Bedwetter comeback
Uncategorized - - Posted on May, 30 at 1:33 pm by Ken L
Just when we thought the bedwetters were getting over their terror-panic, along come two incidents to remind us of all the neurotic people out there just busting to scare themselves silly with their irrational fear of Teh Islam and find find new ways of trumpeting their xenophobia to the world.
One is the shrieking horror expressed by good old Michelle Malkin at an ad on TV where a woman was wearing a jihadist scarf!!!
The US Dunkin’ Donuts chain has pulled an online advertisement featuring celebrity chef Rachael Ray after critics argued that a scarf she wore in the ad offers symbolic support for terrorism.
Dunkin’ Donuts said today it pulled the ad over the weekend because of what it calls a “misperception” about the scarf that detracted from its original intent to promote its iced coffee.
Critics, including conservative commentator Michelle Malkin, complained that the scarf appeared to be traditional garb worn by Arab men. The ad’s critics say such scarves have come to symbolise Muslim extremism and terrorism.
Yes the wingnut talking clowns can really pick the important issues to emote about … first Obama doesn’t wear a lapel pin in the approved manner and now some donut floosie is pimping for Hamas. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance!!!
On the local front of course, we can be grateful to the good citizens of Camden for stomping the attempt by local jihadists to build a madrassa right near where William Wentworth founded the sheep industry. Cheeky buggers. The council blandly proclaimed that the decision was based purely on planning considerations. Suuuuurrre … all those Fred Nile organised rallies had nothing to do with it and it was sheer coincidence that so many of the locals decided to wear stuff covered with Australian flags to the council meeting.
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6DHdeFkbSQ&eurl=http://austrolabe.com/2008/05/28/camden-council-rejects-islamic-school/]
Watch for the nice lady Kate McCulloch:
“We just don’t want Muslim people in Camden,” she told reporters after the meeting.
“We don’t want them not only here, we don’t want them in Australia. They’re an oppressive society, they’re a dictatorship.”
I wonder if she runs a fish and chip shop.
My favourite though is the boofhead who says his kids couldn’t go to the school because they ‘can’t read Islamic’. It’s an important point that doesn’t get enough attention in these public discussions 
.
In our cloistered blogs it’s easy to forget just how simple it was for Howard to trade on ignorance and prejudice. There are no grounds for believing that they have somehow evaporated with the election of a new government.
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May 30th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Michelle Malkin objects to the keffiyeh’s symbolism.
You apparentally object to Australians citizens wearing ’stuff covered with Australian flags’. I mean, what could be more symbolic of xenophobia in Australia than the wearing of an Australian flag?!
I guess that means that you’re just as neurotic as Michelle Malkin.
Moral relativism’s a bitch, hey?
May 30th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Yep, Simone beat me to it, in a very odd way.
The “keffiyeh” is becoming a favourite target for the defenders of Israel and that. The Aussie devotees (and there are some) of Malkin refer to the “filthy keffiyeh”. (Apparently it can be seen on any Sydney street!)
And well they might! Dunkin Donuts is so an Islamist pro-Palestinian organisation. Whenever I see their ads I want to eat a box of fatty shit and then strap IEDs to myself!
Fuck off.
Regarding that video clip, they reckon the population of Camden is three thousand. It’s more like fifty-five thousand. Less one expat who won’t be returning any time soon.
May 30th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
That would be a terrific point Simone if I actually objected to people wearing the Australian flag, as you claim. I don’t and didn’t say I did, which makes your comment kind of pointless.
Are you by any chance related to the lady in the video who asks why Channel 2 is against Australia?
May 30th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Channel 2 Woman was scary. Way more scary than clothing of any kind and billions of times more scary than Kate McCulloch.
Kate was mean in a sandpit kind of way, Channel 2 Woman was mean in a serial killer kind of way.
May 30th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
RTS doesn’t love me anymore. Time was I’d pop by and be regaled with welcome back messages. Now I’m just a stranger entering the code shown in the image. Log in one minute, forgotten the next.
