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Whacking Archive 11-11-02 Idiots in the woodpile: flag burning and other crap Proof that the Labor party doesn't have a monopoly on the brain-dead;
Dear Senator Ellison: go fuck yourself This is a democracy, and people have a right to express their opinions regardless of how stupid they are. We don't have blasphemy laws anymore, and I've yet to hear any good reason why we should implement a secular equivalent. Odd that these tedious pro-statist conservatives are essentially aping leftist doctrine, ie. that "proper thinking" can be legislated. What is it that the burning-ban advocates are attempting to accomplish? Do they honestly believe banning flag-burning will make people respect the flag? Frankly, if flag burning gets banned here, I'd be more inclined to spit on it than respect it. Maybe they don't want people's feelings hurt. Well, tough titties. If you're a spineless git so wimpish that you need legislation to prevent you from hearing nasty things, then get get the fuck out and move to North Korea - that kind of thinking is still very big there. Don't be telling me what kind of political expression I can engage in. Let the silly unwashed commie peacenick wankers burn their flags, and let the scum face the scorn and derision of their moral betters. I sure don't want some politician enforcing the correct attitude. It's a legitimisation of idiocy, and undermines the credibility of democratic principles. And no matter what level of sophistry you engage in, banning flag burning is censorship: you are stopping free speech, get it? A flag which represents a country which censors opinion isn't worth protecting. The Soviet Union had a beautiful flag, so does (or did) China, Pakistan, Nazi Germany, taliban-controlled Afghanistan and most of the tinpot hellholes in Africa. Every country has a flag, few of them have democractic freedoms. So why is it that so many right-wingers are supportive of such idiotic legislation? Why is a flag so fucking precious? Did having a pretty flag make Stalin's regime a noble one? Can't these morons devote their energies to something more important? What's the big deal about flag burning anyway? If they paid for it, they can do whatever the hell they want with it as far as I'm concerned. I'll be damned if some self-righteous crusading asshole is going to tell me what I can do with my property. I'm not generally a fan of official nationalist iconography. Flags are more often than not hideously ugly pieces of aesthetic vomit designed to make me "feel good" about my country. Sorry dudes, if you need a piece of coloured cloth to make you feel good about living in a prosperous democractic nation, you're a wimp. And I'm not interested in protecting the feelings of gutless weasels with legislation that sets such a dangerous precedent. To borrow a phrase from PJ O'Rourke: I want Australia to be an open forum for all ideas from all folks, yet us yell and criticise and insult each other. I want it to be a giant glorious intellectual bar-fight where the sensible overwhelm the idiotic..... ....but the burn-ban
advocates - the big snivelling babies - want to run away and call in the
cops. While I'm on the subject of conservatives are dickheads too, check out the demented ravings of Dinesh D'Souza;
This crap was printed in usually respectable National Review. I guess Fred Phelps was busy. Thankfully, Michele,
The Rotty
and Arfur
have given this kook a bollocking already.
Thanks to Hot
Buttered Death for the heads-up on this
interview with frenchie philosophical god Jacques Derrida - the author
of Of Grammatology - one of the most unintelligible books of all
time.
I often play games against Chessmaster 6000, which I always lose, even against the lower difficulty levels. Last thursday - for the hell of it - I played a game against the "Kasparov" setting - the second highest within Chessmaster. And I won. I then lost a game at a lower difficulty level and lost another against the basic chess program that comes with Mac OS-X. I really can't figure
this out.
Ducking this issue
calls for real leadership
An arrogant, self-righteous, half-wit hippie popster who lectured western society on it's evil & corrupt ways from the luxury of his multi-million-dollar Manhattan apartments. If you agree with
these sentiments, you should go and read Bleeding
Brain's brilliant dissection of Lennon's famous dirge, Imagine.
