harbour area was the territory of the Mimegin and the Lowreenne, two bands of the Toogee tribe. The Peternidic, a band of the North-west tribe, and the Ninene, a band of the South-west tribe, sometimes visited the area too. The Aboriginal people reffered to Sarah Island as Langerrareroune and it’s possible that the women used the island as a meeting place. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In about 1815, when <b>James Kelly</b> sailed through Hell’s Gates to be the first European to visit Macquarie Harbour, he named Sarah Island after Sarah Birch, the wife of the merchant who had paid for the voyage. Within only a few years the island was selected as the site for a penal colony because it was so isolated and difficult to escape from.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the beginning of 1822, the Macquarie Harbour Penal Station was established, with Sarah Island as its base. The convicts sent here were mostly male and were usually people who had committed further crimes while serving their original sentences in <i><b>Van Diemen’s Land.</b></i> Others were convicts who had escaped and were recaptured, while some of the most dangerous criminals were sent here directly once they got off the transport ships in Hobart Town. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lieutenant-Governor William Sorell wanted a penal settlement that would be economically viable enough to cover the costs of having established it in the first place. Sarah Island, like the land surrounding Macquarie Harbour, had a valuable natural resource: huge <b><i>Huon pines</i></b> that were perfect for shipbuilding and growing all down the <i><b>Gordon River. </b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In those first years of settlement, the convicts spent their days cutting timber, usually in chains. This didn’t require much skill but it was hard work made even harder by the cold and rain. Things didn’t get any better at night, with barracks so crowded that the inmates couldn’t sleep on their backs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Floggings were par for the course and the food was so inadequate that scurvy and dysentery were rampant. Prisoners could also be sent to nearby Grummet Island, alternatively known as Condemned Island, for solitary confinement. It is little wonder that the first escape attempt happened two months after the settlement was established and that during the first six years, 156 escape attempts were recorded. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not many would-be escapees actually made it and around half died during their attempts. Among those who did make it was <b><i>James Goodwin.</i></b> Goodwin and a fellow inmate, Thomas Connell, secretly carved themselves a canoe and slipped away from their timber-cutting party. The pair rowed up the Gordon and then the Franklin Rivers until a waterfall forced them to continue on foot. They then continued on, across rugged mountains and through dense forests, heading east to the settled areas. Eventually they parted ways and that was the last that anybody had heard of Connell. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Goodwin, however, reached Ouse, where he was captured. Luckily for him, because he knew so much about the uncharted Western Wilderness, he was pardoned and <i><b>given a job with the Surveyor General.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An inmate who escaped not once, but twice, was the notorious <b><i>Alexander Pearce</i></b>. Pearce, an Irishman, had been transported to Van Diemen’s Land for stealing several pairs of shoes. He first escaped in September 1822, along with seven others. Pearce had been at Sarah Island for only six weeks. The group had originally planned to steal a whaleboat and sail north but after they overpowered their overseer, things went awry and they ran into the wilderness instead. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two of the men left the next day, trying to get back to Macquarie Harbour rather than becoming the next items on the menu. The rest of the group continued on their journey and also continued picking off and eating the weakest one </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He made it to civilisation but was captured and sent to Hobart Town, where neither the magistrate nor the parson would believe his story. So, he was sent back to Macquarie Harbour, where he soon escaped again, this time with one other inmate as company. He was captured within 11 days and found carrying human flesh in his pocket. Of his companion there was no trace. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In June 1824, at around the same time that Pearce was being tried for murder in Hobart Town, another convict who would become infamous, escaped from Sarah Island. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Matthew Brady was one of fifteen men who stole a boat and sailed along the coast to the estuary of the Derwent River. Brady became a bushranger and somewhat of a folk hero with the nickname ‘Gentleman Brady’ because he always displayed impeccable manners while he was robbing his victims.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To solve the problem of transporting the timber from Macquarie Harbour, Sarah Island became a shipbuilding centre. For a while it was the largest operation of its kind in Australia, with more than 100 </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">vessels built during the existence of the penal settlement.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> (actually 131, with near 100 being built under the direction of one <i><b>Mr Hoy,</b></i> who learned his craft in Dundee and became a master shipwright in Boston, USA). Interesting fellow. Civilian. Not a Prisoner. He joined the 6 other civilians, all women, on the Island who were not prisoners or soldiers, but wives and daughters of soldiers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well-behaved convicts could now get transferred to ‘softer’ duties like gardening, smithing or boat-building and skilled tradesmen were encouraged to come and work on the island, which became an industrial village. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>The Island's Cook</i></b>, a lady called Sarah (the island not named for her) was the spider in a web of graft, corruption, blackmail, contraband smuggling and extortion that reached back to Hobart Town and even Sydney. She cooked the books as well as the rotting meat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1834, ten convicts who had helped build a brig named the Frederick <b>stole the incomplete ship</b> as it was preparing to sail for Hobart Town. They sailed west and made it all the way to <b>Chile,</b> (yes, that Chile, in South America), where they had to abandon ship because of a leak. They rowed the ship’s whaleboat to shore and pretended to be shipwrecked sailors. Four of the men were captured and brought back to stand trial on charges of piracy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, these charges couldn’t stick because the ship had not been completed and had not been seized in open waters, so they were only found guilty of robbery. <i>("It was just sticks and some rope and a bit of canvas, yer 'onner. Honest"). </i>It helped their case, too, that the ships logs were never found, nor its Commissioning papers.<i> ("So, yer see, yer 'onner, it weren't really a ship, innit?")</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Round Earth Theatre Company in Strahan, the nearest town to Sarah Island, tells the story of the Frederick in the very popular play The Ship That Never Was, the longest-running play in Australia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Macquarie Harbour Penal Station was closed down in 1833 but in 1847, Sarah Island was used as a probation station. At various times during the next three decades and again in the 1930s and 1940s, timber cutters used Sarah Island as their base camp. Today only ruins remain on the island, among them the ‘new’ penitentiary completed in 1828. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To visit Sarah Island, you can charter a yacht but the most popular way to get here is as part of a cruise from Strahan. Members of the Round Earth Theatre Company present excellent guided tours of the island, bringing its infamous history to life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, there you are or there you might go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Amfortashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-21088549500681445792019-03-11T15:16:00.000+11:002019-03-11T20:55:47.484+11:00Holiday to Hell's Gate.<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When a chap lives in Paradise, where should he go for a complete change? I took m'self off to Hell's Gate: but that was after visiting the sinful city, the teeming metropolis of Melbourne. One has to 'prepare', you see. More of Hell later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was away, as you may have noticed, for a short while, on the Big Island to the North to see m'beloved son in whom I am well pleased, and to enjoy a sea journey. I drove up-State to Devonport to load my car on the Spirit of Tasmania for an overnight sailing, calling in at Westbury to speak with a new Priest there (whom I did not get to see, as it turned out). But the drive and the sailing were pleasant and without hassle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I enjoy the occasional travelling to the mainland, making the trip at least every two years to see the Airshow and Avalon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This year m'lad had organised fine grandstand seats from which we had an unimpeded view. Not that we stayed there all day. There was much to see on the ground with a superb array of civil and military aircraft to look at, sit in and join the long lines of people to walk through.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Would that I could share it all with you, but here are a few minutes that give the sounds, even if the smell of the avgas is missing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Most of the explosions were simulated, of course, but there was one, unplanned. A member of the local flying wild-life took too close a look at a C17 and got sucked in. Aborted that take-off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I admit some envy of the rich for their facilities, especially the private jets they fly around in. I would make a very fine filthy-rich man, I think. But fate has taken m'wealth from me and cast me as a poor Knight. With a Pub !!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Time was taken to travel through the Dandenong Ranges where I had spent some previous life. If you ever get the chance to visit, you must take that delight too. We had a fine dining at m'lad's, with his Lady being one of the best chefs in the State. Heck, she even had 'awards'. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the Spirit, Enjoying the comforts.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then it was time to leave the comforts of m'son's modest Palace and go back across the sea to my Island. That feeling of 'coming home' is always pleasant and the ferry trip is very comfortable with a variety of things to do aboard. I now faced more travel. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As I spend most of my time in the Tavern, busy, I do not get to see the north-west of the island very often, so this was the opportunity. I drove to the National Rowing Centre at Lake Barrington: a beautiful and very quiet spot where, that day, the only sounds were of birds in the forests that line the lake. There were no others there to be seen and I had the place to m'self for a while. Well, almost. Just as I was adding a little of my own 'home brew' to the pristine waters, a chap came jogging by !! Bugger ! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />The North-West country is mountainous, stunningly beautiful with an almost rugged 'european' feel to it, especially where it has been tamed, with the first section dominated by Mt Roland. It was the first thing I saw of Tasmania the very first time I came here, deep in the winter, many years ago. Everywhere was covered in snow and Roland could be seen from 40 miles at sea. Now it was just stark and majestic in the early morning. And so I drove, through the hills, past lakes and cliffs and green country.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is the second largest in the southern hemisphere and has no great ports or industry: it has this small, tidy, well preserved fishing village that delights everyone who finds it. (Oh, and some fish-farms.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And it is near the dreaded entrance: <b><i>Hell's Gate.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hells Gates is the name of the mouth of Macquarie Harbour on the West Coast of Tasmania. It is a notoriously shallow and dangerous channel entrance to the harbour. The actual channel is between Macquarie Heads on the west and Entrance Island on the east (the main length of the harbour runs southeast of Hells Gates). There is a wider area of water between Entrance Island and Macquarie Head, but it is too shallow to get a boat over. A sand bar. Even a small boat has trouble. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The name of the channel relates to the original convicts' claim that it was their point of <b>'entrance to Hell'</b>, their Hell being the Macquarie Harbour Penal Station on <b><i>Sarah Island </i></b>and the outlying surrounds of the harbour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I took a boat to it and through it. And later to Hell itself. Sarah Island.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On the tide, the waters rush through the narrow channel, far too fast for navigation. The Southern Ocean is merciless most of the time, aided and driven by the Roaring Forties. This day it was quite mild. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sarah Island was rarely mild. The prisoners there - in the days past - were recalitrants, given to escape and further crime. Escape was deemed impossible although there were attempts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>It was the Oz Alcatraz. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Getting across the water was hard enough only for the escapees to be faced with impenetrable forest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Perhaps I shall say more about Sarah Island another time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Meanwhile....I did have a guided tour of the penal area. Here is someone else's rendition. The boat I mentioned in shown early on. This was taken/made just a few weeks and a year ago. The weather was very much the same.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I stayed a few days in a comfortable place run by a gentleman with whom I had a shared history. He was in the Far East at the same time as I, although several hundred miles to the North in Malaya. He now operates a hostelry, and I a pub !! We never met at the time, but had much to share in anecdotes and memories. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you are in Strahan, I recomment his place to you. <i style="font-weight: bold;">Kitty's Place. </i>It was excellent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The trip back to the Tavern was an all-day bizzo across the island. More mountains. More miles. More stops along the way. More beautiful Tassie countryside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But tiredness and eagerness to be back in the Tavern is upon me and I have pints to pull and tables to wipe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I hope I have given a taste of my trip to Hell and back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Amfortashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-76601157733004005872019-03-10T18:17:00.001+11:002019-03-10T23:27:11.010+11:00For Whom does the Pell Toll?<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I doubt many Saints could get through a week without committing some sin: those that could are a better man than me, Gunga Din. Not quite Kipling but it will do. These days the sins are not so much theological as Politically Incorrect and we can all find ourselves in the Frame. Barely was I back from my travels than I found the news full of R.Kelly and Cardinal Pell. It was a toss up as to which was getting the most headlines. I have no idea who the Kelly nonebrity is: Pell, though, has been mentioned in the Tavern many a time, being as he is rather more powerful and saintly .... and reviled.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>""Will no one rid me of this turbulent </b><b>priest?"".....</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(sometimes expressed as troublesome or meddlesome)</span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">....is an utterance attributed to Henry II of England, which led to the death of Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1170. While it was not expressed as an order, it caused four knights to travel from Normandy to Canterbury, where they killed Becket. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Who sought the destruction of Cardinal Pell, one wonders, and were the 12 Jury members parachuted in from outside Melbourne to cut him down with their legal swords, under Judicial Direction?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Felix Lechat</i></b> summed up the issue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Found guilty, then, not on any evidence but on mere unsubstantiated allegations from a single complainant, that presented a totally implausible scenario that in any unbiased court would have been dismissed immediately.</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>If Pell's conviction is not reversed on appeal the whole of Australia should mourn, not only for Pell, but for the total breakdown of our justice system.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Barely has the fish and chips stained the pages of the National newspapers than the wholly parochial Catholic newspaper in Tasmania was withdrawn because a local worthy had dared to question the veracity and stainlessness of the souls of Pell's various accusers, most of who had no dog in the fight. Think of the media frenzy condemning the Covington Boys recently. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To the good Dr Daintree I say, stand, sir. The Taverners stand with you. To the Church hierarchy, boo, hiss. To the stables with you.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Never Apologise.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Enough with the Suppression of Free Speech.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>YOU ARE NEXT</i></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">For those not in the Oz Bar who came in to see what the hub-bub was about, we had a couple of fine folk explain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Anna Silvas</i></b> (aka. <b><i>Anna the Sinner</i></b> and clearly one of us) was first to her feet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: x-large;">Cardinal Pell is innocent, that's why</span></b></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b>«I don’t believe that justice was served in this jury trial. It has all the smell of a ritual sacrifice for an ugly agenda». </b></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b>«In 1996 Pell refused the communion to a gay crowd that disrupted a mass. The homosexualist agenda in Church and Society has been gunning for him ever since». </b></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b>«Also within the Australian Church, there is a large party of hostility to Pell. Many of these will be aging clergy of the Spirit of the Seventies».</b></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>To begin with: I don’t believe that justice was served in this jury trial. It has all the smell of a ritual sacrifice for an ugly agenda, to me.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>I have often attended Mass in that right transept under the organ loft of the Cathedral in Melbourne (the most beautiful Cathedral in Australia, with the most noble Gothic spire in the world, I would say). I have often been a few metres from that door that leads down a short passage into the area of the sacristies, and often seen the altar servers, choir and priests processing in and out of there. I just cannot see that there could be a place for the perpetration of the vices of which Pell has now been convicted in a jury trial, least of all in the circumstances of High Mass on Sunday.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>I have had the privilege of listening at length, more than once, to Monsignor Charles Portelli, who was Pell’s Master of Ceremonies in the five years Pell was Archbishop of Melbourne. Portelli is a man of fine intelligence, probity and culture. He captained the Archbishop in all that concerned the Sunday Liturgy, and all its preparatory and subsequent circumstances. All Pell’s deeds were witnessed and accompanied by Portelli.</i></span></blockquote>
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George Pell too is a man of great probity, intelligence and culture, exceptionally so, I would say, among Australian bishops. That already puts him offside, in the Tall Poppy Syndrome, quite a cultural characteristic in Australian society. </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b>I have no doubt that Cardinal Pell, like me, is a sinner, </b>and in his inner journey of chastity before the Lord, he has had his struggles, for virtue untested is not virtue. But the arena for this was internal, in the privacy of his soul. </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>It is unthinkable that after thirty years or more of committed and proven intellectual, moral, priestly and episcopal life, that he, just having been appointed a Metropolitan, should on the first occasion of a Sunday Mass stoop to so crass and crude and sordid an exercise of pedophilia of which he has been legally convicted. No, it requires a certain preparatory moral degradation to resort to such casual stunts.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Now for a little of what I can see of the wider context of the Australian Church and society.</i></span></blockquote>
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First I mention a news item of 1996 which I clearly remember. Very early on, a ‘gay’ crowd staged a public ‘rainbow’ protest in a Sunday Mass. When they fronted up to received Holy Communion, <b>Pell refused them.</b> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>The homosexualist agenda in Church and Society has been gunning for him ever since. One of the most vicious attacks on him lately has been that of <b>David Marr.</b> </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>He is a ‘public intellectual’ of left wing Australia, a long ‘outed’ homosexual and advocate of the ‘gay’ cause, and <b>virulently anti-Catholic.</b> </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>The passionate moral indignation of such a figure who would wag his finger against the Catholic Church, tells us that something is going on much deeper than the to and fro of legal and political debate.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>For decades Australian politics (including the erstwhile ‘centre-right’ Liberal Party), the mainstream media, and the cultural elites have been drifting steadily Leftward into the <b>totalitarian and conformist world of Political Correctness.</b> Part of that shift involves a less and less disguised hostility to the Western tradition and its Judaeo-Christian underpinnings in general, and to the <b>Catholic Church in particular.</b></i></span></blockquote>
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Alas, within the Australian Church herself, there is a large party of hostility to Pell. Many of these will be aging clergy of the Spirit of the Seventies. </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b>For Pell was always an intentionally orthodox Catholic </b>priest, his stance towards the Second Vatican Council in the spirit of Pope Benedict’s Hermeneutic of Continuity. Never subscribed to the rebellion against Humanae Vitae. Thus you find the strange paradox that Catholic ‘progressives’ who are in favour of changing the Church’s sexual ethic, who are soft on divorce and remarriage, abortion, homosexuality, and are predictable sponsors of the latest faddish political enthusiasms, themselves exploit the incidence of sexual abuse within the Church to perversely promote their cause. </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b> They have the spirit of David Marr in them.</b></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Alas, as a retired bishop said to me recently, we have given a lot of ammunition to those who would attack us from without—or subvert us from within. </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>There has been a disturbing number of priests in the Melbourne Archdiocese implicated in sexual scandals over the last three or four decades, as has emerged in public enquiries in recent years. Without a doubt, the Church, whether in Australia or worldwide is semper purificanda. </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>.....and I think things are set to become much worse for us. Just consider soberly the state of our higher leadership right now.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>In the midst of the exposure of the moral and spiritual weakness of the Church in Australia, we also have another tragic fallout: <b>the accusation of innocent </b>priests and others. </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>It is hard to be caught between the victims of clerical sexual predation crying out for vindication against a culture of cover-up, and the <b>clerical victims of predatory false accusation and slander. </b></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>I have heard tell that these days any priest who is accused is likely to be treated as a ‘hot potato’ by his bishop: he is basically dropped. </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b>They seem a cowardly lot, bishops. </b></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b>Or perhaps they will style it ‘prudent’.</b></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>I do not know whether the legal appeal against Pell’s conviction will succeed or not. Let us consider the worst-case scenario, that it will not. In that case, my reading of Pell’s situation would go something like this. </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Jesus Christ his Lord loves him too much to leave him at the pinnacle of ecclesiastical advancement. Pell joins the ranks of <b>the innocent sufferers</b>, from Abel even to our Lord. Perhaps he is called to carry a burden of vicarious suffering for fellow-priests and believers who are not so innocent, and for a Church in great need of repentance.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Perhaps in another way Cardinal Pell is winning the greatest ecclesiastical ‘advancement’ of all, to approach something of the original condition of the Apostles in the earliest years of the Church: For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are dishonored.(1 Cor 4:9-10)</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Pray for Cardinal Pell, and pray for …</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I shall, m'dear. A cleansing drink for the Lady.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On her feet the moment Anna sat, <b><i>Lianne Laurence </i></b>took the attention to give details others might have missed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: x-large;">Jailed Cdl. Pell would likely win appeal based on ‘unreasonable’ guilty verdict: experts</span></b></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Legal experts say Australia’s Cardinal George Pell has a strong case to appeal his sexual abuse convictions on the basis of "unreasonableness," the Guardian has reported.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>That’s also the opinion of American Catholic writer George Weigel, a longtime friend of the 77-year-old prelate who is now in protective custody at a maximum security prison awaiting his sentence on March 13, after which time the appeal process can start.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Pell was found guilty by jury in December of sexually abusing two 13-year-old choirboys <b>22 years ago</b>. Each of the five convictions — one of sexual penetrating a child under 16, and four of an indecent act with a child under 16 – carries a maximum jail term of 10 years.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Pell’s first trial on the charges ended in September with a hung jury, with <b>10 of the 12 supporting Pell’s acquittal.</b> The Crown opted literally to try again.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Just two wanted him convicted. 10 did not find for Guilt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Looks like the 'authorities' found 10 more to vote 'properly'. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Pell’s lawyer Robert Richter said at a plea hearing Wednesday the appeal will be based on three grounds: unreasonableness, the ban on video evidence in Richter’s closing summation, and the makeup of the jury.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>While the last two grounds seem “flimsy,” Pell’s legal team has a strong case for appeal grounds of unreasonableness, which means the jury’s verdict is not supported by evidence, it reported.</i></span></blockquote>