May 30th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
They used to say the same sort of stuff about rock-chopping Micks like meself a hundred or so years ago.
The attitude’s the same. Only the target has changed.
What the Muslim community really needs at this point, in my view, is a decent Dan Mannix. That’s the young Danny Mannix (the turbulent in-yer-face priest who stood-up to Billy Hughes) not the old one who used to have his hand-up B.A. Sanatamaria’s jaxi and work the strings to make his lips move.
I’m afraid poor old Sheikh Hilaly just ain’t up to the job.
May 30th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
How would you feel if the lady in the ad was wearing this t-shirt?
http://www.zahal.org/tshirts/p35.htm
If you don’t object to the keffiyeh being worn, then you shouldn’t object to this one either.
Michelle Malkin has never claimed that Dunkin Donuts is an Islamist pro-Palestinian organisation which aims to subliminally incite people to commit acts of terrorism, as Damian has inferred. She’s acutally a big fan of DD, not just because she likes their food but also for their strong stance on illegal immigration (they don’t hire illegal immigrants). But obviously the keffiyeh offended enough people (namely Jews and pro-Israel Americans) for DD to withdraw the ad.
How is this any different from Burger King withdrawing an ice-cream cone after just one Muslim complained that the design on the lid resembled an inscription for Allah?
Well, I’ll tell you. Apart from the number of complainants (one vs. a helluva lot), the Muslim chap threatened ‘jihad’ whilst those who objected to the keffiyeh wrote letters and blogged about it.
May 30th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Huh Lyn, at least your comment doesn’t get shunted off to some Public Opinion holding pen until someone decides it’s up to scratch *sniff*.
May 30th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Sure she can wear one of those if she wants, won’t worry me. She can wear a semper fi jacket or a Saddam Hussein moustache for all I care. WTF does it have to do with me (or you)? If you disapprove, don’t buy any Dunkin’ Donuts. I hear they’re bad for you anyway.
May 30th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
Simone. The keffiyeh is a cloth you wear in the desert to keep the sand out of your facial bits. The IDF is a military force.
May 30th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Ken, if you disapprove of something a company does, especially if it’s a company you otherwise respect and with whom you have done a lot of business in the past, wouldn’t you try to negotiate a mutually satisfying solution to the problem, e.g by writing them a letter? For someone who teaches courses in negotiation, endorsing boycotts strikes me as somewhat hypocritical. That’s all this is about. Michelle Malkin and others wrote letters and blogged about this issue and Dunkin Donuts pulled the ad. DD didn’t have to, but they did. Boycott averted. End of story.
What does it have to do with me, you ask? Nothing really. I just find it curious that you (and others on this blog) find this story noteworthy but not, say, the Burger King story I referenced above. Or the fact that British Midlands International has banned bibles, crucifixes and teddy bears on some flights to appease passengers of a certain religious persuasion. Or this: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3419706.ece
Sean. Please don’t play me for some kind of fool. The keffiyeh is both a cloth you wear in the desert to keep the sand off your face and a symbol of Islamic (particularly Palestinian) militancy. Just as the white hood of the Klu Klux Klan is both a head covering and a symbol of racism.
May 30th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Sorry Simone. I’m prepared to believe that one instance of deliberately misrepresenting what I wrote (”objecting to Australian citizens wearing the flag”) was an accident. A second one (”endorsing boycotts”) is evidence that you are merely one of these sad souls who seek to bolster their self esteem by having someone argue with them.
Have a great life.
May 30th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Simone seems to have missed a key point. The scarf was paisley. So the bedwetters (great term, by the way) got their knickers in a twist over a scarf that they mistakenly thought represented something that they’re scared of. It must take them some time to check through their closets and under their beds for scary monsters before they go to bed.
May 30th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Ken wrote:
‘If you disapprove, don’t buy any Dunkin’ Donuts.’
Definition of endorse: declare one’s public approval of.
