by frog
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Have a good one! Whatever you believe in.
Published in Society & Culture by frog on Fri, December 24th, 2010
Tags: Christmas, Donovan, feminism, religion, Season of the Witch, sexism
Must be the season…
Published: December 24, 2010
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
Merry Christmas, Frog. Great song, byw. How long ago was that?
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“Season of the Witch” was a song perhaps persuable at law in the 60′s – mayhap we lack the charge of virulent challenge today – mayhap we are watered down by the charms and alterations of modern media.
Mayhap we have no real answers, when our friends are paid by our destroyers.
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Everybody,Merry christmas!
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Thanks Iktown, Merry Xmas to you all
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Hope you all have a great Christmas and get to enjoy the company of those near and dear to you all.
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frog..!..donovan..?..donovan….?
he has such a piss-weak/reedy voice…
..(whereas dylan has a strong/reedy voice..)
here is julie driscoll…(used to be lead singer in brian auger and the trinity..)
..in a totally stylised-clip from 1968…
..(proving that austin powers was understated…)
(how many animals died to make that coat..?..)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpizS9h-1Xk
then of course..there is the lou rawls version…
..and even that old steam-bucket vanilla fudge manage to knock something out that leaves donovan firmly shut outside..
btw..julie driscoll also does a wicked version of ‘this wheels’s on fire’…
..once again..seizing/demanding ownership of the ditty…
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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All the very best for the new year everybody.
And what is our challenge for the next year?
And what would you like to see happen?
Would you like to see public property remain public?
Would you like to see water remain in public hands?
Would you like to see clean rivers?
And the return of record stocks of fish in our seas?
And most of all would you like to see a new government?
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“..And what is our challenge for the next year?..”
to stay upright…and stave off the drooling…
..and to continue to kick against the pricks…
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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http://robertguyton.blogspot.com/2010/12/frog-by-terry.html
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That’s fantastic, Robert!
Handsome devil!
Great job, Terry, I’m really impressed!
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You should see the Brethren ‘Beware’ t-shirt he made at the time.
Hang on, I’ll go find it!
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T-shirt #2
http://robertguyton.blogspot.com/2010/12/remember-this-brethren.html
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I do
Blood boils to think of them.
Better I should not.
respectfully
BJ
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frog is much nicer!
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nasty little bigotses
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this one is interesting..
..(revolutionary-stirrings in france..)
http://whoar.co.nz/2010/political-essay-by-93-year-old-tops-christmas-bestseller-list-in-francehe-calls-for-peaceful-and-non-violent-insurrection/
“…Resistance hero Stéphane Hessel stuns publishing world with 30-page work that calls on readers to be outraged about society.
Proving that age is no boundary to publishing success, the French book world has been taken by storm by a surprise Christmas bestseller:…
… a political call to arms by Stéphane Hessel, 93.
The unlikely publishing sensation is a former resistance hero whose 30-page essay, Indignez-vous! ..
… calls on readers to get angry about the state of modern society.
Launched in October by Indigène, a small publisher working out of an attic in Montpellier, southern France, the book had a tiny first print-run, 6,000 -
- and sold for €3 – unprecedentedly cheap in a country where book prices are regulated and kept high by the law.
Hessel’s success has stunned France.
After two months on the bestseller lists, the book has spent five weeks at number one, beating Michel Houellebecq’s award-winning latest novel La Carte et le Territoire and a host of Christmas fiction.
It has sold 600,000 copies and – publishers predict it will reach a million.
Translations are underway for Italy and other European markets.
The book’s soaring sales reflect a general mood of French exasperation at the social inequalities of Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidency.
But the phenomenon is mostly down to Hessel’s charisma and his life story.
Hessel was born in Berlin in 1917 and emigrated to France aged seven.
His free-spirited mother, Helen Grund-Hessel, inspired the novel Jules et Jim, which became Francois Truffaut’s film about a love-triangle of two male friends and a woman who loves them both.
