Comments on: Missing Link – Anzac Day Special Edition

By: Club Troppo » Missing Link (somewhat belated)

Club Troppo » Missing Link (somewhat belated) — Tue, 01 May 2007 04:39:38 +0000

[...] takedown of the Age’s Tracee Hutchison, while Catallaxy – like Club Troppo in the last edition of Missing Link – decides to quote Slim over at the Dog’sBollocks and let the stoush [...]

By: five

five — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 07:43:31 +0000

Thanks for the mention!

By: skepticlawyer

skepticlawyer — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 05:50:09 +0000

If Saint’s anything to go by, people in padded cells have been known to make sense…

Just sayin ;)

By: saint in a straitjacket

saint in a straitjacket — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:14:26 +0000

Jason Soon said:

Slim appears to think that World War 2 was a

By: skepticlawyer

skepticlawyer — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:36:19 +0000

Yeah, you’re right. It’s a streetlight. I have a sneaking suspicion the composition is intentional though…

By: Gummo Trotsky

Gummo Trotsky — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:23:19 +0000

Think it’s a lamp-post behind him(?). Lousy composition, on balance.

By: skepticlawyer

skepticlawyer — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:56:51 +0000

Gummo, what are the, ahem, spiky thingies that look awfully like bbq skewers sticking out of her (I assume it’s a she) front and back?

Or are they part of the background?

By: Gummo Trotsky

Gummo Trotsky — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:28:31 +0000

Here's another "Thread of Doom" image for ya, SL.

By: C.L.

C.L. — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:48:46 +0000

The calamitous cock-up was allowing a mad man characterised by Bill Clinton in 1998 as the biggest threat to regional stability (and a threat to world peace) to remain in office – where he directly or indirectly killed about a million people. The continuing cock-up worth worrying about now is the rise of a casual alliance between Islamists and their “progressive” enablers in the West. The terrorists blow up 50 civilians and immoral curs like Harry “Haw Haw” Reid and Kevin Rudd say the resultant death toll proves the “war” is “lost” and that surrender is the only option. So, naturally, more people are blown up. No surprise that, by name, Reid has been mentioned favourably in the latest dispatch from Al Qaeda in Iraq. Eighty per cent of Iraq is relatively settled. Iraq is not a catastrophe but the amorality of those who would scuttle its progress to win a few elections in the West certainly is. The World War II generation knew very well that world conflagrations could only be avoided by acting against tyrants before it was too late. That’s what George Bush, Tony Blair, John Howard and others did. The attempt by the left to appropriate the prestige of the Greatest Generation and to characterise the evils it overcame as especial and historically incomparable enormities, vis-a-vis the war of the present which they trivialise for partisan reasons, is transparently pathetic and laughable. It is also a slap in the face to the past heroes of this and allied nations – who certainly would have recognised the ‘peace in our time’ recidivism of Nancy Pelosi and friends for what it was: indictable naivete and moral cowardice.

By: Bannerman

Bannerman — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:18:02 +0000

CL, I really don’t believe you’re representing Howard’s critics parents generation at all accurately. For a start, Australia’s involvement in WW2 was a matter of national interest. The current calamatious cock-up in Mesopotamia resulted from a moment of political opportunism. Secondly, and probably most importantly, Howard’s critics parents fathers had white feathers sent to them anonymously in the mail if they’d not considered joining up by 1942. Thankfully, Australian generations since have matured……well, those of us who can see political convenience for what it is have anyway.

By: slim

slim — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 05:15:33 +0000

Helen – all due respect but Jason said “The only way to talk to someone like that is with him in a padded cell

By: skepticlawyer

skepticlawyer — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 05:03:12 +0000

Slim, that was uncalled for. The stoushing was between CL and Gummo – Jason only just arrived.

By: Jason Soon

Jason Soon — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 05:00:21 +0000

Wow, I made one comment on this thread and I’m responsible for all the ‘unsubstantiated twaddle and personal abuse’? If I’m interpreting you wrongly then write clearer next time. And I’ve put up a post on your post now so do feel free to defend yourself.

http://catallaxyfiles.com/?p=2787

By: slim

slim — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:58:29 +0000

In terms of the wars that Australia has been involved in, there certainly haven’t been any poor men’s war. The main winners in wars are the politicians and the industries that supply the resources for war. Like those US owned factories in the Ruhr during WWII – the kind that Dubya’s granddaddy had his fingers in.