Defintion of boycott: the act of voluntarily abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with someone or some other organization as an expression of protest.
Sorry Ken. It would appear that you are, in fact, publicly declaring your approval of a voluntary abstention from dealing with Dunkin Donuts (as an expression of protest).
So I stand by my words. It seems the only one being misrepresented here is me. My self-esteem is just fine and, whilst I appreciate your concern about the state of my soul, you need not worry. It’s fine too. I like the cut and thrust of debating people with whom I differ politically. Don’t you? Or is this place only for those who subscribe to group-think?
That you have chosen to make this an exercise in semantics rather than debate the meat and bones of the issue is, in my humble opinion, evidence that you don’t actually have anything credible with which to counter my argument.
But if you want to wave the ‘have-a-nice-life’ white flag this early in the piece, then so be it.
May 30th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
WELCOME BACK LYN…:)
I always read your comments.
“Channel 2 Woman was mean”
the frustrated attitude of someone who is myopic, misinformed, & underneath knows their WAY is wrong…has had few victories of late, whose words pretend to be courageous but are saturated in FEAR, driven by selfishness and nostalgia & a yearning for days long gone…& brainwashed and propped up by black holes in the media…too often.
I remember some NSW small towners back in the days Bob Hawke won…they would look around w/ pissed off eyes & tight mouths & blow off steam rudely at anyone who didn’t wear their uniform. Usually if they’d drank too much the night before.
Some, & only some, can be part of a MEAN MEAN BACKSTABBING PACK. And highly selfish…& even welfare recipients by the back door. Usually the stirrers were TOP END OF TOWN types pretending to be otherwise…pissing on others to retain their privileges…using “divide & conquer” methods regardless of who got hurt…as long as they got to RULE & PROFIT.
But once you got to chat to the WORKERS, real FARMERS individually, many were half-decent & just afraid not to follow the pack.
Radio rudesters don’t help the situation. Nor some hotels. And drought. And fire. And mouse plagues.
Schools offering languages & other cultural pursuits do. And opportunities for farmers & their kids to travel. Excursions & such. And helping them to feel worthy…& independent guardians of the land. And government-paid soil experts & such who can help bring CHANGE.
And access to clinics & affordable health-care.
Some of the pollies & their media enablers are trying to create a new JO HANSON STATE in QLD ya know…haven’t you noticed? Heart stopping peanuts instead of cashews being touted. And BS about immigration. And local papers promoting DOBBING…& referring to young people as HOONS.
QLD…hopefully not SMART & TOLERANT STATE oneday…STUPID & MEAN the next. Wouldn’t that screw the trade up for farmers? And stuff up the opportunities for the youth?
May 30th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
I might add, post offices in those towns can serve to be the negative rumour & gossip mill if they are run by bitter & xenophobic people.
Hotels & Supermarkets/local shop too.
Also, you often find there are guard dogs who work hard to keep out different opinions, media & ideas. Sometimes the ones who spread the misinformation & prejudice. They often work for the privileged and are thrown a few bones now & then. Some reckon they are like Doctor’s receptionists…:) I’ve met a few nice ones tho…receptionists I mean.
Visiting music/theatre groups etc. help as well.
So many good people in these towns if they get a chance to talk & smile.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Camden,now a place to be recognised for Australian flags,chain-saw names,older women as singular with powerful speech making skills in a matter of seconds,and a parent vitally concerned about his children’s lack of second languages.Add a scarf,and both Jews and Palestinians… react in donut shops to bottle outlets.Give me the pretty bottle shop attendant any day,accept I don’t drink.Think the scarves are fine,should be worn by detractors out in the dry harsh lands of Australian red soil being blown away.Put a Aussie badge on it..a platypus!Helpful ,as headware in winter and where virus conditions are escalating,by moving it over the mouth.I couldn’t even raise a perspiration over the scarf,it is well made,probably by someone on very low pay. Camdenites may have a sense of humour,but, their insistence by some, making statements in relationship to Australia,just isn’t exercising the mind enough.All those paddocks going under,worries me a bit,as I am sure it would worry some Muslims.Perhaps,there is a way of serving everyone’s interests,by seeing to it that Muslims work the paddocks with locals,and get use to each other.That’s what the problem really is,the exercising of mind body and soul in different directions.Let the Muslim kids play in the paddocks,let them like the people of Camden.Let the opposite also occur,and reduce the pressure.I hardly ever see a Muslim here,it isnt fair,why should I miss out!? The agendas from overseas are simply not ours!