During the Nazi occupation of France, Hessel joined the French resistance, was caught, tortured and and deported to Buchenwald and Dora concentration camps where he escaped hanging.
After the war, he helped to draft the universal declaration of human rights and later became a diplomat.
Hessel’s book argues that French people should re-embrace the values of the French resistance – which have been lost -
- which was driven by indignation -
- and French people need to get outraged again.
“This is an appeal to citizens, young and old, to take responsibility for the things in our society that don’t work,” he said.
“I wish every one of you to find your own reason for indignation.
It’s precious.”
Hessel’s reasons for personal outrage include the growing gap between the very rich and the very poor -
- France’s shocking treatment of its illegal immigrants -
- the need to re-establish a free press -
- protecting the environment -
- the plight of Palestinians -
- and the importance of protecting the French welfare system.
He calls for peaceful and non-violent insurrection…” (cont..)
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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and renowned ‘voluptuary’…’bubba’-burger-boy clinton …
is petas’ vegan-dude-of-the-year..
http://whoar.co.nz/2010/bill-clinton-veganisms-unlikely-best-friend-and-then-like-the-rhodes-scholar-he-is-he-did-his-homework-he-found-a-compelling-overwhelming-body-of-evidence-that-eschewing-meat-and-dairy-can-dramaticall/
“…PETA’s man of the year accomplishes what Natalie Portman and other celebs can’t: …
…He makes a healthy diet realistic
When you think of vegans, the popular image tends to run toward the fragile-looking, vaguely smug person with the hemp tote and the mung beans in front of you at the checkout line.
Maybe you think of a well-paid young actress who compares meat-eating to rape -
- or the kind of trying-too-hard electronica musician Eminem would pick a fight with.
You probably don’t picture a notorious voluptuary – a man who just last year was chowing on double burgers right before a conference on obesity.
Yet Bill Clinton, the former leader of the free world and one of the best friends a Big Mac ever had -
- has done what a legion of Morrisseys and Pamela Andersons could not – what even Michelle Obama struggles with —
– he’s made moving toward a healthy, plant-based diet seem realistic, accessible -
- and frankly – pretty damn good-looking.
If that 64-year-old good old boy can become PETA’s Man of the Year -
- surely even you and I can pass up a brisket and a milkshake now and then.
Clinton’s conversion — from bacon enthusiast to a man who bragged to Wolf Blitzer back in September that he weighs what he did in high school –
– was motivated by serious health concerns – as it is for many.
He’s already endured quadruple bypass surgery.
And after getting two stents in his heart last winter – Bubba took a hard look at his lifestyle and realized “I didn’t want it to happen again.”
And then, like the Rhodes scholar he is, he did his homework.
He found a compelling, overwhelming body of evidence that eschewing meat and dairy can dramatically help the body “heal itself.”..” (cont..)
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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(heh..!…)
rightwingers are rightwingers ‘cos a part of their brain is ‘thinner’ in grey matter..
..i mean..i always suspected…but who knew..?..eh..?
http://whoar.co.nz/2010/brain-shape-shows-political-allegiance/
“…Neuroscientists are examining whether political allegiances are hard-wired into people -
- after finding evidence that the brains of conservatives are a different shape to those of left-wingers.
Scans of 90 students’ brains at University College London (UCL) uncovered a “strong correlation” between the thickness of two particular areas of grey matter and an individual’s views.
Self-proclaimed right-wingers had a more pronounced amygdala -
- a primitive part of the brain associated with emotion -
- while their political opponents from the opposite end of the spectrum had thicker anterior cingulates.
The research was carried out by Geraint Rees director of the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience who said he was “very surprised” by the finding, which is being peer reviewed before publication next year.
It was commissioned as a light-hearted experiment by actor Colin Firth as part of his turn guest editing BBC Radio 4’s Today programme -
- but has now developed into a serious effort to discover whether we are programmed with a particular political view.