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“This is the defence’s best shot,” Professor Jeremy Gans, University of Melbourne law school’s criminal appeals and procedure expert, told the Guardian.</blockquote>
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Moreover, winning an appeal on the grounds of unreasonableness means “there can almost certainly be no new trial, Gans said, “Because once a court decides a guilty verdict is unreasonable it means they don’t think guilty should be the verdict in the next trial either. They would almost certainly acquit.”</blockquote>
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One judge initially reviews the appeal application, but it’s virtually certain it will be heard.</blockquote>
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“No judge would decide not to allow an appeal in such a high-stakes trial,” Gans told the Guardian. </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">“Their grounds of appealing on unreasonableness is solid.”</span></b></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Three judges will hear the appeal and unanimous agreement is not required for a ruling. </i></span></blockquote>
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The process can take ten months or more, according to the Guardian, but because of Pell’s age and health — he is recovering from double knee replacement surgery — it’s likely the process will be accelerated.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>There are a number of reasons Pell’s appeal will succeed, Gans told the Guardian, most notably that the <b>prosecution had only one key witness, and the second alleged victim, who died five years ago, denied he had been sexually abused.</b></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>However, a jury is free to convict if they find one witness “believable,” he said.</i></span></blockquote>
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A number of observers have joined Weigel in decrying the verdict after Judge Peter Kidd lifted a publication ban on the trial earlier this week.</blockquote>
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It’s now revealed the lone complainant alleged he and another choirboy left the procession after Sunday High Mass at Melbourne’s cathedral, went into the sacristy and were drinking sacramental wine when Pell surprised them and proceeded to sexually abuse them.</blockquote>
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<b>Weigel listed in the National Review the ten “improbable” things that would have had to have happened within 10 minutes for this story to be true: </b></blockquote>
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•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Pell, who was typically accompanied by a master of ceremonies or sacristan when he was vested for Mass, entered the carefully controlled space of the vesting sacristy alone.</blockquote>
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•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Two choirboys entered the sacristy, started gulping altar wine, and were accosted and abused by Archbishop Pell — while the sacristy door was open and the archbishop was in full liturgical vestments.</blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">It’s clear to Weigel that Pell has been wrongfully convicted.</span></b></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b>the indictment of a legal system that could not bring itself to render justice in the face of public hysteria, political vendetta, and media aggression,</b>” </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>He compared the public mood in Australia to that of “Salem, Massachusetts, during the witchcraft hysteria of the seventeenth century.”</i></span></blockquote>
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<b>Victoria police began a “fishing expedition against Pell, a year before any complaint had been received from an alleged victim,” wrote Weigel.</b></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Tellingly, the Guardian’s David Marr noted that “sitting quietly up the front” at Pell’s plea hearing Wednesday “was Detective <b>Chris Reed</b>, the Victorian policeman who has pursued Pell for the last four years. </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b>His work is also on trial here.”</b></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Known for his doctrinal orthodoxy, Pell has been subjected for some 25 years to “calumnies” in “both the hyper-secularist Australian media and in Church circles determined to hang on to their dreams of post–Vatican II revolution,” wrote Weigel.</i></span></blockquote>
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The Holy See announced Wednesday it is opening an investigation into allegations against Pell. The Cardinal in his former role as Vatican treasurer was tasked with cleaning up corruption and was considered the third most powerful man in the Vatican.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And do I have a view? From behind the bar? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yes. I say there is doubt. Considerable doubt. Reasonable doubt. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And no man should be convicted unless a jury is Certain, beyond a reasonable doubt. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A man with so many enemies, at home and abroad, is vulnerable to wickedness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But wait. Who am I to 'doubt'? Oz Courts of Law are notoriously 'fair' and 'honest'. No-one ever tells a lie in a Court. They swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, innit? And the dictum is that it is better ten guilty people go free rather than one innocent one goes to jail. Innit? Who ever heard of an innocent dingo ever going to jail for taking a baby when there is a mother to do the time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And what possible reason would someone have for telling a lie about something 22 years ago? Fame? Money? Excuse? "I'm depraved, yer 'onner' cuz of what that man did 22 years ago. Gimme me compo". Hey this wasn't Smollet and Trump.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I pray for Cardinal Pell. I am no-where near convinced of any guilt on his part.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That is not to say that victims of abuse do not have cause for my prayers too. One has to properly establish that they really are victims though, and not liars and embezzlers from the Parish Collection plates.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Drinks for the two ladies and for the gentleman.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">February has seen me quietly dealing with the daily customers and preparing, packing and planning. Today, in an hour, I am off up-state, across the seas and tackling the teeming metropolis of Melbourne, the sinful city on the Big Island to the North wherein lives my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The smell of Avgas and the sounds of freedom call me to the Avalon Airshow. I have been eagerly looking forward.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, little from me for a few weeks more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I shall take many photos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Tavern is in good hands. The Ale will continue to flow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Drop by: have a pint or two.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pax</span>Amfortashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-85075904542355135692019-02-04T22:54:00.000+11:002019-02-04T23:37:57.819+11:00In The Beginning.....<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are questions for which simple folk (like me) cannot hope to find the answer. Some scientific types try to, and even the most humble of intelligences (mine is not that humble) look at the difficult ideas that they come up with. The Origins of Life is one of those big questions. The Tavern's Supplier has given us an answer which most people find all too easy to dismiss while they look for something they can grasp and claim some credit for themselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We do like to keep busy. Human beans have, we are to understand from the clever types, a long history of development, and while early folk grasped 'Art' and even a bit of technology - think of flint tools and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon - it has nonetheless taken until only very recently for Science to arrive and find the tools to look more deeply and rigorously. And some answers were devised. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, having established to the satisfaction of very few thinking folk, in the era when we moved on a little from sailing ships, that the entire Universe shebang came into existence with a very loud noise (that no-one could hear as there was no one around) from nothing and nowhere, by accident, randomly, we have arrived at the point where the question has changed to 'Where did Life come from'. It is thought by some to be an easier question. Hah !</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And here we start to look at the attempts to answer. So, very briefly, as an introduction, we have...... a drum roll......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There. Simplified for you. Except.......the panspermia bizzo is just a TATWD guess - <b>Turtles All The Way Down</b>. Where and how did that life, floating about originate?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The life in a bottle bizzo didn't sail either as 'Science' demands repeats and it never has been. It was very probably a soiled sample, despite some saying that it is a viable hypothosis. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Let's look deeper. Deeper in the sea. The deep-sea vent theory suggests that life <b>may have begun</b> at submarine hydrothermal vents spewing key hydrogen-rich molecules. Their rocky nooks <b>could then have</b> concentrated these molecules together and provided mineral catalysts for critical reactions. Even now, these vents, rich in chemical and thermal energy, sustain vibrant ecosystems. A few too many 'mays' and 'coulds' though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A probable future for deep sea divers and bathosphere drivers, but not an answer that is likely repeatable. As yet there is no evidence that life originated there, but heck, I am a simple man. How do I know.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Other 'hypothoses' have been considered. On the shoulders of Giants and the backs of turtles, the chemical scientists keep plodding on, cooking up recipes. The probability of an answer coming up soon is, well.... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So far the recipe eludes us, so what about that Probability bizzo?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What is the liklihood of life arising all on it's todd? Given the 'right' conditions, that is. Is it possible? Or Probable?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That would be a place to start and it can bring in the carpenters and plumbers and electricians of the Science world.... <b>The Mathematicians.</b> These are the guys that provide the basements and walls, the pipes and circuits for the architects of the sciences. And the tasty meals while they 'think'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now we are cooking !!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today, origin of life research continues under the assumptions of <b>materialism.</b> Researchers believe that if they can explain the formation of a building block or a possible energy source, they are making progress toward solving one of the most baffling mysteries of science. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>The major factor they consistently fail to address is the source of the information that is the hallmark of life. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>It’s not enough to get the building blocks of a cell any more than it is to get iron ore for a skyscraper. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The building blocks need to be assembled and arranged in a <b>purposeful</b> way. That’s the sequencing problem for RNA, DNA and proteins.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Since protein machines do most of the work in living cells (both modern and primordial), <b>their existence merits explanation.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Proteins are constructed from precisely sequenced chains of amino acids. Most proteins in the simplest life forms (Achaea) range from 156 to 283 amino acids in length. Some shorter proteins exist (more accurately called “polypeptides”), but most of them have simpler roles in the cell, acting as signaling molecules or cofactors. Some proteins contain many hundreds or thousands of amino acids. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We chose a smaller-than-average protein of 150 amino acids to illustrate the difficulty of sequencing any protein <b>by chance</b>—including those required in the <b>first living cell.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The estimated probability for a 150-amino-acid protein comes from the work of <b><i>Douglas Axe and Stephen Meyer.</i></b> Axe published a paper in 2004 that calculated the fraction of useful proteins in random chains of amino acids. A “useful” protein must be able to <b>fold</b> into a stable structure to perform any function. Compared to the huge number of random chains that would not fold, the number of proteins with this ability is miniscule.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After carefully measuring the tolerance to change in particular enzymes, Axe estimated that <b>only one in 1074 </b>chains of 150 amino acids would fold and be functional. This implies that you would have to search through 1074 chains of that length to find a single useful protein. So we start by looking for one protein (any chain of 150 amino acids) that could be useful in a primitive cell by spontaneously folding into a stable shape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In his book, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer recognized two additional constraints for the <b>chance origin</b> of a protein. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>First,</b> amino acids need to be “one-handed.” In nature, amino acids (except the simplest, glycine) come in two forms: left-handed and right-handed. All living things use only the left-handed form. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is what gives proteins the ability to fold. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Experiments show that random chains using both hands become useless lumps of molecules. Indeed, living cells cannot tolerate wrong-handed amino acids, and employ quality controls to ensure their amino acids are left-handed. The earliest imaginable life form could have used either left-handed or right-handed building blocks, <b>but would have to select one or the other--and stick with it. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With that constraint, Meyer assumes an additional 1-out-of-2 chance the correct form would be selected at each point in the chain (after the positioning of the first building block). For 150 amino acids, that becomes 0.5-149 or <b>one chance in 1045.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(This, incidentally, is why proteins cannot be expected to form spontaneously in water, because peptide bond formation would go against chemistry’s law of mass action; such bonds would be far more likely to break than join.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Puts the moccas on the undersea vents idea. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Other bonds between amino acids, however, are possible. They result in clumps of <b>useless “tar” </b>as biochemists call it. Meyer assumed another 1-out-of-2 chance that each bond would be a peptide bond (a generous assumption). That decreases the probability by <b>another</b> 1045.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Putting the probabilities together means adding the exponents. The probability of getting a properly folded chain of one-handed amino acids, joined by peptide bonds, is one chance in 10^74+45+45, or </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>one in 10^164</b> . </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This means that, on average, you would need to construct 10^164 chains of amino acids 150 units long to expect to find <b>one</b> that is useful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, now we have one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Or not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Given time, maybe. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well more time than we have had it seems.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>So far, we have advanced so far as to be confronted with the extreme UNliklihood of Life arising by itself at all.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Personally, being a simple fellow, and having exchanged pleasantries many a time with my Supplier's angelic barrel hauler, I am content with not knowing the exact means by which the </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life...</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b></b>......managed it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am simply in awe that He did.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Can we get further? Well, I, for one, cannot. I am busy with the here and now. I have pints to pull, tables to wipe and even more interesting customers to engage with. And you, of course.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Amfortashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-25420231126311480202019-02-04T00:54:00.000+11:002019-02-04T00:54:07.738+11:00Beyond the Pale<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Tavern Pale is the large hedge that surrounds the property, keeping the riff-raff out. That is what a 'Pale' does. Pale is also the hue of white folk, especially old white folk, and specifically men, old white folk who constitute at least half of our customers. The riff-raff think that we are beyond the Pale, being as we are happily on the opposite side of the hedge, drinking our pints.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where does the term come from, someone asked. The phrase "beyond the pale" dates back to the 14th century, when the part of Ireland that was under English rule was delineated by a boundary made of such stakes or fences, and known as the <i><b>English Pale.</b></i> To travel outside of that boundary, beyond the pale, was to leave behind all the rules and institutions of English society, which the English modestly considered synonymous with civilization itself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of course.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Actually it goes back further. Beyond the Pale is a phrase derived from the Latin 'palus' or stake, a series of which were used to demarcate a boundary, usually for defense. The phrase means "beyond the boundary", or "outside the limits of acceptable behaviour"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But we were reminded of the other pale: we <b><i>white folk</i></b> seem to be getting very short shrift these days and from all quarters. Well, maybe not all: the lefty, nonebrity quarters and all other hues. And even some of the same hue. !</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It has not been this bad since we were called 'white devils' an era ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is time we named some names of these blaggards. <i><b>Walter Williams</b></i> started us off with some American ne'er-do-wells who could do with a sound thrashing. You can add more in the comments.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: x-large;">The Demonizing of White Men</span></b></blockquote>
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Rush Limbaugh’s December 2018 “Limbaugh Letter” has an article titled “Demonizing White Men.” It highlights—with actual quotations from people in the media, academia, and the political and entertainment arenas—the attack on white men as a class.</blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/01/30/the-demonizing-of-white-men-is-everywhere-heres-proof/">https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/01/30/the-demonizing-of-white-men-is-everywhere-heres-proof/</a></div>
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You can decide whether these statements are decent, moral, or even sensible. Should we support their visions?</blockquote>
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<b>Don Lemon</b>, a CNN anchorman, said, <b>“We have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men,</b> most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them.”</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yep. I am not making that up. No-one can make this stuff up. He could at least have changed that obviously biased hue of his by using lemon juice make-up.</span><br />
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Steven Clifford, former King Broadcasting CEO, said, “I will be leading a <b>great movement to prohibit straight white males,</b> who I believe supported Donald Trump by about 85 percent, from exercising the franchise <b>[to vote]</b>, and I think that will save our democracy.”</blockquote>
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Teen Vogue, a magazine targeting teenage girls, wrote, “Not only is <b>white male terrorism</b> as dangerous as Islamic extremism, but our collective safety rests in rooting out the source of their radicalization.”</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not that one has seen quite as many white Pentacostals blowing themselves up in shopping centres. It ain't vogue. I shall pull some pints while we wait. </span><br />
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Economist <b>Paul Krugman</b>, a New York Times columnist, wrote a column titled “The Angry White Male Caucus,” in which he explained, “Trumpism is all about the fear of losing traditional privilege.”</blockquote>
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There have been similar despicable statements made by academics.</blockquote>
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<b>James Livingston</b>, a Rutgers history professor: “OK, officially, <b>I now hate white people</b>. … I hereby resign from my race. F— these people.”</blockquote>
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Stacey Patton, a Morgan State University professor: “There is <b>nothing more dangerous</b> in the United States than a white man who has expected to succeed and finds himself falling behind.”</blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I would hope he takes a hike in the Yellowstone Park and see how he fares with the wolves. </span></b><br />
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Stony Brook University sociology professor Michael Kimmel explained, “White men’s anger comes from the potent fusion of two sentiments: entitlement and a sense of victimization.”</blockquote>
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Sen. Bernie Sanders: “There’s no question that in Georgia and in Florida racism has reared its ugly head. And you have candidates who ran against [Andrew] Gillum and ran against Stacey Abrams who were racist. … And that is an outrage.”</blockquote>
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<b>Michael Avenatti,</b> criticizing the GOP senators during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings: “These old white men still don’t understand that assault victims and women deserve respect and to be heard.”</blockquote>
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“What troubles me is … they’re all white men,” commented former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm regarding GOP senators questioning Christine Blasey Ford at the Kavanaugh hearings.</blockquote>