May 31st, 2008 at 12:29 am
I’m appalled! Seriously! Not some politician version of shocked… but truely disgusted.
This is just a further vindication of why I moved away from my western suburbs home and became in inner city latte sipping, chardonay drinking, tree huggin, ABC watching, broadsheet newspaper reading, public transport riding un-australian. Yes, the lack of a capital was intentional.
I hope the Islamic organisation that bought the land hangs on to it long enough to make a good profit of the offspring of these idiots.
What freaking heritage was the good councillor referring to/ All I saw were cows in a paddock. Then again…..
May 31st, 2008 at 3:05 am
Well said Philip…& others.
May 31st, 2008 at 5:43 am
Lyn: “Channel 2 Woman was scary.”
Channel 2 Woman was scary when she only had a blog. Now she’s on national telly she’s a nightmare!
May 31st, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Only intelligent ones whose points are developed using evidence and logic.
Go find a chat room if you want to engage in endless pointless arguments.
May 31st, 2008 at 1:41 pm
I luv gettin’ high on consumin’ donuts…just munchin’ & munchin’ all day…once I got so high on the sugar in ‘em I decided to get a tattoo on my butt.
It was the mid 80s & I was livin’ in the UK…found meself per usual sittin’ in the donut shop drinkin’ white, white coffee & shovin’ donuts down like there was no tomorrow…I noticed thru the shop window a suspicious lookin’ group of unwashed, long-haired Irish comin’ out of a Catholic church across the way.
They had that look…sneaky, troublemakers…ya know the type.
I thought “the bast*rds…potential bombers…wonder if they’ve got any TNT under those parkas?”
So I got up and followed ‘em…doin’ my duty as an anally-retentive citizen with me faithful Stasi-training book stuffed in me back pocket I was ready for anything. The next blue phone booth I’d dial up the coppers & dob dob dob (none of them green Mick or red commie booths for this hero)…but first I’d have to find out what these migrant good-for-nuthins were up to.
It took awhile ’cause they went into the Ministry of Ed & Propaganda…the place that uses micro-nesia waves to change our kids into commies. I hung about eatin’ some fish & chips from a lovely shop that was right up my alley…big ole flag across the back wall…food hot, drippin’ in animal fat, wrapped in the Times of London.
At one point I had a radioactive moment,
”the Yanks should call these freedom fries”
I chuckled, the spittle ran down me chin & tasted bleedin’ delicious as I used me hand to shove it back into me gob. The peroxide blonde behind the counter gave a nod of approval,
“I like a man who enjoys his food” she cooed.
I could’ve done her right there for Queen & Country…but the Micks were comin’ out of the Ministry For Swallowing Taxes, so I gave her a thumbs up and a lizard tongue as a farewell.
And raced up the stairs of that Hellish building, determined to find out what they’d been up to. It didn’t take long before my patriotic fever spread thru the hollow ranks of the public servants and they coughed up the answer.
Turns out the Irish wankers had put in an application to construct a school in the local area. Seems the traitorous council mongrels had approved it provided the Micks could prove their cowicculer fit in with the expectations of the Ministry for Brainwashing Yoof. It had.
What the bloody hell COWS had to do it with I don’t know. But i’d get to the bottom of it.
I screamed “Are you fuck*n’ mad!…they’ll spread their crazy ideas across our beloved England!!!…and they probably wanna use our pure bred cows as Trojan condoms to blow up parliament on farmers day…it’s CREEP MATE…CREEP!!!”
