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 â€˜rich manâ€™s warâ€™. The only way to talk to someone like that is with him in a padded cell â€¦

Um, excuse me, if you don’t mind, I don’t like sharing.

slim said:

Helen - all due respect but Jason said â€œThe only way to talk to someone like that is with him in a padded cell â€¦â€. That ainâ€™t abuse? At the least illogical - if you donâ€™t agree with me you must be insane?

Re: question one, nope. Re: question two, well no, but if you insist. Although I don’t see myself that way.

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 â€¦”. That ain’t abuse? At the least illogical - if you don’t agree with me you must be insane?

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.