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William Falk, editor-in-chief of The Week, said, “There’s something odd about the overwhelming white maleness of Washington’s current leadership.”</blockquote>
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Not to be outdone, <b>entertainers</b> have hopped on the demonizing-white-men bandwagon.</blockquote>
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Joy Behar, talking on ABC’s “The View” about senators supporting Kavanaugh, said: “These white men—old, by the way—are not protecting women. They’re protecting a man who is probably guilty.”</blockquote>
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Actress <b>Gabourey Sidibe</b>, also on “The View,” said: “Older white men are a problem, y’all, for everyone. We’re all at risk.”</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Does she sing?</span><br />
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Moira Donegan wrote an article for The Guardian titled “Half of White Women Continue to Vote Republican. What’s Wrong With Them?”</blockquote>
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Renee Graham wrote a column in The Boston Globe that counseled, “Memo to black men: Stop voting Republican.”</blockquote>
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Comedian Chelsea Handler tweeted, “Just a friendly reminder for the weekend: <b>No white after Labor Day, and no old, white racist men after the midterms.</b> Get out and vote.”</blockquote>
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That is just a <b>partial list </b>of statements that would be viewed and condemned as racist simply by replacing “white men” with “black men,” “Mexican men,” or “Asian men.” You can bet the rent money that university presidents and media executives would sanction any of their employees for making similar broad, sweeping statements about non-white men.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is also a partial list of nonebrities. Who are these people? Some appear to be white, yet demeaning being white. Are they mentally 'challenged'. I read their comments and laugh. </span><br />
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Suppose a white anchorman said, “Black people are the greatest murder threat in this country.” I guarantee you that he’d be shown the door.</blockquote>
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There are only two ways to explain the silence by people who should know better. Either they agree with the sentiments expressed or they are out-and-out <b>cowards.</b></blockquote>
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Decent American people ought to soundly reject and condemn this <b>brazen attack on white men.</b> </blockquote>
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I think that the attack is on masculinity itself and that white men are a convenient scapegoat —for now.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Indeed. The new 'virtues' that we are supposed to signal are 'diversity' and 'tolerance'. Oh and 'inclusivity'. These folk just don't get it. They don't even practice them themselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Derision and the wallet are the ways to tackle them. Laugh at them and drive them out of business the easy way. No boycotts of buildings, just don't buy what they sell.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It seems that some commercial enterprises have to feel the pain and the heat. <b><i>Ben Shapiro</i></b> pointed to an example.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Marvel VP: 'Diversity' In Our Characters Is KILLING Our Sales</span></b></blockquote>
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On Monday, Marvel Comics admitted what those who actually read comics have known all along: the emphasis on <b>leftist messaging</b> in comic books is killing the appeal. </blockquote>
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David Gabriel, the vice president of sales at Marvel, said that comic book retailers were reporting a drop-off in interest in the new, diversity-oriented comics: </blockquote>
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<span style="color: cyan;">“What we heard was that people didn’t want any more diversity. They didn’t want female characters out there. That’s what we heard, whether we believe that or not. I don’t know that that’s really true, but that’s what we saw in sales…Any character that was diverse, any character that was new, our female characters, anything that was not a core Marvel character, people were turning their nose up.”</span></blockquote>
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It’s not racism driving people away from Marvel, though. It’s a feeling of <b>irritation</b> that classic characters are being redrawn and recast in order to assuage the feelings of <b>social justice warriors</b>. </blockquote>
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Iron Man is Tony Stark, not Riri Williams. Captain America is Steve Rogers, not Sam Wilson. Thor is Thor, not female Thor. Spider Man is Peter Parker, not Miles Morales.</blockquote>
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This isn’t to say that the comics with Miles Morales aren’t good (they're actually really good, although the Iron Man series with Riri Williams isn’t any good at all). It’s to say that nobody wants to see iconic superheroes recast as completely different people <b>to appease quotas </b>on race and sex. Superheroes are brands. You can't twist those brands without hurting them.</blockquote>
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When it comes to new superheroes, people are always skeptical, so this poses something of a challenge: how do you better reflect diversity in comics without tanking sales? </blockquote>
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The answer: make new characters terrific, then worry about whether they’re diverse – or use a historic diverse character to infuse new life. Marvel did the latter with Black Panther, hiring Ta-Nehisi Coates to write the comic, which immediately became a bestseller (the comic is actually unreadably bad, but at least Marvel tried doing diversity the right way here). </blockquote>
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In the DC universe, Harley Quinn, who was a marginal character twenty years ago, is now a major bestseller because she’s interesting, not because Batman had to become a woman.</blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">But the comic book industry keeps attempting to slam its constituents over the head with social justice messaging – </span></b></blockquote>
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and that’s killing the quality of comics (see Batman, advocate for Trayvon Martin, or Captain America, illegal immigration defender). </blockquote>
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Turning iconic characters into avatars of social justice kills sales, too. It’s throwback comics doing most of the heavy lifting at this point – and Marvel and DC should take note that it’s not American racism driving that choice. </blockquote>
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It’s Americans’ discontent with the left’s willingness to sacrifice quality and legacy for politics.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And discontent is growing with the sacrificing of white men who have already sacrificed far too much for an ungrateful nonebrity'sville.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I shall keep 'em outside the hedge while you construct a few pales for yourselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have lately taken a comparative shine to that awful marxist lesbian creature who dominated the feminists a while back, who claimed "All men are Rapists". And of course our very own Oz-babe Clammy Ford who demands that we "Kill all men". At least they weren't <i><b>Wayyyyyycists !</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Hahahaha.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I shall pull some pints.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pax</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Amfortashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-34524629484626734572019-02-03T20:09:00.002+11:002019-02-03T20:18:49.203+11:00The Cost of Education<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the western world, education is seen as a 'fundemental' and funding is prioritised. The amount of funding can send the average parent mental. That is not to discount the eastern parent in China or Japan, however, but the conversation in the Tavern today was on the west, or rather this bit of it here in Oz which is possibly better described location-wise as in the east. We were shown some figures for the education of our kiddies. Thank goodness I am no longer burdened.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In Oz the various States generally has the requirement to pay for and provide for the education of children in their State. The Federal Govmunt often sticks a finger in the pot. People pay taxes: the Federal Govmunt doles it out, giving the States some to pay for the schools. Of course, one could make a sound case that it should pay for the children but that would put power in parental hands and that would never do ! Their job is just to pay tax.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One could also make a case for reducing tax by the amount dedicated to the per capita funding and let the parents pay for themselves. But that would not do either. Same reason. The parents' job is to pay tax. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tax clerks need employment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One would expect in any rational, equitable system that all taxpayers would be treated the same, but then the tax system would have to and it doesn't. So neither are the schools. Nor the parents. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Frankly it is a mess.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The mess is made more colourful by having at least three major systems running alongside one another. These, too, are treated very differently. We have the 'Public' system, the 'Private' or 'Independent' system and the 'Catholic' system. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The children who attend these types of school attract different amounts of tax support.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Over <b>40%</b> of Oz children attend Catholic and Independent schools.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And the different systems attract different amounts of 'passion' too. The Catholics do not trust the secular education with its lack of values and lack of personal discipline (similarlyinclined non-Catholics too attend Catholic schools) and are prepared to pay extra, over and above their tax: and the Independants' parents who pay really high fees get incensed at the scurrilous animosty of the left who consider them 'Rich'. Those fee-payers pay tax of course, and the wealthier ones pay vastly and proportionately more. The State school parents want more money and get really annoyed that some other people actually pay more from their own after-tax pocket.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Envy, animosity and ideological bastardry are all encouraged by Government.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But let us see what <b><i>Chanel Kinniburgh</i></b> had to say.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>The huge cost of sending your child through 13 years of school... </b></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>....has been revealed, with a surprising city as the most expensive.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>The average <b>median</b> cost of a government education over a 13-year period in metropolitan Australia is $<b>68,727,</b> the latest ASG Planning for Education Index has revealed.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Parents considering a Catholic education for their son or daughter in metropolitan Australia are expected to spend <b>$127,027,</b> while the <b>average median</b> cost of an independent education in Australia’s capital cities is a whopping <b>$298,689.</b></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">OK. That is on an annual basis (albeit changing over time)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">$<b>5286</b> per capita child in the Public system. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">$<b>9771</b> for the Catholics:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">$<b>23727</b> for Independants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mind you, just what we can make of the 'average median'.... a la mode maths?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It should be noted that the Catholic and Independent schools do <b>not</b> receive State funding equal to the State schools. The Federal Guvmunt 'may' provide some additional funding, but even that does not close the gap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>ASG, the largest provider of education scholarship plans in Australia, found <b>Brisbane was the most expensive</b> national city for a government education, with the bill coming in at $75,601 — <b>10 per cent higher</b> than the national average of $68,727.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Startlingly, school fees made up just a small fraction of the estimated total cost of a government education each year, with external tuition and devices both costing more.</i></span></blockquote>
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<i>The ASG research discovered <b>Adelaide </b>was the country’s most expensive city for a <b>Catholic</b> education, with the median total cost exceeding $131,000.</i></blockquote>
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<i>Whereas, <b>Sydney </b>was Australia’s most expensive city for an <b>independent </b>education, with parents expected to spend $461,999 over a 13-year period — 54.7 per cent above the national average of $276,338.</i></blockquote>
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<i><b>School fees were easily the most expensive component of an independent education in metropolitan Australia, costing parents approximately $14,116 per child per year</b>.</i></blockquote>
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<i>Mother, Sarah Charge, whose youngest daughter is about to start Year 9 at a Catholic school in Sydney, described the total cost of an education as “scary” when seen as a lump sum.</i></blockquote>
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<i>“The estimated total cost is a lot more than I thought it would be, however we’ve been fortunate to source second hand uniforms and texts books which helps keep costs down,” Ms Charge said.</i></blockquote>
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<i>“I’m also really surprised the estimated total cost of a Catholic education in Sydney is below the national average. It must be the only thing that is, especially when you compare it to accommodation and house prices.”</i></blockquote>
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<i>The ASG Planning for Education Index also showed the average median cost of a government education in regional Australia was $57,994.</i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Parents considering a Catholic education for their son or daughter in regional Australia are expected to spend $109,877, while the average median cost of an independent education in regional Australians $201,210.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>The Index discovered regional New South Wales was Australia’s most expensive state for a government education ($73,808), regional Queensland the most expensive for a Catholic education ($113,211) and regional Victoria the most expensive state for an independent education ($248,543).</i></span></blockquote>
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<i><b>ASG CEO Ross Higgins said the cost of education had risen at more than double the rate of inflation over the past decade.</b></i></blockquote>
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<i>“Education costs, including tuition costs, uniforms, transport and devices are demanding a far greater share of the family budget than in the past,” Mr Higgins said.</i></blockquote>
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<i>“More than ever, the costs associated with education are placing more of a burden on Australian families, who are already challenged by the rising cost of living.</i></blockquote>
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<i>“With less discretionary money to spend, it’s going to be very hard to pay for education, which means parents who have saved will be in a better position in the long run.”</i></blockquote>
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<i>Mr Higgins encouraged parents to put in place a dedicated savings plan, so they can financially afford to meet their children’s educational goals and aspirations.</i></blockquote>
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<i>ASG has also developed a Cost Calculator tool which may assist looking at this data as it applies to your circumstances.</i></blockquote>
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<i>The Index was based on data sourced from a survey of 2300 ASG members on ancillary costs and public information on school fees from the Good Schools Guide and My School website.</i></blockquote>
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<i>The data was then consolidated and analysed by Monash University.</i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I do not know what they do for funding in other countries. I am aware that America does not provide tax funds to some schools in some States. I know of parents who pay for and run their own schools. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Personally I put two children through Independent Schools. I say independent, not Catholic: one was Baptist and the other Church of England. It cost a fortune. And not a small one. I also put one wife through College to Batchelors and another through Batchelors, MEd and PhD. That was not a small fortune too. There was a struggle to get my degrees, I can tell you. The 'provider' is always last in line.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">No wonder I am poor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I would welcome comments from around the world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Meanwhile, I shall line up the pints.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Amfortashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-59165862647292089372019-02-01T00:26:00.000+11:002019-02-01T00:26:09.055+11:00The Music Didn't Die<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I heard that it had, back in the 60's when Buddy Holly and his mates died in a plane crash in a storm. But it was found alive and well a decade or two later in Cleveland, Ohio. Like many 'older' folk I had an appreciation of 'yoof' music way back when, and despair of ever having what passes for today's efforts moving my heart, head or soul. The relatively sound people of an era long gone, with songs and tunes that actually said something to young people, were replaced with crass, screeching divas and filthy-mouthed rappers. But one chap and his mates stand out. And it was in Cleveland that he found his metier.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hugh Anthony Cregg III, born in that era on July 5, 1950 and known professionally as <b>Huey Lewis</b>, is an American singer, songwriter, and actor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lewis sings lead and plays harmonica for his band, <b><i>Huey Lewis and the News</i></b>, in addition to writing or co-writing many of the band's songs. The band is known for their third, and best-selling, album <b><i>Sports</i></b>, and their contribution to the soundtrack of the 1985 feature film <i><b>Back to the Future.</b></i> Lewis previously played with the band Clover from 1972 to 1979. In 1985, Lewis sued Ray Parker, Jr. over similarities between Parker's theme for the 1984 movie <b><i>Ghostbusters</i></b> and Lewis' <i><b>"I Want a New Drug"</b></i>. It was, to all intents, the same tune; the same beat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Huey and his lads, all pretty old now, are currently bringing the music back from the dead and rehearsing for a gig in the Tavern's Music Rooms, which spill out onto the patio and lawns.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Huey Lewis was born in New York City. His father, Hugh Anthony Cregg Jr., was an Irish-American from Boston, Massachusetts, and his mother, Maria Magdalena Barcinski, was Polish, from Warsaw.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lewis was raised in Marin County, California, living in Tam Valley and Strawberry, and attending Strawberry Point Elementary School (where he skipped second grade) and Edna Maguire Junior High School in Mill Valley. When he was 13, his parents divorced. It presaged big changes in his life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He attended and graduated from the Lawrenceville School, an all-male prep school in New Jersey, in 1967, and he achieved a perfect score of 800 on the math portion of the SAT.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Young Gregg was a nice young man who grew to be a fine man. His later fame did not drag him down.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He was also an all-state baseball player. Lewis attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. His mother had an extramarital affair with Beat Generation poet Lew Welch who became his step father. Lewis' credits Welch with inspiring him in his early teenage years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In an interview with David Letterman, Lewis talked about hitchhiking across the country back to New York City and how he learned to play the harmonica while waiting for rides. He talked about hanging out at the airport for three days until he stowed away on a plane to Europe. In later interviews, Lewis would reveal other encounters he had traveling around Europe. (See video at the end).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While visiting Aberdeen, Scotland, with no money and nowhere to sleep, he claimed that the locals were very hospitable by offering him somewhere to stay. In Madrid, Spain, he became an accomplished blues player as he hitchhiked and supported himself by busking with his harmonica. He gave his first concerts in Madrid, earning enough money to buy a plane ticket back to the US.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Upon his return, Lewis entered the engineering program at Cornell University. While there he made friends with Lance and Larry Hoppen who later played with Orleans and Eddie Tuleja of King Harvest. Initially an active student and a member of the fraternity Eta Lambda Nu, Lewis soon lost interest in college. He signed up with a band called Slippery Elm, and in December 1969 during his junior year, he dropped out of Cornell and moved back to the San Francisco Bay Area. His aim was to continue playing music, though along the way he also tried other fields of work including landscaping, carpentry, wedding, and event planning, as well as delivering and selling natural foods.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1971 Lewis joined the Bay Area band Clover. Around this time he took the stage name "Hughie Louis", the spelling of which he would tinker with for some years after. Other members of the band (at various points) included John McFee, Alex Call. Lewis played harmonica and sang lead vocals on a few tunes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let me digress from the timeline a little. Huey's sensitivity to the 'ordinary' man included the main movements of his day, especially the Vietnam War. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>"Walking on a Thin Line" </i></b>was recorded by Huey Lewis and the News and is the fifth song on their 1984 release...Sports. The song is about both Vietnam soldiers and veterans...how the war weighed on their mind during combat...and the demons they would unknowingly confront upon their return home to the United States. Vietnam soldiers were treated with such disrespect and not awarded the honour they should have been given for participating in a war that a majority of America objected to. Examples of this outcasting can be seen in the lines <i>"Don't you know me I'm the boy next door...The one you find so easy to ignore"</i> as well as <i>"Straight off the front line...Labeled as freaks loose on the streets of the city". </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In reality, these were just boys who simply enlisted in the armed services or were called to duty as part of the Draft Lottery of 1969. For the most part, they <i>"Taught me how to shoot to kill"</i> and became <i>"A specialist with a deadly skill"</i>...and all along this was merely <i>"A skill I needed to have to be a survivor"</i>. These guys didn't start or ask to be in a war the public would never accept...and never deserved to be treated as criminals come the wars end.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Walking on a Thin Line" peaked at number 18 on the Billboard 100 of 1984 (the only single from the album not to reach the top ten) and was received with mixed thoughts by the public...drawing a strong parallel to the war in which it is about.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1976, after playing in the Bay Area with limited success, Clover went to Los Angeles. They had their big break in a club there when their act was caught by Nick Lowe who convinced Clover to travel to Great Britain with him. However, Clover arrived in Britain just as their folk-rock sound, known as pub rock in Britain, was being replaced by punk rock.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The two Clover albums produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange for Phonogram were not successful. By this point the spelling of Cregg's stage name had changed to "Huey Louis"; it is under this spelling that he is billed on both of Clover's albums for Phonogram, although for songwriting credits he is billed as "H. Cregg". In 1978 the band returned to California, McFee joined the Doobie Brothers, and Clover disbanded.