After I got my arse-kicked out I decided to get pissed on more donuts & then made my way to a tattoo parlour. I was gonna show the World every time I took a crap that God is an Englishman.
Turns out the tattooist was an Aussie & he took the piss:
http://members.optusnet.com.au/brendan.jones/flags/index.html
May 31st, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Geez, Ken. Lighten up.
You hardly gave me a chance to develop an argument before you dismissed me as being a sad soul with low self-esteem, not to mention stupid (lacking in intelligence) and illogical. You haven’t addressed the substance of any of my posts other than to make a series of ad hominem attacks on me, and yet you have the temerity to accuse me of lacking intelligence. That’s rich.
I’ll go back to Bolt’s where debate is encouraged and dissenting views are plentiful. No wonder he gets so much more traffic than this left-wing echo chamber.
Have a nice life yourself.
May 31st, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Bye Simone, don’t let the door etc
May 31st, 2008 at 4:01 pm
As an atheist I oppose all religious schools. Even though I know that if a Christian school was going to be built at Camden these bigots would not oppose it, I am happy to let them work on my behalf to oppose just one religious school. BTW, I don’t buy the argument that there is less violence against women in Muslim as opposed to Christian homes.
May 31st, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Nuts on Bolt’s:
You hardly gave me a chance to develop an argument before you dismissed me as being a sad soul with low self-esteem, not to mention stupid (lacking in intelligence) and illogical.
Generally, people who freak out when somebody on the TV wears a Paisley scarf are often dismissed as “crazy” in our society. It’s sad. So much for alternative points of view!
May 31st, 2008 at 5:50 pm
I should have asked Simone if she wanted the five minute argument or the full half hour.
May 31st, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha…
Wipes tears from face.
May 31st, 2008 at 8:54 pm
aw -
The scarf being worn by this shop employee in Bondi looks even less like a keffiyeh than the one worn by Rachael Ray in the DD advertisement, wouldn’t you say?
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/05/30/1211654279497.html
And she was also asked to take it off after a crazy, bed-wetting, right-wing Islamophobe complained about its evil symbolism.
Um, except that it was a Palestinian customer who complained. He didn’t like the fact that she was wearing a scarf that resembled a keffiyeh for fashion reasons rather than to make a political statement.
Kind of blows your ‘it’s-just-a-paisley-scarf’ argument out of the water.
Yep, Palestinians and Palestinian sympathisers are none too pleased about the mainstreaming of the keffiyeh either. Read all about it here:
http://www.thestar.com/living/article/433754
But I don’t expect you’ll be calling the Palestinians crazy, irrational bedwetters any time soon.
In fact, knowing how much the mainstreaming of the keffiyeh pisses off the Palestinians makes me want to go out and buy one right now. I’m happy to do my bit do make ‘their symbol’ meaningless. Let’s give three big cheers for capitalism!
In closing, I’d just like to know if anyone on this blog is capable of responding to my comments without resorting to ad hominem attacks?
So far I’ve been told to f*#k off. I’ve been called sad, crazy, illogical and unintelligent. Apparently my arguments are pointless and lack supporting evidence. Well, when the best you can come up with is name-calling and ‘it’s just a paisley scarf’, I find it hard to take any offence.
May 31st, 2008 at 10:55 pm
What’s wrong w/ sympathising w/ a battered, exploited people Simone?
I feel the same everytime I see an Israeli family become casualies of war & intolerance.
If I’d lived during & prior to the second world war when the Jews, Bolsheviks, artists, gays, gypsies & so on (some had all characteristics) I’d have hidden, protected the persecuted. Tried to find ways to promote their cause…used signs. Perhaps a scarf. No matter how futile the expression may have been. It’s a butterfly effect. Hoping for CHANGE…for the better…offsetting the dominant, tragic view…hoping to bring BALANCE to the picture.
Or it might have been just a cathartic act?