Professor Rees said that although it was not precise enough to be able to predict someone’s stance simply from a scan -
- there was “a strong correlation that reaches all our scientific tests of significance”.
“The anterior cingulate is a part of the brain that is on the middle surface of the brain at the front -
- and we found that the thickness of the grey matter, where the nerve cells of neurons are, was thicker the more people described themselves as liberal or left wing -
- and thinner the more they described themselves as conservative or right wing,” he told the programme.
“The amygdala is a part of the brain which is very old and very ancient and thought to be very primitive and to do with the detection of emotions.
The right amygdala was larger in those people who described themselves as conservative.
“It is very significant because it does suggest there is something about political attitudes that are either encoded in our brain structure through our experience -
- or that our brain structure in some way determines or results in our political attitudes.”
Mr Firth – who recently declared he had ended public support for the Liberal Democrats -
- said he would like to have party leader and now Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg subjected to the tests.
“I think we should have him scanned,” he said…” (cont..)
so..sympathise with any righwingers you know…
..they can’t help themselve..
it’s just ‘cos of their inadequate anterior cingulate…
..eh..?
(i do so enjoy getting these ‘explanations’ of the mysterious…eh..?..
..and rightwingers’ brain/thinking-patterns..are nothing if not ‘mysterious’..
…eh..?..)
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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Oh Well DONE Phil!!!
One did always suspect something of the sort.
BJ
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Well, we knew that already, but nice to have it confirmed.
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it helps explain that mix of raw-emotion/’don’t touch my junk!’..
..and irrational anger at most things…
..that seems to drive many/most of the knuckle-dragging commentariat at kiwiblog…
..i guess redbaiter being the textbook-example…
..but really…it’s only their overactive amygdala acting up again..
..eh..?
..the poor luvvies…
…just slaves of/to their faulty-brains..
..we should all be kinder to them…
..now that we ‘know’ what their ‘issue’ is…
..their splenetic-outbursts should be met …not with the usual scorn…
…but with a sympathetic ‘awww..!’
..they are victims too…
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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and then redbaiter goes and blows my expectations away with his response to/withering dismissal of an over the top piece of hagiography on ‘smile ‘n wave’ key from farrar…
(surgeons may need to be called in to remove farrars lips/tongue from keys’ arse…
..but what else is new…?…)
“…We needed Winston Churchill, we got Perez Hilton…”
(sez it all really….eh..?..
..and we must presume he is talking of the later career of churchill..
…not his earlier blood-soaked follies..eh..?..)
..an occaisonal shining-bit….amongst all the muck…
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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it also explains why glenn beck cries all the time…
..that enlarged/mutated amygdala again..eh…?
..and interesting how that amped-up victim of emotions syndrome…
..dosen’t transfer thru into empathy for others…
..eh…?
…’others’ are just there to serve these emotional-childrens ‘needs’..
..fuck them…!
..eh…?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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It is I think, related to the Tom Scott cartoon that appeared in the Dom Post today. (29Dec2010)
Don’t see it online. I recommend checking it if you get to the library…
BJ
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shessh..!..talk about a partial-reveal/anti-climax there ..bj..
what is that old reactionary/pot-alarmist banging on about now…?
(word-pictures should be a doddle for you…eh..?
..wot with that genius-thing you have going on..
..eh..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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Phil – I could, but it seems to me that I should let the artists work stand on its own
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i dunno how it could be funny…
..scott has become more and more of a colonel blimp character…
..harrumphing/steaming away over in the corner…
..and best ignored…
..so..even should i go to a library…?