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Under the name "<i><b>Bluesy Huey Lewis"</b></i>, Lewis played harmonica on Thin Lizzy's 1978 landmark album Live and Dangerous. That same year, he was playing at <b><i>Uncle Charlie's</i></b>, a club in Corte Madera, California, doing the "Monday Night Live" spot along with future members of the News. At this point, he had adopted the "Huey Lewis" spelling, and the band was billed as Huey Lewis and the American Express. After recording the song "Exodisco" (a disco version of the theme from the film Exodus) simply as American Express, Lewis landed a singles contract from Phonogram and Bob Brown became his manager.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The band played a few gigs (including an opening for Van Morrison), before adding new guitarist Chris Hayes to the line-up. On Brown's advice, they changed their name again to <b><i>Huey Lewis and The News</i></b>. After a failed self-titled debut in 1980, the band finally broke through to Top 40 success with the gold album <i><b>Picture This</b></i> (1982). It rose to No. 13 on the albums chart thanks to the Mutt Lange-penned "Do You Believe in Love", the band's first hit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was around this time, travelling to small-town gigs, to even smaller crowds that he found an unexpected welcome in Cleveland. That initiated a song.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The band's third LP, <i><b>Sports</b></i> (1983), is one of the best-selling pop releases of all time. It became a No. 1 hit in 1984 and had multi-platinum success in 1985. Four singles from the album reached the top-10 of the Billboard Hot 100: "Heart and Soul" reached No. 8, while "I Want a New Drug," "The Heart of Rock & Roll," and "If This Is It" all reached No. 6.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lewis knew Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds from having played harmonica on their 1979 albums ("Labour of Lust" and "Repeat When Necessary") and produced Lowe's 1985 version of "I Knew the Bride (When She Used to Rock and Roll)". He later produced several songs (including one where he sang backup and played harmonica) on Bruce Hornsby & The Range's debut album, The Way It Is. Hornsby thanked him by writing the song "Jacob's Ladder", a No. 1 single from the News' next album.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His song <i><b>"The Power of Love"</b></i> was a No. 1 U.S. hit and was featured in the 1985 film <b><i>Back to the Future</i></b>, for which they also recorded the song, "Back in Time". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lewis has a cameo appearance in the film as a faculty member who rejects Marty McFly's band's audition for the school's "Battle of the Bands" contest. As an inside joke, the piece the band plays is an instrumental heavy metal version of "The Power of Love". (Lewis plays the audition committee leader, who, after glancing at the other, equally unimpressed fellow faculty members, picks up the megaphone and says, "Hold it, fellas ... I'm afraid you're just too darn loud".) A poster for the album Sports is hanging on Marty's wall when he awakes at the end of the movie. "The Power of Love" was nominated for an Academy Award.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Following the success of "The Power of Love" and Back to the Future, Huey Lewis and the News released their fourth studio album,<i><b> Fore!</b></i> in 1986. Fore! followed the success of Sports and reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The album spawned the No. 1 singles, "Stuck with You" and "Jacob's Ladder" as well as the mainstream rock hit <i><b>"Hip to Be Square".</b></i> In all, the album had five top-10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified triple platinum.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The remainder of the 1980s and early 1990s were mostly spent touring and recording fourteen top-20 Billboard Hot 100 hits and releasing two more hit albums: Small World (1988) No. 11 and Hard at Play (1991) No. 27. Lewis had a planned solo album titled Back in Blue that was canceled in the mid-90s due to living arrangement issues on the part of Lewis. One of the songs from that cancelled project, "100 Years From Now" was later used for the compilation album Time Flies... The Best Of.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Huey Lewis has sung with Umphrey's McGee at several shows beginning with the 2005 Jammy Awards and is featured on two tracks of their album Safety in Numbers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On February 13, 2007, Lewis was interviewed on the podcast series Stuck in the '80s. During the interview, he revealed that the band has written several new songs that they planned to record in 2008. He also stated that, given how much the industry has changed since their last album, he was unsure how they would sell the new material.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During a show at the California State Fair on August 21, 2007, Lewis was named Sacramento's <b>Musician of the Year</b> by the fair's general manager and presented with a gold statue of the California state bear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lewis recorded a duet version of "Workin' for a Livin'" with Garth Brooks, which was included on Brooks' three-disc set The Ultimate Hits, in late 2007.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On July 4, 2008, the eve of his 58th birthday, Huey Lewis and the News were the opening act for the annual A Capitol Fourth celebration on the west lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. More than a half million people attended and was broadcast live on PBS. The band performed "The Heart of Rock & Roll", "The Power of Love" and "Workin' for a Livin'".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On May 29, 2011, Lewis played the annual Summer Camp Music Festival in Chillicothe, Illinois, along with Chicago-based progressive jam band Umphrey's Mcgee. They were billed as Huey Lewis and The Rumors. Together they played covers as well as songs from both their respective catalogs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On April 2, 2013, Lewis appeared on the ABC television series Dancing with the Stars, where he performed "The Heart of Rock & Roll" in celebration of the 30th anniversary release of Sports and a concert tour with the News.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now, for those with time on their hands who would like a far more detailed and entertaining 'history', here is a sneak backstage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am not an old rocker. I am not a bit musical. My beloved son in whom I am well pleased is though. Not old, you understand, but musical.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was he who introduced Huey.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rock to a good beat, and Pax.</span>Amfortashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-88153721232795218262019-01-28T22:19:00.000+11:002019-01-28T22:19:08.311+11:00An Occasion of Sin<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are a lot about, especially in the media. And boy do people rise to the occasions they find. So, to continue where I left off, with the Covington Catholic High School lad, we need to look carefully to see just where people can go wrong. And by 'wrong' I mean <b><span style="color: red;"><i>Sin</i></span></b>. And by 'people' I count m'self in with you and the rabble, far left, alt-right and centre.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But first .. <b>Put the stones down and step away from</b> the fake news purveyors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The left especially have a pronounced hypocricy, but don't think that the ordinary folk do not. The lefties were as quick to condemn one high school lad as they were to rush to condemn anyone who tried to question another high school lad. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Conservatives have a similar, albeit less noticeable propensity to hypocricy too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And what did the lad do? He 'smirked', apparantly, although to me he seemed to be smiling a tad nervously. For that, the stones started flying. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />The tweets, and other social media 'messages' wanted blood and guts, often literally. They did not stop to think, nor gather facts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That is what we expect of journalists, but guess what? They didn't wait, think nor collect facts either.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But, let us back up a bit for those who have not caught up let alone risen to the occasions. The hopefully sinless .... in this instance. Christopher DeGroot gave some background before Anthony Esolen brought the message home about OUR sins.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Christopher focused on those that should know better.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>People need enemies and scapegoats. People need someone or something to hate. For there is meaning and vitality in hating. There is, above all, unity, especially in politics, defined as it is by conflicts and group interests.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OK. Some people. Perhaps most. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>We learned this dark lesson this week. </i></span></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.takimag.com/article/conservative-moral-prostitutes/">https://www.takimag.com/article/conservative-moral-prostitutes/</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>We saw the usual conservative moral prostitutes rush to condemn a group of innocent young Christian men. Students at Covington Catholic High School in Park Hills, Kentucky, they attended a pro-life rally at the Lincoln Memorial in D.C. last Saturday. Also present was a group of Native Americans, for like everyone these days, they too have grievances to express and rights to affirm.</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>At one point a man named Nathan Phillips decided to walk up to Nick Sandmann, a member of the pro-life group, and bang a drum and sing in his face.</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Phillips is 64. Sandmann is 16. But Phillips’ behavior would have been extremely stupid even if he weren’t much older than the teenager.</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>What was the meaning of the drumming and singing? What was it supposed to accomplish?</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Did Sandmann, as a young white man wearing a MAGA hat at a pro-life rally, embody such evils as Phillips sees fit to protest?</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The answer, of course, is no.</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Yet as Jonathan Swift said, <b>man is not a rational animal</b>, but an animal that is capable of rationality.</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>So it happened that many people, upon seeing brief footage of a white teenager smiling at an old Native American man while a group of boys, also wearing MAGA hats, looked on from behind the two men, assumed Sandmann and his schoolmates were looking for trouble.</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>In their white privilege, they chose to pick on and ridicule Phillips, who, having dark skin, was oppressed by definition.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>More detailed footage soon revealed all this to be nonsense.</b></i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The boys, indeed, <b>had done nothing wrong</b>, and it was Phillips who was the agitator, though the plainly idiotic and dishonest man has put a benevolent-sounding spin on his conduct. (We also know now that Phillips is not, as he had claimed to be, a Vietnam veteran.)</i></span> </blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Sandmann and the other boys have been objects of hatred in both the media and on social media.</i></span> </b></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Some have received death threats. And with that reflexive gutlessness that marks Christianity in our time, <b>their school issued an apology. So did the Diocese of Covington.</b></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>It has been quite revealing to see how much <span style="color: red;"><b>hatred </b></span>there is for white people in America, and what <b>little it takes</b> for it to come forth.</i></span> </blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Events, however, are essentially occasions for the assertion and expression of human character.</i></span> </b></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Thus, if you know what people value and believe, you can have a pretty good sense of how they will perceive and judge phenomena in general. It is remarkable how predictable people are in this respect.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Christopher drew parallels with the Kavanagh hearings where similar wild lies were told to discredit the man (I abridged for brevity - follow the link) and mentions an example of what a journal wickedly threw at this lad: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Hence the 'National Review' article “The Covington Students Might as Well Have Just Spit on the Cross,” written by <b>Nicholas Frankovich </b>and published at 2:55 a.m. on Sunday at the magazine’s website.</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The Covington boys, according to Frankovich, <span style="color: cyan;">“mock a serious, frail-looking older man and gloat in their momentary role as Roman soldiers to his Christ. ‘Bullying’ is a worn-out word and doesn’t convey the full extent of the evil on display here.” </span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Remember, he is talking about a smiling boy, otherwise silent, with a drum banging in his face by a man who is shown subsequently to be a damnable liar. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>His hysterical enthusiasm increasing, Frankovich continues: </i></span></blockquote>
<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>For some of us, the gospel stories of Jesus’s passion and death are so familiar we no longer hear them. The evangelists are terse in their descriptions of the humiliations heaped on Jesus in the final hours before his crucifixion, the consummate humiliation. Read the accounts again or, if you’d rather not, watch the video. The human capacity for sadism is too great.</i></span><blockquote class="tr_bq">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Unhappily, Frankovich failed to work in a Hitler reference for his fellow good team members.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>National Review silently removed Frankovich’s article on the same day it was published. Then, with shameless hypocrisy, the magazine began publishing articles taking the media to task for its coverage of the Covington boys.</i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>To his credit, Frankovich has apologized for his atrocious article. But his destructive moralizing is just one instance of a general practice on the right. </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A quick look around on google, twitter, facebook and other social media will show the most disgusting, violent and obscene messages about and directed to this lad. Mainly, I have to say, from the Left. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We can point a finger, at Frankovich amongst many others but before we pick up the stones (which to my mind he richly desereves at least a few), let us hear from Anthony. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Anthony Esolen</i></b> is a lecturer, translator, and writer. His latest books are Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child and Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture. He directs the Center for the Restoration of Catholic Culture at Thomas More College of the Liberal Arts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I dislike speaking about failure and sin, and dearly wish that the leaders of my Church would give me less occasion to do so.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Everyone by now has heard about what happened to boys from Covington Catholic High School. They were at the Lincoln Memorial, waiting for the bus home to Kentucky. </i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>In other words, unlike almost everybody else who goes to Washington to protest, they were there not to campaign, not to condemn a political party, and not to demand something for themselves, <b>but to protect human lives </b>that are now vulnerable to destruction. Some of them were wearing a Make America Great Again cap.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Then they were harassed,<b> in the vilest terms</b>, by members of what appears to be a lunatic group, the “African Israelites.” They did not respond in kind. </i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>They began to chant school chants, to drown out the insults. At that point another protest group came into the picture. <b>They yelled at the boys too</b>, telling them to go back to Europe. This one was led by an American Indian (I too am native; I was born in the United States), beating a drum, within inches of the face of a boy he had apparently targeted. The boy, nonplussed, held his ground and smiled a frozen smile.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The Diocese of Covington, along with many another organization and person, leapt to condemn the boy in harsh terms. They did so without knowing what happened. After all, they were not there.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>This is called <b><span style="color: red;">PREJUDICE</span></b>, or RASH JUDGMENT. You have the tree and the noose ready, and you say so publicly, before you know a thing. </i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>What prompts the sin of PREJUDICE? A variety of things, in this case. One was race hatred: many people leapt to judgment because the <b>accused were white</b>. </i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>One was our endemic <b>contempt for boys</b>. One was political faction: people who do not believe as I believe about X – fill in the blank – are not simply mistaken, short-sighted, ignorant, or simply possessed of a different judgment about what is possible or advisable for the common good. <b>They are wicked.</b></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>That was shortly followed by <b><span style="color: red;">VINDICTIVENESS</span></b>. People called for the boy to be <b>expelled,</b> and they were glad to subject him, his family, and his school to national <b>disgrace. </b> The glee of <b>vengeance</b> causes people to lose all sense of proportion, and to forget their sins.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Unless I am much mistaken, this is not a land of saints. To be rude to an old man is bad, even when the old man is behaving in a disgraceful way. Place the worst construction upon the boy’s action. Each of us has done plenty of things that are a hundred times more wicked, vile, and destructive than is that sin in question. If the boy deserved expulsion for that, we should all deserve, for our worst sins, protracted torments followed by slow hanging. The very call for a wildly disproportionate and ruthless punishment was such a sin.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>A lot of people began to have second thoughts. Others roamed over the Internet to find something, anything, that would <b>cast the school in a bad light</b>. Some said that the boy did not himself write his sometimes ungrammatical apologia, explaining what happened. They had, of course, no evidence for their accusation.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>This was the sin of <b><span style="color: red;">CALUMNY</span></b>. By this time, people knew quite well that the boys had not sought out any confrontation, and that they had been already abused by grown men aplenty.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>To abuse the weak – children, women, youths – is at least a sin of <b><span style="color: red;">COWARDICE</span></b>, and to call them “faggots” and “incest kids” compounded the abuse with the sin of <b><span style="color: red;">OBSCENITY</span></b>. To withhold the truth about the context of the incident, truth that would mitigate any guilt, or exonerate entirely, is to commit the sin of <b><span style="color: red;">DETRACTION</span></b>.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The Indian with the drum and his group showed up at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception the next evening, attempting to disrupt the Mass. This was a sin of <b><span style="color: red;">SACRILEGE</span></b>, against the holy place and the worship of innocent people; in the context of what they had already done, it was the sin of <b><span style="color: red;">CONTUMACY</span></b>, and of <b><span style="color: red;">SOWING DISCORD.</span></b></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The school had to remain closed the following Monday, and the boy and his family have received plenty of <b>threats of violence and death</b>. I have seen some of these. Incitement to a felony crime is nothing for police to take lightly. These are, at the least, sins of <b><span style="color: red;">MALICE,</span></b> not of intemperance; sins committed not in the heat of a situation that has come upon you suddenly, <b>but in the cold; deliberate, calculated, intentional.</b></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>At the worst, they are sins of <b><span style="color: red;">VIOLENCE,</span></b> and of vicarious participation in the evil that is wished, if someone should be so mad or so wicked as to burn or kill.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I am not calling for the prejudicial, the contumacious, the cowardly, the deceitful, the vindictive, the factious, the malicious, and the violent to be strung up. </i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>They must think they are, because nobody, knowing that he is steeped in moral sewage from head to toe, would rave and rage at the filth on his neighbor’s shoe. It would be worse than nonsensical. It would be like begging for the vengeance of God to come down upon you.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Amongst the vile people denouncing the boy and calling for his punishment was the local Archbishop. A man who should have been aware of the mud and filth. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The behaviours of many all around this event were <i><b>appalling</b></i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The boy's father has hired 'counsel' to pursue those that lied, threatened, calumnised, etc.</span><br />
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The family of Nick Sandmann, the teenager in the middle of the now-notorious encounter between a Native American man and several high school students wearing “Make America Great Again” hats, has hired a prominent libel attorney.</blockquote>
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Wood has been called a “smooth-talking Southern attorney” that has “carved out a successful career representing the high-profile and falsely accused,” according to The Washington Post in 2011.</blockquote>
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Wood represented former Republican presidential nominee Herman Cain after his campaign was derailed by sexual harassment claims, and also represented the family of JonBenet Ramsey, who were suspected in the murder of the child pageant queen.</blockquote>
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Wood “is committed to bringing justice to 16-year-old Nick Sandmann and his family.” </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'Tis pity Denny Crane isn't real and available. He would frighten ten shades of greenback out of the hundreds whose arses he would haul into Court. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is going to be necessary to send a very hard message to anyone so willing to try to destroy with lies and threats.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, I thanked the gentlemen for their views and pulled pints all around.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now, lest anyone think (uncharitably) that I take a 'holier than Thou' attitude here, none of the vile people involved traspassed against me, so I am in no position to offer forgiveness. (Trolls have aimed at me in the past and I forgave them - keeping them outside the hedge lest there be more 'occasions of sin'.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those that apologise to young Nick may seek his forgiveness. But their souls -psyches are severely damaged. Perhaps out of ignorance or from 'possession' There are many out there - most of us? - who are subject to the attention of demons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pray for them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I too may have some things to report in Confession. The Archbishop may need time with his Confessor as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pray for me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How about you?</span><br />
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<br />Amfortashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-44439508605103030632019-01-28T15:05:00.001+11:002019-01-28T18:36:46.121+11:00Two-faced January<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Few things typify two-faced January (Janus) better the media. Barely are we into the year than that Institution of many parts and many nonebrities has accelerated its 'fake news' output beyond all the predictions of the psychics - the media's competitors, who just as typically got the near future all wrong. And we in the Tavern sat back to watch the mayhem and sink a few pints along with the floundering reputations of the hoity toities. I had to counsel even m'self to refrain from the attractive sins that even exposure to lies propel us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Sins</b>, eh, said someone. Yes, they lie in wait in the weeds ready to drag us down. Make no excuses: sins are those actions, omissions, the thoughts, the 'feelings' entertained and relished, that distance us from God by damaging our 'psyche' (soul). They call to us like sirens. The media are the modern sirens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The bars have been crowded with the voices of customers putting their two penn'th in, such that two posts will barely suffice and enable me to untangle the obvious sins, the sinners and the not-so-obvious ones of both. So, this and the one to follow will seek some exposures and enlightening.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b>John Nolte</b></i> kicked off:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: cyan; font-size: x-large;"><b>Four Massive Media Hoaxes in First Three Weeks of 2019</b></span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>We are only three weeks into 2019, a mere 22 days, and already the establishment media have hit us with four massive hoaxes, four flaming piles of fake news.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Led primarily by CNN, the Washington Post, BuzzFeed, NBC News, and the New York Times — the same media that have spent two years crybabying about being labeled fake news — have already run these cons on the American people with a full week still left in the first month of this new year.</i></span></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/01/22/nolte-four-massive-media-hoaxes-in-first-three-weeks-of-2019/">https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/01/22/nolte-four-massive-media-hoaxes-in-first-three-weeks-of-2019/</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Worst still, the media continue to stand by these debunked hoaxes, including one that resulted in death threats against children.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Does anyone still want to argue fake news is not the enemy of the people?</i></span></blockquote>