Or a figment of the imagination…perceived by the PARANOID & FEARFUL. Who sometimes LASH OUT & harm others w/out CAUSE. Or REASON.
Transforming by the moment into their ENEMY…or who they PERCEIVE as their enemy. Sometimes THE ENEMY is WITHIN.
Michelle Maklin & her ilk seem ANXIOUS…seem to be desperate to FIT IN…be accepted.
Unfortunately, instead of setting positive examples to children & others…they knee-jerk respond…demonstrating HATE & distrust.
And bias. Unwilling to look beyond that biased, fearful view of life. Not building bridges…rather, DEMOLISHING them.
They need to understand why some weep…& feel the need to empathise w/ those they feel are downtrodden.
Some might say that Maklin & her mates/allies are SYMPATHISERS themselves…or opportunistic profiteers…or ENABLERS.
I think they are just traumatised, sad, self-medicating, fearful individuals looking for a CAUSE…hoping to BELONG.
Hoping to be stars…but failing…in
THE NIGHT OF THE SHOOTING STARS.
June 1st, 2008 at 9:06 am
<a href=”http://www.bellum.nu/armoury/shemagh.html”
TERRORIST-LOVING RACISTS have gone back in time, infiltrated the British Commandos, and distributed the keffiyeh so as to BRAINWASH THE FUTURE SAS INTO A STATE OF FREEDOMHATE!!!
Once again, Ockham’s Razor slashes at THE LEFT-WING PROPAGANDAPLEX! Give up IMMEDIATELY, Ken!
June 1st, 2008 at 10:21 am
David Lean wouldn’t be game to make Lawrence of Arabia today. He’d be accused of peddling Islamofascist propaganda.
June 1st, 2008 at 10:23 am
nasking, thank you for addressing my comments without resorting to ad hominem attacks, at least not directly. I appreciate your trying to clarify where we differ. I think we do differ. And that’s okay.
I agree that the Palestinians are suffering, which is sad. That they have brought this suffering on themselves and developed a collective victim-mentality is even sadder, but that’s probably a discussion for another time.
You say you sympathise with Israeli families every time they become victims of war and intolerance.
If this is true, then you should understand that there is a large number of people who find the keffiyeh and what it symbolises extremely offensive. You should understand their desire not to see it mainstreamed.
Why is raising awareness of your cause (the Palestinians) noble, but when Michelle Malkin does a bit of her own awareness -raising (by defending Israel and all the other victims of Islamic aggression/terror throughout the world, of which there are many) it’s considered a sign of paranoia?
Most of the accusations you made about Michelle Malkin I could ascribe to those who hold your beliefs, so we could go around in circles for days here.
You seem to think that there’s nothing wrong with defending/supporting the Palestinians, but defending/supporting Israel and other victims of Islamic terror is beyond the pale. I disagree. And I did so without calling into question anyone’s intelligence.
June 1st, 2008 at 11:30 am
Sure Simone, you just kicked off the thread by calling me neurotic and attributing a view to me that I don’t hold and didn’t express, followed later by an accusation of hypocrisy. Your contributions have been a model of calm dispassionate reason with never an ad hominem in sight.
And what are you doing back here anyway? Wasn’t Andrew home?
You labour under the misapprehension that someone who writes a blog is under an obligation to submit to cross-examination by rude commenters. You are mistaken. If you like to play with people on News Limited blogs, which are written for entertainment for the commercial purpose of attracting as many viewers as possible to sites with advertising, that’s your choice. Trying to make comparisons with blogs like this is simply dumb.
The blogosphere and its potential as a new venue for reasoned discourse have been polluted by the endless inane bickering of people like you whose sole objective is to relieve their boredom by ‘having a debate’. Or ‘going around in circles for days’ as you put it and apparently have every intention of doing. Sensible bloggers like John Quiggin are increasingly blocking commenters who have nothing constructive to contribute and I intend to follow the same practice.
Please.
Go.
Away.