…meh…!
it’s here or never…b.j..
go on..!..you are never shy of a word…
..give it yr best shot…
…eh..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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here..i’ll help…
(you just fill in the blanks…)
‘he has a blank…and the background is blank…
..the main character says blank…
…and it is so funny because blank…’
(there ya go…!…adapt as needed…eh..?..)
phil(whoar.co.co.nz)
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There was a story a while back about a species of sub-humans newly discovered to be living alongside humans 40 thousand years ago… and the man relaxing in front of the TV and reading the newspaper turns and asks his wife “I wonder what happened to them”
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while on the Television in front of him, tuned to Fox News, there is a bulletin
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“Coming up! Latest poll results. 24% of Americans think Obama is the Anti-Christ” !!!!
________________
BJ
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or..
‘anthropologists have new evidence these ‘sub-humans’ all moved to the south island of new zealand’…
or..
‘most of them ended up being transported to australia…’
or…
‘they all became tories’…
or..
‘..they now form the nucleus/backbone of the michael bolton/celine dion fan clubs’…
or..
‘they formed a political party…and called it act..’
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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how many pot-prohibitionists does it take to roll a joint…?
two…one to roll it…
the other to have an attack of the vapours/hysterics..
(or..)
two..one called tom…the other called scott…
..(‘hic..!..what’s yr poison…?’..)
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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The last remaining pure bred is in charge of Federated Farmers. I note the Herald did not publish my reply to him and censored my one to the ACT lady, who is so concerned about the poor children of beneficiaries, she wants to starve them out of existence.
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Q..what do you call a piss-head pot prohibitionist..?
A..a hypocrite…
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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and just back to those unfortunate rightwingers again..
…if you factor their total absence of a sense of humour into their grey-matter deficiencies…
..and their being slave to their emotions/swollen amygdala..
..now that you understand the burden they labour under…
…ya gotta feel sorry for them…
…eh..?
i mean..fuck..!..imagine being one of them..?
..(and i am sure they will be relieved to find out that the cold/sterile/selfish world they occupy..
…isn’t their fault..
…but is just down to provable brain-deficiencies..?)
..next question..
what is the any/cure…
..can we de-swell their whatsy..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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next question of course..is is there a cure…?
..can we at least de-swell their amygdala..?
..surgically..?..or chemically…?
..in the name of humanity…
…we must try something to ease their suffering..
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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(this one just keeps on giving and giving…
..how about the idea of brainscanning all pollies…(at candidate selection time..?
..to sort out the total bullshitters..?
…what’s not to love about that..?..)
http://whoar.co.nz/2010/study-conservatives-have-larger-fear-centers-in-their-brainsat-the-same-time-conservatives-brains-were-also-found-to-have-a-smaller-anterior-cingulate-the-part-of-the-brain-responsible-for-courage-and/
“… Political opinions are considered choices, and in Western democracies the right to choose one’s opinions — freedom of conscience — is considered sacrosanct.
But recent studies suggest that our brains and genes may be a major determining factor in the views we hold.
A study at University College London in the UK has found that conservatives’ brains have larger amygdalas than the brains of liberals.
Amygdalas are responsible for fear and other “primitive” emotions.
At the same time, conservatives’ brains were also found to have a smaller anterior cingulate –
- the part of the brain responsible for courage and optimism.
If the study is confirmed – it could give us the first medical explanation for why conservatives tend to be more receptive to threats of terrorism -
- for example, than liberals.
And it may help to explain why conservatives like to plan based on the worst-case scenario -
- while liberals tend towards rosier outlooks.
“It is very significant because it does suggest there is something about political attitudes that are either encoded in our brain structure through our experience -
- or that our brain structure in some way determines or results in our political attitudes,” Geraint Rees, the neurologist who carried out the study, told the media.
Rees, who heads up UCL’s Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, was originally asked half-jokingly to study the differences between liberal and conservative brains for an episode of BBC 4’s Today show that was hosted by actor Colin Firth.
But, after studying 90 UCL students and two British parliamentarians -
- the neurologist was shocked to discover a clear correlation between the size of certain brain parts – and political views.
He cautions that, because the study was carried out only on adults, there is no way to tell what came first — the brain differences or the political opinions.