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After this trip down memory lane, I doubt it:</blockquote>
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<b>1. Media Lie About Conservatives Outraged Over Dancing Video</b></blockquote>
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The media opened the year on a <b>stupid note</b> with a wave of fake news that claimed, without any evidence (because there was none), <b>conservatives had become outraged </b>by a video of Socialist It Girl, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), getting her groove on in high school.</blockquote>
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You know, because we’re all the dad in Footloose.</blockquote>
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“Dance-off: Attempt to shame Ocasio-Cortez with video <b>backfires,</b>” howled Reuters.</blockquote>
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“<b>Bid to embarrass Ocasio-Cortez backfires,</b>” screamed the far-left CNN on at least five occasions on YouTube alone.</blockquote>
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“Conservatives mock Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for college dancing video, everyone else thinks it’s adorable,” reported something called a Newsweek.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>And on and on…</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Just why even the most buttoned-up conservative would be 'Outraged' by a young woman dancing (if it can be called that) even a young woman so obviously marked by ignorance, beats me. But we are expected to believe that !</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Memo to media: If you are going to lie, at least make it credible. At least they got the 'backfire' bit right. The ones who it backfired upon ?- they got that wrong too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Other than the fact that there was not even one example of a conservative doing anything more than shrugging the video off or agreeing it was a charming video of a high school girl acting like a high school girl, the story was 100 percent fake news, <b>totally fabricated</b>, conjured from whole cloth.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">End Result: No retractions, corrections, or apologies.</span></b></i></span></blockquote>
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<b>2. Media Spread Homophobic Conspiracy Theory About Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)</b></blockquote>
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Somehow, between their hoax about conservative outrage over a dancing Marxist and their malicious hoax about Lindsey Graham being a homosexual Manchurian candidate, the media were able to offer Americans nine whole days without spreading fake news.</blockquote>
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But then the dam broke as CNN and MSNBC sought to bully Graham over his recent support for President Trump.</blockquote>
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According to CNN and MSNBC, the <b>only </b>reason Graham supports Trump is because Trump has proof that Graham is a closet homosexual.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, Trump is somehow, what, 'blackmailing' someone over and assumed sexual proclivity that the rest of that society gives kudos to, along with court support if anyone dares to refuse to make a cake for them? Oh, come on ! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b>3. Media Lie About Trump Suborning Perjury</b></i></span></blockquote>
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Just a couple days after spreading that conspiracy theory against Graham, the media began to work its way into a Fake News Frenzy after the far-left BuzzFeed published the <b>ludicrous claim</b> President Trump told his then-personal attorney to lie to Congress about a real estate deal.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>As Breitbart News pointed out at the time, the story was absurd on its face. To begin with, the lead reporter is a <b>serial fabulist</b>, the story was based on two anonymous sources, and BuzzFeed was <b>forced to admit it had no proof </b>to back up the claim.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Nevertheless, for some 36 hours, an unquestioning media screamed IMPEACHMENT, at least until no less than Special Counsel Robert Mueller fact-checked the BuzzFeed story and declared it fake news.</i></span></blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">From the word go, the media knew this story was a lie. </span></b></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>But they also knew Trump was in a box because there was no way he could prove a negative, that he had not done some something. Never in a million years did they believe Mueller would drop a piano on them.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><i><i>The far-left BuzzFeed is sticking by its fake news, and even though the horse’s mouth declared it fake news, the rest of the media are following suit in defending the story.</i></i></i></span></blockquote>
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<b>4. Media Launch Online Hate Crime Against Covington High School Kids</b></blockquote>
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Desperate to get the BuzzFeed fiasco off the Sunday front page, and based solely on selectively-edited video and their own seething hatred of Trump supporters, the media launched a <b>rage-fueled jihad against — get this — kids</b>, teenagers… And all of it proved to be a lie.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>The full video proves an American Indian activist sought and failed to provoke these kids, who were guilty of nothing more than minding their own business.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>What’s more, these kids were verbally abused for the better part of an hour by a group of black nationalists hurling racial and homophobic slurs.</i></span></blockquote>
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Through it all, the MAGA-supporting kids remained cheerful, which kept the situation from escalating.</blockquote>
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<b>End Result: These innocent kids, their families, and their school are facing death threats, </b>while Maggie Haberman of the New York Times and the Washington Post’s Karen Tumulty refuse to retract their proven lies and CNN’s Kirsten Powers is STILL falsely accusing them of using the N-word:</blockquote>
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If you think the media are despicable and dishonest now, wait till the 2020 presidential election — you haven’t seen anything yet.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There was quite a bit of talk about the Covington Catholic Boys and I will get to that in the next post, as it concerns all of us. And the many sins that you may not have even considered, that weigh that incident down. Unless there is much repenting, many souls will sink into Hell over it, millstones attached to their necks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The media liars have much to repent: much retraction to do; many apologies to make. Confession is good for the soul but may cause a career change as they get fired. Not that many will do any of that or suffer any consequence. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And to round this round off before I had to recharge everyone's glasses, we heard of a fine charge by Mrs Trump's lawyers. <b><i>Andrew Bolt</i></b> brought the good news and some fake news 'end result'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">FAKE NEWS SHAME: PAPER APOLOGISES FOR TRASHING MELANIA TRUMP</span></i></b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Now London's Telegraph pays "substantial damages" to Melania Trump and issues a shopping list of corrections to "false statements" in an article last week that trashed her. </b></span></blockquote>
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<i>The apology is extraordinary long and extraordinarily swift:</i></blockquote>
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<i><span style="color: cyan;">""Following last Saturday’s (Jan 19) Telegraph magazine cover story “The mystery of Melania”, we have been asked to make clear that the article contained a <b>number of false statements</b> which we accept should not have been published.</span></i> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: cyan;">Mrs Trump <b>did not</b> leave her Design and Architecture course at University relating to the completion of an exam, as alleged in the article, but rather because she wanted to pursue a successful career as a professional model.</span></i> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: cyan;">Mrs Trump <b>was not</b> struggling in her modelling career before she met Mr Trump, and she did not advance in her career due to the assistance of Mr Trump.</span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: cyan;">We accept that Mrs Trump was a successful professional model in her own right before she met her husband and obtained her own modelling work without his assistance. Mrs Trump met Mr Trump in 1998, <b>not </b>in 1996 as stated in the article.</span></i> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: cyan;">The article also <b>wrongly claimed</b> that Mrs Trump’s mother, father and sister relocated to New York in 2005 to live in buildings owned by Mr Trump. They did not.</span></i> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: cyan;">The claim that Mrs Trump cried on election night <b>is also false.</b></span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: cyan;">We apologise unreservedly to The First Lady and her family for any embarrassment caused by our publication of these allegations. As a mark of our regret we have agreed to pay Mrs Trump substantial damages as well as her legal costs.""</span></i></span></blockquote>
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<i><b>So which writer got so much wrong, and so maliciously wrong?</b></i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>The article, written by <b>Nina Burleigh</b>, who works for <b>Newsweek </b>as national politics correspondent, was an excerpt of her upcoming book Golden Handcuffs: The Secret History of Trump's Women.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Burleigh is of the media's establishment Left, actually <b>teaching</b> her brand of "journalism": </i></span></blockquote>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">She is an adjunct professor at Columbia University's graduate school of journalism.</span></b></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>A contributing editor at Salon.com and Elle magazine, her work has also appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and Time magazine, among others. </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>And she <b>refuses to admit to her many errors,</b> despite the Telegraph pulling her piece and paying damages:</i></span></blockquote>
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<i>When reached for comment by The Daily Beast, Burleigh noted, "...The book has been out since October, and excerpted widely in various U.S. publications without a peep of objection. <b>I stand by my reporting</b>."</i></blockquote>
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<i>"Reporting" seems a very loose term. Burleigh's problem here seems to be that Britain has tougher libel laws than the US, where the media is much freer to publish falsehoods.</i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You might think it is easy to spot a lie: spot liars. It isn't. Especially today when we are bombarded by confusing 'information', data, opinion, news and complete fakery designed to confuse even further. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our propensity to 'react' before knowing sufficient facts to form an educated opinion leads the unwary into swamps. We become complicit, if not in the fakery itself, then in a myriad other sins that the 'occasion' presents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Black Pidgeon had something to say about appalling journalists too. He advises them to 'learn how to code' for when they get fired. That is what journalists advised coal miners in America who had lost their jobs. Fitting reposte. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That brings us onto the next post. The Covington Scandal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Before the Chef sets to getting it ready for you, I shall pull pints and pour a round of drinks. It is getting crowded in here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We will need all the Grace we can get.</span><br />
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<br />Amfortashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-43716093441276607392019-01-26T22:10:00.001+11:002019-01-29T19:55:16.621+11:00Jillette<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am a man with a Beard: nevertheless my neck needs shaving from time to time for which my Sword does extra duty. I shall not let a lady's blade do a job of a man's blade. I advise all chaps to think and act similarly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Put an appropriate hat and coat on and I could carry off the look of a ship's Master. But that was not my calling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lady's blade? Babbette, Lynnette, Jillette, Gillette. Girls' names. Gillette made its fortune after a salesman, seeking 'Salesman of the Year' and having captured his territory market of blokes, persuaded ladies too, to shave their armpits, and so vastly increased his sales. But he did it by suggesting that 'other' women were 'ashamed' of body hair, (Boo, hiss), so they should be also. He won his title and the company dominated. The company was too smart by half back then: now they are just stupid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The recent advert will be persuasive too. It has already persuaded men to throw their Gillette razors away and try others. And do you blame them? It grievously insulted men. Gillette has 'form' in the blame and shame business. It turned to a fetid feminist to develop their advert: one with a track record of demeaning and dismissing men. Now she will dispossess the company of a substantial proportion of its customers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Well done 'saleswoman of the year'.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Just why any sane person or company would insult its male customers is not hard to figure. Our society has turned against itself and those that provide for it and protect it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A decade ago, Gillette held 70 percent of the global market share for razors, and now it holds 54 percent. Those sales didn’t disappear; they went to those newer, savvier companies that don’t have 100 years of history making women feel bad about body hair. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now it is suggesting men should feel ashamed about being men. (Hiss, Boo..t)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Marketing Dept. has simply jumped on the anti-male bandwagon, thoughlessly and stupidly. Self-emasculation seems to be part and parcel of the civilisational suicide we see around us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It does well to remind ourselves of the Good that men do and the Good Men all around us. Not perfect men; not all heroic; not all budding Saints. But good blokes in the main. It is necessary to show it, not grossly over-emphasis the small proportion of bad men as that awful advert tried. It is especially important that the ladies who have heart, soul and Good nature give acknowledgement of Good men too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As did the Lady of the Tavern yesterday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>I am by far no expert in masculinity. I just know that I know it when I see it. I see an attack on men all around me and that concerns me greatly. </i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>But I want to take some time to shine a light on a few of the good masculine men I have come across lately. </i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">I would like to celebrate men like these.</span></b> </i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i> I want to highlight that what masculine men offer the world is vital. It is essential to our very survival, as a nation.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>I can’t speak for all women, but I, for one, can see value in authentic masculinity.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>The man in this photo came from a country that was not free. He came to the United States as a small child and became an Army Green Beret. </i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>He sacrificed, he bled, he fought with his strength for the good of others, and he protects those he loves. </i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>We need more like him in this country and elsewhere. I see good in this man.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>“Ranger School Class 7-94 (Back when there was still a Desert Phase) 19 yrs old. Graduation day with my little sister @anessaarnold After losing close to 30 lbs... When there is no more fat and your body eats away at muscle.. When you have to wear winter BDUs because all the other ripstop BDUs have torn away... You start to realize that mindset is the strength that will carry you on.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The little boy, who did as boys do: became a Man.</span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This understanding later allowed me to finish college (With Academic Honors) while taking on some of the hardest assignments in the military. No matter who you are or what you decide to do... Never stop... Never quit... And never let others decide your fate. #RLTW #ronintactics #life #godandcountry 🇺🇸 #journeyofathousandmiles” (https://www.instagram.com/p/BsdRjWcDZTq/) </i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />A man who goes into the wild, looks the part after a short while. Warriors don't use Gillette. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Men are born to be heroes, they are born to be warriors. Each in their own way with the gifts God has given them. And we need men like this. </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b>Stephen Willeford </b>is no stranger to adversity. He is a Texas man, a good man, and ran into a church when a madman decided to kill 26 innocent people and injure over 20 more over a year ago in Sutherland Springs, Texas. </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>He rushed into a church while getting shot at himself to help save and protect the innocent who came to worship that day. </i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>He is a good man. </i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b>This is what masculinity looks like and it is a good thing.</b> </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>We, as a society. Should cherish good men like this. </i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>I say this and highlight these men to show that you are <b>needed,</b> you are <b>valued </b>and you are <b>wanted </b>by those of us that still have our sanity. There are many more. You know who you are. And may God bless strong masculine men. May you continue to be all that God has called and designed you to be.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“The rifle has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.” Jeff Cooper.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have little doubt that the feminist woman who made the advert does not approve of rifles, churches or bothering to look out of her window to see good men. She is 'fixed' in her lefty feminism. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some people just WILL not see beyond what they want to see.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The interview below has a fixed-minded woman who liked the advert and just would not see what men (and decent women) saw in it. The man being interviewed was quite clear and direct however. Let us not dwell on the interviewer chap who appears to stumble over his words - trying to be 'careful'? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Don't do as Jillette has done and cut your own throat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Pax</span>Amfortashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-49871723377816488302019-01-25T15:36:00.000+11:002019-01-25T15:36:26.286+11:00A Man Would Have To Be Mad.....<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">....to go to see a therapist these days. Not that many men do, of course. When not polishing my armour, cleaning my sword and engaging in battle, I moonlighted as a Psychologist for upward of quarter of a century and my consulting rooms saw lines of women, some bringing their children, some their husbands, but few men on their own. I was not surprised at the distribution: I know enough about men and about women. Men try hard to sort things out for themselves. That is far and away their best solution today. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Profession has been taken over ( I have long since moved on) by women, mostly still with the cradle marks on their rumps and a feminist chip on their shoulders. The Professional Association are dominated by leftists and weak men, lesbians and those 'attracted' to perversions. They are churned out by the Universities which have long fallen to Marxism and Feminism. Hey, just my observations, OK?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am quite sure that some people, men as well as women, are in need of the wisdom and perspectives of a sound shrink; the problem is finding a sound one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Most are captured by fanciful and often dangerous ideologies that are a very long way from a psychological discipline. The ubiquitous Zozchial Verker is a fast -and easy track to infiltration. And the effects of such are damaging to women, children and men - and to society. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Recently it has affected even commerial manufacturers and retailers. The Gillette advertisment the other week (I won't soil the bar with it here) demeaned and calumnised men (and even boys) outrageously, going well beyond the now 'normal' advertisers' trope of making men look foolish and inept. What could possibly go wrong ? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Perhaps something could start to go right, when we consider the response to it. Other more resonable and sensitive commercial enterprises have quickly countered.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The American Psychological Association has even gone so far, after giving its stamp of approval to at least half a dozen 'mental illness' / perversions of just a few years ago, as to 'authorise' a complete rejection and repudiation of normal, healthy masculinity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Denis Prager dropped by and gave his view. He had some tips for choosing a sound professional.</span><br />
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<i>If you need proof, ask women who are looking for a husband whether the men they date exhibit too much masculinity, too little masculinity or just the right amount. I have talked to hundreds of women on my radio show (every week I have a “Male/Female Hour”), at speeches and in private who are dating to find a spouse.</i> </blockquote>
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<i><b>Not one </b>has said men today are too masculine. Virtually all of them have said men today lack masculinity.</i></blockquote>
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<i>And why wouldn’t men lack masculinity? A vast number of boys grow up either with <b>no father</b> or with a father they rarely see.</i> </blockquote>
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<b><i>Their lives are dominated by women</i> </b></blockquote>
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<i>— their mother, virtually all their teachers, probably their school principal and probably their therapist.</i></blockquote>
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<i>As if that were not bad enough, many of the single mothers of these American boys are <b>angry at the man</b> who never married them, or at the man who divorced them, or at men in general. In addition, these boys’ women teachers suppress their natural testosterone-driven male behaviors.</i> </blockquote>
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<i><b>And now their teachers increasingly tell them they may not even be a boy.</b></i></blockquote>
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<i>Of course, some men are boors — demanding sex on the first date, sending sex-filled messages, etc. But most men know boorishness is not masculinity. Such behaviors emanate not from masculinity but from poor upbringing and/or the sexual revolution, which taught men and women that the sex drives of men and women are the same.</i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many women are boors too. One can list, just as easily, a catalogue of nasty female behaviour and attitude. Not that any product advertiser will point it out with a cosh.</span><br />
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<i>But as psychoanalyst Erica Komisar wrote in the Wall Street Journal last week, it is “a recipe for mental illness” to tell boys that “aggression, competitiveness and protectiveness is a sign of sickness.”</i></blockquote>