By: slim

slim — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:51:12 +0000

Jason – the quality of unsubstantiated twaddle and personal abuse in the commentary here made me think I was at Catallaxy. Simply abusing someone who doesn’t agree with your point of view may work for you in the comfort of your circle of like-minded compadres, but the Missing Link aspires to quality commentary. Please take personal abuse directly to the blog concerned.

By: Jason Soon

Jason Soon — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:12:01 +0000

Slim appears to think that World War 2 was a ‘rich man’s war’. The only way to talk to someone like that is with him in a padded cell …

By: skepticlawyer

skepticlawyer — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:59:45 +0000

And here’s me thinking both of you would get into the spirit ;)

FWIW, the whole point of Missing Link is to collate a variety of posts from a variety of perspectives. Of course you’ll disagree with some of them – I know I do. I disagree with Slim’s take on Anzac Day. We included his post because it gets people talking.

Mind you, the talking may be better carried over to his blog…

By: C.L.

C.L. — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:30:36 +0000

Sor-ry. Great post, great collection, wonderful, superb – a blog roundup, what an original idea etc etc.

By: skepticlawyer

skepticlawyer — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:29:26 +0000

Nice, Gummo. Good funny. Now about that striking charge…

By: Gummo Trotsky

Gummo Trotsky — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 01:49:31 +0000

Yeah well, he started it, miss. Of course I reserve my right to change my story completely and deny that anything at all untoward occurred, should this matter come before the ABL (Australian Blogging League) Tribunal.

By: skepticlawyer

skepticlawyer — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 01:38:34 +0000

Dang, that didn’t work. If this keeps up I’ll finish up having to bestow a ‘legendary thread’ gong around these parts, which wasn’t the plan ;)

By: C.L.

C.L. — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 01:28:52 +0000

The stuffed goblin, it speaks! I don’t believe I cited anything written by you Gummo. I don’t read the LP toilet wall much and I’m not sure if your own blog still exists. There are numerous examples from this ANZAC Day, as with past ANZAC Days, of left-wing dingbats using the memorial day to attack the Prime Minister for political purposes – by, you guessed it, accusing him of using the memorial day for political purpose. Deploying “sincere” feelings of admiration for the Greatest Generation – interspersed with bogus arguments about how the evil Iraq War is a departure from the honourable military exploits of yore – is part of the performance art. That’s precisely what this dead kangaroo person has done with his nauseating insistence that he’ll be having nothing further to do with ANZAC Day whilesoever Howard remains at large.

Memo to the marsupial: nobody cares whether you’re part of it or not.

By: skepticlawyer

skepticlawyer — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 01:11:57 +0000

Goodness me, people do seem to have a dose of the grumps. And here’s Patrick and me thinking we’d done a rawther good job.

Lighten up, folks, and enjoy the great reading.

By: Gummo Trotsky

Gummo Trotsky — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:36:53 +0000

Bullseye. A soft toy for James. How about a stuffed Gummo goblin?

Stuffed with straw, as usual. You'll be hard put to find any piece I've written on the subject of Anzac Day more recent than this, for the very good reason that no such pieces exist.

By: pommygranate

pommygranate — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:59:46 +0000

thanks for the mention.
i came across Seymour’s play from the latest edition of Qadrant. i loved the rebuttal by Alfie Cook of his anti-war upwardly mobile son,

“You’d take away everything.
You’d take away the ordinary bloke’s right to feel proud of himself for once.
You know what this march means?
You know what it is?
Marching without uniforms, that’s what it is.
Y’ don’t go out there to show what soldiers y’ was, y’ go out there as mates.
Y’ go there to say it was a job.
It had to be done and y’ did it.
Boys i knew all my life.
Went through the Depression with me, through the war.
They’re nothing much, either, nothing much.
But for one day of the year they’re somethin’.
Anzac Day”

I attended my first Anzac Day last year at Burleigh Heads. A very moving service. I wrote a post on the experience for my blog, which i was thrilled to see that the Burleigh Heads RSL published on their website, here.