If you haven't seen
it yet, you should read Alex
Robson's response to Labor airhead Craig Emerson's claims that John
Howard - as a result of his apparently anti-asian racism - has "turned
his back on Asia". As usual with anti-Howard leftie rhetoric, the
emotive verbiage tends not to stand up very well to the analytical eye. I can be reached on AIM thru the nickname "monkifuzz" (don't ask) E-mail is still appreciated
at: tex {at} whackingday {dot} com
I'm 30. I should
probably start at least thinking about baaaay-bees. I like them. But don't
they cost lots of money and stuff? And I know they poop in their pants,
which is pretty rude if you ask me. Went on a long day-ride today, with 3 chaps from the aus.motorcycles newsgroup - a 'netride' as we call it. A big loop from Canberra to Bateman's Bay, then back via Bemboka, Brown Mountain, Nimmitabel & Cooma. Very warm and sunny all day. The glare was pretty bad though..... glad I wore my dark visor. The most remarkable thing was the almost total absence of speed cops...on a weekend. Also met my brother
& his missus at Bemboka, who happened to be going to Tathra for the
night. Small world.
I'm a sucker for stories about the aussie outback. The vast inhospitable empty spaces of my homeland have always fascinated me. I've been lucky enough to travel thru some parts of it. Today's Age has a great little story on what is officially the smallest town in Australia: Betoota, and it's only resident - Simon Remienko
[for my american readers, 50c = 122f]
Heh. What a guy.
Be sure to include Betoota in your australian travel plans, folks......
I
have no intention of uttering my last words on the stage. Room service
and a couple of depraved young women will do me quite nicely for an exit.
Tex comes to America....and he needs your help I'm thinking of travelling to the USA n' Canada in '03. No, I don't need any money. Read on...... Suppose I have 5-6 weeks to travel around. Suppose I start in LA. Suppose I want to see both big-ass cities and remote wilderness, and of course, lotsa small, cute towns on the way. Your challenge: invent a basic itinerary/route for me. One paragraph per week would be ideal. Should I make this trip a reality, the person who gives me the best itinerary will be rewarded with an exciting prize. Should that itinerary include a bias toward interesting motorcycling routes, the winner will receive two exciting prizes. Anyone who suggests Hollywood or Disneyland will be disqualified. Anyone who wishes to meet me, buy me food/booze, sleep with me or buy me a motorcycle is encouraged to let me know now, so you may be incorporated into my plans. Now get to work! Send
your suggestions to me at: tex {at} whackingday
{dot} com Some search strings thru which people have found this site............. pics of satan himself and his chicks Yep, that guy's the mack-daddy of them all fundamentalist snakes As opposed to a liberal snake? paul keating meet the press Anyone using their time to look for Paul Keating on the web needs to get laid. pissing in pants Sorry mate, you're looking for Radio National airbrushed snakes Wha? audio files of john gotti "I'll scare chicks into liking my two-inch penis" ayn rand malcolm fraser trying to double your boredom? bad harleys with chicks All Harleys are bad Harleys. The motorcycle is one of two products the Americans are very bad at. The other is beer. ben shapiro conservative I would have suggested "idiot", but it's your search.... the dirty little spokesman said my cunts make up is just shit and he didnt lik Heh why mundine got knocked out Because his mouth was larger than his talent how to cheat pokies Sledgehammer. Works every time snakes and sluts What is it with you freaks and your snake beastiality fetish? sylvia browne bullshit philosophy Indeed And - as usual - there
were a few billion searches for "Holly Valance [fill in the blank]"
For all sad words
of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'
I can't wait for the "let's surrender!!" brigade to applaud this...