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<i><b>2)</b> This is another example of the most important rule of contemporary life: <b>The left ruins everything it touches.</b></i></blockquote>
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<i>The left has ruined the arts; the universities; high schools; the nuclear family; mainstream Protestantism, Catholicism and Judaism; the Boy Scouts; and journalism. And it is now doing the same to the sciences: Universities are increasingly choosing science faculty based on gender and race rather than on scientific expertise.</i></blockquote>
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<i><b>Psychology and psychiatry have long been homes to left-wing fools </b>(recall the 1964 example of 1,189 psychiatrists declaring then-presidential candidate Sen. Barry Goldwater “psychologically unfit”). But the APA statement will do even more harm.</i></blockquote>
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<i>The American Psychological Association goes beyond defining “traditional masculinity” as “on the whole, harmful.” It urges therapists to help men “identify how they have been harmed by discrimination against those who are gender nonconforming.”</i> </blockquote>
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<i>That’s right. Your son’s psychotherapist will explain to him how it is entirely normal for a boy his age (beginning in kindergarten) to wear a dress, and that regarding an 8-year-old boy in a dress as not quite healthy is what is not quite healthy. In addition, the APA hopes this therapist will reassure your son that he, too, may well choose to be a girl.</i></blockquote>
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<i>In the words of Komisar, this is “<b>an ideological claim </b>transformed into a clinical treatment recommendation.” That “ideological claim” is, of course, leftism.</i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It also has to be pointed out that most people have strong objections to injecting hormones into cattle to make them more meaty, but say little about injecting hormones into a child to change its sex. </span><br />
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<i>3)<span style="font-size: large;"> <b>The APA statement makes choosing a psychotherapist simple.</b></span></i></blockquote>
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<i>The hardest part of starting psychotherapy is figuring out how to choose a psychotherapist. If you choose the wrong one, you will not only be wasting a great deal of time and money; you will not be helped, and you might well be harmed.</i></blockquote>
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<i>So, how does one go about choosing a psychotherapist? The APA just made the task much simpler: Just ask any therapist you are considering for yourself or someone else,</i> </blockquote>
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<i><b>“Do you agree with the American Psychological Association that ‘traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful’?”</b></i></blockquote>
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<i>Any therapist who cannot unequivocally condemn the APA statement is unworthy of your time and your money, let alone your psyche.</i> </blockquote>
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<i>Many will try to weasel out of directly agreeing (or disagreeing) with the statement. They will tell you that sometimes masculinity is a problem. But they are just being careful not to lose you as a potential client. Such a statement is meaningless: There is nothing that cannot be harmful at times. That includes femininity as much as masculinity, and it includes such normally good things as water (a lot of people drown, after all).</i></blockquote>
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<i>Without “traditional masculinity,” civilization is lost. Ask anyone you know who agrees with using the term “the greatest generation” to describe the generation that fought World War II whether the men of that generation would have fought, much less won, without “traditional masculinity.”</i></blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: red;">Do not trust therapists who will not condemn the APA statement.</span></i> </span></b></blockquote>
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<i>They are either a fool or a coward.</i> </blockquote>
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<i>They may well be very kind and sincere. But that means nothing.</i> </blockquote>
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<i>You or your child will not be helped </i>(just)<i> by kindness and sincerity.</i> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now there is wisdom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I gave the man a drink.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have one too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pax </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Amfortashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-62009290048377387852019-01-25T00:02:00.003+11:002019-01-25T00:02:41.389+11:00Australia Day<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every Nation has its own days of celebration but few have as much contention over the date as Oz. Not just the date, in the case of Oz, but what the date represents. The Tavern has no such problem with the date or the meaning and we are preparing for Oz Day on Saturday 26th January, as per usual. It is when years ago, civilisation, in the form of soldiers, sailors and convicts - hardly the most representative or epitome of the most advanced mob in the world at the time - arrived to take possession of very largely sparsely inhabited Royal Estate. The French nearly beat the British to it !</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Australia Day is the official national day of Australia. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Celebrated annually on 26 January, it marks the anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet of British ships at Port Jackson, New South Wales, and the raising of the Flag of Great Britain at Sydney Cove by Governor Arthur Phillip. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In present-day Australia, celebrations reflect the diverse society and landscape of the nation and are marked by community and family events, reflections on Australian history, official community awards and citizenship ceremonies welcoming new members of the Australian community.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The meaning and significance of Australia Day has evolved over time. Unofficially, or historically, the date has also been variously named "Anniversary Day", "Foundation Day" and "ANA Day". The date of 26 January 1788 marked the proclamation of British sovereignty over the eastern seaboard of Australia (then known as New Holland). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Although it was not known as Australia Day until over a century later, records of celebrations on 26 January date back to 1808, with the first official celebration of the formation of New South Wales held in 1818. On New Year's Day 1901, the British colonies of Australia formed a federation, marking the birth of modern Australia. A national day of unity and celebration was looked for. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was not until 1935 that all Australian states and territories adopted use of the term "Australia Day" to mark the date, and not until 1994 that the date was consistently marked by a public holiday on that day by all states and territories.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In contemporary Australia, the holiday is marked by the presentation of the Australian of the Year Awards on Australia Day Eve, announcement of the Australia Day Honours list and addresses from the Governor-General and the Prime Minister. It is an official public holiday in every state and territory. With community festivals, concerts and citizenship ceremonies, the day is celebrated in large and small communities and cities around the nation. Australia Day has become the biggest annual civic event in Australia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, since at least 1938, the date of Australia Day has also been marked by Indigenous Australians, and those sympathetic to their cause, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Europeans and protesting its celebration as a national holiday. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These groups sometimes refer to 26 January as <b>Invasion Day</b> or Survival Day and advocate that the date should be changed, or that the holiday should be abolished entirely. However, support for changing the date amongst the Australian population is low, with a 2017 poll conducted for The Guardian finding only 26% of the total population supports changing the date. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Australians have always been an easy-going mob but over the century has become quite divided by the 'Left' who co-opt 'identity' groups to hide behind and ferment discord through. Indiginous folk are one such identity group. One suspects one cannot take the convict out of some people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On 13 May <b>1787</b> a fleet of 11 ships, which came to be known as the First Fleet, was sent by the British Admiralty from England to New Holland.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip, the fleet sought to establish a penal colony at Botany Bay on the coast of New South Wales, which had been explored and claimed by <b>Lieutenant James Cook in 1770.</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The settlement was seen as necessary because of the loss of the Thirteen Colonies in North America. The Fleet arrived between 18 and 20 January 1788, but it was immediately apparent that Botany Bay was unsuitable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(<i>An aside note:</i> Two, in fact. When <i>Star Trek </i>was in its writing gestation a name for the Captain was sought. He was subsequently named James Kirk, a very slight change from the Greatest Navigator the world had seen: James Cook.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cook was reknowned for his skills, although his exactness did not come to modern light until the advent of satellites, when photographs of Newfoundland when overlaid on Cook's maps showed an exact fit. And it was exact, down to the smallest headland and bay.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I digress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On 21 January, Phillip and a few officers travelled to Port Jackson, 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) to the north, to see if it would be a better location for a settlement. They stayed there until 23 January; Phillip named the site of their landing Sydney Cove, after the Home Secretary, Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney. They also made contact with the local Aboriginal people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They returned to Botany Bay on the evening of 23 January, when Phillip gave orders to move the fleet to Sydney Cove the next morning, 24 January. That day, there was a huge gale blowing, making it impossible to leave Botany Bay, so they decided to wait till the next day, 25 January. However, during 24 January, they spotted the ships <i>Astrolabe and Boussole</i>, flying the <b><i>French </i></b>flag, at the entrance to Botany Bay; </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>they were having as much trouble getting into the bay as the First Fleet was having getting out.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(<i>Another aside:</i> The French nearly beat Britain to the post. They had already missed a chance in <i><b>Tasmania</b></i> (known then as <i><b>Van Diemen's Land</b></i>) some time before when Vice-Admiral Bruni D'Entrecasteaux's two ships landed and stopped for several months. But being a 'scientific' expidition it had not 'claimed' it for France. The British did a very short time later. D'Entrecasteaux's name and that of his second ship Captain, Huon de Kermadek, are on well known places near to Hobart.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On 25 January the gale was still blowing; the fleet tried to leave Botany Bay, but only HMS Supply made it out, carrying....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Arthur Phillip, Philip Gidley King, some marines and about 40 convicts;</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> they anchored in Sydney Cove in the afternoon. On 26 January, early in the morning, Phillip along with a few dozen marines, officers and oarsmen, rowed ashore and took possession of the land in the name of King George III. The remainder of the ship's company and the convicts watched from on board Supply.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, back at Botany Bay, Captain John Hunter of HMS Sirius made contact with the French ships, and he and the commander, Captain de Clonard, exchanged greetings. Clonard advised Hunter that the fleet commander was Jean-François de Galaup, comte de <b>La Pérouse</b>. Sirius successfully cleared Botany Bay, but the other ships were in great difficulty. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Charlotte was blown dangerously close to rocks; Friendship and Prince of Wales became entangled, both ships losing booms or sails; Charlotte and the Friendship actually collided; and Lady Penrhyn nearly ran aground. Despite these difficulties, all the remaining ships finally managed to clear Botany Bay and sail to Sydney Cove on 26 January. The last ship anchored there at about 3 pm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The formal establishment of the Colony of New South Wales did not occur on 26 January as is commonly assumed. It did not occur until <b>7 February 1788,</b> when the formal proclamation of the colony and of Arthur Phillip's governorship were read out. The vesting of all land in the reigning monarch King George III also dates from 7 February 1788.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, for all the customers from other, furrin parts that come to imbibe of the Amber Liquid in the Tavern, that is the potted history of our National Holiday.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Were it not for serendipity and weather - not to mention the American Colonies being beastly - we here in the Tavern might have been speaking French. The rest of Oz too. I don't think the 'Indiginous' folk would have been treated as well as they have been. There would be a lot more to complain about, I am pretty sure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Quite how we will celebrate here on Saturday is somewhat dependent on surviving Friday. Our small island is currently experiencing very hot weather and fires are raging. Friday will see 35-40degC temperatures, fairly strong winds, and 800kms of fire-front from 40 odd bushfires to greet the dawn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We shall have plenty of water and plenty of ale though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And a few bottles of French wine to sit alongside the many Tasmanian wine ones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Drink up. Keep hydrated.</span><br />
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Amfortashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-70878356460198107672019-01-21T18:01:00.000+11:002019-01-21T18:01:10.755+11:00White/Pink Flag Militaries<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No, not the French this time, who have been sharpened up a bit in the past 60 years, but the US military, again, who have been under the gun and proven wanting. Few Institutions have escaped the deleterious effects of Feminism and Leftism and assorted cultural engineering, as Oz knows all too well, and the American military is right there in the firing line too. One would have hoped that the Top Brass would put a hard and heavy foot down, but just as Oz has weenie Generals, so does America. The White Flag has been hoisted in the Marines, of all people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is the 'Wimmin Ishoo' again, which everyone hoped would go away when Trump grabbed the reins.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It hasn't. And that is because, I guess, the Generals appointed during the Obama regime may take a while to dislodge. Bureaucrats still hold sway too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have said before that I have no problem with women in the military, so long as they are not <b>sent to do a man's job</b>. The same holds for certain civilian roles too. Like fire and police work. Women, mostly, - I have to be plain - are just not up to the job. Not when YOUR life depends upon them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Soldiering is HARD. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Far harder than firefighting, which, let us face it, is damnably hard work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Young people join with romanticised ideas of what it is about and for at least a year they are civilians pretending, trying on, becoming soldiers. They are expected to eventually do five times or more what they could do, possibly, a month before they got off the bus. Many fail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Men fail training. Women fail training.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">21C 'youth' educated, if it can be called that, by a feminised school system, will remain soft, weak and undisciplined shirkers well into their first year or two. Entitled and physically on a par with the disabled, they will need all the 'Instruction' they can get. Not lax rules.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But the boys fail at nowhere near the rate at which woman fail training. Men who pass toughen in a while and become productive and reliable. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Their colleagues insist. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Women however fail more and those that do get through suffer far more thereafter. Their colleages give them hugs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">IF women are to be soldiers, then they should be in dedicated, all-female formations. They can organise themselves to an appropriate standard. And carry the responsibility along with their lighter packs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But that does not stop the Social Justice Warriors in the Bureaucracies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Richard Viguerie</b> brought us up to date.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The United States Marine Corps may have battled America’s enemies from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, but today’s Marine Corps leadership has hoisted the white flag to social justice warriors demanding the Corps continue the <b>destructive social engineering</b> experiments of the Obama administration.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Our friend Elaine Donnelly, founder and president of the Center for Military Readiness, gave us the heads-up that Neller quietly announced on a Friday afternoon that for the <b>first time in history</b>, a platoon of fifty enlisted female recruits would be housed and trained alongside five male platoons in the 3rd Training Battalion at the Marines’ Parris Island boot camp.</i></span></blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>If this were a good and certain to be well-received policy, it would have been trumpeted from the parapet of the Pentagon.</i></span> </b></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>However, since the announcement was buried on a Friday afternoon news cycle in the midst of the government shutdown controversy you can be sure that Neller and the <b>Obama holdovers at the Pentagon</b> knew it would not be well-received by Republicans on the Hill, the conservative national defense constituency and a White House that doesn’t need or want another Obama-era policy to defend.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>According to a Marine spokesman speaking to ABC News, boot camp recruit classes typically are much smaller in the winter months. Housing one female platoon with five male ones in the 3rd Training Battalion allows temporary de-activation of the all-female 4th Training Battalion.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The Marines’ Delayed Entry Program (DEP) sends new recruits to boot camp on timetables set by the needs of the service, not the weather. </i></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Someone should find out why there aren’t enough female recruits to populate the 4th Training Battalion. Perhaps young women are shunning recruiters because they know that once they sign up, they might be ordered into ground combat units on the same involuntary basis as men.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Officials also made the <b>disingenuous </b>claim that the “temporary” change would support “training efficiency.” But within a week, Marine Corps Times reported that the female platoon co-located in the men’s training battalion “may not be the last.”</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Marine Sergeant Major Green’s “I’d like to buy the world a Coke” comment failed to recognize that boot camp is not about individual “success.” Its mission is to transform ordinary civilians into disciplined male and female Marines.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lest anyone think I am singling out the US for failing to properly acknowledge the demands placed upon their military people, the Oz military 'attitude' at top level is also in a woeful state. The 'cream' of fighters - The British Army - has also come under fire for the appalling adverts they recently released literally calling on snowflakes, the emotionally incontinent and homosexuals to join up and be welcomed in, and those all-so-reliable Muslims, for whom new rules have been instituted for them to down rifles in the thick of battle five times a day to pray to Allah for the overthrow of Infidels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hello !!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have a drink.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Amfortashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-72389552443673458002019-01-21T00:02:00.000+11:002019-01-21T13:57:13.555+11:00500,000 Milestone<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Or Kilometer stone, if you will. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The lucky person will have to show that he or she is the One, by sending in a screenshot of the counter which is located near the bottom of the left hand column.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This can be posted to the mailbox which is just above the counter, or by putting it on the Tavern's page on Facebook.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>And the winner is.......</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>Ron Zalewski</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yes, he proved it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A silver ingot from the year of gestation of the Tavern. The sign of the Dragon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As Ron is in America, and the ingot could easily be shipped, he nonetheless has donated the value (and more) to a charity. I shall donate the same. It will go to Esther's House.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The ingot will take pride of place on the right hand wall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">God Bless Ron.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Amfortashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-59504258002702016262019-01-18T01:06:00.000+11:002019-01-18T14:16:50.619+11:00Cutting Down Tall Poppies<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And giants. As long as they are white, of course. And male. The western world is increasingly inhabited by 'small men', cowards and liars. Women too, of course. Mustn't leave them out as though they didn't matter. Such mean people revel in using their undoubted verbal skills and positions in the media and institutions in bringing down Giants: the very men (and women, of course) who have discovered, invented, developed etc many of the very finest things, ideas and ways of understanding the world that are the achievements of our age. Soon there will be few giants left for us to stand upon their shoulders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>James Dewey Watson</i></b> (born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, geneticist and zoologist. In 1953, he co-authored with Francis Crick the academic paper proposing the double helix structure of the DNA molecule.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the 1962 <b>Nobel Prize</b> in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From 1956 to 1976, Watson was on the faculty of the Harvard University Biology Department, promoting research in molecular biology. From 1968 he served as director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), greatly expanding its level of funding and research. At CSHL, he shifted his research emphasis to the study of <b>cancer,</b> along with making it a world leading research center in molecular biology. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 1994, he started as president and served for 10 years. He was then appointed chancellor, serving until he resigned in 2007 after making comments claiming a genetic link between intelligence and race. Between 1988 and 1992, Watson was associated with the National Institutes of Health, helping to establish the Human Genome Project.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Watson has written many science books, including the textbook Molecular Biology of the Gene (1965) and his bestselling book The Double Helix (1968).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In January 2019, following the broadcast of a television documentary in which Watson repeated his views about race and genetics, CSHL revoked honorary titles that it had awarded to him and severed all ties with him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I could give a lot of detail about him from all the conversations in the bars, but one such stands out and I will let <b>Jared Taylor</b> say it, as he does it better than I can. I shall pull a pint or two.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well, to me, he sounded quite measured. But that is not the prevailing view. He too, you see, is a tall poppy, and has many a fine denunciation levelled against him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Wiki, that font of lefty wisdom says of him:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Samuel Jared Taylor is an American <b><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">white supremacist</span></b> and editor of American Renaissance, a <b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">white supremacist</span> </span></b>online magazine Taylor founded in 1990. </i></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They say it twice in 22 words, just so you are left in no doubt</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>He is also an author and the president of American Renaissance's parent organization, New Century Foundation, through which many of his books have been published. He is a former member of the advisory board of The Occidental Quarterly and a former director of the National Policy Institute, a Virginia-based white nationalist think tank. He is also a board member and spokesperson of the Council of Conservative Citizens.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Taylor, like many of the organizations he is associated with, is often described as promoting racist ideologies by civil rights groups, news media, and academics studying racism in the U.S.</i></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well of course he would often be described that way. Aren't you? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Virtually anyone that some 'civil rights group' academic or news media disagrees with is labelled a white supremacist, racist, bigot, homophobe, islamophobe, 'wrong' type of stamp collector or whathaveyou.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Weep.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Have a drink and weep into that. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yes, even those who are delving into their genealogy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Before we run out of giants we may need to step on a good few mean, cowardly liars. Stack'em up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Oh, bye the bye. A longish (less than half an hour though) analysis by that acerbic philosopher, Stephen Molyneaux followed, which entertained the Taverners, so I add it for those with time to spare.</span><br />