June 1st, 2008 at 1:02 pm
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/108830.html
Amen, Reverend. The thing is worn in plenty of places other than Palestine, by plenty of people other than terrorists. Any offense taken at the sight of it is born of ignorance, or personal associations which not even the most sympathetic person is duty-bound to coddle. If the sight of a scarf sends your heart aflutter with dread, then that’s very sad, and entirely your own problem. To rid yourself of false associations on any subject, headgear included, research it. If you still find yourself irrationally troubled, know that therapy is nothing to be ashamed of, whatever society’s weaker elements may try to convince you.
June 1st, 2008 at 3:07 pm
You’re joking, right?
You’re seriously saying that in 1948 the Palestinians kicked themselves out of the lands they had lived in for hundreds of years, with all the consequences that entails?
And you wonder why nobody here is taking you seriously?
June 1st, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Hehe. I enjoyed this. And this, too.
June 1st, 2008 at 8:02 pm
But I don’t expect you’ll be calling the Palestinians crazy, irrational bedwetters any time soon.
Any Palestinian who sees a Paisley scarf and gets annoyed is a crazy, irrational bedwetter.
And you can quote me on that, Simone.
Kind of blows your ‘it’s-just-a-paisley-scarf’ argument out of the water.
It’s just a paisley scarf. A stupid scarf. You sad, crazy, illogical and unintelligent little freak.
June 1st, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Apologies to everyone else. This shit is beyond a joke, it really is.
June 1st, 2008 at 8:10 pm
Israelis have the right to feel safe & secure…but so do Palestinians. A scarf that looks like a negative symbol could in fact be a generic piece of clothing, representing the likes of a people who feel DISPOSSESSED…as James T notes, it’s not the scarf that should be feared…rather the paranoia & over-reaction that leads to too many casualties everywhere. Surely most Israelis understand the feeling of being DISPOSSESSED…gentic & real memory & such? You’d think they’d empathise. And not let TRAUMA & MANIPULATORS & PROFITEERS get the BEST of them.
Perhaps if each state on the borders of Israel had weapons/technology used for detante purposes (doesn’t Israel have a 150…?)…then maybe the FEAR would lessen?
I’m not sure.
But surely changing behavioural patterns & the atmosphere must help?…considering the present poisonous atmosphere created by neo-CON artists.
I don’t dig the present Aussie flag…I don’t think it’s inclusive enuff…unlike my alter-ego on another thread who fears Irish Catholics w/ bomb-making potential, I’ve learnt to forgive, understand…look to bridge-making rather than attending the demolition derby…& desire an inclusive flag.
I’d like to wear the new design w/ some old & ancient symbols & colours on it like a scarf to feel better about things. To rebel a bit. To sympathise w/ the dispossessed, the exploited…& downtrodden…and even tho SOME might be VICTIMS of their own or INSIDERS’ choosing…plenty of OTHERS are the SUFFERING REAL.
If I wear that scarf…on a COOL day…does that make me potentially dangerous?
It keeps me warm. You can’t deny me that?
Ken’s spot on w/ the David Lean comment. I saw that wide-screen film in a cinema w/ cleaned up soundtrack…it was gorgeous, illuminating, eye opening…a wee bit violent unfortunately…such, sadly, is life…but the thought of not seeing it because it was never made…paradoxical perhaps…but worrying…& a tragedy for cinema.
How many GREAT films never got made because of the fearful, biased, myopic & deceitful campaigners? I know some…do you?
Sometimes sickness plays a part too. As it did w/ Lean…& Bolt. A different Bolt than the one who bores me to tears. I’m talking about the Bolt who was arrested and imprisoned for protesting nuclear proliferation.
f*ck I’ve got a headache…dipped into the vodka pool last night…sorry Angel of Sobriety…i tried, i really did. But sometimes my mind needs a CHANGE. My wife & I laughed for a good long time. But she finds my writing weird when I drink from that pool. I try to translate but Yeats reckons the CENTER dictionary disintegrates in the complexity of metaphorical peace-keeping & worries about constructed wars…I promise to be good this week. I think.
