Blogcritics move host
Blogcritics has had to move host again. They seem to have outgrown their last hosting company and have moved to one that will be better able to cope with their needs. Please be patient if BC acts a bit odd today. The team is trying to get back to normal service as soon as possible.
Comments are off for this postGrey Monk on “Islamaphobia”
It seems a recent report focuses on the wrong parties for the blame. Most amusing is that a co-author of the report GM cites has threatened that if we don’t surrender make more of an effort to help young Muslims there will be more extremism.
As with the gentleman from MCB at Tory Party Conf. there was no attempt to explain to the rest of us what the Muslim community will do for us in return for our co-operation. I wonder when moderate Muslims will realise that their veiled threat of violence does not do much for their cause.
1 commentThis is a no-brainer
“Government-sponsored anti-drug commercials backfire dramatically, provoking thoughts directly opposed to what the ads’ creators intend, according to new research findings presented Friday at the American Psychological Society’s annual convention in Chicago. The pilot study, part of an ongoing project, differs from prior research on the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign in that it asked college student volunteers to give detailed descriptions of the thoughts provoked by the commercials. By nearly three-to-one, the thoughts reported by the students ran counter to the anti-drug messages contained in the ads, which are sponsored by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.” (05/28/04)
This bit of common sense comes from Rational Review. The adverts are patronising, idiotic and just don’t ring true. Never mind the fact that they adverts make it clear what to do if you really want to rebel!
3 commentsLP thinks Pres. candidate could topple Bush
“The Libertarian Party says it presidential nominee ‘could attract enough votes from angry conservatives to cost President Bush his job.’ The nominee is 49-year-old Michael Badnarik, a computer programmer from Austin, Texas, who has worked on defense projects. Badnarik won the presidential nomination with 54 percent of the vote at the Libertarian Party’s national convention in Atlanta over the
holiday weekend.” (06/01/04)
This bit of odd braggadacio from LP comes via Rational Review. My only question is: if Bush loses and Kerry wins how would that be better for the libertarian cause?
2 commentsYasmin no-Alibi-Brown
Last night I had the pleasure of attending a debate, hosted by Intelligence Squared, titled ‘The Brirtish Empire Was a Force for Good’.
The merits or otherwise of the motion, which, incidentally was carried, are for another time, but among the excellent panel, most significantly the great Niall Ferguson and Andrew Roberts (two of the greatest historians of our time), was the noxious Yasmin Alibhai-Brown.
Just one, revealing comment will suffice:
‘It is better to be ruled oppressively [her word] by ones own, than to be ruled by others’ (who might do something offensive like try to bring freedom and peace, for example).
When asked for her views on on the statement that, according to polls, if put to a vote, many/most Iraqis say they would vote for Bin Laden, she replied (and I quote a little gratuitously, if amusingly, out of context) ...
‘It would be regrettable, but…’
Actually, that is exactly what she did say, only she was unable to complete her sentence for the boos and jeers.
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