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<br />Amfortashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-72987709602597314772019-01-16T22:27:00.001+11:002019-01-16T22:27:17.446+11:00The 'Tribunal' Game.<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If the legendary TV Lawyer, <i><b>Denny Crane </b></i>ever moved to Oz he would make yet another fortune in the maze of Tribunals that beset our nation and people. It is a 'quasi' judicial system designed to give taxpayer cash to lawyers toward the end of their mediocre careers and ready for an ex-Starship Captain Denny to go gunning for and wipe the floor with them. Unfortunately Denny remains in the TV halls of fame and not where he is really needed. So we are currently stuck with the 'little man's Stasi'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A Tribunal is where the Game of <b><span style="color: red;">'Let's You and Them fight'</span></b> occurs and where, win or lose, the <b>process is enough of a punishment for most </b>and all but the very few very tough folk who stand and defend to the bitter and expensive end. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The 'You' is whoever is picked upon by some nasty wormlike creature from the dregs of society, and the 'Them' is the army of lawyers, courts, judges, sitting members, clerks and of course, ultimately the Police, all on the taxpayer dollar, who are ranged against you, the poor accused sap paying for your own defense.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> We had word from one such 'you' the other day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In Australia, the term tribunal generally implies a judicial body with a lesser degree of formality than a court, with a simplified legal procedure, often presided over by a lawyer (solicitor or barrister) who is not a judge or magistrate (often referred to as a member of the tribunal). In many cases the lawyers who function as tribunal members do so only on a part time basis, and spend the greater part of their time carrying out other aspects of legal practice, such as representing clients. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In many cases, the formal rules of evidence which apply in courts <b>do not apply in tribunals,</b> which enables tribunals to hear forms of evidence which courts may not be allowed to consider. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The scales of justice are loaded unevenly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tribunals generally deal with simpler matters; while legal representation is permitted and not uncommon, self-representation is much more common in tribunals than in courts, and tribunal members and registry staff are generally more accustomed to dealing with self-represented parties than courts are. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Appeal from a tribunal is to a court.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tribunals in the Australian judicial system include:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Migration Review Tribunal (MRT)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>New South Wales Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>State Administrative Tribunal of Western Australia (SAT)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">•<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>South Australian Civil and Administration Tribunal (SACAT)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In several Australian states, tribunals function as the equivalent of a small claims court.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the context of sport, "tribunal" frequently refers to the AFL Tribunal, the disciplinary body of the Australian Football League.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the context of our rapidly descending social manners and mores, we have various Yuman Roits Tribunals and 'Anti-Discriminayshun' Tribunals. The sexual deviants first and cheapest call.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Bernard Gaynor,</i></b> a decorated Soldier has been Front and Centre at attention, with his hat on, before such travesty courts for several years, and pretty well <b>all because of one</b> - a vexatious, nasty, malicious litigant in some eyes - man.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A man lawyers love. He puts claret in their cups.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bernard dropped by for a well deserved pint or two and encouragement from the Taveners. He thanked folk for their support and gave an update and a warning of possible futures.</span><br />
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Thank you so much for your many kind Christmas messages and best wishes for 2019. I have emerged fresh from the break, ready to face another year of <b>legal attack.</b> This is now the <b>seventh year</b> I've had to answer for my beliefs to the state and I think I'm finally getting used to it!</blockquote>
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NSW government seeking to expand anti-free speech laws</blockquote>
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On 30 January the NSW Supreme Court will set down a date to hear my case seeking a writ of prohibition against the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board, NSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal and NSW Local Court from continuing to process any further complaints against me from the homosexual activist, <b>Gary Burns</b>.</blockquote>
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As a reminder, Burns has lodged <b><span style="color: red;">36 complaints </span></b>against me for my views on marriage, family & morality, resulting in about <b><span style="color: red;">70 separate legal investigations and court cases.</span></b> </blockquote>
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The Tribunal, NSW Court of Appeal and High Court of Australia have <b>all ruled in the past that I had no case to answer</b> and that the anti-discrimination process was itself <b>unconstitutional.</b> </blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Unfortunately, that has not stopped the anti-discrimination industry from grinding on. </span></b></blockquote>
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And now the NSW Attorney General is opposing my application, arguing that NSW anti-discrimination law should apply outside NSW.</blockquote>
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In submissions he lodged with the NSW Supreme Court just before Christmas, the NSW Attorney General argued:</blockquote>
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52. <b>The power of state legislatures to make laws for the peace, welfare and good government of their State extends to laws having extra-territorial operation.</b> So much was confirmed by S.2(1) of the Australia Acts of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth Parliaments. Those subsections provide that:</blockquote>
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It is hereby declared and enacted that the legislative powers of the Parliament of each State include full power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of that State that have extra-territorial operation.</blockquote>
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53. Thus, absent an express or implied limitation in the Commonwealth Constitution, a State law which has extraterritorial operation may be valid <b>even if there is only a “remote and general connexion between the subject-matter of the legislation the State”…</b></blockquote>
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If the NSW Attorney General's argument succeeds, it will mean that every time an Australian speaks out against 'Safe Schools' or 'homosexual marriage' they could find themselves dragged before the anti-discrimination 'Thought Police' in every state. </blockquote>
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<b>It will even open up the possibility that Australians could find their speech policed by foreign governments.</b></blockquote>
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I'm sure Islamic nations will be very happy to hear that the NSW Attorney General is arguing that borders should be no barrier against anti-free speech laws.</blockquote>
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Obviously I am strongly opposing these submissions and my legal time is finalising our response over the coming days.</blockquote>
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On Sunday, <b>Miranda Devine</b> published an article outlining the brutal nature of anti-discrimination law and highlighted my case in The Sunday Telegraph.</blockquote>
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I am very grateful to her for her courage and interest in this case. She is one of the very few mainstream media voices who has even been prepared to mention the full-scale assault on me by various governments. </blockquote>
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<b>I estimate that this has now involved the expenditure of more than $5 million - all of it raised from taxpayers.</b></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Indeed Miranda has spoken out. She came by for a ladylike drink and gave us her take on the matter too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Here’s an idea for a flagging government to win over a sullen electorate — <b>a Minister for Common Sense.</b></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>This minister’s sole role would be to abolish red tape and kill off the quangos that <b>erode our freedoms</b> and sap our initiative.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>First job would be to <b>get rid of</b> the plethora of anti-discrimination bodies around the country, from the Human Rights Commission to various state anti-discrimination boards.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Instead of slicing us up into ever more <b>victim groups whose feelings need to be protected,</b> let us resolve our conflicts ourselves in the usual way of civilised societies — by forgiving each other, evolving social norms and gaining understanding in the process, without the heavy hand of the legislative <b>thought police</b> reducing us to hopeless ciphers of the state.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>We have now reached the absurd point where a drag queen who called his transgender neighbour in a Sydney public housing block a “fat man in a dress” was dragged before the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal and <b>found guilty</b> of “transgender vilification” under anti-discrimination legislation.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>This trivial neighbourhood squabble required the tribunal to hold a hearing and a case conference in 2015, with voluminous documents filed by both parties. Finally, after much deliberation, the 6000-word decision was handed down by three members of the tribunal, who found the drag queen guilty as charged and commanded he publish a retraction within 21 days or pay a $2000 fine.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Monty Python could not have scripted it better.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Then there was the case of the thug convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm for bashing another man in a Sydney nightclub. He was fined <b>$1100 for the assault.</b></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>But when <b>the victim complained </b>to the Anti-Discrimination Board that the assailant also had called him a “faggot”, the fine levied was far greater —<b><span style="color: red;"> $10,000 for homosexual vilification.</span></b></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>How did offensive speech become a worse crime than physical violence?</b></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Whatever the well-meaning reasons for establishing anti-discrimination bodies in the first place, they infantilise the populace and render them incapable of resolving simple interpersonal disputes.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>But even worse, they have become an <b>ideological bludgeon</b> to criminalise speech and repress certain ideas.</i></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not to mention handing a ready-made club to some pansy snowflake to do the bludgeoning. The 'Tribunal' does the snowflake's fighting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>No one demonstrates the case better than Bernard Gaynor, the decorated former Iraq war veteran and Queensland father of eight who is <b><span style="color: red;">quietly being martyred by LGBTIQ activists </span></b>on the altar of anti-discrimination legislation.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>So far, this six-year saga has involved more than 80 separate legal actions, and has wended its way through the High Court, anti-discrimination tribunals, local courts and the Federal Court, with yet another decision looming next month.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>It all began with Gaynor tweeting in 2013 that: <span style="color: cyan;"><b>“I wouldn’t let a gay person teach my children and I am not afraid to say it.”</b></span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b>The consequences of that tweet and Gaynor’s refusal to back down have been dire.</b></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>He was sacked by the Army and has been hit with 36 discrimination complaints by gay activist Gary Burns, who is <b>backed by pro-bono legal teams.</b></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Denny. Denny. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where are you ? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Beam down, dammit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bring a legal phraser.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Take out some shonks.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>So far it has cost Gaynor his house and almost $400,000 in legal fees,</i></span> </b></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>......with crowdsourced donations to his blog the only way that he has stayed solvent.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>He faces hefty fines and he even fears jail, although he has prevailed in almost every action so far.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The brutal anti-discrimination machinery grinds on, regardless of common sense.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No he does not. He has given up all right to any. He is vindictive. Gaynor has not villified him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not that they were unpleasant. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are so many regulations and rules already cluttering up our society, 'infantalising' as Miranda says, and they increase by the tweet and gay-feminist-trans lobby day, but we forget some older ones. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is far less costly than a house and $400,000 to apply. It would save a lot of time and angst too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not that I would suggest its use, of course.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The last time it was deployed, it was returned with interest.</span><br />
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<br />Amfortashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-6073547514825356862019-01-11T21:53:00.000+11:002019-01-11T21:53:23.092+11:00Living on Water.<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Water is necessary for life, and for living, even for landlubbers like me. But I am not the sort that is inclined to live upon it. My good mate James Higham (of Nourishing Obscurity fame) has that desire, as did my good and very long-time mate Denis, with whom I went through Grammar School before he went to sea (Merchant Navy) and I to the Air. But I do delight in waking to the sun shining on 50 square kilometres of water outside of and below my cave. The only constancy in it is the change it undergoes by the day, hour and minute. Stunning. I only occasionally go out on it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Denis spent much of his early to mid adult life travelling the seas. A man going his own way (MGTOW). We met up occasionally in foreign ports as I too travelled the world. He now lives in the same hemisphere as I but across the Tasman sea in Kiwiland. There, quite some years ago, when doing some 'local' moonlighting in NZ waters, he rescued many from a sinking Russian passenger liner. Good man, Denis. Adventurous.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Few people take the leap to go to sea with their family, though. That is a huge adventure, and today I heard of such a family. I hope they sail into my gorgeous harbour some day and drop into the Tavern. The <b><i>Gifford family</i></b> left their home in Washington in 2008 to sail around the world. They have not stopped for long since. They did stop for a while in the summer of 2016 in Noank, Connecticut to tell their story and to show how they all live on a 47-foot sailboat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They have it all together, take the risks, do the work and are raising independant, frugal youngsters. Good luck to them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What they did not do though was build their boat. That is what James is doing, and has been doing for a while now. He will get there, no doubt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is not going to be a similar sort of boat though. Seagoing? Yes. And canal-going too. He has considered so much about hull and sail design, that N.O. readers have been following along for a while. Building a boat is art, craft, engineering, mathematical and hard graft. But great Beauty is made that way. For a brief idea of what and how, we can see here:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">James wants not only to sail across the world, but live aboard and see the canal system of England. In the same craft. Most canal-boats though are of a common design and now't like what he is building. And in reality, he is almost as much of a landlubber as most of us. (Almost).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Still, here is a chap I was told of too, with some useful perspectives. <b>David Johns</b>, a former TV journalist from the UK who quit his job, sold his house, and bought a narrowboat to cruise the canal network. His plan was to try being a live aboard for a year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He’s been living aboard for 9 months so far and he’s still happy with his decision and loves being part of the friendly, helpful narrowboat community. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Watch this video to take a tour of David's narrowboat, learn how he earns an income as a freelance journalist, where he “parks” his boat, and about the joys & challenges of life afloat. David has been documenting his journey living on a boat with a regular vlog on his YouTube channel: <b><i>Cruising the Cut </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With his experience as a TV journalist, the videos are extremely well filmed and edited, and they're a real pleasure to watch. We were excited when he sent us his interview footage because we learned so much about this alternative lifestyle that he’s trying out. It is like living in a tiny house (like my cave) on the water and of being able to explore from the comfort of your own home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The extremely RICH folk do things a little 'bigger' I have never been envious of the rich, as some might be. They often 'commission' artifacts of great beauty which, frankly, I would not trust to a socialist Committee. Much if not most of our material, historical heritage was commissioned by the very rich, for their own pleasure. Often, for the pleasure and uplift of the many, such as Cathedrals. Most, eventually, get passed to or taken over by the many, anyway. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not much change out of a large fortune for that one ! Maybe one day it will take kids or old folk, say, to sea, for jollies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am pretty sure the designers and naval architects, the builders and craftsmen had a great time contributing, and would shout a pint or two were they to drop into the Tavern.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cheers to them, and Denis, James, David and the Gifford Family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Amfortashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-71225658434618740422019-01-10T00:42:00.003+11:002019-01-10T00:42:57.310+11:00Acting on Principle.<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Actors play 'characters' in films and on stage. That's their job. But do they have 'Character'? Many of the customers here would say that most actors have very poor characters and the 'role modelling' they present, especially to the young, is detrimental rather than encouraging. But there are exceptions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hollywood, from many accounts, is a terrible place: more arse than class where Principles are arse about face. Tinsel-Town is more Sinful City, a filth-factory populated by wannabees who get paid phenomenal amounts just so long as they toe the lefty party line, party like Satanics, and create 'occasions of sin' like it was in short supply. But, as I said, there are exceptions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is no place for a 'Good' person. Show that Principles matter (sound, wholesome principles, that is) and an actor is likely to lose parts, contracts, colleagues and livlihood. But there are exceptions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two had some mention in the US Bar today. They can join Mr <b>Jim Caveizel</b>, who has featured here before. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jim is a Catholic. This is not something that people without principle like to talk about. The two we shall talk about are Catholics too. <b>Stephanie Nolasco</b> came by to tell of the first. She was the first of two ladies to speak up. Most who have seen his roles, know him as an archetypal 'bad guy'.</span><br />
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<i><br />Neal McDonough said he was surprised when he was fired from the ABC series “Scoundrels” in 2010 for refusing to engage in sex scenes with his co-star Virginia Madsen.</i></blockquote>
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<i>Deadline.com previously reported McDonough, now 52, was suddenly replaced with David James Elliott three days into the filming of the series and was poised to lose "as much as $1 million in paydays." The New York Daily News added the network’s decision to replace McDonough was a shocker because he is known for refusing sex scenes due to his religious beliefs.</i></blockquote>
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<i>McDonough has been married to model Ruvé Robertson since 2003 and the couple shares five children. McDonough told the magazine that he’s so dedicated to his wife that he still refuses to do love scenes with other actresses.</i></blockquote>
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<i>“When [creator] Marc Cherry signed me, I said, ‘I’m sure you know, but I won’t kiss anybody,’” recalled McDonough. “He was like, ‘But this is ‘Desperate Housewives!’ I said, ‘I know.’ He paused for about five seconds and said, ‘All right, I’m just going to have to write better.’ And we had a great time.”</i></blockquote>
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<i>“It was St. Patrick’s Day, and we literally bumped into each other on the street, locked eyes and that was it,” he recalled. “The next morning, I called the woman I was dating at the time and said, ‘I’m sorry, it’s not going to work out with us anymore — I just met the woman I’m going to marry.'"</i></blockquote>
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<i>And most importantly, thank you for giving me Ruvé, because, without her, I most certainly would not be talking with you right now.”</i></blockquote>
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<i>And these days McDonough is keeping busy. He’s currently starring in History Channel’s “Project Blue Book” as General James Harding, an Air Force general determined to keep UFO sightings top secret.</i></blockquote>
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<i>“As a devout Catholic, I believe certain things,” said McDonough. “Who are we as human beings on this planet to say that God might not have plans in other places? To think it’s just us is a bit myopic. If you believe in spirits, why can’t you believe there might be extraterrestrials? Who knows?”</i></blockquote>