Ack!! Asians are criticising us!! Let us all apologize for our racism and beg them for forgiveness while we hand over some more aid money. I wouldn't be surprised if Bob Brown and Kerry Nettle have already volunteered to be the first brave souls to lick Megawati's boots clean, and condemning Howard for arrogance and racism for standing up for Australia's interests and not groveling to this corrupt Jakarta crack whore. The Indonesians are - of course - not exactly qualified qualified to lecture us rude white people about democatic rights or heavy-handed police procedure, given that they have slaughtered hundreds of thousands of civilians over the last 40 years. Ah, but they have coloured skin, and this makes them right, doesn't it? Meanwhile, our great
friend, the Malaysian PM - Dr. "Keep your mouth shut or I'll send
the boys around" Mahatir -has criticised Australia for being dangerous
for Muslims. Oh yes? Malaysia doesn't seem so safe for muslims either,
particularly this one. I just figured out I'm about a month behind in answering e-mails. I'm slowly getting thru them, honest. In the meantime, keep sending them in. ..and yes, I will
be updating the Great American Beer
Quest soon.
Here's Bovination
on the
future of elephants.
"I’ve had
the sort of day that would make Mother Theresa kick babies"
Over at JJJ's Morning Show discussion boards, you can see the great minds of the Green Youth at work.... On flag burning
Put their lives at risk? Heh On Bali/Sep11
I noticed this bozo
hasn't donated their web-enabled PC to save some African kids. Ideology
is best exercised when it's covenient I guess.
It is incredibly rare for a team to have both it's riders from the same country, particularly a country without the sponsorship cash that no-hoper Spanish riders can summon at will (can someone explain to me any other reason why Carlos Checa still has a ride?). One hopes it will not turn out to be a poisoned chalice for the boys. The Green Machine is a long, long way behind the development curve of the other Japanese manufacturers, and given their half-assed efforts in the World Superbike Championship in the last decade, one wonders whether they have the grinta to match it with the big boys. One hopes so: there are signs of a no-bullshit revolution going on within Kawasaki's internal staff, with their outdated product range recently been given a massive kick in the arse, and the GP squad being promised an unlimited budget. (image via mcnews.com.au) Charles Krauthammer
is not only a great geopolitical columnist, he can write a mean article
about chess too: I found this
piece from ten years ago, where he offers a scathing view of nut-job
Bobby Fischer's farcical '92 "comeback" in Yugoslavia.
Love is a smoke
made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers'
eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears. What is it else?
A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet. For the european philosophy geeks among us, my fellow ANU wage-slave John Quiggin has some interesting thoughts on our favourite existential nazi. Can Heidegger's nauseating
political life be separated from his philosophy? Read and discuss........
Watched again with the joy the great Simpsons Halloween episode where visiting aliens Kang and Kodos take over the bodies of Clinton and Dole and run for the presidency. Got me thinking (in my beer-hazed state): what if God n' Satan were the two US presidential nominees in '04? This race would be a tough one to pick..... God Satan My pick? Satan by
a nose. Feel free to add your own thoughts: tex
{at} whackingday {dot} com
Here's a very
troubling piece. Scott at Eye
of The Beholder has some interesting thoughts on the Lord of The
Rings movie. The last MotoGP round
of the season last night. Dammit. Now there's nothing to watch on Sunday
nights anymore. At least the final race of the year was a cracker: Alex
Barros once again beating the world champ to the flag. It makes one wonder:
how would the season have turned out if Barros had the RC211V from the
start of the year? Paul
Wright has some fine commentary on the unbearable Robert Manne and
the even more insufferable Phillip Adams. (permalinks didn't seem to be
workin' so just view the entries for 4th November). Went on an overnight
jaunt to the coastal town of Bermagui
on the weekend. Good way to relax, and the ride over Brown Mountain and
thru the Bega Valley Shire is as great as ever. Those damned roads were
just made for motorbikes. Looking for older whackings? Wanna see my previous rants against lefty, commie, peacenick wankers, plus lots of fun stuff about motorcycles, music and movies?................ Click here for the full past whackings index |
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Tex
has become a bit of a born-again chess geek this year. Investing in a
proper wooden chess set and doing some reading on playing the game.
The
great news came thru today that the Kawasaki MotoGP team might have two
Australian riders in 2003: Andrew Pitt and Gary McCoy.
Heidegger
and Nazism