Things I learned today from Tim Blair

Barack Obama is bad and even some sci/tech magazine thinks so.
Barack Obama is bad and so is his terrorist pal.
Barack Obama is bad and an enemy of Israel – and the media is covering for him.
Barack Obama is bad and you’d better vote against him or you’ll only have yourselves to blame.
Barack Obama is bad [...]

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The stakes

As I said the other day, I am much more concerned about whether we are identifying and helping those who need asylum than I am about exactly how many asylum-seekers make it to our shores. This is why.
And Senator Sarah Hanson-Young sums it up:
“Government policy isn’t just words on paper – these are people’s lives [...]

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Song for a Sunday

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It’s over

The actions in the Republican Party’s campaign is now all about positioning for 2012:
With 10 days until Election Day, long-brewing tensions between GOP vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin and key aides to Sen. John McCain have become so intense, they are spilling out in public, sources say.
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McCain sources say Palin has gone off-message several [...]

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Bonus

Turns out the Libs didn’t get themselves back up to seven seats in the ACT election – the Greens have picked up a fourth seat at their expense.

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FACTUALITY SYNTHESISED

The belittling of the facts continues. Of course, I use Tim Blair as the anchor-point for all of my facts, because he only ever speaks the truth. And if you put together all of the facts that tim points you towards, they make really begin to make much more sense.
On Timmeh’s blogroll is a site [...]

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Fatally flawed policy and politics

As if Stephen Conroy’s grand plan to protect us from the Internets wasn’t bad enough. Now his office has taken to attempting to stifle criticism:
On Tuesday, a policy advisor for Senator Conroy, Belinda Dennett, wrote an email to Internet Industry Association (IIA) board member Carolyn Dalton in an attempt to pressure Newton into reining in [...]

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FACTUALITY BELITTLED

Timmeh quotes approvingly:
Further from Fred J. Eckert:
What we are witnessing is something that has become a predictable pattern whenever any person emerges as a perceived serious threat to the Democrats and the left in general. If they lack facts and sound arguments for making a case against that person, there is an attempt to discredit [...]

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‘I don’t know’

I’m hoping not to say much more about Sarah Palin, because in a couple of weeks I think we’ll be able to put her political career to rest, but this has left me flabbergasted:

I cannot comprehend how anyone can sit there and say that it is unclear whether acts of violence [...]

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Dude, where’s my Duke Nukem Forever?

The soundtrack is good to go.
The Dr Pepper is being stocked.
3D Realms, it’s all up to you now.
Meanwhile, I’ll just play more World of Goo.

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