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<i>McDonough said he has no regrets about sticking to his principles, even if it has meant losing work along the way. In fact, McDonough said he has only grown to appreciate his acting, which prompted his skills to improve.</i></blockquote>
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<i>“I took a shot on the chin, but I was not going to lose the fight,” he said. “And it worked. My career has been phenomenal ever since.”</i></blockquote>
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<i>And why does McDonough continue to act knowing he might face scrutiny for his no-nonsense rule on axing any sex scenes? “Because I have to,” he shared.</i></blockquote>
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<i>“That’s what I’m supposed to do,” said McDonough keeping busy as an actor. “God gave me this talent of being an actor, and I’m not going to waste it. That’s just who I am. I love working, and with five kids and a fantastic wife, I want to make sure I’m taking care of everyone.</i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The other 'good man' who often plays 'bad guys' or semi-bad / action thuggery, is the very tough Mark Wahlberg. It was <b>Sasha Savitsky </b>who spoke about him. I heard of him a while back (not being much of a movie-goer, m'self) when it was disclosed that before going on set on a movie shoot in the English Countryside, he would attend Mass every moring in a local village church. Being as he gets up far too early for a normal fellow, it did not suprise as much as astonish me.</span><br />
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Nothing is more important to Mark Walhberg than his family and faith.</blockquote>
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The actor, who stars in the new film "Instant Family," spoke about the two driving forces in his life in a new interview.</blockquote>
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"I've been very blessed and very fortunate. And it's because of the focus that I put on my faith and on my family that have allowed me to accomplish so many things," Walhberg told the Christian Post.</blockquote>
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He added, "There's nothing more important than faith and family."</blockquote>
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The 47-year-old, who shares four children with his wife of 10 years Rhea Durham, also spoke about a recent trip to New York City where he opted to go to church on a Saturday night instead of a Broadway show.</blockquote>
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"That's what it's all about. You know, for me, it's just the way I love to start my day, finish my day," he shared.</blockquote>
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Wahlberg co-stars alongside Rose Byrne in the upcoming family film which tells the story about a couple who take in three foster children overnight.</blockquote>
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"Just like this movie, this couple brings in three beautiful kids. And there is this kind of honeymoon period. And then there's this very difficult time when reality sets in. But ultimately, they fall madly in love with each other. And they want to fight for these kids," Wahlberg said of the movie</blockquote>
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Wahlberg has been a committed Catholic for many years but doesn’t often talk about his faith.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not suprising. But he doesn't have to mention it often. Someone who prays for half an hour at 2.45am gets known ! They work hard. They are Principled. They have a strong work ethic. But their Primary ethic is based on their Catholic Faith.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Good role models, once you get past the characters they play and find their true, personal Character. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are Warriors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Should either or both drop by the Tavern, I would let them have the run of the place and drinks on the House.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For you too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Amfortashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-6101463511318902942019-01-09T13:27:00.000+11:002019-01-09T14:36:57.060+11:00Omnivors in the Bar<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Strange bedfellows attended the Tavern today: some usually found outside the hedge. And even more strangely I had actually invited a few in ! And it was all to do with food, so my chef was there too amongst the customers, white hat poking up in the throng. He was dishing up steaks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A couple of RSPCA folk had come by with some 'complaint' (not about our restaurant, I hasten to add, nor about how my steed is quartered) and I sent one out to find a PETA person or two from amongst the usual howling mobs that we usually keep out, with the intent of giving them a drink or two. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Both small groups, usually at each other's throats, were united for once in the 'complaint'. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Oz is beset by <b>strange and unwholesome customs</b> introduced by folk who, frankly, have no place being here in Oz at all. I speak of Muslims. They have got our politicians by the short and curlies, imposing 'Halal' on every damned thing in sight and charging us for the anti-privilege. Even Chocolate !! ( I will not permit as much as a Cadbury Dairly Milk bar in the bar). Mulsims kill, nastily, and not just other people. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The PETA people, moronic mostly, joined the RSPCA, nice folk mostly, in objecting to Halal methods.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now, it has to be said, very slightly unpaletable as it may be to some, but we human beings are meat-eaters. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And animals have to be eaten when dead. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We learned early on that animals kick up a fuss when eaten alive. They scatter the plates and table settings all over the place. So we have to kill them first. And cook them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But most of us actually like animals. I do. I like pretty well all animals, and I am especially fond - even fascinated - by some. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But some we eat. I like a nice beef steak. I like bacon. I will even settle for chicken. I prefer dogs to run along side me though. We don't eat dogs. Civilised 'we' that is. Or cats. I stop well short of frogs and snails too. There are very strange folk in the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But if we have to kill an animal, we need to do it with some respect for Life. Especially the animal's life that is given up for our dinner. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Steven Johnson was holding forth about it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b>Australian animal rights groups demand an end to Muslim halal slaughter where livestock have their throats slit while they are conscious after Belgium brings in ban</b></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>RSPCA and PETA have demanded an end to halal and kosher slaughter practices</i></span></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6567357/RSPCA-PETA-demand-end-halal-kosher-slaughter-practices-animals-conscious.html">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6567357/RSPCA-PETA-demand-end-halal-kosher-slaughter-practices-animals-conscious.html</a> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Livestock are conscious when throats are slit under Muslim and Jewish custom</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>The Flanders region in northern Belgium has outlawed traditional abattoir killing</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Australia has agreed that meat export to Indonesia will be killed the halal way </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Australia's peak animal rights groups have demanded an end to halal and kosher slaughter practices where livestock have their throats slit while they are conscious.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>The RSPCA and PETA want animals to be stunned first before they are killed, after the Flanders region in northern Belgium outlawed traditional Muslim and Jewish abattoir customs.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Complicating the issue is how Australia in March 2017 backed new Indonesia laws which will require, from October 2019, all meat exported to the Muslim-majority nation to be slaughtered the halal way.</i></span></blockquote>
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Australia's peak animal rights groups have demanded an end to <b>halal and kosher slaughter</b> practices where livestock have their throats slit while they are conscious<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></blockquote>
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Despite Indonesia sourcing <b>80 per cent</b> of its beef from Australia, the RSPCA says religious exemptions allowing animals to be conscious when they are killed .....</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">needed to end.</span></b></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>'A small number of abattoirs in Australia have an exemption to slaughter animals without prior stunning, authorised by state food authorities,' it said.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>'This means that animals are fully conscious and experience <b>pain and distress</b> at the time of slaughter. </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">'The RSPCA believes all animals should be stunned prior to slaughter.'</span></b></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>The RSPCA and PETA want animals to be stunned first before they are killed, after the Flanders region in northern Belgium outlawed traditional Muslim and Jewish abattoir customs</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><b>What is halal slaughter?</b></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Halal is an Arabic term for permissible.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>For the meat to be lawful in the Muslim faith, the meat or poultry must be slaughtered as part of a ritual known as <b>Zibah</b> or <b>Zabihah.</b></i></span></blockquote>
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An animal must <b>not be dead before</b> the ritual and a <b>Muslim is required to perform the slaughter.</b></blockquote>
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'They are absolutely and understandably terrified when chains are shackled to their legs and they are hoisted into the air upside down'.</blockquote>
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'For cattle and sheep who are killed without pre-stunning, unconsciousness can take several agonisingly painful seconds to come after their throats are cut.' </blockquote>
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In March 2017, then trade minister Steven Ciobo visited Indonesia for three days.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Mr Ciobo used the occasion to announce Australia would back upcoming Indonesia laws, coming into force in October 2019, which will require beef cattle and sheep to have their throats cut to be widely marketed in the world's biggest Muslim-majority nation.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Follow the money. And weep. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is no reasonable excuse for shipping live animals thousands of miles by sea when they could be exported, processed, humanely.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>To qualify as halal, or <b>permissible </b>in Islam, live animals must have their throats cut as part of the slaughter and die from blood loss.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>In most cases, animals are stunned before they are slaughtered however, state government laws in Australia grant religious exemptions, which mean the livestock can still be conscious when it is killed. </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>The Flanders region in northern Belgium has effectively banned traditional halal and kosher slaughter practices since January 1, when the law first proposed in 2017 came into force.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>The French-speaking Wallonia region in southern Belgium will officially ban those practices in September. </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>When legislation was first proposed in May 2017, it was slammed as 'the greatest assault on Jewish religious rights since Nazi occupation' by the European Jewish Congress. </i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Indeed, the Jewish practice is virtually identical to the Muslim practice. And neither will eat bacon. I have no problem with them not eating pork, but I do have a problem with the way both kill animals for consumption.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is inhumane.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I served the PETA people and the RSPCA folk some fine ale.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then I sent the PETA loonies back outside the hedge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Ahh, but.... what about hunting and fishing", cried someone. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Honourable enterprises", said I.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That was sure to set a cat amongst the pidgeons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I busied m'self serving pints.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Drink up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Amfortashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-88323722493944777662019-01-02T16:13:00.000+11:002019-01-02T16:13:07.622+11:00The Rude Girls Over the Hedge<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Love thine Enemies. That's a tough call sometimes. I have made mention before of the hordes of detractors that congregate outside the Tavern's hedges. A rude, motley, often hilarious mob they are, even as they hurl epithets and more (<i>Gordon Bennetts</i>) than are healthy. The SJWs, the feminists, the marxist zombies, the socialists, the brain dead and.... the young: they are a colourful lot in need. I take a variety of drinks out to them on hot days (hot drinks on cold days too).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Does my occasional kindness make a difference? Time might tell.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The rude, nasty girls especially often attract this old chap's attention ! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don't get me wrong here. Hahaha. Once they were charming little girls, the apple of a daddy's eye: and something went awry when they hit puberty. They got stuck in immaturity coupled with their growing sense of sexual power and hubris, and of course, breasts. These pretty, bodily, defining accessories became weapons when taken in hand ('scuse the pun) by feminists.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was very pleasantly surprised when <b>Steven Ertelt</b> dropped by to tell of the Wonderous Ways my Supplier has of making some 'Good' out of the bad. What lesson can be learned from what he had to say? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We may hate the actions of 'pro-choice' people, for example, spouting their '<i>My Body, My Choice'</i> mantras, and may especially find the screetches and actions of groups like <b><i>Femen</i></b> to be terrible, but we must not hate the people. God has work to do with them, by them and for them. Our task is to Love them and pray for His Grace that changes their ways. Cold and hot drinks are a small way of us expressing that Love. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You have heard of Femen? From Wiki.....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">FEMEN</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Фемен</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Founded<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>10 April 2008; 10 years ago</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Type<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Protest and activist group</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Focus<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span><i><b>Women's liberation</b></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Location<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Paris, France (main headquarters)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Key people </b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anna Hutsol, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oksana Shachko, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alexandra Shevchenko, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Inna Shevchenko (that is Inna, pictured at the top), </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yana Zhdanova.... and in South America, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b>Sara Fernanda Giromin,</b></i> also known as Sara Winter</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Website<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>femen.org</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Femen (Ukrainian: Фемен), stylized as FEMEN, is a Ukrainian radical feminist activist group intended to protect women's rights. The organization became internationally known for organizing controversial topless protests against sex tourism, religious institutions, sexism, homophobia, and other social, national, and international topics. Founded in Ukraine, the group is now based in Paris.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The organization describes itself as "fighting patriarchy in its three manifestations – sexual exploitation of women, dictatorship and religion" and has stated that its goal is <i><b>"sextremism serving to protect women's rights".</b></i> Femen activists have been regularly detained by police in response to their protests.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Initially, Femen gained attention by demonstrating in skimpy or erotic clothing. For example, on 21 September 2008 in front of a Turkish embassy, a dozen Femen members were dressed as nurses with smudged makeup and high pink heels; however, at the 24 August 2009 demonstration on Ukrainian independence day, <b><i>Oksana Shachko went topless.</i></b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The main driveresse of the group, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Inna Shevchenko</b>,</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a quite pretty girl, has made her position clear in an interview. It is really a collections of 'half-truths' mixed with immature understandings and lots of wild, unfocussed blame, but hey, don't let my opinion stop you forming your own. She was someone's little girl once.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since this approach obtained such great publicity, it rapidly became FEMEN's signature approach. While most of the protests have been confined to bare breasts, in October 2010 Shachko exposed her buttocks outside a locked toilet in a demonstration to protest the lack of public toilets in Kiev, and four of the group members staged a similar protest in Kiev in February 2011.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Femen protest in Kiev during the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election against the election of Victor Yanukovych. The signs read "The War Begins Today" and "Stop Raping the Country." </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since May 2011, a host of international news outlets have started to report about the organization's actions; this has sharply heightened FEMEN's international profile.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From late 2011, the Ukrainian Femen activists started to hold more international protests. In December 2011, three Femen activists stated that the State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus had abducted and terrorized them after they staged topless protests in Minsk. On 8 April 2013, five Femen members "topless ambushed" Russian President Vladimir Putin (accompanied by German Chancellor Angela Merkel) at the Hanover trade fair.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After Inna Shevchenko chopped down a wooden cross overlooking Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kiev on 17 August 2012, she stated that she had received several death threats and that her front door had been kicked in. Fearing arrest, she sought asylum in France and moved to Paris. There, in September 2012, she established a training facility for activists for Femen in France.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hey, apart from cutting down crosses, protesting against the Church, protesting for a woman's 'right' to murder babies, and bailing up a few politicians, what is there to dislike about these ladies? They are spunkey, loud and damnably funny at times and often quite nice to look at. Ok, gawp at, by some.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, Steve told us of one leading breast, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sara Fernanda Giromin, who has found a better purpose for herself and her mammaries. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Chances are you’ve heard of the pro-abortion feminists who protest topless for abortion at The Vatican or infiltrate Catholic Churches to push their radical abortion agenda. In Spain, once time, as the Spanish government pushes a pro-life proposal to roll back some of Europe’s most pro-abortion laws, extreme feminists from Femen showed their anger by hurling objects at Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela as he attempted to enter a local Catholic Church before Mass.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>In October, the the violent mob of Femen abortion activists attempted to <b>desecrate an Argentine cathedral and threw stones and bottles at Catholics praying the rosary</b> in front of the church on Sunday.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Now, shockingly, the founder of the Brazilian chapter of Femen <b>has become pro-life and is apologizing</b> for her actions. Here’s a report from Red Alert Politics:</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Sara Fernanda Giromin, also known as Sara Winter, was not merely feminist. She was the founder of Femen Brazil in 2012 and later of Bastardxs. Both groups gained nation and worldwide attention for their angry bare-chested protests.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Winter is reportedly upset with how the feminist movement <span style="color: cyan;">“uses women as objects” and “covers up pedophilia in its ranks.” </span>While Sara’s own religious beliefs are not clear, she did apologize to Christians and referred to feminism as <span style="color: cyan;">“a religious sect.”</span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I saw the feminist movement cover up for PEDOPHILES. I saw the feminist movement PERSECUTE WOMEN … I am a witness to the fact that today in the feminist movement women are not of any importance but serve as fuel for the fires of hatred that the feminist sect cannot allow to die.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Fortunately, Winter is now pro-life.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>There are still reasons to celebrate, other than Sara having a complete change of heart three years later. She has not only denounced and exposed feminism, but is <b>pro-life</b>.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Sara aborted her first child, but gave birth to her second, a son. It was he who helped her change her attitude on abortion. In October she repented and asked for forgiveness. She also implored <span style="color: cyan;">“women who are desperate to abort” to “think carefully about it.” Sara was “very sorry I did it” and spoke of how “I don’t want the same for you.”</span></i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>A report in The Blaze has more on Winter, whose real name is Sara Fernanda Giromin, recanting her pro-abortion views.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: cyan;">“I have repented of having had an abortion and today I ask for forgiveness,</span>” Giromin wrote, claiming that after the birth of her baby, <span style="color: cyan;">“life has taken on a new meaning.</span>”</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: cyan;">“Please, women who are desperate to abort, think carefully about it. I was very sorry I did it. I don’t want the same for you,” </span>she added.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>In a YouTube video published earlier this month, Giromin, who founded Femen Now at age 19, apologized to Christians for her past transgressions.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> What she is saying, in brief, is ......<span style="color: cyan;"><i>On 04/10/14, I and another activist from the Coleção Bastardas organized a feminist protest in front of the Candelária Church in Rio de Janeiro. The purpose of the act was to protest against the homophobic statements of the presidential candidate of the republic Levy Fidelix.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Sadly, letting me get carried away by extremism, I ended up offending thousands of religious and non-religious people.</i></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Now I come here with all the humility of the world to ask for forgiveness.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>(ps: Dark circles are indicative of who has small baby.)</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Winter is proof that, like so many other pro-life advocates who have come from the ranks of the abortion industry over the years, even the hardest heart can be softened.</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I suspect someone took her a kindly drink one time when she was protesting. But more likely, IMHO, the men who were saying the Rosary outside the Cathedral were praying for her. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have a cool drink.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Love the little ones. They will grow big and some bent out of shape by destructive winds. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pray for them.</span><br />
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