Heard music last night, can’t think where?
Some male singers sounded ethereal…like gorgeous creatures lost on the winds of time…floating in air…wise words imparted to an audience lost in the valley of carnage…trying to breathe…like homeless, neglected children…illuminated in the FALL.
June 1st, 2008 at 11:50 pm
You’ve written much better posts than this Ken…
Do you include the almost 50% of the citizens on McArthur who voted Labor (including a 10% swing against the Libs) amongst those you insinuate are ignorant and prejudiced, or is this a case of Western suburbs types all being the same?
You also insinuate that the council has bowed to populism on this issue. Any evidence?
In the newsreel accompanying your post, I saw and heard a few crackpots, but can’t make any generalisations about the other couple of hundred people at the meeting, let alone an entire municipality. Others can apparently, based on what they’ve seen on TV! You know, the lying, manipulative MSN. FFS, those people were on the telly precisely because their views are controversial. I believe in the industry it’s called “good TV”.
Another source suggests it “…turned out to be a muted debate on planning grounds rather than raw emotion.” but who wants to hear that when there are Islamophobes to unearth?
This is a classic meeja beat up. The banal reality is that a planning application has been rejected (happens all the time) and the applicant now has recourse to an independent appeal process. Oh, and some people were engaged enough to attend a meeting. Fairly tears at the fabric of society.
You’ve been had…
June 2nd, 2008 at 12:05 am
Oops, forgot the
URL for the quote in the 5th para.
June 2nd, 2008 at 7:24 am
I reckon the people of Canden have been had. People vote against their own interests continually because they’ve been had. I agree the media does like pulling the wool over the audiences’ eyes & constructing FAUX debates in order to get attention.
But the media did use certain characters/definers & structure the STORY in such a way over time to create MORAL PANIC & promote xenophobia. Ken is right to bring it up.
You watch the Corporate news you wet the bed…if yer gullible & easily manipulated. Fortunately plenty of people wake up to clean sheets these days cause they either choose alternative news & current affairs’ sites…or take what they see w/ a pinch of salt.
MONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO AROUND…
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:56 pm
This is rubbish. To suggest this is ‘manufacturered controversy’would be a massive understatement.
Unfortunately, blogging & being a pundit has gotten to the point that in order to stay in the news, ‘people’like Malkin practise shooting shit at the wall with the hope that eventually something will stick. The more stupid, ignorant and outrageous, the better. This is nothing more than Malkin, who has recently been losing relevance, trying to get publicity and generate income & guest appearance fees for herself.
Sadly, she has shown the method still works.
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Nasking @ 43.
I think we are probably in vigorous agreement.
My point was that tarring the entire population of a town with the ‘xeno’ brush on the basis of a few trogs we saw on the telly is rather playing into the hands of the MSM.
An interesting thought experiment is to change the words ‘Muslim school’ in the planning application to ‘Mcdonalds outlet’ or ‘US military base’. The people of Camden are then transformed into heroes.
It’s a funny old world…
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:21 am
“It’s a funny old world…”
Indeed. Exhausting too.
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:26 am
Just ask the Libs…:)
Imagine…all that work for a shift in the polls that is almost the margin of error…lol.
June 3rd, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Since when was wearing such a scarf a political statement? Way back when, when I was a biker in the UK, everyone I knew who rode a motorcycle year round wore a big PLO scarf or variation thereof. In my innocence I thought it was because they were cheap, kept your neck warm, sealed up the collar of your jacket and would soak up several gallons of rain before it made its way down to your chest.
Now I find out it was because we were all terrorist sympathisers. You’d think my dad would have said something, him being a military type and trained to spot such things.
I’d still be wearing one if I could find any decently big ones, my last good one having flapped itself loose and disappeared on the highway one dark night.
I’d better tell the missus as well. She’s still got one and with her colouring and looks, she’s obviously in imminent danger of being shot by the TRG.