But evidence is beginning to accumulate that figuring out a person’s political proclivities may soon be as simple as a brain scan — or a DNA test.
In a study published in October, researchers at Harvard and UC-San Diego found that a variant of the DRD4 gene predisposes people to being liberal -
- but only if they had active social lives as adolescents.
The “liberal gene” has also been linked to a desire to try new things – and other “personality traits related to political liberalism.”
For his part, actor Colin Firth, who hosted the BBC show that revealed the results of the brain scans -
- has said he wants to see brain scans on politicians -
- to find out if they are telling the truth about what they believe…” (cont..)
(that’s a good idea..that brainscanning of politicians…to weed out the total-liars…eh..?..)
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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Why scan a politician to determine if he is telling the truth?
He’d have to know what the truth is in the first place.
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a little exercise for any news/information fans out there..
..go to the herald website….and see what they have to offer…
..then go to the other m.s.m-site..stuff…and see what they have to offer..
..and then go to http://whoar.co.nz/..
…and see the daily offerings on view there…
..i mean..it’s no contest really…
..eh..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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here is just one example of what you won’t find at herald/stuff…
http://whoar.co.nz/2010/vision-modern-utopians-revisiting-the-amazing-communes-and-alternative-societies-of-the-60s-and-70s/
…An excerpt from Fairfield’s new book on the living alternatives that helped define the greatest cultural explosion in American history…”
enjoy..!..tell others..!
..eh…?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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Phil asked “next question of course..is is there a cure…?
..can we at least de-swell their amygdala..?”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20189314
“These findings are consistent with the reports by Phan et al. (2008) and Hariri et al. (2009) suggesting that cannabinoids have an inhibitory effect on threat-related amygdala reactivity.”
Increasing their anterior cingulate may be more important though
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“..Why scan a politician to determine if he is telling the truth..”
well..if they are professing liberal values…
…but have swollen amygdala….and ‘thin grey matter’ in their front central brains…
..whoar..!..eh..?
(an example being the ‘right’ wing in labour…
…and not a few greens….eh..?..
…how d’ya reckon you’d scan there..bj..?)
..but back at the testing pollies idea..
..i mean..we aren’t talking day to day lies here…
..but those big/whopping political/ideological-pretences…
..(like roger douglas pretending to follow labour party ideas/ideals…
..now..had we testing then..he’d have been flushed out..
..and no rogernomics..?
..whoar..!..eh…?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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ah..!..thank you fin..!..
..it only gets better..!
..prescription for cure/easing of swollen/over-reactive amygdala symptoms….?
..smoke more pot..!
..i mean..they/righties should be eligible for that new ‘must-have’..
…a sativex-script…
(the poor luvvies…!)
..as i said before..
..fuck..!..imagine being one..!
..no wonder righties in general are so fond of drugs..
..(cocaine..of course..being their favourite…
..they can replace those insecurities/deficiencies with chemically-induced omnipotence..
..you can see how it fits/compensates…)
..but yeah..the antigular whatsy is an entirely different kettle of fish…
..hard to see how you can cure them of being cold/miserable-bastards…
..phil(whoar.co.nz)
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cd someone post this thread over at kiwiblog..?
i wd..but i always boycott farrar for twice as long as he bans me…
…so there is still a no-go…
…tho’ i will be donning full body protection…
..and returning there for the upcoming election year…
..it/kiwiblog is such a peddler of lies/propaganda…
..i feel it a duty to call them on it .. esp. in an election year..
..but i am sure many of them will roll a joint..
..at the news it will help with their sollen/over-reactive amygdala…
..and may even be relieved at the news that it is for medical-reasons..
..that they feel so bad/angry/scared all the time..
..(the poor luvvies..!..eh…?..
..money is all they can relate to…
…and ..all delight/schadenfreude at this explanation to one side…
…that is kinda sad..for them…)
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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